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The Detroit times., 1917-04-06
From Another Point of VieD
By c. 7. s

The Y. NJ. c. A. offers the roofs of the
branches it proposes TO build as ranges
for rifle practice. OF particular instance
TO residents who may be out working in
their gardens at the time
ODD NAME CONTEST
"War Doinas' In the Polk oszetteers.
Drill Va
Gunntown. Fla
Trooper, Pa.
Soldier Iowa
Cadet Mo
Navy Yard s. c.
Fleet. Va.
Trench Ky.
Reserve. Kansas.
Marines, y. c.
-Fw VI.
Il see," says Phyllis. that they are
calling for the young fellows first. May
| have space to observe that the first
great sacrifice, then, is to be made by us
chicken.
SO long, kids.
If it isn't going 10 be war any more
than this Is spring, we will be able TO
stand IT,
The Detroit times., 1917-04-06

A member Of the Liverpool Scottish While
home on leave. was asked whether the soldiers
know how long beforehand when they were
The Detroit times., 1917-04-06

Hints for City Gardeners.
The Detroit times., 1917-04-06

If it isn't going TO be war any more
than this is spring, we will be able TO
stand IT,
The Detroit times., 1917-04-06

Early 10 bed and early 70 rise permits a fellow
60 get 10 the game
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sent. it is agreed that If they take
them at all it must be in moderation.
Neville Chamberlain upon whose shoul-
ders has been placed the important
work of mobiliZing the CIVILIAN forces
OF the kingdom for national service,
is now. among a multitude of other
things. devoting attention to the au-
visibility of curtailing the opportuni-
ties for public amusement. lie taxes
the ground that the amusements OF the
people are as essential to nations
welfare as food and drink, but that
Just as people are urged to eat ana
drink and dress in strict moderation
50 must they be eNhorted to observe
moderation in taking their amuse-
mrntS.
Practically everybody is agreed that
it would be Il stupid bluuder to place
undue difficulties i'll the way or aHord-
ing relaxation ami amusement Tor sol
GierS on leave. munition workers ana
so on, but it is an admitted TACT that
the existing facilities for amusement
are more than adequate. While an un-
duly large proportion OF the theatricai
productions now running are of n ma
ture which involve the employment OF
a great deal of labor in regard to seen
cry stage manipulation. costumes ana
general equipment. which might well
b, utilized in work of greater national
Importance. Hence more simplicity IN
the matter of productions is being
urged and theatrical producers are de-
voting serious attention to this sub
ject.
1t must not be supposed that the
British people are Just awakening to
the necessity of Curbing their pre-war
zest for amusement and recreation.
For many months Indulgence in the
national paStimes of cricket. foot ball.
golf and tennis has been enormously
reduced. horse racing is being contln-
ued only on very restricted lines and
in the theaters there has for a long
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mediately after corn planting. say in May. 1t
is to be used on the table as hominy boiled or
boils in about two hours. 1t is believed here it
will yield 100 bushels to the acre. shall have
some Of it this year. Always affection
ately yours, III. JEFFERSON.
The second letter is in response to a
request of Henry E. Watkins for some
seed of succory, which Jefferson SENDS
with the following directions:
Monticello, Nov. 81, 10.
Dear Sir:
the o3d. and now with pleasure send you as
much succory seed can go under the volume
of a letter. As 1 mentioned to our colleagues
at the Cap. l had forgotten which of them ex-
pressed a willingness to try this plant and
therefore 1 have waited for their application,
having taken care to have plenty seed saved
Sow the seed in rich beds, as you would TO-
bacco seed. and take the advantage of good sea-
sons in the spring to draw and transplant them.
The ground should be well prepared by the
plough. have generally set the plants 1S l. or
IT, apart every way. to give room for several
weddings the 1st summer for during that they
are too weak to contend with the weeds After
that they will not be in danger from Weeds Do
not cut the plants the first year that they NAV
shed their seed and fill up all the intervals The
grazing OF sheep destroys the plant. 1t is per
ennnl and of immense produce. and is a toler-
able salad for the table in the spring, somewhat
like the turnep tops but earlier. The warm spring
bath proved extremely injurious to my health /
have been very poorly ever since but within a
week past have got on horseback altho' not yet
entirely well. Accept my friendly salutations
and assurances of esteem and respect
TIL. JEFFERSON,
Henry E. Watkins. Esq.
The third letter acknowledges a gift
Of melon seeds and Is as follows:
TA. Jefferson presents his salutations and re-.
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were practically those of advanced sell
ence. He was the moving spirit in or
ganizing a number of agricultural So
cietes chief of which was the Agricul-
tural Society of Albemarle. organized
Just 100 years ago, the date of its or
ganization being May 5, 1917.
The first president of this society
was James Madison. who served for
number of years. The personnel of that
famous club was distinguished. con-
tanning. il did, two presidents OF the
United States, four men who became
governors of Virginia. three United
States senator's, a cabinet officer, two
ministers to foreign countries, justice
of the Supreme Court and a Speaker
of the House of Representatives
These early statesmen realized
whereof we were to be clothed and fed
better than the great men of today.
they realized that the soil is the source
of food and clothing. Jefferson stood
for the necessity of agriculture TO ma
tional life and he insisted in legal re-
lations that agriculture should not be
Disseminated against, holding that
since farmers produced the necessaries
of life they needed at least equal pro-
lection with those who We're merely
adiuucts to their production"
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Circus Elephants Share War Work i'm ENGLAND

