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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-29
Bradley Fertilizer Works

Ane an. =siS-n Agricultural Chemical Cocor-.r.
r. 6. Bradley.'LOCal Manager
s2S Heard Building
Jacksonville, Florida
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-29


The people looked as healthy as
any people we ever saw
They we're as clever as they ~4re
healthy
This looks ike a good place FOR !
man to take his family and locate. II
the event he mas any idea Of going
anywhere.
Marion county. Florida, the county
seat of which IS Ocala. q city of
eight thousand people. offers good
cheap farms TO FIVE hundred Geor.
gians who are forced to move because
the land values have grown beyond
their reach.
II you will go down there and look
you will endorse what we have said
about it.
We have no interest whatever irI
any piece of property there.
Ocala is within eight miles OF the
center Of the state, and some dav
there will be a movement on foot 20
move the state capital there.
Mr.. Simmons is making money
hand over fist down there, and he nat.
Urally would like TO see some Of his
neighbors go down and see for them
selves.
The Banner copies the above with
a great deal OF pleasure. but we n,.,st
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08
MONEY SPENT FOR GOOD ROADS

Minnesota will spend $7,700,000 dur
ing this year fol- the Improvement OF
rural highways. This is twice the
amount that was expended last year.
Good roads are Of great Importance to
the old settler and prove very attractive
to the young man looking for home
stead. All attempts that are being
made by the State to secure new settlers
ought to be encouraged, since the State
of Minnesota has large and fertile areas
of virgin soil waiting for development.
They will materially add to the wealth
of the state by being made productive.
Nothing is so essential for the movement
of farm crops as good roads.
On the other hand, such expenditures
ought to be made wisely. In many
states serious mistakes have been made
in the improvements of public highways
and useless experiments have eaten up
vast sums of money. 1t is the duty Of
every official in whose care these funds
are and to whom their expenditure has
been entrusted to see to it that there is
no waste, but good, substantial return
for every cent of the peoples money.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08
AN ISSUE IN EMBRYO

Washington has. witnessed recently an
eruption of malignant toryism. 1t took
tie form offs harmless gas attack,
delivered for the most part on the floor
of the United States Senate by Repub-
lican members who see the country
going to the dogs in the hands of the
"wild-eyed radicals" with whom Mr..
Wilson has surrounded himself. Mr..
Creel is particularly hard hit, but he
was not the only target. and they were
merely striking over his shoulder at the:
man behind. The reasoning and the
motivation of these rhetorical outbursts
are extremely hard to follow. Cynics:
Injured to Washington methods WOULD
as quickly look for motives in the per-
sonal grudges of an individual member
or one of his powerful constituents as
in his philosophy of government or his
conception of correct public policy.
But one conclusion does stand out after
a survey of these various speeches =
speeches full of comfort for old gentle
men in the windows of the Union League
Club and multitudes of other dis
eruntled individuals to whom marked
copies of the Congressional Record have
Goubtless been sent by tie bale. And
it is rea suring conclusion. 1t is that
Mr.. Wilson and his administration. are
cordially disliked and distrusted by all
the gentry who, through self-interest
or inadequate mental equipment, are
moved to fury by any suggestion that
tie world moves and that tie social
and economic order which now prevails
is not in every respect right and holy.
1t is all welcome reinsurance that our
confidence in the President is not mis-
placed, that he is the man we think him
to lie, that groupings out here and
there in I'm: important branches OF the
Administration of failures in under
standing are relatively insignificant and
to be overlooked with good grace, OF
at least kept in their proper perspective
/ The attacks of politicians like Senator
Sherman serve another good purpose
They make US realize the measure Of
confidence in the fundamental right
ness of the people, and therefore the
courage, that must be possessed by q
man in the Presidents position in order
to stick to the policy he has chosen
tie policy Of encouraging and supporting
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08
JOHN J. INGALLS, ON "GRASS"

