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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
BY 4. V. ARRAG0N
Dy \. '. ANNfuU+N
(From an article in The Journal Of
Political EconOmU)

(From an article in The Journal Of
Political Economy)
TIME necessity for common ac-
ton in the various branches
of railroad direction and oper-
alton has led to the establishment of
large number of committees and
associations for unifying matters of
policy and for solving questions that
affect all the roads. These commit
tees are advisory in character, but
their work is of material interest to
the public from the standpoint of the
efficiency of the transportation sys-
tenn. Such bodies are: the Railway
Executives Advisory Committee, the
Association of American Railway
Accountants, the Car Service Com
mission of the American Railway
Association, the American Railway
Engineering Association, and similar
societies and committees, temporary
and permanent, covering every phase
Of railroad operation, including law,
traffic, finance, engineering and ac-
counting. Would it not be advisable,
in order to correlatc the work of all
these organizations, to bring them
into legal and governmental recog-
milton and to give them carefully
defined powers of executive action?
By way of example, those who are
responsible for the financial success
of the railroads condemn the I'M
sound financial practices of certain
roads. The effect Of these practices
upon the minds Of the investing pub
lie they recognize as hurtful to the
marketing Of railroad securities; yet
they are powerless to prevent the
continuance of them. Would it not
be wise to give this advisory COM
mittee of railway executives, or some
similar body, power to control the
rules of finance for the transporta-
ton system of the country under the
proper supervision of a govern
mental board?
The problem Of utilizing railway
equipment most effectively, upon
which the Car Service Commission is
engaged, has likewise been rendered
exceedingly difficult of solution be-
cause that commission does not have
the power TO enforce its findings. In
the whole field of transportation
there are similar features which
could be advantageously brought I'M
der central control without mourning
the dangers of centralized manage
ment for all matters.
To effect railroad coordination of
this character the following meas
ures are proposed:
|. Compulsory Federal incorpora-
ton of all interstate railroads.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
PRIDE, PATRIOTISM AND PROFITS
INSURE IMMUNITY FROM FAMINE
Production Staple Crops Says Economist Depends More Will Power than
Weather. and 100000 Determined Men and Women American
Farms Achieve Maximum Harvest with Astonishing Regularity

try from the cities because of finan-
cial inducements. And it should be
remembered that the army and navy
reject men for physical defects of no
importance in farm work. In some
cases the rejection has led to de-
sire to go upon the farm, for OBJ
vious reasons, such as recovering
weight, strengthening fiat feet,
strengthening a weak back, curing a
skin disease or hiding some infection
from publicity until well. Of all
this. the farmers stand upon notice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

year gave to him his chance. He was
released, and as he went out a neigh
Dor remarked that high prices had
cured even his laziness. The patriot
ism needs no comment. But the pride
is leading to an unusual neighbor-
hood rivalry. The new day of sta
tistics and of bookkeeping has set
men to measuring their abilities
against one another, and bigger crops
result. Every man is going to show
his neighbor what his farm can do
when he tries.
The very failure of winter wheat
upon the plains has caused far more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08


Politics and Sociology, College OF
Wooster.
TIME crop history of the United
States should assure every
II citizen that the food supply
IS almost as much to be relied upon
as the tides of the ocean. Prophets
Of disaster may be divided into three
classes-those whose interest it Is to
advance prices, those who are tenn
peramentally timid and full-of fore
holdings of i'll, and those who desire
to weaken the courage of Americans
in these days of trial. The answer to
their prophecies may be read in the
statistics.
The outstanding truth in all the
data of crops for a hundred years
exactly is that there has been an al
most constant increase in the pro-
duction of grains per capita since
1917. 1t was thirty-fve bushels Of
the three important grains-wheat,
oats and corn-even in 1916, and
forty-six bushels per capita IN 1910.
Add rye. barley and buckwheat, and
the per capita supply has been more
than ten bushels more for many
years. OF the three great cereals,
the per capita production in 1891 was
about forty bushels.
It has been objected by some per
sons that because 1916 was a poor
year 1917 may be worse, and there
may be no seed for 1918. The year
1918 was not so good as that which
preceded, but there was seed enough
. get bigger crop in 1914. We had
a run of three poor years in 1892
1898 and 1894, but there was seed
enough for a banner crop in 1895,
and for a still bigger crop in 1896.
But an examination of the crop
reports shows that, properly consid-
cred, 1916 was really not a poor
year; it was simply poorer year
than 1906, 1910, 1912 and 1915, and
better than any other in our history.
The trouble really was not in Amer
lea, but elsewhere, as every one
knows.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Wood for Fuel from
Our National Forests

