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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-12-06
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL, s. 1887
NOW BEFORE CONGRESS.
Federal Assistance to Education in
the Several States.

with the publication of the follow
ing, were prepared by the National
Education Association OF the United
States to show how the provisions of
the bill apply to Maryland. The
matter is of enough Importance toI
planatory statements for each State,
and is given place in our columns
with the hope that it will receive the
careful reading it merits. /
Introduction.
On October 10, 1918, Senator
Hoke Smith of Georgia introduced
into the United States Senate the
most comprehensive and important
educational measure that has ever
been put before Congress- The Bill
provides for annual appropriation of
$100, 100000, provided that sums in
equal amount be appropriated by
the several states, for the purpose
of aiding the states to carry on more
successfully certain types of edu-
cation which most vitality concern
our national welfare. The main pro-
visions of the Bill Is 49S7) are. az
follows:
1. For the removal of iiliteracy,
S7,500.000 annually.
2. For the America 7aiion. of
foreigners, $7,5O0,O00 annually.
8. For the equalization of edu-
cational opportunities within the
several states, particularly in rural
and village schools, $4,000, 600
annually.
4. To cooperate with the states in
the promotion of physical and health
education and recreation, $2O.-
100000 annually.
5. To extend and improve the
facilities for the preparation of
teachers for public schools, and par
ticularly the rural schools, $15,-l
100000 annually.
6. The creation of an Executive
Department know as the Department
OF Education, with Secretary in the
Presidents Cabinet. This Depart
ment is to administer the education
al work of the government which is
assigned to it.
The reasons supporting the bill,
the facts which lie back of it, and
the beneficial results that would fol-
low its adoption are not written into
the Bill itself. This series of ex-
planatory articles is written for
those who want the facts that sup
port the Bill. and for those who are
so keenly interested in education as
related to social welfare as to desire
the facts that led up to the prepar-
alton and Introduction OF this Bill.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-11
THE GERMAN MIND
(By Harvey O'Higgins.)

1t is not bottomless mystery, this
outrageous record of the Germans at
war. 1t is clearly consistent ex-
preston of the servile mind. To un-
derstand it, you have only to under
stand the peaceful virtues of the
people whom Bismarck called "a
nation of house servants"
They have long been governed by
the most arrogant of all the govern.
ing classes of Europe-the Prussian
militarists. They have submitted
with a touching faith in their oppres
sive protectors. Timid, sentimental
poetic, and comfort-loving, plundered
for centuries by their maraudine
neighbors, they have been glad tt
league together in the German En-
pire with no matter what loss of per
sonal liberty, under the domination o
their tyrannous war lords. The,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-11
Com. RcRae RefuteS
Statements
Continued from page ~

present winter has been unusually
p.otracted and severe, and we have
had our share.
Mr.. Wayne did not say anything
about our summer temperature which
many northern and western people
presume is insufferably hot, but al
low me to say that with salt water
or each side of our State with winds
coming constantly from the seas to-
temper the air in all seasons, it rare
| ly ever reaches 100 degrees in the
State and heat prostrations of men
and animals are unknown. Indeed,
Florida in time will be as much a
simmer resort as it is a winter one.
when the people of the United States
come to understand the exact condi-
tons. | have been told by many
northern people who have become
residents, that they prefer the sum-
mef to the winter, the former never
being extreme, but very uniform,
colo is severe in the States along the
Canadian boundary.
incidentally allow me to saw that
Florida, the most southerly of Amer
iican States, is singularly free from
malaria, of local origin, and that
mosquitoes and flies are as few about
the towns and cities as anywhere in
the north where ordinary sanitary
precautions are used. And no one
needs to be scared about snakes and
alllgators, as visitors come year al.
ter year and never see either. except
al curio stores.
Very truly yours,
W. A. McRAE,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-11
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER

l hereby beg to announce my
candidacy for the Office Of County
Commissioner from District No. 5,
Polk county. The citizens of this dis
trict and the county generally know
me, and if my past record entities me
to their confidence in my ability and
desire to serve them in capable and
conscientious manner | will be CRATE.
full for their support at the ensuing
primary.
Respectfully,
REID ROBSON,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-11
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER

