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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02

else to help her husband, but she
doesn't see why she can't help him in
the way that is easiest and most agree
able to herself. Why shouldn't she do
her W work In her W way, and
with the money she makes hire some
domestic woman to run her home for
herf 1t would make Tor comfort and
efficiency all around.
Certainly the additional advantages
the mother would be able to give the
children in environment, food, clothes
ana education by reason of her earn
ings being added to the family ex-
chequer would certainly far more thar
ottset any disadvantage that there
might possibly be IN her not being per
p~etually with her children.
But the chief reason for women con-
tlnuing after marriage IN whatever oc-
cupation they were following before
marriage is TO be found In the fact
that It makes marriage possible be
tween men II women at the mating
time of life-at the time when they
can best adjust themselves ia eacn
other, and to the matrimonial yoke, and
when they can give the best children
To the world.
h average poor young man can not
support a family In decent comfort by
his own unaided efforts. II he marries
a girl who adds nothing to the family
budget except expense he drags her
down to abject poverty. II he waits
until he Is earning enough to safely
mako the matrimonial venture he Is
middle aged, he has grown selfish, and
doesn't want to marry. The fire Of his
young love Is gone.
That is why there are fewer and
fewer marriages every year and why
the old maid crop, grows bigger. and
bigger. Men simply can't afford the
llNtirV ~ q AaRAnAapt JRIfn hue thau
could marry and would like to marry Il
they could get wives who would be
assets instead OF liabilities. II every
wife had her own pay envelope, earned
by her own hands, instead Of badger
ing her husband out OF his senses for
make ,matrlmony possible but would
make It popular,
1t would make marriage a partnership
In which husband and wife contributed
to the prosperity Of the firm, and shared
In the upkeep of the home. II would
give women their coveted boon Of finan-
cial independence, and the husband
In the world all day seeing and doing
interesting things a far more entertain
Ing companion, and n more cheerful
ono than Is the woman who has moped
in the house all day and cotton dull
and stupid doing a m%onotonous round
of household tasks.
or course where a man Ia rich and
chooses to indulge himself In the lux
ury Of keeping his wife sitting on a
silk cushion and sewing up a seam and
feeding on Strawberries and cream,
hat 3 another story. But It's a differ
ant story for the poor man. and he
need feel no shame, only pride In a
wife who can be a helpmeet with max
'ng money instead Of scrimping and
'avtng II.
Copyright. 1918. by the Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc.)
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02

Few people read with any considerable amount Of interest
that the charges that have been hanging over Senator Robert
M. LaFollette for more than a year have been dismissed by a
committee of senator's that investigated them. A year ago there
was a clamor for his expulsion from the senate, not exactly that
ANYBODY knew what he had said, or even what he was charged
with saying. II his case had come before the senate at that
time it is not unlikely that he would have been expelled, be-
cause the public was in a frame of mind to make short shrift
Of anyone against whom there was a shadow Of ~disloyalty.
The thing for us to get into Our minds is that an individual
can be dsloyal in time of peace as well as in time of war, There
is no more reason for tolerating a traitor in time Of peace than
there is for burning a man at the stake in time of war on the
suspicion of treason,
There are other ways of betraying ones country than by
profit illegally at the expense of the country. A witness before
a senate committee a few days ago declared that the coal opera
ton in Pennsylvania was controlled by the state council OF ma
tional defense, which was controlled by the politicians, who were
in turn controlled by Senator Penrose, Perhaps some of our
difficulty in securing sufficient fuel to produce the required
amount Of munitions last winter might be traced to manipula-
ton Of this character.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02
PUBLIC DISCUSSION
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PREACHER SAYS AMEN.

