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Bellefonte, Pa., October 10, 1919.
EASY ENOUGH TO BE PLEASANT |
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. ’
It is easy enough to be pleasant
‘While life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who
will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
For the test of the heart is trouble,
And it always comes with the years,
And the smile that is worth the praises
of earth
Is the smile that shines through tears.
It is easy enough to be prudent
‘When nothing tempts you to stray;
When without or within no voice of sin
Is luring your soul away.
But it is only a negative virtue
Until it is tried by fire,
And the life that is worth the honor of
earth
Is the one that resists desire.
By the cynic, the sad, the fallen.
‘Who hath no strength for the strife,
The world’s highway is cumbered today;
They make up the items of life.
But the virtue that conquers passion
And the sorrow that hides in a smile,
It is these that are worth the homage of
earth,
For we find them but once in awhile.
W. C. T. U. JUBILEE CONVEN-
TION.
The W. C. T. U. of Centre county
held its thirty-fourth annual conven-
tion in Bellefonte September 25th
and 26th. The morning and after-
noon sessions were held in Petrikin
hall, those of the evening, in the
court house. All meetings were well
attended. Thursday afternoon there
was such an overflow the audience
had to adjourn into the Scenic thea-
tre, which, through the kindness of
Manager Brown, had been placed at
the disposal of the W. C. T. U.
One jubilant feature of this con-
vention was the reunion of the W. C. |
T. U. women and their beloved pres- |
ident, Miss Rebecca N. Rhoads, who |
has' been overseas the past year en-
gaged in war work, and who presid-
ed at the meetings. Evidence that the
hearts of the women were filled with
thanksgiving for her safe return,
was shown from time to time
throughout the convention.
The devotional service of Thursday
morning was conducted by Rev. Am-
brose M. Schmidt, D. D. Greetings
of the Bellefonte W. C. T. U. were
tendered the convention by Mrs.
James Potter. Mrs. A. L. Wright, of
State College, responded. After the
roll call and report of the Executive
committee, there followed a most in-
teresting discussion in regard to the
most urgent work of the W. C. T. U.
for the ensuing year. One-minute
speeches were given by many of the
women. After the noon-tide prayer,
the delegates went to the church of
the United Brethren, where a splen-
did dinner was served by the ladies of
that body.
At the afternoon sessions Rev. Wil-
son P. Ard conducted the devotional
exercises. The corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. Arthur H. Sloop, of Belle-
fonte, gave a most encouraging re-
port of the work of the various un-
ions of the county during the past
year. She stated that five unions had
doubled their membership and one
had tripled. Much splendid work had
been accomplished along every line of
service through the many branches
or departments. Mrs. Sloop stated,
among other impressive words, a line |
from General Pershing to the Amer-
ican women—“welcome our boys but
do not give them drink.
uring this session a tribute was
paid to Centre county’s Representa-
tive at Harrisburg, the Hon. Ives L.
Harvey, who has stood firm for every
good bill proposed in the Legislature
and has voted against every non-
christian measure. It was mentioned
that this is the best Legislature that
has sat in Harrisburg for forty years,
owing to the presence of many moral
men who left business and lost money
in order to help Pennsylvania vote
out the liquor traffic and pass bills
for the good of her people.
An able address on the subject,
“Americanization,” was delivered by
superintendent Arthur H. Sloop, of
the Bellefonte schools. He said “The
general idea of making citizens is the
making of voters.” He went on to
show that the making of American
citizens should mean more than this
—that the foreigner should be led to
love his country and everything truly
American. He, therefore, must know
his country, mingle with the people
on its streets and thus he can better
imbibe their ideals. We must teach
him English. He must read it, think
in it. In order to know his country
he must know her physical features,
reach to higher thoughts inspired by
her beauty; hence we must teach him
geography. Her stories, poetry, dra-
ma and song have given to our peo-
ple a priceless heritage, therefore, to
be a real American citizen, the for-
eign-born must be taught literature.
He must know something of her birth,
her struggles, defeats and triumphs.
