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Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13
BUY LIBERTY BONDS
Democracy and Liberty Under
going the Supreme Test.
Americans Face Great Duties In Pro-
Viding Food Products and Aiding
Our Soldiers and Our Allies
In War.
(By HAPsBURe LIEBE of the Vigl-
lantes.)

Democracy and Liberty are not al
ways synonymous, perhaps, but they
mean the same to US now, certainly.
A military autecracy, after more than
forty years of thorough and cunning
preparation, q great part of it by means
OF weapons of our own invention, has
thrust our Democracy and our Liberty
into the crucible to test it out, to see
whether it would hold good. They did
not believe it would hold good, those
Prussian militarists; they do not be-
lieve it yet. We believe it will, but our
belief has been made up heretofore
largely of egOtism and blindness.
Democracy and Liberty, the wtS aids
with our own, is now undergoing the
supreme test. OF course there is dross
and it is coming to the top rapidly.
There is fnetficiency, mismanagement,
grave mistakes that even our national
leaders have made; there has been
some graft, no doubt; there has been
some playing of politics; there has
been protlteering, but all this is only
the drOss floating to the top of the
crucible. We were never a military
nation, you know. The biggest of our
mistakes, 1 think, was in our shipbuild
ing program, but we were never ship
building nation, either. However, this
.dross is all being cleared away.
Fully 60 per cent of the winning of
this war depends upon us here at home.
We have three great duties upon US
now as we never had them upon US
before-thOse of US who can grow food
products must grow more than ever; ;
we must all aid in the saving of foods,
and especially wheat, meats, and
sugar; and all of us who can, though
1t may neceSSitate some sacrifice, must
buy these new Liberty bonds Proper
ly carried through, these three great
duties will prove the oyerbalancing
power in the winning of the war, be
yond doubt. The growing of great
crops and the conservation of food.
and the buying of Liberty bonds, quick
ly mean enough food for our soldiers
and our allies, and enough ships to
carry it. If we fail in this the die of
destiny is quite likely to fall with its
skull-and-crossbones upward for US; If
we do not fail, then Democracy and
Liberty will come out of the crucible
covered with glory. The result is
inevitable.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13
Your Bond BUYS Explosives.

Many farmers here in America have
used giant powder or dynamite In
blasting out stumps and rocks and in
preparing a hillside for an orchard.
Explosives are dangerous to handle
and we all duck our heads and run
when the charge is to be set off. Over
In France today our sons are having
the stuff hurled at them every minute
of the day and night with an occasion
al vo1ley of gas shells that choke and
strangle to death and they don't dare
run. With the boys looking death in
the face over there, we can do no more
than look the issue squarely in the
face here at home and buy Liberty
Bonds and see that they are provided
with ammunition to return the kaiser
just as good as he is sending across TO
our trenches.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13
WHO FIGHTS AT HOME? SAY |!
(Ry ROLAND c. USHER, of the Wig
iIantes.)


We cannot fight war and still do
business as usual. This means you
and not other people. You might as
we'll come to it first as last. The war
is unusual and we shall have to have
unusual business to deal with it.
The gist of it is this: The nation
has just so many hands and just so
much energy-just so much raw mate
rial and labor There are only "A
hours in the day and 365 days in the
year. We can make only so many
things in a given time with a given
supply of time and material. If we
make some things we cannot make
others. If we put sugar into candy to
stuff idle women we cannot have jam
to feed the soldiers. If we make au-
tos for pleasure only, we cannot use
that material, labor and energy for
tanks and airplanes. If we burn the
gasoline on Sundays, the boys in
France cannot use it in battle.
The whole truth is that we must
stop business as usual And-this is
where you come in-you must stop
spending as usual. Do it now. Put
your money into gunpowder and not
face powder; into tanks and not limou-
sines; into food for the trenches in
stead Of spending 1t in hotels and res
taurants. But you cannot buy directly
for the army. The government must
do IT. Give the government the money
and BUY A LIBERTY BOND.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13
Russian Ships RsauisltIonsd.