To The News Scimitar: -,
am by your editorials like the old
preacher was to whom another preacher
had said, Now, brother, l tell you. l
enjoy your amen while ! am preach
Ing: but Ut jo,t ten tns you vo you Dot }Ssr m aay
mon tonight, and l don't wish to be
disturbed. So II you will not say
amen a single time. while I am preach
Ing tonight / VII FIX s y9S the 4 PAD sld
night, But when the preacher had got
well into his sermon that old preacher
yelled out, Amen, boots or no boots;
Now I am an old WORKOUT preacher
End navs been wanting " citing 70 e, say Toar amen edtn
Div TO the New York Sun In regard to
an Imaginary lynching In Forsyth
county, North Carolina, under the
SSaDti0n ss Of misre gf SoT' e, IA and i"f !
| Just cannot stand It any longer
must say amen anyhow, boots or no
boots; sick um. Allow me to say, sir
that you are a conservative, leVei-
headed, broad-minded. sane and sensi,
Bile writer. Long may you live TO Wleio
your ready pen. -.
I was born in North Carolina and
reared in Tennessee near Memphis, ana
when a very young man I came to Ar,
kansas, where ! have spent nearly half
a century in the ministry helping to
build up the wasted wilds of Arkansas,
down. But I still enjoy good things,
/ enjoy The News Scimitar. But my
subscription is about OF and !, like
most OF all old preachers, am a very
poor man, so far as this world Ia con-
cerned. And so far as can see now
when my time lie up (Which will be
right away ! shall have TO ask you to
discontinue my paper. However much
/ regret this, financial circumstances
forces me to do without your valuable
| paper. Ny life has been spent to help
| others and not to lay up treasures for
myself even, for my comfort in old age,
REV. W. D. ELLIS.
SWifton. Ark.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02
TRUST THEM

Much solctude is felt over the fate of the boys when they
return from "over there" This is wise and well. Anything
that can be done toward putting them in a way of life where
they will have opportunity to do for themselves should be done,
but we can trust the boys to take care OF themselves. Most
Iof them were doing so before they left here, and America is
fstnl a land Of opportunities, The splendid qualities that made
souf boys great soldiers will make of them great civilians
when they return to the ways OF peace.
Our women are not all vampires, ready to seize them and
lead them to destruction when they return home. Many Of
them will be given their old positions back, and others can find
new ones. Provide for the boys, of course, but trust them
they will get through every barage and reach their objectives
as civilians just as they did as soldiers. All they want is a
chance, and this should be given them. Their war experience
has not feninized them. On the contrary it has hardened them
and made them more manly and sef-reliant, They will know
better how to meet difficulties and overcome obstacles. and
make their way in the world.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02
The Public Be SerUed

FOR THREE days.
$50
I'VE BEEN out in a village.
WHERE THE streets aren't paved.
AND GO winding around.
IN THE strangest ways.
AND THE maple trees.
HAVE LOST their leaves
AND THE sun shines through.
AND MARKS the road.
WITH A shadowy lace.
AND ANYWAY.
I WAS out in the village.
AND SOME one told me.
THERED BE a concert.
AT THE Episcopal church.
AND THE price of admission.
WAS A maS.zine'
FOR A soldier camp.
AND TWENTY-FIVE cents,
FOR A soldier canteen.
OR WHATEVER it a
AND ASKED me to go
AND I said I would.
AND AFTER dinner.
AND II! the dark.
STARTED out.
TO LOOK for the church.
AND WANDERED around.
AND FINALLY found it.
A RED brick church,
ALL LIGHTED up.
AND A man at the door.
SHOOK HANDS with me.
AND I gave him a quarter.
AND THE magazine.
IT WAS "snappy Stories"
AND HE seemed surprised.
BUT WAS a nice man.
AND HE led me down.
TO THE front Of the church.
AND INTO a pew.
AND FOR fifteen minutes.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02
News OF Memphis
10 Years Ago.
Twice Told Tales
DECEMBER 2, 1908.

American battleships are being sent
to Port-au-Prince, Hayti, to protect the
foreign legations against the lnsur-
Pine Bluff citizens have sent a peti.
ton to President Roosevelt TO permit
the cutting of a new channel to pre-
vent a flood In the city.
News Scimitar, presented his sketch at
the Jefferson theater, his first o%ontri-
button as a playwright, with great sue
cess, 100, ,.
has heen sold to the Bank of Commerce
and Trust company for a consideration
of SO, 900. ~
lake district we're arrested last night
by soldiers on charges Of niEht-ridinB.
Former Gov. Benton McMillin, OF
Carthage, arrived in Memphis Tuesday
in the interest of the Carnegie Tru
company.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02
SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.

