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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-04-10
Monday, April l6, 1917

at l O'clock p. m. Tor Whereabouts
at the front door of the Court
House in Mt. Sterling, KY, sell, to
the highest bidder, on a credit of
six months, with approved security,
the following described property,
to-wit:
A certain house and lot in Mt.
Sterling, KY, fronting on High
street and bounded by beginning at
a stone in Ben Tipton's n. E. cor
ner, (now Isaac Bolts lott, on High
street; thence eastwardly 10 feet to
stone corner to Daniel Jones' lot /;
thence sOuthwardly 80 feet to a
stone corner to same; thence west
wardly 10 feet to a stone in Ben
Tipton's line, (now Botts); thence
northwardly with his line to the be-
ginning. Being same lot purchased
by Isaac Bolts in suit of Turner
Thomas VS.. Leah Crooks, lately
pending in the Montgomery Circuit
Court. CLARENCE THOMAS,
Executor Isaac Bolts, deceased
II. r. Prewitt, Attorney. (39-3t
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per acre, and requires only one
tenth of the seed to SOW it, and only
one-third of the time from plant
ing until it can be used for food.
A woman may take a spade and a
hoe in May and with a quart of
seed can plant back yard full Of
corn which in two months will bring
her and her children their roasting
ears. Our fathers fought their
wars with the Indians on a handful
of parched corn per day. We could
fight another and a greater war on
corn products alone if it were
necessary.
Start the vegetable seeds in the
kitchen window now. It is just
time. Plough up the lawn and fer
tilize it. Potatoes can be raised,
if nothing else-and we have lately
learned the full consequence of the
potato. This is not an amusing
proposition. 1t is a serious one.
1t is a thing that our forehanded
ancestors would have done without
any prompting. 1t is a spring for
the people to get busy-it is a pre-
paredness in which no man or wo-
man need wait for the government
to act.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-04-10
Public Sale

On April 16, 1916, County Court
Day., I will sell at public sale at
the Court House door in Mt. Ster-
Ling, ten shares Of the capital
stock of the Farmers Tobacco
Warehouse Company. The sale
will be at 1 o'clock p. m. Terms :
Note with approved security, six
months, with interest from day Of
sale. Purchasers may pay cash if
they choose. IS0M S. OSBORNE,
Admr. of Green Osborne, deceased.
(40-2t)
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FOR MAYOR
w. REID MCKEE
c. X. OLDHAM
FOR POLICE JUDGE
BEN R. TURNER
FORMER MT. STER-
LING GIRL WEEDS

Announcement of the marriage
at Oklahoma City, Okla, on Sat
urday, March 18th, of Miss Ethel
P. Glover, to Mr.. Robert N. Jones
has been received by friends here.
The bride is a daughter of the late
Chas. G. Glover, and lived in this
city until the removal of her par
ents to Oklahoma about twelve
years ago. The groom's home is in
Boston, Mass, but he is now travel
ing in the South, and they will
make their future home in Oklahoma
City. The news is of much interest
here.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-04-10

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, now serving sentence
for uttering a forged writing, under
judgment rendered at the January
term, 1915, Of the Montgomery Cir
cult Court, will apply for a parole
at the June, 1917 meeting Of the
Board Of Prison Commissioners.
(3S-8t) Elijah Bondurant.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-04-10

Miss Daisy June Trout, Of In
dianapolis, Ind, and Mrs. Louise
Loos Campbell, of Lexington, Ma
tionaI and State workers Of the G.
w. B. NJ, will be in this city Thurs
day, April IL. They will make adj
dresses on missionary work at the
Christian church at 2:30 o'clock.
Everyone invited to attend.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-04-10
Commissioners Sale
MONTGOMERY CIRCUIT COURT
Notice of Sale in Equity.

