Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE To the Baptist Churches of Mt. Olive Baptist Association. It is to be hoped that all of our churches will respond to the urgent need and appeal of our missionary on the field just now. Brethren, it is a sin to place a man on the field to look after the neglected churches and fail to see after his support, while we are at home faring sumptuously every day with our families and congregations. It is wore than a crime to allow his family to suffer, while we are responsible to send the gospel into destitute places "How can they hear without a preacher, and how can they preach except they are sent?" Brethren, bestir yourselves as never before; the eyes of our old fathers who have let their montles fall on us are expecting us to evangelize this field in they labored so earnestly, contending for missions and the missionary. Remember the great commission, and let us take the State for Christ. The harvest is white, but the laborers are few. Lift up your eyes and look upon the field. The true missionary spirit is lax in most of our Baptist churches in Southern Illinois. Let us put out mission cards, preach a mission sermon once a month or a quarter, lift a special collection for missions and start the mission box plan. We have a good missionary in the person of Elder J. H. Killey, and he needs our support. Let very church send something to the Board which meets with the Sunday School conuion at Cairo, June 13th. UIETLY MARRIED IN ST. LOUIS, MO. Mr. Odes Renfro, and Miss love Marie Phillips, were quietly carried in St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday of last week. When Miss Phillips left the city she stated that she was going on vacation tour to several of the larger cities. Oles was to go as was Carbondale, and we guess it he out talked this little piece human mechanism long before they reached Carbondale, and they proceeded on to St. Louis, where they were "murdered" oh! mean married. The groom is the youngest son Mr. and Mrs John Renfro, of a city and a sober and well making young man and his many sons join the writer in com- ding him upon his good for- in winning Miss Phillips as a mer to go thru life. Iiss Phillips, is the youngestighter of Mrs. Mollie Claykies, of this city is industriouest and intelligent young ladying taught Rcom 2 of thebar School for four years,was re elected to teach theing term.he is loved and esteemed bywho know her and we see noin why they should not succin life.he intended for this to bea secret, but the old saying, "der" will out. Officers of the General Batist State Convention of Illinois Committee on Nomination beg to report as follows: Moderator Eld. J. F. Thomas. 1st Vice Mod. "W. P. Washington. 2nd Vice Mod. Eld. C. w. Norment. Recording Sec. Eld. P. B. French Corresponding Sec. Ed. J. B. McCrary. Treasurer Eld. H. C. Armstead. Added Members Eld. F. Bomar Cairo Eld. J. E. Haywood Chicago Eld. Jas. Swanson Maywood State Missionary H. E. Mcwilliams. State Mission Board Chairman Dr. C. C. Phillips Cor. Sec. Eld. J. D. Davis Treasurer Eld. J. E. Haywood Other Members Eld. S. H. Pruitt Deacon R. Lewis Sister Sallie Thomas Chicago Sister M. Hudgin Cairo Sister J. w. winston Olmstead Sister Carrie Casiy Shawnetown Urish Jenkins Rev. J. A. Royal Chicago "L. Drane Chicago Rev. A. J. Bowers Dewsaine Rev. D. Johnson Dewmaier "B. H. Hubter Evanson "K. V. Howard Grand Chain "Robt. Grey Murphysboro "J. L. Martin Colps Deacon J. Simpson Hallidayboro "J. Baker Brookport Eld. Thomas Morris Metropolis Bro. Ohas. Skates Mound City Deacon J. L. Tabor Educational Board Chairman Dr. B. J. Prince Chicago Cor. Sec. Sis. Frankie Jenkie Cairo. Sister willie Grayer Colps Sister Emma Farrow Cairo "J. M. Owens Sparta Eld. J. B. McOryr Metropolis Committee on Nomination C. C. Phillips J. E. Heywood G. H. Mitchell F. Bomar Sister Stella Duprec "willie Greer "M. B. Taylor Elder H. C. Armstead "H. E. Mcwilliams Members of various Committees of National Baptist Convention (Unincorporated.) Foreign Mission Board H. E. Mcwilliams, D. D. Chicago, Ill. Home Mission Board J. B. McCrary, S. T. B. Metropolis, Ill. Educational Board Dr. B. J. Prince, Chicago, Ill. Evangelical Board Elder F. Bomar, Cairo, Ill. B. Y. P. U. Board Dr. W. P. washington, Mt. Vernon, Ill. Benefit Board Elder James Swanson, Maywood, Ill. Publishing Board Dr. J. F. Thomas, Chicago, Ill. Resolutions J. E. Haywood, Chicago, Ill. State of the Country Elder H. C. Armstead, Pulaski, Ill. Vice President Dr. C. C. Phillips, Golconda, Ill. We knew that Odes was loving his little "Lovie" all the time. Here's to wishing you both a long and prosperous married voyage. Unanswered. "George," she asked, "if we were both young and single again would you want me to be your wife?" "Now, my dear," he absent-mindedly replied "what's the use of trying to start a quarrel just as we have settled down to enjoy a quiet evening?"—Chicago Record-Herald. MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." East St. Louis 'Out=Lynches' South in its Darkest Days. Declares Rev. Dr. Lee Pastor of Grand Avenue Southern Methodist Church Says Politics is to Blame and New Order of Affairs Is Needed. Plain words from the text, "Thou shalt do no murder," were coneering the East St. Louis riots by Rev. Dr. S. W. Lee in the pulpit of the Southern Methodist Chuch Grand Ave., Sunday from his pulpit. Dr. Lee blamed the situation on "politicians without conscience." As a warm friend of the negro, Dr. Lee cited the fidelity of the negro slaves to the families in which they served during the civil war. He pleaded for a recognition of authority and a world "purified of cruelty." "Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Matt. 39:18," he quoted "One among many of the awful consequences of war is that not only calls out the deepest and best elements in human nature, but also at the same time, releases for destruction and murder the worst elements in human nature. I think Xenophon records in his accounts of some of the wars in Greece, that such outbursts of wickedness, of refined villainly, was never known as expressed under the pressure of war. Others Who Plunge Into Infamy. "During the time of conflict such as we know today, the best people give evidences of consecration, of willingness to die for the right, such as their neighbors never dreamed they possessed in times of peace. "We have heard a great deal about frightfulness in Europe recently and if all we read in the papers is true, there is certainly an accumulation of black deeds, of unspeakable crimes, such perhaps no previous are ever knew. But we have been recently made aware of the fact by the story of horrors about which we have read taking place at our very doors in East St. Louis, that there is frightfulness at home just as unspeakably criminal and malignant as any we have read of in Europe. "The record given in one of the city papers, which tells of the deliberate murderous brutality dis played against the poor negroes, in the state of Lincoln, is as bad as anything, as the Armenian by the Turks, or in Belgium by the Germans. Negroes Stone to Death. "Think of negroes who had been guilty of no offense, pleading for their lives with raised hands, surrounded by groups of white men and stoned to death. Think of a negro, covered with blood and halfconscious, raising himself on his elbow to see if there is any chance of escape, being met by a young man, better dressed than the most of the others, lifting a flat stone in both hands and hurling it upon the poor negro's neck. Think of negro women begging for mercy and pleading they had harmed no one, set upon by white women of the underworld and answering the course sallies of men as they beat the negresses faces and breasts with fists, stones and sticks. "Think oi hot-headed