Nebraska Newspapers

    WHOLE WOOLD IN
DANGER OE FAMINE
—
FRENCH COMMISSION SO IN
FORMS AMERICAN NATION.
TELL 0 :0S IN OWN LAND
Declare Ra>< reads of Europe Are
<Ara- ig Out.—United States
Urged to Hasten Building of
Sn ps to Carry Supplies.
tt.idu*ptm. Tl»e I'rriii'li war tnis
• has informed the Aineriran pit
••rim,.nt that tin- limit* Kralwe need*
tin-*' trout I lie l uil«->l States are
tu-anry '• «h1 relilijiers. n«l. steel. «»U
mil ?r.ii*|««i»i’ m e»|.u|*i!n ui. i-sjiei-U
ly ski}.* tn «Udi in ,urr» ponds from
the new to tile old world.
• tin- of tlie foremost |»urjsi*i*s of
the I r. te h tui**ioti. It lias lie-nine j
known. i« to itu|»res* u|hiu tlie
Am.-rn an pnterMiietit and |n*-|ile ihe
»eri**ti» f-««l situation In Kurd|ie.
Member* «f tin- •-< on mot- seetitw of
till- til ".on belie* e tliere is serious
danger u( a w.*rld famine and are |iti'
I'iir.si *«i siiliiiul esidenee that nil tlte
w.-rid i* s.-rtn«js|\ threatened with
famine heruawe of the withdrawal of
luen frotu aprn tilture ihe la- k of fer-1
(HimIs and the decansetuetii of traiis
■ ••rtaTion faiilitlew.
R«»jitng stock *»f railroad* iti Ktimpe
1* rapidly leing woe* out tlirough the
I. • k of lubricant* It I* d*1* la red. ami
n»«*re r»i!st> supplies are urgently
te*** t-d The growing s« ar*-iT> of tntvis
l-*r*‘* i. «.fi the *. . * make*
If Imperative the French men lielleve.
ft.at the flitted Stale* CHITT OUt
«pj ‘klv it* pliiti for a large fleet of
s*-*’!* t» *!.'p* to ;t**isf in tile struggle
againtSenuatiy.
Tie* iiii!m-he\e% it n fallacy to
: **<:• *ha? ev•-!! |M*a«*e would greatly
ii‘#er f««*l million* for those now*
««n the verge of Manntioti will need
great •luantitie* of f««*«! before they
e»ti i rodtMv it themselves.
If * felt tfiat the of the
* * ;. t. * !in r»*aMM| In the almost
tmiier*aV crop failure.
!* i* s ;i«| that the Henna!i* recently
ha%*- made extraordinary effort* to
sefej t«. the hoftotn ves*e|s carry ing
m ifi to tie* alii*** StTiituI choice for
% * •* i* * Id to t*e f.o;j*< <*»rrying
steel *! after them rli#- Hermans
* v. ffi» •! ?.. * ik e.»u|diiden *liips.
U Boats* Success Alarms.
V »?•••»* e of grow ing success for
the rttfltle** Henuati submarine hhick
: h i* forc«*d t!,#- pr«.hu*tn of *11!*
plying flue •-ut elite quickly with f<Mx|
* T»d **?h«-r nee.***iiie* sharply into the
‘nr*-’ *,{[f of the w:»r program.
Ar-<':*#*•! t»y Iftfofliiatiort brought To
t* ’* • •uiifrv hy the llritfslt and
• f • «• Mar vt»i**ioti*. tf,.* ndtnfni stra
tum h * m ! alMoit to launch with it*
full f««r*-e a* *|M^*«!i!\ as |MM«slMe tlie*r
catmoigli to break down the bbwkade ,
Although details of the step* to he
taken hr. ve neat l*eet» unde public, in
doare that t.iore energetic
* ensure* might l«e expected Siam t«»
sJ•» • d *l|» t|»e W.*rk of relieving the
#**»! «itt!»iina ill tin* ei»telite couti
l *-* Th» %4 . i*ure* it was pre
»l «ie! «>iqI<I l*e the first to take form
a« a result of *he internatiotinI w ar j
e»*nf<eref»ces here.
A. • .-rntt-.i, <>f tlx* *lii|>ping Itoard'
|<Togr»«! f**r a groat (loot of n-oodrn
*hi|** t«* ogrrr food«ttilf« i- rogardrd
a> oortain tttlMal* aro iunviiHwl
that it I* Imponii ivo to got I ho -hlp
Into t!.o aster mu<-h -*eonrr than had
Ion fdannod.
To i oroam- tho Tran- Atlantic- t<*n
nago tho lamrd a!-o I* -triviug to put
tho <:.-rtn»;< and Austrian -hip- into
*orsi«o a* «jti!<-klv ;t» po—ibio. anti to
tran-fe-r to foroigti Trado ttutnr ooaat
• t>>o ami firm! lakt* -trwnior*.
