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Williams news., 1918-05-24
Aidinu the Labor Supply.

The departments of agriculture and labor through representatives of the various states cooperating with the agricultural colleges and other agen- cies are doing the following things to aid the farm labor supply, according to a recent statement of Secretary Houston: (a) Making survey of the farm-labor situation in each com munity with a view to discovering possible surpluses of labor in order to be ready to assist in furnishing labor wherever it is needed; (b). assisting again in shifting labor from com munity to community and from state to state, as in past years; Co pro- noting fuller cooperation among farmers in the same community; (d) making available, so far as possible, high school boys in rural districts who have had experience in farming and who are not normally regularly or fully employed in farming operations (e) making every effort to see that there is no obstacle in the way of the production of larger supply of farm machinery and it's fuller use as a supplement to hand labor.
Williams news., 1918-05-24
srWho Cares if Bones Ache 2"

Thousands of women in all parts of the country are volunteering to help out on farms that will be short of man power this season. The letter which follows is typical of many which are coming to the United States department of agriculture. De- partment officials do not believe that women will be required in the heavier farming operations, but in the lighter labor on fruit and truck farms and in helping farm women with their tasks there will be work for women hands. 'I want to inquire where can vol unteer my services in the agricultural labor for my country's service. know this work is just as important as fighting, and as was raised in the country and can drive horse and am familiar with all the rounds of farm life, feel I would soon qualify. My husband is now doing his bit aboard a transport.
 Napoleon is quoted as saying, "A man fights on his stomach so would like to work to enable our men to be- come good fighters. The German Bis marck in his world plans once said |: America is a fine fat pig to be stuck later.' So I guess the kaiser thought. I would even enjoy helping raise some American fat pigs to defeat them in their designs.
 Hoping you answer quickly and tell me where I can enlist my services, I remain. Very sincerely,
Williams news., 1918-05-24
Make Farming a Business.

A young man who is now starting to farm needs to know his business. Through farm management demon strations the county agent can show him his labor income, that is, what he had left of his receipts after paying expenses and allowing for interest on the investment and can show him how his labor income compares with those of the most successful farmers In that community. The showing will help him make a study of his farm business and to determine upon changes that should be made to make 1t more profitable
Williams news., 1918-05-24
MARCH TO VICTORY

Courage is a matter of the blood. Without good red blood a man has a weak heart and poor nerves.
 In the spring is the best time to take stock of ones condition. If the blood is thin and watery, face pale or pimply, generally weak, tired and list less, one should take spring tonic. One that will do the spring house cleaning, an old-fashioned herbal rem edy that was used by everybody nearly DO years ago is still safe and sane be- cause it contains no alcohol or narcot- lc. It is made up of Blood root, Gold en Seal root, Oregon Grape root, Queens root, Stone root, Black Cherry bark-extracted with glycerine and made into liquid or tablets. This blood tonic was first put out by pr. Pierce In ready-to-use form and since then has been sold by million bottles as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. If druggists do not keep this in tablet form, send 60 cents for vial to Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.
 Kidney disease carries away large percentage of our people. What is to be done? The answer is easy. Eat less meat, eat coarse, plain food, with plenty of vegetables, drink plenty of water between meals, and take an uric acid solvent after meals for a while, such as Anuric (doub1e strength), obtainable at almost any drug store. It was first discovered by Dr. Pierce. Most every one troubled with uric acid finds that Anuric disSolveS the uric acid as hot water does sugar. You can obtain a trial package by sending ten cents to Doctor Pierce's Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo, N. Y.
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at least sufficient skill to be acceptable

at least sufficient skill to be acceptable to the farmer.
 Ascertain if Needed.
 Before training the volunteers some method should be devised for ascer- taining whether there is a demand for the woman workers in the kind of work they are preparing to undertake. This information could be obtained from the state agricultural college and the state farm help specialist em- ployed by this department. Great care should be exercised not to pre- pare women to go on farms before there is an actual demand for their labor.
 After completing the training, the women should not be sent into the localities where they are to work until some one has preceded them to make arrangements for their housing and to determine the basis of wages, etc. In most instances the living quarters would consist of a camping outfit, as such quarters as they might obtain in the community would be the least de sirable of those in the community. Generally it would be desirable to have one person in the group who would do no farm work, but would act as gen. era1 chaperon and matron and would see to the domestic phases of their living and welfare.
Williams news., 1918-05-24
Essential Points Given for Con- sideration by Department
 of Agriculture.
URGE CAUTION IN PREPARING
Volunteers Should Be Organized in Units and Provision Made for Their Own Living Quarters-Matron
 for Each Unit.
PRELIMINARY TRAINING

