The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, April 02, 1918, Page THREE, Image 3
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.,.
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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
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>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??
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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
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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
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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.
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