To meet any possible coal shortage
in the West next winter more ex-
tensive use of fuel wood from the ma
tional forests is urged by the govern
ment's foresters. The supervisors of
1873 national forests will afford all
possible facilities to local residents
wishing to obtain cordwood. which
settlers may obtain free for their home
use and which is sold at low rates 10
persons cutting and hauling in order
TO sell TO others.
During the last fiscal year more than
10000 permits for the free use of ma
tional forest timber, mainly in the
form of fuel wood, were taken out bv
local residents. The amount of timber
involved Appropriated $50 900 cords.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

oats in almost as many. Never were
there so many apple trees planted
and in bearing this very year. We
have far more knowledge than ever
before Of the soil and climate Pc
culiarities that lead to great crops
of sugar beets and of potatoes.
Never before have we known so
much, and had the knowledge so
widely difFused, as to soil fertilizers.
Never before was the ratio Of men
and women Of mature years to the
total population so great as now.
In ali but two states of the Union
men exceed women in numbers, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

the total excess is two millions 4,
more. Never did any nation ey
into a war Of magnitude so vel D,
pared in the essentials Of food ~
poets and Of men to spare for BATH
1t is true that in a sense thex n
but the lower aspects Of the nsSx
but our enemies in our mids q
well as our enemies abroad, .tx.
not be able to stir into fear q Cd
sensible man or woman upon srb
legations that we shall not b,
bread in abundance and muct /
spare when the harvests are a.
cred in the autumn Of 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

others fearful pause to be confronted
with the truth about these states.
Corn may fall off a little, but then
oats are sure to be banner crop. Or
wheat may have little trouble; then
hay comes in strong.
Illinois a Large and
Regular Producer
Illinois may be relied upon year
after year for almost 400,000,OOO
bushels of corn. Illinois is only 2
per cent of the area Of the United
States, and only 515 per cent Of the
population, but alone it raises about
four bushels of corn per capita for
all the land, or one-half pound per
day per inhabitant for all our land
in corn alone.
One reason why we Americans do
not understand these facts better is
because we do not think of them In
the terms of areas and populations.
In truth, Ohio and Indiana, each a
considerably smaller state than either
Illinois or Iowa, do about as we'll per
acre and per capita in crop produc-
ton. but their totals are not so i'm
pressive.
There are seven states, each good
for over one hundred million bushels
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Western Kansas
A Doubtful Region

There are some crop failures in
America, but they are almost strictly
confined 10 particular region, that
west Of the 100 meridian and east
Il thu Rocky Mountains. But be-
cause winter cod kills the winter
wheat in Western Kansas, as it does
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Crops Depend on Will
Rather than Weather

OF course, the truth is that Amer
lea raises about what is intended,
and the total product is depend
ent rather upon will than upon
weather. This sounds cruel to the
man of the Western plains, who is
sometimes baked by winds or by
/ frosts, but elsewhere it is the plain
truth. Tennessee yields crops that
vary but few per cent from year to
year, for the weather is wonderfully
reliable. But besides the weather the
agricultural mind of the people OF
Tennessee must also be wonderfully
reliable. It is reasonable to suppose
that if the people of the state should
form the intention to raise a bigger
crop they could do it. The problem
is that of turning over more sod and
putting in more seed.
As Tennessee is the maximum for
regularity, so Kansas is the maxi
mum for variation; but fortunately
nearly all the states rival Tennessee
rather than Kansas.
The corn yield Of America means
in grain and in stalk the vast total
of one trillion pounds, or five hum
dred million tons a year, which is
five tons per inhabitant. The hay
Weld is less than half the total grass
yield; this averages now for the last
five years more than one hundred
and fifty million tons, or three tons
per inhabitant. These are foods for
man and beast. The next PROPOSE
ton is inevitable, that the anxiety
in America should be rather over
how TO utilize to the best advantage
these enormous supplies than wheth-
er or not we are to have them as
usual by October.
There is really no way to starve
America other than to come here and
by main force take the harvests from
us. Under the conditions of our eco
nomic regime individuals may starve
for want of money to buy food in
competition with Europe, but there
should be a way to prevent at least
in its severe forms the result of this
competition.
City men think of country men
as being about so busy every day like
themselves from years end to years
end. but the case is otherwise. In war
times there is a considerable slack
to be taken up, and this will be taken
up this year by American farmers.
The young men, who live for the day,
are in the cities eating bread, not in
the fields raising wheat; but the ma
ture men, who live in plans for real
izing better future, will work as
never before.
Three powerful purposes live in
these farm men and women now. One
purpose is straight money making;
another is sheer patriotism, and a
third is pride. Only few days ago
in an Ohio city a farmer called to
jury service pleaded for release that
he had a mortgage to lift and this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