President Wilson is fond OF telling
a story about an old teamster. This
old fellow said to the treasurer OF the
concern one day:
Me and that off-horse has been
workln' for the company II years, sir"
Just so, Winterbottom, just So" said
the treasurer, and he Cieared his throat
and added Both treated well, | hope"
Wen he said, I'VE wus both tooken
down sick last month, ana they got a
doctor for the boss, while they locked
my pay"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02
News Of Memphis
20 Years Ago.

UECE WbLN q FUsU' ...A
Miss Amelia Cranberry has returned
West. accompanied by her brother,
Master James Cranberry.
Included In the list of tourists return
ing this week are John Baird and FAM
lily, Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Redders, Sanue
Mcmillan and Joseph Davids. ..
Natives Of Hawaii have decided 70
become annexed to the United States,
II the Americans are willing,
Work on the car works at the .Bing,
hamton tract will start this week n
probably be completed by JAM Is, 1t Is
announced.
following day President Cleveland will
address the body.
Miss Susie Anne Warren and Fred
erick Hill Arson we're united In mar,
rage last night by Rev. Barrett ana
left on a bridal trip.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02
SOME

President Wilson'S favorite LINER
lex is brought to mind by the following
tale Of the Orient:
Timur-lenk, the Tartar invader. was
very ugly, and. catching a glimpse OF
himself In a mirror, he burst into tears.
The court Jester began weeping also
and kept II up long after his master
had stopped.
Timur looked at him In establishment.
81 went with reason" he said, "at be-
holding my own ugliness-I, the lord
Of so many lands. But do not under
stand why YOU should thus despair"
'If you, my lord" replied the Jester,
"wept for two hours after seeing your
self In the mirror for an instant, Is II
not natural that ]. who see you all day
long. should weep longer than you?'
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02
Gaze. O.aREE. GIE
~ 3.

JUST sat there.
AND A man came out.
AND SAID a prayer.
AND ANNOUNCED a hymn.
AND THE twelve of US.
STOOD UP and sang.
AND AS We sang.
1T CAME over me.
THAT WHERE I was
WAS A Methodist church.
ON PRAYER meeting night.
BUT I couldn't get out.
AND HAD to stay there.
TILL THE meeting was over.
AND THE minister came.
AND SHOOK my hand.
AND WELCOMED me.
ON BEHALF of his flock.
AND I broke away.
AND WANDERED again.
THROUGH THE darkened streets.
TILL I heard a jazz band.
AND SAW some lights.
AND THAT was the concert.
IN THE Chapel house,
OF THE Episcopal church.
AND I paid the man at the door.
ANOTHER TWENTY-FIVE cents.
AND GAVE him an order.
-"
ON THE Methodist minister.
FOR A single. copy
OF "SNAPPY Stories"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02

w G. McAdoo is a Georgia country boy who was educated
and grew 10 manhood in East Tennessee. He is to all intents
and purposes a product OF this state, He is a superman and
will be heard from again.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02

A good many OF the great ones who have definite and
imperative demands will find that they cannot put them over"
SO easily when they meet the great ones OF other nations at the
council board, which will truly be a conference OF the modern
gods.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02

Byron referred to Patrick Henry as:
THAT forest-born Demosthenes
Whose thunder shook the Philip Of the seas"
When President Wilson takes his place at the great world
conference Europe will learn more about the shaking power Of
America.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02

On his lonely island the crown prince will soon realize that
he is not Alexander the Great and that his father is not Phlip
OF Macedon.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02

II Holland objects 10 surrenderng the German criminal.
she must be made to see the error Of her ways.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02

In the work OF rehabilitation the farmer stands first. P
pie must be fed.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02

Let us stick to the boys until they get homo and find them
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-02

It sounds so ungrammatical to say ~ have flu."
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11

expensive hay and grains. The aver age cost of wintering the cows on these farms was $14. The average quantity of silage fed on the next 50 farms was IS tons, nearly one-third of the ration being made up of this feed. Although the cows on these farms received 100 feed units less feed, their winter-feed
 bill was $16.53. In the next group, 21 farms, silage constituted one-half of the ration, the cows receiving an average of 2.75 ton each. As only one fourth of this ration was composed of the cheaper roughage. the average feed bill for these cows was SIT al- though they received 400 feed units less than did the cows in the first group. It Is evident that on the farms in this third group silage was replacing too largely the cheaper farm by-products.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11
VEGETABLE MATTER
 TO INCREASE CROPS
Liberal Supply of Humus Is One
 of Greatest Factors.
Many EnterprisIng Farmers Are Grow- Ing leguminous Crops and Turn ing Them Under-Method
 Adopted on Virginia Farm.

