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The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-10-10
The Liberty Wheat Crop

Tennesste farmers are asked by
/ the national government to increase
their wheat acreage for the coming
crop by 100000 acres.
The nation is appealing for the
greatest wheat acreage ever sown in
order to insure an abundance of
bread for the people Of this country
md the nations allied with US and
to provide against possible crop
failure. Every resource of the ma
tion is being modified for a great
Military victory over the Hun next
year, All plans are being made to
crush the enemy during 1919. The
Liberty Wheat Crop" is a part of
the general military plan.
This state has made an enviable
record in responding to all war calls.
1t has over-subscribed its quotas of
the liberty loans; it has given more
than was asked for war benevo-
lences; its people have conserved
food; they have obeyed the requests
of the fuel administration and the
state has given every soldier and
every sailor asked for, During the
past year, despite an acute labor
shortage, the farmers have produced
more foodstuffs than were ever
grown before in a single year in
the history of the state.
While not unmindful of the seri-
Gus difficulties that confront the
farmers Of the state in securing an
adequate labor supply, it is conf
IDENTIFY believed that they will again
respond to the call of the nation and
will sow rather more than the 200,-
600 increased acreage requested. The
additional acreage has been allotted
among the several counties by the
division Of extension Of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee. If every farmer
will pledge a small increase the
state will Ego over the top" with a
whoop.-Nashville iTennesseanI
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-10-10
How One County Boosts

When Weakley county decided to
make an exhibit at the Tri-State
Fair-and by the way Weakley coun-
ty won first place-the men and wo-
men in charge thought it would be a
good idea to hand out to fair visitors
some facts about the county Conse-
quently one Of the local papers print
ed four-page folder, the contents of
which might be used as an example
by any county in promoting its farm
industries.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-10-10
Gets Rieh Yields Of Wheat

c. E. Buckle, a Hardeman county
farmer, in telling how he products
wheat with profit, says:
with regard to raising wheat in
this section, it is the same as in any
other country, viz: That it is impos-
sible to obtain satisfactory and large
yields without the land being in a
high state Of cultivation. To do this
our method has, been to pillow under
a crop of soy beans or COW peas and
follow this with oats sowed with red
clover and two tons of crushed lime
stone rock per acre, disked in, dur
ing the preparation of the seed bed.
We heavily top-dress this oat sod
during winter with 10 to Is loads
of good manure to the acre. The
following winter we again top-dress
the clover sod with manure, using
spreaders. When the clover begins
to rot out, we pillow this up in the
fall as soon as the season permits.
We like to drill wheat from October
18th to November /, following
good frost. We sow one bushel to
one and quarter bushels per acre,
according to the strength of the
land; the better the land, the more
seed. Where the land is in pretty
good filth and has been plowed the
past summer and sown to peas for
hay, we disk up the pea stubble and
drill wheat with good success. Top
dress the wheat with manure during
the winter when the land is either
frozen or covered with snow or dry.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-10-10
CORN TOLL BLANKS

The Leader has full supply of
corn toll blanks, to be sold at Acc
per 100. Special prices on 500 and
1000 lots We prepay postage where
the cash accompanies the order.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-10-10
C0UGHED so HE COULDN'T
CIEEp

Bronchial coughs, tickling in the
throat and asthmatic spasms break
ones rest and weaken one so that
the system is rundown and serious
sickness may result. Enos Halbert,
Paoli, Ind, writes: Il had a severe
cold and coughed continually at night;
could hardly sleep; Foley's Honey and
Tar cured my cough" Union Drug
Co.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-10-10
When You Want the
Best, the So1pplyCo

- We are doing everything possible to make
this store a real convenience to Upton county
New goods come in every day, and you can at
all times find in our stock fresh and complete
assortment of Dress Goods, Silks, Underwear
Hosiery, Sweaters, Middies, Shoes and every
thing to wear for the whole family. q We are
the biggest dealers in shoes in Upton county. 81
Ask for proht-sharing coupons when you spend
your cash at the Supply Co.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-10-10
TENNESSEE FARM NEWS ITEMS
Sow Your Wheat Now

Use a grain drill for sowing wheat
.if you can possibly get one; if not,
sow the seed broadcast and cover
lightly with disc harrow Sow ont
to one-half bushels Of wheat to the
acre, October 10th to goth. (Stoner
wheat should be sown at the same
rate as Fuleaster, which it closely
resembles).
In seeding rye for grain, sow one
and one-half to two bushels, Octo-
Der LIST to Both.
Pasturing reduces the yield of
grain except upon rich lands, which
may be lightly grazed to advantage.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-10-10
ALWAYS GOOD CLOTHES AT MODERATE PRICES
BUY STYLE>PLUS SUITS AND OVERCOATS HERE