Lying in the sunshine among the
buttercups and the dandelions of May,
scarcely higher in intelligence than the
minute tenants of that mimic wilderness,
our earliest recollections are of grass;
and when the ftful fever is ended and
the foolish wrangle of the market and
forum is closed, grass heals over the scar
which our descent into the bosom of the
earth has made, and the carpet of the
infant becomes the blanket of the dead.
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her
constant benediction. Fields trampled
with battle, saturated with blood, torn
with the ruts of cannon, grow green
again with grass, and carnage is for
gotten. Streets abandoned by traffic
become grass grown like rural lanes and
are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests
perish, flowers vanish, but grass is i'm
mortal. Beleaguered by the sullen hosts
OF winter, it withdraws into the impregn-
able fortress of it's subterranean vitality
and emerges upon the first solicitation
of spring. Sown by TIE winds, by tie
wandering birds, propagated by the
subtle agriculture Of the elements which
are its ministers and servants, it softens
the rude outline of the word. 1t bears
no blazonry of bloom to charm tie senses
with fragrance OF splendor, but it's homely
hue is more enchanting than the lily or
tie rose. 1t yields no fruit in earth
or air, and yet, should it's harvest fail
for single Year, famine would Gepopu-
late the world.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08

While foxy politicians have always
depended upon prejudicing Catholic
workingmen against Socialism, that era
VI deception seems to be disappearing.
Not only did the heavy Catholic wards
N Milwaukee line up strongly for the
gocialist ticket, not only have promi-
1ent Irish Catholics in New York
Earmed a Socialist propaganda organ
zatian and were establishing a news
paper to print the truth about Social
SIN, but some of the church publica-
INNS are beginning to assume a more
:5oferant attitude toward the Socialist
movement, as, for instance, the Moni-
sor, official organ Of the Roman Catho-
&c archdiocese of San Francisco.
sit will do no good for some of our
short-sighted Catholic editors to accuse
chem (the Socialists) of cowardice and
Haason,' says the Monitor. ''They
1re just as brave as any other clement
of the population and true lovers Of
humanity. In fact, their party will be
crowned with honor and glory because
Europe will wake up after the hideous
nightmare of slaughter to find itself
iRrgafy socialized and compelled to
4ipa many Of the leading tenets Of
economic Socialism regarding the COM
mon ownership Of the means of produc-
ton. '-NeW Age.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08

of fighting on their lands and paying
an exorbitant price to landowners in
the United. States for the pivilege Of
manufacturing supplies needed in fight
ing? Congress is now considering a
bill appropriating $5O,000,000, large
part of which is to buy off the spectators
who, Admiral Bowles reports, are hamp-
ering ship-building and extorting high
rents from shipyard employees. 1t is
probable that this item alone exceeds by
far the petty demands of the land
owners on the battle front. How far
from the fighting line must war profit
eering be carried on to become legitimate?
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08
Official paper of City of New Ulm.

The less individuality the person
manifests the greater is his degree OF
seceptivity to suggestions. The man
deficient in individuality lets others do
his thinking for him, and accepts the
iicta Of others as proven truth and
zllawa the impression to be formed IN
dis: srbeonsciousness, whence it energies
Ks AIS own thought. Very few people
Mink for themselves.
They allow other to formulate Ideas
lux them, and to express them in catch
phrases, etc., which the negative person
1ppropriates and repeats, thinking that
he is uttering the results of his own
thought. From "'T'he New Psychologist
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
ADMONITION

At Liberty Loan meeting of Hudson County,
N. ]. men of German BIRTH held at the Union
Hill High School, the following letter from Presi-
dent Wilson was read: ...=
"You may be sure that sympathize
with you and shall cooperate every eff
fort to see to it that the loyal residents
of the United States of German birth or
descent are given genuine proof of the
sincerity of our institutions.
ut distresses me beyond measure that
suspicion should be attached to those
who do not deserve it, and that acts of
injustice and even violence should be
based upon the Suspicion
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08

