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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13

submarines can accomplish at the height of their
strength and opportunity.
Hence the significance OF the fact that while
only sxty-eight vessels OF importance destroy
ed in the first nine days, more than eleven hundred
vessels passed unframed through the very jaws of
the danger zone And that record is the more i'm
pressive from the fact that the week advanced
the daily submarine toll decreased. OF course the
only way tell just what this campaign ultimately
can accomplish is TO wait and see. Possibly, its
full terrors are not yet uneashed and quite prob
ably there will be single days of greater havoc than
any yet known; but the broad likelihood is that its
power will continue decline.
Several important conditions and measures may
be counted as contributing to that end. For one
thing, the arming of all merchant ships will do
much to draw the teeth of the submarine menace,
because thus the hunters will have almost as much
to fear as their intended prey. Interestingly enough
the U-boat as rule gives batteships and cruisers
unchallenged path 1t has made scarcely dent in
the British fleet; il has proved altogether incapable
of checking transport activity across the English
channel: and its effectiveness commerce de-
stroyer will be reduced when merchantmen are
armed fully and particularly with view to sub
marine attack.
Furthermore England can provide ample con-
voys for merchantmen approaching and leaving her
ports She has enough vessels, correspondent
observes Ito line lane into Liverpool from the
open ocean," so that if it became necessary, she
could divert all her shipping into this fortressed
lane Or into several such channels and thus defeat
the U-boat blockade" That procedure of course,
would be serious restriction commerce and
would greatly reduce the volume of supplies Eng
land now imports. 1t would not be resorted to eX-
cept under necessity. But it would be eficacious,
if the necessity did arise; it would the i'm
portation of enough foodstuffs to keep England
ANYTHING like starvation.
1t is to be expected, moreover, that the United
States will provide naval conveys for its merchant
vessels if conditions continue much longer as they
are; and certainly the United States will pro-
vide naval conveys if Germany's conduct forces us
into war. There must be end, and a speedy end,
to the intoIerabIe state of affairs under which
American vessels are held in their home harbors,
not daring 10 exercise their painest rights on the
high seas, for fear OF being destroyed by German
submarines. American ports are now block
AIDED much more efectually than English ports,
although the scene of actual danger is thousands of
miles across the Atlantic. 1t is not to be imagined
eminent were wholly inactive in the matter, Amer
lean ships after a while would begin sailing for
European waters in larger and larger numbers, i'm
PEELED by the rich rewards to be But the Gov
eminent will act, and it may be counted upon to act
effectualIy. Thus another force, apart from Eng
lands own efforts, will be brought to the battling of
the U-boat campaign.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13
The Battling of the U-Boats.

II Germany's new submarine warfare is no more
effective in the future than it has been thus far
the Kaisers Wanted plan of starving England into
submission will pass into history with his memoir
able engagement to eat Christmas dinner in Paris
During the first nine days of unrestricted U-boat
violence eighty-nine vessels of all and sizes
were sunk in the danger zone That seems terri
bic toll and in some respects so il is; for of the
ships DESTROYED the great majority were on
peaceabIe errands, twenty-One were neutral, and
one was a passenger liner with women and children
aboard AS a demonstration of sheer ruthlessness
these methods and results are an undeniable
success.
But i'm the same nine days during which eighty
nine vessels were destroyed, thousand. one
hundred and ten vessels passed unscathed through
the waters where U-bOats are supposedly most
numerous and vigilant; seven hundred vessels en-
tered United Kingdom ports unframed; four hun
dred and ten departed unframed. 1t should be
noted, moreover. that of the eighty-nine vessels
sunk twenty-one we're tFswlers and smacks, that
only sixty-eight ships of Importance destroyed
Now II is to be assumed that Germany entered upon
this campaign prepared to do her utmost from the
outset Her purpose being to terrorize we'll as
TO destroy. she would naturally hurI into the first
DAYS of her adventure all the force and fury she
could command; for. the swifter the blows, the
greater would be their psychological effect. II is
to be assumed also that British shipping would be
most vulnerable during the first days OF the U-boat
onslaught before the enemys tactics could be de-
tected and before measures of protection could he
tried out and put we'll into operation. Broadly
speaking therefore the results in this initial period
may be taken as fair test and index of what the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13
Georgia Ports