Back Uncle with dollars patriotism wisely
only the clothes that getting value
fair price Sepu clothes moderately priced carefully made of good
rails stylish appearance and built faithful The best buy
clothes
the clothes will fit and please when they delivered Visit the Sus
Two
@ $50 and & Also line of cheaper suits knee suits
clothes
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1918-10-10
SoME REAL GOOD VALUES lN LADIES' CLOTHES

We are now show
ing the biggest as
sortment Of Ladies
Coats, Suits, Silk
Dresses. Petticoats
and Wash Dresses
ever shown in Cow
ington. Special at
tention is called to
the wide range Of
styles in this splen
did collection Of la
dies goods. No two
alike in the better
coats, dresses and
suits, so if you buy
from us you'll not
get clothes like your
neighbor is wearing.
We guarantee t h e
fit. No charge for
altera tt ons. We
have the latest New
York, Philadelphia
and Chicago styles
at
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Art
Kratina S Group of Sculptures
Includes Likenesses of
Wilson and Roosevelt

Professor Joseph NJ Kratina. who
was a pupil of Rodin, is now exhibiting
a group of sculptures in the foyer of
the Hotel Majestic. A portrait of ex-
President Roosevelt is powerfully ex-
pressed, while that of President Wilson
is more sensitively modelled, showing
the President when he was Governor
Idealized busts Of Edwin Markham,
poet; Alexander Hamilton and Abra-
ham Lincoln also are shown. Perhaps
the most striking sculpture is a bust of
the late Count Leo Tolstoy; strong and
dignifed it stands, larger than life, in
Hovey Allen. who is director Of the ex-
hibitions held in the Hotel Majestic,
also is we'll executed. Other sculptures
include hookrocks, bass-reliefs and
vases. The exhibition will continue
throughout the month.
An exhibition of navy posters in
originals and reproductions and loaned
by the United States Navy Recruiting
bureau, Ltd. may now be seen at the
City Club, 55 West Forty fourth Street
Many of the posters we already know;
others have not yet been published
Three powerful Autographs, very ap-
pcaling in sentiment, are by the well
known English etcher. Frank Brang-
wyn. "Swat the U-Boat," by Lieuten-
ant Henry Reuterdahl, is blaze of
color and filled with movement. An
other attractive poster is Fighting
Men Forward" by Paul Dougherty.
Other artists exhibiting are Herbert
Paus. James Montgomery Flagg, J. c.
Leyendecker and f. II. Blashfield.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17

really, really, if | were not as hungry
as wolf-or worse still. as a poet
would laugh"
In the same letter DR.. Petrovitch
said, II have no money. My salary is
expended in advance. 1t has gone for
a part of our debts
The defendant speaks Of a threat
which he says his wife made, and adds ::
After it you were no longer my wife.
You broke the marriage The holy
lock and beautiful union were de-
stroyed there and then" He suggests
the dcsirability Of divorce, quoting
from "Pagliacci": Laugh, then. Pagli-
acci, though your heart it is breaking. u
lngratitude Unforgiveable
Also, in brief, crisp sentences, the
poet wrote: Il have no money" Bring
an action against me-" 81 must nay
my--our debts" "Do not write me
about trivial things" "Do not write
me at all" "If I ever have any money
shall have it sent to you'' Then
again lapsing into the poetic, DR.. Petro-
witch wrote: "Your superb profile, your
wonderfully fine figure, your rare sense
Of duty toward friends whom you really
love, your matchless instep, your in
nate love of nature and your charming
nonchalance toward wealthy but to you
repugnant admirers are all things
measurable and treasured by your slave
OF once upon time. Bot your mar
vellous ingratitude, your laughter anc
occasional cruelty are unforgiveable.
was true lover. You were not. Yoy
were not capable CT it. 1t was no fault
of your own"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Baptists in Convention