F-arlt aotion <*n food oontrol logi«
latlon I* fntwraatod
Think War Will Last Long.
Whtlo doflnlto s-mutsnrt or or the
Corman war nun binr ha* I torn o-tah
l'4to( la tho alllo«l fort-*** In Franoo
lo.ih in t“*r~mno| ami oquiptnont ami
orotitua! vtotorr l« in -ietit. man>
month* «*f bftfrr fighting -till tiro
ahoad
Tlii* I* ’hr rfrw- of military or
pm- atta< hrd to Franrr'* war inm
ml—Ion a* gathorod hr offioor- of
fho Amorb-art gonoral Waif 'luring in
formal oon»or-ation* at tho war dr* (
part tax wit
Tin- torriblo toll In drjnl. tnaltm-d.
ami pt-t-onor*. «-otu|Hitod on figure-- j
im-itidinc ltil—ia'« rhorpiott- hntars in
m|*tttrod attiotinl* to 1“ p**r <«*nt a
month «*f troop- at tho front Half <*f |
tlx-—- arr prrmanontly out of notion 1
and wm- il n**t for tin* e-,»n«fant
-tronm of roe-rtiil- going for" aril or
ort dnt an army of a million mon
—Mitt would fad** away.
May Need Half Billion Monthly.
Preliminary reports to the Treas
ury department. iijMin which Secretary
McAdoo will base bis recommenda
tions to the president as to the size
of the first bond issue under the
*7 .(KM MM MM mo war finance law. indi
cate that tlie t'nited States will be
mlled upon to finance tlie allies to
the extent of at least $400,000,000 and
isissilily !to00.0tNM$M> a month.
Tlie tentative program also calls for
the expenditure of virtually every
dollar of the borrowed money in this
country for foodstuffs, clothing, rail
wav equipment and other supplies.
Government to Aid Farmers.
To aid the farmers of the nation in
meeting the food situation, tlie gov
ernment lias taken steps to throw re
sources approximating .SlOO.itOO.OtKl
into the breach.
The action was announced by the
tre:i-ury department that all peslal
—:i \ ii:^:— departments would be mad'
available for loans to farmers.
Hear of Moves to Oust Kaiser.
Wlmt may prove to be important
moves to sweep aside Hohenzollern
ism and replace it with a Merman re
public have been otlicially reported to
tlie state department front several
sources.
According to a message to tlie sec
retary of state from Minister Stovall
at Herne, a movement is on in
Switzerland by Mermans to spread the
propaganda of republicanism and
democracy.
Root Hoads Commission to «us6ia.
Klilm Boot, former secretary of
state, has accepted the ehainnnnship
of the Anierienn coimnission which is
going to Russia. •
Realizing the Immediate need of ns
sistnnee. it is the purpose of tile presi
dent to send the commission abroad
as quickly as possible.
Tlic same secrecy as to details of
leaving and route will lie maintained
as wtis practiced concerning the
French and English commissions.
Critish Win Naval Battle.
London. Two Britisli destroyers on
patrol dun in the English channel, off
I (over, on the night of April 'JO. came
u|miii a flotilla of six German destroy
ers. and then ensued an encounter
which will live long in the history of
naval engagements. One German de
stroyer was torpedoed ami went to
the iinttom with a great loss of life
while another was rammed, which
caused it to sink.
German seamen of a rammed de
stroyer climbed aboard one of the
Britisli boats, and a midshipman
fought them hack with an automatic
pistol. They were killed or driven
again into the sea by British jackies,
who caiue to the midshipman's aid.
The Britisli destroyers were the
Swift and the Broke, and although
they had received tunny wounds they
returned to port. Tin* British casual
ties are set down as comparative
tight.
U. S. Ship Sinks U-Boat.
New York.—On she anniversary of
tin* battle of Lexington, when the first
shot was fired in the American revo
lution. file Fnited States steamer
Mongolia tired the first shot of the
c ar against Germany, and sank a Ger
man submarine wliieli was preparing
to attack her in Britisli waters. Cap
tain Bice made the announcement on
the -hip's arrival at a British port ac
cording to word received here.
Tie- encounter occurred on the af
ternoon of April 10. tiic last day out
on the vo> age from New York.
Orders to Seize Spuds.
Ashland. Wis.—‘‘Seize all potatoes
lieing held in warehouses in carload
h.is f,,p higlier prices, [in not inter
fere with potatoes which arc shipped
In for grocers or consumers. Seize
only those being held in carload lots
l*v warehouses and bold them for
the state for seed potatoes." Thai
i* the substance of orders received by
the county agricultural agent here
from the stat«" commissioner of agri
culture. The agent says he has track i
of fcnti bushels held by a farmer for
*4 per bushel.
Sends Strong Note to Kaiser.
