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APRIL. 1917.
.ZZ.UOl
.12,001
.20,020
.12,080
.12.188
.12,414
.12,885
.22,718
.12,542
.12,602
.12,522
.12,521
.12,601
.12,627
.28,078
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17.;.....19.601
18.. ..........19.619
18.. *...19,694
80.19,610
II.19.641
88 .13,181
33.19.646
24 . .19,580
25 .19.649
26 .19,480
27 . 11,415
28 .19,425
89 .92.798
80.19,389
Total .
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t Kot Total
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17.703
M4.IS8
: Daily Average, April, 1917 .... 18,935
l Sunday Average, April, 1917 ... 22,195
J. L Boeahana, Circulation Manager of Tba
- Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn.
The foregoing statement of Tba Adver
tiser’s circulation for the Month of AOfU,
1017, la true and correct and compiled after
raturna and spoiled copies have bean de
ducted. •
THE ADVERTISER CO..
J. L BOESHANS.
Circulation Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me thla
s Second day of May. 1017.
I , (SEAL.) W. F. LEE.
1 Votary Public, Montgomery County. Alabama.
i ELIOT ON THE INCOME TAX.«
'
■ Dr. Charles W. Eliot has been alluded to,
f with causa, as “America's Orand Old Man.**
Wise, profound and presumably unprejudiced,
C Ms views on publlo men and public Questions
no less than on speculative philosophy, com
i; Band respect.
Ths great scholar’s views on taxation, re
cently expressed, seem to The Advertiser to
be so sound and clear, as well as tliriely.
: that we would give them further publicity.
^Dr. Eliot says:
Under democratic forms of government
the mass of the people come Into control
of the power of taxation. * * The action
S';- of the American democracy on the In
i'-,' oome tax already shows signs of Insidious
demoralisation. The income tax Is a
very convenient and Just form of taxa
ft’ tlon, provided that every self-supporting
it citlxen pays It, but S3 1-2 per cent of the
jj-t population avoid paying any Income tax.
by putting high the exemption fdom the
' tax, the Income tax becomes a means of
widespread demoralization,
Ths Brooklyn Eagle, quoting the foregoing,
adds the following paragraph as further
warning to a democracy which believes In
letting the other fellow pay ths freight:
When Rome, under Nero, was still call- -
ing Itself a "republic” the rich were pay
ing the taxes and the poor were getting
Out of government the panes et clrcenses
(ths bread and circuses) that mads
tyranny tolerable for them. With such
‘j a mental attitude on the part of the
masses, freedom cannot co-exlst. There
in lies a warning for Americana To
Just ths degree of his conscious payment
of taxes the everyday man has the fosl
lng of having a ‘‘stake in the communi
ty." And this feeling la the measure of
his conscious patriotism, always and
aver?waeri.
And that la the truth, "always and every*
j Where." A widespread propaganda has found
Its way through the channels of publicity In
recant times whose purpose Is'to unify pub
110 sentiment behind the Idea of making one
class of citizens pay all the costs of govern
; Blent both in the enterprise of war and In the
enterprise of domestic development A Con
gress elected by the largest number of peo
' pie. Is expected to be favorable to the Idea
of exempting the majority from as many of
the burdens of the hour as practicable.
Taxation should be the tangible force con
necting every man directly with his govern
ment It should be light, but It should be
as uniform and undlscrlmlnatlng as prac
ticable. Everybody should know how It feels
to be taxed and to knoW that taxation can
not be shifted to the other fellow.
I Again, since posterity Is to draw greater
benefits from the sacrifices of war which
We of today are making, why should not
posterity be riiade to shoulder as much of the
load as Is practicable? Since men of today
must atralp their resources to meet the cost
of war, and In addition lose their lives and
suffer physical pain to the end that posterltv
may not have to make the same sacrifice,
why should not posterity be permitted to
%elp pay the war’s coat?
A "pay as you go” policy sounds well, but
It places unnecessary hardships upon the
P present generation.
NEW YORK. May 23.—Filet of shark.
q gray fish, various form aof edible sea
V weeds and a large array of practically
n- unutilized American foods of the highest
fc dietetic value are among exhibits In the
food and health exhibition opened today
at the American museum of national hls
it tory.
For our part we do not care to participate
p In any retaliatory policy against the man
eating shark.
' The thing to do Is to enhance the ^ov
■ srnment’s standing In enemy countries by
seelng that the Liberty Loan Is over-sub
p scribed. You cap arrange it If you will try
hard enough.