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., May 16.-The
eleventh annual assembly of the North
err Baptist Convention started actual
work at the second day session, which
opened this morning. The most i'm
portant matter taken under considera-
ton was the recommendation of the
special commission that an appropria-
ton of $288,798, with possibly $4,000
additional, be made for the purpose OF
taking charge Of the religious work of
the denomination in the training camps
of the country.
In making its report. the commission
declared the two most important
agencies now at work in the camps
were the chaplains and the Young
Mems Christian Association. The chief
concern of the commission, however
is the needs Of the men while they
are on leave.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Poet Upholds Divorce and
Laughs Tho Heart Is Breaking
Dr. Wosav Petrovtch Serbian Loves Wifes Superb
Profile and Matchless Instep, but Cannot Forgive
Her Marvellous ngratude

Feople who are vulgar and common
place oppose divorce, is one of many
views on matrimony expressed by DR..
"olslav M. Petrovitch, Serbian poet
and head Of the division of Slavonic
languages of the New York Public
Library. His sentiments on divorce
are contained in letter which he
wrote to Mrs. Vera d. Petrovitch, who
IS suing him in the Supreme Court for
a separation. legal divorce is per-
1ectiy lmmatcrial anyway" wrote the
poe. II have known people who have
ialien IN love with each other only af-
ter divorce"
,, MRS. Pctrovitch is native Of North
Dakota. She married the Serbian poet
and author last August Since then
.ney have lived at five different places,
including the Hotel Majestic and the
Hotel st. Andrew.
Wife Charges Jealousy
Their domestic happiness, Mrs
Petrovitch alleged, was ruined by the
unlustifiablc jealousy of her husband
According to his own statements, Dr.
fetrovitch took part in some of the
battles fought by the Serbians against
the Central Powers early in the war
he ls now refugee in this country
and has lost his estates in Serbia
through the war. in which thirty-two
members OF his family have lost thei,
lives. His pen, however, and his po-
etlc soul remain unaffected 30 Tenn
pora, 0 Mores," he wrote to his wife
when she sent to him for money
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Wilson Urges Usual
May 80 Exercises
Proclamation Did Not Mean Day
Should Be Wholly De
voted to PRAYER

WASHINGTON, May 1s.-President
Wilson asked to-day that Memorial
Day be observed as usual, and an
nounced that in proclaiming May 50 a
day of prayer he did not intend to sug-
gest modification of the usual memo
rial exercises held under the auspices
Of patriotic organizations.
The Presidents statement was is
sued in response to inquiries as to
whether the usual exercises held
should be changed or eliminated to
conform to his proclamation
IN some places arrangements were
said to have been made to eliminate
the usual celebration and to devote the
entire day to church services and other
forms of devotion.
request that the President direct
the Secretary OF State to suggest to
the Allied governments that they des-
ignate May 80 as a day for fasting and
prayer for successful termination of
the war and an honorable, lasting peace
was made i'll resolution introduced
to-day by Representative Campbell, OF
Kansas
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Society Largely
Represented at the
Zoo Garden Party
Anti-Aircraft Gun and Ger
man War Relics Among
Objects Displayed

Society was represented extensively
at the garden party given by the mem
bers of the New York Geological So
ciety a. the Zoo yesterday for the
members and guests of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the society. The lawn in
front of the administration building
was filed with persons we'll known in
the social world. The chief attraction
was 3-inch anti-aircraft gun. mounted
OF its truck and in command of First
Gunner's Mate Burton Moore and two
other sailors. It was lent through the
courtesy OF Secretary Daniels and
Rear Admiral Mcdonald. commandant
of the New York Navy Yard.
In the administration building. where
tea was served, was an interesting
array of German war trophies collected
by William Beebe, curator of birds al
the park. There also was a collection
Of French war posters.
The guests were received by a com
mittee composed of Professor and Mrs.
II. Fairfield Osborn, Mrs. Finley J.
Shepard, Mrs. Henry NJ. Tiiford, Mrs.
George Crawford Clark, Mrs. Richard
Trimble and Madison Grant.
Among Hose present were Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stephen H. Ohn, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Sloan, Mrs. II. Forbes Nc
Crecry, Mrs. Finley j. Shepard and her
four adopted children; Mrs. Thomas
Hastings, Mrs. Theodosius Stevens.
Mrs. Walter B. James. Miss Pauline
Robinson, Miss Leonie Burrill, Mr.. and
Mrs. Percy r. Pyne. Magistrate Peter
y. Barlow, Colonel De Witt Falls, Mrs.
Charles II. Marshall. Mrs. w. w. Niles,
Mrs. Moses Taylor Campbell, Mrs.
Charles 7. Proctor, Mrs. karrick Riggs,
Mrs. Edwin H. Wcatherbee, Mrs.
Charles de L. Oelrichs. and her young
daughter; Mrs. Lounsbury Perry, Mrs.
Herbert L. Satterlee. Mr.. and Mrs.
De Forest Grant, Mrs. Henry Meyer
Johnson. Mrs. n. Thayer Robb, Mrs.
Alfred Kessler, Mrs. George Rose. Mrs
Shelton E. Martin. Mrs. William V. S
Thorne, Mrs. Alexander S. Webb, Mrs
]. Magee Ellsworth. Mrs. William G.
Rockefeller, jr.. and Mrs. William 7.
Hornaday.
meeting of the board of managers
of the New Yorl. Geological Society
was held before the garden party, at
which was passed resolution of re-
gret at the death of the late Major W.
Austin Wadswor.h, long a member Of
the board
Professor Henry Fairchild Osborn is
president and Madison Grant chairman
of the society.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Sing Sing to Get a Maid
New Position Will Give War
den Personal Staff of II.

