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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
w. II. MANSS TO HEAD AGRICUL.
TURE ARMY

Mr.. w. H. Manss, Assistant to
Vice president A. w. Thompson OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
has Oeen honored with the Chair
manship of the Maryland Farm La
Dor Committee whose purpose is to
form uniformed force to supply
farm labor.
The idea that the increase in food
production for this country is as es-
sential for war purposes as the or
ganization of fighting armies, forms
the basis for an Agricultural army
for which enlistments will be secur-
ed at once.
Mr.. Manss is well qualified FOR
leadership in this undertaking, hav-
ing for a long time been in charge
of Industrial, Development along
the lines of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad and in this work has as
sembled much information about
farms which the owners are unable
to work on account of lack of labor.
The idea of the Agricultural army
is to supply labor to farmers in need
of it and the plan is to assemble men
in camps at central points from which
they may be distributed to such far
mers.
Men are to be uniformed and live
under canvas and under military dis
cipline and direct their labor at I'M
productive aces under systematic
conditions.
Experience in farm work will not
be qualification for this work, al
though a certain amount of physical
power will be necessary. Men who
are anxious to enlist in the fighting
branch and who for some reason or
other are rejected, and still anxious
to serve their country, will find no
more effective work to do than to as
sist in greater food production.
The Agricultural army is not in
any sense designed to be place of
refuge for shirkers or slackers and
those who seek it in the hope of
lodging military service will find no
place open.
While this particular move of
which Mr.. Manss is the head applies
to the state of Maryland only, it
seems to meet with universal approx
al and there is prospect of legisla-
lures in various states providing SIM
liar organizations.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
HARROW AFTER EACH HALF
DAYS FLOWING

Each half days plowing should be
narrowed before leaving the field
When the soil is allowed to become
dry after plowing clods are formed
which are not easily broken up and
which are bar to a perfect seed bed.
In their haste to get their plowing
finished many farmers turn over a
whole field before touching it with
disk or harrow. Time is lost, how
ever, by this practice. The clods
which form make necessary one or
two extra workings of the soil. By
adopting the better plan of harrow
ing the soil the same half day on
which it is plOwed time is saved,
moisture is retained and a better
seed bed is secured. All of these
factors are important this spring
when labor is scarce and serious
food shortage confronts the world.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
TWO CENTS FOR PATRIOTISM

In an effort to help relieve the ur-
gent farm labor shortage in Ohio at
present, the Council of National De
fense is appealing to every farmer
in the state who receives a PINK
SHEET asking for information to
return it as soon as possible, as a
patriotic duty, whether help is need
ed at once or not. With the statis-
tics available the Council will then
be in a better position to make more
intelligent plans for attracting labor
to the farms. The data contained in
the sheet are intended purely for
the purpose of offering assistance and
of tabulating statistics.
Don't sleep tonight without re-
turning the PINK SHEET properly
filled out, is the plea of the Council.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
OBITUARY

Emma Susan Springer (Nee)
Bricker, was born in Center town
ship, three miles northeast of Celina,
March %, 1852. She and Mr..
Springer were schoolmates. On
March 13, 1871 her schoolmAte, Levi
Springer, became her husband and
for forty-six years they have walked
and worked together. For a few
years they lived in Van Vert, then
a short time in Auglaize County, and
the last thirty-three years they have
resided in the vicinity of Montezuma.
There was born to this union six
children, five daughters and one son,
one daughter dying in infancy.
She was converted forty-three
years ago and united with the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, and ten years
later united with the Church of the
United Brethren in Christ, that be-
ing the church of Mr. Springer's
childhood. Mrs. Springer was no.
BILE Christian woman. She was noted
for her loyalyt to her church. She
was model wife, loving mother, and
kind neighbor. The preacher always
found welcome in her home.
Like one weary with the days toll
she laid down life's load and took up
life's crown on Thursday morning,
April 19, 1917, aged sixty-five years
and twenty-seven days.
The bereaved are her affectionate
husband, four daughters-Mrs. G. G..
Snider, of Celina, Mrs. P. F. Weamer,
of Coldwater; Mrs. B. G. Cook and
Mrs. H. L. Carter, Of Montezuma;
one son, w. r. Springer, Of Toledo;
two brothers, d. S. Bricker, of st.
Marys, and William Bricker, Of Cell
ma, seven grand children, three great
grandchildren and many friends
within and without the church.
Earth is poorer and heaven is the
richer.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04

