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Macon beacon., 1917-05-04
South's Safety Depends Upon Its
Own Eforts.

The farmer who bends all his
efforts to raise abundant food
crops this yeur will be as useful
a patriot as the soldier who fol-
lows the flag. But the farmer
who fails to do his utmost to
help solve the critical problem of
food supply will be false both to
himself and to his country.
This is a matter that strikes
home to every farmer in Georgia
and in the South. Heretofore
the South has leaned heavily
upon other regions for its food
supply. 1t cannot do so now
either with safety or patriotism.
The worlds food reserve is ex-
hausted. The American grain
supply is seven hundred million
bushels short of what it was a
year ago. Prices have risen fifty
per cent or more in the last
twelve months, and still are
mounting. Even if a farmer were
wholly lacking in loyalty to his
nations cause, he could not fail
to see the disastrous results to
his own interests of having to
buy his food supplies in the war
market.
Every man who has an acre of
soil to till should do his part to-
ward making Georgia and the
South self-sustaining in the iron
days ahead. And if we make
the most of our rich and spacious
resources, we shall be able not
only to supply our own needs,
but also to add bountifully to the
common country's store. Food
crops and more food crops and
still more food crops-that is the
imperative need of the State and
nation, Atlanta Journal,
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04
Summer School for Teachers.

Most boards of school trustees have
come to realize that teacher must
avail herself of the opportunities to i'm
prove herself in her knowledge OF the
subjects she is to teach and in the
methods she uses teach them. Some
boards think it wise to require their
teachers to attend some summer school;
our standard for teachers will be one
hundred per cent higher when every
board requires this. The county super
intendent feels that, in nearly every
case, a teachers efficiency and her
worth to the community can be meas
ured pretty accurately by the interest
she takes in adding to her professional
equipment. Experience, though it is
almost indispensable asset, If relied on
altogether. will find US in rut.
The county institute has again been
consolidated with the A. & M. College
Normal, which opens on the 4th of
June and closes on the 14th of July.
This normal is the nearest to US and
most teachers will find it less expen-
sive to attend than others. You should
have received bulletin before this.
giving full information as to fees,
board, etc. If you have not, card to
DR.. j. C. Robert, Agricultural College,
Miss, will bring you this bulletin.
The great business of our country
just now ia war; and this must neces-
sarily interfere with the conduct of our
schools so far as our young men are
concerned. The teacher and the school
should be second to no one in loyalty to
the cause of preserving and defending
our native land. But for the educa-
tion of the children of our county and
state each teacher should feel an added
responsibility to give them the kind Of
training they need for the present
emergency as we'll as for the future.
l do not think the work of our public
schools should be relaxed in the least
except as economic reasons make abso-
lutely necessary.
If the greatest function which we as
party to this world war can perform is
to furnish food to ourselves and allies,
then certainly the first function of the
educ ,,Aal' interests of the land is to
every effort to stimulate the
q I Of food. And the teacher who
conceives her duty to be only to teach
grammar and arithmetic and history,
exclusive of the present imperative
needs of the community and county, is
the most glaring misfit that ever en-
tered a school room. Special courses
will be given in the summer schools of
the state for preparing teachers to take
the lead, at least among the boys and
girls of the community,
trust that every teacher in the ru-
raj schools of the county will be able
before beginning school this fall to say
that you have attended some summer
normal and have taken some of this
special training.
JAS. G. CHANDLER, Supt.
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04
Unframed Men for Actual War.
fare.

One of the most astounding of
untenable theories still held by
Americans is that mere men, mere
weight of numbers, can succeed in
war. 1t is strange that after read
ing of England's training problem
in the present war leading men in
public life can still talk of the will.
ing millions ready overnight or
after q few weeks of training.
Qaite aside from the important
little item that the necessary
trainers do not exist, it is known
as a fact proved by the experience
of modern war that a year of work
of preparing the average citizens is
necessary before he can be sent to
the front as an effective unit.
1t is not merely question of
drill, of the manual of arms, of
the parade ground. DO we realize
that not one American in q hun.
dred knows how to take care Of
his own physical body under ser.
vice conditionsi DO we under
staud how very brief few of us can
march twenty miles or dig a trenchi
DO we think we can all hit a five.
foot square target at six hundred
yards (leaving out all questions of
the bulls eye)i Is there any rea
son to believe that Americans are
as a whole physically better thai
the Germans or :Russians Of
Frenchi-F. W. Roosevelt in Serb.
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04
More Than Ever.