OSSINING, N. Y, May 16.-It was
learned to-day the new appropriation
bill for Sing Sing prison provided for a
maid for Warden William Meyer. The
maid brings the personal staff of the
warden up to twelve He already has
two confidential secretaries. chauffeur
and two coachmen, all civilians, and a
coachman, waiter, cook, launderer, bar
Der and butler from among the pris-
oners.
The state at present furnishes the
warden with an automobile, free light,
heat, rent and furniture, and provides
81 300 year for food and entertaining.
The official salary of the position is
$500 annually
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
N. Y. u. Alumni Launch
Campaign for $25O.OOO

Alumni Of New York University
dined at the Hotel McAlpin last night
and launched campaign by which it
is hoped to raise $450,0O0 to meet the
war activities of the university and
the current operating expenses for the
next two years.
1t was announced that $4,000 had
already been subscribed by the alumni
and that the undergraduates had
raised $65,00O more. The alumni of
the schools of art and applied science
will be asked to raise $150,0O0 more
and those of the professional and tech
meal schools to contribute the re-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Charges Big Coal Theft
Company Accuses Four Driv-
ers of Niverfino Loads

Detectives who have been investi-
eating the complaint Of Fitzpatrick &
Co., Inc, stevedores, who allege they
have been robbed of 100000 worth OF
coal in Sie last few months, arrested
yesterday four truck drivers of the
concern. They were arraigned in the
Jefferson Market Court, charged with
stealing $4,000 worth OF coal each and
were held in $4,000 bail.
1t is charged that these men, who
have been carting coal for the Fitz-
patrick company, have been selling
their loads for 50 ton and pocketing
the proceeds. The four will be given
a further hearing next Monday.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
A Yale Professor VS..
A Liquor Editor

The editor Of a liquor journal
speaking as the champion of "humar
freedom" is cited as typical of the
special interest opposition by Profes
sor Irving Fisher, of the department,
Of political economy at Yale, who de-
clares "there is no more truly demo
cratic movement than the prohibition
movement to-day"
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: My attention has been called
to the fact that in your issue of May
8, I. Nj. Gilmore has attempted to an
| SWer my article on prohibition,
MIR. Gilmore seeks to discredit the
LIE insurance statistics on alcohol. Nc
one is more cautious in handling sta.
tlstlcs than an insurance actuary. And
| the actuaries, such as Arthur Hunter
president of the American Actuarial
Society, and the head of the insurance
investigation on mortality, have con-
Guided that drinkers have a far heavier
mortality than non n-drnkers.
Occupational statistics confirm this
conclusion. Brewers, for instance, have
30 per cent heavier mortality than the
average, both in England and in the
United States.
Mr.. Gilmore would speak as the
champion of democracy and "human
freedom" AS matter Of fact, as Pro
fessor Carver, Of Harvard, has said
there is no more truly democratic
movement than the prohibition move
ment to-day, and the opposition is
chiefly the special-intercst opposition
of such men as Mr.. Gilmore.
Your readers have right to know
that Mr.. Gilmore is the editor of a
journal devoted to the liquor interests
and that the Model License League, of
which he is president. is league OF
those interests.
| If prohibition were really an inter
ference with liberty and felt as bur-
den or restriction, we would not get
prohibition territory both in this coun-
| try and in Canada. Even Quebec has
at last, ioined the other provinces of
| Canada and gone dry.
"Medical experts" are cited who
would have us believe that alcohol is
a safety valve to the soul trying ia
escape from this worlds troubles. 1t is
as much of safety valve as morphine
is to the sleepless. 1t constantly lures
| its victims on toward destruction. Un-
| doubtedly many are driven to drink by
their troubles. but it is hard for me to
imagine any scientific man honestly be-
lieving that, in the end. the drink does
anything more than aggravate those
| troubles. 1t is not true way out, but
a blind alley This is why the real med
| ical profession, as indicated by the
vote last year of the American Medical
Association, condemns alcohol as Oev-
The truth is that anti-alcohol laws
are not sumptuary legislation. but leg
| islation against a habit-forming drug.
| II anti-alcohol laws are an interfer-
ence with personal liberty. so are laws
against morphine or chloral.
| The basic fact is that, despite age
| long tradition favorable to the use OF
alcoholic beverages, modern science
classes it "a narcotic poison which
has no place in the daily economy OF
/ the human body. ,rcr
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Women To Be Gas Workers

