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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30
WHAT WILL WIN THE WAR?

There were 17 $40 food pledge cards signed in Missis-
saving and economizing in food in order to win the war. The
public is reminded that this pledge does not last just for a week
or for a month but until the war closes, be that many months
or years.
Well it is always better to do anything voluntarily, than to
be compelled to act, but if the war lasts into the tail end of
next year, it will be necessary for the government to compel
the saing of food. 1t has been written, "Be wise today, It's
madness to defer" There have been many matters of great
moment before the American people but they have never be.
fore been confronted with an issue SO great, so far reaching In
its consequences, so personal to every family, so personal to
each and every individual in all the land, as is this war. 1t is
win or die. The issue is freedom or slavery. There is no ques-
ton about the result if every American will put on his war
paint. The world at large knows what we can do but the is
ing about the Presidents mistakes. talking about the rich bring
ing on the war, talking about personal independence, talking
the mistakes of the cabinet will not win the war but prolong it.
But the old time American spirit, the old time American ar
dor, and every man to his duty will win it. This does not
mean that every man should shoulder a gun and 60 to the bat
tie line. There is really more that can be done at home to keep
the battle lines in tact and to equip, care for and encourage
the millions already on the battle line.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30
PILINC ON THE EDITOR.

The city editor doubtless has the time but if the editor of
Il country newspaper reads all the matter sent to him now for
free publication, he will have but little time for anything else
With items from the Red Cross, about the Y. M C. A. work in
the army, recreation fund for the soldiers, council of national
defense, library fund for the soldiers, working boys reserve,
fuel administration, food conservation, intensified farming from
departments of Education, health and hygiene, military pre-
paredness, the needs of our navy, how to spray the orchards,
when to plant your fall crops, fall gardens, &c &C., to which
we might add, how to skin your beeves, trim your toe nails, cut
off your dogs tail, and yea many other things, the editor must
frequently just smile and ask for the big waste basket. And
on top of all this, the editor gets so much free advice. OF course
he likes to get things free but someties advice ZONES in such
copious quantities that he is Just unable to use it. But the edi.
tor must try to sft the chaf from the wheat and do the best
he can like all the balance of the world is having to do. Ev-
erybody has his troubles and makes mistakes, the only thing
about the editors mistakes is that they are advertised and
there are always plenty of people who have nothing else to
do but to talk about what the editor did do or did not do. Let
'er go gallagher.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30
VIRGINIA FOR HARRISON.

Hon. Pat Harrison has announced
his candidacy for the democratic nom
~ination to the Senate of the United
States to succeed the Hon. James X.
Vardaman as representative of the
State of Mississippi.
1t is to be hoped that the .demo7
Gratis of Mississippi will give Mr.. Har7
rison the support he SO richly de-
serves Aside from the personal side
of the question, there is no. compare
son in the two men,. Vardaman is
not in the same class with Harrison
as a statesman, an orator or a man.
A young man of considerable ex-
perience in statecraft, with all the
fire and vigor of youth, Harrison COM
bines a poise and polish, a sound
Judgment and a conservatism that
would make the ideal Senator. Var
deman has the gall and the assur-
ance, Harrison the brain and the ele-
ments of craftsmanship. One de-
ponds upon the tactics of the dema-
gogue with appeals to the prejudices
and ignorance of certain elements,
the other refuses to insult the intelli-
gence of his fellow citizens with the
petty tactics Of the peanut politician
and appeals to the sound common
sense and good judgment of the vot-
er.
! Harrison would reflect credit upon
his native state and bring her back
to the commanding position she SO
long occupied in the halls of con-
gress. He would work with an eye
single to the welfare of his contitu-
ents and make no play to the gal
leries at the expense of the dignity
of the good old State. He would be
sane, safe and conservative as the
other is insatiate in his desire for
personal notoriety.
It is unthinkable that Mississippi
democrats should hesitate in a choice
between Vardaman and Harrison, and
Dixie Land will be woefully disap-
pointed if Vardaman is not replaced
in the United States Senate by Pat
Harrison, the talented, lovable young
statesman who has made such a bril-
liant record for himself and has re-
1ected such credit upon the State
he represents so ably and so well in
the lower branch of the greatest
parliamentary body in the world
Franklin Rocky Mount (Va.) Chroni-
Gle.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30

useful citizenship. 1t was bitter hos
tility. However, it was sufficient later
to raise a man of very poor ability
into the United States Senate.
Surely Mississippi's one hand does
not know what the other other does.
With one she sent to the Senate a
most scholarly member, John Sharp
Williams. With the other, and it must
have been the sinister, she lifted
Vardaman into the Senate. 1t il
the hope of the nation that she will
atone for her error, and live up to
a great name by sending a man to
the Senate who will be a worthy
colleague of her senior representa-
tive in that body.-Cincinnati Times
Star,
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30

