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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-11
GOVERNOR BECKETT NAMED
FOR UNIVERSITY PRESIDENCY
'uccensor to Dr. E. X. Graham, of
North Carolina, VIII Be" Ap-
polnted Next June.

Especial to The TimeS-DiSpatch.1
RALEIGH. ~. c., November To-
Suggestions as 10 the permanent sue
cessor TO DR.. Il. *. Graham as prcsi-
dent of the University OF North Caro-
lima are multiplying us discussion.
spreads, and. since the name OF r. -.
w. Connor got into public print soIne
days ago as North Carol.nlan pecu-
liarly qualified TO assume the duties
81 The presidency. others are being men
TONED In addition TO Dean Stacy and
ir ileSSpr Raper. of the university fac
ulty. They include Governor Beckett,
Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes
and u number of prominent educators
outside the State. -F s.
There will I've no election Of per
mancnt president by the board OF
trustees until the June meeting. In
the meantime. the duties OF the presi-
dency are divided among members Of
the present faculty. headed by Dean
Stacy.
Tie executive committee Of. the
North Carolina Teachers Assembly has
adopted resolutions paying tribute to
DR.. Graham. 1t declares that in the
death OF DR.. Graham the State lost one
or It's foremost citizens and most
trusted and inspiring leaders the
teachers assembly loses one Of Its most
gifted members and uncompromisine
champions OF public education: The
resolutions express gratitude for the
inspiring example OF his life and splen-
did service to the State and the ma
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Alexander. Albert B.: Seymour. No.
H Hsa.li Louis F.: Pl,;sbuEgh. Pa.
kotiSowsk!. Piotr: Buffalo. y. Y.
LIStGh: Robert j.; Phiistslph!a. Pa.
I.ow-ey. John T.: Waco. Texas
ltuy.
Martenson. Emil: Toledo. Ohio.
Miller. Roy e.: Moline. Ill.
S Sh0rt Seniamtn r; Trenton. Texas.
NWsrneerssh; Cyriei: Detroit. Mich.
walter. Willie L.: Thomas. Ga.
Weee. Arnold w. p: Rustisford wis.
,M,hisenltnnt, Noah H.. Lindsey Okla.
" Wo3,ii ,e Sutton o.: Psa,svile. , Ala
Woodcock. Floyd l.: Buckvillc. Y. 7.
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METHODIST CONFERENCE
Twcnty-FIfth Annual Scs..ou for Nre.t-
ern North C;:ro'inn VIII he
Held In Chnvlotfc.
Especial to The Times. Dispatch.l

[Speciai 70 The Times. DispatchI
CHA fLUTrE. y. c.. November 10
AsiHe from the routine business which
marks every session of every annual
conference OF the Methodist Episcopal
church, South. several features OF
special interest will claim the atten-
t!on OF the twenty-ninth annual ses-
Conference. which will convene ia
Tryon Street Church. Charlotte, Mo-
yember 20.
that this Will be the second animal
Se0nference over which Bishop u. v.
w. Darlington: OF West Virginia will
preside oficially: Bishop Darling ton
was elected to the episcopacv at the
general conference held at Atlanta in
nay OF This year. and since then he
mas presided over number OF district
conferences In the episcopal district to
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-11
CHARLES CHAPLIN MARRIED
Wedding of Film stnr to Bride of
Seventeen Took Place Last
Month.
LOS ANGELES. CAL. Nov,

LOS AEG ELES. CAL. November 10.
Charles Chaplin. the hlm star was
married here on October %. II was re-.
Nealed last night TO Miss Mildred Har-
ris. young screen actr.as. The cere-
grooms request.
The announcement OF the wedding
vas made BY Marriage License Clerk
tho brides mother. Mrs. a. I. Harris,
OF 639 South Serano Street.
The ceremony. which occurred at the
home OF Mr.. Spart:
october %. was performed by Rev.
James /. Meyers. and one of the Wit
nesses was Thomas harrington Chan
I'm save his age as twenty-nine and
Miss Harris admitted to seventeen.
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ton and ssecalls with renewed appre-
citation his splendid Ideal for the North
Carolina Teachers Assembly whom he
declared: The teachers assembly Shou,d
be the most Intellectual gathering that
presents Itself 10 the consideration OF
ne state: the most practically pa Trio &c
the most keenly stirred by educational
problems and should be profoundly
united and inspired by a sense OF ser
Sice 20 the Immediate needs OF he
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War TrophIe. n. pr,.e..

