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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-02
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"Prior to the Spanish American war of 1898, our great harvesting industry used in binding our wheat twine made of hemp largely produced in the Philip pine Islands. War cut off this supply and necessity began to look elsewhere to supply it's wants In the poorest state of Mexico there had grown for centuries on it's volcanic lands the heneauin plant, from which natives had on hand machines produced sisal cordage for tying bundles and weaving bags for their local needs. American need discovered anew this plant, and of necessity used sisal twine in place of hemp for binding it's wheat, and in it's use discovered that for this pur- pose it not only was as good as hemp but even better on account of one characteristic, i.e., that the field in- sects. which sometimes ate the hemp twine and thus wasted the wheat, did not attack the sisal.
 "In the 20 years since 1898 this very poor section of Mexico has from its sisal production and export become the richest state of that republic, ana today of it's production of approximate ly 1000, 900 bales, 90o,O0O are sent into the United States, at a value of $Fo,- 900, 900.
 "When in the latter part of the eight eenth century Watt discovered the value of steam and made possible the steam engine, the water wheel or Eng land, around which power had devei- oped the spinning and weaving indus try, was largely displaced but now In the beginning of the tweneitth cen tury we find an improved form of the old water wheel converting power oi Alabama rivers through hydroelectric energy turning spindles and driving the looms of great cotton factories located practically on the coal mines the basis of the cheapest steam power i,. 4l, rorld
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-02

until summer being that the farmer mem- bers would thereby be given chance to plant and cultivate their crops and ther go back to Montgomery after ldVing-by lime to finish llp the legislative w6rk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-02

Through the courtesy of MT. Nesbitt and the department of agriculture The Age-Herald is permitted to run the article in advance of its appearance in the Alabama Handbook. It follows:
 ,"Wars produce want and sharpen the sight and quicken the wit of the food hungry individual and material hungry industry and nation.
 Men and nations, like children, are inclined to overlook temporarily the value and usefulness of old companions In the interest created by new toys. but after all, the doll has it's recurring resurrection in the childish heart, and thinking men and nations progress In cycles of improvement of fundamental things more than through the adoption of those entirely new.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-02

There has somehow arisen in the minds of cur transportation people. the
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
County
1.-The County With Opportunities and Future

We are giving you a few of the facts about
Sheridan county that will be worthy of due
sideration on your part in making choice for
home. Eighty-seven per cent of our farms are
occupied by the owners; a new $4,000 court
house, paid for; $125 900 treasury surplus drawing
interest; our taxes the lowest of any coun-
ty in Nebraska
We have the best roads-no sand, and more
automobiles per capita than any county in Ne
braska. We have more money on deposit in Sher-
dan county banks for every man, woman and child,
than any other county in Nebraska.
Only IS per cent of our best Agriculture land
is under cultivation; that is why we want you to
come and see us and live with us.
Sheridan county has, the best schools; Hay
Springs has Normal Training high schools.
Our best paying crops are Alfalfa, Corn> and
Hogs; hog cholera is practically unknown in this
county. We put our hogs on the railroad at cost
of less than cents per lb. Many of US ship
from to 10 cars every year. Potatoes are very
good crop here; we the second county in the
state in spud production. The figures appearing
are compiled from the report Of the Nebraska
State Board of Agriculture and the Sheridan Coun-
ty Farm Demonstrators records. They will stand
the strongest investigation; remember that we do
not claim to produce the most per acre of any
county, but WE do claim to produce the most per
acre in proportion to the price of land. Think it
over
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13

It's not far to Sheridan County, " IL
It's not far to go
It's not far to Sheridan County,
But it's the best old place know,
Spuds grow as big as pumpkins,
Corn crop, Oh, my,
The pigs, they think that they are in Heaven, :
IN ALFALFA waist high.
Sheridan County located in the northwestern
part of the state is devoted entirely to the raising
Of stock and farming the c. and N. w. R. R.
passing through the northern part of the county
and the G., B. & g. R. R. passing through the south
ern part
Sheridan county has $50, 1888 acres in farms; of
these acres 124045 acres are cultivated, 1905
acres Of improved land with improvements valued
at s15s,o47, unimafoved land 1,27o,ee4 acres.
Many acres Of this unmproved land is land
that is owned by ranchers men who do not care
to farm it, This land is of the very best farm land
in this county and is offered to the man that
wants to make home for himself. This. land can
be purchased in tracts to suit the purchaser, giving
him as much as he wants, for farming and pasture.
1t all lays level to gently rolling, with very good
graded roads to town.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13

