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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19

More inquiries reach the national
emergency food garden commission.
which is cooperating with this pa
per in urging garden planting this
year asking about potato growing
than relate TO any other crop.
This is due to the fact that the
price Of potatoes this spring has
reached heretofore unknown heights.
continues the bulletin
II is entirely possible 10 grown a
considerable crop of potatoes in a
good sized back yard, but if pOta-
toes are grown there will he little
room for other crops. In a small
garden il is hardly worth while 10
plant only a few hills of potatoes.
A garden space so by 100 feet
will produce u 10 IS bushels Of
early potatoes with good care and
may do much better than this Late
potatoes produce larger yields than
this.
The soil should he thoroughly
pr, Jared for potatoes. the finer its
grain the better. Potatoes are grown
not from seeds but from the tubers
themselves. The small "eye" in the
potato. which every one has observ-
ed. is the embryo sprout waiting
only for soil 70 make IL grow.
The cost Of potatoes therefore.
makes the seed expensive. But this
cost can be offset by the Vethod
OF planting Since only the '"eye''
and a small portion Of the tuber's
flesh with il need be planted, the
body of the potato may be eaten aft
er the ewes" have been cut out
from it, These cuttings should be
cone shaped 10 save as much OF the
potato for use as possible. II the soil
is finely worked the eyes" can be
planted singly one foot apart eight
inches deep or shallOwer, in rows
| 20 inches apart.
Potatoes for early use should be
planted as soon as the danger OF
killing frosts is over After the
plants are up and frost threatens
they should be protected with straw
newspapers. or the like.
When single eye" cuttings are
used. two bushels of potatoes will
plant a plot Of so by 100 feet After
the cones are cut out they should
be spread on paper for two days 20
! dry
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
WHAT YOU CAN DO

Prohting by ones mistakes is doubt excellent and
has the for innumerable sermons and homi-
lies Prohting by the other fellows mistakes is how
ever much excellent and vastly less expensive. We
unequaIed opportunity take the latter
in the present crisis affairs. if
had better abandon claim be considered intel
ligent people.
If every German owned a back yard 1914 had
planted kind of food in It, and kept up the
the Germans would be busy taking extra
reefs their belts and trying cOnjure food subst
tutes o There likelihood that will
be the present German straits there
very unpleasant likelihood that the of living is
going unprecedented heights and that gen
uine food scarcity congested districts least
may appear winter.
Pessmism and Mysteries out of place. al
ways. but common and prudence in greater
demand than ordinarily. Backyard farming will not
supply you with wheat and the three great
staples but it will be ally than all the lighting
men we raise the battle very unfavor-
ably known high cost OF living.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
GERMANY OVERLOOKS A BET.

The Germans given credit a super
efficiency that no Of Adam possessed and il is
certain that respects they very able
people but the ingenious gentlemen in the Wilhelm
strasse have overlooked bet least. They have
offered Texas and few other trhes to Mexico indie
pendence any Of United they
can get 10 the japanese and unknown bube pos
siby unlimited chicken and watermelon. colored
fellow and with all this there is not word Of
a prefer the Indians,
What has he noble red be sighted in
this fashion Before the war German officer wrote
much advertised book which ne explained that f
the United cashed with Germany she would have
TO OF her regular army guarding the Indian
reservations
Why take "A chance with 10 the Indian "
now raid by Apaches Washington ought to
cheer up Berlin while Chicago could easily be burned
by a surprise attack by the Comanches
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
Much Interest in
GroWing Potatoes by
Amateur Gardener

The News Times is conducting
column with the cooperation Of the
National Emergency Food Garden
Commission 90 inspire the planting
OF more food gardens throughout
the country. Members Of the COM
mission are: Charles LathrOp Pack.
president Of American Forestry as
ISOLATION; Luther Burbank. Dr.
Charles w Eliot Prof Irving Fish
er. John Hays Hammond. Fairfax
Harrison. MyrOn II. Herrick. Dr.
John Grier Hibben. Emerson Ne
Millin, a w Shaw; Carl Nrooman.
assistant secretary Of agriculture;
Capt J. r. White. L. $. shipping
board; James Wilson. former secre-
tary OF agriculture. You should
watch this column every day Any
questions should be written on one
side Of the paper and sent 10 the
Garden Editor Of the News Times.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
THE MELTING POT
COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH U.s.
DEFENSIVE ARMAMENT.


