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The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-25
DON'T PUT YOUR BRAIN ON
A LEVEL WITH A DOGS

In this issue we are discussing the
subject of how to increase ones agri-
cultural knowledge.
The first need, of course, is that a
man shall believe that he can learn
more and wish to learn more. There
is no hope for the man who "knows
it all" On the other hand, there is
no hope for the man who knows that
he lacks knowledge but has no deter
mination to get it.
There is hardly anything more pa
thetic or exasperating-one or the
other, according to conditions than
to hear a man excuse himeslf for
Intellectual shiftlessness or vagrancy
by quoting the old proverb, "You
can't teach an old dog new tricks. "
This may be good enough doctrine
for dumb beasts and lower animals,
but what sort of man is it who
is willing to put hi sbrain on a level
with a dogs? Is man made in the
image of God to say that he is no
more capable of making progress than
a hound dog or fee?
There is no telling how much-pro-
gress has been lost to the world
through the perverted use of this
proverb as an excuse for mental lazi-
mes sand dry rot. Instead of those
effortless beings who put their brains
on level with a dogs an DIDO not
try to learn after their boards get
grown, we like to think of an old
farmer nearly eighty we saw a few
months ago. He had been learning
all his life, and was even then buying
some alfalfa seed and making inqui-
ry about how to grow it, never hav-
ing tried it on his farm though he
had observed instances of success
with it in his neghborhood. And the
writer also likes to think of the gray
haired men he has seen smoking their
pipes as they went from classroom
to classroom on the grounds of agri-
cultural colleges and high schools in
Denmark. In one such schools we
were told of an old man of seventy
two who had recently taken the short
course there-and sometime before
that, man Of seventy-six had taken
special course there in some SUBJ
ject in which he was Interested
The Progressive Farmer.
The subscription price of the Mari
eta Journal is only $1.00 year
and worth more.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-25
Dehorning
Cattle
BY D. G. sULLINs

Before domestication horns on cat
tie were useful as protection against
other wild animals, but now they are
not needed for this purpose and are
the source of much annoyance. Horns.
are responsible for frequent injuries
to animals and to persons caring for
them. They are very Objectionable
on animals being handled frequently
and at times when they are brought
together in large number or when
crowded for shipment. Cattle with
out horns are usually more docile and
make better use of their feed in the
production of either beef or milk.
Such animals require less space for
housing, may be fed and watered
in the ordinary manner, and thereby
REQUIRE less labor in their care and
management.
With the exception of animals in
tended for show purposes there is ev-
cry reason for dehorning. Dehorned
animals are found occasionally in the
show ring, but the leading show ami
mails are practically all horned. The
horns add to the attractiveness and
help to show the characteristics of the
class or breed to which an animal be-
longs. These points are very much de-
sired by the man in the show bust
ness, but for ordinary business there
is no good reason for horns. Horns
on bull are extremely dangerous
and should be removed unless the ami
NAL is to enter the show ring.
Dehorning may be done on the
grown animal by use of the saw or
clipper, or on the calf with caustic
potash. If dehorning is to be done
with saw or clipper, the animal should
be at least one year of age or there
is danger of scurs developing later.
This will always happen after de-
horning unless the horns are properly
removed; that is cut sufficiently close
to the head. The horns should be cut
from a quarter to one-half inch be-
low where the skin joins the horns,
leaving a rim Of skin on the horn
removed.
The most satisfactory method of de-
horning is to use caustic potash on
the young calf. To use this success
fully it must be done before the calf
is more than three days old. The hair
should be clipped away from the
small buttons which may be felt, and
which are the future horns. Then
moisten a stick of caustic potash and
rub the spot with it until the skin
bleeds slightly. Care should be TAX
en- to avoid getting too much water
on the animal, or it may run down the
head, taking off the hair and even get
ting into the eyes, with serious re-
suits.
Directions regarding methods of
dehorning and details about the work |
may be found in Bulletin No. III of
the Georgia Experiment station. In
terested persons may obtain copies of |
this bulletin free by applying to the |
Animal Husbandry Department, Geor-
gia Experiment Station, Experiment,
Georgia.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-25
WISHES TO ANNEX
PART OF STATE OF FLORIDA

Alabama has commission named
for the purpose of having all that
portion of Florida west of the Appa-
lachicola river annexed to Alabama,
but it is hardly probable that Flori-
da will agree even though the natives
of West Florida prefer to be citizens
of Alabama.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-07-25
NOTICES!

