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"Polly of the Circus"
Monday, December 23, featuring Mae Marsh,......: lie, 17c
"Treasure Island"
Tuesday, December 24, Fox Picture' I........... ..... 11c, 15c
"Our Little Wife"
Wednesday, December 25, CHRISTMAS, .....15c, 25c
Clara l. Young
Thursday, December 26, Select Picture... 11c, 17c
"The Field of Honor"
Friday, December 27, featuring Mae Marsh ..11c, 17c
Theda Barra in "Du Barry"
Saturday, December 28 ..15c, 25c
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Farm Records
Farmers who are not keeping
farm records should seek the advice
of the county agent or State farm
management specialist as to a suit
able form of record and the method
of keeping it. and be ready at the
beginning of the farm year to make
prompt entries of things done dur
ing the year. This may be a record
of just one enterprise or of all the
, operations of the farm. The record
will be found very helping in find
ing out the strong and weak points
of the year's business, and in de
, ciding on any changes that may be
desirable in the organization and
management for the next year
Parmora uyfrln arA nlranrlv Voemnd
records should see tha.t the accounts
are summarized .and the new in
ventories promptly entered for the
beginning of the next year's busi
ness. Farmers who do not keep
books will find it difficult to make
proper returns uuder the Federal
. income-tax law
R. B. Stone, a detective for the
Cotton Belt railroad, stationed at
Illfflo, Mo, stole $930 from the ex
press office last week, and atter be
ing suspected, detected and sweat
ed by other law officers of the rail
road, pleaded guilty to the theft and
showed the officers where he had
hidden the money at six different
places about town. He wa9 sen
tenced to the penitentiary for two
years.
DO Y0UKN0W?
Red Cross Christmas Roll Call
December 16th to 23rd
Do you know the Red Cross
Chrlstnms Roll Call? Do you know
when It's going to be?' Do you
know It's the cull of ouj brothers,
who are far away, over the sea?
Do you know that If you answer
"present" you'll be helping some
boy over there, and you'll show
that you're backing our' soldiers and
willing to tlo your, full slmre? Do
you know that to millions of chil
dren this sign of a haven, Indeed,
for they know -it means food, cloth
ing, shelter and love to supnly every
need? Do you krow what the mil
lions of members all over our well
beloved land have been able to do
through the Red Cross In offering
a kind, helping hand? Will you an
swer "I'm here" to the roll tall?
Will you bea member this year?
If you will you'll receive the "love
button" a token of Christinas good
cheer. " .
Challenge of the Past
Most of us are good people. We
aimit it. If we weren't we wouldn't
admit it as often as we do. The
trouble is to get other people to,. be
lieve it.
When a . moo has a first class op
portunity of prohnng by sinister
practices and don't take advantage
of it he doesn't need to toot his horn.
His record does that for him.
Your Uncle Sam is in the position
of that gentleman. He has had
many a chance of territerial expan
sion at the expence of weaker neigh
bors, and has turned it down. He
isen t perrect. but his record is pret
ty good, and it will help him at the
peace confernce. Not many of the
conferees will attend with as clear
a conscience.
The world is fortunate in not hav
ing to depend on geesswork in siz
ing up America's principles. It has
the same advantage with regard to
the British navy.
If England were to assure us tint
naval supremacy would be benevo
lently used e might be skeptical
in default of proof. But England's
maritime strength has been exercis
ed with singular benevolence. No
tably in the suppression of the slave
traffic where no mercenary motive
was even faintly perceptible. Just
exactly who has been victimized by
it is bard to say. t
The meaning of that mysterious
expression, I he freedom of the
seas," has never been completely
clarified. It doesn't need -to be
We know by experience what free
seas are. The seas have been free
to everybody since Noah went-sail
ing, ana it is rather late to start an
argument about it now.