B4est County" in the "Best
4 the World" is the way the
~ their town and community.
rye, but there is something in
of Sheridan county which
rs alfalfa and corn and
ricnltural d e pen d e ncies.
Facts live ones to the vicinity
bld-timers on their tip toes
4day and part of the night. In
other Nebraska places
Hay Springs the buildings
rautos are newer and the
sb have the appearance of
Flar place, with a business
p. The streets are . little
Ealks . little thicker, and
title brisker than in any town
u @ Il is, in the best county
y reAping the benefit Of the
ettHng near there In the past
p8lng land into real produc-
~ year sees more and more
J 1he day Is rapidly ap-
6rs west portion Of Sheridan
balance being the finest
1sed by sunshine and rain.
offhand way that he ex-
RtDes this year, it means that
this section. In fact, Hay
cara from the 1913 crop.
h poker player in that it has
and it is the direct connec-
y surrounding community,
nch = shipping center.
hipping business is merely
IA the surrounding country,
from q cattle to an oil
wheat, oats, rye, barley,
s regarded as sure crops,
potatoes and alfalfa in capital
planted on every farm each
i one Of the biggest in the
9n her job, may be gathered
rings store shipped $1,000
Ills year.
west Is there a section which
FARMER that wants to build
here his chosen lifework will
reward.
325 up, on being broken and
Eoduce the same return as the
pense invested on $500 acre
ound Hay Springs are being
niger generation, who expect
NJ farms into $500 acre land,
3 land further east. From a
h little, If any difference, and
Imam a chance to acquire for
\ the high-priced district. It
and womanhood that is
answering the call for cheap
TO the owner with its devel-
6ericanism comes be tier
1erything that goes to make
Hitch to live, and incidentally
estor large returns from his
cf HE, who wishes to build
dan County, Nebraska, Of
kuty of it all is that this land
heal working man.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13

Friday and Saturday were perhaps the two
busiest potato days of the season. On Friday
all cars on track were filled and only the Ne
braska Potato company's warehouse would hold
more. At this place the unloading continued in
to the night and still dozen or more loads
were left over for Saturday morning. During
the night, however, more cars arrived and the
loading Of wagons began early Saturday morn
ing Monday, Tuesday and, Wednesday were
equally busy days and there were from 20 to 80
loads waiting all day for their turn to unload.
Today there has been shipped from Hay Springs
100 cars of potatoes and the end is not near in
sight. Buyers paying from $1.4O to $1.50
per hundred.
Hay Springs News, October 10, 1918.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
SHERIDAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA,

Potatoes yield from 100 to 200
bushels per acre-sell from 90c to
$1.40 per bushel
SHERIDAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA
Our best paying crops are Alfalfa,
Corn and Hogs. Never known case
of cholera in Sheridan county. We
put our hogs on the railroad at cost
of less than cents per Id. Many of
us ship from to 10 cars each year.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-13
SHERIDAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA

SHERIDAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA
Has a class of people not equaled
anywhere in the United States. They
are possessed with true western spirit
of Give and let live" Everybody
helps his neighbor.
SHERIDAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA
A Sheridan County farmer COM
planned that he had only half crop
of potatoes last year. His potatoes
went 800 bushels to the acre in 1916.
Farmers don't have to fight potato
bugs in this county. 49,
The Washington times., 1919-06-08

favor of prohibition, % per cent were in
different and only per cent were opposed
to prohibition. The outcome of the in
quiry is stated in these words: The clos
ing of the saloons removes the most for
midable competitor of the motion picture
business 1t is confidently expected that
after July motion pictures will leap into
new popularity.
There would seem to be most provi-
Dental opportunity here for the prohibit
tion forces to avail themselves Of this DOW
erful ally in the struggle that must follow
their legislative victory, to maintain what
they have fairly won
AS expressing another view Of the move
ment in the United States to put back on
the statute book the old Blue Laws of Pu-
ritan days it is interesting to read the
comments of Mr.. Gilbert X. Chesterton,
one Of the foremost writer's and thinkers
in Great Britain. Taking up the protest Of
Cardinal Gibbons and the attitude OF labor
in America, Mr.. Chesterton says:
THE new crusade is a direct wrong to
human liberty. 1t may be wholly servile
The Washington times., 1919-06-08