New York-The United States has
requisitioned for use in entente sery-
ice number of Russian steamships
formerly engaged in transporting sup
plies between America and Russia. ac-
cording to authoritative information
received in shipping circles in New
York Friday. The vessels are those
which were detained in American
ports when the present Rassiar ~ov-
ernment came into power. Iney 81
continue to fly the Russian flag. 1t is
understood they will be operated by
the Russian volunteer fleet, which rep
resentatives of the former Russian
government in the United States say
Is still intact.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13

this sector and have pushed down
south from Chauny and Barisis, cap.
turing the villages of Pierremande and
| Folembray, the latter lying on the
southern outskirts of the lower Coucy
wood. They report also the capture OF
1,400 prisoners and heavy French
losses.
German troops still are being pour
ed into Finland and although the Rus
sian authorities have made no formal
protest, they have notified the Ger
man government that exception is
taken to the violation by Germany Of
provisions of the Brest-Litovsk treaty.
Polish soldiers have been interned
in Hungary, their legions having been
dissolved by the Teutonic military au-
thorities because of wholesale trea-
son in the ranks.
President Wilson's acceptance of
the challenge of the central powers
and his declaration of force, force to
the utmost, force without stint or
limit, the righteous and triumphant
force which shall make right the law
of the world and cast every selfish
dominion down in the dust" has had
responsive echo from the capitals of
the entente allied powers, where the
press gives high praise to the presi.
dent for putting his actions into
agreement with his words,
The masses in Austria are showing
signs that they consider that their
war aims have been attained through
the signing of peace with Ukraine and
with Roumania. Not only the labor
element, but also the bourgeois, have
expressed their desire for immediate
peace.
Austria-Hungary was recently cal
most on the point of beginning peace
negotiations with the entente" Count
Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian foreign
minister, declared Tuesday in an ad
dress to the Vienna municipal council.
The wind suddenly Veered,'' he add
ed, the entente deciding to await de-
velopments in his country, which
caused it to hope that the dual mon
archy would soon be defenseless.
The foreign minister's words were:
Recently we were almost on the
point of entering into negotiations
with the western powers, when the
wind suddenly veered around, and, as
we know with certainty, the entente
decided it had better wait, as parlia-
mentary and political events in our
justified the hope that the
monarchy would soon be defenseless
Il do not intend to go begging for
peace or to obtain it by entreaties and
lamentations, but to enforce it by our
moral right and physica. strength"
Count Zzernin declared. ANY other
tactics consider will contribute to
the prolongation of the war.
There was sudden and marked de-
crease in the losses to British ship
ring through mine or submarine in the
past week. The admiralty reports
that only six British merchantmen of
/ 500 tons or over and seven under
that tonnage were sunk in the week
ending March 80.
Five fishing vessels also we're sent |
10 the bottom.
The admiralty statement continues:
"Fifteen British merchant vessels |
we're unsuccessfully attacked by sub |
marines.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13

'Austria-Hungary has spoken of peace
before every new offensive against
Italy"
The recent British aerial raids on
Cologne caused 24S deaths, half of
whom were soldiers, according to the
latest reports received at Basel, Switz-
erIand rhe German soldiers were in
a railway train bound for the Picardy
front and standing at the Cologne sta
tion.
Peter Petroff, the Russian emissary,
who this week returned from Berlin
to Moscow with the ratified peace
treaty signed by Chancellor Won Hert-
ling and Emperor William, tells the
Izvestia, the bolsheviki organ. that the
provisions of the ratified treaty con-
firm the declaration of Foreign Secre-
tary Won Kuhlmann during the reich
stag's debate that the provinces OF
Livonia and Esthonia, lying east of the
new Russo-German frontier, are to be
under Russian sovereignty. Frontier
lines were incorporated in the treaty.
In the week ending March 80 Teu-
tonic submarines sank three Italian
steamships of more than 1,50O tons
and destroyed one sailing vessel of
more than 100 tons and nine sailing
vessels Of tonnage under that figure.
4 French official estimate Of the
Ge1alan losses IN the great battle on
the western front puts their total cas-
ualty as between 275.0oO and 100000
men. The Germans are sending most
af their wounded to Belgium, It is de-
clared, to conceal from the German
people their heavy sacrifices.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13

Several members of the former i'm
perial Russian family, now at Tobolsk.
are i'll, and the Red Cross has petit
toned the boIsheviki government to
allow the family of Nicholas Romanoff
the ordinary rations instead of that
allotted to soldiers.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13

The American Red Cross has au-
thorized gift Of $500 900 30 the Ca.
nadian red Cross for war relief work,
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13
FoReIeN NEWS.