Prepared by the United States Depart
 ment of Agriculture.)
 In many sections of the Eastern States where the soil has become worn by continual cropping the addition of liberal supply of humus for vege- table matter Is one of the greatest factors necessary to increase the pro- duction of crops. To supply this need many enterprising farmers are grow Ing legume crops and turning them under. That the farmers who have adopted this practice are being amply repaid is shown by the increased yields which they are able to secure.
 On one farm In Caroline County. Va. the regular practice had been to grow corn on the land one year in three and to allow each field to rest" during the other two years. The rest ing" process was to allow weeds and trash to grow up and thus accumu- late sufficient fertility for another crop of corn. With this system of cropping the yield of corn ranged gen.
 
 The improvement of the soil on this farm began first by planting one of the poorest fields to cowpeas. The cow peas were cut for hay and the stubble disked and seeded to crimson clover. The following spring the crimson clo- yer crop was turned under and the field planted to corn. At the last work ing of the corn, crimson clover was again sown. The following spring the same process was repeated by turning under the crimson clover and planting corn again on the same land. This practice was continued for five years. The third year the yield of corn was about 40 bushels to the acre and the fifth year the crop made yield of 50 bushels to the acre.
 Up to the time of the change in the cropping system. 1t had been the regu- lar practice to apply POO pounds of 16 per cent acid phosphate per acre to each crop grown. Under thar system. however, crop yields could not be main- tained. After the change in cropping system, the same amount of acid phosphate was applied each year to the corn crop. The only real change in method was to grow first crop of cowpeas and after that to turn under a catch crop of crimson clover In prep aration for the corn each year. The improvement in soil conditions Is fur ther evident from the fact that after the fifth consecutive corn crop, wheat was sown and yield of 9 bushels per acre was harvested While these yields are not extremely large, 1t was possible by simple methods and with comparatively small expense to in- crease the producing capacity of some very poor land to about three times what it had formerly been.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11
INDIAN CHIEF A ScoUTMASTER.

Red Fox, Skuihushu, "the Indian Man of Mystery" Is travelling on his pony to his tribe In Montana with a letter from President Woodrow Will son.
 Red Fox was born in Alberta, Can- ada, in the Blackfoot country. At the age of seven he was placed under the guidance of a warrior and taught the things every Indian boy learns: To know the stars, the trees, the birds, the animals and their language, the secrets of the woods and caves, of streams and pools. All the wonderful lore the Boy Scouts of America are gaining through camp life comes to the Indian boy as part of his necessary education by older men in his tribe.
 Following his early boyhood days in the Blackfoot reservation Red Fox spent his early manhood in the Little Horn country, where he went through regular graded schools and high school. He was scoutmaster of the first Indian Boy Scouts of America.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11
FALL PROUD TO BE SCOUTS"

"The Boy Scouts of America at eight years of age is full of strength and vigor and promise for the future" says President Colin H. Livingstone. "All who are now members are having the benefit of the movement at the most interesting time in its history, as we'll as the most important time in the his. tory of the world.
 Life was never so full of oppor. tunity as today; and the Boy Scouts of America, because of the effectiveness of its program and the character of its membership, is playing a mighty important part in the affairs of our na. tion.
 "We are all proud to be scouts, but why should we be content with mem- bership of but 295.O00 boys and 7S,OOO men? There are 1O,OOO,OOO boys who should have the benefit of the boy scout program"
 There are 295,76S Boy Scouts of America in good standing, compared with 190,72S on the seventh anniver- sary last year. These boys are organ ized in 13,787 troops, with 7S,S73 men leaders.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11
AMERIcA's DEBT TO SCOUTS.