I»ndon.--The Spanish government’s
note to Germany regarding Germany's
submarine campaign contains a para
graph stating that if Germany con
tinues in its determination to sink all
vessels in order to defend its life,
Spain must take a like step to de
fend her life.
Tliis portion of the note says:
“If the imperial German govern
ment persists In declaring that it ad
heres to its determination in order to
defend its life, it must not lie aston
ished if Spain, for the same reason,
must emphasize lier right to defend
her own life."
Unrest in Sweden.
Copenhagen. — At Mahno. Sweden,
April Ji'i. Itft.IHlO people took part in a
demonstration before the town hall at
which demands were made for a com
mercial agreement witli England,
larger bread rations ami a discon
tinuance of food exports.
Villa Decisively Defeated.
OiibOaliua City. M.\ Villa lust a
thousand lui-n in killed ami e\eeiiteil
in the r»*vtit fight* m San Miguel <!•
|t>Kiii»r:t and sil t'anneti nfinHIni;
to detail* rodtol here.
Young Woman Condemned As Spy.
purls.—A eonri martial Ha* in#
drained to death a* a *|iy Ktnillenil*'
(tone Imeimifiere. a llt-yenr-old srlrl.
She »’»* mBtrleted of gathering mili
tary luft-“T»«fl-m at ISetievii. Lyons
and Paris on hstonlf of a tjernuin. by i
n-biitii *iie bad been atu|ib*yed.
Strikers Publicly Reproached.
Amsterdam. Hitter reproach for
striking manili.rtft workers and de
mand' that they return to work In
litis hour of German's need is ex
pressed In proclamations in Heriin.
Hisses Greet Illinois Solon.
Washington. Hisses from the gal
leries greeted Representative Mason,
repuldiean of Illinois, when he assail
ed I’resideld Wilson for failing to ac
cept Immediately Colonel Roosevelt's
offer to raise a division for service in
France- .
Blast Kills Three.
Blriainjrtiaw- Ala. Three |M.uiler
»«rfc«*r» **-re killed in an explosion
In the IVaBanc I»lanl of tlie Aetna
Ksp**'*' "*"*“* rl*Ufc‘‘ "f '*“*
la »«* kn»*«n
U Boats Don’t Hinder Exports.
Wa«Mnfio«. W' »*•* ‘o-rnwn
.Ul.mam.r ran.,«.i«n Amerlran «
nurtu la Manti rra.ttni a value of
‘ .^,«xi whirh ha« >"*<*« ewwetled
_mrr last January. Be Npl
, Price of Hard Coal to Go Up.
New York.—Coal men estimate that
the ‘jo |>er rent wage increase granted
to 17!>.000 miners in the anthracite
fields will raise the retuil price of
hard coal * cents a ton.
Wilson Against Rigid Censorship.
Washington.—-President Wilson in a
letter to Arthur Brisbane of New
York declared that he is opposed to
any system of censorship that would
deny to the people of the United
States “their indisputable riirht to
]—Count .Julius Andrassy, former Hungarian premier, who organized a coalition party and caused the resigna
tion of tlie cabinet. 2—Cannon in Lafayette park, Washington, near the White House, plugged to prevent any
chance of their being tired. 3—Portuguese expeditionary force arriving at Brest. France, to help fight the Ger
mans, 4—Mrs. Waldo Pierce enlisting students of Columbia college in the aviation corps she is organizing at
Port Washington, L. I.
NEWS REVIEW OF
THE PAST WEEK
First American Shot in the Great
War Destroys a German
U-Boat.
FIRED BY LINER MONGOLIA
Destruction of Shipping by Subma
rines Now Threatens England
With Food Shortage — Great
Britain Gets Money From
Uncle Sam.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
America's first shot in tlie war with
Geruiuny was tired on April 1!). It
scored a direct hit and destroyed a
German submarine. The shot was
tired by the gun crew on the American
liner Mongolia when a U-boat attempt
ed to attack that vessel in the Irish sea.
The first shell smashed the periscope
and after other shells were sent then1
was an explosion and the submarine
did not rise again. Capt. Emery Kice
of the Mongolia told of the incident
on arrival in an English port. It is
interesting to note that the gun that
got the U-boat had been named Theo
dore Itoosevelt by the gunners.
The destructive work of the sub
marines is causing increasing anxiety
in Great Britain. The latest weekly
report of the admiralty shows a much
larger number of ships sunk than did
any previous report, and on Wednes
day Lord Davenport, the British food
controller, solemnly warned the Brit
ish public that severe privations
menaced the nation before the next
harvest was reached. This aroused
the London press to gloomy comment,
the burden of which was that the sub
marine blockade was the most serious
feature of the war now and that if
Great Britain was to be saved from
starvation and possible defeat some
thing must be done mighty soon to
counteract it. This something, ob
viously, is the turning out from the
shipyards of a vas't and continuous
stream of tonnage, but though many
ships are being built, the shortage of
skilled labor renders it impossible to
construct anywhere near the number
required. The great British navy is
powerless to relieve the situation. No
one over there seems able to suggest
any solution of the problem except to
be careful of the food supply and pre
pare for the worst.
