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Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
BUTTER PRODUCED ON FARMS
Amount Is Continually Decreasing Ac-
cording to investigation Made
in Wisconsin.

An investigation made in Wisconsin
shows that the amount of butter pro-
duced in the farm dairy is continually
decreasing and what is produced is
generally sold direct to the consumer.
The market butter is made in the S35
creameries of the state, 45 per cent of
which are owned comparatively by the
farmers. An important feature is that
the cooperative creameries are the
most successful. They pay the farmer
more for his butter fat, pay the but
termaker higher wages, and sell the
Product for a higher price.
1t costs 1.66 cents per pound of but
terfat to get the cream to the cream
cry and 2.33 cents to make pound of
butter. The shipping charges vary
from 0.25 to 1.25 cents per pound, de-
pending upon the distance from the
market. The investigation brought out
the interesting fact that for every
pound of butter sold to the consumer
the farmer received two-thirds of the
money and the retailer one-tenth.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
u. s. DESTROYER BAGS U-BOAT
Attacks Undersea Craft Which Had
Attacked British Vessel.

A Gulf Port-The capture and de-
struction of a German submarine by
an American destroyer and the killing
of four members of the submarines
crew, who had boarded a British
steamer, is reported by William Ray
mond Brown, an American seaman,
who arrived here aboard a British
steamer.
According to the story told by
Brown, the submarine emerged near
the steamer, but soon after she came
alongside the American destroyer
came up and destroyed the U-boat.
After the submarine was destroyed
the men, who had previously gone
aboard the British steamer tried to
take charge of the vessel.
One of the German officers was hit
on the head and killed as he was going
to the engine room and three others
were killed in the fight that followed.
Brown said that only two Germans
remained aboard the submarine after
she came alongside the steamer
The Germans who were not killed in
the fight on the steamer were turned
over to the destroyer as prisoners.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
j. s. CHILD LABOR
LAW HELD INVALID
Federal Judge of North Carolina
Decision to Be Appealed.
QUESTION CONGRESS- POWER
Decision Comes After Three Days
OeIiberaton and On Eve Of
Its Going Into
Effect.

Greensboro, N. C.-Federal Judge
Boyd, Of the Western district of North
Carolina, held the Keating-Owen Child
Labor Law unconstitutional and en-
joined the United States district at
torney, William c. Hammer, and his
successors, assistants, deputies and
agents" from enforcing in the district
the provisions of the Act of Congress,
which become effective September l.
The decision Of Judge Boyd came
at the conclusion of three days of
argument on the constitutionality of
the act. The case came before the
court on injunction proceedings
brought in the name of Roland H.
Dagenhart and his minor sons, Reuben
and John, of Charlotte, who sought to
restrain the Charlotte Cotton Mill
Company from discharging the two
boys
In announcing his decision Judge
Boyd said he was gratifed by the can
dor of Prof Thomas l. Parkinson, of
Columbia University, representing the
Department of Justice, who asserted
that Congress has used its power over
interstate commerce for the object of
regulation of local conditions within
the state and the encouragement of
child labor This admission, said the
Judge, left the issue clear and brought
forward the question: Can Congress
do by indirection that which it un-
doubtedly cannot do directly?"
Congress-" he said, "can regulate
trade among the states, but not the
internal conditions of labor" Judge
Boyd expressed his approval of laws
tending to elevate the condition and
moral state of all the people and made
it clear that his judgment on the act
was based upon his Interpretation of
the constitutional limitations of con-
9reSSiOnal DOWer
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
FOR NEW LIBERTY LOAN.
Campaign To Begin October Books
Close Month Later.


Close Month Later.
Washington.-Th opening Of the
next liberty loan campaign has been
set tentatively by the Treasury Depart
ment for October l. Subscription books
will close November l unless the pro-
gram is altered. The amount, the in
terest rate, the denominations of the
bonds and other details will be an
nounced after Congress disposes of the
pending bond bill
Indications are that the next offe::.-
ing will approximate $3,000,00O,O
Whether it will be advertised by the
Government through paid newspaper
space is under consideration, but Sec
retary McAdoo said the cost Of such
an undertaking would exceed the ap-
Preparation now available for the pur-
pose He added that there could be
no action until more light had been
received as to the coast OF an effective
advertising campaign and until Con
gress had decided what amount viii be
allowed for advertising for future is
sues.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
REMOVING HORNS on CALVES
Application of Caustic Potash When
Animal Is Two or Three Days
Old Is Satisfactory.