I am prepared to
do all kinds Of auto
mobile trimming ard
painting. Give me a
call.
w. w. Watkins
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
A List to Port

Sonora has removed the lid. Likening Arizona to an eastbound vessel may predict that it will shortly experience decided list port with a siderable part of population rushing the south ern border The northern of the state is likely to tip up'
 The city of Nogales which years ago aspired to become the gateway to Sonora finds itself in still more enviable position. Through opened vista of paradise to the bibuous.
 As a gateway people would only pass through it. and the passers would be comparatively fsw-some capitalists and adventurers; there would of course have been long trains of freight but all would have been caravan-like and transitory.
 Now Nogales will become the less per nanent habitation Of great numbers who not caring to live in Mexico perhaps afraid sleep there, will establish themselves as closely possible to base Of supplies upon which they may make daily hourly forays.
 NogaIes will need large auditorium, eonven- ton halno doubt several of them. for it will become a popular place for annual secular gatherings. It will of course, hold out special inducements to conventions of the ". c. T, L. the church organi zat:ons. But have lamentable and even alarm ing number Of citizens who do not belong to the w C. T. U. or who are not affiliated with any agious denomination
 The question of a permanent liquor supply in sonora ntrudes itself fly in the ointment Where will it from? Certainly not from the north. It will perhaps be years before importation cn be made from Europe in satisfactory quantities. The manufacture of whiskey and beer will hardly be undertaken large scale in Sonora Il takes vast sums to set pf breweries and distieries and things are uncertain and fragmentary below the Mexi- can boundary
 Prohibition in the United States moved slowIy t steadily and inc brewers and distllers long nd profitable lease Mexican bandits and itching
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
Take the Sunday with you through the week,
 And sweeten with it all other days. -Longfellow.
A Date in Maricopa County

The people of Marcopa county are very much in earnest as to good roads. When in this community they turn out in such numbers they did yesterday to vote at bond election and when such vast pro- portion of them vote Yes" $4,o00000 proposition we may conclude that there has been grand awak- enne and that the people will remain awake through the process putting in the county road system for which they have voted.
 It was a foregone conclusion that the bonds would carry if the people could only be induced to go to the polls They went in greater numbers than the most sanguine had expected and the opposition was far less than was expected, all of which is very gratifying.
 The rest now up to the board of supervisors and the county highway commission, in both of which bodies the yesterday may be construed to have heen vote of confidence-a belief that the people would be given a dollars worth of good roads for every dollar expended. We believe there will be no occasion to withdraw that confidence.
 The election of yesterday long forward step new prosperity of Bfaricopa county will date from May r, 1s19
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
rhs Salvation Army and the EIks

The next drive is that of the Elks, which organi- zation has undertaken the task of assisting the Sal vation Army raising funds It will the period May 21-26. In this task the Elks and the Salvation Army will have the cooperation and good wishes of every soldier who has returned across the seas Nearly every soldier brought back with him some grievance and the list of grievances includes pretty nearly everything in connection with the war except the Salvation Army Its conduct, all soldiers without blernish It thoroughly sef-sacrificing It's benefits were substantial It cheered and helped the men It went into the places where it was most ueeded-where there the greatest privation, the greatest suffering and the greatest danger
 The Salvation Army's service unosten- tstfous it's appeals for financial assistance had been modest It doing in a great way in France what it had been doing in many small ways in the cities and towns of America-to make better and moro comfortable in body and mind
 It has come out of the war with flying colors. The gave it the opportunity to broaden the appeal which it had been making those the churches could not did reach. It was given the oppor- tunity to break down the barie@s foolish prejudice which churchmen felt against it--those who thought there way to save well-iressed people and another and different way to reach the submerged tenth.
 The work of the Salvation Army has demonstrated that there nobody good for tito good to work in it too respectable to be saved through it's insru- mentality
 It is wonder that an organization so broad and liberal the Elks should volunteer it's assistance in this the first drive for Salvation Army funds.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
The Trainmen and the Railroads