youths, mixed now and then with men of middle age enjoying as it were, a kind of sport in the task of destroying the life of every discovable black man. "Think of all this, and remember that there were but few militia men to be seen anywhere, and with no serious effort on the part of those who were seen to prevent bloodshed. Think of men in uniform frankly fraternizing with the murderers engaged in killing the negroes. Think of all this and more, given in a most careful report by one of the best reporters in our city, and then see if you can recall anything worse that ever happened in Belgium or Poland or Armenia or anywhere else on the face of the earth. Hang Heads in Shame. "No wonder that the American people have any regard for law and order or any pity for the suffering and the oppressed are led to hang their heads in shame at this, the latest and the latest and the worst outbreak of hate against the negro ever known in the United States. Sin is a modern poison, the spirit of God is representen as praying to man in the following words: "Man, O Man, I pray you to forsake your tribal god and worship only Me. For I am your everlasting Redeemer, As you have need of Me. so I have need of you." need of you. Therefore, Man, O Man, have mercy upon Me! Though I am deathless, I am not immune to pain. And every evil that is done upon earth hurts me; Every shot that is fired passes through Me, The wound of every man wounded is My wound: Every cruelty that is perpetrated is perpetrated or me; Whatever is stolen is stolen from Me; All the blood that is shed is My blood: When the earth is defiled with slaughter, My garden is laid waste. Man O, Man, have mercy upon Me. "It is just as reasonable for God to pray to man as it is for man to pray to God. Must we not think therefore, at thime God is praying to man as He never did before. "Man, O Man, have mery upon Me." "God must certainly have been praying to the murderers of negroes in East St. Louis as Ac saw his children butchered as if they had so many wild beasts. Has Outnitted the South. "Never again can one section of the country select and set apart any other section as barbarians to a greater entent than other places. We have been having lynchings in the South, and lynchings in the North, but no part of our country can say to any other part, 'phy- sician, heal thyself.' Hl parts are guilty under the stress of mob nate of giving way to the vilest passions of which human nature is capable. "The sad thing about this spirit of lawlessness and lynching, and murder, is found in the fact that it usually practiced against the negro who, without his consent, was stolen from Africa and brought to this country, who has made a contribution to the agrictlural wealth of the country perhaps greater than any other race of American people, and yet he he is selected at, he object upon which to vent American hate, and upon whom to practice American lawlessness. "There never was a anarchist among negroes. They believe in obeying the law, and yet anarchists like Emma Goldman can stia up sedition, urge insurrection against the government, and go practically unmolested, while the poor negroes in East St. Louis for no other crime than that they wanted work were pounced upon, many of them beaten death, their houses burned, and they themselves driven from their houses by hyenas and tigers in human form." We are pleased to see one white preacher have the manly courage of his honest convictions and not afraid to express them. If all of the white preachers would dare to speak out to their congregations and the white press of the country would be just in their wrings of the poor and defenceless, Negroes who are loyal to the flag and of a government which fails to give protection to these citizens it would have a bearing on these outlaws in this country. The law is made by the white man, and he is the first to break the same law he has made, and when so broken if the crime was committed against Negroes, then race prejudice prevents full execution of the law. O, White Man, be just, be good lest your sins be visited upon you. NOTICE. The Mt. Olive Executive Board Meeting A short session of the executive board was held in Cairo, on Saturday June 23, with the Mod. Elder J. B. McCrazy, presiding. The first thing under considera- was to find a place for the Association to hold its forthcoming session, as the Shiloh Baptist church, Future City could not care for it. After carefully considering the invitations, a motion prevailed to meet with Siloam Baptist church, Unionville, on Tuesday before the 4th Sunday in Sept. 1917. A motion prevailed that the Educational space on the church letter blanks, be changed to read Livingston Normal Rebuilding and Educational Tax. A motion prevailed that the Woman's District auxiliary be requested to turn over to the treasurer of Trustee Board, all of the money they have on hand for education and same placed in the Bank by him on interest. Eld. H. E. McWilliams, came in and was permitted to speak on the Co operative Missionary work. A motion prevailed that this subject be special attention in the association next [fall. Eld J D. Davis paid the missionary money of $4.00 for the Mt Olive church, Colp. This closed a short and sweet session of the Board Elder J. B McCrary, Moderator, Elder J. H. Starks Corresponding Sec. It gives us pleasure to speak through the columns of The Gaz tie and sound the echo. We are yet alive and on Sunday July 8th we held our regular service, we had with us in our S. S., B. Y P. U. and church servies, the missionary Rev. J. H. Hilly and we had a high day as he preached two strong sermons. Rev. N. London was also with us and preached the funeral of Sister Huffman, in the afternoon at 3 o'clock. She wan aged but faithful to Mt Zion Missionary Baptist church. All present enjoyed each service and glad to have them come again. Rev. H. Burton, pastor of the A. M. E. church was with us in the afternoon and we had a packed house all day and seven young men and women came up for prayer Money raised for the day was $11.68. We have no pastor hope we will soon have one; and are praying the Lord to direct our minds and give us a leadr and to save our own boys and girls as some have had a narrow escape from death and to arrive home safe from East St. Louis; some are still away, but we are still praying for their safe return, God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform, and this may be the saving of some of our young men and women Reporter. The Curse of Illinois. Illinois the home of Lincoln And the boasted State of the free You have retrograded in civilization, And suffered a massacre, In East St. Louis your promising city, A city of commercial fame, Your people have turned to barbarians And climaxed your record of shame, With murdering of innocent blackmen, Women and children alike, All because of prejudice, While they were defenseless to strike. No historical picture of the "Dark Ages." Ages Can be painted to compare With the fiendish orgies of the mob That ran wild like heatherns there. Thus against the murderers of the Armenians And the down trodden Russian Jews You must stop your vilifying For you now stand in their shoes. And of all the States of the Union You stand the most disgraced For no wanton massacres To any others can be traced. Yet you may exact in damages Indemnities of money for this affair, But the punishment for these offenders And since the American-German crisis Mobs have turned the Negro's heart to stone. Household Philosopher, "Strange what a difference there is." said the household philosopher, "between things we need and things we want. There are many things we need in the house, but never can find the money for, while somehow we can always find the money for things we want that we personally fancy." U