The Montgomery Advertiser
pays Mississippi the following
nice compliment:
Mississippi can rest on her
Congressional laurels. She need
not feel she is condemned before
the world because of the recall
citrant Vardaman. for Senator
Williams and Representative Har-
rison have more than made good
the Vardaman deficit.
THE speech of Senator Will
liams on the war resolution was
probably the best and most eff
fective speech made in the Sem
ate. The speech of Representa-
tive Harrison in'the House was
probably the best and most ef-
fective speech on the war resolu-
ton made in that chamber.
mississippi gets the honors,
in spite of handicaps."
Senator Williams speech has
probably received more compli-
mentary notices, and Senator
Williams himself more praise,
than that of any other member
of the Senate during its entire
regular and extra session.
And while Senator Williams
has received the plaudits of the
country for his efforts in behalf
of President Wilson and the un-
holding of the honor of America,
Pat Harrison has not failed to
draw favorable commentator for
the stand no took, along the same
lines in the House of Representa-.
tives.
Both Williams and Harrison
are representatives to be proud
of. and Mississippi feels honored
in having such men in Congress
to represent her.-Clarion-L Leger
cun-FoR sALE-ie gusse; rIs1% hs%%erless / c
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04
How Does Your G arden Grown

Our back yard garden is coming
on nicely, thank you. We have
already stuck our cabbage and
pruned our turnips, and with a
few days good weather our toma.
toes will be large enough to dig
and our cucumbers dry enough to
thresh. Our crop of onion hay
will, we think, if used as mixed
diet with tin cans, carry our goat
through the summer. Madison
County Herald.
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04

Largely by chance and by scci-
dent, / happened to be one Of four
or five American newspaper men
who witnessed at first hand the
German invasion Of Belgium, and
one of three who, little later,
Witnessed some of the results of
The Germanic subjugation of the
northern part of France. Like
wise I was inside Germany at the
time the rush upon Paris was
chacked and the retreat from the
Marne took place, thereby having
opportunity to take cognizance Of
the feelings and sentiments and
the impulses which controlled the
German populace in q period Of
reversals.
Having seen these things, I hate
war with all my heart. I am sure
that / hate it with a hatred deeper
than the hate of you, reader, who
never saw its actual workings and
its garnered frutage. For, you see,
I saw the physical side of it; and,
having seen it, I want to tell you
that / have no words with which
halfway adequately to describe it
for you, so that you may have in
your mind the pictures I have in
mine. It is the most obscene. the
most hideous, the most brutal, the
most malignant-and sometimes
the most necessary-spectacle, /
veritably believe, that ever the
eye Of mortal man has rested on
since the world began, and do
hate it.
But if war has to come-war for
the preservation of our ma ti0nal
honor and our national integrity;
war for the defense of our flag and
our people and our soil; war for
the preservation of the principle
of representative government t
among the nations of the earth-I
would rather that it come now
than that it come later. / have a
child. l would rather that child,
in her maturity, might be assured
of living in peace guaranteed by
the sacrifices and the devotion of
the men and women of this gener-
alton than that her father should
live on in precarious peace,
bought and paid for with coward
ice and national dishonor.
Having spread the gospel of
force for so long, Prussianized
Germany can understand but one
counter. en- t-force. We
must give her blow for blOw-a
harder blow in return for each
blow she gives US. 'Thrice is he
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04
TIP to Consrsss.

We don't pretend to know everything
in politics, but we know the congress-
man who forgets everything but win
ming this war this year will be in bet
ter shape in 1918 than the man who is
about nothing but reelection.
Houston Post,
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04

Getting married in preference to
going to the front indicates that there
is still plenty Of courage left in the
nation; for getting married with the
present cost of living out-fanking US
on all sides takes nerve,
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04

81 would rather have several months
of war with the allies now than have
several years Of war later without
them. said Senator Pittman OF Neva-
de-. That seems to be hsgenersl sepkh
ment Of the nstion,
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04

The officers and bluejsckets Of tn,
Mongolia are receiving royal welcoms
in London. It pays TO pot q periscope.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04

The philosopher who said 1t is much
essier to die for the woman you love
than to live with her was the original
slacker.- Courier-J ournsl.
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04

Now, old hoss, the government is
going to get you IL 1t needs you. So
you may as we'll consider yourself at
its disposal. Houston Post.
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04

Don't lay your heavy ones aside
And don your lights today,
For there'll be one more blizzard
When we put our stoves awsy.
Houston Pest.
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04
meal, and with an occasional meat
less day.