The Brotherhood of Railway Trainrnen with c membership of 5000 to be solidy opposed to the restoration of the railways private ownership and management. It was declared that at the open ing the biennial convention of the Brotherhood at Columbus, Ohio that the men were well pleased with their treatment during the war and feel that the government if continued in control of the rail- roads would give them more satisfactory working conditions"
 We must admit that 1S6000 are a good many peo- pie though that number is insignificant when com pared with more than 1O00o0O0O great majority of whom, we believe, regret that the government undertook the experiment of fooling with the railroads and desire that that experiment shall be abandoned at the earliest possible moment. If the roads be solely for the benefit of their employees should say that the wishes of the em- ployes with respect to government private manage, ment should be ascertained and granted
 But there many millions of people who have an interest in railroad management and these mil lions have been paying under government manage ment about twice the passenger rates they formerly paid and about 50 per in freight rates. They confronted with the alternatives that they must pay still in else the govern ment shall make up by taxation still larger deficits In comparison with this situation what the train men want do not want becomes an almost neg hglbe matter The wages of railway employees haya been prodigously raised within the last two years that fact alone accounting for the huge railway defi- cits
 Railway wages have in a great measure affected all wages which have since been raised It is not at all likely that railway wages would could be re- duced under private management. Consequently other high ages win be maintained and gradually all wages not yet raised will be adjusted to them The adjustment process will include cost of living and in the end, it will that the dollar will simply havs lost part of the purchasing power it had when this disturbance began. We will then be in the same fix we were before; only will be handling more money but no more of the things money buys
 The only advantage therefore the trainmen can find in government ownership or control is the op- portunity to go before congress or government rail- road administration from time to time and demand further increase of wages the price for the con- tinued support by the organization the party in power. So far since the have been under gov ernment management two such increases have been made on demand, in addition to one which congress made in the Adamson act in 1916
 Under private management employees would have no such leverage for disturbing conditions
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
Realizs How Passion Spells Dzno.r And Common Sense is Woman's
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why do you tease me soa" Thus Certeis showed his appreciation of nv play-acting although he Overloaded my question, Why do YOU continna1lv tantalize me with your-your vivid ness? Other women are like putty hu+ you think-act-feel-y live every moment Of your life intensely as I have dreamed woman might do r hand you a bunch of keys-and vou make it an event for me to remember ''
 At this I caught my breath for I knew well that what this man alone of all the persons | had ever met did I feel free to be my true self, al liberty to be wise or silly, grave or gay. at my own pleasure and without rehuke Whatever l did or failed to do. Certeis would approve. But Bob wold he sure to criticise me, no matter what I did or what I left undone.
 And you shut me away from your- self,' Certeis went on as if he were determined to pour out store of long boarded thought You raise up a bar. rier Of duty between usi I tell VOL, once more, Jeanne, that life itself has thrust your freedom upon you! You are cut off from all your duties to others. No body in this world was ever so lost to duty as you are now, and you may re- main. You do not have to choose be. tween right and wrong, you littl, Puritan. Put away your repression. and your inhibitions, Dearest," Ger. teis came close to me. My love! Le me make life real to you-if only for month-a week-or a dayi"
 The nearness of the man was al most as persuading as his wooing. Flo a moment wavered in body as well a. in soul Then cold skepticism of al passion saved me and l said to my self:
 Tony is using just the kind of ar 1 gument that has started many a goo l girl on the road to he'll Though, t be sure, not all lovers put their per suasion so poetically"
 I had to answer Certeis. coul
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
NO SPRING FEVER THIS YEAR

Say this isn't the sort of year to be zng around yawning stretching feel should This the premier peppno peace history realize with tie 
 people doing that this little old the 
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  lie  soldiers who landing quickly they'd like suffering silk They're light And
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
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neither evade nor escape his meaning. But I was not to be carried off my feet bv any doctrine of "let-us- live today dearest" as many a trusting girl has been, 10 her eternal shame and sor- row
 And all had for my defense was my practical common sense-a weapon any girl can resort to and rely upon.
 "Tony!" said, and l held my head high and smiled, too, as 1 addressed him. Irony. am not going to pre- tend to be shocked. But you know perfectly well that I respect myself. like to be able to face myself in the mirror, Tony. Do you think I wouldn't keep straight just for that? You've made an awful test of my character to- day, but I'm not sorry. see as 1 never did before that even if I could strip off every shred of duty and convention and purianism, something else in me,
 my own respect for myself-would keep me from yielding toto even an ideal--passion."
 I stumbled bit, trying to be honest and plain, and yet not wishing to make a stinging rebuke. Was l not in a sense responsible for the mans temp tation?
 T will not apologize for my feeling, Certeis answered as he favored me with one of his most perfect bows Any way find you, Jeanne, you are a torment. Now I am afraid you will run away a.s soon as 1 am out of sight l You ran away from the asylum, you | know. Promise me to stay here-this i house is all our own. Let me think 1 of you as safe and comfortable while ! I am gone"
 i I gave him my hand in token of my assent, then shook my keys gayly fol
 I was very willing to drop our serious
 talk, and I said: Answer the question I put few minutes ago. Which key, oh Bluebeard, must I never, nevel
 use?"
 "The longest one" he replied, and he was very solemn and I couldn't tel 1 whether it was about the keys or abou 1 our conversation.
 Gro be Continued)
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18

statesmen move suddenly and with great rapidity. Wet today, Sonora may be dry tomorrow. A revolu-
 ton might change the titles the breweries and the distilleres in the twinking Of an eye leave them in ruins in less time.
 We know of nothing else that would furnish so much of incentive to revolution in Mexico the prospect of access to brewery or distlery These institutions would be inspiration to the citzenry to increase the safety of democracy and to evel the distinctions that exist between the whc has liquor and him who has none. With Sonora dot ted with breweries and distIlleries it would be in constant state of revolution and those who have through all ages jeered at perpetual motion would be put to shame.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
Anti Child Labor Leuislation