made to produce vegetables and small
fruits on a scale which will have an
appreciable effect on the nations food
supplies.
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The horticultural enthusiasm OF the
school children is intense and they are
gladly giving up their play hours and
even their half holidays In order to de-
vote the utmost possible attention to
the cultivation of their garden plots
Silver cups and other awards hitherto
offered for prowess In various forms
of school sport are this year being
given to the pupils who achieve tho
greatest success as food producers. a
fact which naturally adds to their en-
thuSiasm.
In this work teachers are doing all
in their power to stimulate the activi-
ties of their pupils and, IN re-
sponse to an appeal made by Mr.. Pro-
thero. minister for agriculture. they are
also encouraging the scholars, many thou
sands of whom have attained considerable
proficiency in the art of gardening, to turn
their home gardens TO the best possible
account, providing them with the neces-
sary seeds for this purpose.
In the rural districts moreover, large
numbers of the elder children in the ele-
mentary and secondary schools are being
certain number of hours each week to
sist farmers on the land. The alacrity
with which the youngsters are rolun-
teering for this form Of national service
is but typical of the iudomtable and
self-sacrificing spirit which now animates
the whole nation. In short every class
of the British community is now in ear
nest, habits of ease and luxury have
been resolutely cast aside, national
service" has become the great national
sport and the will to win auimates all
Copyright 1917. by Curtis BrownD
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we have loaned temporarily to private
menageries. The lions and leopards
were under bombardment by German
destroyers a few days ago. but fortu
nately they escaped injury. A few
months ago had an idea that our fin
est lion might be usefully employed on
a recruiting campaign, but the idea
was turned down by the war Office on
the ground that it would be infra dig.
j believe that in the states, where red
tape is happily less prevalent. the idea
would have been taken up with aiac
rlty."
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The '!all for the war" spirit has ex-
tended even to the schoolboys' and
schoolgirls OF the country. From aris-
tocratic Eton to humble elementary
schools games have been almost entire
ly abandoned and the time employed in
doing work of national importance. -
mostly in the direction of food produc-
ton. At Etor the principal playing
field is now a huge potato field and
the sons of British aristocracy employ
their playing hours in planting pota-
toes.
For several years past the education
department of the British government
has encouraged the establishment of
school gardens in connection with the
elementary and secondary schools Of
the kingdom, and this year, when the
whole nation is being urged to turn its
attention to the vital work of food pro-
duction, these gardens promise to prove
a valuable national asset. At the pres
ent time there are in existence up
wards of 5000 of these school gardens
varying in area from about a quarter
of an acre to three or four acres. Just
at this time every one of them is the
scene of intense juvenile activity. The
majority of the gardens had already
been brought to a high state of culti-
walton when the war began and it is
believed that this year they can be
Evening star., 1917-04-01
Preparedness.

