Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 29, 1914, Page 12

THE FARMER AS A SPORT—HOW HE LAYS HIS WAGES ° (Written Specially for the Bulletin). I think I've talked a little, once o1 twice, about the gamble there is in farmin 8. A Kansas editor, who must have been trying a little farming on his own hook; now comes to my defénse and adds his testimony to the truth of what I've said about it. He de- clares that “when. it comes to the - question of real sport the farmer has them all bested. He is the one genu- a& saort in the national life.” And en he goes on to tell why this is To_ begin with; every spring he tets his seed and his fertilizer and his summer wages that there'll be rain enough in May and June and sun- shine at harvest time. ‘Wihen he plants he does it on a -wager with Nature that there won’t be any late frost or early drought to kill the crop. When he .cuts his hay, he bets that he can get it in safely before the rains spoil it He buys a few pigs,—and takes a chance that he can fatten them and zell them before the hog cholera comes down the lane from next county and stops over night. He fat- tens a‘few plump Steers,—and takes the chance that the market won't slump its bottom out the day he un- loads them at the stock-yards. He plants a field of potatoes; and bets that the blightt won't ruin them. e sets out a cabbage patch; and befs that the club-root and the green worms won’t destroy it. He plants some corn; and bets that the cut-worms won't bite it off nor the crows pull it up. He sets out some fruit trees; and béts that neither the canker-worm nor the codling moth 'nor.the tent caterpillar will chew the life out, of his saplings. 4 He starts out every season, betting that it will rain ‘at the right time and not at the wrong time,—knowing that It's all a chance and it may ‘do exactly the opposite. He bets that it will rain enough and not too much,—knowing that such a miracle hasn’t happened yet in the recorded history of agrieulture. - _He finds a new bug in his grain one day; a_new moth in his orchard the next. He picks up his morning paper to read that a new microbe is on its way to attack his cattle. And =o forth, etc. “And,”—] quote again, “the farmer bets them all he can beat them at the game. That is the fascinationjof the farm._ Every hour there is a new problem to solve: every day a mnew situation to try his = mettle—with dollars at stake every time. That's the answer to the question why the farmer doesn't quit the farm. It is because it is too well worth while; that .18, for the men who have the right stuff in them.” pray you to ponder a moment DT e e by oo heve the right stuff in tthem” Just at present, there's a vast deal of talk about “feminism.” We won’t ray anything against it. We won't at- tempt to controvert a single assertion of its advocates, nor permit. a single sneer at their pretemnsions. But it isn't wise or politic, even under such circumstances, to Ilose sight of the fact that God also made the masculine sex, and that there is quite as much need for real virility in the world as for real feminism. Meekly accepting every last utterance of the feminist ultimatum, there “still remains a purely masculine syllabus which ' simply cannot be ignored. ‘While it is true, for example, that the deft touches and serene grace which really make the difference between a héme and a barracks are purely fem- inine 'qualities, it mustn't be forgot- ten that somebody had to dig out the cellar and lay up the. heavy - founda- tion walls before there could be. a parlor to furnish and decorate. And digging dirty.dirt, blasting ragged rocks piling heavy stones into a wall ave tasks which demand something be- side deftness and grace. They call for masculine strencth; for a certain stubbornness and doggedness ‘in the meeting . of exigent and . repulsive tasks; for even a degree of bull-head- edness which meets the “Thou-shalt- rots” of natural conditions with a savage and arrogant “I will!” _for, ips, a desree of coarseness and roughness which would be highly dis- agreeable at a garden party. * There is a place for masculinism in the world, and a need of it. Don't . let's ignore that fact. Two characteristics of masculinism l.‘l'e that it Hkes to gamble and that it loves to fight. Perhaps these are bad traits. Perhaps God made 8 mis~ take when he built them into the mas- culine bone and split ‘them into the masculine blood. Let His critics set- tle that ‘with Him, if they will. After sixty odd.years experience with His world I, personally, am coming to think that He knows His business better than I do, and does His work Getter than I could: Anyway, it makes mighty little dif- ference what either you or I think, ‘when we p]uug up against the. solid facts, Our thirking that a potate is 2 pineapple won't make it one, think we never so hard and never so dog- matically. Well, starting out with those two facts, ‘that most real men like to gamble and are instinctively fond of a fight, | you come straight to the ex- planation which the Kansas editor suggests, why men “who have the right stuff in them” almost always hanker for a farm. Farming is a com- bination of hard work, fighting, and gambling. Even the man who doesn’t really like hard work finds the fas- cination of the other two factors too strong for him. Farming is a fight from April- showers time to November-ice time, every season, and from sun-up to night-fall, every day. It's a fight against seven kinds of blight and nine kinds of bugs and eleven kinds of worms and thirteen kinds of weeds and three hundred and sixty-five. other kinds of sneaking, skulking, ambush- ing, unconguerable enemies who are after his crops and his very life- blood. “Unconquerable?’ Yes; that's just what I wrote. Why, Lord bless you, ‘it's just that one truth, that they are unconquerable, which stir§ up the old Berserker rage and makes the fight so irresistibly alluring—to “the” men who have the right stuff in them.” “Can’t lick ye, eh” says the old man. “Wa'll, ve cam't lick me, neither!” The light of battle comes into his eyes. and the blood of his fighting ancestors spurts through his arteries. = Biff! And -about eleven million potato-bugs drop into the beetle hades that morn- ing_before his Paris green sprayer. And about as many more weeds give up their vegetable souls to make green manuring for his corn that afternoon before his horse-hoe. “What? More of ve?” he cries, next day. “Hain't killed ye all yet? = Biff-biff-bang! Take that, gol-durn ve!” And so it Zoes, from day to day and from week to week. He doesn’t always come out victor. Indeed, he never scores a com- plete victory over the infinite and il- limitable hosts of his enemies. How can he? But—they dom’t come out victors, either. And he sgets the spoils. When the glorious ruction is over his barns and his granaries and hls cellar-bins show that he's saved the commisariat they tried to capture. He may not have extinguished the enemy, root and branch, but, by gum! they haven't put any stopper on him, elther. - Don't you suppose the old man rather enjoved it? You bet he did. That is always assuming that “he had the right stuff in him. Talk about “sporting events!” There never was a horse-race run yet which' had in ‘it so much real gamb- ling excitemen{ as there is in raising a bunkum clover crop or a record corn acre or a prize-winning fruit vield right here in stubborn-soiled nnecticut. ‘Whicheyer the farmer undertakes,— ‘whatever else he undertakes, for that matter. he's just betting all he’s got and all he ‘hopes to get against the seasor and the weather and the un- foreseeable strategy of his countless enemles. He doesn't know whether it will be a dry year or a wet one. He bets he can raise something worth ‘while, anyway, and puts up his time and his labor and his money as stakes. He doesn’'t know what the army worms and the cut worms and the grasshoppers and the 'steen hundred other kinds of bugs and slugs may have up their sleeves, but he bets he can beat 'em at their own game, whatever tricks they undertake. He -doesn’t know whether it's going to rain that day or not, but he looks at the sky and at his barometer and watches whether the swallows are flying low or high and whether there’s a heavy dew or not and squints at whatever particular goose-bone he pins personal fajth to, and bets that he can cut his 'clover and get it in before it gets wet. He doesn’'t know. when he sets out his tender tomato’ or pepper plants, whether there’ll be a frost next week to kill ’em. But he bets there won't o A Substitutes GettheWell-Known Round HORLICK'S MALTED MILK .Made in the alted & :Imantlnflnwrld e do not make “milk products>— 'ShmMflkvandenaed Milk, etc. But the Original- HORLICK’S MAI.TED MILK o Against Imitations ‘o those who don’t think fightil And mblinn‘;dn;:lu ST wo r.lut'.hmm lots and lots of other dalnt into chops? tmm the w;rk of :f:‘tchu‘l:‘ h.md bs is , bl repulsive beyon Soriptions - ot that job Has to be dnnfi Il all the world limited its ac- de- | that there different kind of stuff in them. The suddenness and the immensity of the struggle in which six first-class powers and many lesser ones-are in- volved, have dazed mankind. The wisest Of men can give no. conclusive reason for this gigantic upheavel, this tremendous reversion to barbarism. It is charged to militarism, to_autocracy, no national ambitions, to political jeal !;usses. to economic rivalries, to over- opulation, to the prehistoric instincts of tribal hatred. ‘All of these causes are apparent to some degree; but there are few impartial observers who will select one and discard all the others. Among some of the chief contestants. however—those whose acts began tha war that they say was inevitable— there is no doubt, no uncertainty. Ths, they declare, is the final battle for su- premacy between two great races, foreshadowed from times long past and precipitated by inexorable laws of od. No sooner had Austria set her foot pon Servia than the whisper ran, Does it begin?"- When Russia turned her vast bulk to come to the aid of her Servian kin and Germany stiffened to deflance, the whisper became a shout, “This is the great war—the Teuton against the Slav!”