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The Washington times., 1917-12-07
For Ever
By M a b el bod e e.

INTER-SoCIAL will be the effect
OF one mind upon another.
Every one. If we would trl-
umph, must have an authority over
him.
We must have one to think OF
when we want to love, respect or
emulate.
We must always start with one
or the first II we would get any
where, and starting with one we
can go as far as We can see led
by the expanding mind.
When little Boris Sidis' father
began to teach him mathematics
he didn't begin telling him about
one-half-of a siXteenth-of a
twenty-three.
He told him about one. And lit
tie Sidis went on from one until
he saw farther than most people,
and at the age OF twelve he was
lecturing to Harvard professors
about the fourth dimension.
How to Know Humanity.
II you want to tell child about
humanity so that he will under
stand It, love II and want to be like
it you don't tell him about hu-
manity.
Humanity is just the inchoate
thing without head or tail that one
half Of a sixteenth OF twenty-three
is.
You tell him about one.
You take one human being, the
finest, strongest. truest, and most
daring and successful individual
ybu can think Of, and you hold him
up before the child as an authority,
and the child goes a long way to-
ward knowing what humanity is.
and loving II, and wanting to emu
late IT, The unit Is all.
There isn't any one, no matter
how high, from child to man, who
can get along without an authority
over him, one higher than he.
He can eat and live and sleep,
but | say he can't get along. He
stays in the same place or slips
backwards.
You need not ever bdashamed to
acknowledge authority II but
shows your own superiority-es-
pecially II your authority is a good
one.
Look at all those who tell you
that they recognize no authority!
Aren't they all at loose ends like
. hall Of Q sixteenth Of twenty
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three or some chaotic, headless,
nameless thing like that?
One leading each OF us-the one
each chooses and We all follow
ing in our own best time.
That is order, rhythm, harmony,
beauty.
Standing Erect!
Don't mistake me, am not try
ing to tell you the old sermon
which is calculated TO keep you
down by preaching resignation
conformity and compromise.
No. that's another lesson.
This is an attempt to help you
rise-to help you reach authority
yourself-tO help you become the
finest, strongest. truest, most dar-
Ing and successful one yourself.
have heard that from a certain
university out West, no significant
authoritative man ever emerges.
The students have no unit held be-
fore them at that college. II is very
broad minded and modern, and the
students are taught about brother
hood OF man. love Of humanity,
unions OF labor. and all that sort OF
thlng, but no one standard Is given
them, no pivotal character, speak
ing as one having authority, stands
before them TO tell them about one.
So. having no example, no one
above them, they do not amount to
any one themselves!
There is another college I know
OF In New England which has pro-
duced a singular large number Of
important men. The president OF
II is an enthusiast who acknowl-
edges one authority and teaches II.
He says to the students over and
over again:
while you're here you are to
FORM your own opinions of human
lty and human conduct. But one
opinion you will hear repeated over
ana over again-that is, my opinion
OF the finest, strongest, truest, most
daring and successful man who
ever lived"
AND this authority for strength
and truth and daring is held con-
.stantly before the students. How
can they help but be infected by
Choose the greatest: love him
ana hold him before you. and say
10 yourself early and .late. "EIe
Is greater than I. | will be like
by and by you will be able to
say, Il am that"
The Washington times., 1917-12-07
By EARL GOODWIN

Ii the Public Utilities Commission allows the teIepho.,
company to change its charges should not allow the
pany to wander away from basis of 5 cents a call
There should be 10cent local calls and the orJ;nar
mouse and smastore service should not figure at iebcs
tnan nickel IN New York city where there are four mI
York city the basic rate 800 calls year for $4whch is
5 cents call
On additional calls the rate should be smaller than
cents and not larger The wholesale rate should he less
because the more calls the less cost per call
Inc present heavy service which is entirely unsatis
factory to the individual user from the great demands
war is doing it. Telephone agents will tell you that If
that Is the case the individual should not be penazed
ana MADE pay Tor burden imposed by the Government
itself The departments of Government themselves Should
pay any increased cost they have created
Washngtons rate is too high and if ary change is
allowed by the Public Utilities Commission should be with
view to relieving the greater number smaller users from
paying the costs of trouble caused by big users.
The Washington times., 1917-12-07
sTARs' WHY NOT STRIPES ALsor

