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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-09-12

ASKED SAN TORREN, WHO
CANE ALONG JUST THEN WHO
IS THAT WITH Old BILLIONS ?"
THAT'S MS son"
WILL AE SUCCEED HIS FATHER
IN ThE BUSINESS ?"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23

the farm, and he is, therefore, more
likely to overlook the potential value
Of the part he wastes. By so doing he
is, Of course, throwing away opportu-
mites to make money, but this is not
always appreciated by those who have
not grasped the important fact that
the average farm is too small for maxi
mum efficiency and that in the major
ity of cases to increase the size of the
farm business is to increase the prof.
its from it. Those owners, how
ever, who realizing this, are operating
leased land in addition to their own,
are, like tenants, careful to see that
they pay for no loafer acres.
To anyone who is buying or leasing
land, then. the important question is
not "How much am I paying an acre
for this tract?" but How much am
paying for the acres that are going to
work for me?' 1t is calculated that a
farm of 100 acres selling at 500 an
acre will cost the purchaser actually
Sill 90 an acre If 80 per cent Of 1t is
productive and $500 an acre If only so
per cent of II Is. AS a matter Of fact,
the percentage Of improved land ir
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23
A Gold Mine In a Cushion.

Though smuggling has long been
fine art, 1t has never been more of a
science than it Is at the present time.
Rubber is ingeniously inserted in card
board boxes, collins are full of copper,
cotton conceals bombs or rifles indis-
criminately. You are in short apt to
find that the most unlikely bales of
goods are filed with munitions. But
all is not gun running in spite of the
war.
A remarkable story was told by an
inspector of the Bombay police who
gave evidence recently regarding al
legged gold-running between South At
RIGA and India. The inspector related
how some Indians in South Africa con-
signed gold to India in boxes purport-
ing to contain cushions, the bars OF
gold being glued into false bottoms fit
ted to the cases. The trick was only
discovered owing to a quarrel which
arose between two partners In one of
these deals. The police are doing their
utmost to put stop to this traffic.
which, of course, involves big loss
annually to the Rand.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23
The Child Would Much Rather Do
Something Than Sit Down and
Watch Someone Else Do 1t.

portunity to acquire work interests.
The child is naturally active; the
child would ever so much rather do
one else do 1t. Indeed, that is one of
the reasons we have so much difficulty
keeping him "in order" at home and at
school. But this activity is either sup
pressed or 1t is directed into channels
that cannot hold the interest. Writing
compositions or parsing sentences or
doing sums is not quite active enough
for most healthy boys and girls. They
want to do something with their
hands; they want to make something
that will be there to be seen and I'M
derstood and appreciated when it is
finished.
For the child's physical health, as
well as for his mental health, he needs
the opportunity to do real work, to
produce real results. This is quite as
necessary as athletics or gymnastics
and quite as necessary as 'riting or
'rithmetic. But in most homes there
is little or nothing that the child can
do, nothing that is worth while in an
educative way. Then the homes that
still have opportunities for work
should utilize these just as far as pos
sible in the child's development.
s The child's interest in work as an
Accomplishment must grow. One of
the ways Of killing that interest is by
overlooking it early in the child's life.
This interest should grow slowly and
unconsciously out of the play interest.
At its best, the work interest cannot
be distinguished from the play inter
est. This is seen when man like
Huxley, devoting himself through
years of hardship to most arduous re-
search, asks to be considered an "ama-
teur," worker for the love of the
work. And this is seen with all great
artists and inventors and organizers.
We know how the child's play shifts
from aimless movements to the imita'
tons of the activities Of his elders,
from mere manipulation of objects
and materials to the planned and pur'
poseful making" of things. When the
child once reaches this stage there
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23
TRAINING TODAYS
] BOYS AND GIRLS
More Child Work Might Result in
Less Child Labor.
LET INTEREST GROW SLOWLY
How the Young Folks Activities Can
Be So Directed as to Benefit
Their Mental and Physi-
cal Health.
BY slpoNIE M. cRUENHERc.