He must feel the spirit of liberty, al-
so the spirit of chivalry. He must be
familiar with America’s battle fields
and those of France. Hence, we must
teach him history. He should know
that he and his children are bound up
“with the public good—having some
conception of civic righteousness,
therefore, he must be taught civics.
Mr. Sloop said that 1,200,000 aliens
landed on our shore in one year alone,
that thirty-four per cent. of our whole
population are very recent dwellers
among us, and that they compose one-
fourth of our fighting strength. He
then pointed out that as there are
many foreign-born in Centre county
a great work lies at our door, and
made a plea to the W. C. T. U. wom-
en for volunteer work along this line.
He told of the efforts that had been
put forth through the night-school of
Bellefonte. So many teachers have
volunteered that the men who attend
get much individual instruction. This
work reaches the men, but not the
women, hence a work lies before the
W. C. T. U. to help te educate the
foreign women,
The county treasurer, Mrs. I. L.
Foster, of State College, read an in-
teresting report for the year, show-
ing that the unions had raised suffi-
Demorraic: Abate | toward the Jubilee fund! Over a hun-
~SED 1
dred and fifty new members were
added to the county W. C. T. U. dur-
ing the year.
| against it.”
- memorial service.
{ W. C. T. U. women who had passed
i away since the last convention were
Mrs. Ella M. George, State presi-
dent, an honored guest and speaker
of the convention, gave a short ad-
dress. She said in substance the fol-
lowing: The work of the W. C. T. U.
is only just begun. As long as there
is an evil in the United States there
is work for an organization like this.
It is the women, largely, who have
made public sentiment which has
made it possible to have war prohi-
bition. It was a hard pull, for not so |
many years ago it was quite the prop-
er thing for good people to serve
wine. A man with this thought in
mind said recently: “My mother
made wine—good wine—it had a kick
in it. When the minister called moth-
er would serve this wine with the
doughnuts.” Now sentiment is
against this thing. Senator Jones, of
Washington, a year before war prohi-
bition came, said, “We are going to
have it because public sentiment is
We rejoice in what has come to
pass in our own nation, but other na-
tions have to get rid of it yet. The
world is now our field, We have
much work, too, along the lines of
hibiting of liquor in army and navy, | dialogue which brought out very
the bone-dry zone about the training | clearly just how the Jubilee money is
camp he said: “Ours was the first to be used. Following this the Hon.
army ever trained in a dry camp. Ives L. Harvey made some interest-
Our nation is the only nation that ing remarks.
ever did such a thing in the history | regard for Mrs. George, the W. C. T.
of the world. Our army the first one | U. State president, who had worked
to go up to battle without grog to so untiringly in this drive for the rat-
help it fight. We love England, ification of the Prohibition Amend-
France, and Italy and we don’t wish : ment. He attributed his election to
it to appear that we don’t, but when | the Legislature largely to the work
the French line, which had been wine- of the W. C. T. U. Mr. Harvey in-
soaked went up against the Hun, it troduced the speaker of the evening,
fell back. The English and the Ital- , Mrs. Ella M. George, president of the
ians with their liquor, also fell back. , Pennsylvania W. C. T. U. Mrs.
When our bone-dry American army George, in her gracious and pleasing
hit the Hindenberg line, it broke! manner, quite captivated her audi-
They rolled it up, marched on until | ence, which listened with rapt atten-
they had unfurled Old Glory. The tion to her very able address. She
sale of liquor has been prohibited in | gave a resume of the growth and
the dining-car, thank God. I used to | work of the W. C. T. U. from its birth,
sit down to enjoy my dinner when | dwelling at some length upon two of
some men would open a saloon right ! its great branches—Education and
He spoke of his high |
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LET'S ALL STRIKE. i We should not let the walking del-
| egates bluff us. If they are game let
If it is going to remain the fash- us be game, too. He is indeed a poor
ion among workers on trolley lines, sport who is not willing to try any-
steam railways and other transporta- ' thing once.
tion institutions to exist in a chronic | Let's everyone strike. Last of all,
state of idleness, owing to protracted | the undertaker.—Los Angeles, Cali-
and continuously intermittent strikes, | fornia Times.
we fail to see why that class of the | = -
people should have a monopoly of this' A CORN CULTIVATOR RUN BY
kind of stuff. | MOTOR.