To the small picture that the Literary Digest presents to
its readers we add this one.
The Kaiser is interested in the stars-he ought also to
be thinking about the stripes for in reality fguratvey
the stripes pretty to follow the stars
There will be successful Hohenzollern business
when this hadiot Grown Prince throwing
himself and his army of murderers against the peaceful
French republic - 49,.
The Hun blood which marauding bandit from Asia
planted in the Hohenzoern family centuries ago will have
to 60 to work when this is
And the work will be honest work suited to the inteli
gence of the Kaiser and his son. dishwashng perhaps
somewhere in England doing other useful work
that does demand from the Kaiser complete body
from the Grown Prince complete brannether possessing
the same.
The Washington times., 1917-12-07

M IHAT are you tnankIul
NV for, Sweet Sixteen?
w What! Nothing!
Your brother has gone to the
wars and your father says times
are hard and your mother
wouldn't let you 20 to the house
party, and you're tired of turkey
and you always did hate cranber-
ries. and you wish you could 90 to
sleep and never wake up till all
the next five Thanksgiving were
over and you were twenty-one and
could do as you pleased and wear
what you liked and see the sort
of people you really fancied and
not the ones your mother chooses
for you-and eat ice cream twice
a day and cake for breakfast if
you wanted it?
Well, well, what a shame.
Don't you know that if there
isn't another thing on earth for
you TO rejoice over, you ought to
be thankful that you're alive in
this wonderful year, and you are
sweet sixteen, with all the world
and the splendor and the pain,
and the sacrifice and the triumph
of it ahead Of you7
Don't you know that you ought
to be standing on tiptOe with a
blazing star of joy dancing in your
heart and just singing at the top
Of your voice to think of it?
Sweet Sixteen, you haven't be-
gun to live yet-you've only
dreamed, and not one of your fool
ish little dreams will come true, or
if it does you'll cry very hard and
wish it hadn't.
Everything In Life!
The dark-eyed stranger at the
theater the other night-oh, yes, of
course-but if you really met him,
you'd soon find that the dark-eyed
gaze meant nothing but "I'm hun
cry; wonder what there is for
dinner" or, "How ! wish l could
have a smoke"
The freckle-faeed boy at the
high school is really lot more ro-
mantic-he dreamed Of you the
other night. Did you know that.
He thought you were an angel and
had come to rescue him from a ter
rible death in the nightmare, and
when he awoke something thrilled
in his heart. Are you going to
live up to the freckled boys dream
of youf
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Dreaming of the Stars"
Continued from First Column.)

Continued from First Column)
realizes that country with annual income of FIFTY
BILLIONS, able to produce army of ten million men,
and raising army Of million or 50 every year-of
new young mems not to be disposed Of easily.
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This interesting little picture the Literary Digest
publishes from French newspaper-and publishes good
deal Of truth with it.
The Kaiser deceive himself as well anybody but
he has the map the world he has had intelligent
ports from very intelligent spies in the United States He
= CONTINUED at Of Last Column
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patton DaN pdrodes; also II I re-
nseu1bey the village eossiDs 5,rho rev.
eled IN gong to the old East Capi-
toI street postoffce on Sunday
nights also II iVaHt to see an old
pIotogrGpb Of mgsslfi IN tho arms Of
my old eoL0red nsamBty. Ais1Cer 20
al Of this: YoN bet.
EDWIN c.. SHoPE, Of the Cen
eral Land Office, suggests that Post
master Chance should allow one de-
livery Of mail on holidays all over
the city.
W. G. CoE, Of 1887 Newton
street, advocates a tar on whIsKers
and soicits my comment thereon.
I should say Mr.. Coe Il working in
the interest Of the BARRIERS.
Auditor ALONZO TWEEDALE
and most Of his office force worked
half the night at the beginning Of
the month to get teachers pay
checks to them by the Sd Of the
month. This was doing as well as
possible IN view Of the fact that the
school payroll system is double
jointed and intensely overloaded
with heavy. coils OF system"
The system could be changed.
The Washington times., 1917-12-07

c. C. CAMERON, Of the Treasury
Department, says there are more
reckless and ignorant automobile
drivers here than in any other city.
Is he correct?
The Washington times., 1917-12-07
From the Top Down
If Cutting Must Be Done Let 1t Begin Where 1t Will
- Hurt Least. 3D.

