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Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-10
PRICES WILL CONTINUE
HIGH.

Because of the world shortage
of food and the demand for an
enormous export to famine
stricken Europe. prices will con-
tinue high-especially high for
the yield from this years har-
vest, and more than normally
high throughout the years that
the world will require in read
justing itself
Not until three years after the
civil war did the prices of farm
products experience a marked
decline. Not until nearly 80
years after the close of the war
did the prices of many food COM
modities reach the level that pre-
vailed before the war.
One must consider in this con-
nection that the civil war affect
ed far fewer people than has the
world war. The destruction of
property was thousands of times
less. The problems of recon-
struction were far less serious
and time taking than they are to-
day. All of the conditions that
kept prices high after the civil
war are more pronounced in the
period that we are entering to-
day.
From every viewpoint of the
prospective price situation.
things look mighty good for the
farmer. He should take stock
of his farming resources now,
build them up. and maintain
them at the highest point for
quantity and quality production.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-10
MORE FOOD Will SAVE what THE WAR HAS won

The safety the world depends upon the harvest of this
year.
In this situation the world is looking mainly for relief from
the farmers of the United States
1t estimated that the United States alone must supply sixty
per cent the coming year demand for foodushat
ports be twice what they last year We must send 20 @
this year against 900 tons last Food
Administrator Hoover
1t is big job demands preparation bigger scale than
ever before Maximum acreage and maximum yields per
must the goal every farmer For every bshe every on
there will be demandan nssten demand-from world fight
ing Famine. 49,
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-10

TODAY the world is depending upon the farmers of the Unit
ed States land those in Jackson have their part
tent than before for food and clothing
The farmers have helped complete mighty and glorious task
Autocracy with its medshonored divine right of kings and
its lust for world power has vanished before the Everlasting Mum
Der of free And this conquerng chorus of negaon the
farmers of the United States inspired by the slogan, Food
Will the War had leading part They spoke decsvely in
terms of food. .~.:
NOW than during the food is vital factor.
MORE FOOD WILL SAVE WHAT THE WAR HAS WON"
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-10

IS the slogan for today.
For there Auocra In Europe with millions under his
sway On the ruins of the House of Hohene and the House
Hapsburg stands the House of the Empty Cupboards And
from it rules Famine
Only food in quantities sent from other lands can
keepthemore than 100000 peoples of these countries from
starvation.
The world working to put end to Famine as 1t put
end to Autocy Surplus food wherever be found and
transported is being hurried the amne-stricken nations
Enough will be Secured to avert the immediate crisis but when
that is DONE the food bins of the world will be empty
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-10
Every Farm Needs a CoodBuggy

practical way there vehicle that fits into farming activities
to better advantage than good buggy is handy economical comfort
able and dependable Of transportation disable every day the year.
Rain she winter or SUMNER goods roads bad up lanes
fea good buggy always be depended for those necessary trips
JOHN DEERE BUGC meeting The everyday requirements Of farmers
every stale the Union They liked for their style and fnsh their
Eghtrunnng, easy riding qualities and their long life.
of their New wheel nge the
the fexGy that
occupants
check they thoroughly bd shafts of trghtned hck
specially bind the shaft the
carefully hg eliminate
accidents theyry the load
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-10

Do you still find that making a
cultivator do tic right kind Of work
is a tiresono, tedious jo5?.
Wouldn't y5.1 &c interested in a
cultivator tat puts t,loroughness in
to cultivation and takes the hard
work out?
That is just what the use Of Cur
John Deere &c Cultivator assures.
The tx Cs" rigs, in shifting sta
parallel. Its shovelS always face
squarely 10 their work. They never
track or trail on crooked rows. No
uncultivated spots nor no deep
trenches are left. Over all of tie
field, on crooked rows, as well as on
straight rows, the * c" gives thor
ough cultivation-the kind that most
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-10
Get Thorough Cultivation
Without Hard Work

effectively destroys weeds and con-
serves moisture.
The rigs shift quickly in response
10 eight pressure on the foot levers.
Guiding the rigs is as natural as
walking.
You can maintain thorough cultivation
without delaying work to make adjustments.
NO wrench work is necessary. You don't
have 10 leave the seat. Simply use the handy
levers. These levers enable you to meet
quickly and accurately every field condition.
We want you to get into the seat OF this
cultivator and see for yourself how handy
and reliable it is. We've never seen its
equal IN single-row cultivation for time
saving, labor saving, Notwithstanding work
II the fie.d.
Don't fal to come in early and get
acquainted with this cultivator.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-10