I hereby announce my candidacy
for the Office of County Commissioner
from District Number 5, Polk county,
subject to the Democratic primary.
The citizens and voters of this dis
trict and of the county at large know
me and my record of public service,
aid | will appreciate the support of
any and all persons and promise to
use my best efforts to look after the
interests of my district and the coun-
ty at large, If elected.
Respectfully yours,
E. G. FLANAGAN.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-11
have seen in that tyranny their only
safety. 1t defended them superbly in
the procured wars of the last century.

nave seen in that tyranny their only
safety. 1t defended them superbly in
the procured wars of the last century,
frs from their old rivals the Aus
trians, and then from their old con-
querors, the French They believe
that is has defended them as effici-
emily in the present war. By in
spired news and forged dispatches,
they have been convinced that they
were invaded before this war was de-
clared; and they still believe it. They
believe that they are fighting in self
defense under the leadership of an au-
tocracy that is their only self-protec-
ton.
And they are fighting as the timid
fight. The man who has been gov
erned by arrogance and has bowed
down to fear is man who under
stands no instrument but cruelty to
compel respect. He will invariably
resort to frightfulness as his weapon
in war. He will know no compassion
He will have no dignity-not even
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-11
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER

Having been asked by numerous
friends to offer as a candidate for
County Commissioner from this dis
trict (No. 81, | hereby announce my
candidacy and will appreciate the
support and votes of the electors,
promising to use my best effortst to
look after their interests if eulected
Very respectfully,
R. l.. MAYES.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-11
Observation-Disclosures
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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FOR REPRESENTATIVE

To the Democratic Voters of POLK
County, Florida:
| hereby announce my candidacy
to succeed myself as representative
in the State Legislature Of Florida,
subject to the action of the Democrat
ic Primary. If elected l will serve
the people to the best of my ability.
| solicit your support.
Respectfully,
A. J. MORGAN.
Candidate in Group One.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-11

st. Johns County Board of Trade
is the name of the new commercial
organization recently organized at st.
Augustine. This new body succeeds
the old Chamber of Commerce organ
ization.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-11

the dignity of pity. he Will he at
once incredibly cruel and incredibly
petty, He will prosecute noncombat.
ants, outrage women, mutilate chill.
dren, lombard hospitals, kill the
wounded, torment prisoners. cut down
1rult trees, and defile with animal
filth what he has not time to DESTROY
like discharged servant taking his
revenge on the kitchen. 1t is in.
eVltaple. 1t is in the nature of the
servile mind to do these things and TO
lall TO see why they should not be
done.
! His officers will order them done,
because it has been by brutality that
his officers have ruled him, and thew
Will hope by brutality to rule the
world And he will do what he is
ordered, because he knows the effica.
cy OF fear in his own case, and he
will hope by frightfulness to strike
fear into his enemy.
His instinct of subserviencv in
fact makes him a perfect military in
strument. He obeys orders like de
voted hound. He has the courage ri
Questioning obedience. He must be
sent to the attack in mass formations
but he will 60 blindly, linking arms
. with his fellows, singing solemnly, II
state of exalted meekness. Wher
ne is behind the lines, in safety. he
will encourage himself with HYMNS n
nate. Hatred" said the philoso.
pher "is the revenge of the weak ,
Caught in his dugout, he will or,
"Kamerad Kamerad," to his captors
and when he is taken prisoner ha will
be gentle, biddable, hard working
and happy.
For the same reasons he makes 5
perfect spy. He will be humble in
gratlatlng, as treacherous as an in
undated child, and servilely free O
any sense of the obligations of hos
pitality, His ambassador in a neu
tral country will be a faithful serv
ant, disguised as gentleman, gath
erlng servants gossip in a plot t.
betray his host, His very arroganc,
is the arrogance of the servant VIII,
is proud of his master. He will fol
you, I'VE Germans fear only God
because his very religion is religio,
OF fear If he were really as devilisl
as he pretends he would say. "W,
Germans love only God" Elm fest,
! Burg list unser Colt" All of Ger
many's plundered past is in that line
Who but an intimidated people Iopo
ing for Chinese wall. would sing
Our God is strong fortress? T
is this lack of real courage tina
makes him continually boast of hi,
lack of fear. He bullies, because h,
mas always been bullied. He doe,
not understand why the world will
not cringe. and he fails to understand
1t because he is himself cringing +,
the autocrats whom he trusts to do
fend him from the world.
1t is the problem of this war frs,
to break the military autocracv II
Germany. and then to set free thu
minds of the people, Any attenmnt
to punish them for their crue,tie.
will drive them, hereafter with
new timidity, into the arms Of some
new depositism. They must he re
assured of their safety in the world
fhey must be persuaded to dare tbe
responsibilities of freedom. These
people, who have never had a revolu
ton in the whole course of their his
tory, must be first liberated and for
given, and then protected in tbe;,
, freedom and encouraged to feel self.
respect
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-11
We OWN THE LAND"