The British forces in the Punjab re-
gion of India are successfully carrying
on punitive operations against the
Marri tribesmen, who have been
driven back into the hills and now are
carrying out only raiding exploits.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13

Fire Thursday night at Kansas City,
Mo-, destroyed three city blocks of
buildings in the wholesale district
known as the west bottoms"
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13

The American government has de-
cided that Dutch ships en- route to- the
United States from Holland at the
time the Dutch shipping in American
ports was requisitioned. will not be
taken over on arrival in America.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13

Governor Hobby Thursday signed
house bill No. 1873, providing that all
corporations required to pay a gross
receipts tax to the state of Texas must
obtain a permit to operate in this state
from the secretary of state.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-13

Robert P. Praoger, said to be of Ger
man parentage, was hanged to tree
one mile south Of Collinsville, H.,
Thursday night by mob of $50 per-
sons, which dragged him from the
basement of the city hall, where he
had been in hiding. Praeger was &C
cused of making disloyal remarks in
a recent address to miners at Mary
vile, Ill.
Governor Hobby Thursday signed
house bill No. 13s, providing that all
corporations required to pay gross
receipts tax to the state of Texas must
obtain permit to operate in this state
from the secretary of state.
Fire Thursday night at Kansas City,
Mo-, destroyed three city blocks of
buildings in the wholesale district
known as the west bottoms"
The government has taken over the
entire output OF the Bull Durham"
cigarette tobacco, manufactured by
the American Tobacco Company at the
company's factories at Durham, n. c..
and will devote it TO the needs of the
American troops abroad, it was an
nounced i'll New York Wednesday. 1t
was stated that the government will
pay the same price for the goods as
domestic jobbers have been paying.
With the resumption of normal
street car service Wednesday the gen
eral strike at Kansas City, Mo, came
10 an end.
A number Of the producers in the
Brownwood, Texas, oil field are now
receiving S2.25 per barrel for their oil
Two Texas rangers Tuesday made
one of, if not the richest, smuggling
hauIs in the history of the lower bor-
three men and seized a six-cylinder
auto, s1,40O in gold, S1,1O0 in silver
and beef. The officers state that
the supplies had been loaded in a boat
and were being ferried across the
river about ten miles above Browns
vile.
Governor Hobby Tuesday signed
and filed the bill providing for major
ity nominations. He also signed the
bill increasing the salaries of county
school superintendents in Texas. Both
of these laws become. effective June
26th.
With twenty-four carloads of pota-
toes, each car approximating $4,000
pounds, this week on the side tracks
at Fort Worth, and deteriorating be-
cause the people of Texas will not
sacrifice their bread and substitute
potatoes, and twenty-six other cars on
sidings at other points in Texas, Fed
eral Food Administrator Peden feels
that there is some stacking on the part
OF homes, hotels, restaurants, camps
and consumers in general.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-08
MORE MEMBERS III PIG CLUBS
Bio Increases Seen in Many StGtes
With Consequent Influences on
E.cat Production.

prepared by the United States Depart
mcnt &C Agriculturc)
Despite lack 81 pigs in nearly every
state, the fiscal year that ended June
80, brought pig increases in the mem
bership of boys and girls pig clubs,
with consequent greater influences on
meat production, according to the an
nual report of the bureau-of animal
industry, United States department of
agriculture.
Thirteen specialists in as many
states supervised the work of 21,G03
members, q membership increase OF
96 per cent. This work was carried
on in Alabama, Arkansas, California,
Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Caro-
lima, Oklahoma, Oregon and Texas.
The number Of members reported
showed an increase Of 14S per cent
and now is nearly 10000.
Financial aid by bankers helped
largely to make the clubs successful.
AS an instance, bankers in Arkansas
last year furnished purebred pigs to
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-08
SHOULD RETAIN BEST FOWLS
Patriotic Farmers Who Desire to Dc
Their Bit Will Find 1t Wise to
Keep Best Layers.