April is Kenton's moon on the Buck skin calendar, and the reason the scouts all know about Simon Kenton is that, unlike some people, scouts know that the western boundary of the United States does not run along the top of the Allegheny mountains, and that one reason for this is the great work of the Buckskin men. says Dan Beard.
 It's high time these Buckskin men were put in their proper places in his- tory, for as compared with the Puri- tans and the Cavaliers of the eastern coast they were real empire builders.
 The Buckskin man possessed the moral rectitude of the Puritan. com bined with the dash and gaiety and joyousness of the Cavalier. Fearless. generous, hospitable, he is a true hero of romance, and that Is the season all scouts love him.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11
&8I3O& $ Conducted by National Council of the Boy
 Scouts of America)
SCOUT WINS WAR CROSS

Scout Gordon Kitchen of troop No. 4, Montclair, N. J., seventeen years old, has received the Croix de Guerre for bravery on the field of verdun. Scout Kitchen writes home as fol- lows:
 We as a section have been deco rated with the Croix de Guerre four times. So on each car in the section we have Croix de Guerre with two stars Gone silver and one bronze) and two gold palms (this is painted on the cars, of course). When an organiza- tion receives two citations with order of the Army Ca palm is the insignia) they are allowed the additional honor of the Fourragere, a silk cord worn around the left shoulder and left breast. We are the only section in France, either French, English or American, regulars or volunteers, to receive the Forragere.
 Hope you won't judge I'm think ing and going all on honors of this kind. One soon finds out that decora- tions and honors are the results of hard work. You may be pleased to know that I received a personal dec oration and am now the proud posses sor of the Croix de Guerre with a sil- yer star citation.
 "We have seen thousands of German prisoners, and believe me they are a sorry-looking lot. How they can keep on the way they do is beyond me. Many of these prisoners are only boys. They seem thin and haggard and wish the war was over.
 'Lets hope for the best anyhow. There won't be much doubt about the backing in America if everyone turns to the way the scouts have"
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11
Corn Fodder Is Gradually Beinu Replaced in Corn Belt
 Sections.
MOST ECONOMICAL PRACTICE
Not Only Is Corn Plant More Fully Utilized, but Animals Do Better Than on Dry Ration-Silo Is
 of Especial Value.

Prepared by the United States Depart
 ment of Agriculture)
 In many sections of the corn belt corn fodder Is being replaced gradu- ally by silage In the ration for beef animals. Where there are enough ani- mals to justify the building of silo the feeding of silage is usually the more economical practice of the two. as much larger proportion of the stover can be utilized as silage than otherwise. Not only is the corn plant more fully utilized, but cattle usually do better on silage than on a dry ra- ton.
 Expensive Feed.
 Silage, because of the grain that 1t contains and because of the expense of putting 1t up. is relatively expensive feed; consequently in localities where large amounts of cheap, rough feeds are available the sllo may not always prove economical. However, when such roughage Is scarce and high priced the feeding of silage usually VIII pay. This would be especially true if, instead of cutting their high est-yielding corn. the farmers habitu- ally would select that part of the crop having the least grain. The silo Is of especial value in helping to make the most of the corn crop in years when the corn Is badly damaged by drought or when because of frosts it does not get chance to mature.
 In years when hay and grain are both high, the putting of husked stover
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11
sUCCULENT FEED FOR HORSE
Roots and Corn SlIage Not Used to Any Great Extent-Carrots
 Considered Best.

Succulent feeds. such as roots and corn silage, have not been used in this country to any great extent for horse feeding. Of the root crops, carrots are considered best for horses. Although low in food value, when compared with grains. they have high value as con ditIoners. The serious objection to their extended use Is the large amount of hand labor required in their produc- ton.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11
WAR FUEL SLOGANS

(Prepared by the United States De-
 partment of Agriculture.) Keep up with the war pro- gram-burn wood.
 Cut cord and help win the war.
 Save coal for intuition indus tries by burning war fuel. Now is the time to cut wood. Coal is scarce-there's "wood to burn"
 Wood Is wartime fuel-cut 1t and burn 1t.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11
Potatoes for Hogs.

Potatoes too small or too badly in- iured for human use are still valu- able as hog feed. especially If boiled. Tn the form of pork they will bring real money. In the shippers dump nile they are total loss.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11
MuIchinu Celery.

The mulching system of celery cul- ture Is very simple. Place three or four inches of fresh horse manure be- tween the rows of celery as soon as possible after 1t Is set in the garden. See that the manure does not touch the plants.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-11

Cultivation of Bean.
 The cultivation of the bean crop Is very similar to that of the corn crop.