Horns on calves may be removed
by an application of caustic potash
When the calf is two or three days
old, clip the hair from the spot where
the horn buttons prptrude. Moisten
the end Of wrapped stick of caustic
potash and rub on the horn. Care
should be taken to see that all Of the
horn is removed in order to prevent the
growth of scurs. The calf should not
be turned out into the rain immedi-
ately after the operation, as the caus-
tic preparation may wash down into
the eyes and injure them. Caustic pot
ash should be kept in an alright con-
tainer or it will absorb water and dis
so!ve-Wisconsin College of Agricul-
ture.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
SALT Is OFTEN OVERL GOKED
All Animals That Consume Large
Quantities of Vegetable Matter
Require Some Salt.

An important item that is often over
looked in the management of dairy
cows is providing them with plenty of
salt. All animals that consume large
quantities of vegetable food require
salt. Unless cows receive plenty Of
salt they will cease to thrive, and will
therefore decrease in milk flow. Some
calrymen mix the salt with the feed,
put the better plan is to keep it in a
convenient place where the cows may
nave ready access to it when they so
desire.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
treaty Of settlement and accommoda-

treaty of settlement and accommoda-
tion?
Responsible statesmen must now
everywhere see, if they never saw be-
fore, that no peace can rest securely
upon political or economic restrictions
meant to benefit some nations and
cripple or embarrass others, upon vim
dicative action of any sort, or any kind
of revenge or deliberate injury. The
American people have suffered intoler
able wrongs at the hands Of the I'm
perial German government, but they
desire no reprisal upon the German
people, who have themselves suffered
all things in this war which they did
not choose. They believe that peace
should rest upon the rights of peoples
not the rights Of governments
rights Of peoples great or small, weak
or powerful-their equal right to free
dom and security and self-government
and to a participation upon fair terms
in the economic opportunities of the
world-the German people, of course,
included, if they will accept equality
and not seek domination.
"The test, therefore, Of every plan
Of peace is this: Is it based upon the
faith Of all peoples involved or merely
upon the word Of an ambitious and in
triguing government, on the one hand,
and Of group of free peoples on the
other? This is test which goes to
the root Of the matter, and it is the
test which must be applied.
United States Aims.
"The purposes of the United States
in this war are known to the whole
world-to every people to whom the
truth has been permitted to come.
They do not need to be stated again.
We seek no material advantage of any
kind. We believe that the intolerable
wrongs done in this war by the furious
and brutal power of the Imperial Ger
man government ought to be repaired,
but not at the expense Of the SOW
ereignty Of any people-rather a vim
dication of the sovereignty both OF
those that are weak and those that
are strong. Punitive damages, the
dismemberment of empires, the estab'
lishment of selfish and exclusive
economic leagues, we deem inexpedl.
ent and in the end worse than futile.
no proper basis for peace of any
kind, least of all for an enduring peace
That must be based upon justice and
fairness and the common rights OF
mankind.
I'VE cannot take the word of the
present rules Of Germany as a guar
antee of anything that is to endure,
unless explicitly supported by such
conclusive evidence of the will and
purpose of the German people them
selves as the other peoples Of the
world would be justified in accepting.
Without such guarantees, treaties OF
settlement, agreements for diSarma-
ment, covenants to set up arbitration
in the place of force, territorial ad
justments, reconstitutions of small
/ nations, if made with the German gov
ernment, no man, no nation could now
| depend on. We must await some new
evidence Of the purposes of the great
peoples of the Central Powers. God
! grant it may be given soon and in {
way to restore the confidence Of al
peoples everywhere in the faith OF
nations and the possibility of q
! covenanted neace
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary Of State of the United
State of America"
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
Goes To Supreme Court.