The prosperous outlook of Georgia seaports is
shown in rather a new and distinctly interesting
light by a correspondent of the Savannah Morning
News. The country's foreign commerce, he points
out, has increased from 100000, 900 in 1900 to
1922 900 900 in 1S4O, s6S7, O0O, 900 in 1860, ST.,
SOB 500 900 in $780, 50, 200, 900 900 in 1900, So
3O3 900 900 in 1910, $4,000, 900 600 in 1915, and
nearly $4,000 900, OOO-or approximately one-ffth
of the worlds commerce-in 1916. But the ports
through which this ever-ncreasing outgo and in
come of our oversee commerce can be handled
no more numerous now than in 1900 All told,
there are eighty of them, but only twentyfour are
deep-water ports with navigable depths, ranging
from twenty-five feet upward; probably eleven
more thinks the Morning News correspondent,
can be made deep water ports.
Suppose the country's foreign commerce in
creases as rapidly in the next few decades in
those gone by. Suppose opportunities in Latin
America and the Orient and Russia duly de-
veoped what an enormous volume of business will
be handled through the twenty-four or at the ut
most the thirty-ive seaports of the United States!
writer in the Morning News truly remarks, but
they cannot create them.
Ports may be made harbors of refuge
for vessels, at the entrance of great canals,
but not for commercial purposes. To create
such a channel and such interior harbor as
Brunswick, for example would require an
unthinkable amount of money"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13

something that wins for you fame.
Listen.
In England, only few days ago, there died
great novelist named De Morgan. You may have
read some of his books, his Joseph Vance,, "Alice
for Short" Somehow Good 1T Never Can Hap
pen Again. can Affair of DishonOr,' "A Likely,
Story" and when Ghost Meets Ghost
Wherever English is spoken De Morgan's novels
are known. They big novels in every sense
Not only are they more than twice as important
the average novel, but they are more than twice
long.
How good they are may be judged from one
critics declaration that to read De Morgan is al
to read a novel by Charles Dickens, by
many accounted the greatest of English novelists.
Yet of De MOrgan's unusual books was
written until their author the shady side
of sixty-fve. Not until then indeed, did he try
his hand at fiction of any sort.
But in the sixties the ambition to write took
possession of him. And he cOnclusively proved
that sixty is not too late for man to realize
ambition.
Remember this, you who sixty yourself.
Let the inspiring example of William De Morgan
overcome the Encouragement you feel.
Despite the pessimistic DR.. Osler, you may rest
assured that enthusiasm and patient industry will
enable you to achieve things after sixty well as
before it.
Copyright, 1917. by The Associated Newspapers)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13
Quips and Quiddities

The irritating old fool regards himself as
licensed NEEDLE everybody's affairs walking
down the other day, when he observed a
young loungng corner smoking huge cigar.
How many cigars day do you smoker" he asked
bluntly.
six" replied the youth patiently he could.
Then the inquistion continued.
How much do you pay for them?"
Fifteen cents confessed the young
Don't you know, sir" continued the sage that 81
you would that money by the time you old
a might that big building at the corner2"
DO you own it," inquired the smoker
No replied the old
Well, do" said the young man
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13
THE PASTRY DR.. Frank Crane

First, learn wisdom from it. By it we
can realize faults to be corrected and our Of
lenses to be atoned for. And with this wisdom we
can go on to better things
The only true repentance is to the Past
as to enable to build a better future. Weeping
and wailing and brooding are the luxuries of NOR
bidity.
The Pas. is beneath our feet. We can go down
into it and wallow in impotent grief or step
upon it to rise to higher things.
The great enemy of life is Despair. The great
friend of life is Hope. Despair .paralyZes. ruins
Hope energiZes, flor saved by hope. "
Up! Face the futurei Whatever the Past has
been let it nerve you to spend your remaining days
in faithfulness and loyalty to your better self!
So Tennyson, with clear insight, with sane in
stinct for moral truth, wrote:
I hold il truth, with him (Goethe) who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
OF their dead selves to higher things
copyright, 1917, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13