Let’s all go on strike! !
With all that the science of chem-
Who is a trolley man, anyway, or a |
brakeman or a fireman on an engine 4,0 ho5 done for a riculture there
that he should tie things up, any more jg > doubt that aa the applica-
tion of mechanics the industry would
en the rest of us? ths Ct
o, sir; it’s agains e Constitu- 3 . :
tion for any class of the people to be ; i resent Doli oF
favored over another class. ' chinery on the farm to any considera-
S ble extent has been a modern and
Why should we stand for it? Let’
oll Sika). wn the line, from presi. CVeN a comparatively recent contribu-
dents of corporations to the janitors C.0% to the problems of large and rap-
: : id production. In the case of corn,
srs og Pounds; Joi 2 Sail for instance, the Indians, who are the
under my nose. I always moved to a
clean table for I've said, ‘I won’t eat
in a saloon.’ ”
“There has been much talk of Pres-
ident Wilson’s fourteen points.
have eighteen greater points in the
These were enumerated. Some of us
have somehow always felt that all re-
ligion, all reform, all temperance was
in the Republican party, but God has
ed to us that immorality has existed
purity. When our young manhood ; used a Democratic Congress to pull
went to the army, examination prov- | through these good measures.
i party which freed slavery was the
The
in our country to a much greater ex- | party of McKinley and Roosevelt, but
tent than we had ever dreamed.
Another work which calls us is
Americanization work. The liquor
interests have opened up resorts for |
foreigners—it has gathered them in |
and extended what seemed like a
friendly hand. This friendliness
pleases the foreigner—he wants to
make friends. The liquor people did
this to secure votes—votes for rum.
These alien peoples need our instruc-
tion. The foreign women are craving
friendship. The children get English
in the public schools; the men at their
work learn English, but the women in
their homes have no one to teach
them English and so they cannot min-
gle with our people. In some places
sewing classes have been opened for
these foreign women.
Another work before us is the pro-
tection of the Sabbath. The last Leg-
islature presented nine bills which
tend to break up our Sabbath day.
The W. C. T. U. has gone out to
help humanity. It is composed of
women who have given their very
best for a good cause. Their work is
only well begun.
Miss Rhoads, the president, spoke
a few minutes, telling of how she dis-
posed of the fifty dollars sent her last
winter by the county W. C. T. U., to
be used to meet some need in France.
She got in touch with a large fami-
ly of motherless children and placed
this money, with a donatfon from the
late Mrs. Harris, in charge of the
Friends’ Relief organization for the
care and support of one of these poor
orphans—a little girl of seven years,
who will be well cared for this year.
The afternoon session closed with a
The names of the
mentioned with loving words of es-
teem. A beautiful tribute to Mrs.
John P. Harris was given by Mrs.
Gainsford, an old friend. Mrs. Har-
ris worked untiringly for the W. C. T.
U., being president of the Bellefonte
union for thirty-five years, and county
president for many years, endearing
horsans to the hearts of all who knew
er.
At five o’clock Miss Rhoads enter-
tained the delegates and their friends
at her home. A delightful social hour
was enjoyed, and a large collection of
war relics and souvenirs was seen and
refreshments served.
Rev. Alexander Scott presided at
the Thursday evening session. At
eight o'clock the court house was
crowded to overflowing by people ea-
ger to hear the Hon. Clinton M. How-
ard, rightly termed the “Little Giant,”
who was to be the orator of the even-
ing. Mr. Howard was the speaker
for the War Work Council, Red Cross,
and for military camps during the
war period. For twenty-five years he
has promised to preach the funeral
sermon for John Barleycorn when the
liquor traffic legally died. Billy Sun-
day said, “Howard is the one man I
could listen to by the hour and never
grow tired.” The National Red Cross
says, “Howard is positively one of
the greatest speakers we have ever
heard. He will do more good than
any other man in America.” His au-
dience was not disappointed Thurs-
day night and listened most atten-
tively for over two hours to his wit
and wisdom. He mentioned the fact
that he was somewhat at home in
Centre county. He had at one time
been a member of the Sunday school
class conducted by the late General
Beaver. He found his wife in Lock
Haven.