Washington. = Federal officials re-
gard the decision of Judge Boyd hold
ing the Child Labor Law unconstitu-
tional merely as vehicle for getting
the question before the Supreme
Court, where they are entirely conf
dent the action of Congress will be
sustained 1t had been assumed when
the law was passed that the milling in
terests would not permit its enforce
ment without a vigorous fight.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
GEN. PERsHING MAKES A MOVE
American Commanders New Head
quarters Near the Camps.

Paris.-The headquarters of Major
General Pershing, the American COM
mander, was moved from Paris to a
point near the training camps.
General Pershing is greatly gratified
at the prospect of being near his troops
in the field and supervising their train
ing preparatory to taking their places
in the trenches on the western front
The location of the field headquarters
is military secret.
An order was issued establishing a
provost marshal's Office in Paris. Here
after all officers below the rank of
brigadier general will be required
when visiting the city to register and
state their business and the probable
duration of their stay. Social visits
to Paris will not be allowed unless
expressly authorized.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
ROB CALF MOTHERS MILK
Expert of Colorado Station Says 1t Is
"saving at the spigot and Losing
at the Bung."

By GEORGE H. GLOVER, Colorado
Agricultural College, Fort Colllns)
We are beginning to question
whether after all it pays in the long
run to rob the calf of its mothers
milk and try to raise the future COW
on whitewash and sawdust, or, to ex-
press it with a little more modera-
ton, to try to raise the calf on sep
arator milk and patent foods.
Certain it is that the calf will keep
healthier and grow into better COW
or bull if given whole milk, at least
as a part ration. Dairymen have fig
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
XMAS MONEY FOR FRANCE.

Suggestion That Americans Deny
Gifts To Aid Stricken Villages.
Washington.-Oficials of the Ma
tianal Committee of Patriotic and De-
fense Societies, in a statement just is
eued, urged that the vast sums of
American money ordinarily devoted
to the purchase of Christmas gifts be
used this year to relieve the sick and
wounded soldiers in France, to re-
habilitate devastated French villages,
and to support war orphans and Grip
pies.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
WHEAT PRICE
FIXED At 1920
Government Sets Chicago Fig
ure on No. | Northern as Basis.
CONSUMER TO BE- Benefited
Findings Of Board Headed BY Gar.
field Announced In Washington
After Being Submitted
To Wilson.

Washington.-The price of No. l
Northern spring wheat was fixed at
1920 a bushel, at Chicago, for the
1917 crop by the Wheat Fair Price
Committee, headed by H. A. Garfield,
whose findings, reached after three
days deliberation, were submitted to
and approved by President Wilson.
Labor representatives on the COM
mittee voted first for $1.S4 and the
farmers for $3.50 After long discus
sion the compromise at 1920 was ap-
proved unanimously
Announced BY President.
The announcement was made at the
White House in the following state
ment by the President:
Section II of the Food act pro-
vides, among other things, for the pur-
chase and sale of wheat and -four by
the Government, and appropriates
money for the purpose. The purchase
of wheat and -four for our allies and
to a considerable degree for neutral
countries also has been placed under
the control Of the Food AdminlStra-
ton. have appointed committee to
determine fair price to be paid in
Government purchases. The price
now recommended by that committee
1920 per bushel at Chicago for the
basic grade-will be rigidly adhered to
h1 bo Food A6rn N G alton
at is the hope and expectation OF
the Food Administration, and my Own
also, that this step will at once stabll'
ize and keep within bounds the price
of wheat for all transactions through
out the present crop year, and IN con
sequence the price of -four and bread
also. The food act has given large
powers for the control of storage and
exchange operations and these powers
will be fully exercised. An inevitable
consequence will be that financial
dealings cannot follow their usual
course. Whatever the advantages and
disadvantages of the ordinary ma
chinery of trade, it cannot function
we'll under such disturbed and alb
normal conditions as now exist.
To Cut Out Speculation.
"In it's place the Food Administra
ton now fixes for its purchases faii
price, as recommended unanimously
by a committee representative of all
interests and all sections, and be
lieves that thereby it will eliminate
speculation, make possible the con
duct of every operation in the full
light of day, maintain the publicly
stated price for all, and, through
economies made possible by stabiliza
ton and control, better the position
of consumers also.
"Mr. Hoover, at his expressed wish
has taken no part in the deliberations
of the committee on whose recon-
mendaton | determine the Govern
ment's fair price nor has he in any
way intimated an opinion regarding
that price"
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
WOMAN MAYOR A MAJOR.
Mrs Horwitz Named On Staff Of
FIorida's Chief Executive.