consider bona de bargain We will sav DIVE s aS =. "I oo
from ve any Of these properties and will welcome further %
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-11

commissioner of Agriculture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
FITS HAVE BUMPER CROP OF CANNED EATS THIS YEAR
National Swine Show

At a recent meeting of the show committee of the National Swine Crow CTS association, Cedar Rapids. Iowa, was chosen as the location for the national swine show of 1918 and the two following years. The dates for the 1918 show were fixed as Septesl- Der 30 to October 5.
 The shows for the past two years have been held at Omaha, Neb. The selection of the new location was the result of the desire of the committee to move the show eastward to a more centrally located point.
 The 1916 and 1917 shows were of considerable benefit to swine produc ing interests. Many men travelled for long distances to learn the lessons that these shows had to teach, and the shows commanded the attention of the governme The 1918 event will not be mere show of hogs and gath ering of breeders, but it will also be an exposition of the interests closely al- lied with tn swine business, There will be a show of corn, a ham and bacon show, a complete array of me- chanical devices that pertain to the production of hogs meat cutting and cooking demonstrations, and other features that go to make up an ex- position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
Wheat Crop Good

It is estimated that the wheat yield of twen 4c,00o and 5o.O0O gushels. While the acreage has been larger than for maay previous years. the crop is extra good as a whole. The harvest is nearly com plete and the grain threshed Many years ago this was considered one of the best wheat sections of the state, and continued so until given over to the pro- duction of cotton The land, in fact, is adapted to all kinds of grain. How ever, the oat crop this year is not only poor, but the acreage short. The short average is attributed to the high price of seed.
 Thus far, both corn and cotton are looking good and weather has been la vorable for working these crops, ann they are mainly clean. New cultivating machinery has been introduced and in this manner the loss of labor has been somewhat overcome
 The past year was the third visit of the devastating boil weevil and the farm CTS are hopeful that they will not do the usual damage, yet 1t Is feared many may overlook picking and destroying the boil weevil and thus give them better opportunity for spreading their destruc- ton. The cotton crop last year was neg ligible and while the acreage this year is somewhat larger, attention has been ai- rected in the main to grain and other food crops as well as to hog and cattle raising. The people fully realize what they are up against and are not loiterih5 on the job
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
Farmers Summer School

The sixteenth annual farmers sum- mer school will be held at Auburn, July 27 to August }.
 The great world war continues and the supply of foods for man and ami mals grows less. Hence, the emergency call for more food crops for man and meat producing animals. The home battle cry is Food Will Win the War; The farmers must win the war. They must plant, fcrtilize. cultivate, gather, house, ship in 1918, the largest food crop on record. For man, grow corn, wheat, potatoes. beans, peas. peanuts, vegetables and fruits. For animals grow pastures, hay. silage, forage crops. oats, corn. Then buy, breed and feed cattle. horses, mules, sheep. hogs and poultry to eat all the feeds we can produce. Fill to overflowing the old and the new smoke houses, corn cribs, granaries and store houses The Auburn Farmers Summer school is the great Alabama clearing house for agriculture and live stock inf"r- nation. for old and new, tried and true. methods, along all lines of farm ing. Come to Auburn and learn how to feed more men on the firing line and the hungry allies. No fees-ho cost. Board will be reasonable. Water and watermelons free. List, of fea- lures and prizes will follow soon.
 C. A. CARY, Director Farmers Summer School,
 Auburn. Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
Conscience and Corn