.
Our government won’t Issue passports to
Socialists who want to attend the Socialist
pow-wow at Stockholm. This Is ^rank dis
courtesy to the German government.
7 A Chicago man said "to h--l with the U. S..’’
“'and It coat him $100. Colonel Watterson of
i Louisville has been saying for two years, "To
p--»l with the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzol
.; lerns," and the circulation of The Courler
• Journal Immediately Increased
& \ -
PLANNING TNE SUMMER’S WAR.
An Interesting and apparently trua account
•f the precipitation of the present general at
t«ck, on all fronts by the allies, is presented
In a newspaper article by Carl W. Acker*
man, writing from Stockholm, after recently
coming from Germany, where he was with
the German armies.
The plan of the allies, It Is significant, was
not revealed from any of their own coun
tries, but from Germany, which was quickly
Informed of the determination of the allies
to attempt to crush In all fronts of the Teu
tonic powers this summer. The scope of the
present grand and general offensive was
planned at the somewhat famous Rome Con
ference, held early last- winter. When this
conference was over the censors of the allied
countries allowed it to be known that the
conference had discussed the general econ
omic situation of th« allies and that they had
determined on a commercial war on Germany
following the War.
But Germany had been Informed better.
Germany had .^earned that the prime ques
tion before that'conference was: Shall we
take our time In making the war, and seek
to beat1 Germany through economic pressure,
or shall we assemble every resource this
spring for a general military offensive? Per
haps a majority of those present at the con
ference, which was held secretly) favored a
slower war. In a military sense and a heavier
economic pressure. But Lloyd George, the
English Premier, by sheer weight Sf his will,
forced the conference around to his way of
thinking, which was to precipitate a des
perate offensive on nil fronts and particularly
on the western front.
Germany, which was also planning for the
spring and summer, heard the detail^ of the
conference almost as soon as It adjourned.
Germany was preparing for a drive deep Into
Russia, one which would carry them to Mos
cow or Petrograd. They did not hope that
such a drive would bring peace, but they
thought it would knock Russia out of the
war. Hlndenburg and his war staff shifted
their plans when they heard of the Rome
conference. They called off the proposed
Russian drive and prepared to meet the at
tack on the western front. An Important
feature of that preparation was to upset the
plan of the allies by retreating from the
Somme. This retreat was carried out suc
cessfully but It failed of Its full purpose be
cause the British and the French acted with
unexpected swiftness. The Germans were not
fully.prepared to meet the attack from Arras
or the drive towards Laon, and they had to
give way before the allies, and they had to
suffer heavy and unexpected losses.
In time they finished the assembling of the
guns, munitions and men which they had
brought from the eastern front, but they had
suffered far more than they thought possible.
The Russian adventure, In spite of the col
lapse of authority In Russia, had to be per
manently suspended and all German re
sources had to be thrown to the western
front.
In the meanwhile the plan of a general of
fensive was being carried out by all the
allle^ armies except those of Russia, The
revolution paralyzed the military forces of
Russia, and she was held helpless at a criti
cal hour. But in Mesopotamia and at Mon
astir the allies lunged forward, while a gen
eral desperate battle was precipitated in on
the Italian front. We had Thursday the news
of the result of that battle—the general de
feat of the Austrians on the coast of the
Quit of Trieste and the atyrance of the
Italians to within ten miles of the city of
"Trieste.
It. is certain that heavy British artillery
la with the Italians. It is likely, too, that
the reports of a large British force fight
ing with the Italians is true. . At any rate,
for the first time In a year the Italians are
making real headway.
This general offensive, decided upon at the
Rome conference, ia still In progress; it will
continue throughout the summer. British
and American money and British troops are
backing it to the limit. If it should not be
successful this summer, as It probably will
not be. It will be continued next spring and
next summer with American troops fighting
Bide by side with their European allies.
JUST TWO SORTS.
There are really only two kinds of animals
In the world—those that provide for the
future and those that do not.
As an example of the former we have that
amazing little fellow the bee. He never
rests while the sun Is shining In carrying
the nectar from the field to the hive. Within
a few weeks hts wings are worn out and he
dies In those same fields from which he'has
so faithfully gathered the sweetness. But
the honey that he has stored in the hive will
help to support the future queen and her
subjects through the winter so that there
will be a new swarm In the spring.
As a type of animal that makes no pro
vision for the future we may take the hog.