You get "KC furnished With the famous John Deere
Method acknowledgment hoof shoUek and sueeps
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17
IoWA's WEALTH.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Some statis-
tician at the great Iowa college at
Ames has figured out that Iowa is the
wealthiest state of the union. Her per
capita wealth is figured at S3,975.
He may be correct, and he probably
is. Which would again prove various
things. AS for instance. that the
owan Is thrifty and that he kno.,
now to extract the maximum o
wealth out of the inexhaustible soil
That he SO arranges that whatever III
undertakes is done right and Therefore
pI ofits him. There is less lost motor
ir Iowa than in other states.
The situation Of Iowa between the
two greatest rivers of the northern
continent has no doubt contributed
something to her wonderful progress.
But perhaps the reason lies In the
fact that there are very few, practi-
cally none in the state. who can not
read and write, and that there are
high schools everywhere, and colleges,
and that the state possesses a splen-
did university and the greatest agri-
cultural college In the world. Per
haps If the thing could be expressed
in such terms, 1t would be found that
the Iowan, man, woman or child, is
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17
A FUTILE CRUSADE.

The crusaders against the excessively high
heeled shoes that many women wear assert that
such unhygienic footwear is not only a menace
to health but that inability to concentrate and
mental inferiority accompany its use. But what
will all their arguments amount tot How often
has pernicious frivolity been attacked without
success, and how particularly futile to hold up
the idea of mental deterioration as a deterrent7
The reformers are wasting their time and ener-
gies. There is nothing that can be said or done.
This folly Of fashion must run its course. Not
until foolish femininity is stocked up with foot
wear of this sort can we look for a change in the
style. Then it will come suddenly like bolt
from the blue, and it will be radical. The manu-
facturers will cut the heels so low that no wom-
an can wear the high ones without making it
painfully apparent that she is ages behind the
times. AMI the heels cannot be cut off. That
is the beauty of it from the makers point of
view. Take two inches from them and it lets
the foot down until the center of gravity is be-
hind the heel and acrobatic balancing is re-
quired to maintain a perpendicular position.
There is nothing that can be done. Femininity
must immediate itself upon the altar of fashion
until the manufacturers figure that the time for
sending the present style to the ash can has ar
rived.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17
THE FOREMOST NATION.

Most Americans will cheerfully agree with
Sidney Mezes, the brother-in-law of Colonel"
House just back from Europe, that President
Wilson is still the biggest man over there. !"
The executive head of the greatest, richest, most
puissant and altruistic nation is, and must be Of
necessity in this crisis most influential man.
The nation which has loaned ten billion dollars
to its allies, the nation to which all others look
for food, financial backing and profitable trade
relations, naturally commands respect. The ma
ton which dominates one-half the globe with
a supremacy which no combination dares to
challenge at this iuncture in human affairs, is
great force; and its official head, who can in
many things speak for it and urge his views up
on the world is inevitably the greatest individ-
ual potency. Any president Of the United
States who measured up to our presidential
average of capacity would, under existing cir
cumstances, be the outstanding personality of
the race. No true Americans could wish it
otherwise, and the hope is general that the re-
spect and confidence of the nations of the world
may never be impaired or forfeited, whoever
shall occupy the highest position in this great
republics gift. May Americas seat in the
councils of the nations be ever at the head of
the table.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17

Christian Science Monitor: dogs
are tremendous subject. To write
their history would be very largely TO
write the history of the human race.
for practically wherever the human
race is or ever has been there are
and ever have been dogs. All down
the centuries, in every country or me
world, the friend of man has followed
at the heel of some master, pa5 re-
.joiced extravagantly in his favor, has
abased himself utterly under the
cloud of his displeasure, and, ever
ready and ever eager to forget all
differences, has reckoned the rlain.
tenance OF good relations as the
greatest thing in the world.
And so, from far back In the rast,
when the dog had no real history,
when he is known to have existed at
all only because of the rude carving
on some solid rock overlooking some
wild sea, from those dim times the
one characteristic of the dog that
seems to have come down to the
present along one wonderfully I'M
broken road is his faithfulness. Five
thousand years before the christian
era. the Egyptian peasant, as he
watched each year for the happening
of the great miracle, the rising of the
Nile, noticed that its gracious waters
began to trickle over his parched land
just at the time that a certain e'uri-
Gus star appeared above the horizon.
And so inevitably did the rising of
the Nile follow upon the rising of
the star that, to the peasant. the
stars faithfulness could only De conn
pared to the faithfulness of his dog.
and thus Sirius came to be called the
Dog star. Thus, even at that time.
the dog had established himself firmly
as the friend of man, one whose
faithfulness was so unchanging that
it formed just comparison for the
rising Of star.
True, there were and are certain
eastern peoples to whom the dog, all
his devotion notwithstanding. has
failed to make appeal, amongst whom
he is still regarded as an outcast. Fer
the most part, however, and amongst
most people, the dog has had no diff
Guilty in establishing his position SIS
the friend of man, and in maintain
ing and adding to his reputation in
this capacity. Instances are so
famous and SO many, so utterly
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17
LoWDEN IN ILLINOIS.

