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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-03
DAIRY COWS BRING SUCCESS
Prosperity Follows Closely in the
Wake OF. the Boil Weevil in
Southern Communities.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
: The story OF how the dairy COW
came tar the rescue Of section Of
southern Mississippi which had be.
come badly In debt and greatly dis
couraged sby unsuccessful attempts to
grow. option after the arrival Of the
devastating boil weevil Is told by
dairy. SPECIALISTS Of the United States
department of agriculture.
For many years the section mem
toned had continued to grow cotton.
The hell weeYil reached the district In
1868 ,aAd began to show its effects the
following year. The year in which
the WeeYN appeared, the community
produced 81 .812 bales, of cotton. but
the next. year receipts fell to 1919
bales. In 1910 the crop was 1882,
and In 1911 only 1888. The farmers
continued to grow cotton In hopes that
the weeM would leave their section.
hut Heir efforts gave less and less
promise. They could no longer bor-
row moAey on the prospective cotton
crop and were forced to mortgage their
farms ID. the limit.
Mnaily the decline in the rural dis
tictS Was reelected in the nearby city.
A cottQH aud wooden mill gave up OPP
eraStalA Everywhere business was
affected and the whole region faced
AaaAcl1A ruin. The business men be-
camc. thoroughly aroused to the situa-
tien and, began advocating the produc-
Hon- Ct other crops in place Of cotton.
through their efforts, the farmers at
teMetea teGrow peanuts, cane. melons.
sweet, .Retatoes and other crops. but
because the soil had become depleted
ia fertility and on account Of lack OF
experience in producing and market
ing tha new crops. these attempts
proved. toll be failure. There were a
few raz0Bback hogs in the county, but
HtHeSc0rn on which to fatten them.
There: were also few scrub cows,
which led some enterprising citizens
to beAeyat that the dairy industry could
be developed. and as result a local
creamery was built at cost Of 81, 500.
It failed. however within year, and
although q second effort was made to
start &c the result was the same.
At this juncture the United States
Department Of agriculture and the
State Agriculture college became In
terested In the problem and dairy
specialist was sent to the community.
After making q thorough study Of
Local problems, he Interested many OF
the farmers in the growing .of such
crops as would furnish feed for dairy
cows. Legumes and corn were the
crsRs hest adapted to support the
dairy COW as well as to build up the
soil and keep it clean Of weeds. He
SUCCEEDED. after some opposition, in
getting % silos built before the end
Of the first summer. He arranged
meetings and campaigns on dairy sub
jects. He encouraged farmers to
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-03
IMPORTANCE OF DAIRY COWS
Loss. of Animals In Europe createa
Heavy Demand for American,
Made Products.

"Ddn't give up the cows" On &C.
tcou4t Of the efficiency and economy Of
production the dairy COW viii be called
1poH more and more as the war con-
tiRues, and the loss Of dairy cows in
S0Hnpean countries will result In a
heavy demand for American dairy
products and breeding stock after the
war is Wisconsin Univ srsity
Press Bulletin.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-03
To Pay CAPTIVE off;e.rs

Washington, Sept. 30 Uader an
agreement reached at the Berne con-
ference on prisoners of war, the. Unit.
ed States and Germany will pay stated
sums monthly to all officers held as
prisoners.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-03
British caeualties for week.

London, Sept. 80. British Casualties
reported for the week ending satur-
day, as announced by the war Office,
follow: Officers killed or died of
wounds 432;; men, 1896; officers
wounded or missing, sO4; men, 49,
757. Total, 24,929.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-03

Washington, Sept. 3O.-Champ Clark.
speaker Of the house, and Claude
Pitcher, majority leader, were among
the victims of Spanish influenza re-
ported in Washington.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-03
Flood Damage $3.50. 600.

Juneau. Alaska, Sept. 30 Unoffidal
estimates of the damage done to prop
erty In Juneau and vicinity by the re-
cent flood placed the amount at $780,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
PLANS GUERILLA DEFENSE
Russia May Resume Military Opera.
tions Of That Kind.

