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THE RURA
(Peter Radford in Southern Christian
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Adv >tatf. >
The American farmer is the greatest
church builder the world has ever
known. He is the custodian of the
nation's morality; upon his shoulders
rfct the "ark of the covenant" and
he is more responsive to religious influences
tl an A:iy otbor class of citlvVKShip.
*lhe farmers of this nation have
brilt 120,000 churches at a cost of
? '/l(l AAA AO pr/l thn unnual ???
bation of the nation toward aP
church institutions approximates
$200,000,000 per annum. The farmers
of the United States build twentytwo
churches per day. There are
20,000,000 rural church communicants
on the farm, and 54 per cent of
the total membership cf all churches
reside in the country.
The farm is the power house of all
progress and the birthplace of all
that is noble. The Garden of Eden
was in the country and tlie man who
would get close to God muHt llrst get
clos 'o nature.
If the rural churches today are going
to render a service which this
age demands, there must be co-operation
between the religious, social and
economic life of the community.
The Church to attain its fullest
measure of success must enrich the
lives of the people in the community
it serves; it must build character, de_
velop thought and increase the efficiency
of human life. It must serve
the social, business and Intellectual,
as well as the spiritual and moral
side of life. If religion does not make
a man more capable, more useful and
more Just, what good is it? We all
want a practical religion, one we can
live by and farm by, as well as die
by.
Blessed is that rural community
Cheops and I
Cleveland DUbllc schools are nre
paring to change their courses ho that
all problems solved by pupils will
be connected with their immediate
experience. The Pyramid of Cheops
1b no longer to serve as the subject
of an example in arithmetic. Computing
the contents of the city hall
will be in high favor, and problems
in labor will be concerned with pav-l
ing stretches of Kuclid avenue rather
than plowing mythical fields or building
the (ireat Wall of China.
The new system Is said to be based
on "the general idea that only knowledge
which is useful to the possessor
is of real value."
Too long have the methods of tin
schools been severed from real life.
Any effort to make a vital connection
between education and living must of
necessity be a step in the right direction.
But thero is going to be a difficulty
In deciding just exactly what
knowledge will be "useful to the posH
sensor."
"Phthistlc" as a spelling test mav
perhaps be discarded without loss.
But who is to say that pterodactyl"
may be less useful than "hydraulic*
ity?"
Trade schools are learning to teach
children to operate one or two machines
without giving them the principles
by which they may learn to
perate those not used in the school
is the greatest possible mistake. It
T
WAN UHLANS IN POL
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nd shooting from the saddle, their long
L CHURCH
which has but one-place of worship.
While competition is the life of trade,
it is death to the rural church and
moral starvation to the community.
Petty sectarianism is a scourge that
blights the life, and the church prejudice
saps the vitality of many communities.
An over-churched community
is a crime against religion, a serious
handicap to society and a useless
tax upon agriculture.
While denominations are essential
and church pride commendable, the
high teaching of universal Christianity
must prevail if the rural church
is to fulfill its mission to agriculture.
We frequently have three or four
churches in a community which is
i not able to adequately support one.
| Small congregations attend services
| once a month and all fail to perform
j me religious runctions or the comj
munity. The division of religious
| forces and the breaking into fragj
mcnts of moral efforts is ofttimes
little less than a calamity and defeats
the very purpose they seek to
promote.
The evW of too many churches can
he minimized by co-operation. The
social and economic life df a rural
community are respective units and
can not be successfully divided by
nominational lines, and the churches
can only occupy this important
field by co-operation and co-ordination.
The efficient country church will
definitely serve its community by
leading in all worthy efforts at community
building, in uniting the people
in all co-operative endeavors for
the generAl welfare of the community
and in arousing a real love for country
life, and these results can only be
successfully accomplished by the
united effort of the press, the school,
the church and organized farmers.
the City Hall
leads to dead-end occupations and unemployment
Just as surely as no trade
schooling at all.
This method reminds one of Mark
Twain's learning how to ask in faultless
German, "Have you seen my
grandmother's red cow?" and finding
that on his travels he had no occai
sion to imiuire for that interesting
animal.