When proposed make the world less troublesome
by cutting down the salaries of the clerks and other poorly
paid employees of the civil service they patriotic
any American be- to win the necessary to
reduce them to less than half raons they would remain in
favor OF winning the they now They know that
IN troublesome world their troubles only small
part of the sum total.
They are saying nothing They will take what comes
with questions asked" But question that ought to
be asked for them is What does most to make it trouble
world? Is the work done by the real workers. In
of Government pay? Does the trouble begin at the
bottom? Or has it been coming from the top until 1t has
reached the bottom?
justice and decency That is what living form ad
dton to board and clothes and satisfaction in life
The war to make the world safe for democracy The
President tells that the eye of the peoples opened
and they see" $500 /
The result is to be an understanding of the meaning of
Justice and mercy It will extend from bottom to top It
win result in people at both top and bottom coming to bet
ter understanding When their eyes there will be
trouble about that Then the people at the top will
that those who doing the every day routine
work of the world have the burden Of the worlds progress
resting on them
Then win be clearly seen that it neither Just nor
meru to cut down their incomes to less than they can
live upon.
People 'tst the top" when they deserve our thanks
among the best people in the world It is satisfaction
say So pay them in part at least in honor fame
reputation applause long continued This goes into their
satisfaction in e and above board and clothes and
whatever cash surplus they may accumulate But the work
who must meet the rawnout strain Of the routine
without which everything stops-haVe no sucn sasacon
What they have 'board and Clothes As patriots
when these already cut down by war, they are in
favor Of winning at all costs But justice and decency win
more than bullets We must do only what have right
do We have right begin cutting, with the wages
of the weakest and most nearly helpless The cut has gone
too far already when war conditions make their living harder
than that of workers who combine for self protection
Because they unprotected this wrong must not be
inflicted They must be paid the price of an honest living
as they are now honestly earning it.
Cut their living down further? Never! Raise to the
level of what they earning Pay them what you owe
Twin
The Washington times., 1917-12-07

We can put of the answer. But we must not put Z
justice and decency That is what are living form
dition to board and clothes and satisfaction in Lii
The Washington times., 1917-12-07

Representative FOSTER of III
nois, chairman Of the House Com.
mittee on Mines, wants . public Goa
yard in Washington- II appears
that some scheme Of the kind Is nee.
essary before one viii get any coal.
The Washington times., 1917-12-07

JOHN BEELER,. traffic expert
Of New York city, has been engaged
by the Public Utilities Commission
to act as a doctor to the sick rail
road service in Washington.
/ hope the patient viii not die on
Doc Beeler's hands.
The Washington times., 1917-12-07
Your Telephone Bill

Inc Public Utilities Commission WIN That THE SMALL sER
Does Not Pay FOR THE Burden IMPOSED BY THE Iarre
The Washington times., 1917-12-07
RID AND SEEN

Commissioners GARDINER op
poses, the American privilege Of
franchise with the same vigor he dis.
plays IN adYccating an increased dog
tax ,~s
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DREAMING OF THE STARS
them-a decent living,
Don't Forget About the Stripes!

DREAMING STARS
"YOu dreaming father be far far
from the world!"
"Yes! dreaming of the stars"
L Pele-Mee CParis)
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He says the District Of Columbia
Is better off without q vote.
Is the right Of self-government .
matter Of principle or expedieney?
The Washington times., 1917-12-07

An anonymous friend lcants to
knotO If remember the Enamel
The Washington times., 1917-12-07

XE JHAT are you thankful
NV for, Sweet Sixteen?
w What! NothinRl
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-06-14

made of any thin, white or pale-col-
ored material. Although it has only
wide tucks for adornment it is inter-
esting from the viewpoint of clever
construction and it is youthful looking.
The skirt is made with panel hav-
ing four wide tucks at the front
placed on it's upper half. On the re-
mainder of the skirt the tucks are on
the lower half. In the bodice a vest
of satin fastens along a diagonal open
ing at the front with little satin-cov-
cred buttons. The rest of the blouse
is of georgette, with shirred shoulder
seams and the fullness at the front is
gathered into small bead tassels. The
long sleeves are finished with row
of satin-covered buttons along the out
side seam. A girdle of wide, soft satin
ribbon is wrapped twice about the
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-06-14
BLACkLEG IN CALVES
NOW MORE VIRULENT
Vaccination will Prevent Disease
in Most Cases, but Not All
Serum on Market.

