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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-29

their work.
 Last season the University Of Ne braska issued a series of emergency bulletins showing restrictive and coer- cive food measures ill Europe, from which were drawn lessons for use at home. One of the most valuable fea- lures of the work in this university was the issuance of a series of out line programs for club meetings, which covered every phase of the sub- ject of food production and conserVa- tion from early spring until harvest
 The Oregon Agricultural College, in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture Extension Service, planned especially for group study. In this connection is issued a statement which told the women of the state that any existing organization might enroll as an organization and study the home economics course under the direction of the college. In case women who were not members of any organization desired to avail themselves of this study, they were permitted to make special application.
 The University of Wisconsin serves as an example of this close coopera- ton between the college class room and the individual. Some of the courses of lectures on Home Econo- mics were opened to the women of Madison, while university lecturers were sent out to speak before clubs in cities and rural communities on food production in it's relation to the war emergency program.
 In the Colorado Agricultural Col lege nearly hundred girls have taken the pledge of the Patriotic League, which includes the furtherance by ev- cry means in their power of the states food production and conservation cam paign.
 West virginia's state agricultural college has taken strong stand in the matter of food production for the new season. Realizing that over seven million dollars was sent out of the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-29

been 10000 applications for land since the measure was signed by President Wilson. It seems evident to me the people will go back to the land if they can get it to go back to.
 Homestead Bill.
 "At the start of MT. Wilson's ad- ministration five years ago there were 7oo,o0o,ooo acres of land under public ownership. The 640-Acre Homestead Bill, as it is called, hoped to provide capital for farm improvements and to create standard form of investment based upon farm mortgage. This land is scattered through the United States and Alaska. Some of it is good agri- cultural land, some grazing land, and some of it mountainous. Tenantry is increasing at an alarming rate and tenantry breeds unrest. This vast domain was lying idle, why not put it to work? I introduced House Bill 407, known as the 640-acre raising homestead bill, providing that each and every family which had hitherto not exhausted it's homestead right could go upon $40 acres of the public land, which must be by the Interior Department designated grazing land, erect house, build fence. set out trees, cultivate such portions as their means would permit and there by convert the deserts and semi-arid places of the West into homes for the homeless. That bill is now law and we have had 10000 applications. If i the law succeeds in making only | this 10000 tenant families into home owners the committee will feel proud of it's work"
 Land In Plenty.
 This seems to make it quite plain that there is plenty of land to go round for quite a while and it may 1 partly answer Question No. 4, but the | lure of war wages seems to offset any rush to the farms. The pressure on | the cities is well shown in state, ment by A. C. Miller of the Federal Reserve Board to the American Acad- emy of Political and Social Science who said: ''War work needs 15,000,' GOO men and in this crisis, everything must be circumscribed to war work. A tremendous publicity campaign is on to get men for the fleet the United States is building. Where are they to come from? And when they do how are they to be fed? If you do not think that Question No. 4 needs an swering write for the report of the U. S. Government experts who tel
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-29
9'sl2,O0o g e'rao'ns Make Home. ID the Big Houses, the Old c'fy lI' Having Reached
 Congestion Limit.

cent. of the population of this country was engaged in rural pursuits. In 1910 only A per cent. was engaged in agri- culture. The trend has been away from the farm. Every sixteenth man you meet lives in greater New York. There is but one answer-the high cost of living.
 A little more than one hundred years ago Thomas Jefferson paid $15,- 00O,O0O for the bread basket of the world" and was roundly scored for doing it. Today there are 3S,000,000 men under arms in this world war ac- cording to the< reports of the war bureaus of the nations engaged. It takes forty cents a day to feed a sol dier. If you are quick at figures you will see that the cost of "the bread basket of the world" equals the daily food bill of the soldiers of the worlds armies. With 3,000,O0O men under arms Uncle Sam's board bill will be $1,2OO,0OO a day. There is but one answer-the high cost of living for these men must be fed.
 Four Questions.
 In his series of lectures on price movements, Prof. Irving Fisher, the noted economist of Yale. said that ir this problem as in all great problems there are four questions to answer They are: First, What is it? Ther second: Why is it? Then third What of it? And fourth: What are we going to do about it? If I may venture to suggest the questions are we'll put. They lead up to a climax as it were. In fact I venture the opinion that the people at the present moment will listen eagerly to the an swer to the last question and walk | out on a learned dissertation on any ot the others. I may even go as far a. l to say that they do not care two whoops about anything right now ex | cept speedy answer to the last ques ton except possibly how long will i be before somebody gets close enoug1 to the Kaiser to substitute little nitro-glycerine for the air in the righ hand tire of the royal auto in orde, that the designated tire may come il l close and violent juxtaposition to tn,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-29