PARIS. November 10-Premier Glenn
the Minister or Finance. ten German
cannon and fifty trench mortars, now
on exhibition in the Place de la Con-
cord, and six German airplanes as
prizes for the arrcr d 'sSrnnen,s OF
France. Algeria. the colonies and pro-
tectorates which raise the largest sub
scriptions FOR he new loan In proper
ton to population.
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-05
81 Bit of Erance
: and Trench F.:
BY Mrs. Byrd Trego.

The Stars and tripes' is a rea
live newspaper published by oul
boys in France, printed in Paris. All
the writing is the work of soldiers
and much to their credit. There
isn't doleful dirge or regret OF
complaint the pages thru. Here
with is an editorial on the wonderful
work accomplished by the boys in
the St. Mihiel salient.
THE reduction of the st. Mihiel
salient is great feat of American
arms. We can frankly say so be-
cause our allies have frankly said
so before us.
But, more than that, it is signifi-
cant because it is the answer to
wearying months of preparation, of
training, of endless toiling in base
ports and thruOut the reaches of the
s. O. S., of interminable weeks in
quiet sectors, of sharp clashes with
foe swollen with success, not will
ing to be checked, but checked Just
the same-of all that goes to make a
great army ready for the greatest
job it's country has ever undertaken.
1T is not a case of "all over but
the shouting" There will be bitter
days before the time for shouting
comes. But st. Mihiel is a flying
start. 1t is proof that America is in
the war, heart and soul-and muscle.
1t is Americas finest answer-ahead
OF tlme-to Austria's German in
spired bid for peace"
Now, st. Mihiel is pronounced as
tho it was spelled this way: San-mee-
vel. San Meeyel is only about thirty
three miles from Nahnsee Nancy
of our last lesson and both towns are
about an equal distance from the
German fortress town of Metz, just a
little farther west is all.
San Meeyel had population of
1926 souls in 1891, but seems to
have lost out some way for the 1901
census only found COTS. San Nee
vel had wonderful Benedictine
Abbey that was founded in the year
7O9 and its people were mostly en-
ployed in making lace and embroid-
cry until four years ago when the
Huns seized the town and all it con-
tanned.
Our boys have not been. called
upon to do duty in the extremes of
climate or altitude. The entire sector
about Nahnsee and San Meeyel are
medium high, ranging from perhaps
500 to 400 feet above sea level.
We are glad they have been above
those marsh beds, tho sorry others
have been compelled to work and
live in them.
There doesn't seem much of in
terest about San Meeyel other than
the fact the Huns were so much at
home there with their under
ground living quarters, that con-
tanned pianos, electric lights, billiard
rooms and every thing for the
pleasure of officers, who kept pri-
vate servants at their beck and call.
So firmly grounded were they with
their four year lease which they
seemed anxious to extend indefinitely
that it took the wonderful grit and
determination of the staunch Ameri-
can boys to GUST them.
There is larger city up near the
Belgian border, only ten miles away
perhaps. We read of it and see it
this way, Valenciennes, but we
should call it this way: Va-long-se-
enn.
Valongseenn il a fortified ci+v +oo
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-05

Future Beet Crop Requires Less Seed, Less Thin
ming, Less Hand Labor to Harvest, and
Will Pay Better Returns
IMPROVEMENTS AND INVENTIONS

thin planting, thin growing and ma.
chine pulling and topping. AS this
practice becomes more universally
adopted the possible acreage per
family can be increased. AS the
good roads are extended, and the
beet dumps and pulp dumps for re-
turned pulp are brought into play
with easy service for all communit-
les, the dairy and livestock interests
will be greatly advanced. The quick
removal of beet crop from tract
by machinery makes it more prac-
ticable to silo the leaves promptly
before they are dried and bleached,
and that add as much income from
the beet tract as has usually been OBJ
tanned from the beets themselves
in the earlier days of the industry.
The beet business is going to ad-
vance with great strides in the near
future. In it's earlier experience
here, it was condemned as a. poor
mans crop, crop suitable only for
the man with a small purse and a
large family of children who could
be worked like poems Off paltry pay,
SO many of the larger farmers, men
fthe most means and energy did
not engage in raising beets, altho
they needed the pulp and silo. Now
that we are entering the era of
changed conditions, this class Of men
will take hold with their larger
farms and larger capital, combine
beets with livestock and advance
agricultural interests as Their never
advanced before.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-05
"THOUGHTS."