By virtue of a judgment and or
der of sale of the Montgomery Cir
cult Court, rendered at the January
Term, 1917, thereof, III the abovo
cause, the undersigned will, on the
18th Day of April, 1917
at one o'clock, p. m, or thereabout.
(being Court Day., proceed to offer
for sale, at Public Auction, to the
highest bidder, on a credit of six
months, at the Court House door, in
Mt. Sterling, KY, the property men
toned in the judgment, to-wit:
A lot or parcel of land in and adj
joining Mt. Sterling, KY, being a
part of the Mackie Addition and
bounded on the north by Second St.,
on the west by MacBie St., on the
south by the C. & o. right of way
to the lands of G. T. Fox; thence
with his line north to the mouth Of
a dirt road or lane; thence with the
west line of said road to the begin
ming, and being the same land con-
geyed to G. w. Mccormick by
y. w. Mccormick and wife by deed
dated September Z, 1911, recorded
in Deed Book G5, page AS, Mont
gomery County Court Clerks Office.
or sufficient thereof to produce
$l925.95, so ordered to be made.
The purchaser will be required to
give bonds, with approved security,
for the payment of the purchase
money, to have the force and effect
of replevin bonds, bearing inter
est from the day of sale, accord
ing to law. Bidders will be prepared
to comply with these terms. A lien
will be retained on the land sold till
all the purchase money is paid
Bond payable to plaintiff.
VIM. A. SAMUELS,
39-3t Master Commissioner NJ. C. c.
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We note, however, that our breth-
rem of the press are consistently
mum on the subject of civilization.
So are we, for we never lament
over a dead dog.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-04-10
Executors Sale.

The undersigned Executor of
Isaac Bolts, deceased, by virtue of
the authority given him under the
will of said Bolts and in order to
pay the Indebtedness of said estate,
will m,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-04-10
a YEAR TO PLANT THINGS

no time to bother with food
crisis And in truth, there is no
more occasion for a food crisis, or
a food scarcity, in the United
States Of America, in peace or war,
than there is for an oxygen famine
on the summit of Mount Washing
ton. In one year, this country could,
il it would, produce food enough to
feed all the world, including China.
We are amazed, nowadays, at the
way in which Germany has stood
the test Of an almost complete de-
pendence on her own resources in
war But do the people Of America
realize that the cornfeld of the
United States-the land devoted to
the maize crop alone now, or the
area which might be devoted to it
without taking an acre of ground
away from any other food grain
or from the needed pastures-is
larger than the whole extent Of
Germany?
"Our wheat field is larger than
England. Our pastures are greater
than the area of Germany and
Austria and France together. And
not more than one-half the land
which might be devoted to the rails
ing of food is cultivated for food.
Cotton, tobacco, we can cut them
down; corn we mnst have. But if
we are hard pressed now in certain
lines of food supply, it is actually
and truly because of abundance of
resources, because our capabilities
are so great, so boundless that no
one has ever considered that they
would not be adequate to every
emergency. We have had so great
a food field that we have not stop
ped to plant it. We have not con-
sidered our food-only our money,
and the chance to make it.
''But the time has come to think
about it. We are no doubt the
Egypt of the world-the land to
which all others can and do come
for food-but before Egypt feeds
the world, it must feed itself; nor
must it cease to feed the world. On
the face of the earth now, twenty
million men are removed from pro-
ductive toll; they are destroying.
not increasing, the worlds re-
sources. Many more millions of
men than that are at work keeping
the fighters for civilization supplied
with the munitions Of war. The
fields of France are ploughed with
bomb shells instead of with the i'm
Elements of peace. England can
never produce her own corn. And
now we may have to stand side by
side with these nations, millions of
our own with guns in their hands,
and feed these of our own as we'll
as the others whose cause of liberty
is our cause, too.
"In the springtime of 1917, with
an immense emergency confront
ing US, it is the duty of every man
and woman to turn farmer. Parks,
lawns, meadows, scrub-land, should
all be planted. The other day a
woman reader of the Transcript
wrote in to us, and sent the proof
of what she had written, that in
her back yard in Roxbury, by plant
ing two ten cent packets Of vegetable
seeds and four pounds of seed po-
tatoes, she had grown in that back
yard not only all the vegetables
she had need of in her household |
but had sold thirty dollars worth
of vegetables, including $500 worth
of new potatoes in their season.
Sand America is the home Of
that most wonderful of all food
plants, Indian corn. The Hand
which gave this plant to America
never meant that there should be
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-04-10
How is Your MEADOW LOOking7

We have something that will RE-
WYE it.
Feed your fields and increase
your yields.
40-3t. Chiles- Thompson Gro. Co.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Daniels Must Go
From The Boston Herold,