The consensus of scientific opin-
ion-not faddist opinion, but sane
opinions that, pampered as we
are, we can cut out good share
of the meat we have been eating
and he the better for it.-Ksnsas
City Star.
Macon beacon., 1917-05-04

r..-FoR sALE-ls guage. hammerless l. C
VVn Smith shotgun: T,si TYSON
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MORE OFFICES To
OPEN TO NATIVES
IBY Associated Prsssl

LONDON, Eng.-Another step to.
ward self-geVernment in India is
promised by the British government
in the report just issued, of the royal
Indian commission, appointed some
time befire the war to consider means
to- widen the avenues of Indian par
lticipation in the administration of the
country. The report. a voIuminous
document, has been ready for more
than q year, hut has been spurposely
delayed with q view to avoidance OF
controversial discussion during the
wal" It is expected that the man
recommendations will be put into eff
feet without delay.
The most important change in In
dian administration will be an In
creased recruiting of men direct from
India for posts in the higher civil
service. At present these posts are
filled In England, although Indians
who have resided certain time in
England may compete on an equal
basis with Englishmen in the examin-
aticns here In the future, however,
there win be a bifurcated enrolment,
with definite proportions of the higher
posts reserved for Indians educated
in their own country.
In the police department the pre-
ponderance Of the appointees will still
come from England. having regard
to the nature Of British responsibility
for the good goyenrance of India In
certain other services, such as agri-
culture and forestry, half the APP.
pontees will come from India. More
over, the English door to admission
to the various services is to remain
open as before to Indian candidates,
and those successful are not to be
included in the proportion set apart
for recruitment in India In the case
CT the police, indeed. the English door
is opened for the first time. as hither-
to only pure-bofn Europeans have
eligible. Now Indians viii be entitled
to compete, provided they have been
educated in England five years prior
to the examination Much is done
also to modify the old grievance of
preferential pay between the Lon
don and the Indian recruit.
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NEW YORK MAY TAX
ESTATE se,oce,coo

NEW YORK, N. y.-Lamon v Hark
ness. Standard OH magnate, who died
at Paicines, Cal, two years ego, leay-
ing fortune estimated at $170 ,0O0, 900.
was a resident of this city, according
to a decision rendered in the surro-
gates court, ard therefore the estate
is subject to a transfer tax here of
more than s6.O00.00O if all the real and
personal property are located in this
state. just how large the New York
estate is has yet to be determined
The Hardness executors sought to
void paying the tax mere by maintain
ing the decedent,s residence was Ken
lucky, not New York.
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FRENCH complain
OF living COSTS
nv Associated Pres.1