The following poem was written
by little girl, who is a subscriber
to the Idaho Republican. No name
was given.
Breahs there a man with soul so
dead,
Who never to hun has said,
Get out and get under, or We'll push
you thru, ...
You can not live with our RED,
White and Blue.
If such there be, 60 ring the bell,
And send him with "Old Bill to
He'll"
Each good American should truly
say,
We can win this war in a year
and day
Each one in earnest, not in jest.
Buy more bonds, and do his best.
And when all is done,
This great war won,
The Huns will be mute, sober and
sad i.
And old Kaiser Bill will be gone
with the bad.
And when Gabriel blows his trumpet
loud,
There'll be no Huns in that large
crowd.
With peace and happiness, hearts
light as feather,
Huns all banished forever, and
ever.
And Kaiser Bill shall 60 down to
the vile dust from which he
sprung, un-wept, un-honored, and
branded a son of a gun.
(Signed) A Subscriber.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-05
WHAT OF FARMER IN
AFTER-WAR PERIOD?
Will Southern Interests Be Per.
mitted to Control Recon-
StruCti0n2

The increasing prospect Of peace
brings to the foreground the problems
of the farmer in the after-war period.
1t Is an economic axiom that the pros
perity of the American farmer de-
ponds largely upon the wages and
therefore the food purchasing capacity
OF American labor. Anything which
would cause general industrial I'M
rest and idleness would strike heavily
at the market of the American farmer.
When war orders are stopped and
armies are demobilized, unless we pre-
pare in advance for the transition to
the peace period, there Is sure to be a
vast amount Of unemployment, and 1t
will inevitably reduce not only the
number Of domestic purchasers of food
products, but will tremendously re-
duce the general level of prices of
food products.
AS one illustration. A high official
in one Of the munition making plants
in the United States is authority for
the statement the moment peace is de-
clared he will have to discharge $4,000
employees pending the reorganization
of the company's plant to peace pro-
timated that the declaration Of peace
will certainly throw 100000 laborers
out of work unless provision Is made
in advance by farseeing statesmen to
take up this slack. The importance of
having this preparation for peace we'll
in hand before peace arrives Is very
apparent.
IS The Republicans in Congress first
saw the necessity of preparing for
peace, and Senator Weeks, Repub-
lican, of Massachusetts, introduced
bill providing for bipartisan commits
sion to begin work Immediately upon
the after-war problems. One section
Of this bill is devoted wholly to the
problems the farmer will meet after
the war.
The Northern farmer has received
little or no consideration from this
Democratic Congress. Everything has
been legislated with a view of taking
care of the Southern planter and
Southern agricultural interests. II the
next Congress is controlled by the
Southern cotton interests the same IA
voritism will undoubtedly be shown in
handling reconstruction problems. The
hope of the Northern farmer having
his interests looked after depends up
on the election of a Republican Con-
gress free from Southern domination.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-05
CLOTHING PAYS TAX
TO king COTTON"
Refusal Of Democrats to Fix
Price on Cotton Boosts
High Cost of Living.

According to q compilation made
public October 8, 1918, by the Depart
ment Of Labor, fuel and light have ad-
vanced 80 per cent. in costs, housing
Is per cent and food Of all kinds an
average Of So per cent The highest
advance in living costs has been in
clothing. Mems clothing has increased
105 per cent, women's clothing 118 per
cent.
The report Of the Railroad Wage
Commission shows that common cal
leo, which formerly sold for 6 cents a
yard, now sells for 30 cents, an in
crease Of 400 per cent! Workingmen's
overalls have increased $50 per cent,
work shirts 200 per cent, boys
blouses 1870 per cent, socks and stock
ings 1875 per cent, gingham 125 per
cent, muslin 120 per cent. and house
hold textiles 100 per cent?
No clothing is being made Of wool.
The government has fixed a price on
wool and Communicated the entire
supply, both domestic and imported.
No textiles are being made from wool.
Textiles and clothing are being made
from cotton. The increase the work
hgman and farmer Of the north Is
paying on clothing and household tex
tiles is the direct result Of the prof
teering of the southern cotton powers
which dominate Congress, sit In the
cabinet and have nreyented anv f1yinu
Of price on cotton. Every household
Is paying a heavy tax to the cotton
proiiteers, tribute to the southern
domination Of Congress. --
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-05

one which there has been much
fighting over in past times. 1t was
in turn annexed, defended, surren-
dered and captured from 1867 on.
notwithstanding all this trouble
there was a population of 28,786 last
count.
Valongseen (you should linger a
bit on the last two syllables) is To-
Gated in low altitude, from below
sea level 1928 feet, all about her
borders. The people farm some very
good land; there are coal mines and
iron veins nearby for which they
have foundries and FORCES and manu-
facture iron-wear in variety, sugar,
woolens, cotton goods. linens and so
on. Some say it is fifty years since
they made lace, but any store will
sell you some to this day that pur-
ports to come from there, so long
has the reputation for Madagascar
lace lived.
When l was little girl my mother
wore wrappers with a Vatican back,
while | pondered over that long
name for double box plat, spelled
with capitol letter | had to spend
years growing tall and reading books
and pictures to learn "Watteau" was
a wonderful artist born at Valong-
seen, France, that among his favor
lite subjects to paint were shepherds
and shepherdesses in rustic dances,
that he usually clothed his shepherd
esses in "sacques' with loose plaits
hanging from the shoulders and that
this style is always called Vatican.
Metz is called Nets.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-05
THE FOLLY OF BURNING LEAVES
BY Mrs. NJ. e. Soth