Among farmers generally it is the
common practice to sell hens over a
year old for poultry when they stop
laying in the fall. Under the usual con-
ditions this is good policy, for as a
rule only about half the flock lay well
enough the second year to be profit
able, and the farmer who has pullets
enough to replace all his old hens sees
no advantage in keeping any of them
over.
This year, however, patriotic farm
ers who desire to do their part to in
crease the poultry and egg supplies
will find it desirable,to retain consid-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-08
METHODS SHOWN
OF Pig RAISING
Work of Boys Pig Clubs to Be
Displayed by Motion
Pictures.
TO INCREASE PORK SUPPLY
United States Department of Agricul-
ture Is Organizing Farm Youths
in All Parts of Country
$4,000 Members Enrolled.
prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture0

PREPARED by the United States Depart
ment of Agricultural
Motion pictures, to be shown IN
picture theaters in all parts or the
United States, will show the work OF
the boys pig clubs which the United
States department of agriculture Is Or
ganizing in all parts of the country
in cooperation with the extension I'll
visions of the state agricultural col
leges. The Pig Club film is the sec
ond of series of official films or the
department to be released through one
e of the large motion picture companies
which is to distribute them. This ed
ucational film will help to increase the
pork supply. 1t shows the method OF
insructing farm boys, and in some IN
stances girls. who have Joined the ag-
ricultural clubs, how to raise better
pigs, and the methods used by ciuD
members in carrying out instructions.
The first pig club was organized III
Louisiana in 1910. Now approximate
ly $4,000 members are enrolled in the
pig clubs throughout the country.
Best Methods TO Be Shown.
The first lesson taught in the film
story is that it costs no more to feed
and care for the pig of carefully Sc
lected stock than the scrub, while the
results in meat produced is greatly In
favor Of the Well-bred animal. The
picture shows further how to feed and
care for the pigs, how to protect. them
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-08
COW. Better WITHOUT HORNS
Dancer of Animals Hooking Each other
Is Eliminated-Apply caustlo
Potash on Calf.
Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)

Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
In the average dairy it is better that
COWS be without. horns, as the danger
of their hooking one another is thus
prevented. Only in purebred herds,
where the appearance of the herd is
considered important from a show or
sale point of view, is there any Justlfl-
cation for allowing horns to grow. 1t
is much easier to prevent the growth
of horns than to remove them.
The points that ultimately will de-
yelop into horns can be felt as small
buttons imbedded in the skin. The pre-
yention is most effective if the treat
ment is applied when the buttons are
lust large enough to be felt, which is
usually the third and the seventh days.
To prevent their development, the hair
should be removed from the horn but
tons: q stick of caustic potash or soda,
wrapped in paper to protect the hands
| If the operator, is then moistened with
wafer and rubbed on each horn button
two or three times, allowing the caus-
tic to dry after each application. Care
should be taken to apply the caustlc'
which should not be too moist, to the
buttons only, for if it touches the sur
rounding skin it will cause unnecessary
pain. Immediately after the applica-
ton the calf also should be protected
from rain, in order to prevent the caus-
tic fro ON spreading. If the operation is
carefully performed the horns will
make no growth. If scurs or horn
,rowths appear, it is an indication that
The caustic was not properly applied.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-08
Ignite Goals May Provide
Eaany Important Supplies

Secretary Lane has recommended to
congress an appropriation of 100000
to investigate the commercial and eco
nomic practicability of utilizing the
Ignite Goals of the United States for
producing fuel oil, gasoline substitutes,
ammonia, coal tar and gas for power.
There are immense quantities of Ignite
deposits in the public lands of the
United States lying near the surface Of
the earth and cheaply mined, but the
coal is of such character that it does
not stand transportation in its natural
state and is of small value for fuel ex-
cept in the immediate vicinity of the
mines. If satisfactory method of ex-
tracing fuel oil and other substances
is secured it would be of enormous
value and add immensely to the re-
sources of the United States. 1t is pro-
posed to have the Investigations con-
Quoted through the bureau Of mines.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-08
BOILED OATS FOR CHICKENS
Favorable Results Obtained by Penn
sylvania Department of Asrl-
culture--Feed Warm.