by GEORGE II. GLOVER, Colorado Ag-
ricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo)
Blackleg in calves seems to have
become more virulent of late. Vac
cination will prevent the disease in
most cases but not all. Another diff
Guilty lies in the fact that after adj
ministering the vaccine, calves are
not protected against the disease for
a period of about two weeks, and in
the meantime, if the herd is infected,
many of them may die. There is now
blackleg serum on the market which
viii give immediate protection and
combined with the virus will give
lasting immunity. The serum also has
curative value If given early in the
course of the disease.
The Kansas Agricultural college
makes the statement that "a highly
potent blackleg serum can be pro-
duced from the horse" The claim is
also made that the filtered fluid taken
from the diseased tissue of the
shoulder has great immunizing prop
critics
This marks a great advance in the
control of blackleg but does not in
the least detract from the Importance
Of absolutely destroying the carcass of
every animal that dies from blackleg
and adopting all other possible pre-
yentiye measures.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-06-14
YES! MAGICALLY!
CORNS LIFT OUT
WITH FINGERS

You say to the drug store man.
"Give me a small bottle of freezone.s
This will cost very little but will
positively remove every hard or soft
corn or callus from ones feet.
A few drops Of this new ether COM
pound applied directly upon a tender,
aching corn relieves the soreness in
stantly, and soon the entire corn or
callus, root and ali, dries up and can
be lifted off with the fingers.
This new way to rid ones feet OF
corns was introduced by a Cincinnati
man, who says that freezone dries in
a moment, and simply sbrivels up the
corn or calus without Irritating the
surrounding skin.
If your druggist hasn't any freezone
tell him to order a small bottle from
his wholesale drug house for you.-adv.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-06-14

with coiffures and blossom out in a
new hair dress every once in a while.
Few women realize what magic lies in
the couture and how wholly the ap
pearance may be changed by changing
its style. Now that every woman is
expected to do her bit by making her
self useful in some direction she will
have occasion to think up the best way
of doing her hair for work and for
play. We are about to get into thor
oughly modern and up-to-date garden
ing clothes and to do real gardening
and with khaki for other sorts of
service.
A pretty couture is pictured above
and it is simple arrangement of the
hair which is waved all round the
head and parted at one side. 1t is
parted at one side, either left or right
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-06-14

cultivated sense of clothes must be
about as cool and crisp looking as an
icicle. Or they must be of soft, fas-
chatting fabrics that look no more bur
densome than cloud, like the dress
of white crepe shown in the picture.
If you know of a sweet girl graduate
that hasn't settled upon the style of
her frock for the great day, or bride
who is casting about for something be-
yond criticism for her bridesmaids,
call her attention to this pretty model
for a midsummer gown. 1t might be
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-06-14
poLAND-cHlNA SOW IN FIELD CONDITION.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture) "a
In proportion to the prices that 1t
brings, live stock is less expensive to
transport than feedstuffs. This fact
especially desirable industry on those
irrigation projects which are remote
from the large consuming centers. Re-
cent experiments by the u. S. depart
ment of agriculture, the results of
which are published as Bulletin ASS,
indicate that the most profitable meth
cd on such land of marketing bulky
products like hay and grain is to feed
them to hogs. In addition to the in
creased prices obtained in this indirect
way for crops, the manure left upon
the farm enriches the soil.
In comparison with other forms of
live stock industry, hog raising on irri-
gated land has attracted more of those
with comparatively small amount of
initial capital, and a farmer can get
well started in the business in a short
time
The necessary buildings are com
paratively cheap and it takes less feed
to produce a pound of pork than any
other kind of meat raised ON the farm.
The irrigation farmer who has grasped
the significance of these facts and
wishes to enter the business needs in
formation on the value of alfalfa as a
hog pasture, the value of different
kinds and quantities of grain used to
supplement the alfalfa, and the prac-
ticability of hogging down corn. 1t
was primarily to obtain data on these
points that the departments expert
ments We're conducted. The results
are given in detail in the bulletin al
ready mentioned.
From these experiments it appears
that under conditions similar to those
which prevail on the North Platte irri-
cation project, where the work was
carried on, it is much more profitable
to let hogs pasture alfalfa than to cut
the fields and sell the hay; and, sec
ondly, that alfalfa pasture can be
made to yield much more profitable re-
turns in pork when a two or three per
cent ration of grain is fed the hogs as
a supplement. On the North Platte ir-
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-06-14