Washington. d. c., Post: "A lot OF
republicans in Illinois are enthusiast
tic about Governor Lowden as
presidential candidate" remarked
George B. McCook Of Chicago at the
Washington. "They see in the gov
ernor chance to put Illinois on the
map again in national way Uncle
joe was the last Illinoisan to make
Illinois famous, and since then we
haven't had much in political adver-
Using way. Inded, Illinois has not
had great deal in politics nationally
for long time, and inasmuch as 1t IS
an important republican state, 1t is
about time that 1t was recognized.
Governor Lowden Is a good repupil-
can; he has been the best governor
Illinois has had in years, and he would
make, geographically and in every
other way, strong candidate. II the
republican party is looking for a man
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17
PLACE OF THE DOG

! looked for and taken for granted,
that any narration OF them amounts
almost to bathos. Dog devotion has
afforded subject to the artist again
and again, story for the writer. and
record for the historian, right down
to the present time
And now. during the past four
years. the dog has given such proof
OF his faithfulness to the best tradi-
lions Of the dog race that all over
the world his praises are being
sounded. The story OF the war-dog
and his doings is gradually being
pieced together. From the very be-
ginning OF the war. as one writer has
expressed 1t. dogs had a paw In It."
When the Germans invaded Belgium,
the harness dogs, which up to that
time had been used for hauling milk,
vegetables, and other produce, began
to assist the refugees IN getting their
children and household goods out OF
the invaded country. Later they
hauled light artillery. and carts laden
with blankets, bread, hay, and scores
of other things for the comfort OF
the soldiers and their horses. Dogs
did sentry duty in the trenches.
patrolled No Mans Land, carried des-
patches through barbed wire en-
tanglements. amid hail Of bullets,
and, above all, added to the laurels
of their ancestors through the ages
by seeking out and helping. the
wounded everywhere. on the far.
flung battlefields of Europe and be-
yond.
Never was there time, so It would
seem, when the place OF the dog In
the affections Of the human race
ought to have been more secure. And
yet. side by side with all this recog-
milton Of what the dog is and de-
serves, there still stands, and appar-
emily easily maintains itself, the sys-
tenn OF the vivisectionist. It is a sys-
tenn which must, of course, ultimately
fall. because. amongst other reasons.
Of its simple depravity. But, for the
present, this depravity is covered up
for the multitude under the terrible
plea Of progress" whilst the devas-
tating charge of Sentiment" Is hurl-
ed at all and sundry who take excep-
ton to the practice. There are many
things worse than sentiment" said a
Famous English Judge. not long ago,
''and one OF them Is cruelty" In
gratitude Is another.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17
LABoRERs AND THEIR HIRE.

Hartford Times: In our most ex-
pcnsive New England city, a decade
ago, drivers of wagons or carts which
transported coal from It's storage
yards to the sidewalks OF the dwell
ings where it was to be burned
worked ten hours a day, with Saturday
half holidays from April to October.
They received from $12 weekly for
driver of one horse to s14 weekly for
the drive OF three-horse truck
II the schedule of hours and wages
which the drivers now propose-and
propose to enforce-for the eleven
months beginning May l, 1919. goes
into effect. drivers will receive from
SEA to $50 for a week OF substantially
fl rty-four hours. That is, they will
work eight hours a day except on
Saturdays, when the day will end at
noon. Ten holidays year Will be
recognized, on which the men Will
rest at full pay or will work at
double pay, the same being true OF
Sundays. Overtime work In gen.
eral will be paid at the rate OF time
and a half
A coal driver OF the highest class in
Boston, then, will receive salary OF
81 $50 a year for working about as
many hours day as the average Of
flee worker, for less time than most
teachers are required to give. Over
time might easily add to this the $140
ne cessary to bring 1t up to $1,700 a
year. II we speak in terms of remun-
Grafton, we shall no longer speak OF
the man who drives the coal wagon
with anything but respect AS for
coal beavers" their wages have ex-
perienced a similar advance, and they
get s24 week instead Of the 50 they
received twenty years ago.
Comparisons. with their damnapie
iteration, are still necessary. The man
who, after eight to ten years OF con-
tinuous study above the so-called com
mon school grades. graduates from
he university, may fortunately Sc
ure a position as instructor in his col
ege at $3.50 a year, this being on a
ew and modern" schedule. II he is
OF satisfied with that remuneration
may take a six weeks course in
hauffeuring, and get a position at the
heel Of coal truck, which will pay
m 81 500 and possibly $1,f00 year.
Or. II he is an idealist, he may study
three years longer, and receive as a
minister of the gospel a salry OF
81 900 or 81, 100 year.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17
AN ORGY OF ExTRAvAGANCE.

