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Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
PECAN TREES ALONG ROADS
Georgia Landowners Association
Agrees to Furnish Them, II Proper
Care Is Guaranteed.

The attention of the department OF
agriculture officials has been attracted
by the offer of the Georgia LandOwn-
ers' association to furnish pecan trees
for planting on both sides of one mile
of permanent hard surface road in the
first county in the state that agrees
to take care of the trees. This is
somewhat in line with the .eforesta-
ton and good roads movements in
the southern states recently started.
at is hoped" says F. II. Abbott,
manager Of the Georgia association, in
a communication received here, that
this suggestion will result in border
Ing every mile of permanent highway
in Georgia with trees that will be use
full as well as ornamental. | believe
that the example of the first county
will quickly be followed by other coun-
ties. and see no reason why similar
plan should not be adopted in other
states. The trees for bordering the
Georgia roads will be furnished the
association by ]. ii. Wright of Cairo,
Ga, one of the largest pecan growers
In the South and n member of the
board of control of the organization.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
When PRUNING Trees.

Shade trees may be pruned any time
between the fall of the leaves and
early spring before growth begins.
BOXelder and maple trees are apt to
"bleed' If pruned after the last of
February.
Do not leave long stubs but cut close
above q side branch when pruning
large limbs. Try to avoid leaving up
right forks or crotches which are apt
to split apart and injure or ruin the
tree later. Long, slender branches
should be shortened, If retained, so as
TO encourage greater stiffness and re-
sistance to wind and the weight of wet
snow. OF course, the natural charac-
terlstics OF the tree should he taken
into account in pruning and no attempt
be made to greatly alter the natural
form of the tree. Evergreens are sell
dom pruned but appear best when
permitted to retain their lower branch
es close to the ground.-B. o. Long
year, Colorado Agricultural College,
Fort Collins, Colo.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
GOOD
ROADS
ROADS SHOW AT HOT SPRINGS
Active Preparations and Arrangement
Of Programs Have Commenced
Other Meetings.

The eighth annual convention OF the
United State. Good Roads association,
also the eighth annual good roads
show, will be held in Hot Springs,
Ark, April II to II, 1920. Already
active preparations and arrangement
of the programs have commenced. j.
A. Rountree, director general of the
United States Good Roads associa-
ton, has been invited to Hot Springs,
Ark, for the purpose of consulting
with the Business Mems league, the
mayor, the various civic organizations
and citizens in general, to discuss the
program and details of arranging
good roads week in Hot Springs, Ark.
next April
1t is proposed TO make good roads
week the greatest gathering of good
roads boosters that have ever assem-
bled in this country. Delegates will be
In attendance from every state in the
Union. Already more than forty gov
eruors have accepted life membership
in the organization and are vice presi-
dents of the same.
In connection with the organization
the annual meeting of the Bankhead
Highway, which is promoting q ma
tional highway from Washington to
San Diego, Cal, the Albert Pike Ma
tional Highway. which is promoting a
highway from Pixies Peak to Kansas
City, and a number of good roads or
CARNATIONS will hold meetings dur
ing good roads week in April.
One of the features Of the conven-
ton will be display of road machin-
ary, road material, trucks, tractors
and automobiles. Already six govern
ors have notified Director General
Rountree Of their acceptance, and will
head a large delegation from their re-
spective states. 1t is expected to have
at least twenty governors in attend
ance at this convention. Senator John
II. Bankhead, who is president of the
United States Good Roads association
and author of the Bankhead federal
aid bill of S5,0O0,O0O annually for the
building of good roads throughout the
country, is quite enthusiastic about
this meeting and gives assurance that
the governors will send heads of the
varioGs departments to the meeting,
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06

sports Toys" is a short caption for
long story since there are sports toys
of many kinds. The most fascinating
and interesting Of these are the clothes
that have borrowed the character of
those garments made for real sports
wear hut not intended for service, just
"for looks" The sweater coats and
varied scarfs made of silk or wool in
many fanciful and fragile ways, the
delicate cOlOred headwear and the very
handsome skirts of sports silks are all
examples of sports clothes made to be
admired for their beauty, not for the
usefulness to the sportswOman. They
serve very useful purpose, however
No matter how elegant and rich their
materials these clothes are informal
and very smart in character. They are
Il part Of the play-the sports clothes
of OnlOOkers-in which they are well
enough dressed and not too much
dressed for whatever the day may
bring.
After the brilliant skirts of heavy,
cough silk weaves the most interesting
members of the sports family are the
scarfs and sweaters that are refined
and glorified notifications Of their
forerunners, the warm wooden scarf
and sweater. The new scarfs ~
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
Beautify the Fairgrounds.