A burglar business rCbs
To further his extensive de luxe hnanc
To keep his wife in jewey, chewing nd hose
she could travel in the everybody goes:
To put his offspring the road
That they should be credit and IN to his
when he the weIprepared
He paused in CONSERVATION and Indignantly he
For James had bought little twenty-five
And lett II in the dresser drawer
And when the burglar found he
The gentleman is on
His honest blood began boil and heat
To think of such sending
So when he sacked the slveware he
III teach them mel"
And as the sleeping greatly
He yelled See what being
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19

Mrs. George b. Rice OF Escondido. Calf. with two
young sons just enlisted says: While see
them go war. thank God have raised no
towards" It's American public sentiment in nut
she'll
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19

The Victoria Regia a lily native
20 Brazil. has leaves measuring
from 10 TO 20 feet in diameter.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
1t Is So Easy to Misunderstood
An ImDS

A minor league umpire has ap-
piled for enlistment in the navy and
the fans are accusing him Of rank
coWardice.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19

Botanical gardens OF Rio de
Ianeiro cover 0n0 acres
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
Tempting.

Texas promise of a bumper water
melon crop may induce the Tenth
Cavalry to apply for service alo1g
the Rio Grande.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19

Why Make a New Appropriation?
The boats built 10 send subs. 70
the bottom can be paid for. OF
course. out of the sinking fund.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
NIerciIeSs

When old man Starvation starts a
war it is always unrestricted and
ruthless.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
Practical Patriotism.

Let Us hope that all the people
who raise flags will also raise pOta-
toes this summer.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
Protecting Home Industry.

Vermont has forbidden the sale of
liquor in bottles Cider is not liquor,
and applejack comes in kegs.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
They Continue 10 Slack.

IHtl NUIIIIIIUV 10 NIdtk.
Be not rnisled. It is the Cubans,
not the Cubists, who have joined us
i'm the war
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19
Ganne. AnNNNaN

Game, Anyway.
Thus far the Car has not ad-
vanced the claim that he was
framed" by the Russian Tammaay
hall
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19

only Ass9eisted Morning Paper In Northern Indiana
Employing international News service
south Bend-Two Leasoi Wires: Day and Night
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19

THE SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY
Tommy Jones he used the Leventh Avnuh gang
The yard fights
He told kids should 10 n n Ia a rock
If and us Off he lock-.
And no could the &c o a
or be member of the till Tommy all
OF used a as n u.s..
And scared of what he'd a
Until day the about the Gar
throve him.
And then home and
And with everything the done befor
We pulled revolution o a O'Clock that night
And Tommy Jones SO ne even hght
And the ourselves, o say
be done uni it's doneh sway
And when a game, Just
For Tommy Jones amt more; looin in
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-19

O. r. sCAMERS President J NJ. STEPHENSON, Manager
JOHN HENRY ZUvER
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18
Presidential Dignity.

Dignity is the most terrible punish
ment inflicted by the people upon their
president. The president must always
be on his dignity; he can never relax.
He cannot sit in the orchestra or in
the gallery, away from everybody 8
staring glances. He cannot laugh too
uproariously; he cannot fail to applaud.
He is constantly on exhibition. When
he travels ne must appear at all the
railroad stations that he passes through
lest the impression get abroad that he
is undemocratic. The secret service
men are by act Of congress ordered to
guard the life of the president. They
shop with him, they accompany him OH
the links, they Sit in his limousine.
they go to the oculist with him. to
church, to the bank. The president, in
short, is not private person at any
time; he is treated by the government,
the people and the press as public prop
erty.-David Lawrence in Century.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18