rigation project 5000 a ton for alfalfa
price. This figure was adopted by the
investigators in their experiments,
and they fixed the value of corn at
$1.07 hundredweight and Of gains of
pork ut cents a pound. The labor
cost of caring for the hogs was as
sumed to be the same as that of har-
vesting the hay crop.
On this basis it was found that the
net return per acre ranged from $45.0S
when the hogs had nothing but alfalfa
to $16S.25 when they We're fed in adj
dition n per cent ration of corn. The
rate of gain and the carrying capacity
of the pasture increased with the guam
tlty of grain fed. AS supplement ii
was found that ground barley was APP
proximately as efficient, pound for
pound, as shelled corn.
BY allowing the hogs to Craze the
alfalfa it was found that they re-
turned in pork an equivalent of from
SS.16 to $304S for each ton of hay
that would otherwise have been har-
vested from the alfalfa fields. The
lowest figure, $S.16 is considerably
higher than the market prices for al
falfa hay, and the highest figure,
$30.48, obtained when the hogs re-
eelved per cent ration of corn, is
obviously much more than the farmer
could hope to obtain from any other
method Of disposing of his alfalfa
crop.
The practice of hogging down corn
proved to be much more profitable
when hogs had access to alfalfa pas
ture as well. In two years expert
ments the average gain without the
pasture, was placed at $52.0S per acre,
whereas with alfalfa pasture it rose
to $65.10. Put In another way, 1t was
found that without supplementary feed
hogs paid $1.34 per hundredweight Of
corn and $1.55 when they had alfalfa
pasture as WELL With the use of tank
age instead of alfalfa the return was
$3.50 per hundredweight of corn. 1t Is
evident, therefore, that the use of
either alfalfa or tankage with corn re-
suits In more rapid and cheaper gains
than when the hogs are turned into
the corn and receive no other feed.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-06-14

used primarily as a cattle feed, but
now it Is used widely as feed for
horses, swine and sheep.
LESS use has been made of alfalfa
for sheep, however, than for any other
class of live stock. Experience and
experiments have shown it's wonderful
value as sheep feed. It's value for
this purpose will be still greater in the
future than at present.
"When alfalfa is pastured great care
should be taken to prevent bloat. If
the alfalfa has become woody or Is
mixed with other grasses the danger
is somewhat lessened. Care should be
taken at all times, however. Before
turning the sheep on alfalfa they
should be filled up on hay, fodder, or
other roughage, and turned out only
when the alfalfa is free from moisture
of any kind.
"They should be allowed to pasture
only a short time the first day and the
length of time should be increased q
little from day to day until the sheep
are accustomed to the feed. Flock
masters have found that it is never
safe to give sheep free access to al
falfa pasture.
alfalfa hay is adapted to the feed
ing of sheep because it is cheap
source of protein and also because it
supplies enough bulk so that sheep
may be fed to advantage on it alone.
''The amount of alfalfa fed will de-
pend upon the price and the amount
available. When it is cheap and plen-
tiful and other roughages are scarce
alfalfa could compose the entire ration
for the flock. On the other hand when
hay is scarce and high priced, the ra-
ton could be made up partly of straw,
fodder, and like roughages. Compared
with other roughages alfalfa as a
sheep feed has the advantage, espe-
cially where grown in large amounts.
'In experimental feeding trials, ay-
eraging 100 days EACH alfalfa was COM
pared with timothy and prairie hay.
The lots fed alfalfa made greater gains
and required less feed per 100 pounds
than did the lots fed timothy and
prairie hay"