. With one accord a large school of students and philosophers, historians and statesmen, proclaimed that the appointed hour had struck, and that this mighty conflict was to determine which of the two races should survive. Spokesmen for Germany in America are unanimous in this view. The pres- ident of the German-American Cham- ber of Commerce, of New York, says: The only Power able to checkmate Russia is Germany, and therefore Ger- many is fighting the battle of civil zation and of progress against reac- tion. * * * Strike down to German military power and German prestige, and nothing but the czar remains in Europe. Professor Francke, of Harvard, de- clares that if Germany loses, “her place will be taken by Russia, which, with her teeming millions and .inex- haustible resources, will become the arbiter of Europe. “It is a race treachery,” says Dr. Ernst Richard,- president of the Ger- man-American’ Peace Society, “for England to fight against Germany and for Russia. * * * The real cause of the war is: Shall Europe be ruled by Asiatics or .by Europeans, by Slavs or by Teutons?"” Dr. Hugo Munsterberg, of Harvard, a personal friend of the kaiser, writes: All German good will for peace was doomed because the issue between :he onrushing Slavic world and the Ger- man world had grown to an overpow- ering force. The struggle between the two_civilizations was imminent. * * At last the chance came to strike the long-delayed blow of the Slavic world against the German. Both Slavs and Germans are willing to sacrifice lahor and life for the conservation of their national culture and their very ex istence. General von Bernhardi, a noted Ger- man military leader, wrote three yea.s ago: Russia feels herself the leading pow- er of the Slavic rflces Pan-Slavism is hard at work. * * The coming war must be a war for our politizal and national existence. Czar's Proclamation. In his manifesto to the world the czar proclaimed: Russia, related by faith and blood to the Slav peoples, and faithful to her historic traditions, has never r garded their fates with indifference. The fraternal sentiments of the Rus- sian people for the Slavs have been awakened with perfect unanimity and extraordinary force. The German emperor took up the issue when he charged the strife to Russia’s “insatiable nadonallsm and exhorted his subjects to ‘“remember, above all, that you are Germans. That a deep, irreconcilable hostility between the two races exists there- fore, there can be no doubt, says the Phlladelphia. North American. ‘When Teutonic civilization was al- ready far developed, vast territory off the east of Germany, now under Rus- sian sway was a savage country. Re- garding this as provided by nature for their expansion, the Germans in the Middle Ages overran it by means of war and emigragion, and established their own advanced system. Recognizing the value of the west- ern mixture, the more enlightened rulers of Russia encouraged German influence; and until recent years the German element was_a power in_the administration of Russian affairs. This was particularly true in the Bal- tic provinces, where German was the official language and German Protes- tantism the leading religion. But during the last hundred years Russia has unceasingly labored to free herself from foreign tutelage: and although German immigration contin- ued until within forty years—the ex- tent of it is illustrated by the fact that there are forty-six German news- papers: in the empire—the Russifica- tion of the Baltic provinces proceeded inexorably. From-the accession of Alexander III, in 1881, ‘the process has been carried out with unrelenting vigor. Just as the religious and political liberties of the Finns have been destroyed, so have German influence and institutions in the Baltic provinces been rooted up. Foreigners have been forbidden to ac- quire land in Western Russia; Russian instead of German has become the official language; even the names of have been It had been the hope of Germany du.tmthe force of nc:nfll gravitation ‘would one day draw tHese lands to her; and the spectacle of her millions emigrants being ized. by force was: a ruthless blow to her na- tional ambition. ButltGennuyh lncmodon this | score, Ri no less- embittered: by the results fleflhflm& SETWEEN TEUTON AND SLAV Statement of Underlying Causes of the Racial Antagonism Back of the Present War in Europe. Prussia might humble 1870, so that France. Mowt in All New Eng 2000 Feet-—"nlo Anhpe "lnndn Bill; L-." . Anderson _“Stung,” and That Failed” COLONIAL THEATRE Ring”—2000 Feet James Morrison and Big Vlhgr(ph Cast Alliance of 1872, Bismarck astutely brought about an alliance betweem Russia, Germany and Austria in 1872, _as a defensive move against the revoluntionary proj which has spread from France to Po- land and had also stimulated the activ- ities of German Soclalism and Russian Nihilism. But six years later he again shattered Russia's dependence upon German gratitude for past support. Russia’s dream of Constantinople as a seaport of the czar's dominions, long encouraged by Bismarck, was all but realized in 1878, when Great Britein and Austria_interposed a threat of war if the Russian armies closed in on the Turkish capital. Russia can- fidently looked for German ald in this crisis. But the Berl!n Congress, where Bis- marck presided gave to Austria the Slavonic countries of Bosnia and Her- zegovina—thus pushing Teutonic in- fluence 200 miles nearer to the Golden Horn—and forced Russia to be con- tent with a part -of Roumania. She had sacrificed 200,000 soldiers to reach the Mediterranean, only to, be. thrust back by Germany, whose co-operation she felt she had’ earned. And from that- time Russia’s hatred has been implacable. At ‘the time ‘time, the clash of in- terests -has stirred up furious anti- Slav sentiment in Germany. As long ago as 1882 German presses were pouring out books and pamphlets in- flaming the