Money spent in ornamental planting
of trees and shrubs about the country
school is money well spent. The re,
suits of the early training the boys
and girls receive in practical and or
namental values of planting of shrubs
and trees will be shown in the homes
of the children. Later on more of the
homes Of those who remain in the
community will be benefited In being
more beautiful places in which to live
and the value of the real estate will
be materially increased.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06

light and brilliant cOlors, in angora
wool and in silk and they are variOusly
made. One pretty new scarf in bright
green is crOcheted of silk with
fringe at the ends.
Other scarfs in light-colOred plaids,
of angOra wool, have diagonal seam
at the center, which allows them to
set snugly to the figure when worn
over the shoulders. They are finished
with fringe in the colors of the scarf.
The short knitted sweatercOats of
silk or silk fiber usually open mt the
front and have a sash knitted of the
same silk, but there are some very
pretty slipOyer styles with square neck
opening at the front from which fall
narrow plaitings Of fine white lace.
The strong yarn golf socks shown in
the picture are meant for real service
and proud is the pOssessor of hond-
knitted pair. The pair at the left is
knitted in diamond-shaped blocks of
contrasting color with cross-bars of
black while the other pair is in solid
color with bars and dots contrasting.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06

as you would III
you kept quiet" said one of the cows.
THAT may be So" said one of the
sparrows, but we couldn't be like the
old. slow. lazy cows for anything. It's
not our nature. And you're even tire
some to talk to as you sit there. so
big and so awkward, chewing, chew
ing, chewing all the time"
"Yes, we'd better be off," said an
away to scrap and fight and argue
about the crumbs they found.
81 suppose" said Miss Bossy. shat
we are considered lazy but l don't see
why we shouldn't be-"
There isn't any reason why we
should be anything else" said Mrs.
Cow. "We've made people understand
our ways and it would be foolish TO
change.
Besides, It wouldn't be good for
them. 1t would upset them. They
might be So frightened they wouldn't
know what to do.
"Just suppose, for example, we did
change our ways. Suppose we decided
to leap and bound and jump and fly
what would our farmer and his family
say?
They'd run to the house, probably,
and cover up their heads with blankets.
Oh. they'd he most horribly frightened.
at would be a great, great mistake
to do such a thing as to upset the peo-
pie.
They're used to seeing cows lazy.
They're used to seeing US wade in the
brooks in the summer and wander off
for slow, idle walks, eating as we go.
They're u.s. to seeing us as we
lie down and as we slowly get up.
They're used TO seing us chew and
they're used to hearing us moo.
"They know that we don't get all
alarmed and excited when we hear
motor horns in the summer. They
know we don't like to be hurried.
"They know that we don't get all
a-futter like ROSTERS and hens do
when they hear motor horns.
NO one mas ever seen COW reully
a-flutter. 1t would be quite upsettinS
to see one that way.
"No, for the sake Of everyone, in
Guiding ourselves, we shouldn't change
our ways"
1--WE shouldn't" said Miss BOssy. ut
would be very upsetting to people, as
you say, and it would be most upset
ting to us, too.
"Imagine what would happen If cows
didn't do their usual ways. 1t would
be horrible to see them Jumping about
and dancing and skipping and behav-
ing unlike cows.
I'VE have been sensible. We have
people trained and used to seeing lazy,
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
PROGRESS IN FEDERAL ROADS
Total Mileage Of Projects Approved in
August Shows Increase over
Month of July.
prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture)

prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture)
An increase for August compared
with July in the total mileage Of fed.
eral aid project statements approved
by the secretary of agriculture is
shown in the latest report prepared by
the bureau of public roads, the total
for August being 1,246.92 miles as
against 1,l6S.66 miles for July The
125 project statements approved In Au-
gust involved Improvement at an esti-
mated total cost of $1S,23S, 303.19, on
which federal aid in the amount Of
T,171, 794.S4 was requested. The 14S
project statements approved in July
involved improvement Of highways at
a total estimated cost of $19012, 4SO.S5,
ION which federal aid TO the amount of
6S, 461, 571.58 was requested.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06

a slow-mOving life but it's fine lifG
If one happens to be a COW.
at most certainly is" said Miss
BOssy. "And we give people a great
deal in return for our board and lOdg-
ing and care; we give them delicious
milk which makes them fat and strong
and well and beautiful"
you're right" said Mrs. Cow.
"What you say is quite, quite true"
"MOo, moo" said Miss Bossy, "Pm
only lazy COW but l speak the truth,
| do. Moo, mO0"
"MOo. moo" said Mrs. Cow; "yOu
do, you do. And moo, moo, do, too"
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
Addinq to Our Wealth.

Every day should add something to
our wealth. Our employer may not
see ft to raise our salary, but we are
not dependent On him, altogether. II
we have slowed away in our memory
an inspiring thought from good book.
or made an advance IN friendship with
one who is worthy. II we have battled
with some fault and won the victory,
we have added to those riches which
are least likely to take wing.-Giris
Companion.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06

tAO' 80 ~ ~
yer chewing,
good old COW, and
now that they all
know what cows
are like and
what the ways of
cows are we won't
upset them no.
we won't"
M @ o, m o o."
said Mrs. Cow.
at is now milk
ing time"
"And we just
let them milk u.s."
said Miss Bossy.
I'VE don't even
work hard then.
All, a cows life
is a lazy life and
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06

for spiritual pow
er in something
that man b n s.
instead OF re-
alizlng that pow.
er belongeth unto
God" To obtain
this power we
must first get rid
Of any idea that
man has II or
can acquire II I'M
aided, and then
we must rely
wholly upon God
to exercise II In
and through us.
The Bible Is full
OF Illustrations Of
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
PROVE VALUE OF GOOD ROADS
Cotton Growers Quick to Realize Com.
merciaI Worth Of Improved
Highways in Hauling.

Southern cotton growers have been
quick to realize the commercial value
of good roads. Money invested in
scientific road building is well spent,
as witness the illustration, where q
single team is hauling II bales, about
5000 pounds, to market. Under former
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06

NtIt SlltiiiE WI
the ledge OF the
open window In
the barn.
ooh, WELL" said
one of the spar
rows, at is the
way we get
things. We see
the crumbs being
put out for the
b frds and we
hurry and scrap
and get quite a
few ahead of the
Others"
"And sometimes
you're so busy
scrapp ing you
don't get as much
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
Anoels Could Do No More.

Who does the best his circumstances
allow,
Does well, acts nobly; angels could do
no more; Young.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
The Power of the Spirit.

Zechariah, the prophet. says the
Lords work is done mot by might nor
by power. but by my Spirit, saith tho
Lord" Jesus says the things "lmpOs-
sible with man are possible with God"
He does not say they are possible to
God. that is a self-evident fact, but
he says they are possible with God.
Things impossible with man, linked
though he may be with all the natural
or acquired ability in the world, with
all the learning and wisdom Of the
world, become not only possible but
easy Of accomplishment to the man
who is linked with God. And the hold
ing, binding and unchanging link over
which Gods power runs is simple Obedi-
ence unto him.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
Automobile Helped Roads.

Since the coming Of the automobile
the American roads have been much
improved in many sections of the
country.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
The Secret Of
Power
By REV. B. B. SUTCLIFFE
Extension Department. Moody Bible
Institute. Chicago

TENT-l'ower belongeth unto God =
~ G2:ll.
Many people, and some Christian
neoplc. make the mistake of looking
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
KNOWING HImself,

Man is an apprentice. pain is els
master; and none knows himself so
long as he has not suffered DE Mus
get.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
Road DRAG Quite Useful.