G OONER or later we are going to be
~ shamed into abolishing child labor
in this country. 1t is difficult to find
single enthusiastic defender of the
system that grinds the lives of little
children into textiles and hardware
and breakfast foods while grownups
walk about YEARLY in search of work.
And there are more and more persons
every day becoming enthusiastic in ad-
vancing the notion that the children
are TO be saved for human living. In
seem obliged to choose between the
labor offered them and demoralizing
drifting and loafing.
First of all we should clear up the
perplexfng confusion between work
and labor. We speak of peoples work,
but hardly realize that the bulk of the,
population is engaged in performing
for hire various kinds Of service in
which they are not at all interested.
Most people labor for wages, doing
what they are directed to do, in a
large proportion of cases having no
understanding and n0concern as to the
outcome of their efforts This is the
kind Of work" that is offered TO most
children when they leave the schools
and go to the factories and mills and
shops.
Now there is nothing to be said in
defense Of anyone spending his days
at that sort of thing except that he
needs the money and does not see any
other way of getting 1t. On the other
hand, the opportunity to keep busy do
ing something that is worth while,
something that has an obvious purpose
and interest to the worker, is the kind
of opportunity that every child should
have. Because the worlds work has
become so organized as to leave only
drudgery for children and for most
parents, the early experiences of most
children effectually prevent the devel-
opment of a healthy attitude toward
work. The adults hate their daily oc-
equations, and 1t is not apparent that
application will bring returns in pro-
portion to the exertions made; as
partial result the children grow up in
an atmosphere unfavorable to the spir-
it of workmanship. There is every
temptation to shirk, every suggestion
for escaping responsibility.
In addition to this unfavorable at
mOsphere there is the absence in most
homes and in most schools, of the OPP
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23
DELIVERING WATER IN QUITO
Aquadores Have Their Own Method Of
Doing 1t, and It Is Somewhat
Humorous.

About a fountain in one of the prin-
cipal squares of Quito, the capital of
Ecuador, assemble every morning the
city's aguadores. These water porters
differ from the less energetic ones of
some South American cities in carry
ing their jars upon their backs instead
of on the backs of mules. Their earth
en- jars are deep. have single mouth,
and hold about forty pints.
The porter carries it on his shoulder
fastened with leather straps. He never
detaches himself from his jar either to
fill it or to transfer its contents to that
Of his customer.
He turns his back to the fountain so
that the jar comes under one of the
jets of water and listens to the sound
of the water in the jar, and his ear is
so well trained that he always walks
away at the exact moment when 1t is
filed to the brim.
Arriving at the house of customer,
he goes to the household jar, makes a
deep bow, and disappears behind tor
rent of water. Foreigners can never
receive without laughing the visit of
their aguador, the respectful little man
who bows to one behind the cataract OF
water.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23

land. 1t is a part Of efficient farm
management to see to it that this per-
centage is no higher than necessary.
In this connection, some interesting
figures are given. 1t takes, for in
stance, only 200 rods of untrimmed
hedge and only PA rods Of zigzag rail
or worm fence to waste an acre OF
what might be productive land. For
the same expenditure of land one can
run 459 rods of woven wire and Alb
rods of barbed wire. Other consider
atoms, of course, may make 1t desir-
able to use the hedge or the worm
fence, but the waste involved is fac
tor that should not be overlooked.
Similarly, farm lanes often may be
eliminated by simple rearrangement
Of fields; headlands, or turning spaces
at the edges of fields. avoided; and the
farmstead itself, the groups Of farm
buildings with their lots and yards,
the garden and the orchard, made
compact. In the case Of the farm
stead, however, considerations Of
health and attractiveness may well
Justify a slight sacrifice of economy.
While little planning often will re-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23
SMALL B0BBIE WAS DISCREET
Little Brother Refused to Follow Pre-
cedent Long Established by the
"Funny" Papers.