The ~war-savings plan provided for
in the last bond act, of September
"a, 1917, has been formulated and
announced by the Treasury Depart
ment, and goes into operation De-
cember 3rd.
The plan puts it easily in reach
of every American citizen to save
money and at the same time aid the
Government by supplying it with the
tsincws Of war.
Stamps, which are the govern
ment's certificates of indebtedness,
are to be sold in two denominations
thrift stamps, which cost rs cents
each, and ~war-saving stamps, which
cost from Sap to s4.23 each accord
ing to the month in which they are
purchased.
| With the first thrift stamp the par
chaser is given a thrift card with
spaces for 16 stamps. When l6
thrift stamps have been purchased
and affixed the thrift card can be ex-
changed for a war-savings stamp by
paying the difference between the "a
the thrift stamps represent and the
current value of a w~ar-savings stamp,
which in December, 1917, and JAN
uary, 1918, will be $4.12, and there
after / cent for each succeeding
month during the year 1911.
With the first w~ar-savings stamps
obtained by purchase or exchange the
owner is given a ~warssavings GER
t~iticate containing spaces for 20 war
savings stamps. If the 20 spaces are
filled during December, 1917, or JAN
uary, 1918, the cost to the purchaser
will be $4.12 for each stamp, or
$S2.4O for the full certificate, and on
the first day Of january, 1918, the
Government will redeem the certifi-
Gates at 800, giving the holder a net
profit of $17.6O for the use of his
money.
Although these investments do not
mature until January /, 1928, pro-
vision is made whereby upon 10 days
written notice after JANUARY l, 1918,
such certificates will be redeemed by
the postmasters at their cost to the
purchasers plus l cent a month on
each w~ar-savings stamp on the GER
(tificate.
Under the plan an amount as small
stcontinucd on page seven)
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30

The sale made a few days ago of a mixed carload of cat
tie and hogs from Grenada county in the st. Louis market is
another proof that Mississippi can raise as good live stock as
can be raised anywhere.
The hogs brought Sits per hundred, or within 5 cents
of the top of the market, where prime natives were sold. This
is good. 1t is another object lesson to encourage our stock
raisers. Let our people get ready. The opportunity is be-
fore them for live stock of every kind. Let cattle and hogs
be the main live stock, but let it not be overlooked that the
hill sides and every nook and corner of the farm can be ui-
liked for raising sheep and goats. AS stated in these columns
"a number of times within the past few years, the world is
short on foodstuff of every kind and especially meats. This
was true even before the war started and the lesson is en-
phasized a hundred fold today. Nearly 70 per cent of the
world have been taking seats as scanty breakfast tables for
years, but the more one part of the world is brought in con-
tact with the other, the greater will be the demand for meats
and every other thing needed to make up a bill of fare.
The hogs above referred to were the property of ExSher-
if West, who, by the way, has one of the best arranged and
paying farm properties in Grenada county.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30
a MESSAGE TO MISSISSIPPI.

Mississippi is soon to have an op-
po%rtunity to redeem her good name.
Henry X. Vardaman, he of the long
locks and speeches, is to offer him
self to the suffrage of the State for
reelection.
There probably is no weaker broth
er in the United States Senate than
Vardaman. Shrewd in the worst DO
litical sense and blatant, he rode into
the governorship of his State on his
attitude toward the negro. 1t was
an attitude that did not partakc of
any help to the negro race or, the
moulding of it through education into
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30
WHY WE ARE NOT RAISING SHEEP.

The Asheville, North Carolina, board of trade thinks there
is hardly any greater menace of food conservation. or enemy
to lower prices for wool, than the proving dog. This organi-
cation has taken up the matter of disposing of the dogs, and
thereby increasing, the number OF sheep, with the governor
of IL state and with Senator F. M. Simmons, who is chairman
of the finance committee in the United States Senate.
This organization states that there are %, 900, 900 dogs in
dogs is the equivalent of three pounds of corn meal per day,
or 6 5000, 900 pounds of corn meal per day for all the dogs Of
the country. This would require nearly 60, 900 acres of land
to produce.
Undoubtedly there, are some valuable dogs but it is also
true that perhaps rs per cent of all the dogs in this country are
practically nuisances. These are the sheep killing dogs"
They should be disposed of in some way, and doubtless the
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30

quickest way would be for Uncle Sam to levy a per capita doc
tax. The prowling dog has cut the sheep industry of the NO 20
ton more than half in two. But for the dogs there would be
west but of the South, and, instead of a wooden garment SELL
ing for $40 as is the case today, it would sell for Sc. The
South is ready to raise sheep. The farmers of Mississippi are
ready to add sheep raising to the other lines of live stock rails
ing which they are embarking in today. Ask Utmost any farm.
err you may why he is not raising sheep and his answer will
be, 81 can not on account of the dogs"
While preaching and acting food conservation it seems
to us a little dog elimination would be equally as wise.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30