I In WISCONSIN, during the year 1916,
fires in grain and hay stacks, barns,
granaries, cheese factories, creameries,
elevators, flour mills, malt houses,
wholesale houses, warehouses and
stores caused loss of So, III, $40. APP
proximately two-thirds of this loss was
on food products. It is needless to
state that the insurance paid did not
replace single pound of the food pro-
ducts destroyed. This destruction de-
creased the supply and SO we paid more
for flour, feed, grain and other food
products. In addition to this we reach
ed into our pockets, and, through in
surance premiums, reimbursed those
who had fires. Thus the people of the
state paid dearly for those fires. For
the first time in the history of this
country every pound of food may be
needed to prevent hunger and perhaps
starvation for some, hence the increas-
ed necessity of conserving every bushel
of grain in it's course from the field to
the table, every pound of cheese and
butter, every dozen of eggs, every
ounce of food for man or beast. Most
of the 1921 fires which caused this
great loss could have been prevented
by ordinary care. Let us squarely face
the fact, that we cannot now afford to
destroy food at this rate. Food pro-
ducts are scarce, the demand keen and
increasing, and prices soaring, and food
destroyed by fires only increases the
shortage and prices.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18

In THE opinion of Ellis Usher the
high tax Daniel has come to judgment
at last. wisconsin, in times of re-
cent great prosperity, has gone on in
creasing taxes and piling up revenues
to tempt the theoretical statesman, the
professional and political exploiter, and
the job hunter, to invent new ways to
spend this new and largely unnecessary
revenue. And on top of it all has been
piled great and growing burden of
interest charge from bonded indebted
ness. Now comes the day of reckon
ing. The country, at war, must have
enormous sums from taxes and other
enormous sums must be raised by sell-
ing bonds. The per capita taxes for
expenses and interest, for all branches
of local and state government in Wis
consin now approximate $50, and the
United States government will lay a
war tax estimated to reach $33 head,
TO say nothing of the interest charges
to follow the seven billion loan, two
billion of which are now being offered. I"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18

Mrs. III. Croft, retailer for toilet
and household requisites of the Franco
American Hygienic Co. would say to
the public that beginning May 10Th |
will open Franco toilet beauty store.
Many people are acquainted with these
goods, having useG hem for some time
in the past, and kDow them to be first
class goods, absolutely pure and I'M
adulterated. The also make TO order
the real human nal switches and wigs
for both men anc qsomen, all shades,
even gray and whit Not being able
to call on people al leir homes, | take
this way of furrria hing their many
needs. On all toilet articles sold am
going to give per cent towards sol
diers' relief fund. / ask your patron
age. Good things for men, women and
children. Call at the Doty store Sat
urday, May 19, and every Wednesday
and Saturday until further notice.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18
Norwegian Lutheran Bodies to Reunite
After Sixty Years.

Preparing for mass convention to
| be held in st. Paul, June to Is, at
| which the three communions will be
| consolidated, committee on union of
| the Norwegian Lutheran synod, Hauges
synod and the United Norwegian Luth-
eran church was in conference at the
West hotel recently, winding up the
business affairs of the three organiza-
| tons and working out details for the
| new organization.
The st. Paul Auditorium has been
selected as the convention headquar-
tiers. Minneapolis is made headquar-
| tiers for the church, offices having been
opened at 425 Fourth street south.
Between 10000 and $4,000 persons
are expected by members of the COM
mittee to be present during the ten
days deliberations. More than 1000
ministers and delegates will attend. A
feature of the program is a benefit con-
cert for Red Cross work, at which
chorus Of 1000 will sing and bands
from St. Olaf college, Mortified, Red
Wing seminary and Luther college,
DEBORAH, Iowa, will play.
Before the convention the committee
must work out details for future oper-
alton of property valued approximately
at 1900, 600, represented by $500
churches, % schools and correspond
ing number of charitable institutions.
Plans are being worked out for handl-
ing $1,000, 900 pension fund. Reas-
signment of part of the LOO pastors
who minister to approximately 500,0
persons is being taken up.
DR.. T. H. Dahl, president of the
United church; DR.. H. G. Stub, presi-
dent of the Norwegian synod, and DR..
J. j. Eske, president of Hauges synod,
are heading the committee, which num-
bers Is members.
The reorganization will unite branches
of parent church which disintegrated
in Norway about 90 years ago, and will
affect most of the Norwegian Lutheran
congregations in the United States and
Canada. Following deliberations con-
tinuing over several years, committees
of the synods agreed year ago on
plan of union. The Twin City meeting
will be a ratification of the agreement.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18
- 49,
The Satisfaction of SAVING.