According to Senator Kenyon of Iowa, the publican congress will enact child labor legislation that will stand; legislation that will not have been enacted for political purposes only It is proposed go the of the matter and attempt to secure an amendment to the federal constitution giving to congress the power which it has twice pretended in vain to exercise.
 The strongest opposition to child labor legsla- ton from the south and opposition was par tiaIly withdrawn only when it was made plain that the proposed legislation would be without effect.
 The act proposing to keep out of interstate com the products of child labor was plainly stitutional and held by Judge Boyd of South Carolina who sustained by the United States supreme court. A more recent law passed with hardly more hope of it's effectiveness but as sop to advocates of antchild labor legislation just been declared by the same judge to be invalid and it is presumed that he will again be sustained by the su- preme court
 Thus the democratic congress has not in seven years made honest effort in behalf of the children It has pretended to want to exercise power with which the constitution has clothed it.
 Now we will see whether the republican congress will be honest and endeavor to secure an amend ment to the constitution.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
THE WAY OF THE CROSS IS THE ROAD TO THE GROWN
 By the Rev. Charles Sickle

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Arizona republican., 1919-05-18

It makes no difference what your wants may he you can have them sup piled by using and reading The Repub lican Classified Pages-Arizona's lead ing advertising medium.
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
SHORE LIKE BROADWAY"
oFrom the Boston rranscrlptl

.CF'rom the Boston Transcript
 St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul. Davenport and other river cities have been falling into line, and by next year will be in Q position to care for enor- nous quantities of river freight cheap ly and quickly. Davenport alone spent alone 1 million dollars in improving its water front Minneapolis has just completed d high dam which extends the northernmost limits of naviga- tion from St. Paul to that city. Min neapolis, instead of St Paul. is now the head of navigation as the result. Several million dollars is being ex- pended in deepening the channel of the river and in removing the danger ous LeClaire rapids. This peril to navigation-the bottoms of scores oi boats have been ripped out by the jagged rocks which extend for seV- eral miles below LeClaire, Iowa-has been obviated by a canal built near midstream. The rock bottom has been blasted out to a depth Of several feet and locks will be erected to tide the large ships over the 3 mile stretch
 When this work is completed the dream of 6-foot channel will be realized to all practipal purposes. More than two thousand miles of waterway will be navigable in all seasons by the heavy steel barges now in use Re vertment work has been carried out or 1 a nenormous scale, and the river is now in the best condition ever known This recalls to mind the lament ol Uncle Menford,' of Mark Twain fame. When there used to be foul thousand Stean1boafs and ter fhn1ss. ! and acres of coal barges, rafts anC 1 scows," that worthy riverman said there wasn't a lantern from St Pau ! to New Orleans. The Snags wer, l thicker than the bristles on a hog! back. Now when there are three l dozen steamboats and nary barges
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18

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Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
ART AND SCIENCE

CFrom the Columbus Dispatch)
 When the French adopted their tri- colored flag they figured upon optical Illusion. That is, they took into con sideration how the colors, red, white and blue, would appear to the eye. rather than going according to lineal measurement Thus we find 90 per cent of the flag in blue, B per cent white and 31 per cent red
 If the three 'colors'' were Of the same width, the white. which is in the middle, would appear narrower than the blue, which is next 10 the staff And the red. out at the end. would ap- pear stiIl narrower than the white. So that with the present arrangement. the three stripes appear to be the same width, and not one person out of a thousand but would declare they are the same width as he sees the tri- color floating from it's staff.
 The French are an artistic people. They consider art always. Their coins are the most artistic in the world . their eInblens are perfect. They blend colors to please the eye. and decorate and adorn all they touch. But their art has not interfered with their fight ing qualities They also gave the world something to think about in the matter of protecting their country from the raYages of q merciiess enemy who knows not art.
 It makes no difference what your wants may he you can have them sup uIiad hv lIsfrpr and raadine- Tho Repfih .
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18

and rafts. the government has snatched out all of the snags, and has lit up the shores like Broadway, and a boats as safe as she would be in heaven"
Arizona republican., 1919-05-18

Edwin Samuel Montagu has risen steadily in power in India since l9ln when he became under secretary to India He is now secretary of stat for India, having succeeded Austin Chamberlain in 1917. Montagu ls enc of India's representatives at the peace conference.