tilizing potatoes After % years
investigations with this crop the EX-
pertinent Station advises farmers to
plow under - to 16 tons of manure
per acre if plenty is available, and
then to apply about 800 pounds of
acid phosphate per acre as a surface
dressing. If manure is scarce four
or five tons per acre may be used,
and then 400 pounds of acid phOs-
phate along with 100 pounds of nj
trate of soda will yield about the
same results. These experiments
have shown that fertilizer should be
spread over all the land and not con-
fined to the potato rows, for in this
way the potato roots spread out more
widely and succeeding crops make
better use of what the potatoes
leave.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
TIME SHORT TO ENTER FOR
WASHINGTON TRIP

The next few weeks will offer the
last opportunity this season for boys
and girls to enter contests conducted
by the Ohio State University to COM
pete for trips to the national capital.
Stimulated by a patriotic spirit to
increase the food supply and to help
solve the labor situation, public
spirited persons of Ohio are offer
ing several hundred prize trips to
Washington to boys and girls who
will grow an acre or more of corn or
potatoes, raise one or more pigs or
Join one of the other productive con-
tests. No cost is attached to mem
bership.
instruction will be offered regu-
larly by the Ohio State University
College of Agriculture. Information
may be obtained from W. II. Palmer,
State Leader Boys and Girls Clubs,
Ohio State University. In order to
take advantage of the first instruc-
ton, enrolment should be made at
once,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
CONSCRuPTION
[Ohio State Journal ]

[Ohio State Journal
The conscription bill has become
q law, and this country is to require
Of its citizenship an army sufficient
for it to perform its duty The judg-
ment is that volunteering cannot be
relied upon and that men must be
called on to protect the country.
There is inherent in every nation the
power and duty to reserve itself, and
the final analysis of this power and
duty forces upon one the idea Of con-
scription. 1t is the essential condi-
tion of self-defense. 1t is a notable
thing to volunteer. We wish we
could get an army that way. But We
take the word of the president that
we cannot, and so the only course left
it to conscribe, as the dictionary has
the verb. But We should not be led
away from the idea that conscription
is honorable and does not detract an
iota from the duty. 1t is not form
of oppression, it lis an expression of
of oppression, it is an expression of
teering and then calling upon indivi-
duals to take the states place in the
battle line.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
SINKING
OF Hospital Ships the Limit-Have
the Junker Military Element
of Germany Gone Crazy?
Fort WAYNE Journal-GazetteI ]

Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette]
The action of the German subma-
rines in deliberately sinking two hos
pital ships flying the Red Cross flag
is such a fragrant violation, not only
of international law, but of human
ity and decency, that it is difficult
to explain it on any hypothesis other
than instantly, or to discuss in tenn
perate language.
Without sanctioning the German
governments order to sink merchant
vessels on sight, we could understand
it. The vast superiority of the allied
navies has made effective the block
ade of the German ports and thus
prevented food and ammunition, sad
ly needed, from reaching Germany.
The only weapon that Germany pos
sesses with which to combat this sit
uation is the submarine. We can un-
derstand how a desperate nation un-
der such circumstances could bring
itself to the belief that it could JUS
tify itself in sinking merchant YES
sells on sight, without warning, and
in violation of international law.
But the sinking of hospital ships,
flying the Red Cross flag, is nothing
less than a reversion to barbarism.
We have read during the last three
years, and usually with impatience,
the denunciation of the German ar
my and navy as barbarians. No
doubt there has been much exagger-
alton of the inhumanity of the Teu-
tonic forces on land and water. Most
of the atrocities" charged against
them in the early stages of the war
have been disproved to the satisfac-
ton of men who retain their mental
equilibrium. But the act just COM
mitted is staggering in its brutality,
and justifies the most bitter denun-
Citations that have been heaped upon
the heads of the militarists of Ger
many. Even the semi-savage has
been taught in modern warfare to re-
spect the Red Cross flag.
Just what Germany hoped to gain
by such an infamous act it is impos-
sible to even guess. She must have
known, in the very nature of things
that some of her own people were
aboard, being carefully tended in
their sickness and suffering, and that
the torpedo that sent the hospital
ships to the bottom would result in
the murder of her own soldiers. AS
a matter of fact, 1877 injured Ger
mans were aboard--more than half
the total,
Can it be that the spectacle of the
whole civilized world arrayed against
them has converted the Junker ele-
ment in control of the military pol
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
AMERICANS OF GERMAN BIRTH
kansas City Starl