The Australian Federsi W. NJ
considering. according to IN ~, d
bourne Age" scheme ..sps
an expenditure over a tern ., .:i,sbts
at least 100000 for 'n mai rnr,'
ment of factories under J,.;on.
and government saper,,;rofsv
scheme includes the ereau.
tional industrial dcpartme"~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
No Real Cause
For Hysteria

Men raise crops; the soil itself
does not raise them. The hysteria
that has visited few centres of
trade and that saw a year of famine
ahead will serve the fairly useful pur-
pose of awakening the indifferent. 1t
had no basis in the facts of the
American crop situation.
We raise corn in every state, hay
in every state, wheat in forty states,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

spring wheat to be sown in the Mid
die West.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
B, WILLIAM EsTABRooK CHANCELLOR

Head OF the Department of Economics
Politics and Sociology, College OF
Wooster.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17
FAMOUS DUTCH DANCER
SHOT FOR ESPIONAGE

Paris, Oct, l5.-Mata Hari, the
Dutch dancer and adventures, who
two months ago was found guilty on
the charge OF espionage, was shot at
dawn this morning.
MataHari, otherwise known as
Marguerite Gertrude Zelle, was taken
in an automobile from St. Lazaire
prison to the parade ground at Vim
cennes. where her execution took
place. Two sisters of charity and
a priest accompanied her.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17
LOST
ESTRAY NOTICE

A small brindle COW, long horns.
taken up at.my place. Owner can get
her by paying for this advertisement
and costs. The COW was taken up
Sunday, October 7.
It .. P. Rogers, Route No. 6.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17
~O9ur AZ.
lsSifed4d
hep0rtinellfa
.zs PHONE 32S
WANTED

WANTED-You to know that the
Classified Department CT the Leader
Enterprise will locate your lost ar
ticles, secure help when you need it;
find employment for the unemployed;
rent houses, farms, or anything else
you may need. A trial will convince
you. If
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17

FOR SALE-A splendid home and
adjoining lot at No. 500 w. Suwanee
street, convenient to school building,
for sale at genuine bargain for cash
or will make easy terms Consult F.
?. Keeker, Jr., Atty lin Fitzgerald,
Ga, or write D & o. Lott, Waycross
"a II interested W4t
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17
NOTICE

To reduce the price of meat on and
after November lst, 1917, l will not
deliver any more meat.
H. L. BEAUCHAMP,
st. Prop. Pine St. Market.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17

F'Soi VI ~ A~uhS D NhOiNH, AAdWhlllS-
vile.
Wednesday, October 18th
9 A. M-Morning Prayer. Sermon
by Rev. Newton Middleton, Rector
Of St. Paurs church, Albany.
10 A. M-Bible Study for the
Clergy.
II 80 A .M-Business meeting.
400 p M-Cottage Prayer Meet
ings.
7:30 P. M.-Evening Prayer and
Sermon by Rev. r. N. Mac Callum,
Rector of Grace Church, Waycross.
Thursday, Oct. ls-St. Luke's Day
10 A. M.-Holy Communion. Ser
mon by Rev. William B Sans. Vicar
OF St. Johns church, cambridge.
1880 A. M.-Thesis, Subject, THE
Holy Communion" Rev. ]. w. BE
ker, Vicar of St. Matthew's church,
Fitzgerald.
3 p M-Book review, Rev. VIM.
B. Higgins, Rector Of St. Thomas
Church, Townsville.
4 P. M-Evening Prayer and Ser
mon by Rev. ]. w. Cornish, Vicar of
Christ Church, Valdosta.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17