Tallahassee, Fla.-Mrs. George @.
Horwitz, first woman Mayor of the
South-she is Mayor Of Moorehaven,
Fla.-has been appointed major on the
personal military staff of Sidney J.
Cats, Governor of this State. She
will represent the Governor in nation
al defense work and food preparedness
movements. So far as known she is
the first woman in the country to re
ceive a military commission or be ap-
pointed a personal aid to Governor.
Mrs. Horwitz will be deputized by
the Governor to 60 to Washington at
once to consult with the President as
to the increased production of food
stuffs. AS major she will be expect
ed to appear in uniform.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
INTERNES EXEMPT.
Department May Need Their Services
Before War Is Over.

Washington.-Hosp pital internes and
medical students who have been more
than a year at college may be ex-
empted from military service under
the Selective Draft bill by regulations
just issued. The War Department is
anxious not to interfere with the pro-
fessional education of these men
whose service as doctors may be
necessary before the close of the war.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
SMASHED THE PERIScOPE.
Steamer Carrying Medical Unit
Escapes Destruction.

Portland; Ore. i How steamer
carving unit of the American Medi-
cal Corps to Europe for service smash
ed the periscope of a submarine with
her guns and averted her own de-
struction is told in letter received
here by DR.. j. w. Morrow from his
son, Dr. Earl Morrow. at was just
after breakfast and l was standing
aft" writes DR.. Morrow, when l sud
denly saw a periscope emerge 300
yards astern. Before 1 could shout a
warning our chief gunner had espied
the periscope and opened fire. His
first shot struck and smashed it to
pieces. 1t sank and we did not see
it or the submarine again"
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
U. S. PAYS ScHOOLBOYS.
Philadelphia Lads Make Money SUP.
plying Tent Pegs To Army,

Philadelphia :. Probably the first
payment ever made by the United
States Government to schoolboys for
army contract work was recorded
when War Department check was
received here to pay high school stu
dents for the manufacture of tent
pegs supplied several weeks ago. The
check for s125.S7 is drawn to Charles
C. Heyl of the Civilian Service and La.
Dor Department of the PENNSYLVANIA
Committee of Public Safety.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
LIBERTY LOAN PAID UP.
Final s2oo,ooo,ooo Received BY U. S
Treasury

Washington.-The last installment
on the Liberty Loan, due August 80,
brought in about $2O0,O0O,0O0 in cash
and short-term certificates. This
cleans the books Of the Treasury De-
partment and permits the staff that
handled the issue to prepare for the
second Liberty Loan of 1917.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
THE COUNTRY AT LARGE

Second Lieutenant Frederick Wahl-
strom, of the Marine Corps, was the
first officer connected with General
Pershing's American expeditionary
force to meet death in France. He
was killed in a motorcycle accident.
Unless they furnish bonds by next
Tuesday Alexander Berkman, Louis
Kramer and Morris Becker, convicted
of violating the Draft Law. will be sent
to Atlanta penitenttary.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08

ured it out to their satisfaction that
whole milk is too vaiaaDle to feed to
calves and from the standpoint of
immediate returns, these figures don't
lie. But if we could in some way es-
die from this treatment the depreca-
ton in value of mature animals that
have been stunted in their growth and
the price that must be paid for milch
cows, it might look different. Is it
not case of Saving at the spigot and
losing at the bung?
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
BRITISH LOST 5e,s11 IN AUGUST
1920 Of These Were Killed Or Died
Of Wounds.

London.-The total of British cas-.
uaitfes On all fronts, as reported in
August, is 59,S11, divided as foIsws:
Killed or died of wounds: Officers
1,27S; men, 10,942. Wounded or miss
ing: Officers, 4,122; men, 43,469.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
AUTO RACER KILLED.
Captain Harvey Kennedy's Machine
Turns Turtle.