If Uncle Sam contributes his vast
naval power to the policing of the
oceans do one will welcome bim
more heartily than John Bull. But
Johnny is ' dot likely to junk bis
dreadnaughts, and we should worry
while Johnny pays for them.
Discussing the fate of the Kaiser,
The Douglas County Democrat says:
' We should like to see him put at
the end of q ball and chain and
forced to pound rock for the rest of
his days together with a lot of his
sons and attaches." We doo'rkoow
whether the Kaiser is to pound rock
and his sons and attaches also, or
whether they also are to pound rock
but it is all right either way.
Read carefully the advertising in
The Farm Today
Farming is being adapted more
and more to a business basU, and
farmers are being recognized by the
business men of the cities as hv
ing real business standing. The ex
pression, "Farmers and business
men," has become "Farmers and
other business ' men." O ice the
young man learned the farming
trade by working mostly with his
father and brothers; now he learns
tanning in mat -way and also in
school and college, and by the
study and practice of modern busi
nees methods, so that he becomes
a different type ot farmer from the
countryman of one or two genera
tions ago.
The demand of the present farm
er has brought about a new method
of dealing with him and supplying
him with any available information
be may desire. It is recognized
that it is not good practice to load
farmers with advice to tell the n
what to do and when to do it and
this changed attitude brings more.
satisfactory relations to all' con
cerned. It has . resulted in freer
consultation and the arrival at safer
conclusions and more correct prac
tices than ould possibly corns from
working separately. -
Hold Your Bonds
Secretary of Treasury. W. G Mc
Ad o, today issued the following
statement in. regard to Liberty
Bonds: ; '
Hold your' Liberty Bonds and
War Savings Certificates,
Hold them first because they are
the best investment in the world,
backed by every resource in ' the
United States
Hold them because -you have
made a sacrifice in order to buy
them Why pass on to someone
else a contract you have entered in
to with your Government?
Hold them- because even though
the war may be over, it has not yet
been paid for The Treasury De
partment must soon issue more
bonds. Every sale now made by
you' makes future Government is
sues more difficult and more expen
sive. This expense can be borne
only by the people of the United
States, therefore, why add to the
already large burden?
Hold them because the time may
come when such an investment
will prove to be a true friend in
time of need, a guarantee against
the fear of death and insurance
against real hardship.
: Hold them because the need for
saving is not over. Government
expenses are today larger than at
any time during the war. Our boys
in France and Germany must still
paid and' fed and clothed, and
when their work is . over, transport
ed home. Tney have not quit
why should you?
Hold your Liberty Bonds instead
of exchanging them for some other
so called "Security" Because you
know the security of your United
States bond and you cannot know
the worth ot what is offered in ex
change. The "get rich quick" crook
is ready to steal your bonds from
ydu at the first opportunity.
Hold them because of the inter
est they pay. Hold them becaus
it is good business to do so. What
good will the idle pleasure and need
less luxuries bought today with the
proceeds of your bonds be to you a
year from now? Your bond works
for you, drawing interest day and
night, week days and Sundays.
Hold your bonds don't be a
quitter, be a Datnot.
The Seed Supply
The important part the use of im
proved seeds of all farm crops has
played on the quality and yield has
been fully established by numerous
experiments and demonstrations in
recent years, la many instances
the increases due to use of good
seed have been very striking. There
will, no doubt, be a scarcity of high
grade seeds of several staple crops
next season. For this reason it is
worth while to call the attention of
every farmer to the necessity of se
lecting and properly storing a suffi
cient supply for. home use of every
kind of seed available. After de
ciding what crops are to be plaoted
next year, the farmer will do well to
locate and purchase seeds now, un
less be has them of his own grow
in4. . Failure to order now may re
sult ia getting only , inferior seeds
as the dealer usually fills early .or
ders with the best.