The great war is testing the merit Of things new and old. New ships, new guns, new battle planes, new contriv ances and inventions, are expected to help win the war. But there are some old things which may also be expected to help win the war.
 Conscience is one of these old-fash- toned things-the faculty of seeing and knowing things together. The free exer- else of this faculty will insure success of the BeW enterprise of war and at the same time insure the permanency of ev- erything old that is worth abiding Hence, the ruthlessness and hardness of war will be transient phases of na- tional life that is created and equipped for the more precious things of peace for conscience is just the knowing that every moment of any present has both a past and future. The good, as well as the evil, that men do, lives after them. Conscience will see to 1t that less of the evil and more of the good shall live and thrive.
 Corn bread is another old-fashioned thing. It was once the symbol of pow erty, rural Restitution. The necessity of eating corn bread was deemed either a punishment for laziness and thriftless- ness or reproving visitation of Provi- derce.
 The times and the sense of values have changed. The plebian corn bread of peace and rural meagreness is now the bread of victory and triumph.
 But-and here is the test-wll the peo- pie of our country eat the bread of old time rural meagerness in joy and glad ness? They must either eat corn bread now as victory bread or eat it later as the bread of slavery
 A good conscience will make corn bread both wholesome and respectable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
EAT HOMINY AND SAVE WHEAT

bread, or it may be cooked on a griddle and served as griddle cakes. Hominy Date Pudding-You can use homny grits to make delicious and nutritious pudding; 1 cup hominy grits' } cups milk (smil or whole), teapsoon salt A cup corn syrup or A cup sugar, ! cup chopped seeded dates, teaspoon vanilla.
 Add the salt and hominy grits to the
 milk and cook in double boiler one hour. Add sweetening, dates and vanilla and mix well Partially cool before serv- 1 ing
 Fruit Scauop-1Is cups cooked hominy
 grits cup stewed apricots, F cup april cot juice, 1 tablespoon sugar. E table spoon butter
 Into a greased baking dish place first
 a layer of the hominy grits which have
 been mixed with the fruit juice, then
 layer of the stewed fruit. Repeat until
 dish is nearly full. Dot over with the
 butter and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of sugar mixed with cinnamon. Bake until brown. Serve hot or cold with sauce | or top milk.
 | Dried or canned fruit can be used Corn | syrup can be used to sweeten the fruit, COARSE HOMINY OR SAMP
 This kind of hominy requires much longer cooking than the frts. If you have a fireless cooker, use it to cook your hominy, or if you use a coal range, cook it in double boiler on the back ! of the stove. It Is wise to cook a large quantity at once, as it keeps well if kept ,, in a cool place.
 l To cook in a freless cooker: Soak cup coarse hominy in ? cups water for six hours or overnight. Add cups boiling
 water and teaspoons salt to the soaked
 hominy and boil over the fire for 40
 minutes. Put in the cooker and let 1t
 remain there for to F hours. TO cook it soft it may be necessary to re-
 heat the homny and put it back in the cooker the second time. l If cooked in double boiler more l water may be needed, or cup Of milk stirred in about 15 minutes before re
 moving from the fire. | Boiled hominy may be used in great many ways
 cereal.
 Serve it plain as a vegetable in place
 of potatoes or rice, or brown it in d
 little fat.
 Either the pearl or the lye hominy
 cooked until soft may be used for the
 next two recipes, which will serve as
 the main dish of a meal. Hominy Turnover-t pint cooked pearl
 hominy 1 cup milk. 1 teaspoon salt, 7
 well-beaten eggs.
 Mix all together Turn this into .
 frying pan in which tablespoon of | fat has been melted. stir until not throughout. Let it cook until golden brown on the bottom. then fold like
 an omelet and serve on hot platter Scaloped Hominy-Arrange alternate layers of boiled coarse hominy and minced meat or fish or grated cheese
 Pour over all a cup of white sauce and
 bake for 30 minutes. Hominy and Bean Cakes-1 cup boiled l coarse homny. 1 cup cooked red kidney
 beans, 1s teaspoon cayenne pepper, tea 1 spoon salt, 4s cup milk l tablespoon 1at'
 b tablespoon corn starch. Make white sauce from the last five ingredients by melting fat, blending with corn starch salt and pepre, adding the milk and cooking until tihckened Grind | the hominy and beans through food | chopper mix with the white sauce form | into cakes and brown in little fat. Such cakes can take the place of meat | Use more hominy.
 It is a real American food.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
GARDEN SEED SHORTAGE