Education by separate instances,
110 matter how closely these may be '
related to the apparent course of a
child's existence, is at best only a
series of patches. Education which
gives general principles upon which
the child may build his own experi
cnoe is the only kind which :s worth
while In the long run. -The Augusta
Chronicle.
"WHO PAYS?" AUTIIOIt l>EAI>.
Edwin IHIss Expires Sud?lently in a
Netv A'ork Hotel.
New York, April 14.?Edwin Ullss
of St. Louts, u well known writer of
fiction and moving picture scenario,
and who has just completed the series
of stories, "Who Pays?" dropped
dead in the Hotel Vanderbllt thir,
morning. He was the authdr of the
"What Happened to Mary?" series, i
and for years had been one of the i
most prolific, as well as one of the |
most entertaining, magazine writer! i
in the United 8tates. ]
HE LANCASTER NEWS A
AND . ~ |1
\
; lances stuck in the ground beside
City vs. Country.
The backwoodsman, who, when visiting
the city, gazes at the skyscrapers,
goes wild with amazement when
the fire trucks dash by, tries to mall
letters in the fire alarm boxes, and
does other funny things to brand him
as unsophisticated, is and always has
been the target for the city man's
jests.
The city man is prone to consider
himself smarter than the country
man, and the man from the rural districts
iB very generally looked upon
as a joke when he "hitches up" and
drives cityward.
But let's see if he is a joke, after
all. Let's aralyze the facts.
Isn't it true, despite his so-colled
verdancy, the countryman comes very
nearly getting away with the lion'*
share of the good things of life?
Isn't it a fact that two-thirds, per- j
uns three-fourths of the United
States senators and congressmen are
country bred?
Isn't it a fact that nearly every
president has sprung from the country?at
least from a small city?
And isn't it - fact that many of
lIk: great railway executives began |
iife either on farms or in little villages?
Think closely, and you will
find but very few.
Moreover, among lawyers, merchants,
editors, inventors and empire
builders, you will find that a large
percentage of the really successful
aien came from rural environment.
The man from the farm or small
town may be a bit shy of the great
white lights of the city, he may gaze |
in wonderment at the height of the
buildings and he may be everlasting- j
ly green all the way through as to 1
"town fixings" but, as a rule, he j
takes lead over the typical city man j
in landing the things of life that are j
really worth landing.
And, after all, results count.
If you will enter into careful anal-1
ysis, you will find that the city man
gets the glitter, while his bucholic I
brother remains in the background
raking in the real gold.?Anderson
Mail.
Don't (>ive Him a Chance.
The fly has become fully recogniz- I
ed as the greatest agent of sickness
and the most deadly enemy of man- i
k'.nd. The fly breeds in filth and
spends most of his time in places
where disease germs abound. Its
feet have a felt-like pad peculiarly
adapted to picking up and carrying
disease germs, and flying direct from
a surface closet it walks across the)
food that a man and his family are t >
eat or across the lips of his sleeping
baby and deposits there minute b.M
langerous particles of filth and ,
germs that are often responsible for ]
sickness and death. ,
Because the fly is small he excites '
I'ttle alarm and yet he is more dead (
!y than ninety per cent of the known '
variety of snakes.
The best method of fighting the fly
is to clean up and leave no breeding
plnco around the houses. The second
method is to screen or in some way |
prevent the entrance of the fly to ,
outhouses or any place where he can
reach filth. Stable manure is his
favorite breeding place. 1
It is more effective to keep the fly f
away from filth than it is to keep It i
out of the house, but where the ex- 1
pepse can be afforded the houses
should also De screened.?Hock Hill
Record.
PRIL 20,1915. J_
WAR PRISON GAMPS
Germany Superior to Britain in
Care of Prisoners.
Unheated Shelters, Bad Sanitary Arrangements
and Insufficient Food
Found In England All Treated
Alike In Germany.