He will root up an entire field of peanuts;
not caring a whoop whether any more pea
nuts will grow there or not. He Is not con
tent to take what Is on top of thg ground
but he wanta what is beneath It Ws well.
Nature made him so. of course, and he Can
not help being what he Is.
But It Is rather humiliating to realize that
many of us—who can make of burselvrs
what we please—have chosen too often the
methods of the hog rather than those of the
bee. We have taken everything In sight and
much out of eight. For Instance, we have
taken our soil fertility as if it were inex
haustible and have cpnsumed It through the
years, leaving but little for our children.
And children, .who should have been com
oetent heirs to much of the land, saw this
land go for mortgages.
Just at this time the whole world Is turn
ing to the Idea and the method of the bee_
| building for the children who shall come
after us. We are not only trying to make
the hive fit for hAltatlon but we are. through
our gradually changing methods, trying to
lay up a little honey in it—soil fertility.
Roil fertility Is not only the foundation of
wealth, but It Is the measure of wealth as
well. It Is likewise the source of our energy.
It behooves\every man who owns soil to
realize tills great truth gnd along with It his
duty to those who shall come after him.
None of us are landlords. We are all
tenant* on the land—and for a few short
roars ohlr.
THE MEMPHIS LYNCHING.
Th* Advertiser Is gratified, but .not sur
prised. at the prompt and vigorous manner
in which the Tennessee press condemns the
burning of a negro at Memphis who com
mitted one of the roost horrible crimes con
ceivable. Tennessee must be ashamed of the
stain on its nsme today. That this Is true
may be seen from the tenor of the editorial
comment upon the .affair at Memphis
"We are back once more to the^olnt where
the law should end and anarchy Should be
gin,” says one of the leading dallies of the
State. "We are face to face with th* old
question of whether society disorganised can
better accomplish results than the organised
forces of the law. • • • Men cannot irtv* the
law temporary paralysis and then expect It
to resume a vigor in protecting all of th*
rights of all of the people. Men cannot, at
will, suspend the Constitution of (he United
States and then expect that Constitution to
be the ark of the covenant' of the liberties
which pur forefathers secured for us In their
blood.”
If a reign of violence In Memph|f does not
follow the lynching episode wherein so large
a number of people were personally - con
cerned. we shall be pleasantly surprised..
Violence begets violence, is as true a saying
as we know. ,
We must have an orderly society, or we
fall. Law must function through orderly
processes, else the example of violation will
ultimately and inevitably demoralize us.-,
ENLISTMENTS IN THE GUARD.
There Is no better time than now for the
young Alabamian who expects to servo hit
country, to enlist In the National Guard of
the State, now In active service.
Conscription is an assured fact; the law Is
pdssed and it Is in operation. EveryVaean
between the age of twenty-one and thirty
one will be registered on June 5th as subject
to active military duty. Once conscripted he
has no volition over hie own future. He will
not know who his officers will be and he will
dot know who his comrades will be. He can
not even express a preference for any special
command which he may favor. He will J|#ve
to take his place, as It Is assigned him by the
military authorities.
The Guard offers him a freedom of choice.
H«. can volunteer now and choose the com
pany he would like to aerve with. He can
even select his own officers. He can be as
sured now that he will serve with men whom
he knows and under officers who come from
among his own people. The young soldier
will find It much piore to his liking lo be
with his own kind, bo;h men and officers,
and he can be with them, according to his
own choice, If he should enlist In the Guard.
The Alabama National Guard now has up
ward of six thousand men. It has been
ordered on a war footing, which would place
Its total at nine thousand men. The Adver
tiser believes that the State should fill up all
the vacant places In the Guard, before the
conscript officer lays his hand upon the
shoulders of a single young man.
Two descendants of President John
Adams, who wrote the greater part of
the present constitution of Massachusetts,
will have seats In the convention which
meets next month to revise that Instru
ment.—Pensacola Journal.
We trust no surviving member of the
Adams will feel called upon as a patriotic
duty to hasten to the private chamber of the
President of the United States to warti him
of a conspiracy In Massachusetts to with
draw the State from the Union. John Quincy
Adams made such a pilgrimage to the White
House.
The Italian Mission brought along a real
fresh Idea, but we confess we are more en
thusiastic over the new Italian drive against
the Austrians than over the Mission's recom
mendation to our government, which Is:
"Wipe out the submarine. That Is the most
essential part of the war.**
Our own unsllenced Mtexlm claims he has
discovered a submarine cure, and If he has
we are going stand up for him In future
against all hia critics and detractors. Maxim
has genius beyond doubt, but he has ether
qualities which he could well afford to spare;
but we won’t ask him to spare them If he
checks the submarines.