Rush To Cities.
 Needing some figures and knowing a man who could give them to me quickly I hunted up Scott Ferris, member of Congress from Oklahoma. Turning to the Congressional Record without a moments hesitation: Here is just what you want" It was and this is it: ''The population of the cities increased by 100 per cent. be- tween 1890 and 1910. On the other hand population on the farms in- creased only 20 per cent. This means that for every five headed for the city only one heard the call of the farm. Knowing congressman are mighty busy men these days because of the call upon them to get men they never heard of out of the army, I started to back out but MT. Ferris had an other jolt for me. He asked me to sit down.
 Since you want a little inside in- formation on the High Cost of Living let me call your attention to fact I discovered in arguing for the pas 1 sage of what is known as the "640- Acre Homestead Bill,' said MT. Ferris. Here it is. In twenty years the farm mortgages have increased $640,257,- 001. That figure is beyond my com prehension and all I could possibly digest mentally was to wonder who got the odd dollar, a dollar being something I could talk about with some show of brilliancy, not in com- l pany perhaps, but at least between man and man in the privacy of the l other mans office.
 "This rush to the cities" continued Mr. Ferris, must be stopped and that is the one big aim of this bill which MT. Wilson has signed. I believe it one of the big things, the last Con- gress did. Just how important it is l Is shown by the fact that there have
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-29

that result is the constant uptrend Of the cost of living. Secretary McAdoo is the new traffic cop," and as the head of first class traffic commis- sion he will have to begin studying ways and means of getting the people back to the land from whence they came after this war is over without having them get back via the bread line and soup kitchen. Let us not walt on this job but go and meet 1t. on this point John Galsworth has this to say: This question of land is the question of the future. no matter what happens in the war. To put men on the land we must have the land ready. We have the chance of our life to scotch the food danger and to restore a healthier balance between town and country stocks" In care free America the thing seems to be to wait for "a supreme moment in history and then go to it as best we may.
 Piled Tier Upon Tier.
 That moment has arrived. The facts are that in answer to certain economic demands the people are rushing from the health giving open air and the centers of food production to engage occupation in overcrowded cities where they pile themselves tier upon tier in order to pay double prices for the very food which was in abundance in the places they left. Now the Con- gress of the United States is consider | ing plans to give each soldier a farm after the war. Can you imagine any thing mere pathetic than having a per | fectly behaved cyclone-broke farm on your hands if you know nothing about | farming? All well and good for the man who left the farm to go to the i front. But what are we going to give the thousands of war workers after the war? A careful estimate shows there are 10000 "war workers" in | Washington in excess of the regular population. Other cities, especially | those near the cantonments and muni- | ton factories are crowded. It all forces up the cost of living to which, as with all questions, we get the same answer; tits all on account of the war" But is it? Let us see. Old Mother Earth has been deserted. This
 desertion has been going on for years John heard of that fifteen a week.
 in Grand Rapids and he went to get it
 Bessie heard of that "six a week" ir Des Moines with 1.-two evenings off, and
 she went to get that. There was but one answer. In 1900 about SS per
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-29

