The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 31, 1914, Page 3

x * "Price 50c, at all dealers. . When You OOL.C.E. It is to Your Interest to Get the Best Telephone No. 11. : AUCTIONEER © of the Southwést Need an Make sure that you retain one who is competent, ex- , Perienced, and a master of the Auction Sale Business ‘ of Butler, Missouri is such a salesman. He has given _7 years of active, careful painstaking effort to this work ee and is ‘a leader of the profession. That he has officiated at most of the successful sales in this and adjoining counties in the past several years held by the best breeders; who employ him year ‘se after year is certain proof that ‘his work is well done. THE FARMERS: THE CUSTODIANS OF THE NATION'S MORALITY. Co-operation of Church, Schoo! and Press Essential to Community Building: By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers’ Union, The church, the press and the schoo! form a triple alliance of progress that guides the destiny of every commun- ity, state and nation. Without them civilization would wither and die and through them life may attain its great- est. blessing, power and knowledge. The farmers of this nation are greatly “indebted to this socia) triumvirate for their uplifting influence, and on behalf of the Ameriean plowmen I want to thank those engaged in these high callings for their able. and efficient service, and I shall offer to the press a series of articles on co-operation between these important influences and the farmers in the hope of in- creasing the efficiency of all by mu- tual understanding and organized ef- fort. We will take up, first, the rural church. The Farmers Are Great Church Build: - ers. The American farmer is the greatest church builder the world -has ever known. -He is the custodian of..the nation’s morality; upon his shoulders rests the “ark of the covenant” and he is more responsive to religious in- fluences than any other class of cit izenship. The farmers of this nation have built 120,000 churches at a cost of $750,000,000, and the“annual contribu- cs Auctioneer ROBBINS - BUTLER, MISSOURI. house, $75. 3 small residences, Kansas Mo., $1200. urban home. Want smaller farms. DON’T GIVE UP. Discouraged Citizens will Find Com- fort in the Experience of a Butler Man. Experience is the modern instruc- tor. Profit by the experience of others. It may save your life. The experience of friends and neighbors. _ The testimony of Butler people. Will bring. renewed encourage- ment. ° - Here is a case in point: .J. D. Stewart, 404 Vine St., Butler, says: ‘Too frequent passages of the secretions from my kidneys bothered ‘me greatly, especially at night. | also had pains in my back and hips and ‘was subject to dizzy spells. I lost . strength, felt languid and weak and suffered from soreness across my - loins. After trying remedies and ‘doctors’ prescriptions without being helped, I learned of Doan’s Kidney . Pills, and got a supply at Clay’s Drug Store. . They cured me.”’! Don’t for a kidney remedy— ; Simply ask ri an’s: Kidney Pills—the same get Doan A Few Exchanges 116 acres Vernon county, Mo., good rich land, good 9 room ~to $1000 each. 40-acre clear, improved Want something here for either or all of the above. 5 room house and 5 nice lots near Butler square. Want sub- Some fine cattle ranches in southeastern Kansas. Good Dray business. here. 460 acres near Schell City, Mo: $60. Want merchandise. 2 good work mares in foal $65, each for quick sale. See-us for all kinds of exchanges. ‘ ALLEN The Land Man & Co. Butler, Mo. = “Wanted '300 Head of _ Horses and Mules tion of the nation toward all church institutions approximates $200,000,000 per annum. The farmers of the Uni- ted States build 22 churches per day. There are 20,000,000 rural church com: municgnts on the farm, and 54 per cent of the total membership of all churches reside in the country. The farm is the power-house of all progress and the birthplace of all that is noble. The Garden of Eden was in the country and the man who would get close to God must first get close to nature The Functions of a Rural Church. {f the rural churches today are go- ing to. render a service which this age demands, there must be co-operation between the religious, social and eco- nomic life of the community. The church to attain its fullest meas. ure of success must enrich the lives of the people in the community it serves; it must build character; devel- op thought and increase the efficiency of human life. It must serve the so- See ee Cooke cial, business and intellectual, as well . . as the spiritual and moral side of life. A Tribute To Newspapers If religion does not make a man more At a recent banquet in Philadelphia} capable, niore useful and more just, John Wanamaker spoke of the news- | What Bood is it? We want a practical e A cs religion, one we can live by and farm papers in this fashion: by, ‘as well as die py. Newspapers are believable and are Fewer and Better Churches. almost the only things that are real Bn cos ‘ that rare senwuaty Cc. a ut one -place of worship. these days. They ni at great cost to! waite competition is the life of trade, educate us, and the responsibilities it is death to the rural church and are treméndous. moral starvation to the