His subject was, “A Joy Ride to the
Grave of John Barleycorn.” Said he,
“I never looked into the face of a
more incredulous set of mourners!
You've never before had a joy ride to
a grave. You can have a joy ride to
a cemetery if you have the right
corpse in the box.” He said, “The
two greatest historical events since |
the dawn of time, aside from the Ad-
vent of our Lord, are: First, sign-
ing of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, and second, signing the Magna
Charta.”
“The greatest moral event took
place June 28th, 1919, when so many
nations signed for peace—marking
the end of Prussianism. A greater
and grander moral event—the next
one to come three days after that date
—was National prohibition, as a war
measure. It permanently sealed the
door of the saloon. J. B. died one
hundred and sixteen years after Neal
Dow. After one hundred years of
fighting we come jubilantly to his
funeral. This is not your funeral so
you need not weep.”
For a scripture lesson, the speaker
took Psalm 126. Said he, “We've
sown in tears for a generation, now
we'll reap in joy.” Repeating the
150th Psalm he said, “This scripture
is appropriate for the funeral of J:
He is going like Judas to his own
place. Prohibition is coming as Pen-
tecost—like a rushing wind.
“Why do the heathen rage, and dis-
tillers imagine vain things?” Mr.
Howard gave us the latest version of
the verse. -
He spoke of the wonderful meas-
God used a Democratic House to
bring about the death of J. B.”
Mr. Howard told of how he stood
up in a prayer meeting one time when
he was twenty years old saying “I
hate the saloon and am going to give
my life up to fighting it until it’s
overthrown.” A deacon rebuked him,
saying, “I am sorry to see you waste
your young life—it never can be
done.” This deacon apologized thirty
years afterwards, for he lived to see
the turn in the tide.” You'll find J. B.
a year from now only in No Hope
cemetery. We must hire the right
man to dig the grave. We show poor
judgment in selecting our men for of-
ce.
“When asked why slavery wasn’t
done away with sooner, Lincoln re-
plied, ‘We’ve employed small plasters
to heal great sores.’ We had a Na-
tion-wide issue to cure with a Local
Option plaster. If the church of God
had had the courage to stand by only
dry men, vowing not to vote for oth-
ers, prohibition might have come
twenty-five years ago. Jesus said ‘If
thine eye offend thee pluck it out!
We have done differently, we've trim-
med around. Who is the grave dig-
ger now? For the first time in the
fight, Uncle Sam is on the job.
“What has so changed the attitude
of Uncle Sam? What has so chang-
ed the attitude of the Nation? J. B.
has been at the gates of death for
some time. What pulled him
through? The war. The people then
realized that there was a traitor in
the camp. We said ‘Food will win the
| war.” We looked to our granary and
: found a rat hole, 110,000,000 bushels
a year into booze.
“It is customary at a funeral to say
something good about the deceased.
B. was a good thief, a good liar, a
good deceiver, and a good murderer.
work to be done, we must bury the
corpse, and not until this is done will
prohibition be made effective in the
United States. I opposed sending
money to make England dry—she
must catch the bone-dry contagion
and she is—Lord George says ‘Com-
petition with America is impossible
as long as England remains drunk.’
i “Some people doubt that J. B. is re-
i ally dead. You know an eel cut up
and skinned will flop when he feels
the fire. J. B. will do likewise until
he is shoveled under. Pestilence
breaks out if war victims are not bur-
ied. It is the only hope of the living
to bury the dead. Anarchy, pesti-
lence and Bolshevism will follow if we
do not bury J. B.