The food question is serious else
where. It was responsible In large
part for the strikes in Germany and
is the chief cause of demonstrations
that are alarming the Swedish gov
ernment. In France meatless dinners
—except Sundays and holidays—began
Wednesday, and already in the United
States the hotels and clubs are cut
ting down their menus.
Plans for larger crops and more
farm labor in America were carried
nearer to completion during the past
week. One notable incident was the
departure of 500 students of the agri
cultural college of the University of
Illinois to help raise Canada's wheat
crop. They are to be well paid and
the Dominion government will give to
each of them a homestead of 100 acres.
On a moment's thought such a move
ment as this must win approval, for a
bumper crop in Canada will do the
civilized world as much good as one
in the United States, and the Do
minion has been depleted of labor.
Great Britain Gets First Loan.
Speedy work is being done in the
way of supplying the immediate needs
of tlie allies of the United States. In
tin- first conferences with the commis
sioners from England and France the
government was told that the most
urgent of these needs were money,
ships and food. It was agreed that
the first allotment of the $3,000,000,000
loan would go to Great Britain, and on
Wednesday Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo handed to the British ambas
sador a treasury warrant for $200,000,
000. Arrangements for disposing of
tlie immense bond issue tire practical
1 ly completed and France and Italy and
Russia will get tlieir share soon. Most
of the money, it is understood, will he
i expended in the United States.
The commissioners agreed that,
next to supplying money, America
could give the best help by continuing
to furnish food and by finding the ves
sels for its transport to Europe, and
they were pleased with the plans for
building a great fleet of wooden ships.
General .1 off re. however, expressed the
hope that in the near future a large
contingent of American troops would
be on the fighting line under the Stars
and Stripes, holding that the moral
effect of that would be tremendous.
All of the commissioners concurred
in the statement that they were here
not to attempt to dictate to our gov
ernment, but to advise and assist it
to the best of their ability and with
their wealth of experience.
President Wilson, in a conference
with Mr. Balfour, voluntarily gave as
surances that the United States will
tight until it achieves victory, and
thereupon the head of the British mis
sion declared that the entente allies
would seek no treaty of alliance, no
signature of the entente pledge not to
make a separate peace with Germany.
Germans Resist Desperately.
“This is the last and deciding push,
for we soon shall be able to hold out
no longer” reads the diary of a Ger
man officer who was captured last
Monday, and that seems to be the
opinion of the German commander in
chief, judging by the desperate opposi
tion he is putting up against the drive
of the allies in northern France. Re
suming their part of the offensive at
the beginning of the week, the British
have made considerable progress, es
pecially along the roads from Arras
and Bapautue to Cambrai. In the semi
open fighting their heavy howitzers
were of little use, but their field guns
and machine guns were handled with
wonderful skill and rapidity and the
Germans suffered enormously. Von
Hindenburg threw his reserves into
the battle with a prodigality that as
tonished his adversaries, and the Teu
tons gave ground slowly and made re
pented and tierce counter-attacks,
which, however, were of little avail
and left the ground covered with their
slain. The German tine, thanks to
the astounding numbers of men Von
Hindenburg has been able to bring up,
is still unbroken, but it is badly bat
tered and is being pushed back fur
ther and further toward the frontier.
The superiority of the British in the
air was demonstrated on Monday in
the most spectacular munner. The
men of the Koval Flying corps met the
air squadrons of the Germans at an
altitude of 15,000 feet and put them
to rout, destroying 40 of their air
planes. with the loss of but two of
their own machines. The young Brit
ish pilots then carried out a series of
daring bombing raids.
The French devoted much of the
week to destructive artillery fire in
preparation for their next part in the
“see-saw" that is being carried on with
such skillful co-operation by Haig and
Xivelle, and by Thursday their infan
try was again in action.
On the Italian. Macedonian and Kou
manian fronts little of moment has
taken place. In Mesopotamia the
British an- still advancing, but the ex
pedition from Egypt that is moving up
through Palestine has found the re
enforced Turkish forces holding a
strongly intrenched position extending
from Gaza toward Beersheba. Portu
gal, having decided to take a more
active part in the conflict in Europe,
has sent a large contingent of troops
to northern France.
There lias been some stirring activ
ity recently in the neighborhood of
the Straits of Dover. Two British de
stroyers encountered a flotilla of six
German destroyers and after a furious
combat put the foe to rout. The Ger
man boats were rammed and torpe
doed and raked by gunfire and at least
two of them were sunk. The British
vessels suffered severely but were able
to return to port.
Wednesday morning a German de
stroyer flotilla bombarded Dunkirk
but was driven off by the coast bat
teries ttnd the allied patrol boats. One
French torpedo boat was sunk.