I Letters to Editor ]
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DISPEILMN'G A DEtrSIOK.
708 Peachtree St., Atlanta, G«„
May 23, 1917.
Editor The Advertiser:
Your readers are many of them laboring
under the delusion that we have been wiped
out by the fire. We Judge this from the
many letters of sympathy that have reached
us from Montgomery.
Please tell your readers that the Elizabeth
Mather College on Peachtree street was many
blocks from the scene of the disaster; that
the faculty and students took care of several
refugees and lent aid In many ways until
late at night. We had much excitement and
anxiety but no damage in any way.
Very truly yours.
BLANCHE O. LOVERIDUE. President.
ALABAMA AND THE FARM CREDITS ACT.
Bladon Springs, Ala., May 22nd, 1917.
Editor The Advertiser;
There Is so much In our Alabama press
urging the farmers to plant food stuffs, Ala
bama to feed Itself, etc. That some of us
women here have entered into a co-opera
tive plan to raiHe and can everything and
see just what we can, or are doing,
I know not how conditions are up and
down the Alabama river, but along the Tom
blgbee they are distressing—for farmers who
lost everything by.the storm last year, all
crops—saved nothing to feed stock this year,
to farm. And so much stock and hogs wers
drowned which they might have sold to buy
products.
I was appealed to In their behalf—as un
able to procure the "Federal Farm Loan Act”
help though application was made to New
^Orleans.
I wrote to Dr. Stockbrldge, who was presi
dent of the National Farmers' Congress as
to the inability to get it. He, of course,
you know. Is editor of The Rurallst. Hers Is
his answer, which I enclose.
And now'J ask why Is it Alabama has
failed to put this chance into the hands of
her farmers in distress? When South Caro
lina Mississippi. Kentucky, North Carolina,
Texas and Virginia have all been able to
'■ avail Its aid to the farmers? if u,e farmers
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No Hair Trigger . > )
& What The United States Marine Is |
V.
Chicago Trlbuno.
For the first, and. It la hoped, the last j
time, the United Statea marines are asking
for help. The bill Just passed by the House
of Representatives increasing the strength
of the corps from 17,400 to 30,000 men has
caught the marines In the unfortunate posi
tion of having over half of the whole corps
at sea. In our foreign possessions, or In Such
disturbed localities, as Haiti and Santo Do
mingo, .while those In this country are so
occupied with recruit training that they can
not send out enough men' to bring In the
13,000 additional recruits needed to raise the
corps to its new etrength.
* * * *
Now, Just what Is a marine? It Is a curi
ous thing that, although the Marine Corps
Is the oldest military establishment In the
United States, few outside of the service
understand what a marine really Is 'or what
he Is supposed to do. Hls status, however,
can easily .be explained.
Marines have been called the “soldiers of
the sea," and this Is what they are. They
are the soldiers of the sea for this reason:
Under International law It Is an act of war
to land a soldier In a foreign country. It Is
not an act of war to land a marine; hence, a
body of marines may be landed in a country
with which we are at peace to preserve
order, lives and property without such land
ing being considered an act of war by the
United States; Just such a landing was that
effected by the marines at Vera Crus In 1314.
* * * *
And now, what are the duties of marines
while they are at sea? One hah perhaps
read in the papers or he^rd some one say
that a marine Is a policeman aboard ship
That Impression, should at once be corrected.
A marine Is not a policeman aboard ship; he
has no police duties. The police aboard ship
are the petty officers of the bluejacketa
The marines lead their lives entirely Inde
pendently of the bluejackets. Bluejackets
and marines are the best of frlendn despite
what Is sometimes printed to the contrary.
A number of stations bn the ship are filled
by marlnea as much as a matter of custom
as for any other reason, and In all Impor
tant ceremonies the marines have the posi
tion of honor on the quarterdeck. But their
real duties are mor important than this.
The chief duty, for example, of a marine
at sea Is to man what Is called the "tornedo
defenee battery.” This battery, so called, on
a modern ship consists of about twenty 6
lnch gum, arranged In a row on each side of
the ship. The purpose of these guns Is to
jruard the ship from torpedoes by sinking the
ships which carry them. Fortunately, too,
the marines are wonderful shots with these
(-Inch guns and have made brilliant records.