day, as it affects the mass of the A people of the United States, is
 O food production and its natural corollary, food conservation. If every man, woman and child in the land, within whose power it is to produce and conserve food would do their part, the war would be won in a short time.
 Last year the people responded nobly to President Wilson's call to till and SOW and cultivate their gardens and their fields. This year the effort is to be made more extensively and more intensively, because the people are alive to the fact that it is the nation which is able to supply its own people and its allies in the war with food which is to have the honor of winning the war.
 Many agencies are at work in this great endeavor which represents the very life of the nation. The most important agency behind the people in the question of food production is the Department of Agriculture. Co., operating with this branch of the Governments service are the State agricultural colleges, which are ex- tending their hands to the food pro- duction and conservation departments of the State Councils of Defense and to every organization, great and small within the state which holds the great food issue in view. The result is that behind the people of every city, town and rural community throughout the land, who are willing to carry out
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-29

~ HE MOST VITAL issue of the A day, as it affects the mass of the A people of the United States, is
 1 food production and it's natural
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-29
BY RUSSELL T. EDWARDS.

TM HOUSE, A HOUSE My King
 dom for a House," is the 1918
 version of the kingly plaint that was made when a certain royal parsonage wanted to make his getaway from the field of battle. He wanted a horse but the royal Knight of the Ballot Box today wants a place to sleep and he wants it badly, particularly if he has joined in the rush to the cities after war wealth or is one of those "dollar-a-day patriots" loaded with advice who swamped Washington by train loads in the early days of the war. There was a time when the traffic question was one for policemen of a metropolis to wrestle with but now the question of parking the people has become a national one. While MT. Hoover is trying to keep down the cost of living, thousands upon thousands of people are rushing from the centers of production of food to the overcrowded centers of con- sumption. There is but one result, for it seems the old law of supply and demand will not be denied. and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-29

been 10000 applications for land since the measure was signed by President Wilson. It seems evident to me the people will go back to the land if they can get it to go back to.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16
Administrators Sale.

By virtue of an order of the Ordinary
OF Bib county, Ca, passed at May
term, 1918, will sell before the court
house door Of Sumter county, Ga, be-
tween the legal hours of sale on the
first Tuesday in June, 1918, the follow
ing described real estate belonging 10
the estate of Mrs. Kate F. Galloway,
late Of Bibb county, deceased, to-Wit;
One house and lot situated on the
est side Of Jackson street, known as
the late residence Of the deceased.
bounded as follows: On the north by
Stap1eton property, on the east by
property of Eldridge estate, on the
south by property of C. P. Davis ano
on west by Jackson street, containing
one-half acre, more or less.
Said property is to be sold for pay
ment of debts Of deceased and distri-
button to heirs. Terms of sale cash.
T. B. CALLAWAY,
Administrator, Estate of Mrs. Kats p
Galloway, Deceased.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16
CoIOred Glasses to look at the
aerOplanes. Bell the Jeweler.
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cure6

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only one way to cure catarrhal deafness,
and that Is by a constitutional remedy.
Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining of
infiamed you have a rumbling sound or Inn
perfect hearing. and when 1t is entirely
closed. Deafness is the result. Unless the
Inflammation can be reduced and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever. Many cases of
deafness are caused by catarrh, which Is
an infamed condition of the mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Medicine acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case OF Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarrh Medicine. Cir
culars free All Druggists 75c
F. J CHENEY e CO, Toledo, o.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

Busy Business Man latter standins
for a quarter Of an hour at the tele
phone, cautiously behind his hand t.
his clerk)-"Here you, William, take
the receiver for while My wife,
got a lot to say to me still You don't
have to answer anything. Only when
ever she says Are you still there, Hea
ry?' you say very nicely. 'Certaip'r
ny dear Jano
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16
SHILOH.

