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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. ^ ?Oliver Goldsmith. VITAL CONSERVATION RANCH. Having heard from several of our brainy men that work is ben* foil tot^n in K anAWO At' ?TPnfiral *uO OV4W isu ucai vj nuiv/u tauuui, lan lui-yj w i/vv-o.uv public interest, the reporter wended his way to Schumpert's Roller ^ Mill, and a quarter mile west to a beautiful grove where he found a mail box marked, Dr. G. I'vVerber, 47A, and above which was the inscription, Vital Conservation Ranch. Having known the doctor well since his childhood, we received a cordial welcome and found Iiini in a communicative mood, and by our questions unfolded the following story: In 1848 when his father, Mr. Frederic Werber, took charge of the plantation for his iather-in-law, Dr. ]chn E. Bobo, he was engaged with negroes ~ xl * ? ? - ? cV. ^ MurtiTA rw llAllQP whPTl .ttt'fuiig tue leaves 1x1 me laigc giuic aunuunuiu^ <>"c ?? he was accosted by the only son of one of the richest men and largest landowner in the county with the inquiry, "What are you doing?" to which he replied, "I am going to show Dr. Bobo how to enrich his land," which provoked the contemptuous reply from the rich man's son, "If I had nothing better for my niggers to do, I would set them in the corner and break bark over their heads!" And that is exactly what this rich man's son did with himself and his own children?wasted their lives! And the doctor declares that the lives of the majority of men are even now being largely wasted through a disregard of some facts of natural law wnicn ne is unuer' taking to make more generally known?that millions of lives may be better directed to serve a more useful purpose. ' So finding himself with a small inheritance in land he is undertaking the arduous task of converting the proverbial "shoe, string into a fortune" to further a grand work for humanity in which haemoglobin and blood fat will be used as preventive and corrective agents instead of the chain-gang and the penitentiary. For the doctor deplores the great and unnecessary waste in energy and treasure and loss of character and human life so cjeneral in the world "from doing senseless things in a sloppy way," as he says. The importance of this work, which he started several years ago, is very clearly set forth in his printed appeal. Bui its object may be briefly stated?to get better information available as to just what we are up against in this world; and teach the best known philosophy of life for successful living. And it does not contemplate lessening the hours of labor, but to make men so strong that they will do their work gladly and even joyously where ihey now do it either grudgingly or not at all. He holds that cold, hunger and poverty are the tnreo great forces which drive men beyond their powers of reacting, which destroys their vitality and powers of resistance instead of his plan for increasing them. And he declares that the children of the rich, from improper feeding, and imperfect physical development, are nearly as often the victims of innutrition and the resulting evils of devitalization as the children of the poor. Humus, or decaying vegetable matter in the soil, he says, is the basis of vital conservation in maintaining the productivity Df the soil on which every occupation is dependent. Then, to increase the productivity of the soil, and thereby add to the fooii 1 -- 1 +V/V ?n?innol on/] nnlir offo^tivo ^liro fnr Slippiji, lie &l(ltC3 i& mc i^auuuat auu vjuij i vu^vmi v uu> v -v? the majority of.the ills which assail mankind today?hence the work he is undertaking on Vital Conservation Ranch. Over every acre of land the air contains 35,000 tons of nitrogen which has a value of nine- millions of dollars when fixed in the soil and made available for plant food. The nine families of nitrogathering bacteria which grow on the roots of the different legumes draw this nitrogen down and make it immediately available for plant food. And the farmer who is neglecting to fortify himself behind this mighty force of nature is but a broken spoke in the wheel of progress. This is very generally true of the "cotton farm ers" of the South. For "Cotton is King," and by impoverishing ths soil is slowly but surely driving his subjects to poverty and despair if not to the chain-gang and penitentiary. So he has built a house .vith a wonderful concrete cellar, 32 by 40 feet and seven feet deep, with eight windows and two doors?to breed -bacteria! which increase and multiply best in a temperature of 70 to 80 degrees^ nut this activity ceases almost entirely at body temperature. Kis own particular effort will be limited to the one strain of the nine grand divisions of the nitro gathering bacteria growing only on she roots of bur clover, sweet clover and alfalfa. Bur clover