Frankfort.?A German recently released
from the British prison camp |
at Newbury, where he was interned
for three months, has been inveatigat- !
Ing German camps. He compares ;
conditions as he found them in New- ;
bury with conditions in the typical .
German camp at Ruhleben, near Her- !'
iii. 111 mTiiuKvinuiiiH ior sneuer, exercise,
sanitation and the food supply 1
he found the German camps superior 1
to the British. His report is published
in the Frankfort Gazette, as follows: i
In the German camp at Ruhleben
there is ample space for the prisoners ,
to move about. The camp is located
on a former race course, and the
Bpace behind the main pavilion and (
the stables is at the free disposal of 1
the Interned. They are allowed to 12
take their exercises on the course it-;
Belf for a couple of hours a day. ' ,
In the British camp at Newbury > (
there are about 4,000 prisoners interned.
Two-thirds were sheltered in
tents, the -remainder in the small
stables of the hurdle race. Only In 1
the space between the tents or the !
stables was exercise permitted. The <
walls of the stables cut off all view
of the pleasant surrounding country.
Always we had the same picture before
our eyes?hundreds of people
grown dull and apathetlo by the uncertainty
of their fate, moving around
in the same small circle.
When rain or fog set In, as it does
almost dally during the English winter,
it was impossible to leave the
tents and stables. The clay soil was
soaked through, and the dirt was several
Inches deep. Great pools of war
ter caused noxious miasmas. Sometimes
these pools were so large that
they barred the passage entirely.
When Prime Minister Asqulth and
Mrs. Asqulth paid a visit to the camp
a sailor mit a stick in the mire bear
ing a placard, "Pishing Prohibited
Here." Then he sat on a bench he
had constructed and waited, holding
an improvised fishing rod in his hand,
until the prime minister passed the
spot. Mr. Asqulth shot a furtive
glance at the commandant of the
camp, who accompanied him. Next
morning the fisherman was removed
to the Isle of Man.
Day by day the administration
ROlieht to imnrovo thr> ovctnm f>? <ll?)?
ago, but every time tho thick mire
choked it again.
On the contrary, tho cleanliness in
the German camp at Ruhloben is
worth emphasizing. The same room
that serves for nine or ten people in
tho English camps serves for live or
six people at Ruhleben. Not a single
table nor a single chair was provided
by the English government during tho
time of my internment. Trunks were
used as seats; other pieces of luggage
served as tables. Two things have
been arranged at Ruhleben which
were entirely lacking in the English
camps?covered alleys where the
prisoners can stay when the weather
is bad and steam heating in all the
rooms.
The food which is given to the prisoners
in England is not bad. The
allowance, however, is not sufllcient
for adults.
The food in the German camps can
be called ample. The treatment of all
prisoners at the German camp is the
same. The English millionaire has no
more right then the negro. Private;
food is allowed, but only in exceptional
cases.
In the English camps money is the
most important thing. He who is
fortunate enough to have money can
?et whatever he likes if he is on good
terms with the sergeant major, the
representative of the commandant.
This official is particularly fond of
good cigars and English pounds. Everybody
in the camp agreed that this
amiable man would have all the money
of the German civilians in his pockets
if tho war lasted long enough.
WILL PAY WIFE $100 YEARLY
r?ii;n rdrmer maxes ?nienupnai t;ontract
Keeping Interests Separate
and Extending Beyond Death.
Goshen, Ind.?An antenuptial cor
tract filed here shows that David Conrad,
a rich farmer and a member ot'
the county council, in marrying Anglo
i.ehman agrees to pay her $100 a year
us long as they live as husband and
wife. At his death she is to get $1,">00
and the privilege of living in the
homo for not less than thirty days
from the time of his demise. Otherwise
their property Interests are to
remain separate.
The bride was never married until
ihe took Conrad, a widower, for a
lushand.
Queen Mary Nervous,
London.?Queen Mary is reported to
lave developed such a bad Zeppelin
>cnre she continually talks of airship
'aids, and thinks Buckingham Palace
s the most obvious target in London.