Russian Situation Dangerous.
Ttie course of events in Russia is
being watched with renewed anxiety.
! The German and Austrian Socialist
peace propagandists have taken from
one of President Wilson’s addresses
! lhe phrase of “a peace without vic
tory" and are using it with some ef
fect. Tlie duuia and the delegates rep
resenting the various classes iu the
. councils are as firm as ever against
• concluding a separate peace, but they
do not find the masses of uniformed
! people easy to control. Germany is
rejmrtcd to have started the expected
movement to cut off Petrograd from
ihe army, a large naval and military
expedition having left Libau, presum
ably for l’ernau or ltevai, and at such
an inopportune time a great many i
Russian soldiers are deserting. These
deserters are peasant soldiers who are
hastening to their homes iu fear that j
there will be a distribution of lands
of which, in their absence, they will
not get their share. The old agrarian
trouble is coming to a head and despite
the assurances of the authorities that
j it cannot be settled until the consti
tuent assembly acts, the peasants are
iu many localities taking the matter
into their own hands.
As for the threatened German of
fensive, the leaders of the new Rus
sian government assert that it will be
a good thing for Russia even if the
enemy should occupy Petrograd, for i
it will unite the nation in determina
tion to fight the war to the finish and
nullify the efforts of the Teuton So
I ciallsts. The Russian Baltic fleet and
army sent a wireless message to the
1 allied fleets saying they were in com
plete readiness to defend free Russia.
President Wilson lias selected the
members of a commission that will
visit Russia to pay this nation's re
spects to the new government, and
Elihu Root has consented to be its
chairman. The other members will be
Edward T. Hurley, Daniel Willard and
Oscar S. Straus.
Spain Warns the Kaiser.
<>n Tuesday Spain sent to Germany
a note concerning submarine warfare,
with the warning that Spanish pa
tience was nearly exhausted. The
imperial government consented to a
parley for the "mitigation of the diffi
culties which have arisen in Spain.”
King Alfonso lias tried diligently to
preserve neutrality, but it seems as if
his efforts were doomed to failure.
Turkey having severed diplomatic
relations with the United States, the
representatives of the two nations
started for home.
Reports that t ame from Europe dur
ing tile week told of a revival of the
attempts to oust Bethmann-Ilollweg
from power because of his support of
the plans of the Socialist Scheidemann
for a peace without annexation and
indemnities. The pan-Germans, con
servatives and liberals all are oppos
ing the chancellor in this. But Ger
many's foes should not count too much
on such demonstrations, any more
than on the strikes there, for there is
no reason to believe any of them por
tend tlic overthrow of Prussian autoc
racy—the one thing, probably, that
can firing the war to an early con
elusion.
Mayor 1 lmmpsnn of Chicago sue
eeeded on Thursday in attracting some
attention to himself. He issued a
printed statement on the food short
age in which lie attacked conscription,
argued for a Imn on food exports and
assailed the war policies of the admin
istiatiou. rhe same day lie evinced
a disinclination to extend to Marshal
.Tollre and the French mission an in
i itation to visit Chicago, saying he
thought some of the people "might not
lie wildly enthusiastic about if \t>iv,>.
Thompson is overly careful about the
stability of his Teutonic political
fences, for Chicago is decidedly en
thusiastic over the proposed visit by
the French commissioners and will
give them a splendid welcome. Plans
for the event are being made, the
mayor being ignored.
The Wisconsin senate gave a lesson
to disloyal citizens by expelling from
membership Senator Frank Raguse of
Milwaukee, a Socialist, for refusal to
retract alleged disloyal statements
made by him on the floor of the senate.
At the hour of writing it appears
certain that the government selective
conscription bill will be passed by
both houses of congress. Agreements
were secured in both senate and house
that assured a vote not later than
tuiduight Saturday.
RIOTING TO BE SUPPRESSED
Anarchistic Outbreak Before the
United States Embassy at Petro
grad Will Not Be Repeated.
Copenhagen.—A domestic situation
already tangled has been further com
plicated by the anti-American riots in
Russia. Many of the persons who took
part In the rioting in front of the
United States embassy in Petrograd
were arrested.
Those who took part in the mani
festations are said to be anarchists
without affiliations with any of the
political parties which overthrew the
autocracy and •established a republican
form of government. The new gov
ernment. by reason of the delicate situ
ation brought about by the political
reconstruction, lias dealt leniently with
the offenders, but a sterner policy is
promised.
These anarchists, who call them
selves “radical socialists,” are giving
the netr Russian government trouble
in more than one direction. Declaring
that their “liberties” cannot be taken
away, the anarchists and their leaders
are putting obstacles in the way of a
successful prosecution of the war i
The minister of war has strength
ened the Petrograd garrison, it is offi
cially announced.