Bulletins on what, how and when to plant fall gardens can be had from the department of horticulture, Auburn, Ala, or from the United States department of agriculture. Washington, D. C.
 Tn the past the major part of our garden seeds were imported from Euro pean countries. Since this is impossi- ble now, saving of garden seeds should perhaps receive more consideration this year than ever before. It is not neces- sary to become alarmed over seed scar city because some seed farms are devel- oping more rapidly since we cannot have imported seed to supply our market. However, magazines are advising large truckers and vegetable growers to pur- chase their seed this fall in order that they may be assured of sufficient sup ply for next year. Most garden seeds are already high when purchased in small pa ckages, as they usually are.
 For example: Cantaloupe and mush- melon seeds are selling at 15c per ounce package, which. when figured per pound is S2 40, or per bushel s62.40. If each fam ily in Alabama were to buy one ounce package of cantaloupe or mushmelon seed at present prices, it would cost them about $GS,21505. Sweet corn, peas, beans. etc, when figured in small packages are selling at from $15 to S35 and up per buShel oCpposlHS edNh Att."AiS I'll @N'e bama bought one small package of each of the following vegetable seeds: Musk melon, sweet corn, beans, peas and cu- cunnbers The total cost would be $34l,- 075.25
 It is a fairly easy matter to save garden seeds and requires little extra time, but the time to begin is now, not after your best vegetables have been eaten or canned. If you are in doubt as to the best methods to use in saving seed from any particular vegetable, literature may be had from the department of agricul- ture Washington, D. C.. or from the de- partment of horticulture, A. F. I. This literature is free on request. Why not use little of your spare time and practical experience in growing fall gar dens and saving your own seeds?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-13
Advice on Feed Buying

Feed Inspection for 1s17," a Wis letin, discusses the present problems in feed buying and lists analyses of various products being offered on the market. In opening, it deals out concentrated portion of advice which has the additional quality of a good feeding ration of being readily assimi- lated.
 The problem facing the dairy farmer buying feed is not, so it advises, where or how can 1 buy a ton of feed at least cost" but rather, how can I provide for the growth, production, and maintenance of my stock at least cost"
 On the proposition of buying low grade feeds the authors of the bulletin tersely remark:
 "A pound of good feed is worth ton of worthless feed, and it is more economical to pay $50 ton for some feeds than s20 for others Only few days before this was written, the in- spection service received a letter from a feed dealer asking about the merits of a certain feed sold under an attrac- tive name. The dealer said there was a heavy sale on the feed because it was cheap. A look at the guaranteed anal ysis showed that the dealer was right as to cause unless there was a big shortage in roughage in that vicinity. The guarantee and also the analysis showed that the feed was of low grade Only as a lightener for heavy feeds was it's use justified. Roughage is roughase. It makes no difference, so far as results are concerned. wheth- CT it comes out of a bag labeled with fancy name, or whether it is taken from the straw pile The farmer may fool himself, but he cannot fool his stock. Of course, all roughage has not the same value, but no roughage is successful substitute for concen. trate"