Monroe City Democrat., September 13, 1918, Image 7

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conditions. It is weatherproof,
waterproof, spark proof and fire retarding. Rust cannot
affect it The heat of the sun cannot melt it or cause
it to run. It is not affected by gases, acids, fumes,
smoke, etc. ' These qualities have made Certain-teed the
choice everywhere
for factories, warehouses, stores,
hotels, garages, office buildings,
farm buildings and out-buildings.
In shingles, red or green, it makes an artistic roof for
residences.
Certain-teed Roofing is guaranteed 5, 10 or 15 years,
according to thickness.
Sold by good dealers, everywhere.
Certain-teed Products Corporation
Offices in the Principal Cities of America
Manufacturer of
Certain-teed
Paints Varnishes Roofing
Robey-Robinson Lumber Co
Monroe City, Missouri
Safety in Numbers.
It is true that we do not wish to
sacrifice the valued lives of onr
faeruic American soldiers. It is
plain, however, upon a moment's re
flection, that the best way to save
the lives of those who have already
gone to France is to give them ths
largest possible support Our men
will fiht in any case; and the
stronger they are in numbers and
equipment, so that they may over
power the enemy, the smaller will
be their sacrifice of life. We have
now the mechanism for receiving
great numbers of untrained men
and convertiug them into soldiers
It will be much easier to train the
second million and the third million
than it was to make soldiers out of
the first million. We started on
the road of peace enforcement, nod
we propose to make the journey
successfully.
Reuben Long, of near Perry, has
sold since March 1, $18,000 worth
of bogs of his own feeding. He has
only n forty-acre farm to handle
the hogs on. He buys the hogs and
also corn to feed tnem and s nee
the first of the year has paid out
over $7,000. for corn.
Tne State Convention of the
Daughters of the American Revolt!
tion will be held at Jefferson City
Otobir 1, 2. 3 and 4.
"Service" and "Conserva
tion" are written in italics
across the war-time re
cord of Certain-teed Roof
ing. It has given vitally needed
shelter for munition plant,
barrack, shipyard, factory,
barn and granary.
It has taken nothing of military
value in its manufacture,
waste rags and asphalt are its
principal components.and both
are useless for war purposes.
"Its manufacture is accomplish
ed largely by machinery, con
serving labor; by water power,
conserving fuel; by women
workers, conserving man
power. Certain-teed endures under all
'Why Pork is Important.
Pork finds a ready sale because
packers know many ways of plac
ing it on the market in attractive
and highly pal itabie form combined
wi'.h excellent keeping qualities.
There is no other meat from which
so many products are manufactured
N-arly 50 per cent of the total viiue
of the meat and meat products
slaughtered in the packinghouses of
the United States is derived from
the hog.
Our country leades all others in
the production of meat and meat
products Three-fourths of the
world's international trade in pork
and pork products originates in the
United States in normal times, and
the war greatly has increased this
propoition
Mf we expect to continue to provide
meat to foreign peoples as well as
our own, every farmer must out
forth his best effort to produce more
hog. They can be kept profitably
upon many farms where they ore
not found today.
It may not be original, but we
cannot refrain from faying that the
news dispatches from Amsterdam
concerning Germany and. things
German convince us that our
geographies told us the whole truth
when tney described Holland as a
low lyiug country.
The Lower Age Limit.
The President having decked, it j
was plain that Congress hid only to i
ratify, because there was no effective
opposition in any quarter to an
enlargement of the nation's war
program. Mr. Baker Bnd General
March had made their statements
to the Military Committee of the
Senate, presided over by Senator
Chamberlain, and to that of the
House, under the charmanship of
Mr. Dent. The enrollment of eigh
teen-year-old boys was a point evi
dently involing clear differences of
opinion. Military men always favor
the enlisting of the very young, be
cause it is much easier to drill them.
hold them under discipline, and give
them the semblance of a body of
soldiers. It seems to be the best
testimony of experience in the
present war, however, that the
naturity of older men, with more
development of mind and body, is
desirable for the kind of work that
has to be done. Sme boys, of
course are mucb more mature at
eighteen than are other, and our
Washington authorities are humane
and reasonable. They have no
intention of launching a "childem's
crusade." They will pat an end to
what has been a rather illcontrolled
movement of voluntary enlisting on
the part of the 'youngsters, and will
apply more scientific principles of
selection than could be possible
under the old methods of drumming
up boy recruits for the navy, the
marines and other war time services
Pasturing Improves Land.