A Cleveland young woman has a ten
year-old brother who is wise beyond
his years and is likely to crop out In
new places at the most unexpected
times. The other night the anxious
sutton called on his inamorata, arriv-
ing at her domicile little before he
was expected. She was not ready to
make her appearance, and duty of en-
pertaining the caller devolved upon the
little brother.
"Well, Bobby" began the young man
In an effort to make conversation and
at the same time put his involuntary
host at his ease, "does your sister think
that / am callingsat this house oftener
than am welcomew
The child looked keenly Mt the
caller.
Nothing doing" he said. do you
think I'm one of these fresh kids yov>
read about in the funny papers? Their.
amt going to be no embarrassing an
swer this time"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23

when directly before me / noticed a
group of high-school girls bidding each
other good-by on the street corner.
The tallest and prettiest of the num-
Der, a roguish merry sprite caught my
eye as she was turning around. On
the impulse of the moment l smiled
and touched my hat. In spirit of
mischief, the girl smiled back. A few
days later / saw the same pretty
maiden walking along with a girl /
knew. l stopped and, of course, we
We're introduced. After that, scarcely
day passed that 1 did not meet her
coming from school. This sort of
thing kept on until vacation time.
asked her to marry me, for she had
grown so dear to me that felt that
life would be nothing to me without
her."
"Marry you? How could ~ she an
swered with pretty laugh. My par
ents do not know you!
''That evening 1 made bold to call
at her home, asking to see her father
and mother together. To them / I'M
folded our romance, asking for their
daughter in marriage. Never was there
such storm of indignant anger and
reproaches.
ga man who meets secretly and
courts daughter without her parents
knowledge is a scoundrel,' they de-
clared, ending by demanding that
never see her again, They made good
that part of 1t, rushing the girl off to
relatives In another state. had made
such foes of her parents that I knew
was fighting against heavy odds to
keep my hold on her heart. She was
young, thoughtless, and care-free. The
arrow of love had only glanced at her
heart, not entering 1t as 1t had entered
mine. She met another who wooed and
won her. My fault lay in my procedure
of courtship. Had / gained the good
will of her parents at the outset, l
would have had smoother sailing. Sc
cret courtships are dangerous to happi-
ness"
There's many young man in the
same boat as this one. For one rea-
son or another, they dread meeting the
parents, lest they lose the girl whom
they learned to care for. Seldom or
never does a girl feel contented II she
braves her parents disapproval by not
letting them know of q lover who has
come into her life. Don't make enemies
of your sweetheart's parents.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23

ing them about. Someone has some
where said, and with more than Il
grain of truth, that "There is no such
thing as 'platonic friendship A man
who is constantly attracted to parti-
cular woman's side is infatuated with
her. 1t depends entirely upon mans
disposition whether he is mildly in
fatuated or deeply infatuated. The
man or woman who first notices this
state of situation or feeling should I'M
mediately put him or herself beyond
the pale of undue interestedness.
1t Is the mutual friend, edging in
between husband. and wife, that brews
much of discomfort between man and
wife. Such a wife has two pairs of
strong arms to lean on instead of one.
Usually the platonic friend wins out.
Few mutual friends would turn out to
be the wife's admirers, but wise is the
husband who takes no chances, of de-
stroying his home and happiness by
bringing a handsome, tickle friend of
his bachelor days into his home, urg-
ing him to make himself one of the
family. Husbands should shield their
innocent, thoughtless wives from every
danger.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23

farms east of the Mississippi is only
sos and west of that river only So.
Improved land, however. 1t should be
noted, is not always the same as pro-
ductive land. A good timber lot, for
example, is not improved, but it may
be highly productive, and farm build
ings and fences stand on land that Is
improved but produces nothing. In
the final analysis, it is the amount of
productive land that determines the
earning capacity OF farm and that
should, therefore, determine Its price.
In many cases land is given over to
use as pasture which will not sup
port sufficient stock to make any rea-
sonable return on the investment.
Such land properly belongs in the
category of nonproductive land, in
that 1t makes no return commensurate
with the interest on the money in
vested.
1t should be borne in mind that the
quality of the pasturage in relation to
the land value is an important consid-
GRAFTON in choosing a farm. For in-
stance, what is economical pasture on
land that is worth $40 an acre might,
on land valued at 500 an acre be de-
cidedly uneconomical. This relation
should be carefully studied in buying
farm with much pasture land. To
determine whether pasture land is
economical or not, practical data
should be secured as to the number of
acres necessary to support one head
of stock and the interest on the value
of the land in question compared with
the current charge per head of the
same kind of stock for seasons pas
turage. Or the estimated value Of the
return in increased value of the stock
or its products may be used for com-
parison. By this means the relative
economy of pastures may be deter
mined.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23
Long Grace Before Meals.