community. They are as mighty as the military, | Petty sectarianism is a scourge that sleepless and far reaching-as the| lights the life, and the church preju- light of the mornin, dice saps the vitality, of many com- fe - - ig. : munities, An over-churched commun- That is a fine complement, coming ity is a crime against religion, a seri- as it does from the great John Wana-| ous ‘handicap to society and a useless maker. It may be said in this connec-| tax upon agriculture. tion that there is no man inthe coun-| While the cece ae ., A ie try who has given the newspapers high teaching of universal Christianity greater support and encouragement] must prevail if the rural church is to than this prince of merchants. The} fulfill its mission to agriculture. City, Mo., $2000, each subject farm Taney county, Want small farm that Mr. Sewart had. Foster-Mil- burn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. 10-2t Adv. “problem and the war, while it has brought its hardships, has clearly em- | phasized the importance of distribu- ‘T tion as a faetor in Anierican agricul- | | ture and promises to give the farm- ers the’ co-operation of the govern- State Board of Agriculture Making | ‘Preparation for Big Meeting j January 11 to 15. : ‘ : | Wellington Banker Works Out ‘ rere A ONT TQ FARMERS | | ment and the business men the -solution of their marketing problem. businéss interests and government have been in the main assisting al- most exclusively on the production ‘him how to produce, the farmer has been dumping tons of products in the nation’s garbage can for want of a . market. The World Will Never Starve. At no time since Adam and Eve were driven from tiie Garden of Eden have the inhabitants of this world suffered from lack of. production, but some people have gone hungry from the day of creation to this good hour for the lack of proper distribution. Slight variations in- production have forced a change in diet and one local- ity has felt the pinch of want, while another surfeited, but the world as a whole has ever been a land of plenty. We now have less than one-tenth of | the tillable land of the earth’s surface under cultivation, and we not only have this surplus area to draw on but it is safe to estimate that in case of dire necessity one-half the earth’s population could at the present time knock their living out of the trees of the forest, gather it from wild vines and draw it from streams, No one should become alarmed; the world will never starve. that the producer would not supply him and his fright has found expres- sion on the statute books of our states and nations and the farmer has been urged to produce recklessly and with- out reference toa market, and regard- less of the demands of the consumer. Back to the Soil. The city people have been urging each other to move back to the farm, but very few of them have moved. We welcome our city cousins back to the soil and this earth’s surface con- tains 16,092,160,000 idle acres of till- able land where they can make a living by tickling the earth with a forked gtick, but we do not need them so: far as increasing production is con- cerned; we now have all the producers we can use. erroneous ideas of agricultural condi- tions. The commonly accepted theory that we aré short on production is all wrong. Our annual increase in pro- duction far exceeds that of our in- crease in population. The World as a Farm. ' Taking the world as one big farm, we find two billion acres~of land in cultivation. Of this amount there is approximately 750,000,000 acres on the eastern hemisphere, in cultivation. This estimate, of course, does not in- clude grazing lands, forests, etc., where large quantities of meat are produced. ' The world’s annual crop approxi- mates fifteen billion bushels of ce. reals, thirteen billion pounds of fibre | and sixty-five million tons of meat. The average annual world crop for the past five years, compared with the previous five years, is as follows: : Past Half Crops— Decade. Corn (Bu.) 3,934,174,000 Wheat(Bu.) 3,522,769,000 Oats (Bu.) 4,120,017,000 Cotton(Bales) 19,863,800 17,541,200 | Tne world shows an average ‘in- crease in cereal production of 13 per cent during the past decade, compared with the previous five years, while the | world’s population shows an increase | of only three per cent. | The gain in production far exceeds that of our increase in population, and | it is safe to estimate that the farmer | Decade. 3,257,526,000 3,508,315,000 can easily increase production 25 per | newspapers know their friends, and} We frequently have three or four they know that John Wanamaker is churches in a community which is not one of the truest. When he says that posal jee ganedinpag ah oq aa newspapers are believable, the news-| month and all fail to perform the re- papers reply. so are the great adver- | ligious functions of the community. tisers like John Wanamaker.