! PARIS, France. Present conditions
I Of life have not reduced the giTth OF
| the acreage Partisan, but they have
begun to work upon susceptible tenn
pers and are changing the physiog-
nomy of the central markets. Cooks
who are boycotting the merchants of
their quarter to buy at the central
markets numbered hundreds few
months ago, and now number thou
sands. They made the cars OF the
subway lines leading 10 the central
! markets look like green crocers de-
livery wagons in tn early hours until.
cut Of Difference TO passengers who
! { bjected to the odor of Limburger
cheese, garlic, and other foodstuffs
/ in their raw state, the subway COM
pany provided special cars for them.
Eggs s TO 10 sous piece, butter
10 to 75 sous a pound! OUT. La. La
What are we coming tor exclaimed a
bareheaded woman as she deposited
her market basket on the floor, Of one
Of these special marketing" cars.
Look at that" joined in the woman
standing beside her. picking brown
parcel from her basket There is
roast-iust about enough for three,
and do you know how much it cost
me? Il cost me so sous; would ike
to know where all the money goes?n
Such conversations are heard every
morning in these new subway cars.
They touch point that no one has
vet been able TO clear up. The aver
age retailer confesses TO no greater
profit than is proportionate to his own
increasing expenses. The farmer and
stock raiser insists that they are get
ting no more than their share
The farmer gets more for every
thing he sells than he did before the
war; 20 per cent more on the aver
age for mutton, 20 per cent more for
wheat, % per cent more for oats, 30
per cent mere for beef; but he points
cut that, ip compensation for this In
crease, he now has to pay farm hands
twice the wages that he paid before
the war, while fertilizers which he
uses in considerable quantities went
from 60 francs to 100 francs per ton.
The retailer has no such excuse.
Rents are no higher than they were
before the war and 1t costs him no
more to light his shop or to run it; in !
many cases his operating expenses are
necessarily less because he is obliged |
to get along with less help. The best |
authoritive figure that the retail gro
Ger, butcher and green grocer are
making from rs to 40 per cent more |
profit than before the war on most of |
the things they sell. The producer
Il making af least % Nor oonf moro Il
the rest of the advance in prices be-
ing absorbed in higher transportation
expenses and larger profits to inter-
5 The average housewife cannot go
into details to follow the
money to rs final destination, but shej
knows where she spent 100 francs be-
fore the war she now spends IT'S; if
she could not send the cook to the
central markets for part OF her sup
plies, the, increase would be much
greater.
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PENSIONERS IN
ENGLAND UNITE

i LONDON, Eng - What is practically
a trade union OF soldiers and sailors
and their dependents entitled to pen
sion or separate allowance has just
been organized. II is called the Naval
and Military War Pensions and Vel
fare League Its objects are to pre-
vent corruption in the administration
of pensions end to see that justice is
done to pensioners in this and other
wars.
Some idea OF the power that the
new organization may WELD in the
affairs of the nation may be gained
from the fact that there will be 5,000,.
/ 900 discharged soldiers and sailors,
who form at least half the electorate
of the cauntry.
The League was launched by ]. NJ.
Hogge. the chairman of the pensions
committee Of the House OF Commons,
who was entrusted by the government
with the task of finding a solution for
some of the difficulties already con-
fronting the dependents of men who
had given their lives in the war. Thou
sands of people complained that they
had been overlooked by the pensions
department and returned soldiers, In
capacitated by injury were not getting
allowances.
The League is the most comprehen-
siye scheme yet suggested for dealing
with the pensions problem 1t is pro-
posed that membership shall, for sums
varying from six pencs twelve cents)
to one pound, be open to all directly
associated with the issue of pensions
that is potentially the whole of the
army and navy--to their wives and
dependents, and to anyone else who
is interested in the welfare of soldiers
and sailors. The object Of the League
include those of representing the re-
turned soldier in Parliament, watch
ing the administration of pensions"
protecting the future interests of pen
sioners", and organizing all pensions
for this and other vars
Some idea Of the scope of the
League may be gained from the fol-
lowing recommendations:
That there should be minimum
scale of pensions below which no one
should fall.
That the scale should be elastic so
that the pension should fit the man
and not the man the pension.
That every man accepted as niedi-
cally fit should, If he is afterwards
-scrappedr be pensioned as If he had
been really medically fit.
That every consutnptiye soldier or
sailor should be helped.
That mother should be entitled to
receive from the State the support |
that she would have received from her
son II she had not lost him in the war;
That disabled men should be cared
for, trained and employed.
That children should be provided
Tor more generously, especially moth
erless children and orphans; and
That q civil liabilities committee
should be set up to help men discharg
ed from the army
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DAILY REMINDERS

/ Around the island, s1.75. Phone
1856 ADV.
Make some OF today's want ads
serve YoU-by answering a few OF
them.
Wanted more passengers to
make UP motor party around island.
$500 each. Lewis Garage. phone 2141,
ADV.
For Distilled Water, Hires Root
Beer and all other Popular Drinks
try the Con. SOFA Water Works Co.
ADV.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-08

the largest month on record. Indica.
tions are that 1917 might even surpass
the enormous foreign business Of last
year
Exports amounted to s5,4S1, 000, 900
and imports aggregated $3.50. 100000
Exports showed gain of 81 ,926, 000.-
900 over 1915 and imports increased
$613, 900, 900.
The balance of trade was S3,0S9, 000.-
600 in favor of the United States COM
pared with sire. 900. 900 in 1915.
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local And Gen