" on have passed the sixty-year mark In those
sixty years you have not achieved much
You have had ambitions, but they have gone
to naught. Now, you feel it is to late 20 hope they
be realized.
Perhaps you recall with bitterness the discour-
aging words of the famous DR.. Osler, affirming so
emphatically the inability of beyond sixty TO
do anything worth while You may even have
among your newspaper clippings a report of that
remarkable speech, in which DR.. Osler said
Il have two fixed ideas we'll known to my
friends The first is the comparative uselessness
of men above forty years of age. My sec
ond is the uselessness of men above sixty years of
and the incalculable benefit it would be in
mercal, political, and in professional life, if
matter of course, they stopped work at this age
In that charming novel, The Fixed PERIOD
Anthony TrOllOpe discusses the practical value in
modern life of return to this ancient usage, and
the plot hinges on the admirable scheme of col
lege into which, sixty, men retired for year of
peaceful contemplation before peaceful departure
by chloroform'
Fit only to be chloroformed' this thought
sticks in your mind, with profoundly depressing
force Sadly you tell yourself that there can be
doubt you have passed the age of achievement
You mistaken. You can still do much of
Importance to the well-being of society-possibly
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13
BANISHING THE PAPER NAPKIN

The American paper napkin is rapidly passing out of
existence The paper manufacturers have threatened
to stop making altogether. During year
they steadily the price, but the cheaper
restaurants chung tenaciousy to the napkin
idea and demanding them. The laundering
connected with the variety considered
much a nuisance Now. however, by each
paper firm has quietly droppec it's napkin
trade AS firm declared last week: 1--WE have
been making 100000 paper napkins a day, and
50 keep with the demand. There is
money in other lines of goods, and longer
afford spare the material"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13
GOOD deal of morbid nonsense has been said
and written and thought about the Past.

A GOOD deal of morbid nonsense has been said
~ and written and thought about the Past.
The Past is irrevocabe, have been
told in sermon and story-you cannot escape, the
Past-the Past can never be changed-and so on
and so on-the whole trend of this thought being
that the Past is kind of a Sherlock Holmes dog
ging our steps forever, sinister nemesis waltlns
it's chance strike down. the account DOCK OF an
angry God sure to confront us some day.
All of this is morbid most of 1T is dramauc; the
underlying sentiment of it is false, Weakenlng' anu
septic. ,.,.., -
AS a matter of fact our Past, as Maeterllnck
says depends upon our Present and changes with IT.
What the Past is depends upon the way you are
now using it, It's effect upon your destiny VIII De
gagged by how you translate it into the Future
If we brood over the Past, and weaken ourselves
with vain regrets with self-contempt ana relnoiSe'
then it will poison and undo us.
But no matter what it contains or our SIN OF
folIy we can by a right of it now, make II MIR
lister to our welfare.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13
NOTICE To SUBSCRIBERS.

The lateI used for addressing time
the date label.
In ordsTing angd. mention old
veil address II q route
number.
We Subscriptions back numbers.
Remittance should be By postal registered
for 70
n. fanta Ca
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13

A dainty little Montgomery girl has.won a prize
of 500 in gold the 'prettiest maid in Montgom-
cry" Her picture shows her TO be beauty, all
right but guess is that from this time on her
mother will not have her help washing dishes
Houston Post.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-13

And now Germany claims that it is all due to
England being such unprinciped press agent
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-05-17
DODGEVILLE

Miss Bessie Ellis Of Aneta, n D., is
here visiting relatives and friends.
Miss Ella Olson of the Platteville
normal spent over Sunday at her home
here.
Misses Ferold Parry and Mary Rohr
visited over Sunday at Madison
Miss Melva Letcher won first place
in the contest held at Platteville Fri
day,
Mrs John Rickard went to Waterloo,
Iowa, Monday.
Miss Alice Reese of Madison spent
the week d here with relatives.
Leslie Starry Of Barneveld was here
Saturday.
Miss Lynette Meyer, who teaches at
Mt. Horeb, spent the week end at her
home here
Will S. KneebOne of Lancaster is
here visiting relatives and friends.
Mrs Mary Adler and son Oscar,
Mesdames Thomas Rogers, W. Fl. Rog
ers and Thomas Clayton motored to
Mineral Point Sunday.
Matt Lynch of Ridgeway underwent
an operation at st. Joseph's hospital
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-05-17
HOLDING UP PRECIOUS LETTER
African Blacks Fail to Realize What
Missive Means to the ExiIed,
Homesick White Man.