BOATS FEAR THE DESTROYER MOST zz ended i og i Ge: S ‘ a Re } : 1 ‘ = Rt is bay hte aE ) bay fae b ; s ee 3 ‘ 7 = er er , ae a di Sgr Me rh Oe. Goku Bs wf P | Re j $ b 2 a | be a sommes i. | eae < ay rai Uy ts ce qh \ ES Geer pete ~ . ae || gad ae \} Ht es / ig yee ee Bie ie —— : = Photog by American Press Association. REAR ADMIRAL W. 8. SIMS AND TYPE OF AMERICAN DESTROYER. These Fleet War Vessels Over- oe isons evs ee peas ae an | hee een with z . nour, or the speed of w railroad train. | off the German s take and Sink Submarines Be-| If the destroyer gan get within range, | Close of hn eae fore the Latter Get a Chance to |" ards. of tts quarry it resorts to| ‘The powerful eu A its muin weapon of offense, the great | of this type enal Do Any Damage—In Their Con- | torpedoes carrying 200 pounds of gun~ speed very quick i . ;_ | cotton or some other equally high ex- | submarine at leas struction Everything Is Sacri plosive, shot from any of its four| most favorable « ficed For Speed. tubes, each of which will discharge | merge if eaught it oi HERE are few things that can cL catch a submarine, and the de. stroyer is best of all,” said an officer who has bandied one of the Jong, low craft which depend upon speed for getting out of danger, for reaching a point from whieh to dis- charge a torpedo and for overtak. Ing a light armed fleeing enemy, It was when the United States destroyers were placed in the war zone under the command of Admiral Sims, to ¢0-op- erate with the allies’ ships, that the American public first realized fully the value of these little war vessels, Speed is everything, and speed ts what the “ship's company” requires of a destroyer and what she freely gives in return for good treatment. ‘The development of the destroyer In this country has been simple. About thirty years ago the government ac- quired two small boats, the Stiletto and the Cushing, with a speed of about twenty knots. They could get under headway almost as soon as their en gines started and maneuver in and out with ease. ‘The type took its name from the weapon it carried and was known as a torpedo boat The government bas twenty-one of them, although they are of little fight- img value, The first on the list, the Bagley, bears the name of the young ensign who was killed in the Spanish American war, on the Winslow at Car- denas. ‘They were designed to dash upon a hostile ship, as a mongoose would up. on a cobra, and destroy it with a sin- gle shot, Small caliber quick firers had not reached their present efficien- ey, and to meet and beat off the tor- pedo boat attack and to overtake and sink them the naval designers evolved the torpedo boat destroyers. That was the purpose for which they were built, but their field of usefulness has great. ly extended. Will Attack Anything. In appearance destroyers, with their Jong, low hulls and four rakish fun. nels, are the ideal piratical, swift, cranky, picturesque, hard working, al- together lovely craft of the fighting fleet. Sails and wooden ships have left the navy, and nothing remains to share with the destroyers the romance of the sea. ‘Phey do not sneak in like subma- fines, hidden from the enemy, ‘They ‘do not hesitate in groups to attack any. ‘thing, from the biggest battleship down, although they know that it will ‘be at the loss of most of their number. ‘he greater the number in the attack. ing flotilla the greater the chance of torpedoing the battleship and the cer: 1 of a greater loss to the flotilla. ‘But to make an omelet the egg must be broken, F i hing is sacrificed to speed. ‘Whelr coustruction ts so light that 4 ‘minal shell will penetrate their sides, they have no armor protection. coal bunkers gave a little protec om to the engines, but the adoption ofl for fuel hus brought about their A ty destroyer is about 200 feet ong, with a thirty foot beam and a seboard of not over eight feet. Phey P with machinery which will st through the ocean up to at thirty knots, Some of the latest ish destroyers make thirty-slx or _ and the slx new boats of this piend by the last. congrem [ MBAt -¢peed or, excond: it which means over forty-one miles an hour, or the speed of « railroad train. If the destroyer gan get within range, 4,000 yards, of fts quarry It resorts to {ts main weapon of offeuse, the great torpedoes carrying 200 pounds of gun- cotton or some other equally high ex plosive, shot from any of its four tubes, each of which will discharge three of these destructive missiles. ‘The first destroyers to engage in ac- tual warfure came to an mutimely end at Sautlago, when the Spanish boats Pinton and Terror were shot to pleces by the Gloucester, which had neither the speed, power nor guns of & modern destroyer und no torpedoes. ‘They, of course, Were not to be compared with the boats of today, and they had no opportunity to use thelr torpedoes in attack or their speed for eseape. Their light sides afforded little, if any, pro- tection. ‘Their engines were disabled, and the carnage aboard from the fire of the Gloucester’s guns was horrible, But thelr crews, being destroyer men, fought with great obstinary, refusing to surrender. - Jap Gestroyers Did Good Werk. The most effective work of destroy- ers was that done by. the Japanese at Port Arthur, where at the outset of the war their flotilla of eight boats made a night attack upon the Russian fleet, which was unprepared, and sank three of their heaviest vessels. Such an attack could hardly be repeated In view of the greater effectiveness of the present small caliber guns and the precantions against similar attack which was learned from the results of that action. In the recent North sea fight a Ger- man destroyer ran in between the heavy vessels of the engaged fleets and tried to get a battle cruiser at 9,000 yards, Since the rate of the German torpedoes exceeded only slightly the speed of the English ships, the chance of a bit at that distance, which was probably the limit of the torpedo's fight, was not 1 in 10,000. But a hit would have put any one of the chase out of commission. ‘The later destroyers, in-addition to their torpedo tubes, carry four four- inch quick firers, besides machine guns. ‘A few years ago the Mayrant, named for the Heutenant of John Paul Jones, when on a practice eruise amused ber- self by sailing ngs around the Lusi- tania, called the greyhound of the sea, and the ocean was not af the time un- usually smooth, « When it was thought that some of the vessels of a foreign nation now at war might in violation of the nentral- ity laws make a dash to the open sea laden with coal for its cruisers a cou- ple of destroyers lying with steam up in New York harbor were effective encouragers of besitancy. Valuable In Patro! Work. Very little is accurately known of the things the destroyers have done in the present European war, but frequént mention of them shows that they are active, It is well kuown that they have proved their yalue in patrol duty, although the bad weather, with fre- quent fogs and mists and the choppy seas in which they have operated, has been unfavorable to their best work, It was a torpedo flotilla, scouting un- der Commodore Thrwytt, that sighted the German ratding fleet and reported it by wireless.to, Admiral Sir David Beatty, who thereby was enabled to overtake and eugage the Germans in a running fight that resulted in the sinashing of the Bluecher. When the Lion, flagship, was disabled the admiral transferred his flag to the Princess Royal and ns le reaebeal the deck was greeted by a shout from the crew, “Well done, David!” But it was fa destroyer that had’ taken him from one sip to the other without delay and without culling the Princess from the pursuit, Lt was the flotilla of destroy- ers running with the fleet which kept close of the chase. ‘The powerful engines and light