The country realizes, if the President and
Cabinet do not, that we are facing national
crisis; and the country has a right to de-
nand that we should not go into the crisis
with Daniels at the head Of the Navy De-
partment.
Already, even in comparatively quiet times
Daniels has proved his inefiiciency; he has
demoralized the discipline of the navy; he
has allowed the equipment and the personnel
TO fall more short of even ordinary require
ments than any predecessor of recent times.
Heretofore he has always protested that
the navy was ready to meet all requirements
although all those who knew the facts knew
that il was deficient in men, in ammunition
in target practice, in battle practice and in
everything that makes for efficiency in naval
warfare Now, at last, when we are face TO
face with the crisis, it is admitted that We
are far short of the requirements in men
and that our reserve supplies Of explosives
and big shells are almost negligible. Those
in close touch with the navy know that this
shortage in these most fundamental things
is but symptomatc OF the condition in every
thing
Each day now pile. up the accumulation
Of his deficiencies. He refuses to apply the
appropriations now available for naval
material and munitions; he omts TO make
provision for manufacture in the future
Man after man who has come TO offer his
services and the services Of his factories q:
cost or at any figure which the government
might name, has felt insulted and left the
Navy Department in humiliation at the
evisceration OF the country effectiveness.
Daniels is doing everything a country
newspaper politician, subject to the influence
of Bryan, can do to block the essential steps
necessary TO prepare the navy for pro-
tectng this country or entering effectively
into war which Congress must inevitably
decree.
What will the President do about it?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
A Discouraged Reader

To the Editor of The Tribune. =,
Sir: /. like many others have fsse
congratulate you on your splendid e'''''
The Shame Of It," as
Sometimes in deep d.sco0rasemen' -,
we mi ght as well let the pacifists nave ~.
way and let US be ground IN me m'is "a
we have learned our lesson, rather ''' y,
wrestle for our Americanism with tns
OF government We have. "a,
The Administration instead OF eneOu''ls ..-
merit in our military and naval o'iees ' ,,.
A spirit of jealou! seems 70 delisnt "a.
initiating them in proportion 10 then -.
and the country's need Of them. ~ .,.,
plcs OF this disgracefu action ! ut
General Wood. Admiral Fiske lpsrsn,,,
rebufred by the Administrator
Symngton. whose case was exposed !" a
cent issue OF The Tribune; and may no
edd TO this list me name OF Lieu'ensa' ~
on. whose future our inefficient se', ~ n,
of the Navy did his best TO destroy .,5
latter hopes to secure for the service ,n
men Of his own grade OF intelIigen ,Syng
God help the nation! h. ~
New York. March %. 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
From a Canadian + father

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: | would like 20 meet you personally TO
shake your hand and 10 congratulate you on
the splendid editorials you are giving US in
such quick succession. | am Canadian who
sent four sons TO the war. Three OF them
were more or less incapacitated at the front
and the fourth-my best boy-was killed in
action in France I know both the JOY and
pain Of sacrifice for the cause which you
are championing so fearlessly and so
thoroughly. When we designated the Ger
mans as Huns we thought We had branded
them with infamy, but The Tribune goes us
one better and desgnstes them as Bar
barians."
Your editorials are tonic 20 those of US
who have suffered through these last three
wears Of murder and outrage. To know that
Anne rica is at last awake 70 the real issues Of
this conflict and that she will soon take her
proper place in the cause of humanity and
civilization, is a cause of much secret If not
open satisfaction among Canadians. | feel
satisfied tina. when once war is declared no
power on earth can keep the Americans from
the battlefields of Europe, where they will
show Germany that liberty is dearer 20
their hearts than life itself. c. ". FORD.
ST. Lambert, near Montreal, Que, March
%. 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
The Guards Real Opinion