How much better off the human
race might be if we would only
study natur's way to find help for
our troubles and then cooperate
with her instead of cheating our
selves by substituting egotistical hui
man notions. For the past week
great gusts of pure air have been
sweeping this valley, carrying dust
and germs, orors and every other
unclean faint away to the wild
places or wherever the wind goes.
Nature scents this purified air with
the wild strong invigorating tang of
the sage. What crime to defile it
with the acrid, irritating fumes of
burning leavs to conform to the hui
man notion of cleaning up"
1t is an outrage waste of a price,
less gift from nature to burn the
leaves at all. The pioneers in this
valley believed in planting trees and
right we'll did they perform their
selfappointed task. Blackfoot has
more trees to the block than any
other town I've seen in four states.
And nature set right to work to sup
plement the efforts of the pioneers
and to provide the proper soil for
trees to grow in by dropping the
ripe leaves to the ground every au-
tumn. Thos of us who grew up in
the middle west remember the deep
black soil of the woods back there
1t is so deep and so rich that nursey-
men and gardeners dig it up and
carry it away to sell for fertilizer
under the name of "humps." 1t is
nothing but the product of the de-
cay of dead leaves left where nature
put them. In the years that have
elapsed since the first trees dropped
their leaves on Blackfoot's soil you
ought to have developed such a fer
tile soil from this yearly enrichment.
Trees and all other plants, are the
only things that can take the life
less elements of earth and air and
combine them into living cells. All
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-05

After all the mishaps that befall
the beet crop this year in Bingham
county, the beet crop is pretty good.
Between late spring frosts and lack
of spring showers, there was a poor
stand, and many fields were re-
planted or sowed to grain. Autumn
frosts were very late in coming, and
this favored the ripening process of
the late grain, and it also added
greatly to the beet tonnage and sugar
content.
The fields of thin beets have
taught people valuable lesson this
year; a lesson that has been sdvo.
Gated thru this paper, but not gen.
orally taken very seriously. Some
of our best beet growers, A. H. Hale
in particular, have advocted having
beet rows twenty-eight or thirty
inches apart, and the beets about
twenty inches apart in the rows,
claiming that they grow so much
larger due to the abundant leaves
and sunspace among the leaves, that
it made up for lack of numbers and
had several advantages Of labor and
expense items.
Mr.. Hale showed that beet roots
extend much farther than is gen.
orally supposed. The fine hair-like
roots that are not usually noticed
at all, extend out twenty or thirty
inches If there is nothing in the way,
and with all that fine network of
rootlets gathering nutrition, the beet
attains a great bulk. With like
amount of leaves basking in the sun
it makes sugar and cold weight as
it cannot do where it is smothered
by the leaves of it's neighbors.
The advantages of this kind Of
beet culture loom larger as we get
farther into the problems of today.
Scarcity of beet seed has been a seri-
GUS matter at times, and will still be
serious for years to come, due to the
necessity of growing them in
America and also to the increased
acreage in prospect.
Thinning and harvesting beets
have always been the great problems
of the grower. When the industry
was commenced here, they were
planted very thick and then thinned
out to eight inches apart in the rows.
That was q great waste of seed and
labor, and the custom of thinning to
anywhere from ten to twenty inches
has been growing in favor. 1t used
to be said so many beet seeds did
not terminate, that it was necessary
to plant them very thick in order to
have good stand. That objection
has been vanishing as better seed has
been developed, and sugar men
claim now that nearly all of the seeds
grow. This being true and 1t be-
ing desirable to have the beets
farther apart, it follows that seeds
should be planted farther apart, and
thus economic the seed and the
owrk Of thinning.
The task of pulling and topping
beets has been heavy drain upon
the manpower of beet districts, and
now that the puller and topper have
been developed, the advantages of
thin beets become apparent again.
hTe puller lifts the large beets as
effectually as the smaller ones il not
better, and it tops them very much
better. Where tall beet is followed
by a short one and the two are close
together, the short beet is not we'll
topped, but where they are of vary
ing heights and twenty inches apart,
the topping is done perfectly. It
takes longer to gather up several
small beets than one large one, so
all the advantages are in favor of