If it becomes necessary in case of an acute farm labor stringency to accept woman vol unteers for farming operations other than the lighter ones to which they are accustomed, some sort of preliminary training will be necessary to utilize the large class of woman volunteers from the cities who are unfamiliar with farm work. This article points out some suggestions and precautions that should be talk en into consideration in prepar- ing women for these tasks. The suggestions given here have been obtained in a study of this prob lem by specialists of the United States department of agricul- ture, both in this country and in other countries. Many of the suggestions are based on the eX- periences of England, which has trained and is using 3OO,OOO women on farms.
Williams news., 1918-05-24
Soap Savers.

More use should be made of rain water when procurable and hard wa ter may be softened by boiling it and then leaving 1t exposed to the air out of doors for a while. The effect of these precautions will be good for the skin and thrifty in soap usage.
 By the simple practice of drying soap before using it a large saving will be effected. The bars or tablets may be placed in an airing cupboard for few days, or anywhere in mod crate heat, piled not one bar on an other, but with space between.
Williams news., 1918-05-24

Women should not be trained to go on farms before there is an actual and imperative need for their services. The department of agriculture hopes that it will not be necessary to employ women in heavier lines of farm work than they have been accustomed to doing. If, to save the food harvest, women are needed in the heavier operations and the development and training of unskilled woman workers appears advisable, the following points should be taken into consideration:
 No woman should be accepted who is not at least eighteen years of age. The wisest policy would be first to register those women who are willing to undertake this kind of work, having them indicate their previous training and experience, kind of farm work they desire to take up, and length of time they can devote to it.
 Two Weeks Training.
 Before going on the farm, the women should if possible undertake a course of training extended over two weeks or more under a skilled instruc- tor. This course might be given at an agricultural or a woman's college, agri- cultural schools, or on a farm donated by some patriotic individual as a prac- dce farm. In some instances the course might be under the auspices of the extension division of the agri- cultural college. Care should be taken that no institutions are built up to perform functions that might be per- formed by institutions already in existence.
 This two weeks of training would give opportunity to eliminate those not physically able to endure farm labor, and also those whose mental makeup is such as to make them unavailable. It would also give them sufficient skill so that they would be acceptable to the farmers. Such ex- perience in obtaining woman 1aborers as has been had indicates that the farmer usually is not willing to take woman farm workers into his home, and therefore the women will have to be organized in units and provide for their own living quarters. This fact restricts the types of farm enterprises in which the women will be able to engage to such as are very intensive in character, and highly localized. The types of farm enterprises of this kind would be such crops as apples, peaches, grapes, onions, cabbage, pota- toes, strawberries, etc. The training should be such that when the women went to the farmers they would have
Williams news., 1918-05-24
CHANCE IN THE
 FARMER'S LIFE
Making a Living" Idea Has De- veIoped Into a "Money
 Making Fact"

A few years ago-and not so many at that-most farmers were satisfied 1T they saw ahead of them the oppor- tunity to make a fair living, a reason able competence in their failing years, and an assurance of an existence for their families. They worked hard, and titled their acres with this end in view. Honest struggle, earnest eff fort and a true conception of upright manhood, together with the increas- ing knowledge that upon the fruits of their endeavor rested the structure of the world, whose people had to be fed and maintained. Economy in method, improved conditions of working, have added to the farmers possibilities, and today instead of being a plodder for an existence, which his early training had bred into him, he has become the bulwark of the nation, and, as such, has become elevated to a position where his word and his work are rec ognized as the factors it was always intended they should be. He is now the man of business big business. He has forced an appreciation of his
 