weight of this type enable it to acquire top speed very qnickly, while it tukes a submarine at least four minutes under most favorable cirentstances to sub- merge if caught in surface cruising. In “thove four minutes a destreyer can “trayel two and two-thirds miles. ‘A French destroyer, it is said, recent- ly sighted an enemy submariue eruis- ing on the surface, and by steaming she got in a few rounds with ber quick “firers before the submarine could dive. A little oil on the surface told of her | death struggle. _” Men Love to Serve on These Boats. | ‘The English destroyers are sald to have sunk two submarines by adopting ‘the most favored method of atttek on the eraft that has them all guessing. They follow the wake of the periscope ‘If observed from suip or aeroplane-udd go bows on at full speed into the boat beneath i Of course the collision is ‘Hable to damage the destroyer, hut It ‘is certain to end the career of the up ‘derwater boat, and as thereby a battle- “ship or a big cruiser may be suved the exchange Js a good one, Besides, it Is doubtful whether the glorious fellows in those boats would ‘give up the chance to make the play. As well ask the football player who has caught a runner down the field ‘not to tackle his man lest he should be burt in the contact. Moreover, the crew would never again respect the leader who would let them miss the ‘ehanee, The men love the service on these boats. ‘hey are always choice, sea- soned men who must possess mechan: Jen! skill to handle the complicated ‘and delicate machinery and mecha- nisms placed so carefully iu these ex- _quisitely designed boats, They are bap- py on them because they have to be busy all the time to keep things Just right, and they know that the success ‘of their boat depends upon their mas- tery of every problem that arises {n ‘the steam and electrical systems. ‘They zo about dn working clothes, and they ave grimy and olly, for these ave ‘not show ships and Rave very little dress parade, The powers (hat be are most eoncern- ‘ed that the engines shall give the best results smoothly; thut there shall be ‘ho rust In the fntrieate machinery; that ‘flues, feed pipes, connections, condens- ‘ers, Valves, motors, shafts and gearings ‘shall be right; that the guns are ready; ‘that the, torpedoes shall be clean and prepared for action; that she shall be ‘ready to go and do that which is to be ciicimienaaal Butting Into Dixie. In Farm and Fireside we read; “A sheep authority of nation wide reputa- tion says, ‘Were the rough idle lands In only ibree southern states stocked with goats that territory would fur- nish suficient jeather to supply the de- mand of the United States.’ Add ta this the meat and mohair whieh would be produced as combination products, for all of which the world markets are eagerly clamoring, then it would seem to be the Lest of economle prudence to allow bis goatship to butt into Dixie.” A Bornean Weapon, - The Bornean mandan, or “head tak- er.” Is a modilication of the Bufthese dah, Itds a heavy, thick bladed cut- lass, from twenty to thirty Inches long, aud the edge is ground from the right side only, the left stde being forged slightly concave, ‘The blade 1s also slightly curved to the right, so that the cutting action of the Weapon is like thut of aa chormous gouge. Only two strokes can be dealt with the mandaa— from right to left downward and left to right upward.—Chambers’ Journal. PROFIT IN POULTRY. Farm Fiocks Can Se increased Without Much Added Expense. Increased attention given to the pout. try industry will prove one of the ‘country’s greatest defenses agitinst food shortaze, declare the poultrymen at Jowa State college. Poultry can be kept profitably on practically every farm and on many town and city lots, they say. They can be more quickly increased than any otber important class of farm animais without Increased use of valuable foodstuffs, for they utl. lize wastes. ‘Adding a hundred hens to every farm flock would Involve no extra labor and would be @ profitable move for every farmer, Then the adoption of better poultry practices with flocks on hand will tremendously increase the coun- try’s supply of poultry products and the profits of those who adopt them. Early hatched stock will undoubtedly lay more eggs next winter than late hatched, for well matured pullets make the best layers. These eggs will proba. bly bring the highest price ever real ized, Bat good feed aud care will do much to overcome the handicap of late hatching. Poultry parasites are costly guests To oust the chicken mite whitewash the poultry house. If necessary, apply crude oil to the roosts or # stream of boiling salt water to nests and other fixtures. To rid hens of lice apply to the abdomen and sides of the body under the wings of each mature fowl 4 pen sized amount of mixture of equal parts blue olntment and vaseline, To treat scaly leg dip legs and toes of fowls ju a mixture af equal parts of sweet oil and kerosene, ‘A tremendous loss among young chicks can be avoided by following the homely suggestion of keeping them from getting chilled, overheated or crowded and by feeding a palatable, clean, well balanced ration in lmited quantities only for the first few days. Infertile exgs must be tested from the incubator or from ander hens. Skim: milk and buttermilk are the greatest known preventives of bowel trouble and insure good, healthy growth. Better care of eggs produced on Lown farms to prevent the present prevent- able annual Joss would mean an in- crease in the nation’s egg crop greater than the average yearly production in each of half the states of the country, “Swat ‘the rooster,” provide plenty of clean nests, gather eggs twice each day or oftener during warm weather and onee a day at other times, keep them in a cool, dfy, clean place and market them often without washing, is all good, common sense advice, which will turn the trick, Cost of Keeping Chickens. ‘Phe actual economy secured by the keeping of a small flock of chickens de- pends primarily upon thelr egg pro: duction, and this in turn is largely a matter of care. Under favorable con- ditions, however, it Is estimated that 100 egus the first year and 120 the see- ond is a fair retnrn from the ordinary hen. On the other hand, at least 25 to 50 cents a year must be expended for grain und other feeds, the exact amount depending npon the quantity of table seraps and green and insect food available. Where all (he feed must be purchased from$1 to $1.25 1s allowed.—United States Department of Agriculture. Plant Protecting Singletree. A cheap, easily made singletree for cotton and the garden. ‘The object Is to plow close to the plant and not skin it. Phis can be avoided by using. this homemade singletree. Make It of strong wood at the desired length, then bore a hole in each end and one in the middle, and in the middie hole put a clevis, as shown iw the cut, Then you have no hooks or wires to tear up What you are plowing. At each end a nail or bolt joay be iuserted to strengthen, A small crop of pumpkins is a great aid to the hog raiser, in the opinion of Ray Gatewood, Kansas State Agricul: tural college. Pumpkins ean be grown at a small cost and form a valuable addition to the rations of bogs. ‘They may be grown in the corntields, expe cially where there is a poor stand, ‘The value does not He entirely in their nu tritive composition, but is due largely to the beneficial effects on the digestive tract, as they tend to regulate the bow: els, It is claimed that the seeds are valuable as a yermifuge, helping to ex- pel worms, Culling the Poultry Flock. ‘The pullets to weed ont are: ‘Those that are backward in growth or those that feather poorly. Such pul- lets are lacking. in constitutional vigor. ‘Those that have deformities, such as crooked breast or backbone, Such