It is understood that a bodyguard
was offered to David It. Francis the
American ambassador, but was de
clined Mr. Francis spoke at a meet
ing of the Russian-American society
on the night of April 22 with a guard
of soldiers about the building.
BIG INCREASE III
EsiZ
Farmers Asked to Devote Large
Acreage to Cereal.
NEEDFD FOR MAN AND BEAST
Secretary cf Agriculture Appeals to
Farmers to Push Production to
the Limit—Ten States Picked
for Work.
Washington.'—The secretary of agri
culture has issued the following state
ment :
fern is America’s most important
cereal. It can tie grown successfully
over a wider area than any other, and
furnishes nutritious food for man as
well as the staple grain feed for cattle
and draft animals. The production of
corn should he increased this year to
tlie fullest extent, taking into consider
ation seed. labor, and existing eco
nomic conditions, and the availability
of good hind in corn-growing regions
not needed more urgently for other
crops. The acreage may well be in
creased in most of the country east of
the one hundredth meridian, as corn,
in general, thrives in tiiis region.
An appreciable increase m the corn
crop is most feasible, however, in the
sections of highest corn production.
Favorable growing conditions exist in
such regions; farmers there are famil
iar with corn growing; they have the
necessary equipment available, and
have adapted corn production to pre
vailing economic conditions. Farmers
in such regions, through many years of
experience, have learned methods of
successfully combating adverse condi
tions. They know that the planting of
virile, tested seed in well-tilled, friable
soil, immediate replanting of missing
hills, and early and continued cultiva
tion of the fields, count for much in
the ability of the plants to produce a
bountiful yield. This knowledge should
be put to good use during the coming
season in order that, however unfavor
able conditions may be, production of
an exceptionally large crop may be as
sured.
In practically every county in the
country in which experience has shown
that corn may be produced success
fully, the possibilities of increasing the
corn crop without encroaching upon
other important crops is at least wor
thy of consideration, if land, labor and
seed are available.
Areas of Maximum Corn Production.
A list of the leading corn-producing
counties in the principal corn-produc
ing states marks roughly the area in
which efforts to increase the produc
tion of corn should he most successful.
Such a list of counties for the ten
leading corn-producing states follows.
The states and the counties within
them are named in the order of their
importance in corn production. Al
though early plantings have been com
pleted or are in progress in some of
the counties, late additional plantings
may he advisable in such regions.
ILLINOIS—Obunties: Champaign. Iro
quois. LaSalle. Livingston. McLean. Bu
reau. Christian. Edgar. Henry, l^ee. I.o
gan. Macon. Sangamon. Shelby. Vermilion.
Will. Adams. Coles. DeKalb. DeWitt.
Ponglas. Fav»*tte. Ford. Fulton. Grundy.
Hancock. Kankakee. Knox. McDonough.
Macoupin. Mason. Mercer. Montgomery,
Morgan Ogle. Peoria. Piatt, Pike. Taze
well. Warren, Whiteside. Woodford.
Madison. Marshall. Moultrie. Wayne.
White. Greene. Jasper. Jefferson. Kane.
McHenry. Marion. Stephenson. Carroll.
Clark. Clay. Cook. Hamilton. Henderson.
Kendall. Menard. Winnebago. Cass, Clin
ton. Crawford. Effingham. Franklin. Rock
Island. St. Clair. Schuyler. Stark. Wash
ington.
IOWA—Counties: Harrison. Plymouth.
Pottawattamie. Sioux. Woodbury. Adair.
Benton. Blackhawk. Boone. Buena Vista.
Butler. Calhoun. Carroll. Cass. Cedar.
Cherokee. Clinton. Crawford. Dallas.
Franklin. Fremont. Greene. Grundy. Guth
rie. Hamilton. Hardin. Jasper, Johnson.
Keokuk. Kossuth. Linn. Lvon. Mahaska.
Marshall. Mills. Monona. O’Brien. Page.
Pocahontas. Polk. Poweshiek. Sac. Shelby.
Story. Tama. Washington. Webster.
Wright. Audubon. Buchanan. Cerro Gordo.
Delaware. Fayette. Ida. Iowa. Madison.
Marion. Montgomery. Clay. Clayton.
Floyd. Hancock. Henry. Jones. Scott. Tay
lor. Warren. Wayne.
NEBRASKA—Counties: Custer Buffalo.
Gage. Knox. I^ancaster. Saunders. Antel
ope. Blaine. Boone. Butler. Cass Cedar.
Clay. Cuming. Dawson Dixon. Fillmore,
Frontier Furnas. Hamilton. Holt. Jeffer
son. Johnson. Lincoln. Madison. Nuckolls.
Otoe. Pierce. Platte. Richardson. Saline.
Seward. Thayer. Wayne. Webster. York.
Adams Burt. Dodge. Franklin. Phelps.
Polk. Red willow. Thurston. Valiev. Gree
T«v. HaM. Harlan. Howard. Kearney.