Partly owing to the demands for
female help in various quarters,
changes are occurring in domestic
stats, and now and again freshly
arrived maid has difficulty in ac-
customing herself to the novel sur
roundings. unfamiliar methods. A hos
pitable woman, who entertains parties
of soldiers to tea, was explaining to
her new maid that 90 had accepted in
vitations.
"They are asked, Sarah," she men,
toned, 'for half-past four, but l usu-
ally give them fifteen minutes grace"
"Ma'am," said the new servant
frankly, I'm as greatly in favor of re-
ligion as anyone, but / certainly do
think a quarter of an hour is some
what OVERRIDING 1t !"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23
Costly Warfare in Air.

Surprising conclusions are arrived
at by an aviation expert, who has
been examining the airplane losses on
the western front in the last six
months. IF we allow 20 machines
wrecked to each one enemy de-
stroyed," he says, 1--WE see at what
a huge cost this war in the air is be-
ing conducted. The average cost Of
an aifplane is roughly about f1,000,
SO that at this rate the British
loss in material has been approx
mately over 1900 machines in six
months, costing f4,0O0,0O0; the
French very nearly the same, while the
Germans must have lost 1890 ma
chimes. with a total value Of about
f13, 1920, 600. 1t may be that the Ger
man loss Is not quite so great as we
have made out, because there appears
to be less actual flying done by Ger
man pilots In proportion to their
strength"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23
Waste Land and Wasted :
Land on farms .J,,v IS :jo.u 8
Eue,y Son.p,odacing acre
ofHila6Le land that profit
ably can be made produce
nOe is a ioDSr acre and
should either be pm TO
sUoyk or sold
cork or sold
Nm THE average American farm

nN THE average American farm
~ there are certain waste areas of
land. Some of these can be brought
under the pillow by using proper meth
DDS and sufficient outlay of capital,
but others cannot be made tillable by
any reasonable expenditure of effort
or money. OF the latter, certain areas
may be made productive by pasturing
or giving them over to the production
of timber. Many waste areas, how
ever, owing to natural conditions, can
never be probably reclaimed, no mat
ter how efficiently the land may be
managed.
Certain other areas, found on al
most all farms, may be termed wasted
areas. That is, they are misused In
such fashion that they produce moth
ing that adds to the farm income.
These two classes of waste and wasted
land, not being productive of income,
may be classed as nonproductive farm
land.
An important question to one who
is considering leasing or buying a
farm is, what proportion of the land
ls nonproductive7 And this question
Is almost equally important to the man
who owns or operates farm. In the
latter case the question might better
take this form: What per cent Of my
land Is adding nothing to my income ?
On farms where land is cheap this is
not vital consideration, as the inter-
est on the capital invested in the non
productive portion Of the farm land is
not great; but as lands become higher
In price 1t becomes more necessary to
study efficiency In the use Of farm
land In order to avoid the loss entailed
by having much capital invested In
nonproductive land.
Every acre of nonproducing tillable
Land should be put to work or sold.
Many farmers would make more
money If their business were larger,
but the size of farm, from financial
standpoint, Is measured not by the
number of acres embraced in 1t but
by the number that are producing
crops, pasturing animals economi-
cally, or supporting growth of mar
ketable forest products. Nonproduc-
tive acres are loafer acres, and the
money tied up in them is dead capital.
On every farm, however, there are
eertain areas necessarily devoted to
nonproductive purposes. Fences,
bitches, lanes, and building lots pro-
duce nothing themselves, but they are
frequently essential to production on
the rest of the farm. Nevertheless, they
may occupy in the aggregate consid-
cradle percentage of the available
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23
BREAKING HIS PROMISE.