pul- lets Would anake poor layers. becanse the egg producing organs are often pushed out Of shape aud restricted for room, ‘Those that are dull aud Jistless and that show a disinclluation to forage for part of thelr food. Serub the spots perfectly clean and then wet them at Intervals of five days with a solution of two pounds of sul- phate of copper and one gallon of wa ter. Pnre theture of. fodide appited twice daily is also effective. Cleanse, disinfect and whitewash the stable. Valuable Farming Facts f—> Useful Singletree. Pumpkine Fer Hoas. Rinawerm on Cate. CABBAGE WORM PEST. Spraying With Arsenate of Lead and Barks Green teint Qamnadess [Prepared by United States depariment of agriculture. The common cabbage worm, which has frequently eaused the total de- struction of’ cabbage, eaulifiower and other cole crops in our large areas, is no longer a formidable menace if the necessary steps to control it are bezun suficiently early. Spraying with a so- lution of two pounds ef powdered arsenate of lead, four pounds af araen- ate of lead in paste form or one poand of paris green In fifty: gallons of water should be begun ax soon as the plants ure set out and shonld be repeated 2s often as an examination of them shows it to be necessary, Wherever cabbage and related erops are grown extensively it fs desirable that the truckers of the community should agree among themselves to take the necessary steps to combat the eab- bage worm. Under this agreement each trucker should spray thronghout the season and ¢refully clean bis fields of the bulk of the old stalks as soon as the crop is harvested. A. few stalks should be Tete at regular inter: vals ax traps on which the last gen- eration of fewale butterflies will de. posit eggs. Such stalks should be pol- soned freely with atseuicals so that the “worms” of the lust generation will not develop. ‘The bnttertiies which Iny the eges from which the common cabbage werm hatches are white with black tipped wings, ‘They appear in the northern states on warm spring days as early as March and persist nutil after several severe fall frosts, In the gulf region they are present throughout the sea- son: ‘Thelr eggs are laid on cabbage and other plauts, where they bateh tt from four to eight days, ‘The cater. pillar which emerges Is velvety green. wlmost identical in eolor with the eal bage foliage. It eats voraciously, and in from fen ty fourteen days after hatching is nal Pera, ‘Three genera- tions occur each season in the north- east and probably six in the extreme south, In-smail gardens hand picking may be practiced snecowfully. Where sprays are ewployed they should be Applied in a Age mist, sluce courser ap- plications tend to guther fn drops on “the leaves hud run off, Applying Manure. If manure bas not been re-enforced with xeld pliosphate or rock phosphate, add phosphate or bonetnea! should ae. company its applieation "to the jand, Fifty pounds of acti vhosphate or 100 pounds of rock” phosphate shoul! be used to treat a ton of manure. A ton of manure thas treated will give fally twiee the returns axa ton of mntreat- ed manure. It ix well to keep ta mained also that the maximam peturns per ton of manure are secured with « light spplication. For the most economie re- turns with grain, manure should be spread on the’ field uniformly, —Penn- sylvania Agricultural College. Age For Heife: Breeding. . There Ix a difference of opinion ax to the age at whieh @ helfer should drop her first eaif, writes a correspondent of the Raral New Yorker. 1 believe, how. ever, that most practical dairymen pre- for to have thelr belfers calve for the Bret time at between two and two and a half yemes of age. ‘The advantage in this Is that the heifer begina early to make some return for her food ‘and care and to develop the milk making function. The disadvautage, if any, is that the young animal is asked to ax sume the burden of maternity before reaching her own full development, Bect Potate Soil, To grow gool, sound, smooth pota- toes you simply rinst have a rich, loose, moist (not Wet), mellow soll, where the growing tubers ean expand freely nud rapidly und form a smooth, even shape and surface, and must have also plenty of available plant food. This last polnt is where commercial ferti- lizers give most and cheapest help. Tame the Sheep Flock. ‘he safety of the tock may be great. ly Insured by calling up'the sheep ev. ery night and shutting them into a Light fold, They soon get the habit and are also more docile the year around, A flock of sheep cannot be madp too tame. A wild flock Is of leas value and makes less growth and shorter fleeces thang quiet one.—Farm Journal, ° FRUIT NOTES, $ ‘ ® Don't plow the bearing orehe ® and deeper thun three or four ¢ ® inches, * 4 ® — Wateh the strawberry hed for ® the first lower buds, when the ¢ ® muleh should be put on. Previ- « # ous to this date the hed should have been thoroughly heed, Keep % the runuers pinched of until ¢ after fruiting ‘ ® ‘The raspberry and the Wack- @ berry patch now need little at. @ tention except to keep the alsies % ® cultivated and the rows free / © from weeds: ‘ © "A fringe of sprouts growing up | aromnd'the trunk of your trees ¢ © uses up much sap that should be ¢ @ turned to the growth of fruit “+ ® and the maturing of branches ¢ that amount to something, ‘ ® — Lots of men never do a thing « ® for thelr apple orchards and ¢ then wonder why thelr trees do « ® not do anything for them. ‘ @ ; In the Sport Arena By cela PLUG Double Meader Records. ‘Phere can We only one Of TWO opin Jons on the results of double headers 1a haseball—elther they result In even breaks oftener than in double victories or they don't. Inquiry among the fans “disclosed that the prevalent optuion is that when two games are played in one afternoon the result is wstally a vie- tory for each team. Research proves it wrong, bowever. The records of a perladl of years show thar two vieto- ries or two defeats result oftener than even splits, Just where the erroneous impression originated or whut it thrived on is un. certain, but probably it is due to the fact that dn even break usually results when a double header is played between pennant contending teams, which per. force are fairly evenly matched, These important battles leave a more lasting “Impression on the memory. ‘The sum jotal of double headers in a season becwermtbe first division teams naturally will not be a8 grent as the “aggregate of double headers played be- “tween first division and second divishos teame pine those between two outtite of the second division, In these less important contests the results, belng of Jess consequence in the permant race do not make an indelible impression on the fan's brain, i Matty Tine Clerke. Tommy Clarke is entehing the best gaine of his career this season. Math. ‘ewsou, former star twirler of the ; ©. whos Photo by American Press Association. Tommy Clarke, Giants and now manager of the Reds, has been giving the backstop some in- side tips, In turn, Clarke has Been coaching his pitchers, and st i predicted that before the season ends the batteries of the Reds will be showing unexpected form, Beesball a Loe. Nelson M. “Pie” Way, the former Yale baseball and football player, 1s through with league baseball, major o7 minor,and has decided to adept a business chance “with the Bethlehem Steel company. “Pie” nays some things in his farewell to the national game that shoold make college men ponder before they go into, professional base- ball, “L don't want t be In the position of attacking baxebail—that is, profession: al baseball,” said Way, “It is none of my business, and I haven't amounted to enongh in the game to stand ax a critic. But I ean say that I found tt a loss, so far as T was concerned, “L say this in spite of the fact that 1 could sign at