The largest per centage of hits scored In the
naval battle of Santiago was made by these
guna and Insistent demands at once arose
for more marlnea for the battleships. And
this Is not the only Important duty of the I
marines. They are in charge, also, of the
anti-aircraft guns. It Is only recently that
guna to destroy aeroplanes have been placed
aboard ships. But so reliable are the marines
that the handling of these guns has been en
trusted to them. A marine must have a clear
eye and a clear head.
Because of internal dissension, riots or dis
turbed conditions It may become necessary
for the United States government to take
^control of a foreign port. The ships by
threats, or sometimes by actual bombard
ment, make It. possible for our forces to land,
as we have done In Cuba, Haiti and Santo
Domingo. What forces are to be landed from
the ships? Not the bluejackets, certainly,
for they are not soldier*- and, moreover, a
bluejacket’s business Is to fight the ship and
he Is not trained to serve on shore. No. It
Is the marines who' are landed. "The marines
go first.” One has seen these words on the
posters, and now one may understand exact
ly what they mean. The marines goi first
under protection of the guns of the fleet.
Concerning the difficulties which they face
and surmount, concerning the opposition
which Is made to their landing, concerning a
difficulty of subsisting themselves In a
foreign country, often when they have gone
far from the ships, little Is seen In the pub
lic press. We at home are accustomed to
hear shortly after the marines have started
for a disturbed locality the laconic expres
sion: "The marines have landed and have
the situation well In hand.” This expression
carries to the knowing ones the information
that over every obstacle. In spite of Alaska's
cold. In spite of tropical rains and tropical
suns, the marines have again done their bit,
cleaning up the job assigned to them.
Their motto Is "Semper fldells”—"Always
faithful.”
_i- _
do not know how, whose duty, la It to ahow
them? Certainly In this Tomblgbee region
the need has been dire, and la—If the (arm
era are to till soil, now growing up In weeds
by hundreds ot acraa along tha river rich
lands.
Respectfully,
LIDA B. ROBERTSON.
(INCLOSURE.)
Atlanta, Ga„ May 17, 1917.
Miss Lida B. Robertson, Bladon Springs, ,AIa.
Dear Mlaa Robertson:—I regret extreibely
to learn of the apparently unfortunate con
dition In which the farmers of your section
have been placed by untoward circumstances.
I do not, however, understand what you can
mean In your reference to Federal Reserve
Funds and loans therefrom for bridging
over present conditions.^ I can only surmise
that you are laboring under sOrious con
fusion of Ideas relative to the two different
comparatively new national financial laws.
The Federal Reserve system has been In
actual and full operation for more than two
years. It does not do business directly with
Individuals, but only with banks from which,
however, by Its means most staple farm
crops and livestock are accepted as collateral
for loans to farmers.
The other Instrumentality Is the Federal
Farm Loan Act. which has been In actual
operation for several months and through
which individual farmers In any community
are able to borrow money upon farm land
security for such purposes as those de
scribed in your letter. The advantages of
this loan system are open to all farmers
everywhere, and obtaining such loans is sole
ly dependent upon the co-operative action of
ten different farmers in any community or
county. There is. therefore, no obstacle
whatever in the way of your farmers taking
advantage of this opportunity in meeting
present difficulties.
Both of these forms of government as
sistance have been fully described in The
Rurallst over and over again, with full and
explicit details as to every step by which in
dividuals were to take advantage of them.
Enclosed I am sending you a clipping from
The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday, show
ing what farmers are actually doing in sev
eral Southern States to take advantage of
the Federal Farm Loan Act. You will no
tice that the farmers In practically svery
Southern State except Alabama are already
enjoying these advantages, and your farmers
have the same opportunity If they will only
take the Initiative.
The government cannot go out and hunt
up the individuals scattered all over a conti
nent, but the government Is easily found by
Individuals wishing to use it under the pro
visions of this Federal Farm Loan Act.
Very truly yours.
H. E. Stockbrldge,
Editor Southern Rurallst.
The clipping from The Constitution is as
follows
Washington. May 15.—Loans to farmers by
the Federal land banks have passed th. »1,
000,000 mark and ars being made at the
rate of 1150,000 a day. If the present rats
of Increase keeps up. the farm loan board I
estimates the total loans during May at
13,000,000.
Loans thus far by States include:
South Carolina, $167,700; Mississippi, $10$,
325; Kentucky, 376,00; North Carolina, $38,
600; Texas, $33,400, and Virginia $23,450.