We are satisfied that the members OF the
National Guard and the Naval Militia who
condemned the action taken on Thursday
by the convention of the National Guard
Association speak for a large majority of
our state militiamen. The separatlst idea
is a self-seeking idea. 1t is fostered by
little group of officers, high in the present
Guard organizations, who fear to lose
their power and emoluments if the Guard
is absorbed into a greatly enlarged Fed
eral army.
The Junior officers and the rank and file
are not influenced by personal considera-
tons of this sort. They have witnessed
the breakdown Of the attempt to combine
the Guard and the regulars into first line
army. They know that the MAINTENANCE
Of two separate first line bodies, to be
welded hastily together in time of emer-
eency. is an idiotic policy. They see that
they must suffer from the resulting chaos
were they called out for service in any
serious war.
Their demand for universal military
training and service, under exclusive Fed
eral control, for all male citizC rs of the
United States of suitable age" is made IN
their own interest as well as in the ma
tons interest. The army which the
United States needs is a single, unified
army, under expert control. The only
practicable military system for this coun-
try is the system outlined in the bill pre-
pared by the War College Department of
the General Staff of the Army, which says
in its first sentence: THE land forces of
the United States shall consist Of the
United States Army"
Fifty or more semi-independent state
armies, under the control in time of peace
of fifty or more state and territorial gov
ernments, would be an insuferable OBJ
stacle to military organization and eff
cheney. Most people understand that the
higher National Guard officers want 10 see
their own power perpetuated But the ma
ton should not be left defenceless because
of the personal ambitions of a few hundred
Guard cnlelS, WHO nave peeli dole W HiahS
good deal of noise heretofore simply
because politicians in Washington thought
they were speaking for the men they COM
manded as well as for themselves.
They do not speak for the men. The
Mexican mobilization fiasco opened the
eyes of the rank and file. The meeting of
protest after the machine controlling the
Guard association had forced premature
action and adjournment on Thursday
rroves conclusively that the higher officers
of the Guard will never be able to impose
on Congress again as they imposed on it
last spring, when the two houses were
intimidated into passing the fraudulent
Hay law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Food Gardens
Back Lot Agriculture Reported To
Be Booming

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | want TO express my appreciation Of
the good work The Tribune is doing in the
interest of the food garden movement which
is being pushed by she National Emergency
Food Garden Commission and by various
other agencies.
We are now furnishing free news SER
vice on gardens and gardening to more than
1904 newspapers.
| am pleased TO tell you that the mayors
Of over TWO hundred towns and cities have
already issued proclamations or statements
urging the people TO plant vegetable food
gardens in back lots. front lots and vacant
lots. Many more mayors viii taAe similar
action in the near future. We are sending
out on an average about one hundred tele-
grams each evening 70 mayors OF cities and
towns urging them TO issue proclsmstions in
regard to the food crisis and call attention
TO these matters.
According TO the information we have.
about five hundred meetings are held every
day now in different parts of the East and
central WeS in the interests of organizing
this work
Some authorities fear that the railroads
will not be able TO move the gram crop TO
the seaboard next autumn. The vegetables
grown in gardens in towns and cities are
really delivered to the consumer freight pre-
paid. A community is indeed fortunate that
can produce considerable proportion Of its
own food.
We appreciate the cooperation Of The
Tribune. CHARLES LATHROP PACK.
Lakewood. y. J. March 49, 1917.
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Justice

Come. Lord of hosts! establish righteous
ness.
And in the hearts OF men and nations
build
Loves great Republic that the soul has
willed,
And with Thy iAercy cover our distress.
How many broken realms worldwide con-
fess
The weakness wherewithal mans state
is filled
Pride in our vain accomplishment is
killed;
Our hopes, departing, dwindle and grow
less.
o, raise our spirits from the deadening
shock
That, like an earthquake, blesteth city
and town,
And ease earth's uninteligible woe,
Millions Of men their SORROWS interlock
Before Thee coming; prayers Thy
praises drown.
Justice, o Lord, high DER all nations
show!
GEORGE = woonpFppY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Soulless America
Destruction Wrought by the Smooth,
Fat Hand Of the Pacihst