In the last year or two there has
been speculation in the United States
as to how Americans of German birth
would conduct themselves in the
event of war with Germany. There
were prophets who predicted serious
disturbances and who forsaW the
necessity of internment camps.
The events of the last three weeks
have put these apprehensions to rest.
The German-Americans have behav-
ed splendidly. The few who have not
have constituted negligible minor
ity. For a very large number the
war has been a real tragedy. They
have foreseen the possibility that
their sons might have to serve
against relatives on the French front.
Nevertheless they have been loyal to
their adopted country. Of such
Americans the nation has a right to
be proud.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
MAKING THE BEST OF LATE
SPRING FLOWING

The disadvantage of late spring
plowing can be overcome by disking
before plowing. When the soil be-
comes dry and cracked before plow-
ing it turns over lumpy. The clods
which lie at the bottom cause air
spaces and poor union of surface soil
with the sub-surface. Rolling, disk
ing and narrowing will produce some
fine earth on top but will not climi-
nate entirely the poor condition low
er down. With such a seedbed, es-
pecially if it does not rain frequent
ly, there will be slow termination of
seeds and excessive dryness, as the
clods and air spaces will prevent rea-
dy movement of capillary moisture
from the subsoil up into the zone of
root growth. If disked before be-
ing plowed, the hard soil will become
mellow. AS the water moves up
ward from below and is prevented
from evaporation by the mulch on
top, the moisture content of the soil
to be plowed will thus be increased.
When plowed, the loose disked soil
forms more compact union with
the unplowed subsoil SO that there
are no large air spaces, and the soil
moisture can move upward readily
when needed. Such treatment is un-
necessary on land which can be plow-
ed early.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
five POINTS
Pupils Entertain Parents and Friends
With Good Program at School
Closing Friday

Miss Nettie Stephenson, teacher of
Five Points school just northwest of
town, reports as follows on the clos
ing day of her school:
The close of Five Points school
last Friday was gala day for the
teacher and pupils, for at 1880 the
parents and neighbors gathered at
the school and as the teacher knew
nothing of their coming, she was
greatly surprised when they all came
in with well filed baskets. At IL
o'clock a sumptuous dinner of all
good things to eat was enjoyed by
all.
At 2 p. m. the teacher and pupils
entertained the visitors with a grand
program of recitations and dialogues
after which Charles Brown and Mr..
Kirkpatrick spoke few words in re-
gard the interest the teacher took in
her pupils and of the kindness shown
them by the teacher during the school
year;
Those present were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Brown and daughter; Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas Weisman and family; Mr..
and Mrs. E. Kirkpatrick and family;
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Hoenie and family;
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Klentz and family;
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lacy and family;
Mr.. and Mrs. George Stephenson and
family; Mrs. Abner Hellwarth and
family; Mrs Joe Knapke and son Ear
naSt. Mrs A1her+ RockWOOd. Mrs
Harry Rockwood; Mrs Clarence
Frahm; Mrs Catherine Heckler;
Mrs. Martha Stearns; John Stephen
son; the Misses Lucinda Hoenie,
Vera Smith, Marie Stephenson, Car
oline Hoenie, Gladys Hellwarth, Ida
Hansel, Martha Hansel, Agnes Heck
Ter, Frances Wenzke, and the Mes
srs. Ansie Stephenson, Robert Step
henson and Delbert Benin.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
COMMISSIONERS

