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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1915)
HOME AND iTATlAr MAGAZINE SECTION. of Home and Farm Magazine Section Ui AAUlll wtho Trend of World News; Tti--Mil Tonf JCiLllLvA 1C1JL x c. v.. .... -.iinrrr ftin Trend Timely, PcrUnent Comment Upon Men ana aiibi , : Fam Tll0Ught ..-. nf Tnterest to Readers: Hints Along Lines oi b oufiso"""" "- ' TO ADVEHTISEHS. AdmtUcrs in this locality wlio wMi o fully cover nil sections of Oregon nml "" liiKton wul IKirtlon of Idaho apply to local publisher for rates. General nthei Users may address C, ,h. llur (oii, AilrlhliiK JlnnoRcr of OroRon.Wns lib ft toii'ldnlio Fanner, Oregonlnn lliilldlnp, loit liinri, Otrnon, for rates and Information. TO REA1JEKS. Headers aic requested to cncl letters and ni tides for publication to Tin I.dltor, Of I'Kon - WaslihiKton - Idaho Farmer, Oregonlan lluildim;, I'ortlund, Oregon. .. lllsensshms on questions and problems thnt hear directly on the agricultural. Il. stcKk mid poultry Intcicsts of - N",rtVt?,t: and on the uplift and eomfoit of the faim home always uro welcomed. No letters treat ing of relljjlon,' politics or the KiinijKniii wnr tiosollciteil, for the OreKoii.WashliiRton-Idnho Farmer proclaims neutrality on these nutters. CoiiiimmtUely Inlef contributions an- pre ferred to long ones. Send us alo photo mitphs of jour livestock and farm scenes tlt.it you think would be of general Interest. c UI. to make this iimkhIiic of utluc to jou. I Help us to do it. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Til EKE arc ninny people to whom tlio greeting "Happy New Year!" may s.em rather a mockery, for to many the old year has not brought forth the ful fillment of wishes for a "Happy Now Year" pronounced January 1, 1914. Hut who knows what "future is stored for him in the Mo days of the new year? The year 1913 may go down in history as one of the most prosperous the United States has ever known. It may in the future recall a year of business revival, the like of which was never seen before. It may mean n wealth of trade with South America and Europe which will enrich the coffers of this Nation beyond the most lurid imagination. It may moan a prosperity that will be general and widespread in America. Of course this view of the future is pos sibly witli glasses of too pronounced a rose tint, but js not optimism batter than pessim ism? And then there are signs, plenty of thum, that augur well for the United States hi the year to come. There is little appar ent reason now why it should not be a re markably prosperous year, though the sad part of it is it would probably be a prosper ity reaped at the- expense of our brethren in Europe. He assured that it will.bo a far happier now year for you in America particularly for you in the wonderful Pacific Northwest than for hundreds of thousands, nay, mil lion, of rich and poor uliko in Europe. AVhere riehes stave off actual want and hun ger in France, in Engund and in Germany, still there is the more poignant distress- that of bereavement. In few families is not a sou, u husband, a father or u cousin dead, killed in battle. AVe have many causes here in America to congratulate ourselves at tho beginning of the year of our Lord, 1913. Everywhere business conditions are far bolter than they were a year ago, and a confidence in the future of many projects is to be found in plenty. Money is being put into wider eir (illation and the benefit is widespread. Tho feeling of stringency that has gripped tho money market of the eouutry is loosening and dollars and cents are ported with more freely than they were, even a few months ago. Men and wowen of the Northwest have . , . .I.. .......,.., ...Jin iii ni'fiHtinfit.v . .... ...a r.Ml nenti e to inu wi "" doubly profit. Living in a lanu oi, . . comfortor did before a wicked war little touched potentialities, you may rcobxt I ton u what others .nay not tor years m. b md flVon aaopUng 1.1 .....rtuii rtF tint ivnrm. jjul viv" v - in this great to bo making thin wealth of this world. Hut don ,M. nnnn mere, money. Honest, now, isn't it better to be living Yninn!tnni country and only a fairly comfortable living than to lie stuffed in some devitalizing city of the Last with listless luxury laying at your com mand J . Brace up. Take the bit in your teeth. Look the world square in tho face, and with a calm confidence in the future greet your neighbor with "A Happy New Year!" WHY IS A TRUST? SUPPOSE tho farmers of tho Northwest should join in a large organization for the purpose of securing good prices for tho results of their labor. Would this com bine be prosecuted as a trust and possibly dissolved because of "restrnint of trade"? "Would such nn organization be illegal in tho absurd assumption that deliberate cur tailmeut of population is necessary which is wholly an assumption and not supported by any respectable scientific fact or even theory wnr is too blind a way to do it. To say that Providence intended that hu inanity should curb its natural incrcasu by war is to insult Providence by denying it ordinary intelligence. And if society must kill to prevent over population, why kiH its fittest, ns war does? War is not n survival of the fit, but, of the unfit-tho fit arc taken and tho culls tiro left to breed inferior future generations. If society must kill to protect itself, why not kill intelligently f Why not periodically slaughter the unfit? Lot civilisation, in stead of leading barbarism out of darkness, slay it in its benightedness and take its laud. China is rich and large. The Chinese are not ,.. ... -i 1.811 1..1 !l t.tll .,. t .1- i,.. ,. n wri ;..titiitiont progressive, it soeuuy linm kim, it To onrts apparency differ on the subject, intelligently; c it depopuh it Ch a and if recent dee ions an any criterion. occupy it with its civilized overflow. Three United States District Court Judges Nonsense? Of course, but not hat so .1--M-.1 i-f r..