 placed upon 1t. The big men of the country today are the farmers, who, with business acumen and forensic forethought are able to tell you-from their books-what 1t costs to produce bushel of wheat or a pound of wool.
 All of which is intended to prove that farming is a business, as much as banking or selling a suit of clothes. It is an industrial business, with more certain profits than accompany any other line of trade. It is a manufac- turing enterprise, devoid of any of the dangers that the frills of fashions follies and desires force upon ordinary pursuits. Food is something that all must have and the farmer produces it. The cheaper it can be produced the less will be the cost to the consumer. And this is one of the chief thoughts of the farmer. Within the memory of the ten-year-old boy there have been i'm provements in machinery, changes in methods, scientific discoveries of chem icals as adapted to agriculture, all of which has 1essened cost of production and made possible the cultivation of increased acres. In some parts these things have brought about more inten- sifled agriculture, growing heavier crops on less acres. Improved machfn- cry and demand for greater production have led another class in search of larger areas, where their ability may cope with the growing of a greater number of bushels. That is one of the reasons why Western Canada lands have recently come into such demand. These, at from twenty to thirty dol lars an acre, and producing the pro- digious crops that are claimed for them, have attracted thousands of American settlers, while other thou sands have gone out into the lands in the Western states. But, as to the Can ada lands, there is this to say of them, today they are cheap, and if they will yield sufficient in one year to pay the cost of the entire purchase, why should not there be a demand. The country is well settled, and settlement is in- creasing. As evidence of the growth of the three Western Provinces into whose territories the Canadian Govern ment invites settlers, recent reports
Williams news., 1918-05-24

When a man tells a woman that hA understands women he is at onea classified as an easy mark.
Williams news., 1918-05-24
Surely Must.

''He signs himself E Nebuchadnez- gar Wombat. Wonder what the ID. stands forT'
 Dunno. But if he prefers to use the name Nebuchadnezzar,. the 'E.' must stand for something terrible. e."o Louisville Courier-J Journal.
Williams news., 1918-05-24

The man who has no enemies may be considered good, but it's a question what he's good for.
Williams news., 1918-05-24
w. N. U., DENVER, NO. 14-1e1s.
CoIIeqe Men Of to War.

Only six of the 73 Harvard students who won their "H' last year are stfR in the university. The rest are fin the war;" More than fifty Yale pro fessors and instructors are engaged in war service.
Williams news., 1918-05-24

To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regu- late liver, bowels and stomach.-Adv.
Williams news., 1918-05-24

If you wish beautiful, clear white slothes, use Red Cross Bag Blue. At all good grocers. Adv.
Williams news., 1918-05-24

Too many men pray for the things they are too lazy to work for.
Williams news., 1918-05-24

Many a living picture of health is badly framed.
Williams news., 1918-05-24

| An entertaining man says but little,
 but listens impressively.
Williams news., 1918-05-24

Women who laugh all the time il public nag all the time at home.
Williams news., 1918-05-24
NIl Cf1uf

"He's always talking about his fam fly tree"
 'sYes, it's a chestnut"
Williams news., 1918-05-24


 their producing value. It is therefore the purchase of high-class land is still within the reach of those with 1im- fted means.
 A good idea of advancement in a country's progress may be obtained by a knowledge of what has been done in the production of cattle, and when these figures are studied in connection with Western Canada, country whose fame having been heralded as a grain growing country, giving the idea that that was what it was mostly adapted to, it will be realized that there is there a vast storehouse of wealth awaiting those who choose to take ad- vantage of it. In the three provinces in 1912 there were-horses, milch cows, other cattle, sheep and swine, four mill lion head, while in 1917 the number was seven million.
 In 1901 the entire population was 419,512; in 1916 1,698,2
 One marvels at the rapid progress of the United States during the nine teenth century. But America's oppor- tunities for growth at the beginning of that century were nothing compared to the opportunities which are Can ada's at the present time.
 The fact that Canada has as it's next door neighbor a nation of over LOG, ,OOO,- 0OO-the richest nation in the world is bound to have a stimulating effect on its progress. Already one sees signs of it on every hand.
 Canada not only has the largest area of unoccupied, but fertile, land of any country, but this land is already made available by a network of railways. Cost of production of grain is lower than elsewhere, while the prices are on a basis of those of the United States.-Advertiseme
Williams news., 1918-05-24
Next Question.