Meeting last Friday the Board con-
respect to land assessments in Mar
ion township and Coldwater, and al
so in all other taxing districts, with
the land valuations in Franklin, Cen
ter and Union townships be ncreas-
ed 5 per cent.
Meeting on the Heyne ditch the
Board approved the report and ap-
portionment of the engineer, con-
firming the assessments as follows:
Peter Heyne $45, Zumberge & Myers,
S23,. Mercer County $40. F. Rau-
dabaugh, counsel for Chas. Zumberge
thereupon filed a notice of appeal and
bond was fixed at $500.
The Board congrmed the assess
ments on the following road improve
ments and ordered them advertised
for sale at p. m, Friday, May IS;
Albert, Christ Weitzel, Crane Pond
and Baltzell.
The Board also ordered the Trissel
and the Mendon south roads, recent
ly advertised, but not sold because
bids were not satisfactory, re-adver-
tised for sale at l p M, Friday, May
IS.
The Commissioners of Mercer and
Darke meeting in joint session last
Friday on the Livingston joint ditch,
on request of the contractor Perry
Beckdolt, granted an extension from
May / to July 15.
The Board met last Monday to view
the route of the proposed Mott ditch
improvement, but owing to heavy
rains were unable to proceed and ad-
journed the view until next Monday,
the 7th.
The Board ordered the Surveyor
to advertise the Fisher Interstate
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
The Beginning of the End

peror travel as rapidly as the people i?
The Kaiser's reference to direct
and secret election of deputies" is ad-
ditional evidence that the avalanche
is moving.
The promised change in the Faith
erland will be especially welcome to
those Americans who trace their an
cestry to Germany. for as the Presi-
dent says, it is the German GOVERN
MENT with which we are at war
not the German PEOPLE. The more
rapidly the leaven of democracy
works over there the shorter the way.
w. J. BRYAN
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
FRIDAY, May 4, 1917
MIR. BRYAN READY FOR WAR

Mr.. Bryan was for peace. He did
not want war with Germany. When
war was declared he offered his SER
vices to President Wilson in any ca
pacity the President might want 10
use him. He will shoulder a gun
and go to the trenches if necessary.
IT is odd to bear some cheap-john
news-Tcporter kicking Bryan for be-
ing a pacifist, " hen the news-reporter
has not yet offered his services, and
even If he did would be reiecJd on
account of his cigarette heart. Bry-
an has worn the uniform of his coun-
try. Few of his critics have.-Otta-
wa Sentinel.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04

What hear we n the world to-day?
The thunder of the guns
echoing with walings as the women find their dead
And hekng of the shapne where the grass turning
But there's music! Don't you hear it,
'Tis hymn the nations sing,
As their spirit calls to spirit
And they crown the People King.
'Tis Marseiles so wonderful
That all the worlds awake
To the story of the glory
That is won for Freedoms sake.
Ah, the groaning and the moaning
The earth S with anguish
But there no other way!
But, 10, the light is coming and mighty chorus rings
That stirs souls to gladness,
And to sadness those of kings
They know who sit upon their thrones
The of the song
They play at dice with human bones,
And ages after ages they mocked at God, and said
That toys for them the living and the dead
there's music? Don't you hear it,
Where the East and West have met,
And the people cry for justice
And the monarchs pay their debit
Where calls to
ANDY vher mountains haunt the sky,
The day has when Truth shall live
And ancient Error die.
IT'S Marseilaise marvellous
The Earth is singing now,-
peoples find their power and fulfill sacred VOW
That the that dance along the sky
Its rhymth seems to feel
And the universe is throbb1ng
Ye dead who paid the price for as
Your names shall never die;
Blu kings shall be forgotten
In the splendid byeand-bye;
And from worlds Democracy,
That's born of blood and Woe
A harvest shall be garnered
From the seed our heroes SOW
What we in the world to-day?
pean wild and sweet.
The Peoples song of victory;
And where the nations meet
king shall call to brother king,
But shall speak to race;
And man. longer slave to man.
Shall look God in the face!
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
CatarrhaI Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion Of the earl There is
only one way to cure catarrhal deafness,
and that 10 by a constitutional remedy.
Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining of
the Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is
tnhamed you have rumbing sound or inn
perfect hearing, and when 1t is entirely
closed Deafness is the result. Unless the
Inflammation can be reduced and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever Many cases of
deafness are caused by catarrh, which Is
an infamed condition of the mucous sur
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarrh Medicine. Cir
cularg Free All Druggists, 75c.
=. j. CHENEY g. CO., Toledo, o.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04