One time, it is stated. a half whted lad had set fire to a
house, and the house was about to consumed by the flames.
He them became very vociferous in his praise of those who
were trying to extinguish the fire and swore by everything
from the point of his knife to his grandadys iron wedge that
he had never had anything to do with starting blazes of any
kind and that all who said that he had were slanderers and
enemies Of the best people in his neighborhood. Bud, do you
see the connection?
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30

ooh, yes, l am in favor of prosecuting the war, | am in
favor of whipping the Germans to a FRAGILE now" Well, If
you were in favor of anything else you would be afraid to say
so now. But say, Mister, what sort of things did you say about
this fight before it started and before things begun to get so
hot? Did you not then say that Germany had not offered us
any war insults and, in effect, that we were being paid to get
into the war?
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30

No trouble to see what has made the prices of many COM
modiies go higher but what the d-m and Tom Walker has
put the price of as many others up, nobody who is not con
nected with satan can see. The fellow that deliberately pill
fers the government and his fellow man in a crisis like this
should get about the same treatment that is due a German
spy. We think that there are thousands of retailers over the
country who are cheek by with jowl some of the wholesalers.
else there would not, there could not, be a systematic balloon
ing of prices.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30

The Progressive Farmer states with the addition of 200
pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda
or sulphate ammonia to all the cultivated lands of the South,
the crop yield for 1918 would be increased far beyond what
the fertilizers cost. This leads us to observe that there is a
woeful amount of ignorance or lack of information among the
public about the kinds of fertilizer needed and the amount to
be used. This applies to all classes of farmers, but we are glad
there is an awakening along this line. There are millions of
acres of land in the South that only await the proper fertiiz-
ers to bring forth abundant crops.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30

Pat also forgot to mention the fact that he voted for the
war measure, and then in his haste to get down to Mississippi
to tell on Vardaman, he forgot to offer his services"
The above from the little crippled sheet published at Jack
son is Just as near the truth as anything else it has published
derogatory to Pat Harrison or in the interests of the master
whose servile and s%ycophantic tool it is. Pat did vote for the
war measure in which he had the company of every other men,
Der of the lower house of Congress from Mississippi and every
Democratic senator south Mason & Dxon's line save alone the
Issues master-but the balance of the statement is Just about
as true as anything we expect to see in this purveyor of politi
cal nostrums in this campaign.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-30

One of our exchanges is authority for the statement that
the government is buying shoes for the soldiers at S4.65 per
pair and that civilians are made to pay for the same shoe from
SO to SO per pair. Well we can understand how it is that
the government can buy several million pairs of shoes at much
less than one pair can be purchased but nobody is fool enough
to contend that there should be any such difference as herein
noted. 1t is contended that leather is scarce but we would
Just like to know why the shoe manufacturers went on record
as being opposed to cutting off the tops of ladies' shoes-that is
if they were considering the proposition purely on a business
basis. The government has a big job on its hands in under
taking to watch althe attempts to loot the public nowadays.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-10
FORMER OFFICER m
MARINES REENLISTS

Archibald Roehrig. a graduate of the
Tn5vers ty Of Iowa and p former ser
aeaut ia the United States marines.
yesterday successfully passed the ex-
amluations al the local marine recruit
ing station and reeulisled. He left at
noon today for Chicago From there
he viii be sent 10 the training camn At
Quantico, Va. and in all probability
viii be assigned a position as drill in
srruCt0r inasmuch as he has seen
service before
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-10
WORK PROGRESSING
ON ARSENAL TRACK

Work is progressing slowly on the
construction OF the new Rock Island
stub street car line The grading has
practically been completed Some Of
the tracks al the west end of the stub
have been laid. The Tri-City Railway
company is still experiencing great
difficulty in securing common laborers
for this work and Tor this reason
alone the work is progressing slowly
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-10

- so to The garden and secure ground
There is still plenty Of time for the
raising IF late edibles and il is hoped
hy the Community Garden club many
children VIII take advantage o6 tha
opportunity 10 do their hit toward in-
creasing the production 81 fooQstuffs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-10

addition has been completed. on ac-
count Of the scarcity OF labor Plans
Tor the new warehouse are completed
and the company is ready 10 start
work on this structure III any time
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-10
YnrNG YIELD RrRTEn.