NeXt QUeStIon. q have just completed my farewell tour." "And did you fare well?''
Williams news., 1918-05-24
.S24O.e45.OOO see3, $50

Total .... .$24O,645 ,OOO $663, ,924, $50
 The total value of field crops for 1917 was $663, ,924 ,55O, produced on less than 59,OO0,OOO acres of land.
 Further evidence of prosperity and progress is found in the Government estimate of the value of farm lands, and increase in value since 1908:
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-17
F ederal Reserve
Captures Opener

The Federal Reserve bank team
started the season of the Bankers
( league yesterday afternoon with an
overwhelming victory over the Ma
tIonal state and City team The score
was IS to s.
Burnett. who was on the mound ror
the Federal boys. only allowed six hits.
but the five errors of his teammates
allowed the score to mount high
Sweeney, who pitched for the National
state and City team, was connected
with for fifteen hits. and these com
bined with the five errors OF his men,
lost the game.
Thompson. OF Federal Reserves, fea-
tured with home run to left field.
Burnett cracked out triple. and Day
and Burton each got a double.
Sweeney struck out ten batters and
Burnett famed twelve.
The batteries were Sweeney and
Wood. for National State and City:
and Burnett and Broaddus, for Fed
eral Reserves.
The American National bank team
viii play Planters National this after
noon at Clarke Springs diamonds
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-17
HOME RUNS SWEETEST
NOTES TO FANS EAR.
Worlds Record for Four Baggers Single Season Held by
Harry Werden in 1895-Ed Williamson, of Cubs Holds
Big League Record-Harry Wright, of Cincinnati Reds,
Smacked Out Seven Homers in One Days Game.

have made two home runs in sss-S
gle game The first man to turn the
trick was Pat Dougherty, who snlash~
ed out his pair in the second game
October z, l903-of the rst modern
world series Dougherty got homer
in the first inning and another In the
sixth. In the 1915 world series Harry
Hooper made two homers in the ANAL
game of that conflict and Benny Kauf.
Joined the select circle by hitting out
pair in the fourth game of the
1917 series.
The ffth--and final--game OF the
1915 world series between the Red
Sox and the Phillies established tho
world series record as regards homer.
in single contest. Four circuit
smashes were made--and they de-.
cided the contest. Harry Hooper fmads
the first one in the third inning, Fred
Luderus belted one over the fence
in the fourth and DUFFY Lewis got his
in the eighth. driving man in ahead
of him. In the ninth, with the score
tied. Hooper got his second homer,
putting the Sox in front ) to 4--and
that was the final score.
Frank Baker produced the two most
famous homers in world series history
during the 1911 Giants Athletics
series. He raped out one against
Rube Marquard and the other off OF
Christy Mathewson twlster. Each
clout clinchcd a game for the Ath-
letics and paved the way for their
ultimate triumph.
Proba bly, the most timely home run
in major league history was banged
out by Larry Doyle. OF the Giants.
on~July II 1914 The Pirates and
Giants had gone along for twenty
innings without being able 10 break
the IL tic that had existed since
the third inning. The umpire ORDER
cd another inning played and by SO
doing the Giants and Pirates estab-
lished the National league record
since broken--for long game In
tho Giants hal! of the twenty-irstf
Bescher got a single. Doyle stepped
up and smashed home run into ths
gathering gloom which scored Rea-
cher and gave the Giants 70 1
victory.
Copyright, 1918. by King Features
Service. Inc
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-17
LOSES OPENING GAME FOR CUBS
RICHMOND COLLEGE
CAPTURES NED. NINE