—Ohio| The division of religious forces and State Journal. : the breaking into fragments of-moral zi efforts is ofttimes littie less than a calamity and defeats the very purpose they seek to promote. : The evils of too mamy churches can: be minimized by co-operation The social and economic -life of a rural community are respective units and cannot be-successfully divided by de- nominational lines, and the churches can only occupy this important field by co-operation and co-ordination. The efficient country church will definitely serve its community by lead- ing in all worthy efforts at community building,-in uniting the people in all’ cent if a remunerative market can be found for the products. In textile fibres the world shows an increase during the past half decade in produc- tion of 15 per cent against a popula- tion increase of three per cent. The people of this nation should address themselves to the subject of Improved facilities for distribution. Over-production and crop mortgage force the farmers into ruinous com- petition with each other. The remedy lies in drganization and in coopera. | Yon in marketing. : | ENGLAND WaitiiED BY WILSON Sends Strong Protest to Earl Grey Against Interference with Amer- ican Foreign Trade. Washington, Dec. 29.—The United States. government today dispatched | a long note to Great Britain insisting upon an early improvement in’ the This result will, in a measure, com- Pensate us for our war losses, for the side of agriculture While the depart | ment of agriculture has been dumping tons of literature on the farmer telling The consumer has always feared | The city man has very | western and 1,260,000.000 acres on the | Previous Half | 3,403,655,000 | |W. P. Evans, Jefferson City; R. -er, died suddenly of heart disease at operating a! Farmers’ Week, established a num- ber of years ago by the Missouri State | Board of Agriculture, will be held at the College of Agriculture in- Colum: bia, January 11 to 15. | The program on Monday night will | be the strongest opening attraction in | the history of the erganizaticn. This | is the fiftieth year—the golden anni- | versary—of the Board of Agriculture, | organized in 1865. = i Hon. P. P, Lewis, president of- the ; Board, will review the half-century history, and call attention to the work | of the late Governor Norman J. Col: | man, first secretary of agriculture of | the United States and for more than | | forty years a member of the Missouri | Board-of Agriculture. | President H. J. Waters, formerly of | Missouri, but now at the head of the Kansas Agricultural College, also ap- | pears on the opening program, Presi- | ; dent Waters returned a few months }aso from the Philippines, where un- der a special commission from author- ities at Washington, he investigated | agricultural conditions. In his ad- dress, Monday night, January 11, he | Will tell of world agriculture and will | | iNustrate his talk with many beauti- ful pictures, | ; The opening program also includes | brief addresses by President A. Ross | | Hill of the University of Missouri, and | Dean F. B. Mumford of the Agricul: | tural College. Music will be by the | University Cadet Band. Throughout the week ;farmers will have the privilege of | | hearing many famous men and women j who are brought to Missouri by the | Bdard of Agriculture. Some of these | i} if | | i} Missouri ; h Plan to-Store Grain In Bins at Track. SAVES MONEY FOR GROWERS Lack of Storage Cost $15,000 Last Year, But Will Not Be Repeated Again. Farmers near Wellington lost $15,- 000 the last year because they had no way of holding their wheat; but that loss will not be repeated if a unique plan proposed by the Farmers Bank of Wellington is taken advan- tage of. The Farmers Bank is, strangely enough, all that its name implies—a farmers’ bank. As a farmers’ bank it is interested very much in the pros- perity of farmers. Accordingly, when H. KE. Neece, cashier, compiled figures to show the $15,000 loss, the stock- holders of the bank set about to rem- edy the condition. A co-operative farmers’ elevator Was proposed, but the plan lagged. Then Mr, Neece hit on a plan for an individual elevator for every farmer, and the plan has been declared to be practical and promising. It grew out of the discussion of metal grain bins for each farmer, They are a practical and cheap device for lolding wheat, but when the roads are bad wheat located on the farm in one of these has no chance to reach the market and get the high price. will participate in the association “Why not set the grain bins by the meetings, and practically all will ap- Tailroad?” asked the cashier. | pear on the evening programs. And that is the new proposition. Hon, David F. Houston, head of the Mach tarmer can set his grain bin be- ‘United States Department of Agricul. side the railroad, fill it with wheat | ture, Washington, 1). C., and a promi- When the roads are good at threshing nent member of President Wilson's ‘cabinet, will deliver an address on | Wednesday and may arrive in time for pthe Tuesday evening exercises. The | Board of Agriculture is especially | pleased to announce the coming of time, and sell it when the market is at flood tide, It-means an individual elevator for each farmer and the bank | likes the plan so well that it will lend | money to the farmer to build the grain | bin and lend him up to | the value of his wheat to help him 7 per cent of Secretary Houston. He will come | with a message that no farmer should | hold it. The plan has attracted the | miss. attention of the state board of agri- WORK FOR BETTER SCHOOLS Missouri State Teachers’ Association