“Men did not get the vision of Na-
tional prohibition until a few years
ago, but the W. C. T. U. women stuck
for it fifty years ago and have wrap-
ped the white ribbon around the
world. They have always paid their
own bills; not until J. B. died have
they asked the public to help them
raise a Jubilee fund for world-wide
work.”
Mr. Howard lost a brother and a
son in the service when the squadron
of fliers went out over Boston Har-
bor to drop flowers upon the heads of
returned soldiers. Young Howard
was one of these brave volunteers,
for winds were high that day. He
never returned—this lad who had
been honored for valiant service in
France. A note from him brought
back, by his carrier-pigeon, saying,
“Good-bye, father, I am going home
to God and mother.” Mr. Howard
said that while he was receiving hun-
dreds of letters and telegrams of con-
dolence from friends, the liquor peo-
ple sent him many letters stating
that they rejoiced in his sorrow and
wished him all kinds of misfortune.
Friday forenoon was devoted large-
ly to reports of the superintendents,
representing various branches of
work and business and discussion.
Mrs. Nannie Williams conducted the
devotional exercises.
Friday afternoon was a most inter-
esting session. After special music,
Mrs. Frank Gardner, of State Col-
lege, spoke briefly of the Italian as
one foreigner who, like others, is not
appreciated as he should be. She then
recited four sketches, written by
Thomas A. Daly. These readings
were very impressive, making the
heart warm toward these neglected
brothers. .
After the election of officers for
the coming year, the president ad-
dressed the convention expressing her
deep appreciation of the good work
done in her absence and suggesting
various things which the W. C. T. U.
might well do this new year. She
called attention to the fact that liquor
interests are using every method to
put men into political power who will
work against prohibition. Quoting
ex-Governor Hanley, she said, “The
rum power has already begun a cam-
paign to reclaim s prohibition
move.” She urged the women to
work as a unit and continue this work
which is not yet done.
After the reading of reports of
committees and resolutions, the meet-
ing adjourned.
We |
|
prohibition record of war Legislature.
|
The old devil is dead. There is still !
{ Legislation. She urged the necessity
| of educating the young and interest-
i ed her hearers along the line of leg-
islation. No offering was taken at this
meeting, owing to the hearty re-
| sponse of the night before, when a
collection of over three hundred and
seventy-five dollars, in pledges and
i cash was lifted.
| DUCKS THAT FLY 120 MILES AN
HOUR.
If a bluebill duck is traveling at its
. best, it can, good hunters declare,
| wing off its mile and a half a minute
| with ease. That seems incredible,
but a canvasback duck would leave
| the bluebill away behind.
{ Hunters have held their watches on
i about every kind of wild fowl that
exists, and as many of them can cal-
i culate from the record a race between
' a canvasback, a blue or a green-wing-
ed teal and a broadbill duck would
: very nearly approximate a dead heat,
{ the chance being a trifle, perhaps,
| against the broadbill, which would
make, say, its 110 miles an hour to
Ei canvasback’s 120 and the teal’s
| Some who have timed wild fowl
i hold that either of the teals ean lead
i the canvasback in speed, but most
canvasback can distance the whole
wild fowl family if it lays itself out
to do it. When the canvasback is tak-
ing things easy it jogs along at the
rate of eighty miles an hour. If jt
has business somewhere and must get
there in a hurry it can put its two
miles behind every minute and do this
easily all day long if necessary.
If one has any doubt as to the
swiftness of the canvasback on the
wing when business calls all he has to
do is to fire at the leader in a string
some time when he has the chance.
Duck shot when propelled by the
proper quantity of powder travels
pretty fast itself, but if one’s charge
brings down any member of that
string of ducks it will be the fifth or
sixth bird back of the leader.
If one would have a chance of drop-
ping the leader he will have to aim
Then he will more than likely run
plumb against the shot. When he
drops it will be a quarter of a mile or
so farther on, for the duck cannot
stop short of that distance.