least two very satisfac- tory contracts with good minor league clubs, with the prospect, of course, of working my way back to the big league. But T don't want it. “Jack Coombs, late of the Athletics, put it correctly when he said that a college man goes into the big league with an education and comes out with- out one,” at Witties’ biisesteus teh Milter Huggins Is proud of the fact that he discovered “Mute” Watson, one of the Cardinals’ young pitchers. We.t- son wandered into Huggins’ camp last summer and proceeded to pitch several high class cames, ut bis siceess was pronounced a flash in the pan, the St. Louis erities declaring that he lacked the neécessary beadwork, Watson, however, s back again with the Cardinals and fs pitching with the same results. Tn addition to his: tre: yrendons strength, “Mule” fs sizing ap enemy hitters as If he had been a Car difal for many years, Huggins ts coaching the big fellow every day and predicts a sensational cereer for him, Anothor Coveleskie Coming. Stanley Covaleskie, plteher with the Cleveland Awerteans, whose brother Harry {8 a star hurler with the Detrott lub, has another brother who, Stanley believes, bas a better arm than either Harry or himself, “John is bis name, and be eau slam the ball around with terrific speed." _ Stanley satd, “He should have been a pitcher, but somes hody told him he was an infielder, and he betleves it hate why he's stilt to the minors.” Metropolis Gazette 'PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY 'THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. 'GETROPOLIS, . . . . . ILL 'MRS. M. J. McCRARY, MANAGER FRIDAY JULY 13, 1917. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. B. Address all communications to J. 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Now this EXELENTO QUININE POMODEL is a Hair Grower which feeds on scalp and roots of the hair and makes kinky nappy hair grow long, soft and silky. It cleans dandruff and stops Falling Hair at once. It is used by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE The Gazette has just received another lot of new type faces and other material which adds much to the output of the work of the office. We deserve your patronage. We have a full line of cards, Letter Heads, Envelopes and other material. Let us do some of your work. Let us do your minute work and any other church advertisements. Paper and every other articles used in a newspaper have jumped sky-high, therefore it takes more money to operate a paper tha ever before. If you appreciate our efforts to give you a good paper, you will not hesitate to pay up at once. The Gazette, office has just received a large consignment o. Letter Heads. Envelopes, Bill Heads, Cards & etc. Let us do some of your job work. The brothers that promised to pay the, editor of The Gazette for the paper if they lived. Poor fellows! they are dead for they have not paid for the paper. We are preparing to hand a number of names of our subscribers to our collecting agent as they seem to think we can run on cold air. We can't and need our money to pay bills Fine Strawberries, Lettuce, Beets, Onions, Beans and New Potatoes Friday night for Saturday morning, at the Grand Leader Cafe. WAR IS HELL War is hell, is the way one writer puts it. If that is true, it is also true that the way the white people murdered, burnt, vilaged the homes of defenceless men women and children in East St. Louis, this week is worse than "hell." $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarh cure is the ooly positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists. 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Fried Fish every day at the Grand Leader Cafe. Mrs Parthenia Dixon, of Paducah, Ky., was down on business Tuesday. Ontrue Cowper, carried his uncle Alfred to Paducah, Saturday to have his eyes treated. Just how any country could expect a race of people to feel justified in giving up their lif for the freedom of others, when life, liberty and the pursuit happiness is denied to the people who fight for their country's flag and honor and then that same country and flag fail to afford protection. we fail to understand it. Mrs. Birdie Hopson, of Champaign, arrived Monday for a visit with parents, Mr. aad Mrs. Green Hodge. Lonnie Lyous, came home Sunday from East St. Louis, where he was at the time of the rioting. Mrs. Jennie Woods, of East St. Louis, came home Saturday. She had all of her clothes destroyed by fire during the recent riot. She was fortunate to save her life. It looks to a man up a tree that the state authorities of Illinois and the East St. Louis and St. Clair county officials are juggling the investigation and the punishment of those murderers with a few high sounding phrases and meaningless words. This is a time for action. Gov. Lowden, has a splendid opportunity to prove that he is governor of all people by bringing thestrong arm of the law to bear upon those savages and outlaws. We will watch and see what will be done by those in authority. It is a crime in America to be black. Rev. Berry Thomas was down at Mermet, Sunday. Rev. Geo. Crippens, went to Choat, Sunday. Rev. I. S. Stone, baptized 4 candidates Sunday in the Ohio river. Any man or set of men who disregards the lives of human beings, be they ever so humble, and dely the law of the country, is a traitor to his government. Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt, did not mince words, in expressing himself on the recent massacre of innocent and defenceless Negro men, women and clidren in East St. Louis, last week. He is what we style a man, expressing the courage of his conviction. Rev W. W. Stewart, of Kansas City, Mo., filled the pulpit at 1st Baptist church Sunday. The members of Unity Baptist church Bookport, will celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation, Aug 8th in the park back of the church, Watch for the bills. Mr. Chas. Cowper, of New Liberty was buried the 5th. He was a highly respected citizen and a well to do farmer. T. P. King, was in the city Saturday. Company M of the 8th Reg., of Illinois is to leave the 25th for encampment. This will take away about 265 men from Southern Ill., and the "old town" will be slim of our men after that date. Many of our men are leaving for Gary, Ind., Chicago, and other points where labor is much in demand and wages good. Several of our people went to Cairo, Sunday on the excursion. The Metropolis, Giants were de feated by the Cairo team. Prof, and Mrs. Smith, returned from Chicago, Monday after an extended visit. Prof, A. P Smith' was a Brookport, business visitor Sunday. The editor was at his church Sunday, Brookpott, arranging for a window rally Sunday the 15th at which time the members hope to the members hope to raise money enough to place the windows. The pastor hss divided the church into groups of 3's and 4's to make it more easy to raise the amount desired Please help us in this our effort and struggle. Mrs. Leah Reed was a padn-cah visitor Saturday. HARRISBURG Anna Kimball is very with tuburcolis. Mrs. Truitt has been low. Mrs. Richards is quite sick. Rev Smith,'s wife is sufforing with tubilous Our church has called Rev. Starks, for all of his time He is iked by all the members. Our church is doing fine at this time. Rev. Brown preached at C. M E. church last Sunday night, text, Isa. 25:3 Thou shalt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he tinstsh h in thee His Theme, Trust in God, Productive of Peace The piece written last week was not criticism on no part of the ministry but a man must know the policy of a Baptist church before pastoring He ought to read their literature and that of all other churches. Rev. Geo. Brown. NOTICE Dear Co-workers of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association of Southern Illinois, the