ESTRAYED-On Sunday night,
October Is, one black horse mule.
nose white, weighs about 900 pounds,
10 years old. Any information will
be appreciated. ]. w. Pauik, Harden,
Ga. ,,
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17
OF ALBANY
St. Johns Mission, Mouitrie, Ca, Oc-
tober 10, II, l8, 1917.
Program, Tuesday Oct. 10

y 1I1I, OOSUuJ OCI' To
7:30 p M.-Evening Prayer and
Sermon by Rev w. w. Webster.
Vicar of St Lukc's church, Hawkins
vile.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17

FOR SALE-4-room residence.
lights, bath. every convenience. Also
two adjoining lots for sale. Easy
terms if desired Call at 800 West
Oconee ST. WIN
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17

Visiting cards. for ladies or
gentlemen, $1.00 per 100. De
livered the same day ordered a,
the Leader-Fnterprise. TT
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17

WANTED-Roomers or boarders
at 225 w. Oconee Street. Close in
and convenient to A. B. & A. depot. If
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Gray are spending
several days this week i'll Atlanta
taking in the fair
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-One 7-room house
with two acres of ground, twenty
rods north of Lee street.
L. P. WIGHTMAN.
II l2o Central Ave.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-17
FOR SALE

We still have Pedigree Red Ap-
pier Oats for seed to sell. See me at
once as the supply is running short
II. H. James.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-02-28
A Clear COMPLEXION
Ruddy Cheeks-Sparkling Eyes
Most Women Can Have
Says DR.. Edwards, a Well-Known
Ohio Physician

Dr. F. M. Edwards for II years
treated scores of women for liver and
bowel ailments. During these years he
gave to bis patients a prescription made
of few well-known vegetable ingredi-
ents mixed with olive oil, naming them
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, you will
know them by their olive color.
These tablets are wonder-workers on
the liver and bowels, which cause a nor
nal action, carrying of the waste and
poisonous matter in ones system.
If you have a pale face, salow look,
dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, head
aches, listless, no-good feeling, all out
of sorts, inactive bowels, you take one
OF DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly
for a time and note the pleasing results.
Thousands of women as well as men
take DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the
successful substitute for calomel-now
and then just to keep in the pink OF con-
dition. l0c and 25c per box. All druggists.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-02-28
SENATOR IS
IN FAVOR 0F
REDUCTION
BIcKEL OF WOODS COUNTY EX.
PRESSES HIS VIEWS ON THE
SUBJECT IN A SIGNED STATE.
MENT.

am very much in favor OF a re-
duction Of the number of members Of
the two huoses Of the legislature.
favor this plan for the reason that
am convinced from my experience in
the legislature that the body in its
present form is unwieldy. There is
much good legislation pending before
the two bodies at this time, which
will not receive the attention Of the
Legislature for the reason that the
members are all anxious to close the
session, End If bill, though meritor,
ious comes up for consideration and
there is opposition to it, a majority
Of the members are inclined to kill
the bill rather than to devote time to
debate on the matter.
With smaller body and more time
to devote to legislation measures will
be considered more carefully. How.
ever much we may believe that de.
bates in the legislature are a waste
of time, yet such is not the fact. No
measure which is thoroughly debated
leaves the hands of the legislature in
an unfinished state. Those measures
which receive the support of every.
one without question and without de.
bate are those which the courts strug.
gle with to interpret.
am firm believer in two bodies
for the same reason that / am be
lever in debates, and that Is that a
peculiar combination of one body
which may pass a measure withou,
proper consideration is properly
checked IN the other body where such
organization does not extend.
A siXtyday session is too short roi
a new member to even familiar,z,
himself with the existence Of the dif
ferent departments and institution,
Of the state, to say nothing Of tlei
needs \ smaller body and Longer
term would not mean that there woul,
be more laws passed, but it wgul,
mean that the laws passed would b
carefully considered by men who wor
thoroughly familiar with the sublec
in hand and would result IN wholesom
and needful legislation Senator WI
liam Bickol ANa.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-02-28
MAklnG NEW ISSUES