Considerable surprise was manifested
some months ago when Premier Hol-
naa If New South Wales, reported,
liter a visit to the Belgian front that
B4gmn and French farmers in that
siGinity are collecting rent from the
British Government for their lands in
which trenches have been dug. This
has been denounced as extraordinary
greed, while the payment of rent under
che circumstances has been declared
2saciish- And so it is. But before we
,dgnounce these French and Belgian
PEASANTS and laugh at tie British Gov
anment let us look nearer home. What
diffaance is there in principle between
paying these farmers for the privilege
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08
BIGOTRY is UN-AMERICAN.
Observation-Disclosures

The suppression Of foreign language
newspapers in the United States is urged,
principally because they are printed in
foreign languages. The motive behind
the urge is intolerance. Intolerance
is the daughter Of ignorance and tie
mother of bigotry. We have no room
in the United States for any of that
tribe.
The keynote Of American institutions
is tolerance. America has grown great
through tolerance. It has pursued a
happy and increasingly successful career,
through 142 years, upon that plan.
Its existence began in resistance to OPP
preston, and oppression has never been
an American principle. Americas best
gift to the world has been the example
which it provides of tie feasibility OF
tolerance as compared with oppression
and it's handmade, suppression.
Let no one suppose that an argu-
ment for tolerance, and against sup
preston, is an argument in favor OF dis
loyal words or thoughts. Quite the con-
trary. Disloyalty has less chance, to
thrive in the free air Of the United States
than anywhere else on the globe. But
the thing which the United States has
always resisted is the suppression OF
this thing or that, this opinion or that,
this view or that, this religion Or that
not because it was right or wrong, but
because it did not suit the particular
interest of the particular authority with
tie power to put it down. And America
stands today for the right of each in
dividual to think, believe, speak, vote
and act as he pleases, within the well
recognized limitations established by the
equal right of others to enjoy the same
privilege and within the limitation also
of loyalty to our country. r
If our greatness has any specific ex-
PLANTATION, it is to be found in our de-.
velopment of tolerance from an abstract
conception into workable and practic-;
able rule of daily conduct. Forebearance;
freedom from bigotry; the ability to
put up with and to bear with the opinions
Of others; the disposition not to deal
harshly or vigorously in cases of difference
of ways OF manners-these are qualities
which have helped to make America what
it is. Il
So far as foreign language newspapers
are disloyal, subversive of our govern
ment, or calculated to give aid and COM
fort to our enemies, they ought to be.
suppressed. But so ought newspapers
printed in English, if they fall within
tie same class. TIE test should be one
of loyalty and not of language.
What are we to do with those who
cannot read or speak English? Are we
to tell them that they are not to read or
speak at all? Do we want to make deaf
mutes and blind men of them because
they are unable to use our language?
Since they can only learn Amerlcanlsm
by reading, in many cases, why ought
tkey not to read? AS matter OF fact,
tie great majority of foreign language
newspapers are actively engaged in in
culcating sound American principles,
and to turn against them because they
do not say what we say in the way it
would be an act Of intolerance and in
justice worthy Of the Kaiser himself.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08
ALIEN TEACHERS NOT TO
BE DISMISSED SUDDENLY

State Superintendent c. G. Schulz
announced that the recent order of the
Safety Commission according to which
alien teachers are to be barred from
teaching in public and private schools
does not affect teachers in service for
this schooI-year. The old contracts
are to be in force till August l, 1918.
New contracts entered into for the next
school-year are declared null and void
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08
SECRETARY or WAR
RBFUTES REPORTS
NO EVIDENCE TO SHOW. THAT
AMERICAN PRISONERS
ARE MUTILATED

Reports that American soldiers wound
ed or taken prisoners by the Germans
have been mutilated by their captors
were discounted today by the secretary
of war. 49,.
Sec'y Baker Denies Truth
Secretary N. D. Bakers attention
was called to report, presumably
spread by propagandists, that a Wash
ington gill was prevented from seeing
her brother, a patient at Walter Reed
reconstruction hospital here, because
the brothers tongue had been cut out
by Germans and he could not talk.
No Instance Known
Secretary Baker said he had been in
nearly all tie big hospitals in France
and had not seen an instance to bear
out the reports that Americans have
been mutilated. Neither had he re-
ceived any information from American
officers abroad giving evidence of such
atrocities.
Relatives Alarmed
Secretary Baker was free to discuss
this report because he appeared to feel
that relatives of soldiers should not be
alarmed over insidious reports of which
the war department has no confrma-
ton.
This is another of the horrible stories
spread by violent patriots proven to
be what reasonable persons have always
supposed it to be, a lie, without any
foundation or material of truth in it.
Some of those who have industriously
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08
NICOLLET COUNTY FARM
BUREAU ORGANIZED