Planning for Many Reforms in Present System. | To Improve school conditions ‘in | | Missouri is the aim of several com: | | mittees appointed at the meeting in. | | Columbia of the executive committee |of the Missouri State Teachers’ As: | | Saociation, of which President A. Ross | Hill of the University of Missouri is | chairman, These committees were ;named to draw up a code of profes- | sional ethics for Missouri teaghers, investigate teachers’ salaries, draw up a model educational code for Mis- souri, investigate the “junior high school” plan, investigate simplified spelling, co-operate with the national educational associttion on the study of English in the grades. | mittee besides Doctor Hill are: W. L. Barrett, Poplar Bluff; 1. I. Cam- mack, Kansas City; C. A. Hawkins, Maryville; T. E. Spencer, St. Louis; H. Emberson, Columbia; E, M. Carter, Cape Girardeau, secretary. The Missouri conference for educa- tion also met there recently. George Melcher of Kansas ‘City is secretary. The need of more up-to-date school laws was discussed, the members hold- ing that’ the laws must be rewritten | if Missouri is to maintafn an adequate school system. The present constitu- tion is said to block the way to the es- tablishment of rural high schools. xe * ings, including five large department stores, were notified by the building commissioner of St. Louis to remove to ‘replace them with The build- trances and doors opening outwards. would not facilitate the speedy exit of a crowd in an emergency. 5 a, am, Jones, advocate of scientific farm methods, leader in good roads move- ments in this state and wealthy farm- Chillicothe. Besides “model farm” Mr. Jones took an ac- tive. part in Democratic politics in Missouri. He opposed Congressman Rucker in the recent primary as a candidate for nomination, \ ee More Time on Claims.—In the case The members of the executive com- ; Bars Revolving Doors.—Fifty build- | the revolving storm doors at their en-* ing commissioner said revolving doors | Model Farmer Dies.— Thomas _ D. | Having had several inquiries in regard to the purchasing of and mules, We have decided to hold a public auctionsale ‘one having Horses or Mules can list same in this sale. ‘will also include any article of value you wish to sell, ‘will be very liberal and.a square deal to every one same. ; f treatment of American commerce by the British fleet. It gave wanting that much feeling has been aroused tn this country and that public criticism was general over unwarranted interference with the I€gitimate foreign: trade of the United States. - ~ The document, constituting Of state against the- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company to collect overcharges by agreement of the parties, R. H! Musser, referee, has extended the time for filing claims at Plattsburg until: March 25. a City Pawnshop: Popular.—. | culture and it is predicted that it may go into general practice. &s eK * Hurt on Icy Streets.—Several scores of persons were injured, many of them dangerously; more than a score | Of horses were killed and traffic was demoralized in all sections of St. Louis as the result of the slippery condition of the streets following recent sleet storm. eK The “Oldest Reporter” Dead.—Maj. | Charles C. Conter, lorg known as “the ‘oldest reporter in St. Louis,” died of , heart disease at his home there re- |cently. He was 89 years old. He-was |an intimate friend of Mark Twin. * we * From Drury to K. U.—Miss Lucile Brown, teacher in art instruction at Drury college, has resigned her posi- j tion to become a: tant instructor at |the University of Kansas. Her home is in Lawrence, Kas. 2 KR | Charity Day Big Success—One thousand barrels of flour, tons of other | foodstuffs and thousands of dollars | were contributed to the Missouri ship | for the relief of European war suffer- | ers by St. Louis alone Decebmer 19, \It was Charity day in. Missouri by | proclamation of Governor Elliott W. | Major, and collections were taken up jin every urban and rural community. |Telegraias from various sections of |the state indicated the day was a | great success. The St. Louis Belgian Telief fund committee announced it had collected $2,750 and twenty-five large packing cases of clothing for | the relief of the Belgian sufferers. i ne Oe . Falling Window Kills Child.—Bertha | Knechtnhoffer, 13 years old, daughter jof Fred Knechtnhoffer, living two |} miles west of Amazonia, was killed when a window fell on her neck as | she attempted to climb into the lig- | gett.school to get a book. Her fath- er allowing her to alight from the | buggy, went to a neighbor’s on an errawi. When he returned a half hour later the child's body was hang- ing by the head from the window. | Her neck was broken. y Postmaster Quits —civing as his reason that he could make more mon- ey in the mining -business, Walter Ragland, postmaster at Webb City, has resigned his position to take ef- fect immediately. Mr. Ragland will resume his position with the Eastern Lead and Zinc Company. a Fulton Merchant Dies—John R. Tompkins, 61, a merchant of Fulton, was found dead in bed _the-—other morning. His death is attributed to heart disease. Mr. Tompkins came to Fulton forty-five years ago. He was a member of the Elks and Masonic lodges. xe