Lima, Ohio-Capt. Harvey Kennedy,
San Francisco, noted Western auto
mobile racer, was instantly killed here
when his car cast tire, turned turtle
and crashed through the fence during
a race at the county fair. Kennedy
was almost decapitated by sheet iron
cowl which he had just constructed
on his machine
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
Get New Separator

Discard the half worn-out cream
separator and buy a new one. You
cannot afford to waste any butterfat
at present prices.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
AGAINST ANTI-CRAFT BILL.
Senate Committee Unanimously Re
ports 1t Adversely.

ports 1t Adversely.
Washington. - Unanimous adverse
report on Senator Hardwick's bill to
prohibit sendin gdrafted troops abroad
without their consent was ordered by
the Senate Military Committee. Favor
able recommendation was given Sen
ator Fletcher's bill providing that en-
listment of Americans with forces c
nations at war against Germany shall
not cause loss of American citizen
shiu-
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08

Amelia F. Barr, who celebrated her
eighty y-sixth birthday last spring, has
been writing for almost so years, and
in that time has written II books,
though the first was not published
until she was so.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08

Police Commissioner Woods IN
nounced that 555 of New York's no
Hcemen had been drafted.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
Roots Aid Milk EJo,u

Don't overlook the root crops if you
are milking cows. Succulent feed aids
the milk flow.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
TEN suFF PIcKETS ARRESTED.

Six Of Them Were OUT On BAH ror
Similar Offense.
washington.-Ten women carrying
suffrage banners and extracts from
President Wilson's speeches were ar
rested in front of the White House.
Six of them were the banner car
riers out on bond pending appeals
from the Police Court sentences OF
xs5 fines or 80 days in Jail imposed
fpr similar demonstration. All were
bpiled to appear for trial.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
Make Churninu Easier

oip up as little milk as possible
WIN the cream when skimming and
the churning will be easier.
Middletown transcript., 1917-09-08
DR.. OSLER'S SON KILLED.

Edward, Second Lieutenant, Dies At
Front, Says London Times.
London.-The Times announces that
Second Lieutenant Edward Osler,
ROYAL Artillery, the only son of Sir
William Osler, has been killed.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-04-29

K Amsterdam, April 2S,---Directly
contrary to the governments appeals
the socialist mlnorities In the reich
stag and the Prussian landlag have
adopted resolutions favoring gen
eral strike on May day, according TO
Berlin dispatches today.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-04-29
MORE GARDENS ARE
OUR OPPORTUNITY

Prof. w. 9. Brown. instructor at
the Oregon Agricultural college and
one Of the party OF the party con.
Quoting the food special" train over
the state. when asked just how the
people Of Grants Pass could best
serve the cause OF added food pro.
duction. said. by organizing the In
dividual residents OF the city into a
plan for the use Of vacant lots and
suburban tracts for gardens. These
gardens produce far more per square
yard than other agricultural effort.
for they are small enough to allow In
tensive cultivation they are near the
homes Of the growers SO there Is the
temptation to give them the care
needed. and one acre OF good garden
viii produce far more real food than
much more land In ordinary farm
produce.
I'm Toronto last year. under the
press OF war needs for more food,
such campaign was started and
over 400 such gardens were planted
which produced over $4,000 in food
stuffs. Other Canadian cities did as
we'll. II was through organization.
Banks either supplied or financed
seeding and preparation Of the tracts,
I consider the efforts OF your Pa
triotic Service league toward getting
such gardens planted. as important to
the country as efforts to enlist ad-
ditional men In army and navy"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-04-29
ARMY WILL Be RAISED
BY CONSCR|PT|ON PLAN
House Approved President Wilson'S Plan For SeIectve
Consnpdon BY Overwhelming Vote. War Depart
neat Plans Ready To lsblne Large Army.

Washington. April gs.---The ma
,Ion will raise It's army by selectIve
conscrlption.
The house 80 voted Just before
noon today. The senate will vote
likewise before midnight tonight,
barring the completely unexpected.
Anii-conscriptionIsts admit this.
The house vote was 27s to sS In
favor Of the presidents draft plan.
Miss Jeanette Rankin. first woman
to hold a seat In congress, voted
against conscription.
The house vote was on the Kahn
amendment to the army bill AZ re-
ported by Chairman Dents military
committee. The Dent bill authorizes
the president TO first try raising an
army In the old-fashioned way by the
volunteer system. Kahn's amend