The road drag will not build a road
but 1t will keep the road In shape
sster building.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
DADDYJ EVENING
"a FAIRY LALE6
W. flAVY RAHAN1JAW,1
IVA BONNER gE&I
TWO cows CHAT.

"Why are you always scrapplngr
isked the cows Of the sparrOws who
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06
New Science pevelonlna.

Road building is developing a new
science that calls for the highest en-
cheering skin
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-02-06

conditions, with mud hub deep the year
around, the same team could haul but
one bale, and that only half as fast
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-08-07
THE ULTIMATE PRICE.

The recent raise in railroad en-
ployees' wages of over 5000, 100000 has
brought about an increase in freight
and passenger rates, also of nearly
three times this sum. 1t is easily I'M
derstOod that the government practical
ly operating, or at least debating the
plan of running the railways of the
country, knows what it is about in
granting these tremendous costs of
maintenance. 1t is great problem,
and there appears to be no head in
the entire country able to cope with
it successfully. If wages and freight
and passenger costs all go up at the
same time, it means the greatest out
lay of daily cash in the entire list of
the country's going enterprises. No
totals equal the cost of maintaining
the railways. 1t is bound to result in
greater cost of living. No middle
ground was possible. The demands of
organized labor were met, and the
public pays the bill. 1t all means that
with this great increase all other prices
must go up with the cost of carrying
the railroads. There is nothing else to
do, unless the country is to go bank
rupt, and there is no likelihood Of
that No other country in the world
could stand this tremendous draft upon
it's resources.
The greatest sufferers in these con-
stantly increasing costs of living are
the fixed salary folk. Prices go I'D.
their pay remains as it was, as a gen.
eral rule. Or, if it goes up at all, it
is so light that it does not meet the
situation much better than before.
Textiles are out of sight; every form
of food continues to soar, and when
there is no actual necessity for boost
ing prices, it goes on in spite of the
devil himself. There are no apparent
means of reaching the profiteer. The
man who paid $1.75 per bushel for
string beans, thirty pounds to the
bushel, then sold them for 20 cents
per pound. was asked why he charged
such profit. He replied, "Well, the
people must have BEANS" And that is
pretty nearly the answer to the entire
food situation. True, labor costs more
largely mOre-but profiteering is
wholly rotten. That is mild name for
it. The country has gone mad with
profiteering in many directions.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-08-07
Fairview Youth
Kills His Father
Beating Mother

Louis Gross, Jr., of Fairview, TWEEN
ty-one, a chauffeur, shot and killed his
father Thursday night, and notified
the police of his deed.
Young Gross had gone home early,
he said, and had gone to bed and to
sleep. His mother with his fiancee had
gone to Atlantic Highlands for the day.
His father, who was captain of the
New York Central lighter Primbroke,
operating on the Hudson, had come
home after an absence OF about a
month.
About IL rs Gross was awakened by
his mothers screams. He sprang out
of bed and rushed down stairs to find
his father beating and choking his
mother His efforts to interfere were
futile. His father, declaring he would
kill the woman, seemed about to carry
out his threat, when the youth pro-
cured the 22-calibre weapon and fired
six shots at his mothers assailant.
Four of them took effect; two missed.
The trouble came from the elder
Gross doubling his wife had gone to
Atlantic Highlands The son was
jailed.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-08-07
THE GLOW WORM.

Your little boy brings into the house
the first ''lightning bug" he has caught
this season and asks: ''What makes
the lightning bug light?"
And you scratch your head and, if
you are a candid father, you admit you
don't know. But a good way to en-
large your education is to look up
the correct answers to the questions
of your children that you can't answer.
SO when the boy is out of the room
you surreptitiouSly consult an encyclo-
pedia and under "Glow Worm" you
find revealed the most wonderful of
our summer mysteries.
You discover that light of the glow
worm, or lightning bug" is phos-
phorescent and is produced by fatty
cells to which run many infinitesmal
tubes that carry oxygen which re-
acts on the phosphorus and makes the
light.
You find, too, that the lightning bug
is the most perfect of illuminating
plants. Man has produced light in
various forms, but still has to make
light without heat, as the lightning
bug has been doing for ages.
All the energy of the lightning bug
is used for light and none is wasted
in heat. 1t is interesting also to note
that the lightning bug produces thirty
six flashes every minute and, COM
paratively speaking, no creature
works so hard and so steadily to per.
form its mission.
Indeed, in southern countries and in
some parts of Canada, a cousin of our
lightning bug is used by wayfarers
to light he paths through dark for
ests at night.
But there is one question your boy
will ask that no encyclopedia answers
Why did God make lightning bugs? II
must have been for the greater glory
of summer nights.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-08-07