Nance. Nemaha. Pawnee. Sherman. Stan
to"
MISSOURI—Counties: Bates. Nodaway,
Vernon Atchison. Audrain. Barton. Calla
way. Carroll. Cass. Harrison. Henry.
John® n Lafayette Macon. Monroe. Pet
tis. Saline. Boone. Chariton Dekalb Holt.
Ray. St. Clair. Andrew. Caldwell. Clinton,
poorer Daviess. Oentrv. Greene. Jackson.
Jasper. Knox. Linn, Pike. Stoddard. Ben
ton. Cedar, Dade. TJneoln. Livingston.
Mi*sip«s«npi. Montgomery. New Madrid.
Polk. Shelby. Sullivan. Adair. Buchanan.
Clark. Clay. Franklin. Grundy. Lawrence.
T ew's. Mercer. Newton. Ralls. Randolph.
Scotland. Scott.
INDIANA—Counties: Benton. Knox.
Mon^unorw Tippecanoe. Boone. Clinton.
Madiso". Shelby. White. Hamilton. Hend
ricks. Randolph. Rush. Warren. Allen,
Carroll. Delaware. Fountain. Gibson.
Grant. Henry. Jasper. T^aporte. Newton,
Posey. Sullivan. Wayne. Bartholomew!
Cass. Daviess. Greene Hancock. Howard!
Johnson. Kosciusko. Marion. Miami. Mor
gan. Parke. Putnam. Tipton Vigo. Wells
Adams, Decatur. Elkhart. Fulton. Hunt
ington. Jackson. Lake Marshall. Porter.
Pulaski. St Joseph. Spent er. Wabash
Jay. Warrick.
Elephant Had Toothache.
“Charlie” Snyder, keeper of the ele
phants at the New York zoo. was lean
ing tip against Alice discussing ele
phants in general and Alice in par
ticular. He allowed that Alice had a
toothache. “Lonesome,” he said. "Why,
this poor tiling can't have the slightest
ailment but that she cries like a big
baby. I saw her standing with tier
head in that corner and I knew that
something had made her blue again.
When I came in she opened her mouth,
and I saw that her teeth were sore.
Now she’s all right, but if I go out
slie'll make more noise titan a couple
of herds have any right to make."
As Mr. Snyder talked Alice moved
from one foot to the other, humping
him. After discussing the peculiar
ities of an elephant’s mouth, he told
Alice to open hers. Alice did, and al
lowed tile keeper to show where the
medicine had been rubbed. This dune,
she closed her mouth, stopped bump
ing Mr. Snyder and walked slowly
over to the corner. She put her head
down into the piled up fotlder and
stood quite still.
Wished She Was a Sailor.
With raiders and U-boats making
every voyage an adventure, sailors are
wild to get back from trips to hear all
about what is going on and to tell of
their own experiences. The wife of a
seaman who had returned from a
three months' cruise called at the Sea
men’s institute in New York to wait
for him. Presently he came up South
street with four other seamen of his
ship. All were singing as they pound
ed along. Their vessel had been chased
by a German raider. The waiting wife
met the seaman. She threw her arms
about him while he stood looking
straight ahead. “Simon.” said the fond
wife, “you don't seem a hit anxious to
see ine. The little home is all ready
for you and I'm so glad you arc back.”
"So am I.” said Simon, mechanically
putting his arms about her. “So I
am. But. Lord, Julie. I wish you w» re
a sailor; I'd have an awful lot to tell
you.”
German Care of the Wounded.
An American newspaper man-writing
from Germany, where he had been al
lowed an opportunity to study the sys
tem of sanitary and medical service in
the army, makes the interesting state
ment that it is not only extremely
thorough, but that the conservation of
life and limb is the policy and practice
of the surgeons. That is, their great
endeavor is to save life and to avoid
amputation of legs or arms where it is
possible, says the Indianapolis Star.
That they have remarkable success
is indicated by the fact that out of
1,587 severely wounded men brought
to a certain field hospital within a
given four weeks, but 17 died. Out of
hundreds of operations performed, only
one was an umputation of a limb.
There is no postbattle butchery by
eager young surgeons, for no operation
is performed until it is pronounced
necessary by a competent head sur
geon.
Apples Good for Insomnia.
Apples are useful in nervous dyspep
sia: they are nutritious, medicinal, and
vitalizing: they aid digestion, clear
the voice, correct the acidity of the
stomach, and are valuable in rheuma
tism. insomnia, and liver troubles. An
apple contains as much nutriment as
a potato in a pleasanter and more
wholesome form.
Comparisons.
“My butler left me without any
warning.”
“There are worse things than that.
Mine left me without any spoons.”
What Makes a Man Rich.
Xo man can tell whether he is rich
or poor by turning to his ledger. It
is the soul that makes a man rich. He
is rich or poor according to what he is,
not according to what he has.—Henry
Ward needier.