1t is a pioneer custom in Africa, east
and west, that the white mans local
letter is franked from town to town.
The black man to whom the white
man gives his letter carries it to the
headman of the next settlement, who
carries it in turn to his brother head
man down the trail; and so from hand
to hand by day and by night, with
glance from any passing white man,
the letter goes forward. Such a let
ter-carried as the custom is, in
split rod from which there hung like
a flag, q bit Of turkey red-changed
hands that night before my tent. And
now / write it in a white mans book
that the pOStmen lOitered.
To stand and chat there in the moon
light with the eXile's letter in your
hands-hoW could you do that, you
two old heartless headmen? | watched
you from my little green tent It is
remembered OF you that you so de,
layed, while in some lonely hamlet
under that same moon white man
Sickened for a letter And when one
gave the fOrl1ed stick to the other, it
was then too late. If indeed, as you
would say, you spoke no more than
five words of gossip one to the other.
those words were five too many. 1t is
remembered Of you, and a thousand
nights since when / have waited for
the mall if it were moonlight night,
l have told myself with an extreme
self-pity and a bitterness, '"The carrier
is gossiping in some clearing" I have
seen in my heart that man with the
load of mail upon his back, standing
for hours by a friend of his, laughing
and asking news one of the other. This
cOnjured vision of two black men hold,
ing up the mail is the sad issue of an
imagination infected beyond cleansing
You see | saw them do it.-Jean Ken.
yon Mackenzie, in the Atlantic.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-05-17

last week.
Mrs Oscar Anderson has returned to
her home at Ridgeway.
Mr. and Mrs W. J. Pryor of Barne
weld motored here Sunday and visited
relatives.
Ed. Sims visited friends in Milwau
kee last week.
DR.. and Mrs W. S. Lincoln left Fri
day for Doylestown to attend the fun
eral of Mrs Lincoln's mother.
George Cook and family have moved
here from Linden.
Orrin Davis of Barneveld was here
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs McGeever Of Cuba City
spent over Sunday here with their sons
j. D. and w G. McGeever.
Edward Jones of Portage came Sat
urday for visit with his mother,
Mrs Anne Jones.
Frank and Joseph Ellis of Ridgeway
were callers here Friday.
Floyd erase of Mineral Point visited
friends here Sunday.
Miss LaVon Gribble of Linden visit
ed over Sunday with her parents, MI
and Mrs R. E. Gribble.
The first Crystal Lake picnic was
held Friday. 1t represented the rural
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-05-17
IOWA COUNTY is ORGANIZED
FOR DEFENSE

DOdgeville Sun Republic, Tuesday.
May 6: A large number of people from
all parts Of the county gathered at the
court house this afternoon to organize a
county defense league, in accordance
with the call issued by j. B. Eagan
Chairman of the County Board, last
week. Mr. Whiteside Of Portage
county, organization, outlined plans in
d general way, and committee, con-
sisting of George Billings of Cobb,
Judge Aldro jerks and County Super
intendent j. A. Van Malta, was elected
to nominate general committee
j. B. Eagan acted as chairman Of the
meeting and ". j. Pryor of Barneveld
as secretary. While waiting for the
report of the nominating committee.
the chairman called on several citizens
for brief talks. Those who spoke were
Hon. NJ. J. Briggs, Robert NJ. Craw-
ford, J. D. McGeever, j W. Taylor
and District Attorney T. NJ PrieStley,
no COuliIIbte6
as follows:
Chairman-J. B. Eagan.
Committeeman at Large-Will Pry-
Or. Barneveld; Henry Bollerud, Mos :
cow M. c. Mcintyre, Avoca; Albert
Richardson, Wyoming: 7. F. Cody,
Highland.
Agricultnre-J. A. Van Malta
Labor-F. G. Ludden, Mineral Point.
Manufacturing-W. r. Smith, Min
eral Point.
Education-B. E. Ellington, Arena.
Mining-Charles Singer, Linden.
General Business-W William Billings,
Cobb.
Banking-O. G. Rewey, Rewey.
Patriotic-M. J. Briggs. Dodgeville.
Red Cross and Womans Work-Mrs
Emma Williams, Edmund.
Physicians-Dr. w. j. Pearce,
Dodgeville.
Press-R M. Crawford, Mineral
Point.
Mr. Whiteside suggested that one Of
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-05-17
Feeding Babies in PondoIand.