In polite society such thing as q
mans breaking an engagement to call
on a particular evening is seldom
heard of. IL some unforeseen, UNI
preventable circumstance arises that
deters him from keeping his engage
ment, he telephones, telegraphs or
sends note of explanation by spe-
cial messenger. This is exactly what
he should do. Yet there are men, and
well-to-do men at that, who snap their
fingers at etiquette's requirement,
making an appointment with young
girl to call upon her, having no inten-
ton of keeping the appointment, while
uttering the words.
What young girl confided to me re-
Gently on this subject caused me much
serious elaboration. She is pretty
girl, in department store. She said:
"A few weeks ago, was introduced
to young man Of fine family and
position. He paid me marked atten-
ton the entire evening, escorting me
gered at the door, even after had
thanked him for seeing me home and
said goodnight. May l have the. pleas
ure of seeing you soon againT he
asked. My home was not fitted to re-
ceive callers, answered that would
be glad to let him call, If he could let
me know in advance, which would
mean making sure that / would be
home. Suppose we make it Sunday
afternoon, around five O'clock he sug-
gested. 1 much preferred that the
time should be set for evening. OF
course, could not say so. You will
have to invite him for diDner,' said
mother. There was great upheaval
in our fiat during the week that fol-
lowed. Much was done to make our
home appear at least comfortable and
cozy in the eyes Of this rich young
man. We were Obliged to take from
our rent money we had saved to pur-
chase food for our dinner. Mother
declared there was nothing like giving
man a fine dinner to put him in good
humor. The afternoon arrived. Five
o'clock came, six, seven and eight, still
he did not put in an appearance. Then
1 burst into tears at the great expense
haG put my folks to, and the family
sat down to the belated feast. 1 never
heard from him from that day to this.
There's more of that sort of thing go
ing on than you would believe. If you
can draw the attention Of certain
class of young men to it, you would
help many a girl, Miss Libbey."
The class Of young men who break
such promises do not do so deliberate
ly, am glad to say. They are simply
thoughtless. The promises are made
on the spur Of the moment. 1t does
not occur to such men that the young
women will be put to any expense on
their account. Afternoon calls should
be from two to four, or A 80 at the
latest. Evening calls suit the major
ity of girls better. There Is no worry
or expense attached to them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-02-23

suit In the saving of much land now
devoted to these unproductive uses,
more difficult problem is presented by
waste land-land that is rendered un-
tillable by swamps, ravines rocks,
slopes, etc, woodland that produces
nothing salable, and pastures that are
too poor to be profitable. Some areas
are, of course, hopeless, and in that
case they should be left out of the
reckoning altogether. Before this Is
done, however, 1t will pay to look into
the possibilities Of profitable reclama-
ton. Many untillable fields, for ex-
ample, may be turned into productive
pastures, or If they will not grow
enough grass to make this economical
they can be used for the production
of timber On the other hand, it fire.
quently happens that woodlots which
yield nothing but little firewood for
home consumption are permitted to
occupy valuable land. In deciding
whether such lots should be cleared
and titled, the cost of clearing, the in
creased value of the cleared land, the
interest on the investment, the salable
value Of the timber products, and the
added expense for firewood which will
follow the disappearance of the tim
Der must all be taken into account
With unwooded areas, the ACCESSIBILITY
of bringing them under the pillow may
be determined by comparing the prob
able cost with the market price of
good arabic land In the neighborhood.
Obviously. the higher the price Of
land rises the more incentive there is
for the farmer to avoid waste In the
utilization of 1t. 1t is significant, how
ever, that investigations of the de-
partment of agriculture have shown
that, irrespective of the price, tenants
put greater part of their land to
productive use than owners. The ten
ant pays rent for each acre and he
cannot afford to have any Of them
idle. On the other hand, the man who
has no rent to pay may be able to get
along on the produce of part only Of