Petrograd, Jan. AT Russian army
headquarters in the field. a war com.
ell is being held Steps are being dis
cussed that may lead to a resumption
by Russia, not of military operations
on vast scale, such as offensives of
the Brusiloff type. but of active, ener.
getic guerilla defense of the Russian
lines.
In this defense Russia does not ask
Allied aid. She rejects it, even.
She proposes to throw chaos into
the teeth Of any military move the
Germans may make. She will give the
Teuton commanders the thing they
fear more than organized armies-a
crippled land Of endless vastness, that
has no food-no transportation, and
whose productiveness Is paralyzed, a
land, peopled by human guerillas, "ev-
cry one of them armed with rifle"
as Trotzky puts it.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
HUGE PROFITS ON COAL
Price Fixing Is Absurd, Says
Expert.
Advocates Federal Operation of Mines
AS Cure For Present Coal
Shortage.

Washington, Jan. s. Clifford
Thorne, state expert, in testimony be.
fore the senate coal investigators, ad-
vocated federal operation of Americas
coal fields as a cure for the coal short
age.
Purchase or control of the pooled
mines, products and equipment must
come, he said, to Offset the evils result
ing from months of attempted fed
eral regulation of privately operated
coal fields
This regulation, Thorne told the coal
committee, has resulted as follows:
Instead of reducing the exhorbitant
price of coal, it has actually increased
these prices, In some cases as much as
100 per cent above voluntary prices
in 1916.
prices fixed by the federal govern
ment are excessive compared to cost
of production
Operators are refusing to make con-
tracts for coal because under the full
regulations they can get more for free
coal"
Thorne said IL the so per cent profit
of Missouri operators was typical of
the entire country, it would represent
a profit of $360,0O0, ,0O0-$1, ,OOO, 900 a
day-on coal products this year
The witness explained his statement
referred to conditions in western mine
fields.
whats your idea of government
price fixing, anyhow" asked Senator
James A. Rec.
Its absurd, unjust and un-Ameri-
can," he answered. ITO borrow an IL.
lustration, you might as well put a
negro in a watermelon patch and tell
him not to eat-the temptation is too
great"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
GREAT FOE DRIVE seen
Gigantic German Thrust in West
Declared impending.
Secretary Baker Says Time Necessary
for Concentration Has Delayed
Advertised Offensive.

Washington, Jan. "a gigantic
German thrust on the west 'front.'
possibly their greatest assault during
the warts impending, Secretary of
War Baker declares in his weekly mil
itary review just issued.
In the great battle the Germans, Mr..
Baker said, may be counted upon to
strain every fiber of their remaining
strength in an endeavor to make their
plans succeed"
Explains Delay.
The delay in the assault, predicted
weeks ago by the German press and
Allied war chiefs, has been due to the
time necessary for concentration of
large troop masses, adequate artillery
and ample reserves of munitions" Mr.
Baker said.
He counsels the American people
ION the eve of a possible German Of
fensive" to recall that the Allies in the
past have always come out victorious
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
JTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9, 1918.
GIG BATTLES COMING
Artillery DueIs Seen As Forerun-
ners of Conflicts.
Flanders, France and Italy Expected
Soon to be Scenes of
Fierce Fights.

London, Jan. 9-Signs are not want
ing that big battles are in process of
making in Flander, France and Italy,
although infantry operations in the
major war theatres are just now of a
minor character.
At various points in these three
war zones intensive artillery duels
are going on day and night. They
are particularly severe in the Pres
and Cambria sectors, where British
are facing Germans along the Aisne,
on the Verdun sector, and along tie
Moselle river, where forces of the
German crown prince and Grand
Duke Albrecht of Wurttemburg are
opposing the French, and in the
Italian highlands from the region of
Lake Garda, eastward to the Piave
river, where the Austro-German
troops are aligned against the ltal-
ians, French and British.
Heavy German Losses.
Southwest of Ypres, in Flanders,
Germans have made an attempt to
enter the British positions, but met
with repulse and heavy losses under
ijre of British infantry sand machine
guns.
Likewise, an attempted raid
against French positions on the his
toric Hill S04, in the Yerdun sector,
was stopped with sanguinary losses
to Germans.
These two maneuvers constitute
the only activity by infantry forces
at any point, except that small Brit
ish patrols at several places forced
crossings of the Piave river against
the Teutonic allies.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
SEES PERMANENT CONTROL
vanderlip Thinks Government VIII
Continue Rail Operation.