time is just a little ahead of us it will not be long before we are to meet in our annual meeting at Murphysboro. Let us come up, go around the walls and make this the grandest meeting in she history of the organization. Come full of religious zeal, financial and spiritual enthnsiasm. Come singing, praying and let us have a glorious meeting Gnd helping us. Look over the field and see the great need of us as Baptist women rallying together, as there is much for us to do along religious lines. I ask all circle to be on exhibit that day. Chairman is expect-ecting every circle to represent. Yours for the cause of Christ M. J. O. Connor, Pres. Ruth Rowlie Cor, Sec. NOTICE. All churches composing the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association, are hereby notified that the association will convene with the Shiloh Baptist church, Murphysboro, Ill., Tuesday before second Sunday in August, 7-12,'16. All pastors of the association who can't attend, please remember our $1. one dollar pledge and forward same to the association to help defray the expenses of the association. All delegates are expected to be present Tuesday morning, 9:00 a.m. SPARTA. ILL The New Hope. Baptist church had a splendid meeting Sunday. Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. with Supt. Wrice at his post. The school was reviewed by the pastor Rev. P. B. French, who at 11 o'clock preached a powerful sermon from Eph. 5:14. At 7:30 p. m. prayer service for 30 minutes, then Rev. D. G. Hutson, preached a stirring sermon from Luke 15:18. The chureh has a choir, second to none, under the leadership of Mrs. Anna Owens, organist and Mr C Wrice, instructor. Miss Loise Browning and sister Willie B. and Mrs. Bessie Brttton are visiting in Clinton, Ky., for a few weeks. The cornation club and sewing circle will meet at the home of Mrs. Mattie Haynes. Henry Shores, was shot twice on the Fourth of July by Sampson Edwards. Four shots were fired but only two took effect. He was taken to the St. Louis hospital for treatment, but it is doubtful about recovery. Samphas not been apprehended yet. It is to be regretted that any intoxicating liquors arc allowed to be circulated among our people. Mrs. Sallie Williams is visiting in St. Louis, Mo., for a few days I. 1. Tavolr. WITHOUT AGITATORS INDUSTRY FLOURISHES Figures Show Big Increase In Wages and Factories In Queens. Wherever labor agitators are few, there industry flourishes and workers are prosperous. This is the lesson to be gleaned from the remarkable industrial growth in the Borough of Queens, New York City, as shown by the figures recently compiled by the Bureau of Census for the year 1914. The figures record a decided gain not only in the number of new factories, capital invested in manufacturing, and the value of manufactured products, but also in the sum total of salaries and wages and the number of salaried employees and wage earners since the taking of the last census in 1909. From a percentage standpoint, the increase over the several items was as follows: Salaried employees. 62.7 per cent; salaries, 50.8 per cent; wages, 35 per cent; wage earners, 30.7 per cent; capital invested, 20 per cent; number of factories, 26.6 per cent; value of products, 8.8 per cent. While complete figures have not been published as yet for all the cities and States, still from the figures that are now available it is evident that the Borough of Queens for the year 1914 exceeded in the value of its manufactured products many States of the Union, such as Vermont, Delaware, Oregon, Florida, and Wyoming; it exceeded, also, in this respect every city in New York State, with the exception of Buffalo. In fact, there were not more than fifteen or sixteen cities in the United States which produced manufactured products greater in value than those made in Queens for the year 1914.—Industrial Conservation, N. Y. Beat Your Own Record. Don't gauge your own efforts by the activity or output of your fellow workers. Never mind how little the man next to you does. That is his own funeral, and be will be chief mourner some day. Compete with yourself each day, striving to beat your record of the day before. Invention of Cut Glass. Pressed glass was invented by an humble carpenter of Sandwich, Mass., but in the primitive state of affairs it profited him little. More than 200 years ago a Bohemian glass-maker conceived the idea of making cut glass. This idea was destined to revolutionize the entire glass industry of the world. The inventor began by making the walls of the article on which he was working thicker than he was wont so that he might cut the glass with a sharp knife into figures as he chose. prove to be the decisive factor in the Great War. The best judges are of the opinion that the submarine will not end the war, that the food shortages will not end the war, that the present colossal conflict on the western front may not end the war. With France past her maximum of men, with England rapidly approaching her maximum and with Germany perhaps still some distance to go before her maximum is reached, it stands to reason that this country must prepare quickly to supply not only food, ships, and munitions and materials of war, but trained effectiveness in huge numbers, perhaps in millions. Military men admit that until the United States entered the great conflict there was no decisive factor in sight. How quickly, then, or how slowly, the United States meets these enormous obligations is the answer to the question of the war's length. Aside from the question of shortening the war there are life-and-death reasons why the United States should speed preparations for the great conflict. There are possible and even probable contingencies which might cause the United States to hear the brunt of the fighting on her own shores: If Russia should collapse. If the British fleet should be overcome. If the food situation should bring our allies to their knees. If great reversals should be met on the western front. If the rubmarine menace be not checked. The impossible has happened so often in this war that any one of these contingencies is not impossible. The Germans should have gotten through at the Marne and captured Paris and Calais, and established control of the Channel. The English fleet should have annihilated the German fleet at Jutland. The Central Powers should have been starved before the last harvest. The submarine campaign has resulted in the destruction of 1,500,000 tons of shipping during the months of February, March and April. Coincident with this enormous decrease of the world's ocean-going mercantile marine have come increased demands upon shipping and the two combine to make this one of the most important and most threatening aspects of the war situation today. The world-wide food shortage is making Itself felt hardest upon Germany, next upon certain of the Entente countries and lastly upon the neutral countries, especially Scandinavia and Spain. The effect of this shortage may soon be felt here. This, then, makes it highly important that the United States quickly mobilize its entire forces in order to bring about a decision before the brunt of the fight will be shifted to America. THE main obstruction to speed is the failure of the people to appreciate the fact that we are at war. "The failure of the people to realize the gravity of the situation amazed me," said an English publicist, "and I remembered how slowly our own people came to this realization." The same fallacies that beset England are to be overcome in the United States. England, too, thought it would be a short war, six months at most. England, too, thought it would be a small job. England, too, thought that there wasn't anything special for the individual to do, that the government would do the work. It is felt that an urgent need exists for precisely the same kind of campaign of national education and information as that conducted by the English government when it came to the realization of what the war really meant. The campaign was immensely successful in arousing the entire people of England to an understanding of the war and to the obligation of personal service which it placed upon each individual citizen. 