Shiloh was presented with service
flag Sunday in honor of the nine sol
der boys who have gone from the
church to help in the worlds great
war A real good program was rem
dered Col. ]. E. Sheppard, of Amer
icus, gave a talk on presenting the
flag, and Brother Market gave talk
on receiving the flag. Many from
Americas and the surrounding COM
munty attended the services.
The adult Sunday school class gave
the flag in honor of the boys that had
left their class to fight for the freedom
Of their country.
The B. Y. P. U. social at Miss Mary
Woods Saturday night was greatly en-
joyed by all who attended. Ice cream
was served.
Y. P. U. meets every Sunday night
at the church The public is cordially
invited
Miss Irene Market, of Lumpkin. was
a visitor in this community Saturday
and Sunday.
Messrs Childers Sheppart, Charlie
Crutchfeld, Tom Terry, Claud Gard
ner, of Camp Wheeler, were home Wis
itors Saturday night and Sunday.
Mr. K. B. Wellons, of Charlotte, n
c., was also a visitor to homefolks
here Sunday.
Miss Louise Wright visited Miss
Jesse Daniel Sunday.
Miss Alice Carter. of Leslie is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Emmett Reid.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Red, of Leslie,
were in this community Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Wellons and
children and Mr.. and Mrs. Cleve Du-
pree and children were Sunday visi>
tors at the home of Mr. and Mrs Henry
HaIstead.
Miss Ida McMath returned to Col
umbus Friday night, after being call
ed here to attend the funeral of her
sister, Mrs. G. C. Dupree.
Miss Maggie Dupree returned to AL
bany Saturday after spending several
days with homefolks here.
The funeral of Mrs. G. c. Dupree,
which occurred late Wednesday af-
ternoon, was largely attended by rela>
tives and friends of the deceased,
who turned out to pay the last sad
tribute to this good woman, whose
passing away has cast pail of sor-
row over the entire community. The
obSequies were conducted by Rev. F.
G. Market, of Lumpkin, with inter
ment in Concord cemetery The pail
bearers were Messrs. Charlie Du-
pree, Willie Dupree Alton Dupree,
Cleve Bell Walter Johnson and W. c.
Jordan. while the floral tributes re
ceived were many and beautiful.
Deceased was Miss Efie McMath
before her marriage and the daughter
of w. T. McMath, one of the pioneer
residents of. Sumter county. She
leaves behind a grief-stricken hus-
band and three little sons, Virgil, Ben
jamn and Haywood Dupree; three sis
tiers, Mrs. H. J. Halstead, of Sumter
county; Miss Maggie McMath, of AL
bany, and Miss Ida McMath, of Col
umbus, and one brother, Sergeant W
J McMath, who is stationed at Camp
Forrest.
| We had a treasure once.
She was our joy and pride.
We loved her, ah, perhaps, too well,
For soon she slept and died.
tAE is dark within our dwelling,
Lonely are our hearts today,
For the one we loved so dearly,
Has forever passed away.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

legal hours Of sale, before the court
house door in said county offer the fol-
lowing property for sale:
Fifty acres of land on the east side
of lot No. ITO, said fifty acres extend
ing from north line to south line OF
lot No. III, being in a square and ly-
ing east of the public road leading
from Preston to Bells big mill and
bounded south by the lands Of ]. w.
A. Hawkins, west by said public road,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16
The Standard
A WONDERFUL SALE OF
WASH GOODS AND WHITE