New York, Jan. st looks as il
the railroads have passed permanently
from private control in the form that
we have known it. Whether this is a
good thing must remain to be seen,"
said Frank A. Vanderlip, president Of
the National City bank, speaking at
the Rubber Association of America
banquet. "The breakdown did not
come Dec. 2S; it started far back Of
that in Unfair treatment of the rail-
roads," he said. I'VE are seeing a type
Of state socialism the world over, re-
6ected In price fixing and food admin
istrations."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
Receive Strict Instructions to
StifIe Word of Americas
Preparations For War.
TEUTON EFFORT Barred
Berlin Government Attempts to Con
ceaI Fear of United States
Through Drastic Orders
To German Press.

Washington, Jan. 9.-The depart
ment of state has been supplied with
sensational evidence of the extent to
which the Prussian government has
subjugated the press of Germany to
the interests of the Kaiser and his war
party.
Copies of secret and drastic regu-
lations issued to German editors,
which have fallen into the hands of
the State Department, show not on
ly the German newspapers are pro-
hibited from printing news that is
bad, but are required to comment
only in terms of praise concerning
events OF a military and political
nature.
5erlin's View of v. S. Unmasked.
Interesting liglt is thrown upon the
Berlin view of the preparations for
war in the United States by a para
graph of an order dated June 6 last
1t says:
while the news about Americas
war preparations, such as the or
ganization and outfitting of an army
one million strong to reinforce the
French-English front is looked upon,
in that form, as bluff" the spread
ing of which may unfavorably affect
the opinion of the German people.
yet the fact must not be overlooked,
on the other hand, that the United
States, with the support of its ca
pacity for material and industrial
management, is arming itself for
war with great energy and tenacity.
The war preparations in America
are therefore, as was intimated in
the Reichstag. at the time, not at
all to be made little of. but must be
taken seriously without on that
account being made source of
worry"
Forbid News OF v. S. Troops.
Another dated June says:
Petit Parisien informs us that
five American divisions, numbering
125,000 men be expected in France
in the autumn of 1917. 1t is urgent
ly requested not to reproduce this
information without some comment
We do not wish to underestimate
the ability of America to accomplish
things, but must not on the other
hand overestimate it. In order to
bring a division over from America,
10000 tons must make the trip
twice. Therefore, from the mere
fact of lack Of space, the transpor-
tatiOn OF such body of trOops
within certain fixed time limits is
impossible. Moreover, it is impos-
sible to train these troops properly
by autumn. These facts, which have
recently been discussed In the Ger
man war news, cannot be too
strongly emphasized in the discus
sion OF the French news"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
cOMPUL sorry CONSERVATION
Obligatory Food Saving Legislation
Being Prepared.

Washington, Jan. 9.-Legislation
looking to the compulsory conserva-
ton of food-possibly some system Of
enforced rationing-is being prepared.
Under the proposed legislation
wheatless days, meatless days, as well
as other regulations for food conser.
walton will be made imperative.
This can be stated on the highest
authority. Voluntary conservation has
failed to produce the quantities OF feed
desired for movement overseas, al.
though the campaign for food saving
is being supported Loyalty by hundreds
Of thousands OF persons throughout
the country.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
America Fights to End Menace
OF Kaiserism and Guarantee
Fairness to Weak People.
FOE MUST PAY FOR ACTS
Restoration, Reparation, Freedom OF
Seas, Reduction of Armaments
And Guarantees Amonq
Demands.