GLASSBORO, N. j.. May 16.-Short-
age of men has compelled the New Jer-
sey Gas Company, which has it's central
Offices here, to employ women as in
spectors and collectors. A few are al
ready at work, and Charles w Hoy
uperntendent, said to-day that it was
supplanted men entirely. The company
seventy towns and villages in
South Jersey
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
New Trench Leather Found

ATLANTIC CITY, May 16.-A new
patented leather which will be imper-
vious to trench mud and water has been
found. A special committee appointed
for the purpose of going into the mat
ter reported at to-day's session of the
National Tanners Association that ex-
periments made in the curing of raw
hides had proven more than satisfac-
tory, and the new product will soon be
manufactured into the "Pershing SHOE"
for use of American soldiers abroad.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
8Oth Birthday of Ex-Mayor

PLA1NFIELD, N. j., May 1e.-Former
Mayor and Mrs. l.. V. T. Randolph cell
ebrated double anniversary at their
home on East Front Street to-day, the
fifty-iirst year of their marriage and
the eightieth birthday of Mr.. Randolph.
The event was marked by family re-
union, which was attended by the
couples children and grandchildren.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
Thomas Francis FreeI

Thomas Francis Freel. a retired vet
eran of the New York Fire Department
and former Fire Marshal, died yester-
day at his home, Ga Bay Seventeenth
Street. Bath Beach, from pneumonia
He was fifty-fve years old.
When Mayor Mitchel's father was Fire
Marshal Mr.. Frecl was his assistant
He spent twenty-seven years in the
New York Fire Department and retired
ten years ago as Battalion Chief. He
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17

won during his term of service the
Stephenson Medal for efficiency and
the congressional and Humane Society
medals for bravery When he retired
he was appointed superintendent of the
S. P. c. A. His wife, brother and
sister survive him
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17
3 Presbyterian Assemblies
Choose Their Moderators

COLUMBUS. Ohio. May 16.-The Rev.
DR.. J. Frank Smith. of Dallas, Tex, was
elected moderator of the general as
yembly of the Presbyterian Church OF
America at its 130th annual session
here to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17

four standard arguments against ma.
hibition at all: P-o
lit don't prohibit entirely. It leaks
some. ~ you cannot save the whole
crew OF the ship ashore in nor'easter
oont try to save any of them!
we should try to educate neonlo
70 Withstand temptation rather than N
remove the temptation. That is. ad-
hhtted that vaccination will prevent
smallpox, 1t is better to rear race
naturally immune from smallpox than
u u eNterminate smallpox artifciailv
me millions that will surely die of the
disease while we. are projecting the
superior race don't matter.
".-Some poverty disease and crime
ARISE from sources other than alcoholic
drinking; therefore, there is no use IN
preventing such poverty, disease and
crime as everybody knows come from
alcoholic drinking
g. The states do not need a Federal
law to enable them to become dry:
whereas, if national prohibition is
adopted, all of the states in which a
great majority don't want it will be
powerless to be as wet as they will
That is to say: The states did not need
a Federal law to abolish slavery
whereas, national abolition of ali
slavery in the states in which great
majority wanted slavery prevented
those from owning "niggers" who very
much desired to do so.
ROSWELL A. BENEDICT
New-York tribune., 1918-05-17

DALLAS, Tex. May 16.-The Rev.
Charles II. Walton, of Los Angeles, was
elected moderator of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church at the first days
session of the eighty eighth general as
sembly here TODAY.