I'm view of the gigantic deeds OF
the entire people there is. in my
opinion, no more room in Prussia
for election by classes"
The above announcement from the
Kaiser is the beginning of the end.
When a monarch feels 1t necessary
to promise reforms in the midst of a
war it means that there is among the
people a spirit of protest that can
no longer be ignored. The words
will accelerate reforms-can the en-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
GOV.COX
To Speak at Big Meeting of SufTra-
gists at Columbus-Twenty-
States to be Represented

Columbus will be the mecca of
suffragists from 81 states, May IL,
13 and IA. The annual Mississippi
valley suffrage conference will be
held there then.
Headsuarters will be at the Hotel
Deshler. where all sessions will be
held, except Sunday afternoon, May
13, when Governor Cox and Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president of
tie International Woman Suffrage
Alliance and the National Woman
Suffrage Association, will speak.
Judge Littleford, Cincinnati, presi-
dent of the Ohio Mems League for
Equal Suffrage, will preside at this
meeting.
Mrs. Mcknight Speaks
The opening session, Saturday af-
ternoon, May IL, will have as one of
its speakers, Mrs. Summer T. Nc
Knight, Minneapolis. Ehe was for
merly Miss Henriette Turney, of Col
umbus.
The states belonging to the Mis-
sissippi valley conference are: Ala
bama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Michigan, Minnesota Mississippi,
Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tenn
essee, Texas, West Virginia and Wis
consin.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04

icy of Germany into actual savages?
1t would seem so. The kindest thing
that can be said about them is that
they have manifestly lost their rea-
son. One thing is certain-such an
act as that just reported furnishes
ample justification for Americas par
ticipatIon in the war.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
ILLICIT STILLS DECREASE
Prohibition Reduces the Plants aRt
Output of Moonshiners.

Washington, D. C.-The claim Of
liquor men that moonshining is on
the increase, particularly in Prohibi-
ton states, is not borne out by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
According to this official, 1854 illicit
stills were seized in 1915 and 1855
in 1916, a reduction of 1859. OF
this reduction 906 were in Prohibi-
ton states. Not seizure was made
in the prohibition states of Arizona,
Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas,
Maine, North Dakota, Oregon and
Washington.
The number Of gallons Of illicit
LIQUOR seized in 1915 was 34,381, and
IN 1916, 2S,S6S, reduction of 5,513.
OF this reduction 4,79S gallons is to
the credit of states that became dry
January /, 1916. This shows the in
Auence Of Prohibition in roofing cut
mOonshining.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
CLOVER AND MANURE BEST
FOR POTATO CROP

Selection of good clover sod where
potatoes have not grown for at
least five years, and the use of barn
yard manure with acid phosphate
are given by the Ohio Experiment
Station as ideal conditions for fer
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04

Farmer Joe Pax, southwest of
town, has purchased one of the Siler
Brus. fine and comm, deus Allen au-
tomoEiloe. The Siler I oys are get
ine int, the automobile .usjness
with both feet.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04
The Battle Cry of Den1Ocrac,
[By Edward S. Van Zile. ]

poem called
VanZ of Syndicate
dispatches telling of the fall the Rmonos
of
Republic the wodswep democracy that the will
An inspiring exclaimed Mr. Van Zie
Battle lynn o Democracy" finished.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04

The funeral service was held from
the United Brethren church in Mon
tezuma, Sunday, April 22, 1917, con-
Quoted by her pastor, ]. p. Hight.
Burial in the BuTdge cemetery.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04

ditch for sale at public outcry, at
the improvement, on Friday, May IL.
The following bills were allowed
last Friday and are now payable:
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-04

APPLICATION MEMBERSHIP IN BUCKEYE CORN CONTEST
membership the Boys Corn Club Con-
Blank Complete Rules