Washington, Jan 9.-The United
States is in the war to make the
world safe for democracy and to guar
antee fairness and justice to all of the
weaker peoples, and in the war it will
remain until the menace of kaiserism
is ended for all time.
This was the announcement of Pres
ident Wilson in addressing a joint ses-
sion of the Congress of the United
States on Our Foreign Relations"
outdoes Lloyd George.
President Wilson went even further
than Mr.. Lloyd George, British pre-
mier, in his address Saturday, and
served notice on the Teuton powers
the people of the United States have
pledged their lives, their honor and ev-
erything they possess to the principle
of international justice.
Directed to Russia.
The moral climax of this, the eul
minating and final war for human lib.
erty, has come, and the people of the
United States are ready to put their
own strength, their own highest pur.
pose, their own integrity and devotion
to the test" announced the President.
1t was the compelling voice of the
Russian people" asking definition of
Americas principles and purpose -
that prompted the President to speak.
And it was largely to Russia that his
speech was directed.
Fourteen Separate Articles.
He struck at the sinister activities
of the German rules, demanded light
on all future negotiations and treaties
and held resolute to his stand for ter
ritorial adjustments that will insure
peace.
The Presidents program is COM
posed OF IA separate articles and pro-
vides for restoration and reparation
guarantees for territory and national
life, freedom of the seas and access to
them, reductions of ornaments and
guarantees or the sanctity of agree.
ments between nations.
War Provocation Removed.
In word the President said, the
program removes the chief provoca.
tions to war.
But, in order this pronouncement
should be definitely understood as one
OF war aims rather than peace aims
the President declared:
For such arrangements and cove.
nants we are willing to fight. and to
continue to fight until they are
achieved"
This he followed with a restatement
that the world wars only on a Ger.
many crazed by war, not on a Ger.
many of peaceful pursuits, no matter
however great they may be.
Ready for Sacrifice.
'We wish her only to accept place
of equality among the peoples of the
world" said the President. "The new
world in which we now live-instead
of place of mastery"
These aims, the President declared
shared by co-belligerents, were the
aims and principles OF the people OF
the United States for which they are
willing to sacrifice everything.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
Honor Joan Of Arc.

Paris, jan 9.--Masses for both
American and French dead were said
in churches of France on occasion OF
the celebration OF the birthday ami
versary of Joan of Arc At her birth
place in the little village of Domremy
many pilgrims who had come miles to
worship at the church where Frances
saint was baptized were unable to
gain entrance during services, so knelt
In snow while mass was being cele-
brated. Within the church American
and French flags were draped over the
alter whore Joan Of Arc worshipped.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
TO RESUME PEACE PARLEYS
Russians Return to Brest-Litovsk
Crisis In Germany.

London, Jan. 9.-Russia, appar
emily, will continue peace negotia
tions with the Teuton powers al
Brest-Litovsk.
A Berlin dispatch received in Co
penhagen says Russia's representa-
tives have arrived at BrestLotivsk
and negotiations were to be re-
opened at once.
Foreign Minister Trotzky accom-
panied the delegation.
Political cricis in Germany brought
about over annexation policy of the
government is most serious, &C
cording to report from neutral cap
ftals.
II is reported General Won Luden-
dorff, leader of the militarist group,
threatened resignation OF himself and
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
should the government continue sup.
port of Won Kuehlmann's peace plans.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
More Duties for coethaIs.


San Francisco, Jan. BY March 1
there will not be lumber mill left on
the Pacific coast, IL the I. w. w. can
carry out its plans, according to
charges made by A. w. Thornton, head
of the arson bureau Of the board Of
fire underwriters. Thornton declared
hds bureau has information OF an /. w.
w. plot to burn every Pacific coast
mill. He pronounced the recent dis
astrous fire at the Westwood plant
Of the Red River Lumber company a.
the beginning. He declared the belief
That German mensy was involved.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
PERSHING SUPPLY SHIP SUNK
Sent Down by U-Boat and Eight Of
Crew Missing.

An Atlantic Port, Jan. 9.-The Har-
ry Luckenbach, an American steamer,
was torpedoed and sunk with loss OF
life. probably in the English channel,
according to cable advices received
by her owners.
The vessels crew consisted of 80
men, exclusive of the United States
naval guards. Further details are lack
ing in the report
The Harry Luckenbach was the Sec
ond steamer owned by the Luckenbach
steamship line to be sunk within three
months. The first was the ID. N. Luck
enbach. five of whose crew perished
when she was torpedoed on Oct. 9th.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
Bomb Explosion Wreck. School.