and sweet clover, when properly inoculated will grow on all the land of the South which is not "acid." Bur clover is indigenous to the soil of the South, and a wonderful multiplier of its particular strain of nitro-<?athering bacteria. And sweet clover is even more hardy, and the most wonderful producer of hwmus in the world, which the Agricultural Department of New York State estimates at twenty tons to the acre when its long, large, fleshy roots are well developed. So the doctor is planting well inoculated bur clover and sweet clover on top of oats. And ^hpn hp hnc Hnvpr <?epd and bacteria eralore he will make his poor hillsides, as well as his riih bottom land grow luxuriant alfalfa. And the bacteria will be grown and multiplied by rotting the - Tioduled roots of bur clover and sweet clover in boxes of rich woods earth in his wonderful cellar. And then will come the hosjs anu cattle which will make it possible to develop on Vital Conservation Ranch the finest horticultural proposition in the world?pecans! He has already placed fifteen thousand of the best selected nuts 5n germinating trays in his cellar. And next spring the sprouted nuts will go into nursery rows in admirably adapted bottom land on Bush River. And three years later the finest grafted .and budded trees it is possible to grow will be transplanted on the ranch. And a few years later vital conservation will be literally hammered Into ^th the grey matter and blue mud packed in the cranial vaults of HANK AND PETE 1 (neae's a bAce || / //// Mhzkz's -me ^ /-? I j ON ?AHAMA 1 'Ij///f//f , />,'/- nrr?Z~i CWEAPcST ! I haT6 * I'll Cer |. / J ///ft '////// ?SB Panama \n . sah } ; 0N An' HAKC i '!i fth TvAt SH0,?,5,*~ i ; HANK LOOK UKC '.'// !< , ' /' % VOU CAb* MAO? \ NO* } j TWO C?NTS IN j jfj / ////, (T ^OR *20.00 J V? re.M.v.O \'|!:|!l('j| men in a way it is not possible and postage. For the doctor is c conservation in the universal net universal peace unci usher In ihe est advocate oi' the permanent ba; James, "first pure, then peuceabb the need for an apostle of the st pendente of enduring purity on puscles. But we must also be ta the great forces of Nature, whicl fully in shaping their lives in bet j and the greatest of all is vitality And the cohesive power to he bonds of brother is to net them i a common language?the languag the conditions have never been s< on earth and good will among i -"-A A f C? A/> 1 t TJ present uacu ui what he cannot defend. And h< bacteria the most powerful mear asks all thinking men to ponder aflame, while misguided society, ^/vtrHali-rnHrtn liehts the holOCEU UV/ T *WU*4*?*vwU "O But the lowly bacterium is n his wonderful cellar, for be has worms?which he is wintering or in the spring he hopes to have a gesting his mammoth piles of le verting them into the best quality tilize the pecans. And around h ing the Kudzu vine (17.6 percent ?Vin ni I or SL Vigorous i> I Id ill Ui (.lie ui will be a valuable addition to hi humus mulch for the pecans. , And although his profession; 1 more authority on the requireme tion, still he has for some year pursuits and a director in one or in West Virginia which ha j nece tion. And seeing the indissolubli to make Vital Conservation Ranc betterment and progress. When the funds become aval book Vital Conservation Imperat; that society has at least a selfis which should prompt it to dissei among the masses of the best kr acy and the resulting moral deli arouse the public sentiment nec< servance of this more practical this is of even greater importan Nation which is at all times unde: servation vitality may be even m tional efficiency tnereoy impanel light to show not only the import some of the many obstacles vriiic plishment. Some of the nation's clearest women endorse the tremendous ii to say in outlining the ills origi * ' * ? J no IlirJO" will dOUDt nis Wisuuin 1u v.aiini& much of this all pervading evil i munities and in sdciety generally ful women can well afford to encc dream that eventually men will \ a more perfect knowledge of the; ing of their fellow men. PRUSSIA NISM WARS j av * V .1 l'i/i i villi. # Why No American Medical Man at the J Front Wears a Red Cross Insfenri: | or White Band. I ! Washington,' March 28.?American J doctors and stretcher-bearers work-! ing under fire on the American sector ' i no lonuer wear the white arm-band J ! and red cross, for years the interna- j i tional insignia for army medical corps j I according to advices received by med-j { ical corps officers here. | The general staff of the German j army estimates the death of one j - - ' ? ? ? _ s ' ' Amerian doctor equals tne loss ui j .".00 American soldiers and that one ' I stretcher-bearer is worth 16 infantry-I ! men. iermun sharpshooters have | been decora1 ed for hitting the non- j j combatants engaged 111 aiding th? : wounded, and as a result the men of; I ihe hospital units have ceased to wear j I ii?tinguisl?iner -nsignia. I The confesson of a German officer j led to the information that the medi- ( . men r\f tho fnrfftc have j been marked for death by the PrussiI ans. The officer was picked up. in No i Man's Land after the repulse of a | raiding party he Had led. His right PRE 1H0U6HT ?