! Here are Spec1Hc, concrete IdcLS IelatlNe W
governmental extravaganza. When the armlstlce
was signed in November there were very close
to $4,000 employees in the war department at
Washington. In April there were 26,692, and
in the single week ending April nineteenth 3O2
new clerks or functionaries were put on the pay
roll The treasury department had 10000 en-
ployes on the day of the ar1nistice. 1t now has
B., 442. During one week in April a total of
557 persons were added to the alary-drawing
army in the national capital. The departments
are fairly cluttered with clerks. Yet the country
was promised rapid rehabilitation OF the
civilian employees AMI a return to the normal
working basis. And the rule of extravaganza
prevails, too, under the federal operation Of the
railroads. Senator Pomerene, of Chic, has
made public the payroll of the director general
of the railroads, showing that the seventy two
men on the personal staff of the director general
are receiving salaries aggregating 1888, 100
annually. The list follows: Five men at $780,
900 each, two at $4,000 each three at $35 900,
two at $4,000, eight at $4,000, eleven at $20,-
O00 one at SIS, 800, one at $4,000, ore at $17,-
500 six at $4,000, one at 900, one at $4,000,
lone at $4,000, four at $4,000, one at Sl0,80O,
one at $4,000, and twenty three at $4,000 each.
The average salary paid to the seventy two
men on the personal staff of the director gen
eral is $19,41S ''This condition is a shame, -
said Senator Pomerene. "It is very unfortu-
nate that the administration talked SO much
about economy and then supplied the railroad
officials with salaries that brought about the
same old order Of things. 1t is shame that
such official as Chief Justice White of the
supreme court receives only $4,000 a year
while the railroad administration pays such sal
aries as these. 1t is situation such as this that
has convinced me that the control Of the rail
roads by the federal government should e1:d.' -
The truth is, of course, that the department
chiefs and the railroad administration officials
have had the purse of Fortunatus at their com
mand for the last two years. They have had
more money than they knew what to do with
Their expenditures, however reckless, havs
been unchallenged. There seems to have beer
rivalry among them in charging their armies
of functionaries and in the payment of exorbit
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
rHERE Is NO PAYMENT.

Brother there is payment in the world;
We work and pour labor at the feet
OF those who around us and to come
We live and take living at the hands
OF those who are around us and have BEEN
No one is paid. No person can have more
Than he can hold. And none can do beyond
The power that's in him. To each child that's born
Belongs as much of all our human good
AS he can take and to make him strong.
And from each man, debtor to all the world,
Is due the fullest fruit of all his powers,
His whole fe's labor proudly rendered up,
Not as return-can moments pay an age?
But as the simple duty OF man,
Can he do less-receiving everything?
Charlotte Perkins Gilm a
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17
Band Concerts Pay.

Max Pope, in Burlington Hawk
Eye: Grundy Center likes band con.
certs and is willing to pay for the
same. More than $1,000 was raised
BY popular subscription to pay the
tirundy Center band for giving We'd
iesday evening concerts In the
court house yard during the summer
months. In some towns the people are
willing to pay an outside band, while
home band is expected to be brim
ull of local patriotism and to play for
lmost nothing at home.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17
To Remove First .,,h
Signs of oHA

"The infaIlible first sis ays Mn.
saEging cheek muscles sayty cuag
lieri, whose fame as q ~ soar.
scarcely less than a,tf hes and ~
,reae tha are Wrinkles" she sontlsnsT,
s sasa. , muscles indicate ,hss 'iaha
loo weak to remain In Piao
De r ass's best way to strengthen tf mad,
bathing the face in lnoT,Sered go
a half pint witch hazel e. rts' bssisf
frecr circulation. to the par csoointract
lite. procurable at every ,,o nissicn =
long been known BY c eab,s tonle
lists to possess remarksa,usbls 10
tringent properties, -,mi,,es,
fiabby tissue and wrihki0
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17

worth many times the sum mentioned.
They have made their state what it is
and are bent upon making her ever
greater and more prosperous, ever
bearing in mind that there are other
things of value, aside from the ma
terial things and that the material
things can not be created and accumu-
lated where the other and more valu-
able things are not cultivated.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-17

to lead the party, then it had better
cast it's eyes toward Illinois. notwith-
standing the state went republican by
an overwhelming majority last time.
Some few are talking about Mayor
Thompson as presidential possibil-
ity, but the serious-minded do not con-
slider him."