thought permissible to go to a theatre Sat
urday or Sunday afternoon: But here
again it would be better for the worker to
have the pure air and sunshine OF out
doors So the industrial efficiency argu-
ment would logically mark theatres, mo-
ton pictures soda fountains and candy
stores as things that should be driven out
of the life of mankind after tobacco tea
and coffee are banished.
Many business interests hope to gain at
the expense of the saloons, the tobacco
stores, and perhaps the tea and coffee
trade. The Christian Herald found that
the motion pictures interests, for instance,
we're strong for prohibition, not on any
moral or efficiency grounds, but because
closing the saloons would remove COM
petition. The publication says:
"a questionable sent to large number
of leading motion picture exhibitors
throughout the country, with the view of
learning the possible effect of prohibition
on that industry, produced surprising re-
suits SeVenty-twO per cent of the ex-
hibitOrs expressed themselves heartily in
Great Britain Rights Reserved.
The Washington times., 1919-06-08

Plumbers, street sweepers and chamber.
maids more or less perform tasks which
would seem to lack the dignity which
marks the beginning of immortality. They
are all slaves to habits of people who
have sufficient financial power to control
their services" If peoples habits could
be sufficiently changed we could dispense
with all plumbing and save the dignity of
the plumbers
OF course, nobody likes to clean out
what DR.. Roman calls "spittoons," but will
sending people to jail for using tobacco
solve this curse to the dignity of labor
and breeder Of immortality? Not while the
Board of Health laws are being enforced.
Tobacco or no tobacco, the undignified and
immoral spittoon is recognized by law, and
il factories, etc, do not have them some
body goes to jail for not having them.
Here is Section 213 of the New York.
Department of Health code:
1T shall be the duty of every owner
lessee or manager of every factory, work
room. store. office or place Of business, in
which ten or more persons are employed,
to provide proper receptacles for expecto-
ration. Such reCeptAcles are to be pro-
vided in the proportion Of one for every
two persons so employed, and they are to
be cleansed and disinfected at least once
in every twenty-four hours"
Here is a problem, indeed! When to-
bacco is banished the spittoon will still be
with us. But is the dignity and morality
of labor only threatened by a spittoOn
which has been cursed by a cigarette
stub? Or will it be necessary to go a
f11rt bar nd 10
il a prison offense to catch cold, sneeze or
have a cough? With such law, promptly
enforced it might be possible to grab the
offender instantly after his sneeze or
cough and before he could use the spittoon.
With efficient enforcement of a drastic
cold sneeze and cough law the spittoon
might be banished and the dignity and
morality of labor saved.
Professor Romans frank statement that
large employers of labor are behind the
crusade purely from a standpoint of the
efficiency of labor" is important. Of
course a horse or COW is not allowed to
smoke or drink cup of tea. 1t has never
been found necessary to consult the wishes
of these patient animals.
This same line of reasoning certainly
does lead to the conclusions which DR..
Roman and his fellow crusaders have
reached. The worker who cannot have
his glass of beer or pipe of tobacco, or
cup of coffee would, like the horse and
COW theoretically be a more efficient
lSbOrer
And the logic of this might lead still
further. II the worker would go to bed
Immediately after his supper, as the horse
and the COW are made to do, then he would
be sure of full and refreshing nights
sleep and wake up ready for a very eff
ciopt davis work This wOuId suggest that
workers should be forbidden to go to
motion pictures, because sitting up until
10 or IL o'clock cuts into sleep needed for
perfect industrial efficiency. 1t might be
Copyright 1919, by Star Company.
The Washington times., 1919-06-08