In the neighborhood of one hundred
farmers were present at meeting held
at the St. Peter arhory last Saturday for
tie purpose of organizing the Nieolle55.
County Farm Bureau association. Agents
of the government have been canvassing
tie county for the past few weeks and
secured a total membership of 41S.
The following officers Of tie association
were elected: President, J. A. Hinquist,
Bernadotte; vice pres, Alex Russell,
West Newton; secretary, Aug. Malmberg,
Lafayette; treasurer, VIM. Schmidt, Ira
verse. Besides the above named officers
are: B. T. Currier, New Sweden, rep
resentative live stock interests; L. P:
Bushard, lBernadotte, crops; August He'd,
Bernadotte, farmers clubs; Herman AL
brecht, Lafayette, cooperative cream
cries; A. R. Davis, St. Peter, Nicollet
county fair; A. ]. Homestead, St. Peter,
county schools and rural club work; one
commissioner, to be chosen by the county
board. The township advisory council
is as follows: Lake Prairie, Frank Os-
borne; Traverse, VIM. Wolfe; New Swe-
den, Swante Olson; Bernadotte, Albin
Johnson; Lafayette, Jul Hagberg; West
Newton, Louis Arhalt; Ridgely, Guy
Merkel; Brighton, Roy johnson, Bel
grade, Otto T. Anderson; CRANKY,
Ralph Currier; Oshawa, John Michels.
The executive board will meet this
week to consider the question of hiring
an agricultural agent for the county.
Louis Spelbrink who filed for Rep
res entative for Brown County last week
is a well-known farmer of Milford, his
parents coming to this County before
tie Indian Massacre. He is a self-made
man, has sound views on public questions
and should make an a dmirable represent
alive.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-05-08

spread these vile lies will have quite
time justifying their words with the
scale of truth but it is not likely that
will worry them any.
Evening journal., 1918-03-04
THE INCOME TAX
DEPRFCIATlON-HOW TO FIGURE IT


AS the rate at which depreciation be claimed is dependent IN sreale
upon and
probable lifetime under normal business conditions specific rates at
which II The states that
reasonable allow claimed the taxpayer to determine
what the which
may he claimed taxpayer should determine the probable lifetime OF e
business which the thus obtained will represent
the which deduction g. frame
building the probable lifetime which without repair replacement %
While each his
without estimated that the
age usabo lifetime OF frame building is p brick building 30 years
lifetime machinery automobiles used
farm purposes and farm factors. 10 q
taxpayer wishes TO claim the fun depreciation estimated to
the building other
he his deduction
eendeddurng the making he wishes
claim deduction account repairs their cost must be deducted from the
ton under the heading of Daton the expends sO
repairs
calendar he claim S business and 800 dpreca
not the fun OF depreciation estimated 20 have occurred
repairs
Of broken window allowable
though full Of depreciation has caimed)
claiming depreciation the following fundamental principles must be
taken into
and IL
property arising out ITS employment business
q
the be the producing
b Depreciation other than that
nn of values due to changes the social business conditions the
neighbohood which located
tuatons
c Depreciation tho value Of land whether
due ordinary exhaustion other
full depreciation his further
allowed
vested in the property and not the value which be arbitrarily otherwise
Evening journal., 1918-03-04
Uncle Harry Talks About The Supreme
War Council And The Western Front