The Richmond college baseball nine
invited the Medical collegs team out
to Stadium field yesterday afternoon
and then proceeded to defeat them by
the score of IS to 6. The large crowd
of college rooters were big help
to the Westhamptonites.
Skaggs, who graced the mound for
Richmond college, pitched good
game and managed to keep his hits
well scattered. although he was touch
ed fon-twelve hits, and did not let
the NEEDS bunch them in any one
inning. He was relieved by Loving
after the game had been won.
Bruni who pitched for Medical COL
lege, was not effective. and was sue
ceeded by King. Richmond college
only registered one more hit than their
opponents.
The fielding of both sides was very
good, considering the condition of
Stadium field, which has been put into
a bad condition by the hard rains and
snow. Each side made four errors.
Stryker, first baseman FOR Medical
college, led in hitting. knocking out
three safeties. Oliver, Miller, Kuyk
Westerman. Skaggs, and Tyree each
connected for two hits.
Captain Miller knocked out a home
run for Richmond college
Richmond f'nllepe
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-17
FILM THRILLER CAUSES
YOUTH TO ~GET IN GAMES

PetersburE Ind, April Isl imiek-
ing him thriilers came near causing
the death Of one movie devotee here
Denver RoelnE. sixteen, farmers son.
had been 10 a motion picture theater.
He WAS stirred by the hairbreadth es-
capes of the hero and on the way
home opportunity offered for a race
with the fast train. He didn't make
II One horse of his team was killed,
the other badly hurt, the wagon de-
moltshed and RohinE was injured
The boy recently dropped from q beam
OF the railroad bridge over the Pato-
ka river ON to the top of a speeding
train. And he's not the lease bit dis
couraged.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-17

81 Louis, no. Aprf1 1.-THE Card
inAig pounded out nine hits of
Grover Cleveland Alexander this ar
ternoon and won the first game by
the score OF 70 2. Meadows held
the Cubs scoreIess until tho ninth
inning.
Smith led In hitting. crack ing out
three safettes. Cruise. Paulette. ard
Hni1eche~ each got two bits.
Manager Hendricks, who prea red
Tor the first time as n major league
manager, was given & big owe sion.
The game was preceded ny = parade
and a concert nv the Great Lakes
naval training station band. The
score:
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-17
Reds Shutout Pirates.

Cincinnati, April 16.-The Pirates
were shut out here today by the Gin
Cinnati Reds by the score OF to o.
Schneider's superb pitching did the
work. Cooper also pitched well, al
lowing only three hits. He was re-
heyed by Harmon when he STUN bled
cd first base on 3 wild peg. went to
and wrenched his ankle.
Cincinnati scored the two runs in
the fourth inning when Groh reach
ed rst base on wild peg, went to
second on a sacrifice and scored on
Rousch's single Rousch advanced
and crossed on ChaSe's out. The score:
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-17
NEW IATS BEGIN
. SEASON ON MAY 8
Adopt Schedule of f40 Games and
Plan to End Play ON Sep
teanter Is.

New YORK, April 1.-THE New In
ternationa1 league at its meeting yee-
terday adopted a schedule of $40
games, the season to open May 8, and
close September Is. The opening
games will be:
Toronto at Binghamton.
Buffalo at Baltimore.
Rochester at Jersey City.
Syracuse at Newark.
May i7-Binghamton at Toronto.
Baltimore at Buffalo.
Jersey City at Rochester.
Newark at Syracuse.
Dave DrlscoIl, who controls the
franchise of the Jersey City clup an
nounced tonight that ne is negotiat-
ing with Johnny Overs to become
player manager of the Shelters. Eyers
is on his way from Troy, N Y, to
discuss the proposition with Driscoll
tomorrow.
The management OF the PhfiIies de-
ciared EVers to be a free agent last
winter, and in February he was signed
up as coach and utility man by the
Red Sox 1t is underst God, however
That the Boston club will not put any
obstacle in the way OF hfs acceptance
OF the Jersey City offer.
After accepting the schedule the
meeting which has been in session FOR
the past three days was adjon~n ed
subject to the call Of the president.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-17
JOHN MARSHALL TO
PLAY BENEDICTTNE

John Marshall win start It's City
Prep league season Friday afternoon
when they meet Benedictine at Byrd
park Although the Marshallites have
been hampered greatly by the lack of
a coach. Captain Stuart has developed
a fast and strong nine.
John Marshall was defeated by Pc
tersburg High school Monday after
noon by the score of to O,