onward march of the crusaders win be
as follows:
Cigarettes, believe" said DR.. Roman,
will be the first to go. Along with them
will disappear snuff and chewing tobacco.
Cigars and pipes will trail along In the
rear Of the procession. Then viii follow
both tea and coffee.
The foes of liquor must of necessity
line up with US. The Women's Christian
Temperance Union will probably be the
first to come out openly against these eco
nomically bad habits. The Anti-Saloon
League, Mr.. Anderson to the contrary not
withstanding, will have to throw its force
with us. predict that all those who have
been fighting liquor will take up the cud-
gels and help US: expect the Presbyte-
rian Church will be a big factor in the
fight"
Professor Roman has never taken
drink, has never had a smoke, and has yet
to utter his first cuss word.
Professor Romans ideas are interesting,
and they represent the sincere convictions
Of the earnest crusaders who stand behind
him.
IT is true that the nation has been made
bone dry through their efforts and that
this would encourage them in their am
bilious programme of making the United
States tobaccoless, tealess and coheeless.
In DR.. Romans book, Nicotine Next"
he points out how tobacco degrades labor
thus:
Then the question Of the dignity of
labor must be considered. Our schools
and churches are constantly trying to in
still the doctrine that work is dignifed.'
Now that is true under certain circum-
stances. An act to be dignifed must be
either good, useful, beautiful, or true. The
manufacture Of tobacco satisfies none OF
these requirements. A tobacco worker
Who is at all reflective cannot possibly get
any Joy out of his work because he must
realize that it serves no useful end. For
that reason he himself cannot feel that
dignity which comes only to those who
are conscious of rendering needed and up
lifting service.
ION the other hand, it is not possible for
people who do any real thinking to respect
labor Of that character. | can and do re-
spect the man who runs the furnace in a
building. ShoVeling coal and ashes may
be mental work, but the man who does it
deserves respect because he is doing a
necessary work. The woman who comes
in to sweep and scrub the floor is doing a
dignified and necessary work and there is
no trouble whatever in respecting her
labor. But when either this man or this
woman is set to work to clean out dirty,
filthy spittOons in this same building, then
the respect for their employment is gone.
They are slaves to habits of people who
have sufficient financial power to control
their services Lack of dignity in labor
forms one basis for the beginning Of
immortality"
In the foregoing Prof. Roman suggests
thoughts which arc worth pursuing to their
logical conclusion.
The Washington times., 1919-06-08

reform to give men leisure if you do not
give them liberty in the use Of their lei
sure.
Leisure without liberty is the very def
milton of that dark Puritan Sabbath which
has been so energetically derided. The
novels Of the early nineteenth century ara
full Of that nightmare, drawn from the
memories of the old CalVinistic h0me-R
Black Sunday, darker than any Black Non
day. But 1t was only q nightmare because
it was leisure without liberty. 1t was only
black because it was a release from labor
with a veto on pleasure.
"H the worker has a new stretch of
spare hours, but must not drink for fear
of delirium tremens. or smoke for fear Of
heart complaint, or bet for fear Of bank
ruptcy, or go to a cinema for fear Of an
impulse to crime, the average lahOrer viii
be left with the two progressive institu-
tions of the Carnegie Library and the Lee
thai Chamber, and will find the latter the
more entertaining. But / need not say
that the superiority of liberty to leisure
rests on far more noble and universal con-
siderations than the accidents Of our an
archie society.
1T is meaningless to tell a man that he
possesses a few empty hours If he does
those hours. And nobody has ever been
able to tell US, though we have often put
the challenge, what are the rights Of q
free man. if they do not include the right
to Judge the risks of his own diet and the
chances of his own health. II he does net
own his own body, what does he own?
My brain reels at the attempt to imagine
how this last Improvement on the Amer
lean Constitution would have affected the
author Of the American Declaration Of In
dependence, or what the great Virginian
gentleman would have said over his wine
if he had read this Interpretation of every
mans right to life, liberty and the pursuit
Of happiness.
IF it is in America that this Tom o. Bed
lam tyranny has risen to a temporary tri-
umph, at least it is in America also that
the prpletariat has seen it for the pluto
cratic fad that it is. American labor does
seem to have protested in some form or to
some extent. So far Jefferson is not
Knocked and democracy is justified Of her
children"
The Washington times., 1919-06-08