THE late Gen. Funston was talking
one day to a reporter about pre-
paredness.
Most of these preparedness schemes
are idiotic," he said. "Conscription Is
the only thing. If we adopt anything
else, we'll be no more prepared really
than the old scrubwoman was.
AN old scrubwoman fell from tho
eleventh story of an office building. The
fall killed her. of course. Her pastor
said on his consolation visit to the
family:
WAS she prepared? Oh. I do hope
she was prepared.
".She was prepared, all right. parson.'
said her son-in-law, for as she dropped
past LAWYER Sharks second-story win
dow the lawyer distinctly heard her
say:
Nov for a bump""
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Everybody's Son But Mine.

66TS HERE'S one kind of spirit We
don't want in America, said
novelist, "and that is the spirit which
was too prevalent at the beginning OF
the war in England.
An English statesman visited Not
tingham, the lace-making town, the
other day, to ask for labor volunteers.
and the mayor said that Nottingham
wanted to do her duty. hut nothing, OF
course, must be allowed to harm the
Nottingham lace industry.
Then the statesman jumped up and
said that the mayor was a survival
of the old 1914 spirit. new happily
dead and buried in England--the spirit
that made each English fataer wave a
flag in August, 1914, and shout:
Take everybody's son but mine!@
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he had no power to stop the wanton de-
struction, and he was often heard to
express himself Indignantly over the
waste of beauty and shade.
A curious evidence of his faithful
stewardship of the horticultural interests
of the people is evidenced by a table of
vegetables and fruits as they appeared
in the Washington market during the
eight years of his presidency Thirty
eight names are listed. with the dates
of the first and last appearance of each
in the market
After his retirement from public serv-
ice and to the end of his life Jefferson
was in constant correspondence with
friends at home and abroad in regard to
questions of agriculture. The United
States Department of Agriculture at
Washington has recently acquired three
autograph letters Of jefferson which
reveal this interest. The first is writ
ten to Col. Skipwith. inclosing some
millet seed and giving culinary as well
as cultural directions regarding the
grain. The letter is as follows:
Monticello, April Il, 10.
Dear Sir:
Overhauling my seeds reminded me that was
to send you millet seed. 1t is now in
closed. Put it into drills or TT. apart that
you may conveniently plough it. and the stalks
at 6 1. distance in the drills. 1t is planted i'm
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spects to Mr.. White with his thanks for the
Persian melon seed he has been so kind as TO
send him. He will endeayor to do it justice by
his attentions. and especially 10 dsperse 1t
among his most careful arguaintances. 1t is by
multiplying the good things of life that the
mass of human happiness is increased. and the
greatest OF consultations TO have contributed 10 IT,
Monticello Aug. 70, '16.
Thomas Jefferson the agriculturist
has made a rich and attractive subject
of extensive study for at least one pres
ent-day scientist in agriculture. This
is DR.. Rodney H. True. physiologist in
charge of plant physiological investl-
cations of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, who spends many
of his leisure hours in research and
compilation of data relative to the
author of the Declaration of 1ndepend-
ence. of the statute of Virginia for re
ligious freedom and father of the Uni
versity of Virginia"
DR.. True contributed few interest
ing facts concerning the subject of his
labor of love TO a recent caller at his
office.
Thomas Jefferson never ceased to