Growingforage crops and grazing
them with higs are very efficient
and economical methods of improv
ing rundown laud. This statement
is based on the opinions and results
of a large number of hog raisers
and experiment station workers,
Practically all the fertilizing ele
ments of the vegetation produced
on the land, except that stored in
animal bodie?, goes back into the
soil in the manure and litter. The
loss is more than offset where extra
grain is fed to the hogs. The only
danger of injury to the soil is in the
trampling by the animals on heavy
clays when they are wet. Such iu
jury is easily avoided where a per
manent sod pasture is available
As one of the greate needs of
most soils is more vegetable matter
hog grazing offers an opportunity
of restoring (he exhausted humus
without the expense of growiug aud
using green manuring crops. An
other benefit which is usually
overlooked comes from the hogs
eatii g the weeds in the pasture
fields. There are raahy common
plants, usually classed as weeds,
which hogs relish. They frequently
clean these, up first when turned
into a new field. This not only
makes good use of a nnmber of waste
plauts, but also tends to lessen the
trouble from these weeds in other
crops.
Amsterdam declares that Hin-
denburg is dead, but Hindenburg
emphatically declares that he is
not. The Hun war lords are such
li ire, however, that we are inclined
to take the word of Amsterdam in
prefereuce to that of HioJen
burg. Underestimating the strength of
an euemy is considered the very
worst blunder a military man can
make, and the Huns not only made
that blunder at the beginning of the
war. but they have kept it up ever
since.
A. H. Donley and sister. Miss
Lena and Mr. and Mrs.' Everett
Jackson were Hannibal visitors
Saturday.
For Sale Very select pure-blood
egg laying strain Single Comb White
Leghorn cockerels. Mrs. Ed Loog
mire. . Miss Lottie Montgomery
part of the week in Macon.
spent
War Yesterday and Today.
War is a different thing today
from what it used to be. Kings
used to make war for pastime,
pleasure, or for mercenary gains.
hey hired their bittles fought and
paid handsomely for the services of
trained soldiers Tbey fought onlv
at convenient seasons. News of
battle came weeks and months
ate. The affairs at home went on
ittle disturbed and the common
folk felt the effect of war only when
the battle tide ebbed over their
fields.
Today war pits the brains against
the souls of nations. Science, in
vention, industry, craft and all the
professions are aimed at killing.
Every resource material, mental
and spiritual - is used to make the
conflict more deadly. Millions of
men and billions of dollars are only
factors of war today, they are not
all that is required to win a battle.
Our enemy in the present con
flict teaches us that every element
of life enters into war. Nothing is
too dear or sacred to escape
nothing of the soil whether it be a
home or a shrine, nothing of the
soul, whether it be a child's inno
cence or a woman's purity. No
person or no thing escapes the ruth
ess hand of war today.
For this reason every citizen of
every country engaged in war has a
direct relation to :md responsibility
in winning the war. Whoever de
nies this relation and shirks this re
sponsibility is not for his country.
He is an enemy, and the modem
idea of war demands th'it he be
treated as such.
Nine Amendments.
Niue amendments to the Con
stitution of Missouri will be voted
upon at the approaching November
election. Three of the amendments
are submitted by petition, an J six
by the General Assembly.
The amendments submitted b
pe.iiiou are The Sirgle Tax, The
Homestead Loan and Cnarter
Amendment for cities with less th
100.000 inhabitants.