you may do, so long as it is evidence
have stood by from an unselfish mo-
tive; that you wanted to show your
appreciation in your own way-that is
enough. 1t is a marvellous help to find
people doing this at unexpected mo-
ments. Every mans world is small
really care for what we do, and APP
preciate us for what we really are.
Few men can name more than a mere
handful of those who are genuinely
interested in their careers-that is, in
terested enough to have real feeling
theirs, with our triumphs, as well,
that is the sort of feeling that is from
the heart. We should all do what we
can to show interest in those we ap-
preciate. 1t helps fellow wonderful
ly to know that no matter if the whole
trouble, there is at least one who will
be interested and try to help him away
from the care that Expresses. Put
ting heart into what we do; having
soul in what we perform for others
is the open sesame to the hearts
Pandora Box. We can all do this
when we trust one anOther-and we
should never mistrust any one we do
not know all about. Taking snap
judgment on what we hear is seldom
right, and seldom justified. Nine
times out of ten the things we hear
about others are not true. SO stand
by, you who would raise and encour-
age your fellow friends on to pleas
anter heights they would reach along
life's highway.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-08-07
GOODS STOLEN FROM
CAMP MERRITT FOUND
IN PATERSON STORES.

Army shirts, shoes, wearing apparel
and other merchandise worth $4,000,
stolen from Camp Merritt, Dumont, a
year ago, have been found by the Pat
erson police. Local officers, aided by
agents of the Department of Justice,
recovered the goods from local stores.
The merchants are held blameleSS
by the police, as they were given reg
ular bills of sale by the men who sold
the goods. The police say that the
theft was a thoroughly organized af-
fair. The merchandise was carried
out of'the camp on trucks on bills and
orders bearing the forged names of
camp officers.-Record
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-08-07
HOUSING REFORMS.

New shipyards and munition plants
made necessary last year number Of
model housing projects to take care Of
the workers.. The idea of good homes
for wage earners rs q matter of pub
lie policy was widely advertised and
gained strong support. Able, archi-
tects, engineers and landscape design
ers aided the government in its hous-
ing schemes. 1t may be fairly said
that there is coming into conscious
recognition the national aim OF pro-
viding every family WITH a hGbftation
that shall meet the minimum require
ments of decency and health. Slum
conditions in our great towns are by
no means as bad as they were thirty
or forty years ago. Tenement-house
laws and sanitary inspection have
made striking changes for the. better.
but much is, yet to be done. Thus the
young soldiers, returning from service
with enhanced personal dignity, are
not willing to live in hotels or tumble
down cabins, and numbers Of them are
said to have persuaded their families
to move away from the worst tene-
ment districts Of the lower east side
in New York and to find better quar-
tiers in outlying zones. a#
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-08-07
OUR DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE.

So far this summer season has not
been one Of extremes. The weather is
seldom perfect in this latitude, but at
this time of the year New York and
vincinity comes far more nearly full
filling all of the demands of summer
resort than most of the resorts them
selves. We do not have an over
abundance of warm days, and the
nights are seldom unbearable. 1t is
admitted that this statement does not
always hold good. There are times
both winter and summer when the
weather anywhere is intolerable But
take it year in and year out, New York
weather is hard to beat. The month
of August has had some sorry records
in the heat line, but as a whole, not
much real complaint can be legitimate
ly made. 1t is the pleasure month,
when outings to seashore and noun
tain are in order for the great multi
tude of our people everywhere.