On the other hand, it has been
i found that the mallard duck is lazy,
‘as wild duck activity on the wing
! goes. He seldom cares to cover more
| than a mile a minute, but he can if
he wants to, for he has been timed
when he was “hitting the wind” at a
good seventy-five mile clip. The mal-
i lard’s everyday style of traveling is
| about fifty miles an hour. The black
duck can show about the same speed
as the mallard.
The wild goose’s performances on
the wing are astonishing. It has a
big, heavy body to carry, and to see
one of these fowls waddling on the
| ground one would never suppose that
| 1t could get away very fast on the
| wing. But the way it manages to
i glide from one feeding place to anoth-
er on occasion has a suddenness that
is aggravating to the best of wing
shots.
To see a flock of honkers moving
along so high that they seem to be
sweeping the cobwebs off the sky, one
would not be inclined to assert that
they were proceeding at the rate of
from 90 to 100 miles an hour, but that
is just what they are doing, since the
wild goose never fools away any
time. He has always a business gait.
But consider the flight of the
squealer duck! One will not be apt
to see a squealer duck unless he goes
down into the oak and pecan deaden-
ings of Arkansas, for this duck does
not seem to flock where other wild
fowl are found in large numbers. In
fact, most hunters say, it is not
known whether it flocks or not, for
one never sees more than two or
three of them together. It goes a
mile and a half a minute.
Ground for Confidence.
We sometimes want to know how well
a man has done when we are asked for an
opinion as to how well he will do.
We almost instinctively judge the fu-
ture by the past; this is reasoning gy in-
duction, a process that generally leads to
right conclusions.
Certainly, it is reasonable to believe
that what Hood's Sarsaparilla has ac-
complished for others it can and will ac-
complish for you, provided of course you
are afflicted in like manner.
Hood's Sarsaparilla has made thousands
healthy and strong, by purifying and en-
riching the blood, curing diseases of the
stomach, liver and kidneys, restoring ap-
petite, relieving that tired feeling—in a
word, by building up the whole system.
Its record of cures of blood diseases,
scrofula, salt rheum or eczema, psoriasis,
pimples, boils and other eruptions, ca-
tarrh, dyspepsia and rheumatism is in
thousands of letters voluntarily and grate-
fully written and forming a colossal vol-
ume of testimony. Surely anybody suf-
fering from any of these diseases is fully
justified in giving this medicine a trial.
64-40-1t
Not Her Hour.
New Cook—Phwat time do vez
have breakfast?
Mistress—At 7:30.
Cook—Well, oim sorry Oi can’t be
wid ye.
Analogous.
Spending a dollar before it is earn-
At the Friday evening session Dr.
ures the war Congress had put
W. K. McKinney presided and made
ed is like eating today the egg that is
to be laid tomorrow.
| strike for the green graves of our
sires; strike to beat the band, and let
the band strike, too.
Ha-tenn-shun! Everybody strike!
If the trolley lines are to be tied
| let’s tie up the soda-water fountains,
the dairies, the blind pigs, the sauer-
kraut orchards, the banks, the restau-
rants, the lawn-tennis courts, the skin
games and everything else from soup
tests go to show that as a rule the
not less than ten feet ahead of him. !
to walnuts.
For, by the great horn spoon, one
i man is as good as arother in this
‘country; and a blamed sight better,
if it comes to that.
i If one class of people won't let the
| public ride, then let another class of
i people shut off drinks and ancther
: shut up the stores and another shut
up the laundries.
Let everybody shut up.
But maybe that’s too much to hope
' for. Everybody shut up? Oh, boy, if
| only that could be done for just one
. hour every million years, what a won-
. derful world this would be.
Imagine 10,000 walking delegates
{ of 10,000 unions, including the Act-
i ors’ Union, shutting up for just one
hour. But why think of it? Earth
would be too much like heaven then.
So what can’t be can’t be, and the
i next best thing is for everybody to
| strike.