expert advisors 10 the representatives,
~ the government
They've got big job on their
hands, haven't thoy?" said joe
Indeed they have" said Uncle Harry.
"Just take the Western Front FOR cX-
ample. The battle line extends from
thc Belgian coast an the way down
through France. and then across Italy
90 the Adratic sea. Why. Tho distance
from the North Sea to the swiss from
tier is about &c miles, and every foot
Of that nghiing front Is vitality i'm
portont.'
"The different armies hold different
parts of that front don't ihey?' said
Helen
"Exactly.' replied tncle Harry THAT
part OF the line that cuts OF the at
tlc corner OF Belgium which Is all Of
that country That remains under tho
Belgian nae IS held by Bclg0n and
British troops The next part Of the
line is held by the French. then there
is % big stretch held by he British,
then there are more French. then come
0ur own troops under General pershng
and finally. that part OF the front that
touches the Swiss border IS held by the
French"
II don't wonder the Allies need the
supreme War Council added Helen.
"lt docs seem 20 be the right sort OF a
Evening journal., 1918-03-04
Keni and Sus ex DRAFT Classification

Byron sudler. Marydel, Glass C, No. ?.
Wilbur Johnson, Brcnford. Glass c..
40. .
Isaac A. Sudler, Kenton, Class C., 80. .
Roland Maxwell Mills, Clayton Glass
c. 10 g.
Clarence Henry Lynch Milford, Glass
c. No .
Herman Kemp, Harrington, Glass C,
80. .
Jacob Reed. Dover, Glass &. No. 3.
Lewis Fountain Dover, Glass C., No. ,.
Henry Lun. Wyoming, Glass C., No ..
@. Paul George Dover Glass c. No. p
isador iiochman FELTON, Class c.,
No D.
Carroll IT rarburion. Woodslde, Glass
c. 80. .
Clarence u. Morris. Dover. Glass C,
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Mason +. Seeney Cheswold Glass c.
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Elmer scott. Frederick, Glass C.. No. ?
Joseph 7 oliver. Viola, Glass G.. No. 2.
Clarence Fountain, smyrna. Glass C.,
No. O.
Joseph Perry FELTON, Glass C., No >.
James scott bower. Glass C. No. ?.
Don carlos Young, Hartly, Glass c,
No ..
Charles Henry Kichline, Milford Glass
q, SO. ..
Isaac C. Burrows, Dover Glass C.,
No. ,.
William Henry johnson, Dover, Glass
C.. Nos2
Thomas $. Davis Milford. Glass C.
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Charles F. Wilson, Harrington. Glass
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Horace Vaughn Lindale, Milford, Glass
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Nolan Coursey, Cheswold. Glass G..
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Henry Cooper, Dover. Class c. No .
Hurry Gourley, Little Creek. Glass &
SO. o
David Talbot Raughley. Dover. Clas.
G. 30 @.
Lewis Wilson, Dover, Ciass T.. No. Z.
Horny D. Downham, Wyoming. Glass
l.. No. ..
James Albert Nrabrey, Clayton. Clas,
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Edward Bowers. Frederick. Class G
Evening journal., 1918-03-04

"The chief representative Of the United
states in the supreme War Council is
General Taskor g. Bliss, chief Of the
General stan of the Army And Of
course General Pershng has attended
some Of the meetings"
~Tcll us how the War Council was
started said Helen.
10 was organized several months ago
early In November. 40 DE exact said
Uncle Harry. There have been fire.
Queni conferences between the repre-
sentatives Of an The Allied Governments
ever since the war started, and the
armies Of the different countries have.
of course. been cO-Operat.ng But up
until the time The supreme War Coun-
Ell was formed there had not been as
Close cooperation as there might have
been And. what was perhaps more i'm
poriant. there had been no body OF men.
composed of representatives of an the
Allied nations. whose business II was
to study the war all the time and de
wise plans by which the All ed troops
could best work together 20 defeat Ger
many and the Central Powers"
'Where docs the supreme War Coun-
Gil hold its meetings 2" asked Jimmy
Most Of the sessions have been held
in the French city Of Versailles" said
Uncle Harry Each one Of the Allied
nations is represented by at least one
Uf iis highest and most experienced mill
tary officers. and those officers act os