Among all material pleasures there is
none so great as that which springs
from a store laid by for future wants,
especially for the needs of those for
whose we'll being you have become re-
sponsible And when you have gath
cred that store by steadfastly refusing
thriftless self indulgence you have a
satisfaction that outweighs and out
lasts all feeting Joys. speak from
my own experience, and can call to
witness the thousands of others who
have Travelled the same road.
Strictly speaking. all mere luxury is
waste. But there may be and often is
wanton wastefulness in luxury when
reasonable indulgence in it might be
justifiable That is certain to react
most har,nfully on soul, mind and body.
1t is not the accumulation, but the
waste and misuse of wealth, that
makes men decay.-Judson Harmon in
Youths Companion.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18
Isle of the Rlest.

The king of England is not the only
king in the British isles. There is alsp
the king of the Isle Of Bardsey, an is
land of Wales in the Irish sea, in the
County of Carnarvon. This kingdom,
with its seventy-six inhabitants-thaf
figure including the king and queen
is, we are reminded, a free and indie
pendent realm The monarch is not
only sovereign ruler, but physician,
schoolmaster, magistrate. He neither
owes nor gives obedience to the laws
of England His subjects pay no taxes
and live luxuriously upon barley bread.
milk and butter. No newspapers trOu-
bic the peace of the teeming populace,
and nobody on the island troubles him.
self about what goes on outside his ma
tive rock bound coast They are hap
py people, though perhaps their igno-
rance Of the fact that they are so may
mar the perfection of their content
ment. Paris Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18

If CONGRESS grants to President
Woodrow Wilson the powers that him
self and the cabinet are now asking, he
will come nearer being dictator than
any president within the history of the
Republic. 1t is understood this auto
cratic power is asked for at the advice
of the British statesmen who have had
experience in trying to conduct war
on the basis of semi-Democratic gov
eminent. Thus the strange spectacle
will be presented of autocracies NOV
ing toward democracy and the greatest
of all Republics moving in the direction
of an autocracy. But war makes I'M
usual demands upon a nation. 1t must
be seen to that the close of the war
leaves no autocratic heritage. Wauke-
sha Freeman.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18

1T WOULD do some retail dealers good
to run around the country little, buy
the newspapers of every town they go
into, and then see how modern adver-
Using is spreading out. Let them go
up and down the streets of almost any
town and note the stores that look ag-
gressive and busy. Then let them take
that list and compare it with the list of
advertisers III the local newspaper of
the town, and they will find the two
are nearly identical. Progressive mer-
chants are spending sums for advertis-
ing today that would make their faith
ers open their eyes. They have tried
in their experience, working up Dy de-
grees from small spaces to larger ones.
You find very few men who after adj
vertising literally ever give it up. The
non-advertisers are the timid, who
never dared to try it out in any consis-
tent way. Oshkosh Northwestern.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18
Playing With Fire.