Rochester, Pa, Jan. 9.--The Roches-
ter continuation school, public insti-
tuition attended by 40 pupils, was par
TALLY wrecked by bomb in the desk
Of Miss Cecilia Helbing, the teacher.
Carl Burgwall, 13, was seriously in
jured. He was the only one in the
building when the bomb exploded.
Burgwall told the police he was firing
the furnace in the cellar ut the time
He succeeded in getting outside before
be collapsed. Police think the bomb
was . time contrivance set by pro-Ger-
pans and that II exploded prematurely.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
Would Limit Coal Exports.

Washington, Jan. 9.-Strict limita-
ton of coal exports to shipments for
war purposes or in exchange for CON-
modites needed in the United States
has been recommended to the war
trade board by Fuel Administrator
Garfield. A statement by the admins
traitor of the amount of coal available
for export during the coming year
shows the supply smaller than for
1917.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
Japan ls Ready To Act.

Toxic. Jan. 9.-Japan is prepared for
any emergency at Vladivostok to pro
tect the subjects Of the Allied nations
and to fulfill her obligations to the AL
dies. it is semi-officially stated. She
will make no move against the Bolshe
wiki however, y was added.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
LIND RESIGNATION RUMORED
mo Confirmation or Denial Obtain
able at Capitol.

st. Paul, Jan. 9.-Persistent ru-
,mors that former Governor John
Lind has resigned from the Public
Safety commission were in circula-
tion at the capitol Tuesday during
the first commission meeting in
three weeks. Mr.. Lind was absent.
, Governor Burnquist announced he
had nothing to say" on the subject.
H. w. Libby, secretary, said any in.
formation should be obtained from
the governor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
Wilson Approves Lloyd George Speech


London. Jan. 9.-American Ambas-
sador w. II. Page conveyed President
Wilson's cordial approval" of Premier
Lloyd Georges speech to the Welsh
statesman, according to well authen-
ticated report here. No details were
available as to the manner in which
the American executive had thus ap-
proved Lloyd Georges address.
More Duties for GoethaIs.
Washington, Jan. 9.-Secretary Ba-
ker has announced that in addition to
his duties as acting quartermaster gen.
eral Major General Goethals has been
designated to be director OF transpor-
tation and storage of the War depart
ment.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
To Be Modified At Once BY
Government Into Great In
dustrial Army
DENSMORE IS DIRECTOR
Aim Is To Show That Labor Draft
Is Unnecessary-Emplo
Employees and Business
All Back Project.

Washington, Jan. 9.-The depart
ment Or labor has entrusted to the
United States employment service the
mobilization of 100000 workers for
agriculture, ship building and war
contracts plants.
Tremendous expansion of the service .
is in progress in preparation for re-
cruiting men necessary to carry on
economic work in support of military
force in the war.
Solution of the labor shortage prob
lem by this means is confidently pro-
posed by the department and cooper
ating labor organizations in answer to
suggestions that conscription of labor
is necessary.
One early result is expected to be
the placing of 100000 mechanics in
ship-building plants to aid in hurrying
to completion the merchant marine
program.
John b. Densmore of Montana, soli-
eitor for the department of labor, will
be national director of the employment
service by appointment of Secretary
Wilson.
He will have as his assistants Robert
Watson of Massachusetts, and Charles
+. Clayton of Maryland.
Samuel j. Gompers of New ork,
son of the labor leader, will succeed
Mr.. Watson as the departments chief
clerk
Plans Outlined.
Organization plans of the new serv-
.ce were described in an official state.
nent, which said:
"The United States employment
service has been divorced from the
bureau of immigration, under whose
control it has been since its establish
hent, made a separate arm of the de-
partment and one of the largest and
most important war-prosecuting organ
fzations of the national government.
Through utilization of existing and
projected federal, state and municipal
employment offices and labor supply
ng facilities of various state councils
)f defense, the federal employment
service will cover the entire continent
with a network of inter-related labor
exchanges.
These will recruit and transfer
workers from one section to another
and eliminate the present chaotic sit
nation of surplus of workers in one
region and a shortage in another.
Since the entrance of the United
States into the war, the American Fed,
Grafton of Labor and the Chamber OF
Commerce of the United States, speak
ing for employers and business gen
orally, both have sought the action an
nounced"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-09
Urges importing China Farmers.

San Francisco, Jan. 9.-The Califor.
ola State Development board has
adopted resolution favoring impor-
tation of experienced Chinese farmers
to California for the period of the
war.