live the life of an ardent lover of the
world of living things" said DR.. True,
"and his letters to men of science m
c1uding systems of classification, identity
of doubtful plants, problems of the cul-
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Present at or absent from his home.
Jefferson planned for every detail of
the work on his lands and kept care
full diary of cropping and harvesting.
While he was serving as Secretary of
State to Washington the latter referred
to him an agricultural inquiry made by
his friend and correspondent. Arthur
Young, f r. S., of England. To this
inquiry jefferson replied:
Good husbandry with us consists in
abandoning Indian corn and tobacco:
tending small grain, some red clover,
following and endeavoring to nave,
while the lands are at rest, sponta-
neCus cover OF white clover. 40 not
present this as culture Judicious IN
itself but as good in comparison with
what most people there pursue Mr.
Young has never had an opportunity
of seeing how slowly the 1erlllty OF
the original soil is exhausted with
moderate management of it. | can af-
firm that the James river low grounds,
with the cultivation of small grain,
will never be exhausted, because we
know that, under that cultiva ton. we
must now and then take them down
with Indian corn. or they become, as
they originally, too rich to bring
wheat. The high lands, where 1 live,
have been cultivated about sixty years.
The culture was tobacco and Indian
corn, long they would bring
enough to pay the labour: then they
were turned out. After three or four
years rest. they would bring good corn
again, and III double that time per-
Laps good tobacco. Then they would
be exhausted by a second series of to-
bacco and corn Latterly we have be-
gun 20 cultivate SNAIL grain. excluding
Indian corn. and such of them as were
originally good soon rise up to fifteen
or twenty bushels the acre.
II have no doubt but the coupling
cattle and sheep with us would pro-
digiously improve the produce. This
Improvement Mr.. Young will be better
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time been a marked preponderanoe Of
khaki. With SO many hundreds of
thousands of professional men and
good wage earners in the army and
in view of the magnificent response of
the people to the plea that they should
lend all their available money to the
government for the prosecution of the
war; there has naturally been marked
diminution in. the number of persons
with money to burn" and in this con-
nection account must be taken of the
thousands of people who have volun-
tarily sacrificed lucrative positions in
non-eSSential occupations to take up
national service of some description
at bare living wage.
Sir George Alexander, the veteran
and distinguished actor. has figured
prominently in the organization of
stage effort in the national cause. and
Neville Chamberlain, director of ma
tional service, is now finding in him
loyal and most useful coadjutor. Sir
George has been largely instrumental
in securing unity of action by the sew
eral stage organizations of the coun-
try in encouraging enlistment for
fighting and national service, and he
more striking record for voluntary en-
listment in both directions than any
other profession in the country.
The extent of voluntary enlistment
from the stage" says Sir George Alex
ander. has resulted in heavy addi-
tional labor being thrown upon the re-
naming members of the profession. an
overwhelming majority of whom are
beyond military age or are unfit for
service, and this additional labor. in a
business which is admittedly of ma
tional Importance, has been cheerfully
undertaken. Nobody recognizes more
clearly than the director of national
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Audiences.