WASH GOODS AND WHITE GOODS.
Mostly sample pieces and new mill
ends; they're worth anywhere zoe to
Csc; about 1900 yards in the lot; price
for your choice, yard 15.
PLENTY OF GOOD BINGHAM
AT 25c.
Dress styles in fast colors, plaids
and stripes; suitable for all ages. Mill
Lrices are higher than our retail pri-
ces yd25c.
FINE EGYPTIAN DIMITIES
AT zoe.
Fine sheer closely woven Dimities.
These goods are very scarce; our
price per yard Csc and 29c.
REMNANTS OF HEAVY
CRASH T0WELING.
Short lengths 10 to 20 yards, half
linen weight, natural color; for SER
vice it has no equal, yard Csc,
NEW SILK SHIRTINGS
AT 75c.
Beautiful Silk Shirtings, for swell
shirts, sc inches wide and regularly
$1;ten patterns to select from, at
yard 75c.
YOU NEVER SAW SUCH
WAISTS AT $3.9S.
Drummer's samples of Fine Geor-
gette and Crepe de Chine waists in
about twenty different styles, values
IS to $3.50, choice each 1898.
WOMEN'S WHITE SLIPPERS
AT S1.s5.
Sport Oxfords with white rubber
soles and heels, made of best grade
canvas, all sizes; value $3.50, our price
$1.35.
MORE PALM BEACH SKIRTS
AT $1.35.
Made in five different ways; the &C
tual value of the material used in
these skirts is $175; our price, as
long as they last, each, $135.
EIGHT SPOOLS COATS COTTON
FOR 95c.
Genuine J. & P Goats Spool Cotton,
$50 yard spools, sold ony with other
purchases of 81 or more-8 spools
for Csc.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

Figure your own want ad. Minimu p
charge is CSC. For insertions less
than two weeks, one cent per word.
For Insertions between two and four
weeks, three-fOurths Of q cent per
word. For insertions OF more thaa
tour weeks, One-hAlf cent per word.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16
All Dependent on VIII.

Nothing is impossible; there are
ways which lead to everything; and
II we had sufficient will we should al
ways have sufficient means.-La Ro
chefoucauld
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16
Local News Items
Time to select the Graduating Gift
from S. A. Daniels, the Jeweler.

Mss Annie and Mabel Sheppard Of
Albany, who have been visiting Mrs.
Underwood, have returned home af-
ter a pleasant stay here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

Mrs Joseph Mccarthy, of Savannah,
is visiting her son, Thomas Mccarthy,
and Mrs Mccarthy, at their home here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

Everybody cordially invited to the
barbecue to be given at w. 2. Addys
Friday evening, May II, served by the
Mothers Club for the benefit of our
school, beginning promptly at Z
o'clock 16-1t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Pope announce
the birth of son, who came to bless
their home last night.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

If you want a taxicab today phone
100. R. A. Shy. 31-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16
GEORGIA. Mebster County.

BY virtue of an oder granted by the
ordinary of said county, I will on the
first Tuesday in June, 1918, within the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

For a taxi-cab phone 161. Eddie B
Melton, driver for E. l.. Carswell
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

Can get mighty fine beef roast at
Bragg's Market. 16-2t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

north and east by other lands eblong-
ing to estate of J. w. Virgins and be-
eing in the southeast corner Of said
lot.
All of said lands lying and being in
the 25th district of said Webster coun-
ty. Terms cash.
This May 9Th, 1918.
MRS. MATTE WIGGINS,
Administrator of estate Of ]. w. Wig
gins, deceased.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

SALES LADIES WANTED-Over
16 years of 16 years of age; expert
ence unnecessary. Apply to s. H.
Kress Il Co
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

LUCY GATES y
the sensational been
singers
of flute they the city hall in
New York the the Liberty Bonds
by 10000
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16
LOSTqnd FOUND

LOST-Bunch of keys in the city.
Return to Times-Recorder 14-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-16

= y 4 \ 4 y = y y y y = 4 \
\ WEATHER FORECAST. =
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\ \ y \ 4 = 4 \ \ + = =
The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1918-06-27
Post Office Schedule

On next Monday, July lst, the Der
mott postofhee will be advanced to an
office of the second class, and will OBJ
serve the following schedule of hours:
During the week the office will open
at a. m. and close at s p. N.
On Sundays and holidays the window
for mail delivery will rot be opened at
all. but mail will be collected and dis
tributed as follows:
From to II a. m.
las to SIS p. n.
5:30 to p. m.
As soon az examinations are held and
the clerical force completed, Fostmas-
ter Leeper will have an assistant post
master, clerk, and an auxiliary, all
under civil service regulations.