The amendments submitted by
the General Assembly are:
No. 1 - Authorizing a genera1
school levy of n t exceeding $1 on
the $100 va! union upon a majority
vote of the tax payers of the dis
trict. No. 2 Making an aunual levy of
15 cents on the $100 for the sup
port of the public schools.
No. 3 Authorizing special road
districts to levy 75 cents on the
$100 valuation for the improve
merit of public roads and bridges.
No. 4 For the levy of 10 cents
on the $100 valuation for road pur
poses, one half of which must go to
the State road fund.
No. 5 Authorizing cities between
2,000 and 30,000 inhabitants to in
crease their tax levies 5 per cent
for improving streets.
No 6 Constitutional prohibition
of the manufacture and sale of
intoxicants in Missouri after No
vember 1. 1919.
Reports from various sections of
the county are to the effect that
there will be a large acreage of
wheat sown iu the county this fall,
but owing to the fact that the
grasshoppers have been so bad and
that the pest is still bothering to
some extent, it will probably be
late before the sowing of wheat
will be commenced. Fall plowing
though is now in full swing.
there nave been a great many
jokes about sending children by
parcel post but according to The
Springfield Leader, they are really
doing it on the new motor mail route
out of that city. The first to arrive
were: Josephine McCall and Iris
Carter, aged 7 and 8. They . were
duly weighed, stamped and deliver
ed from Red Top to the address o!
their aunt iu Springfield.
1KNHS
FOR SALES
I have a limited number
of purebred Dark Brown
Legorn Cockrells for sale
if taken at once; price
SI ,50 Each.
Hli P. f .
Stoutsville, Mo.
Foci) Will Go On.
In his letter to the Municipal I
Council of Paris, Marshal Foch says:
' The German rush menacing Paris :
and Amiens has been stopped. We .
will go on with the task of impluca-
ble pursuit of the enemy."
About the time these simple
words were written, more eloquent ;
of confidence and self control than ,
a thousand lines of German bom
bast. Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
the Crown Prince and the Kaiser
were, in turn, colliug u .a tlieir :
people to resist the insidious effects
of collapsing morale.
German military leaders and ex
perts have eagerly sought for a
sign of Foch's "ultimate purpose."
There they have ir. The Allied
Generalissimo says his men will go
o; meaning there will be no respite
for the beaten and distressed enemy.
Not only that, but they "will go on
with the task of implacable pur
suit." The enemy will not be allow
ed to settle down behind the. Hin
denburg or auy other line for an
indefinite stay. Foch has found a
way to prevent the stabilizing of
battle lines. He has louo.l a way
to win battles without colossal sac
rifice of lives The way he-has
maneuvered his armies since the
famous counter attack on (he fl.mk
of the Crown Prince north of the
.lame he has won the prme of
even the German critics. He has
istified the title bestowed noon
him at the first battle, of the Mrne
when he was called the Voremost
strategist of Europe," and added im
perishable laurels to his crown of
glory.
Foch will "40 o i," not i i mere
hope of winning a victory, but in
"implacable pursuit of the enemy."
He considers the victory lire id y
won aud expects by preventing a
concentration of the Germans in
numerical superiority at ony point.
by beating their armies whenever
ihey attempt to make a sr vt i. and
by turning tnem out of ooe strong
positiou after another, to keep up
the "pursuit" until they art; driven
back to the border If ihy hesitate
or make a siugle false step in the
retreat that has been forced upon
them, there enters the pos.-ihility of
a great disaster that might conceiva
bly end the war.
Some men are alwavs nsking for
favors and looking for the Kt of it
Take L S, Jacobs, for instance.
According to The Clar tics Courier
Jacobs was put in Class IV by the
Draft Board on account of his wife
and business, but he nsktd for re
classification. 'Mr. Jjcobs," The
Courier says, "said he had not previ
ously asked the board for any favors,
but would ask them the favor of
being reclassified thai he might go
with the others of lik; responsibility
and obligations." N doubt the
board reprimanded Mr. Jucobs, but
they yielded and put him in Class I.
For Sale Several nice Duroc
Jersey boar pigs. Ed Long mire
Monroe City, Ma
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