If Pondo baby lives through the
first year of his life, nothing short of
an earthquake or a submarine can
jeopardize his future. Consider, for
example, the way he is fed.
His mother lays him flat on his
back on her lap, With one hand she
makes a funnel over his mouth and
with the other holds gourd contain
ing about quart Of thick, sour milk,
called "amasa." This she proceeds to
pour down the screaming child despite
his SputterS, kicks and chOkingS Not
until the last drop has passed through
her hand does She release him.
A frequent result of this forced feed
ing is con-" on and the mother.
frantic with ~, dispatches meSSen-
ger for the medicine man. If he is
proper medicine man he has carefully
quizzed the messenger on the way
over, and knows just what is expected
Of him.
Without even a cursOry glance at
the sick child, he calls for a large dish
and into this pours Il little more than
Il pint Of water. Powdered roots,
bark, bones claws and sometimes
pieces of hair are mixed with the wa
ter and the mother is then ordered co
give all of this splendid medicine to
the baby inStanter The doctor then
departs for some distant place, leav-
ing no immediate address.-A. NJ. An
dersOn, in World Outlook
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-05-17
NECESSARY HIGHWAY WORK
Is Favored by the Wisconsin State
Council of Defense.

Council of Defense.
the carrying on Of necessary high
way construction and maintenance, in
sofar as it does not impede agricultural
work, is essential to the welfare of the
! state at this time, i'll the opinion of the
State Council of Defense as expressed
in resolution last week.
After considering the matter Of labor
aad teams engaged in road work with
| regard to the effect Of such employment
on the general labor situation, the
council decided that, for the present at
least, highway work is not having any
undue effect upon the supply of labor
and teams available for necessary farm
work in the various counties The
Highway Commission declared that
every means is being taken to protect
farmers and producers from undue la
Dor prices and undue demands for labor
for road work.
Believing that highway work, espec-
tally maintenance, is of great impor-
lance in increasing agricultural pro-
dnctiOn the council therefore favored
the carrying on Of absolutely necessary
road work at rate that would keep
together the mos valuable men in the
present organizations. Il urged con-
servatism in highway projects, how
ever, and insisted that labor prices be
SO regulated as not TO withdraw men
| are needed for agricultural purposes.
The council expects the Highway com
mission TO use its influence and power
road work and other necessary activi
ties.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-05-17
CROP AND FARM STATISTICS

In letter addressed to The Demo-
crat, P R. Emmert Of Dodgeville,
Assessor of Incomes, asks citizens
generally to helpfully co operate with
local assessors in the important work of
securing crop and farm statistics. He
says:
At the recent County Assessors
meeting the matter of securing crop
and farm statistics WAS discussed, and
several assessors atated that IN previous
years they were often refused the in
formation necessary for satisfactory
report.
In previous years assessors were
required by law to secure not only data
regarding growing crops but also GER
tain data regarding production during
the preceding year, but this year, under
the amended law, no dairy statistics will
be asked for, and no value placed on
the live stock by the assessor III MS
statistical report, the report simply
asking for acreage of various crops
now in or intended to be put IN, ana
the kind and number Of live stock.
The statement sometimes made TO
assessors in other years that farm
statistics on crops raised, ETC. was
wanted for ''stockmarket' purposes
was and is, | believe. without founda-
ton III fact and certainly this year
should be treated rs bubble only.
Its much like counting the available
rounds of ammunition as the pioneers
OF our country were often required 10
90 IN times of urgent need, 50 that IL
now becomes the patriotic duty OF each
citizen to furnish this and other IKE
information in order that Wisconsin
may do its best in backing up the plans
and demands of the nation.
1t is hoped and expected that every
citizen will gladly comply with the
assessors request in this matter, and
that it will not be Necessary for any
assessor to write after a citizens name
and address information refused
which statement the assessor has been
requested by this Office to make in such
cases.
The original of the report will be
| filed with Department. Of Agriculture
at Madison, and Il summary of same
| filed by the assessor with mis- local clerk
and also with the county clerk, for
public record and reference
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-05-17

the most valuable things that can be
done is the establishing of municipal
canning plants. where the public can
have surplus vegetables and fruit
canned at cost.