The first Issue of farm loan bonds. It was
announced today, will be placed on the mar
ket within a month or six weeks. *
A TASK FOR GENIUS.
Arthur Brisbane In The Chicago American.
The Germans hold back the lines of the
Allies on the .land, and the Allies now In
clude the United States.
And at sea the Germans are attacking the
Allies successfully, and working for the
starvation of England under water.
What remains for those fighting Germany
to do, and especially for the United States,
whiVh has some reputation for clear and
original thinking?
' Is it not reasonable to hope, In the Interest
of humanity, and of every country. Including
Germany, that the genius of the United
States will find some way of conquering the
Germans through the air?
The air Is a wide path, and up In the air
Germany's frontiers are open.
What would happen if forty thousand
American and ally fighting machines dropped
each one hundred bombs per day on German
soil?
What would happen If flying machines
without any man or board—small, hlgh-power
projectiles, moving through the air as the
torpedo moves through the water, each car
rying a destructive load of dynamite—were
sent In thousands over the German frontier
and Into Germany?
The difficulty in fighting from air ma
chines npw Is Inaccuracy.
Even as big a target as Berlin, or the
Krupp works at Essen, Is difficult to hit.
But It is that difficulty that must be met.
There should be sufficient genius In the
United States to devise a plan that would
make the air torpedo, and the dynamite
dropped front flying machines hit the mark.
The idea of Indiscriminate dynamiting of
non-combatant women and children would be
repulsive, and no man would care to apply
his genius to such a task.
The dlvlslng of some plan of accurate air
fighting, some scheme by which the wide
open air frontiers of Germany might be
passed and the war thus settled, appeals to
every man.
The Germans, tn their retreat from France
and In various actions In Belgium, have In
dicated that they consider destruction of
cities' and small towns an excusable and
necessary part of warfare
Berlin and every other German city lie open
to attack from the air, absolutely undefended,
without any defense possible.
What American will supply a ship that will
do In this war, to free men from the slavery
of militarism, what the Monitor did to free
men from physical slavery in our civil war?
The German line of men, trenches and can
l non make attack difficult by land.
VTh
e unseen fleet of Qerman submarines
makes the ocean unsafe, makes a joke of ths
greatest battleships.
But the air above Germany la open and
free. Up In the air there are no trenches,
no cannon*—the road is open.
Who will find the way to victory through
that road of the air, In the great airship in
vulnerable to attack from below, or invisible
to sight; or In the swarms of dynamite
dropping small fighting aircraft that would
descend upon the German empire like one of
the plagues upon Egypt?
Germany found the way to strike England
through the water, below the surface. The
Inventive genius of the United States should
find the way to strike Germany through the
air above the earth.
A TALE WITH A MORAL, ,
Greenville Advocate.
In Butler county there is jf. farmer who
Isn’t in business for his health. Oh. yes,
farming is a business, and a mighty proflt
able one when run to get the most out of it.
This man, as we said, is a business man. and
as a business man who desired to sell his
products for' the best price obtainable, he
looked around and decided to sell his crop
for seed.
As a business men, alsoc naturally he ad
vertised. The result of these advertisements
was that he sold every bean he had and
could get, and all the corn he raised as seed
and in addition he sold a number of bushels
of peas. In less than one week he got orders
for mors than eight carloads of peas that ha
couldn't fill.
He got orders from all over the United
' States for velvet beans, corn and peas. The
letters all contained checks and the prices
he got were good ones. We printed a form
letter for him to accompany the checks he
sent back after his supply gave out and we
saw one mall train bring him twenty or more
letters with checks in them.
This farmer advertised. He prepared his
product for market correctly and then he
started raking in the casbi. You can do as
much as he did and with very little outlay
of time and money more than you are making
now in harvesting and marketing your crop.
Why not try it next year, In a small way at
least?
THE NITRATE PLANT.
Florence Times.
The news comes from Washington that ex
perts are Still investigating conditions neces
sarily precedent to locating the nitrate plant,
and that they are very busy at the Job. It
appears to us to be proceeding very slowly
considering the need of nitrates in this coun
try; but It is comforting to know that the
matter is In strong hands and that the issue
cannot long be delayed.
"My home for cats is not a success. I have
provided good food, nice sleeping quarters,
and yet the cats are not happy."
’’You are sh^r on amusement features, old
man. You haven't provided any back fence.”
—New York American.