antagonism. Of one noted work the text was, “The security of Europe demands the unnihilatton of Russia as a European great power.” Another, published in 1888 and enor- mously distributed, declared Between Germany ang Russia there exist, not differences of opinion oa isolated questions of policy and states- manship which can- be_ settled in one or. the other way, but deep-seated, in- effaceable contrasts of race and cul- ture which irresistably press toward an open conflict. ‘With “increasing convinction . and fervor, the German leaders have preached a race war against the Slav. They find their justification in the remorseless growth of the TRussian power; the marvelous facility with which she Russianizes apd absorbs other races within her empire and the skill with which she has kept alilve and increased Pan-Slavic feeling in neighboring nations by a propagafida of racial and religious kinship. Immediate Menace. The rapid growth of Slavic popula- tion and Influence not only in the Balkan states, but In Austro-Hungary —theoretically a Teutoni¢ country— is cited by Germany as evidence that Slav domination of all southeastern Europe is an immediate menace, to be overcome only by a war that will cripple Russia’s ambition. The Seriousness of the danger, from the Gefman viewpoint, {s apparent. o few as 3,000,000 Poles among her 60,000,000 population have been able to present a formidable obstacle to German unity. But the dream of a great Teutonic empire or Gonfedera- tion stretching from the North sea to the Aegean becomes almost fantastic when conditions in the allied kingdom are examined. Indeed, the participation of Austro- Hungary in a war of Teuton against Slav is a’ self-evident absurity. Once subject to a preponderance of Ger- man population and interests, it is so no longer. The dynasty, the bureau- cracy and the officers of the army are German_ but political power is rapidly passing into the hands of other races, and only autocracy prevents the com- plete submergence of the German ele- ment. It was in Austro-Hungary, in fact, that the Pan-Slavistic movement had its birth: and a majority of the pop- ulation is linked more closely. by ties of blood and religion, to Russia and the Serbs than to the so-called Aus- trian nation. The population firures and their changes are profoundly significant. In 1910 Austria had 28,324,940 inhabitants, and of these, only 9,950,266 were Ger- mans. There weré 6,435,000 Bohe- mians, Moravians and Clovaks, nearly 65,000,000 Poles. 3,500,000 Ruthenians and about 4,000,000 of other non-Ger- man races, the Slavic element outnum- bering the German by more than 50 per cent. In Hungary. In Hungary of course, these condi- tions are emphasized. Out of a popu- lation in 1910 of 21,000,000, a little more than 2,000,000 were Germans, a decrease of 100,000 since 1900. In the whole empire, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, hardly more than one- fifth of the population was German. But the vital fact is that not only have German emigration and coloniza- tion failed to create German domina- tion, in spite of the very high German birth rate, but they have been una- tle to withstand the vigorous race qualities of the alien peoples with whom they have come into contact. Bohemia, once Germanized by force, kas_a Slav population of 62 per cent. In Prague, its capital, 16 per cent. of the people were Germans in 1890 and only 10 per cent. in 1900. The university, purely German until 1882, is now a Czech institution. The Czech spirit of natiopality is so intense that the people refuse to learn German, and disdain’ to lpolk it 1t they do know it. Moreover, the Ger- man element is slowly but - surely yielding to the Slav pressure; while B7 per cent. of the population are only 33 per cent. of the school children that tongue, indicating thu one-tenth of the next generation of Germans will have be- land. ADMISSION: IIAY’:. 50c.; NIGHTS, Bxcursions on All Railroads. ary, while its percentage of the total has fallen. Fifty years ago Budapest was more than half German; today the Germans number less than 14 per cent. of the population; and in the same In every populous center. Failure As Colonizer, The truth is that the German is a failure as a colonizer—thaat is, from the imperial standpoint. His sanity, his thrift, his industry and his fine qualities of intellect cause the Ger- man to enrich any country to which he emigrates. But inevitably he . is absorbed by the race which he joins. Other progressive people, no mat- ter where they are, preserve their na- tionality; the Germans have the vir- tue—or the vice, as German patriots ‘woéuld call it—of cosmopolitanism. In a single generation sometimes, if they, confront a preponderance of another rave, they begin to yield to the pro- cess of absorption, assimilation, de- nationalization. Not Austria alone illustrates thi characteristic. Two-thirds of the Swiss are of German blood and language, but almost to a man they are repub- licans. There are 2,000,000 Germans in Poland and the Baltic provinces of Russia, but they are becoming so com- pletely Russianized that there are now only two German schools in the em pire of the czar. In Belgium and Holland, in Frange and England, the hundreds of thous- qnds of Germans resident have adop! ed the e and customs of the alien land. 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