111. SEVEN urgent matters must be made clear to the people if we are to get that unified action which is necessary to hasten our war activity: 1. That the banks cannot take care of the bonds. The bonds must be bought by individuals. 2. That conscription does not carry with it anything of disgrace. It is a patriotic and much more effective than the medieval system of volunteering. 3. That labor must be readjusted on a large scale. It must be made more productive, and its varied problems carefully considered. 4. That food administration will necessarily be repressive, but is in the interest of all. 5. That there is a false and a proper national economy. Business in war time is not "as usual." 6. That the intelligent co-operation of women in both direct and indirect branches of war effort is absolutely essential 7. That there should be a centralized control for the systematic support of the families of those who go to war. This should be through the intelligent co-operation of the government, local organizations and emplovera. PRESENT conditions indicate that a great crisis is approaching in the war situation and that it is probable the united efforts of America on a prodigious scale will be called for in the very near future. This means that the people must be stirred to a sense of their individual responsibilities in order that their whole-hearted co-operation may be secured. This spirit and this co-operation can be obtained simultaneously throughout the country by means of a properly directed national campaign of information under strong and intelligent headship. The campaign should be considered as absolutely spart from routine press publicity matter and the ordinary out- get from various departments of the government meant for publication in newspapers and periodicals. It should be a definite branch of the government under the direction of the President with a man at its head of broad practical experience in the use of the means of national education, with a capacity for organization, and possessing both energy and imagination. The director, in consultation with those who are shaping the main war program, would map out such government campaigns as might be thought desirable and through various channels at his disposal would, by utilization of news and advertising columns, posters, etc., promulgate throughout every part of the country simultaneously the message which each campaign would be designed to impress upon the minds and the hearts of the people. There could be utilized not only the machinery of the national political committees but the machinery of the states committees as well, and, in addition, close working relations could be established with municipal administrative bodies and all sorts of patriotic societies throughout the country,—such societies as the National Security League, Chautauqua societies, Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce, church and college societies, fraternal, labor and various social organizations, etc., etc. If a campaign on such a matter, for instance, as the present War Loan were to be launched, advance notice would be given to all these affiliated societies and plans would be made to begin the campaign simultaneously in all parts of the country, the work to be prosecuted with the utmost vigor in all directions. This work to be effective must be a branch of the government, backed by the government, controlled by the government, and financed by the government, and on this basis it would not fail to impress people much more strongly than would be the case if similar efforts were put forth entirely by private organizations. At least, that has been found to be so in England and there is little doubt that it would prove to be so here. This same machinery would be used extensively for making the war situation clear in the minds of the people with a view to securing their full and genuine co-operation in the government's war program, thus avoiding the possibility of obstruction and friction and selfishness in various forms—all spelling delay. This plan would serve to unify the nation quickly and make the people as a whole understand their individual responsibilities in the progressive phases of this country's participation in war on a big scale as they do not at all understand those responsibilities now. We should move today as if we were to face Germany alone tomorrow. The people should be given some idea of the magnitude of the fighting, for example, on the western front. General Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial Staff of the British Army Headquarters, states that within six weeks the British alone have expended 200,000 tons of ammunition in France. He also stated that 50,000 tons of stone weekly were required to mend the roads behind the lines. Perhaps his most significant statement, however, is this: "The greatest peculiarity of this war is the colossal numbers engaged. It is not a war between enemies, but war between nations, and there is no man or woman in the Empire who is not today doing something, either to win or to lose the war." Sir Arthur Henderson, a member of the British War Council, announced a few days ago that 7,000,000 men have been killed. The total casualties—that is, the total number of killed, wounded and missing, among all the armies engaged—reaches the amazing figure of 45,000,000—or half of the total population of the United States. How war of this sort affects the life of a nation and may affect us—if quick steps are not taken to throw our strength into the balance—may be judged by a few of the recent developments in Great Britain. The English army has been increased from 150,000 to 5,000,000 men. Her navy has been increased from 150,000 to more than 500,000. More than 100 great government plants have been built specially to cope with war requirements. Working directly under the Ministry of Munitions are 2,500,000 men and nearly 1,000,000 women. During the first two years of the war the British moved back and forth across the Channel over 3,000,000 men, over 40,000,000 tons of explosives, over 50,000,000 gallons of gasoline and over 1,000,000 sick and wounded, and all without any losses due to enemy attack. Sir Robert Borden has just returned to Canada and his first message was that: The speed of the United States in sending ships, munitions and men will probably be the determining factor in the war. "A great struggle still lies before us; at the commencement of this spring's campaign, Germany put into the field a million more men than she put into the field last spring." And as mute evidence as to how serious Sir Robert considers the situation, he recommends an immediate measure for the compulsory military enlistment of Canadians, and in the face of the fact that Canada has already sent 400,000 men to the colors under the voluntary system. Therefore, the United States is the decisive factor in the great war, and speed alone will not only shorten the conflict but may forestall the burden of it being carried to our shores, and since the greatest obstacle to speed is the non-understanding of its gravity by the people, it seems imperative that a systematic campaign of education should be projected by the national government; which would clear away all doubts from the minds of the people as to what threatens them, as to what obligations rest upon them now and henceforth every day until the war is won.