, Doctor Roman, is not
in favor of a constitution
al amendment for the
suppression of tobacco.
He does not think that
this viii be necessary.
Now that prohibition Of
any and all kinds of beer,
wine and liquor has been
accomplished, Professor
Roman believes that the
crusaders who have &C
complished this great
victory will sweep on,
taking trench after
trench from year to
year, until the last OBJ
jective in their nation
wide programme has
been accomplished. The
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-11-22
YOUNG HAwAIIANS ARE
 TO GET AN EDUCATION THROUGH REVOLVING FUNl

HONOLULU, T. H., Nov, % ES- tabHshment of a permanent revolting fund for the education of young Ha- waiians lacking means to improve their own condition is the aim of the Hawaiian Civic Club, announced at d recent meeting of the club.
 It is planned that the first Hawai- ian to profit by this will be KaOhu Mckenzie, possessor of a tenor voice which has beet highly praised by John Mccormick, before whom Me Kenzie recently sang.
 According to the tentative proposal $4OOO will be raised and tnrned over to Mckenzie with the understanding that it be paid back later and used for the education of the Hawaiians.
 A club committee was appointed to undertaking the raising of the fund.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-11-22
HUN NEWLY WEDS ARE TOLD TO LIVE WITH FOLKS
 AS HOUSES ARE SCARCE

BERLIN, Nov, 22- Berlin's Dwell ling Bureau has notified newly-mar- red persons that there are no houses or apartments available for them and has advised them to live with their parents or other relatives until the present dearth of dwellings has been overcome. The bureau also has ad- vised lovelorn couples to postpone marriage until conditions improve.
 The new consular officials and En- tente Commissions are meeting with difficulties in finding suitable quart CTS The Hamburg senate has appro- priated 2,5OO,OOO marks to improve the situation in that city with respect to the shortage of homes.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-11-22
BAHAI LECTURE
 HERE NEXT WEEK

Next Tuesday evening at the Odd Fellows Hall, Mrs II. E. Hoagg will rive a lecture on the Bahai movement. This lecture is free to the public, both men and women. Mrs. Hoagg will ar rive in Seward tomorrow on the tram from Anchorage where she IS lectur- ing this week.
 The Bahai Movement according to those interested, prOclaims the time Of Universal Peace and provides the base for the Universal Religion the hope of the ages. It points the way and sup plies the means for the unity of man kind in the knowledge and love ot Truth under the high banner of Jus tice and Mercy.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-11-22
BRITISH KILLED IN
 A BOLSHEyISTS RUSE

EXCHANGED, Nov, % During thc evacuation of the Dvina region the British forr2, while withdrawing from Ustvaga, lost four men killed and eleven wounded as the result of a ruse by the BolShevists. General Sadler Jackson narrowly escaped death.
 As the British were retiring, the enemy concealed themselves in a wool on the Dvina. When the British came down the river in boats the Bolshevists opened fire. General Sadler Jackson was in the first craft and bullet passed within two inches of his head. Next came barge full of Royal Flu .siliers, four of whom were killed and eleven wounded. It is believed that the enemy commander attended to attack the yacht Retvisan on which were all the members O. the British staff. However he mistook the barge for the yacht, which came down the river later.
The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-11-22
WANT FRENCH SOLDIERS
 TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE
 IN THE NEXT PARLIAMENT

PARIS, Nov, % By A. p "For new conditions, new men" is the ally ing cry of the former Soldiers eIemen, for the forthcoming parliamentary elections. Some of the many veteran organizations demand that the men who fought the war out should, alone. be charged with the work of recon ;truction. Others demand that fifty percent of the candidates of each party for the Chamber of Deputies be recruited from the soldiers organiza- tiOus.
 This soldier movement has become disquieting to the great majority of outgoing deputies who neglected to don a uniform during the war. 1t iS estimated now that between 7,000,- 900 and S,OO0,OOO votes will be cast, and there are approximately 5,00O,OO0 soldiers electors. Among the former soldiers who will seek election is the 'ace" of French military aviation, Rene Fonck, who, it is reported, wlli run on the same ticket with Georges Mandel, right hand man to Premier Clemenceau.