4
A daughter was born Thursday t.
Mr. and sirs. Percy John Levey.
There win be meeting tonight oil
the Honolulu Street Railway En-
ployes' Benefit Association
"A social session will follow the reg
Mar meeting OF the Rebekahs this
evening in Odd Fellows hail.
| D. Kiehi Nakao fractured a leg yes
terday en- the Inter-Island wharf while
working on the schooner City of Port.
land.
The postmaster end most excellent
degrees viii be conferred tonight at a
regular business meeting Of the Roy.
al Arch Masons. Honolulu Chapter,
No. /.
Applications for passports have
been filed in the federal court by
Frank L. Hadley. going to the Orient.
and Walter w. Hickerson, bound for
Australia.
=
Owners of the motor schooner City
CT. Portland have filed bonds of s12,-
900 in federal court in the case OF
Carl Brynildsen, cook, who is suing
the shipping concern for $3.50 DAM
ages.
BY cutting his throat r. Osuni at
tempted to commit suicide last night
in a tenement house at the corner of
Aala park and King street He had
been sick for some time and is at the
Queens hospital now.
Miss Edyth Giu lectured before the
members of the Y w. c. A. today at
noon on Emaciation, It's Causes and
Cure. She explained the various food
stuffs that were necessary for those
who wish to gain weight.
The annual meeting Of the kawaia-
hao Alumnae Association viii be held
on Saturday, March 10. at the beach
home of Mrs C. S. Holloway, Kaala-
wal. All members are requested to be.
present. and to be at end of car line
at 10 o'clock a. N.
The funeral services of Herman
Heinrich Ficke, who died yesterday
afternoon at the Queens hospital.
were to be at o'clock this afternoon
in Townsend's undertaking parlors
with burial in the Odd Fellows plot in
Nuuanu cemetery. He was also a
member of the knights of Pythias,
was born In Germany Sc years ago. is
and has been here about 16
years as a barber.
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DISCUSSES COST WEARER
HUNDRED DOLLARS FINE

KANSAS CITY, Kan. In order to
be in the social swim" in Armour
dale, Lloyd Beatty. Is years old, 16
Kansafi avenue. Kansas City, Kan,
carried an equipment of false musta-
ches and DISCUSSES, he told Judge
Brady in police court here. Officers
arrested Beatty last night when he was
trying on his DISCUSSES on the streets.
Il was only practising how to wear
them" he said. "All the fellows in
Armourdale- use them
OFFICERS found flashlight also in
Beaty's pocket. He was fined 800.
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april Will SEE
TRAVEL normal

Although the congestion in passengers book
ings for the coast Is gradually lessening local
steamship agencies believe 1t viii be the mid
die Of April before it viii be entirely re.
Heyed 7s
The Matson agency Castle Cooke reports
the Lnrline. sailing next Tuesday ct noon:
the Wilheimina, March 81, and the Manoa.
March %. booked full. The Matsonia leay.
ing April 8 has all her staterooms taken.
but can accommodate few more passen-
gers here and there. After the next Matso-
MIA the rush to the coast will be over until
the vacation travel coastward starts in June
The Great Northern, leaving for the coast
week from tomorrow, is full but the agency,
Fred L. Waldrons Ltd, believes it can take
practically all who want to 60 and have not
been able to get berths out on Matson and
Oceanic boats.
Eonoma Takes Al Booked
Radio adyicess received from the Oceanic
agency at Page Page say the SOn0ma which
steamed from the Samoan port Tuesday for
Honolulu, win be able to take the 105 first
cabin and eight second who are booked at
the local agency, c. Brewer 8 Company, for
her
The Sonoma has room out for only so tons
of CARGO. the smallest in years, as Oceanic
boats have never heretofore taken from this
port to San Francisco less than 100 tons.
and for the last six months or more have
had cargo space for from 1000 TO 1400 tons
from Honolulu for the coast It is believed
the Sonoma is filled with Australian onions.
being rushed to the coast, where prices are
now unpreeedentedly high