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I have observed this war at short
range, having lodged shells upon the Euro
pean front and having visited the camps
n,untion works and hospitals o. England
and France. | have seen the wounded and
the dead the widows and orphans, and the
ruins not only Of buildings but Of broad
fields which can never again be TILED
Of the pomp and circumstance Of war but
all of its horror.
Again and again | have heard the remark;
IF England had only listened 10 Lord Rob
erts, If we mad only been ready this would
never have happened"
I quickly became convinced that what
saw was no more the result of war than II
was the result of the pacifst. Noble build
lngs which were the work of the imagination
Of the ancient artist are now in a condition
which may truly be said 20 be the work OF
the iack Of Imagination Of the modern pacl-
fist. His smooth fat hand has wrought as
much destruction as the mailed fist OF the
Kaiser.
Since returning from battle Scared Europe
have travelled our own land from north
TO south and from east TO west Everywhere
find prosperity. but there is lacking that
presence of a national soul (which may be
nothing but the sense of common unselt-
ish purpose which pervaded my days and
cights in Europe. II lies in the power o. our
Congress 10 give our people that feeling Of
common cause which alone will give us
strength. which will bind the rich TO the
poor and the poor TO the rich and make
each one OF us feel and know that we have
truly great country.
We only value that which has cost us
something Let every young man give but
his little share of time and work to the
Tn; States and he will become true pa
triot The plan proposed is so simple, so
small in cost and so immeasurably great IN
value that il should not be necessary for
single man 10 raise his voice in its favor.
Even If no emergency were now apparent,
universal training should be adopted with
out delay for the unifying effect that 1t
would bring to our people, and even If we
could see in it no such spiritual benefit, 1t
should be adopted to straighten the backs
and fill out the chests of our slouching boys
and 10 teach them the first principles of hy-
giene.
Shall we perm. this fair land to fall an
easy prey TO the wild beasts which have de-
voured Belgium and harried all Of Western
Europe? In later years shall one Of us say
TO another: "That ruined church shows the
hand of Willard" "That starving child makes
NE think of Pinchot"? Save US from the work
Of these Architects OF Destruction. you our
Representatives. THOMAS ROBINS.
New York March %, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
The Shame of II"
Gag Rule for Patriots Stirs lncre,s:..
Wrath

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Il is crying shame that G..
Wood is to be broken just a, a por,. y"
tain for simply doing his duty u,.a ~
broken" by Tammsny boss. Tom ~.
citizen. feeling as helpless as R,..
peasant formerly felt this bsnishm,n, :,
General Wood to Siberia is all va
gushing.
when | came back TO this country !,
positive shock to find tina, in the ,wo
that mad elapsed since the outbreak q, 49,
world confsgration our country had a.
nothing 20 prepare even for a reason.N.
tional defence said Ambassador Ger,,s :
spake the AdmD:strstion's own 80.
sentative 10 Germany. But in the far. 80
truth from such source, the Admini,,,.,;''
breaks General Wood, who for year, w.
been trying 70 awaken the country an. :,
it's provincial and mental lethsrgy.
The President is ever portrayed a,
faithful servant with his ear to the sr..,s
We are given TO understand tia, e.
populi" is his motto. As sovereign s,i.,..
we applaud any Difference paid 70 the VA.
Of the people. The cackling Of geese ,,,,.
Rome. but with that possible excep,o,
know of no voice or voices devoid Of in,.m
sence that have served a useful purno,.
If the President would be ruled By N. M.
pie he must permit US, the people, light .,s
learning. For the will Of the people 70 4.
wise must be well informed.
Then, what does this mean. this an,
sian bureaucratic system at Washing,s,,
Why this gag rule for such patriot, ,,s
apostles as Fiske and Wood, We c,h,,
together to hear these men give US t,.,,
We are informed that education !, av,,
boten." The bureaucracy forbids il in ss.,
after the manner Of the Russian police NTH
the meetings Of the zemstvos in the unh,po,
days of the Car.
This political condition here IN our ,s,e
land of liberty cannot be explained away y
attributing II TO necessary war time cens,
ship. There is nothing new to our GRIMM,
neglect. Nor is it Democratic. Nor is
Republican 1t is plain American II
ignorance. That's all.
We have been braggarts we'll fed ehldu
muddling through in the swine slough. "por'
hunters working in the dark Out OF it'd
have been bred dark forces. differing only n
degree and kind from the dark forces whA
until recently misrued Russia.
In the long run do not know shick
worse, the tyranny of the mailed fist or a,
tyranny Of ignorance. Such men as Gen,nl
Wood are trying to show US the light II,
dark forces in silencing or banishing mr
like Wood, Garrison and Fiske seek to snu'
out the light and conceal the truth. The
dark forces are crushing public spirit. pubic
service. Shall we suffer such condition
exist?
The Shame of It," hope The Tribu,,
will not cease to proclaim until il SEXES and
takes hold of the public conscience
EDWARD G. L0NGMaN
Brooklyn, y. Y. March 90 1917.