This legislature may not pass re-
solutions submitting to the people
amendments to the constitution pro-
viding for a legislature of reduced
size in both branches and for a short
er ballot, but the introduction of meas
ures providing for these amendments
will have the result Of making them
statewide issues in the next campaign,
even if they are defeated or allowed
to die on the calendar
We do not mean by this that the
people viii necessarily adopt either
of these amendments in their pres
en- form, even if they are submitted,
but we do believe that both subjects
constitute matters of sufficient public
interest to warrant them becoming
serious issues in the minds Of the yot.
ers in the next campaign.
Very few people, probably, think
seriously at the time Of the unicamer-
al Legislature, or the commission
form Of government for the state, but
a great many people-and among
them some of the sanest and most
progressive members Of the legisla-
ture itself, do think earnestly that
the states legislative work can be
more capahly and more econocically
discharged by a legislature of less
members in both branches, and that
the members Of such reduced houses
should be better paid and be com
PEELED to hold longer or more IRE.
quent sessions.
Speaker Paul Nesbitt has a plan for
q legislative reference committee to
remain In session during the long va
cations between the present regular
session, whose duty It would be to in.
yostiga;e and thresh out all proposed
subjects Of legislation and have the
measures prepared for submission ia
the legislative session at its regular BIZ
ennial meeting. Some such plan would
improve the quality and reduce the
nlmbcr OF bills to be INTRODUCED, and il
could be made a method Of real eco
nomic and great governmental value
The "Shortcr-Ballot law is attract
ing attention and wide discussion il
many of our sister states, and in Ok
lahoma It is argued it would not onll
make for more efficient government
but 1t would almost entirely eliminate
the monkey and parrot rows bctweci
| elected" officials that has Athlete,
and disgrac2d every administrator
since statehood Democratic stat
| Press Bureau
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-02-28
ARTIFICIAL COAL Factory IN
CHICAGO TO CUT FUEL PRICES

Chicago. Feb. 2S.-The first Ameri.
can factory for the manufacture Of
artificial coal" in commercial guam
tiles may be erected in Chicago,
members of the Chicago Renting
Agents association said today
a committee appointed b5' the 0sso-
citation to seek a solution Of the fuel
famine menace, which has threatened
this ana other cities IN winter, has
reported that they have a formula for
manufacturing "coal substitute" from
tar. chemicals, ana by-products, at a
cost Ear below that Of coal
The committees report shows that
tests which they have made, show the
artificial product to be higher in heat
iug units and more efficient generally
than the mined product
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-02-28
HAS NOW LAID
ASIDE HIS
CRUTCHES
RHEUMATISM AND KIDNEY
TROUBLE OF 8 YEARS STAND
ING HAVE DISAPPEARED, HE
SAYS.

"Yes sir, it's a fact, this time last
month | was one of the sickest men
you ever saw" said Frank links, who
lives on the Martin Mil pike, South
Knoxville, Tenn, and today ! feel
as well and strong as | ever felt in
my life.
81 have been suffering from kidney
troubles for the past eight years and
the pains in my back at times would
almost kill me. When had these
spells, would have to quit work.
{ have lost as high as three weeks at
time. | also suffered great deal
with rheumatism. About six weeks
ago. ! had it so bad | couldn't even
put on my shoes My suffering was
terrible and cnce or twice it got so
bad ! cried.
The doctor seemed unable to give
me any relief and his medicine seemed
w. ''' "'' w. f'~N>'' ~"
no NOT nave TO take my "ora lor
"hat am 'ellihs Eou-tAeFe are
twenty people VINO Khe" oi my con-
ollioh VINO VIII tell you the same
'hihg' Ny case mas oeen the tax OF
me heisnoorhoou' ana eNefyDouy Is
prals'ns ue medicine
I'h''c mas dohe me so mnch
Soo' ! h''o'y N'''" no" TO praise IT,
o"l wv" "e'"' oi'er J OeSah taxing
d" ! was "o'' 10 ''y IA' cfuIcHe'
'S'-' anu c'h no" Walk as sood as
~'' 'o"'' ""'S d le" days ago
"''A'' rom lNe race track to the
o'"'" N'''A''''e ''"'"'""l company