R3chmond. Va. July Funeral
services for Henry Field. son Of the
late Marshall Field of Chicago, were
conducted today at Greenwood, va.
The body was buried in Emmanuel
church cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-10

oughlv discussed 1t was planned 70
have posters placed throughout the
county explaining the nature and
treatment OF the malady One mile
quarantine areas for a 30-dav period
are being suggested as an effective
means of curbing and stamping out
toe disease The exemption from the
draft of young men who are fndispens-
EbIe TO the management of farms was
also considered special meeting Of
the directors of the league has been
called for Aug I3 al which time the
nog cholera matter will be discussed
70 detail
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-10
state Lecturer Here.

Much interest is being show In the
lectures which Mrs Hattie Bronson
of the department Of domestic science
of the Universits OF Illinois is giving
throughout the county under the aus
pices of the Rock island County Agri-
cultural league. Yesterday she was
scheduled for Illinois City. today at
Edgiugton and tomorrow ia Coe town
ship.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-23
WOMAN RECLUSE WITH
S5OO.000 FOUND DYING ALONE
Objected to Having Physician, and
Perishes from Pneumonis

Mrs. Ellen Phythian, an Irish woman
about fifty-five years old, took rooms
over a shop at 1915 Jamaica Avenue,
Richmond Hill, about year ago, and
until last week never opened her door,
except for the letter carrier, who
might have letter from her son IN
Belfast.
To overtures from her neighbors she
replied through the door: mo Amer
can will ever get any money out OF me;
they're a lot OF pigs" For months at
tempts at neighborliness had ceased.
Last week, when no one had seen the
recluse for several days, the daughter
Of one of her neighbors entered the
house. She found the rooms bare and
unheated, and Mrs. Phythian in the
throes of a chill.
Putting her to bed, the young woman
con stituted herself as nurse and, be-
lieving her charge poverty-stricken,
ordered food at her own expense. On
Saturday she suggested calling a ply
stefan.
"No. no." cried the patient, "I'll have
no doctor; they charge too much alto
gether for the likes of me. I'll soon
be all right
She died from pneumonia on Sun
day, although not without medical at
tention, for her thoroughly alarmed
nurse had disregarded her injunction.
The undertaken. whose payment
neighbors guaranteed. found mass OF
papers in a bureau drawer yesterday.
Among them were deeds for at least
5000 acres Of property on Long Island,
with an estimated value Of at least
$500 900, and voucher showing that
Mrs. Phythian had received $4,000 in
rents since January l. Not check,
coin nor handbook was found.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-23
Birds Drafted to Vie with
Rockies in Deciding
Food Value
GOT THIN, FEDERAL
EXPERTS TESTIMONY
Use of Patent Medicine IN
gradients in MetrOpoli-
tan Hospital Denied
lnr reler.ph to m. rnbune. |

Auburn, N. Y, Jan. 22.-While col
Iege students and police rockies are
being used to test food and medicinal
values of things, the Federal govern
ment has enlisted the aid of pigeons
to prove the evils of patent medicines.
At least Professor Robert K. Williams,
of the Department of Agriculture,
testified to-day in the United States
Court that he had been using eight
pigeons in experiments to prove that
Sargol, patent medicine that is as
serted to produce flesh, is a fraud.
DR.. Williams said that he had taken
the pigeons and had calculated the
proportionate amount of Sargol which
a pigeon should take to equal the TAX
ing of four tablets a day by human
being, that being the dose prescribed
for a man of 140 pounds. He had fed
four pigeons on diet of white rice
and water, which contained no vita
mines, and the other four on the same
diet, adding ten milligrams of Sargol.
After ten days the eight pigeons APP
peared to be steadily declining in
weight On the twentieth day he had
increased the dose of Sargol in the
diet of the four pigeons, who were be-
ing involuntarily "fattened," and one
died on the twenty-iirst dag. A few
days later another pigeon died, and
on the thirtieth day the last two in the
Sargol squad died. All had decreased
in weight, the least decrease being 30
per cent and the greatest decrease 40
per cent.
The same results were obtained
where the diet of white rice and water
had been followed, the test proving,
said the expert, that Sargol did not
benefit the birds at all.
DR.. Walter II. Condley, superintend-
ent of the Metropolitan Hospital on
Blackwell's Island, testified that in
gradients used in Sargol and alleged
TO be useful in the treatment of tuber-
cular persons were not used by his
hospital, in which about so per cent
of the patients are suffering from
tuberculosis. He said that he had
used accredited medicines in treating
tubercular patients, but had never
used Sargol.
He also testified that c. Perveil
a name signed to Sargol testimonials,
had never been connected with his in
stitution under that name, If at all.
DR.. Lyman F. Kebler, DR.. Harvey W.
Wiley and DR.. William ]. Giles, an
other government expert, will testify
tomorrow.