^w#yTMiS MAT i^ HAnc ^ ; ^TV PClCARS11 ? THC ScST FABRIC f ,1 WANT To *"; ^ ^ORLD ! ^ I r A HAT - f IT TOOK" A MAN j r the store ! e days to -j ?riA*e IT !! j 111 ^iSTlT to do without money for printing onvinced that the essence of vita! id of the human race to forestaii millennium. And he is an earnsis of peace taught by the Apostle B." And he is equally positive of omach who will elucidate the dethe integrity of the blood cor+V.,. io-nnrino' nTIV flf UftUl IUC IWII V UL 'to""4 ""O ? -i men must come to utilize more ter harmony with the Divine plan, r >ld all the peoples cf the world in ill more industriously to learning e of production. And he declares o favorable for establishing peace men and radically improving the ' that no man is allowed to keep - u ji- i/in-i,. n?V?prinf? wz ildllO v> l\ atbi iUV**Mg is to this end. And he earnestly well the sad scene of the world Xero like, sits fiddling by when St. ot the only strange inhabitant of a colony of earth worms?angle l oak leaves and cc~n meal. And million of these useful worms diaves raked from the forest, conof humus to be used later to fer. is piles of leaf mold he is plantt protein) which is aho the host tro-gathering bacteria, and later s pasture land, and a source of a.1 studies fit him to speak with ints and needs of vital conservas been interested in agricultural the largest commercial orchards ssitated a study of soil conserra5 connection of the two he hopes h contribute materially to human lable the doctor will publish his ! ; "U ^ Avnnnt.. tn <sTlA\v ive in .wiucii lit; c-v^v.la ??v h interest for its own protection inmate more practical knowledge lown safeguards against degenernquency and criminality; and tu ?ssary to enforce the better ob guide to successful living. Ana ce at this time to the American rfed, as in our efforts at food conore seriously diminished and na1. So he desires to turn on the :ance of vital conservation but also h stand in the way of its accomthinkers and most able men and mportance of what the doctor has nating in devitalization. So who a spade a spade?having seen so n the family circle, in local comf aii natrintip men and thought XXII |/wv? ? ? _ >urage th&. doctor's fond hope and >e brought nearer to God through mselves and a better understandR. H. G. leg had been shattered and at the dressing station small hope was held out that the limb could be saved. At the base hospital a delicate operation perforr ^ Jy an American surgeon mad pi: ation of the limb necessary. The German officer, several days after the operation, asked the priv. ? ?:ii- ii? I" _ liege o: taiKing aione wun me aiuci-- i ican surgeon. His request was i granted and he warned his benefactor j never to wear any insignia of his i An>.nr. 11-An /-. r> rlnt*- ivifhin rnrHTP f?? ^ V/ I \ P l\ \s 1 i M" ** * V * ?? k ?* fj w ?' i German lines. The surgeon reported the facts to j his commander and instructions were j issued to the men who were serving j behind the American and French lines < For a time doubt was expressed that j the Germans were deliberately wag- j ing war against the men of the medi- { cal corps, but statements of German ! i riflemen brought out the fact that i - . l some of their fellows had been cteco- j rated for. wounding stretcher-bearers, J although the true reason for the dec- i oration was not officially recognized : i by officers presenting the decoration*, j I'p to the present time the Ameri- j can medical corps has been fortunate i in the small number injured . Thev j : ascribe this to their care in not wear-1 I HDDS) Alt M1M ///..//////'/////// // t."' /./. im;i mwi/m/mk. fl why,of coulse b Will it spoil kncw -hat gucrv j^ci jn ihc ralh?j^^ of a panama ma <Tv./A' /. .a , . Ax' ' - IS Va)QV/P"M I im ric II jrMMST/?i - -----.|fcjS?f-fe== ! WATER!! r > /'/ ><!P g ^?--MVrl II. Ml .1 ? - ' ' * \ ing the insignia and to the fact that the Red Cross signs on ambulances are concealed if the conveyanes are used in daylinght near the front lines. Medical corps enlistments for nurses are now approximately 8,000. Within a short time this number will be raiser] to about 30,000 it is understood. Subscribe to The Herald and News. VW^B^ i "Give if to me* please. GrandI daddy." J "Why Bobby, if you waif a bit for I uAn*ij if I - II /vu t> v v it to enjoy loc^sr!" "Poo-poo! That's no argument with WR1GLEY5 'cause the flavor (??4? n0?3n?imv ? lasts* awwey* I ?After ever ! 3 T { W - ? to ? jjj Look At ^ (jj) . 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