Let the iceman strike, the sausage
grinders, the potato peelers, editors
and newspaper reporters, preachers,
window washers, moulders and pud-
dlers, tailors and bushelmen, chauf-
feurs, hair dressers, bakers, butch-
ers, poets, street sweepers, barbers,
cigarette makers, bankers, chamber-
maids, drummers and jazz orches-
tras.
Let’s all strike while the striking
| is good.
And then let mother strike. What,
| mother? Yes, mother. Pull down
i your sleeves, mother, put on your
bonnet and walk out and strike. And
strike good.
Gee! That would be a strike worth
talking about. Then that fellow who
was one of Emma Goldman’s hus-
bands for awhile could write another
book about “To Hell and Back”—if
mother strikes.
These trolley fellows say that the
reason they are on strike is that they
have grievances. If that be true, then
| mother should have been on strike
i ever since Tubal Cain was an appren-
[tice in a blacksmith shop. She has
had grievances ever since Noah step-
‘ ped out of the ark and got drunk.
And she has grievances now worse
than ever. :
Go on, mother. Strike. Strike for
fair and tie up the whole works from
Dan to Beersheba and from Hell to
Omaha. Let us see a strike that is a
strike.
But, as far as that’s concerned, we
would like to ask who it is that hasn’t
got grievances? Why, man, life in
all its walks and rides, life in all its
angles and circumstances and condi-
tions, is one vast grievance.
There are as' many grievances in
this world as there are grounds for
divorce. And that’s more than any
man can count.
Everybody has grievances. The
producer has a grievance against the
jobber, the jobber has a grievance
against the wholesaler, the wholesal-
er has a grievance against the retail-
er and the retailer has a grievance
against the consumer. And the con-
sumer has a grievance against the
whole world.
In the labor unions the walking
delegates have a grievance against
pay envelopes. So we see that griev-
ances are common. They are univer-
sal, immemorial and perpetual.
Grievances contracts run to the end
of time.
And it is well. We couldnt get
along without grievances. They are
the spices of life. They are our safe-
ty valves, our exhaust pipes without
which we would blow up and bust.
When Gladstone put Disestablish-
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first known cultivators of it, found it
necessary to live in communities for
the purpose and large fields of corn
- were really made up of hundreds of
individual fields. Families helped each
other at planting time and harvest in
many instances. As late as 30 years
ago, a tribe of Indians on the upper
Missouri river valley cultivated a
tract of 1200 acres. Here swarthy
_squaws toiled long hours in the hot
‘sun, working with primitive tools, the
small fields being separated from
each other in the same way that chil-
dren’s school gardens are today. At
' the outskirts of the fields Indian sen-
tinels kept guard against the atrachs
of hostile tribes, and later in the fall,
a procession of toilers wended their
way from the fields with loads of
corn, carrying them to the village for
storage.
The most primitive tool was the
sharpened hardwood stick. Later,
the shoulder blades of the buffalo and
deer, deer antlers, and clam and tor-
toise shells were used.
After planting, most of the mem-
bers of the tribes left on long hunt-
ing trips, leaving only a few women
to keep out the weeds. The time to
return for the harvest was usually
gauged by the appearance of certain
field flowers which the Indians ob-
served bloomed about the time corn
was ready for roasting. At roasting
ear time men and women joined in the
harvest, gathering the corn and
parching much of it for future use.
In the development of our agricul-
tural methods corn has not only lost
its place as one of the important food
crops of this country, but it is destin-
ed to fill soon a much larger field. The
! primitive methods of raising corn
have been replaced by the scientific
and efficient use of modern tractors,
listers, seed drills, cultivators, husk-
ers, shredders and the various other
mechanical means provided to aid the
, corn planter in growing and harvest-
ing his crop.
The Indian used only the kernels of
the corn he raised, while the Iowa far-
mer of today uses kernel, cob and
stalk. The kernel is ground into meal
or used for stock feed; the cob is sold
to manufacturers for the making of
pipes, or is used for fuel, while the
stalks are kept for fodder.