CHARLES BELMONT DAVIS was
v talking in New York about the Ia
nous actors and actresses who visited
in his boyhood his Philadelphia home.
II remember Irving's frequent conten-
tion," he said, that playwright and ac-
tor alike had to bear in mind the after
dinner or post-prandial humor OF the
more expensive portion Of the audience.
This lowered their work, of course.
"Irying claimed that too many OF the
swells in the orchestra seats and the
boxes were like Smith.
'Smith," he explained, didn't go out
between the acts. He came In between
the drinks"
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he observed the plows used by the peas
antry to be of antique design, and he not
ed in his diary:
"Oxen plow here with collar and names.
The awkward figure of their mold boards
leads one to consider what should be its
form The offices of the mold-board are
to receive the sod after the share has
cut under it, to raise it gradually, and
to reverse it, The fore end of 1t, then.
should be horizontal. to enter under the
sod, and the hind end perpendicular TO
throw it over: the intermediate surface
. changing gradually from the horizontal
10 the perpendicular. 1t should be as wide
as the furrow. and of a length suited to
the construction of the plow. The follow
ing would seem a good way to make II
The writer here launches into detailed
calculations and specifications Illustrated
by diagrams. When he returned to the
United States he adapted his mold-board
to plow and had a number constructed
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tiyator in field and greenhouse the IN
PRODUCTION of new and useful kinds and
the best apportionment of time to be
Given ia the several sciences found in
the college curriculum are among the
subjects of consideration both with
American and with European eoiie
spondents.
jefferson was really responsible for
the modern standardized plow, for his
invention of the mold board is that In
use today. 1t may also ne sald that
he introduced the threshing machine
to this country. He was interested IN
the introduction of merino sheep into
this country, and was the pioneer in
bringing them into Virginia, although
several northern agriculturists were
ahead of him in this respect. Chan-
cellor Livingston. for instance, wrote
a book on the merino sheep.
Thomas Jefferson represented the
wideawake planter of his day, eager
and anxious to further the advancement
of his state He experimental with the
growing of the pecan tree and had this
rich native nut in fine cultivation at
Monticello shortly after the reNolu
tionary war. Washington was ahead OF
him. however, in this respect. as were
some of the northern agriculturlsts.
..His desire for the advancement OF
scientific agriculture in TINS country
was so great that he endeaVored 10 pro
rure an agricultural profesSorshlp LOT
the University of Virginia, which he
nra cticaIlv established and of which
he was first president, serving until MS
In my study of Jefferson have been
Impressed by the fact that his methods
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and urged their men. many of them
old soldiers beyond military age, to
don khaki. AS result, over seventy
of Sangers' employees are now fighting
for king and country besides ground
dozen of the younger members of the
family, some of whom will never re-
turn.
The Sanger Brothers have thein
permanent headquarters three miles
outside the little Surrey town of
Horley, where they farm 300 acres Of
land, and there. in a special interview.
one of the brothers, James Sanger.
described another and a distinctly novel
phase of the firms patriotic activities.
Having shut up shop for the period
of the war and having given practically
the whole of our men to the army.
said Mr.. Sanger, I'VE looked round to
see what we could do further for the
country's cause and promptly set to
work to prepare our elephants and
camels for national service The
result is that our three African ele-
plants. Tiny, Ida and Annie. are doing
most valuable work on the land
ploughing, hauling timber and water,
assisting in the threshing Of wheat,
etc-and as soon as the ground be-
comes a bit firmer we shall put our
half dozen camels on the land. too.
"Tiny and Ida, both of whom turn the
scale at something over three tons, are
among the biggest elephants in exist
ence today, and they have taken to
war work with amazing aptitude. 1t is
an interesting sight to see Tiny con-
scientiously turning burrows with
slip of a girl at the tail of the plow.
OF course, this is the merest child's
play for a powerful beast like Tiny,
who could easily go on pulling a plow
for dozen hours at stretch without
turning a hair, and we shall probably
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able to calculate than anybody else. [
am so we'll satisfied of it myself that
having engaged a good farmer. ] mean,
on a 1arm of about five hundred acres
of cleared land, and with a dozen Ia
bourers, to try the plan of wheat, rye.
potatoes. clover, with a mixture of
some Indian corn with the potatoes,
and to push the number Of sheep. This
last hint I have taken from Mr.. Young's
letter. which you have been so kind as
to communicate to me. ! had never
before considered with due attention
the profit from that animal"
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While serving as United States minis
ter at Paris jefferson made repeated ex-
cursions into the country near and far
1t was while travelling in Lorraine that
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JNN brought sharply home to them
q - by Germany's new submarine
ruthlessness. the British people are
now resolutely casting all superfui-
ties out of their lives and devoting
their whole resources and their own
personal attention to the great task of
achieving victory in the most stu
p,udous human contest the world has
over known. More than ever has the
war become peoples war in the
" I,icst and fullest sense Of the term,
and every week witnesses the pro-
rtulgatiou Of new measures designed
TO extend and intensity civilian par
ticfpatiou IN national services essen
tiaI to the winning OF the war.
one by one all the frills and feathers
OF normal existence are being dispensed
" Ith. and steadily the whole REltiSh
nation is settling down TO tUndan"H-
t..ls Rigorous restrictions have been
and are being applied to everything
t.at Us IuNurious. everything that is
r,uu-css, utIaI Restrictions are the or
lr-r OF The day Drastic restrictions
I.tNa been uGstdr and are being enforced
~ the, matter of fuud. In the matter of
drink and iu the matter of dress. and
nov the l0vrrs.tsf' ut'S pruning knife Is
Ju he. brought vigorously into play in
E"2ard To public Htuuseneuts and en-
t,rttumtuIs-
Ir may Ire "a. moot point whether. in
normal times. the English take their
PLEASURES sadly. Now, by common con-
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A Vanishing Factor.

MARY PICKFoRD. the movie actrssss
1V0 said at tea in Los Angeles:
Men are always growing abous
women's dress. Our skirts aren't long
enough. Our stockings are too sheer
Our blouses are cut too low in the Nook.
Yes, men continually object to the
way we dress. though It does seem -
me that there's less and less foI than
to md fault with all the Time