Virgil Hershey of Marceline, Mo ,
who recently graduated from the
Chillicothe Business College, has
been placed in a -$03 00 per month
position with the Wabash R. R., -at
The United States ' government
haye as its guests in the near future
President Poincare of France; King
George of England; King Albert of
Belgium; King Victor Emmanuel of
Italy, and the heads of any other
nations President Wilson may visit
during his visit to Europe, Stephane
Lauzanne, editor of the Paris Matin,
declared just before he sailed for
Europe. M. Lauzanne. has been in
the United States several months
on an official mission. "It has been
a diplomatic custom from time im
mortal, M. Lauzjnne said, "that the
heal of one government who euter
tains the head of another invaria
bly repays the visit
' An Army Record
The report of the judge Advocate
General covers the record of an army
which is not like any other in this
country, or any other, ever raised.
It is. therefore, impossible to make
comparisons between the discipline
of the army as revealed by trials
and convictions and any other army.
It is only possible to say that the
record seems surprisingly good.
The report covers the whole of
the war up tj last July. In that
time there had been about 11,000
convictions for military offenses.
and considerably more than half of
these convictions were for disobe
dience and for overstaying leave.
Both are serious military offenses.
but both are offenses of a kind that
would naturally be expected from
boys suddenly subjected to army
restraint and still undisciplined. Ia
an army largely filled by draft there
were but 3.358 desertions. Tnese
included the willful runaways, to
gether with a considerable number
of boys who were homesick rather
than defiant or vicious It is evi
dent that the draft stirred up only a
negligible amount of opposition ia
the minds of those who were liable
to it The drafted men were willing
and glad to go.
A surprising figure is the number
charged with drunkenness, which
amounted to-only 774. There were,
of course, many thousands who got
over the alcoholic line, bat apparent
ly the army was troubled with but
few defiant and persistent drunk
ards.
It is gratifying to know that, no
American soldier suffered death for
a military tffense Death sentences
were imposed, but the fact that the
President felt at liberty to commute
the sentence in every case shows
that there was no conviction, at
any time covered by the report, for
any offense that could be consider
ed outright treason.
The war has been the cause of
the death of many thousands of our
splendid young men while in the
army. It has also caused the death
of a good many good people at
home through worry and overwork
and it will be the cause of the dtath
of many business concerns before
we get back to normal conditions. ,
The latter view is not pessimism.
It is history and probabilities based
on past experience The business
of the country is on an inflated
basis and in getting back to solid
rock there are certain to' be numer
ous casualties.
AFTER GRIPPE
Tinol Restored Mr. Martin's Strength
Wapakoneta, Ohio. "I am a farmer
by occupation, and the Grippe left ma
with a bad cough and tn a nervous, weak,
run-down condition, and I could not
seem to get anything to do me any good
until I took Vinol, which built me up,
and my cough and nervousness are ail
gone, and I can truly say Vinol ia all
that is claimed for it'' James Martht.
Vinol is a constitutional remedy for
all weak, nervous and run-down condi
tions of men, women and children, and
lor chronic coughs, colda and bronchi tla,
UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADVUNSTRATON
W. G. McADOO DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS CHI
CAGO, BURLINGTON &. QUINCY RAILROAD
NORTHEAST COLORADO
is a wonderful wheat country, and a big success with
Beans, Sugar Beets and Potatoes. Corn, Alfalfa and
native grasses enrich the dairy or live stock man.
NORTHWEST NEBRASKA
f
ranches mean more than a grazing place for cuttle.
Corn, oats, rye, barley and alfalfa are grown to fluish for
"topping the markets.
WYOMING
has unexcelled deeded irrigated lands, also irrignted '
homesteads under government ditch 20 years to ray
water right, no interest, 10,000 free 640-acre homesters.
Take some of this excellent land and keep our pr-trs
instead of turning them over to a landlord. .Let me
help you to locate.
S. B. HOWARD, Agricultural Agent, C. B. & Q. R. R.
1004 Farnam St, Omaha, Neb.
the Democrat this week.
Moberly, Ma