The Wisconsin state authorities are
proposing and taking action upon mat
tiers of public policy designed to meet
emergencies caused by the war. Among
these is the proposed regulation of food
prices and public compulsion of food
spectators to yield up food supplies
held for their speculative purposes.
All this is commendable in purpose,
and may be of assistance in meeting
present and future abnormal conditions.
However, there is possibility of con-
fiict in these matters between the state
and national governments, as the fed
eral government is also preparing leg
islation calculated to give it power to
exert similar activities throughout the
nation. The danger is therefore that
Wisconsin in some respects may get a
''double DOSE"
Wisconsin is already getting double
dose of the income tax, being the only
state In the Union that is imposing an
income tax. Taxpayers of other states
are hit by the federal income tax, but
are not required to pay state income
tax on top of it. Yet in spite of this
discrimination, some of our progress
sive" statesmen at Madison are urging
large increases of the Wisconsin tax as
''war measure. Former Governor
Scofield, among others, has we'll pointed
out that the waging of war is distinc-
lively federal, not state activity,
and that Wisconsin will do we'll to let
the federal government determine how
much it is proper for Wisconsin along
with her sister states to be taxed for
its prosecution, and how the burden
shall be distributed.
Increases in the state income tax
would hit hardest the industries of
Wisconsin, which, as above indicated,
are already handicapped by this tax
which their compititors are not sub
jected to. To double that tax, as has
been proposed, or even to increase it at
all, would simply be adding to present
injustice. The industries of all the
states in the Union, in all probability,
will have hard enough time to get by
before the government is through TAX
ing toll from them. And if along with
this the industries of Wisconsin get
another swat from an increased state
income tax, it will be body blow these
Industries will be ill-conditioned to
withstand. Wisconsin has been called
a dairy state, but it is vastly more a
manufacturing state, for its dairy pro-
ducts are only worth something like
500, 900, 600 year, while its manufac-
tured products sell for about 5000, 000,-
600 year Whatever tends to cripple
Wisconsin industries tends to cripple
every citizen of the commonwealth
Fort Atkinson Union.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18
Rock County Auxiliary Council of De-
Tense holds First Meeting.

The initial meeting of the members
of the Rock County Auxiliary Council
of Defense was held at the City Hall,
Tuesday evening, May 8th., for the
purpose of perfecting an organization.
Henry Ebbott acted as Chairman,
and announced the purpose of the or
ganization, and the rules governing
both the Rock Co. Council of Defense,
and the Auxiliary organization.
Mr.. Ebbott was elected as president,
Mayor Conway as vice president, G..
A. Hoen, P. M. as secretary, Geo. w.
Doty as treasurer of the local Auxil-
larry, and an executive committee of
five be appointed, of which the regu-
lar officers, and August E. Ratzlaff il.
should be the personnel.It was decided
that all proceedings of the Auxiliary
should be made public thru the col
ums of the local papers.
The following patriotic Resolutions
were adopted:
Resolved by the Rock County Aux
iliary Council Of Defense of Edgerton
in meeting assembled, That it is in
complete sympathy with the aims and
the purposes of the National Council
of Defense, the State Council of De-
tense, and the Rock County Council of
Defense, and
Resolved: That it pledges it's hearty
cooperation and it's best efforts in at
tanning the ends that are sought by
those patriotic organizations, and
Resolved: That it invites the coop
Grafton of the different organizations
of this city, such as religious, frater-
nal, civic and social, to the end that
the following needs may be. success
fully promoted: viz.
First: The increased production of
food stuffs, =
Second: The avoidance of waste in
the use of food.
Third: The recruiting of the army,
the navy, the marine corps, and the
National Guard.
Fourth: The promotion and the ex-
tension of the Red Cross.
Fifth. The relief of the needy not
reached by the Red Cross.
Sixth: The organizing of the Boy
Scouts.
The future meetings of the organi
cation will be held on call of the pres
ident.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18

AS a forecast of what may come
later it proposes special taxes to raise
81, 800, 600, 900 in addition to the present
normal annual revenue of 81, 500, 600, :
900. When its terms are effective the
American people will be paying direct
taxes of $33 per capita. The people of
the British Isles--half as many-now
pay per capita taxes of $50. While the
principal features of the new war levy
are the increases in income and profits
taxes, increases in internal revenue
rates, and increases of customs duties,
many of it's provisions reach the inner
most structure of every home and make
up list of taxes probably the most
formidable ever faced by the American
neonle.s
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18
Boiled Milk.
A PHILOSOPHER.

my! You wanted fried potatoes,
didn't you? said the careless waitress
as the customer in the restaurant fin
ished his meal and rose to leave.
That's all right" answered the pa
tient man. eve wanted so many
things all my life that didn't get that
I'm used to it."-Exchange.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-05-18
FRIDAY, MAY Is, 1917.

Now if Germany can raise enough
food on her comparatively meager
acres to support her 10000, 900 and
more people, then Americans need not
become panicky over a famine even
while exerting their best efforts to
raise maximum crops this year.