A Ruthless Man.
Sir, said the mathematics profes
sor heatedly, “if you say but one more
word of a disparaging nature to me I
shall be obliged to reduce you to your
lowest common multiple.”
Valuable Assistance.
A little girl was watching a survey
or at work near by with great interest.
After a time she joined him and timid
ly asked to help. "Well, now, what
could you help me do?” he jocularly in
quired. “I could help you walk,” she
ventured.
Duty.
Duty though set about by thorns,
may still be made a staff, supporting
even while it tortures. Cast it away
and like the prophet's wand, it
change^o a snake.—Douglas Jerrold.
Electricity From Windmill.
Electricity is generated by a wind
mill so successfully at a German tech
nical school that it is estimated a sim
ilar plant could supply light and water
for UX) persons at a cost of $125 a
year.
Got Better Acquainted.
One day Dorothy was visiting her
grandmother, and upon being asked if
she liked bananas she replied: “Well,
when I first was acquainted with them
I didn’t, but now I do.”
Readjusting Ambition.
A lot of young men are ambitions
when they start out in life, but as
soon as they discover that a man has
to work most of the time to get to
the top they decide to learn to play >,
pool instead.—Detroit Free Press.
Most of ’Em Are Safe
It is said that white clothing worn
by little children injures their eyes,
but the oculists will get no great rush
of business from the little children who
had a chance to wear their white cloth
ing an hour or so.
TEXAS—Counties: Collin, Fannin. Gray
son Lamar, Denton. Hunt. Navarro. l'.ell
Cooke. Hill. McLennan, Milam, Red River,
l»allas Falls, Hopkins. Limestone. Mon
tague Smith, Wise. Cass. Cherokee Clay,
Coryell. Ellis, Fayette, Gonzales. Kif
mari. Rusk. Van Zandt. Wilbarger. Wil
liamson. Anderson. Bowie. Ga n: P ipe.
Harrison. Henderson, Houston. 1. ... a.
Nacogdoches. Parker. Robertson. Wash
ington, Wichita. Bastrop. Dewitt ! • rt
Bend. Freestone, Grimes, Panola. Shelb' .
Tarrant. Travis. Upshur. Wharton.
Whp.'ipr Wood.
KANSAS—Counties: Butler. Jewell Mar
Viall. Nemaha Reno. Republic. Sedgwick.
Smith, Sumner. Washington. Burner.
Brown. Clav, cloud, Coffey. Cowley. Craw
ford. Decatur. Dickinson,'Graham. Green
wood. Harper. ,i;u kson, Jefferson. King
man. Labette. I,yon. McPherson. Marion.
Mitchell. Morris Osage. Osborne. Phil
lips, Pottawatomie Rice Stafford. Bour
bon. Cherokee. Franklin. Linn. Miami.
Montgomery. Neosho Shawnee, Wabaun
see. Allen. Amh-tsen. Harvey. Norton,
Pratt, Riley. Rooks. Saline. Wilson. Atchi
son. Doniphan. Douglas. Elk. Johnson.
Ottawa. Sheridan. Barton. Chautauqua.
Kiowa. Leavenworth. Lincoln.
OHIO—Counties: Darke. Wood, Madi
son. Pickaway, Clinton. F.,v. tte. Frank
lin, Greene. Putnam, Russ, Butler. Cham
paign. Clark. Hancock. Henry. Highland,
M■ rcer, Miami. Paulding, Preble, Van
Wert. Auglaize, Fairfield, Hardin. Lick
ing. Logan, Marion. Montgomery. Seneca,
Shelby, Union. Warren, Adam- Allen.
Brown, Clermont. Delaware. Knit', San
dusky. Wyandot. Crawford. Defiar • Hu
ron. Knox. Richland. Stark, Wayne. Wil
liams.
OKLAHOMA—Counties: Caddo, ra
dian. Comanche, Garfield, Grady. Grant.
Kay. Alfalfa. Blaine. Bryan. Craig. <’.
ter. Garvin. Kingfisher. Lincoln. Osage,
Stephens. Tillman. Washita. Dewey.
gan, McClain. Major. Noble. Payne, Pot
tawatomie. Tulsa. Woodward. McIntosh
Muskogee, Oklahoma. Pawnee. Roger
Mills. Woods, Cleveland, Ellis, Jefferson.
Kiowa. Ottawa. Rogers. Wagoner.
KENTUCKY—Counties: Graves. Hen
derson. Union. Christian. Daviess. Gray
son. Hardin. Ohio. Pulaski. Warren, Bar
ren. Breckenridge, Calloway. Crittenden.
Hopkins, Logan, Madison. Adair. Bal
lard. Butler, Hart. Hickman, l-awrence.
Livingston. Marshall. Muhlenberg Nel
son. Pike. Todd. Trigg. Wayne. Webster.
Whitley.