Poultry experts in the Pennsylvania
department of agriculture report favor
able results from feeding boiled oats,
and state they are the cheapest poultry
food now obtainable. Boiled oats have
largely, too, superseded the sprouted
oats so much exploited few years
ago, as they are better, safer and less
fuSsy.
To prepare, soak good, heavy oats
- hours or more lin hot weather or
warm room a fresh lot should be
soaked daily, dissolve one tablespoon
full Of salt in each bucket Of water
used for this, boil two or three hours
and so gauge the amount Of water
used for soaking that at the finish the
water is boiled away. Feed warm but
not hot. White Leghorn pullets can
have these boiled oats twice daily, say
at 10 a. m. and 4 p. m, and all they
will eat up clean. For old hens or
heavyweight pullets, one feed a day
is enough and not too much at that,
lest they become too fat on this much
liked feed.
-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-08

from disease, and how to shelter then
from the inclemency of winter and the
heat Of summer. The results Of wise
selection and intelligent care arc
shown in the well groomed, fat, healthy
porkers wearing the prize ribbons they
have won at county and state fairs.
sid in Increasing Supply.
"The practicability of producing
rapid increase in the pork supply anG
of bringing greatly increased profits
to the farmers who produce il
are lessons which the bureau of ami
NAL industry wishes to call to the at
tention of all farmers" says an off
cial Of that bureau, "and it has been
found that education of the farm
youths is bringing about valuable in
direct education of their elders in th2
possibilities Of more profitable hog
lots.
"It has become urgently important,
as a war measure, that this country
greatly increase its production OF
foodstuffS, especially Of meats ana
fats. They are needed for our people
at home, for our-armies abroad, and
for the armies and people Of the en-
tente nations. While the department
or agriculture is working hard to in
crease our supply of beef, effective in
creases in the number of the country's
cattle is necessarily slow, while much
more rapid results can be obtained in
the production of pork, as well as mutt
ton"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-08
ORGANIC MATTER AIDS SOIL
Humus Formed When II Decays Helps
Hold Available Food Till the
Plant Can Use IT..

Organic matter serves many pCr-
poses in the soil. In decaying it helps
make plantfood in the soil available
rs we'll as that in the organic matter.
The humus formed when it decays
helps hold the available plantfood till
the plant can use it. The organic mat
ter makes the soil. more friable and
less likely to puddle and cake into
hard Jumps. 1t also reduced erosion.
The organic matter plays a most i'm
portant part in the soil and as it de-
Gays it needs to be added quite often.
The best form in which to add it is as
manure, and the land should every few
years be put into some crops as grass
es or legumes which also add organic
matter.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-08
POTATOES SOLD BY WEIGHT
Announcement Made by Food Admin
, istraton to Prevent Confusion in
Making Comparisons.

Potatoes are now sold at wholesale
on the hundredweight basis, not by the
bushel as formerly The United States
food administration uakes this an
nouncement so that persons compar-
i.g current prices will not confuse
them with quotations referring to
bushel measure.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-08
KEEPING MALES IN SAME rev
Not Wise Plan to Permit TWO Roos-
tiers With Hens-Use Them on
Alternate Days.

It is not best to allow two males in
the same pen together. If it becomes
necessary to keep more than one in
the same pen, only one should be al
lowed with the hens the same day.
1t is a good plan to let one run with
the hens and the other one the next
day. The male should be kept in a
pen by himself when he is not with
the hens.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-03-08
AVOID DAMPNESS IN HOUSES
Dark Buildings, Lacking Direct Sun.
light, Are Conducive to Disease
Clean Them UP.

Damp houses, especially If dark and
lacking direct sunlight, moldy litter,
and filthy nests and roosts are con-
ducive to disease. Chicken pox finds
a good breeding place under such con-
ditions. Clean up, and 'let a little
sunshine in!"