No single agricultural step in mark-
ing the advance of methods of untiliz-
ing corn has been so important in the
preservation of the crop in the green
state as the silo. Between 1867 and
1870 the first silos for corn were used
in Europe. The first record of silo
construction in this country was in
1875, when two were built and used
.in Michigan. Because it is an eco-
nomical means of utilizing green
feeds, especially corn, silo construc-
‘tion and the use of silage has grown
tremendously, until today there are
over half a million silos on the farms
of this country. The effect of the silo
is especially shown on our dairy in-
dustry, for the average number of
' milch cows in the United States in-
creased over 20 per cent. during the
decade when silcs were in use com-
pared to the former decade. With a
' silo, the green stalks of the corn can
be stored in the summer and kept in
a fresh and succulent state for feed-
ing during the winter months. Corn
fodder, when mixed with other grain
crops, makes an ideal stock food, and
the great corn belt is also the great-
est producer of pork in the world.
. The development in methods and
| practices of all the great agricultur-
al crops of this country has been as
marked as in the case of corn. Better
, quality of grain is secured by rigid
seed selection and improvement in
cultural methods; larger crops are
obtained through the use of power
machines to supplement the work of
horses and cut down the time requir-
ed for any given operation; soils are
| analyzed and treated to remedies,
such as sweetening sour land with
: lime, or installing tile drainage for
water-logged areas. Improved meth-
ment through and Presbyterians and | ods of threshing reduce the labor of
Catholics in Ireland didn’t have to | harvesting, save a great proportion
pay tithes to the Church of England | of the grain, and cut down the time
any longer or didn’t have to go to required for this work. Machines for
i church at all if they didn’t want to, | shredding, grinding or otherwise pre-
{ whiclt some of them naturally didn’t, paring feed for stock are operated by
| there was an orator at a big meeting | electricity or the gas engine, and the
| who praised Gladstone eloquently for | necessity for much hand labor is re-
his great act. : { duced to the minimum. The farmer
But a man arose in the meeting and is no longer isolated by bad roads and
said: “Gladstone be damned; he took slow transportation, for his high-pow-
away from us the grandest grievance ' ered car will whisk him over the
we ever had.” He was a man from | smooth highways in short order. In
Tipperary, and he spoke the truth. | these days of increasing costs of liv-
Wherefore, since a grievance is a ing, many a trained professional eye
ground for strikes, and since we all | of the city is turned with longing to-
have grievances, let’s all go on strike. ' ward the green fields and bulging
Let’s sprag not only trolley wheels, | barns of the farmer.
but, while we're at it, let’s sprag! And, as machinery is more and
every other wheel. Let's sprag more applied to the farming industry
everything from a wheel in a watch | it becomes less and less of a haphaz-
to the wheels in the heads of the par- | ard and unremunerative industry and
lor Socialists. | more and more of an organized busi-
You see, there would be some way | ness in which profits and losses, costs
to get along, just the same. If no- and net gains may be closely calcu-
body worked, not excepting father, lated and forecast. While many a
and nobody baked bread and nobody | small farmer has “gone broke” in re-
washed clothes or made them and no- | cent years through installing expen-
body had any money we would all be | sive machinery out of all proportion
on an equal footing and the dream | to the work to be done, it is a fact
of socialism would then come true. | that the newest mechanical devices
Then would dawn that delightful are helping, when properly used, to
Utopian age when one man could make the small farm remunerative,
starve to death as easily as another | just as they have greatly developed
and as quickly. ; | the output of dairy products and of
The earth would then return into | the packing, canning and preserving
the possession of jackrabbits, goph- | industries.
ers, and wild cats, horned toads and TTT
Indians. Which would be all right. Both Bear Watching.
Music Teacher—That new pupil is
It was theirs first. |
The thing will probably have to be | C
tried out sooner or later, else we shalt ‘improving, but when she runs the
have no peace. So why not try it out ! Scales I have to watch her pretty
2 it is cowardly of us closely.
ig Noy aLe : has Volt on! His Wife—Just as I have to watch
another generation. Let’s all strike her father, the butcher, when he’s
and be done with it. running the scales.