(i,..,. iimt. tlm North Atlan- nonsensical as mo outpourings ol r.ug.u- Ul Vllllli 1UOW vWww- .i ..... tic steamship trust was not committing an unlawful act by combining and maintaining a pool to fix rates of fare for steerage and third-class passengers. Tho court main tained that the fares were not excessive and the combination prevented throat-cutting, which might bo worse. The International Harvester Company was tried before n district court last August nnd ordered dissolved because it was a big concern. It came out in the testimony that the harvester company had not violated any law, as it had not raised prices or threatened extinction of independent concerns. It had only done what the .steamship company had don combined to prevent throat-cutting among numberless small concerns. Yet one trust was patted on the head, called a good fellow and sent on its way, while the other was kicked out with the command to "un scramble" itself. The Supreme, Court of the United States has now to decide, on un appeal, if tho or der was constitutional. Trust law is ap parently more, complicated than a trust. Stanton Maelay in hit defense of militarism which is barbarism surviving past its time. The limits of the soil's capacity to sup poit life are not yet even known, not to speak of being reached. So far as a world congestion of humanity is concerned, thcro seems to bo a law, illustrated by the large birth rate that goes with pioneering hard ships and tho low birth rate that accom panies comfort and luxury, to prevent that imaginary peril. And even if it be admitted that arbitrary curtailment of population is necessary, no crueller, cruder, madder way of doing it than by the barbaric method of war could be imagined. w APPALLING DEFENSE OF WAR. QUITE the most atrocious defense of war incidentally it is also a bitter at tack on peace as an enemy of man kindis furnished by Edgar .Stanton Mu clay, author "Tho History of tho Navy," in the North American Review, says nn Eastern journal. Falling back on exploded and forgotten Mallhus, his point is that if we let humanity increase in pnaee, wo shull starve: We muit not cloe our cyea to tho fact that there nro fewer than thirty million nquiiro mllea of land ultaUl for the support of mankind on the Blob. ConturlcB of experience show that this land will not support more than a huudrcd per son per quare mile: o thnt the world's papula tion uould em to be limited to three billions. Already the earth's population oxceods half this limit. If all nation uro to eeuo preparations for ar nnd concentrate their enerslw In the pursuit of peace and hnppliiM. tho world's population will be moro than three lillllortH In lesa than a Inula itineration. Oblouly. If tho world's pop ulation la not kept down by war, It will bo re stricted by other moans, etc. Nothing more atrocious than this can bo imagined. In the first place, "centuries of experi eueo"'are worthless in view of th iW. timt. PEACE IN CHINA. E QUOTE the following, which i quite worth giving a moment's no tice, from the amiable poet philoso pher, AValt Mason: Tho war Koen on. tho soldiers labor 12 liouri a day at slalnic foca; una men are wleldlnr airord and tuber who should bn plying spades and hoc. There la no sign of early quitting, slnco neither side can overwhelm; urn) grand old China liven her Vnlttliiff, and peace abides within her realm. The rase roH hut, Imteud of colder, unions inott nntloun not at war; each has n chip upon Its shoulder, nnd wonder what lfn waiting for. They fear the (truffle will be over betoru they nine a chance to whoop; but China bales her hay nnd clover, and iutn up cans of bird's, next 80up. In her culm blood there U no favor, she hones not for tho field's alarms; who does not wlHli to swlnic a cleaver, or snickersnee, or other arms. Hhe lUts not to tho martial clackcrc, she entertains no frenzied hate, but wisely builds her cannon-crnckem, and ships thorn proudly to the, Stutr. Krom Sacramento to Sullna wo Jeer tho lowly Mongol's- name, and glibly talk of "Heathen China." and launh to scorn hep qutet game. Hut now tho world la battle, crazy, old China 'tlH that puts up Ice; Inacrutablo, her- meth. ods mazy, the calmly stows her rata and rice. Egypt had a standing army as long as 3S0O years ogo, but what sort of protest could it have mntlu against the armed millions of today T San Francisco knows what it is to raced and receive help. That's why in one hour she picked up $100,000 for the needy Belgians. th'i world has not v.t. bpirim tn i,m.n ti.n j on not mink eauw to look for blwsinjs i(l possibilities of the soil in supporting life th, year to come What th Nation will The arbitrary limit of a hundred people to 1-r.uit from . business ,vmi, von will the tqnar mile is absurd. Belgium supports If you are dissatisfied with tho world at least make your part of it better by being the kind of man or woman you ought to be. It has been demonstrated several times that it is. no easy task to trap a million Freuclnncn, Germans or Russians. M