ORGANIZE NEIGHBOUHOOD
MARKETING ASSOCIATIONS
Now, and not just before harvest, i
is the time to organize marketing associations
for whatever products you
ire going to raise this year. No mat
Ler what it is?cotton, corn, tobacco,
peanuts, truck crops, or what not?
better prices will be obtained, better
grading will be assured, and more
jusiness-like consideration will be slowed
in every point if a group of
'armers will sell together instead of
narketing individually. And if they
ire going to sell together, thev
should have success predestined by
miking arrangements now. Thos*
,vho wait till the crops are about (
eady to harvest will And unexpected
md unimagined delays and will only 1
;et experience in 1915 when they
probably need profits more than ex <
jerience. As the \v?uf >
___ .. X.WV , Willi , V .1. I
^ewa well says in a talk to its farmer ' .
readers: , |
"The world wants all you can raise ]
his summer. It needs far more than ; s
an be produced on all our Ameri-| j
an farms, but how is your produce j j
:o reach the place where it will bring (
fou the most money? j
"Unless the farmers organize and j
market their crops under some co-1 1
jperative system next summer, they 1
ire going to be greatly disappointed i
kvith prices. The middlemen are or- i
;anized; they know just where they I i
ire going to push the consumer up j i
to war-time prices, and hold you, Mr. 1 <
Farmer, down to over-production 1
"DON'T
WHAT TO
DINN
This is What We Hear
Our Phones,
We have in stock, Swe
Potatoes, Cabbage, Hair
String Beans, Lima B<
Corn, June Peas, Ilei
Peaches, Blackberries,
Peaches and Prunes. <
1 )<>n'T place your order
Plants until you see us.
have lots t<> sell in May.
Success For Us and we ai
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You $4.00.
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And no Stri
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DOLLAR FLORENC E AUTO
first of May, to the one holdinj
number will not cost you an;
part of it. Every lady enteri
to May 1, will receive a ticke
each time you come, so conic
buy a thing to get a tickeet?
entitle you to it.
WATCH THE DATE & CO!
Remember it don't cost you
and each time you enter you j
is going to get the lucky one.
tickeet will get a Twenty-Five
Oil Cook Stove, without cost.
Automatic Stove it will be wo
Come any time and we will b<
one.
REMEMBER THE DATE
Hoping you will have a cool
Stove in your kitchen, I am, y
J. B. MAC
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rates if possible.
"Your only hope for a fair division
of this great wave of prosperity,
which is surely coining during the
.11 xt ci^iit months, is to get together.
Form associations and plan your
crops so that your output may be
combined and shipments made in car
lots, to markets already arranged
for."?Progressive Farmer.
A Thought for the Week.
Our God and Father, we thank
Thee for (he awakened earth; for the
weet incense of renewing nature;
lor tlie fair iight of the sun and the
genial breezes; for the brightening
tistas before our eyes and the iii reasing
hopes within us; for singing
birds and humming bees and budling
plants and crooning insects.
Lord, these are Thine. From Thy
liand they have come even as we ourselves.
Grant that we may find joy
n them and may serve Thee in that
|oy. Arouse in us the spirit of the
lime, that we may be quickened to
grow and to give Thee praise in joyKil
development, and to give our fellowman
and every creature cheer and
brightness. Lord, on Thee do we depend
for life, for growth, for joy.
[Irant that we shall receive these in
iucb measure as we need, and let us
not forget from Whom they are received
and to Whom they must be returned.
Amen.?Selected.
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ings to This
AWAY A TWENTY-FIVE
AIATIC OIL STOVE on the
? the lucky number, and the
/thing. That is the pretty
ng my store, i rom April 15
t, and you will receive one
; often. You don't have to
-your visit to the stove will
WE & GET A TICKET
anything to enter my store
?et a ticket free. Some one
And the holder of the lucky
: Dollar Florence Automatic
If you haven't a Florence
rth your trouble to see one.
i glad to show von th romr) i
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J, APRIL 15 TO MAY 1.
summer with a Florence Oil
ours truly,
:korell