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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1915)
"- II01ME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION w A Page of Editorials for the Home and Farm Magazine TO ADVERTISERS Adu-rtiscra In (his locality who wish fully to cover all sections of Oregon and Washington and a portion of Idaho n ill. apply to local publishers for rates. General advertisers may address C. L. llurton, AihcrtiHlng Manager Home nnd Farm Magazine Section, Orcgonlan lluilding, Portland, Oregon, for rates and information. TO READERS Header? arc requested to send letters and articles for publication to The Edi tor, Home nnd Farm Magazine Section, Oregonian Uuilding, Portland, Oregon. Discussions on questions and prob lems that bear directly on the agricul tural, livestock nnd poultry interests of the Northwest nnd on the uplift nnd comfort of the farm home always arc welcomed. No letters treating of re ligion, politics or the European war arc solicited. We proclaim neutrality on these matters. Comparatively brief contributions are preferred to long ones. Send u also photographs of jour livestock and farm scenes that you think would be of general Interest. Wc wish to make this magazine of value to jou. Help us to do it. DECLARING WAR. LET'S have a little war of our own, whilp the powder bums nnd smoke flies on the fields of Europe. What's the matter with a campaign started at once against the foes 'besieging your farm? The European war has taught us the uselessness of depending on sta tionary fortresses to repel the at tack of an enemy. Stationary meth ods will never do in this little war wc are going to start. We arc going to get out and be the aggressors, never giving the enemy an oppor tunity to be safe within our domain. This is to be a cruel, a relentless war, and no flags of truce will bo observed. It will be a war of blood and iron, of sweat and work, and no compromise will .be tolerated. Who is this war to bo against? Our foes arc man There is, for instance, that obnoxious weed that is seeking "a place in the sun." We must deny its ambition fulfilment. There is the cutworm that must be cut down before its career has be gun. There is the codling moth that has designs upon the Fall ap ples. Spray it. There is the sick hog that must be brought back to health ere disease advance upon the remainder of your swine. Oh, there is plenty to do don't forget that. The main thing to keep in mind is that now is the time to do it. It must be a war in which there is no time for parleys, n war of action, and of results. To the vic tor belongs prosperity. TEACHERS AND HIRED MEN. WHEN a man has more work than he can do he hires a man to do some of it for him. Ho sets aside a certain portion of that work for the hired man and a certain portion for himself. But after he has made this division, docs ho go on about his own work and pay no attention to the way in which the hired man doos his? Not he! He keeps a close watch on that man to see that he does his share of the work in the way in which it should be done. Especially if the man's work includes the care of live stock, the employer keeps in close touch with the way the work is done. And why shouldn't he? The live stock is valuable; the proper care of it is important. When our children become old .enough to need an education we hire somebody to do that work for us; we do not have time to do it for our selves. Now surely those children arc just as valuable to us as are our horses, hogs and cattle. And yet there is not one of us in a hundred, or probably even in a thousand, who ever pays the least bit of attention to how our hired man or hired woman is doing this vitally import ant work of educating our children. There are, in fact, many of us who do not even know who these hired helpers are, let alone knowing any thing about how they are doing their work. Consistency, thou art a jewel ! IDLE TEARS. ONCE upon a time tears were woman's strongest weapon. That they are so no longer is a wonderful tribute to the stronger personality of both sexes. Since women arc now the true helpmates of Men, they no longer attempt to rule them with the weapons of weakness. Women with personali ties don't weep, except alone. In great grief they cannot cry. Weep ing in solitude restores the balance of the soul, but the easy weeper has never a strong personality. Idle tears belong to weakness and sentimentality. Tears that are red with the sweat of anguish are never seen and never spoKen of. It re quires a trained will-power and gen uine emotion to hold back the tears that gather in the eyes, a stronger will-power than that that carries the soldier through a rain of bullets. TOO MUCH ROPE. (Kriltoilnl In Western l-'ninix, Spoknnc) TWO bold explorers wore desir ous of examining a deep can yon that was impossible of ac cess by any path they could discov er. They found that the only way to gain entrance into that coveted position was to descend the steep, rocky walls by a rope. They were cautious,. The lighter man was to be lot down, but before doing so must know that the other could pull him up. So several times the larger man let his companion over the precipice a little way and pulled him back. Yes, he could draw him up when tlie explorations were finished. But alas! When the time came the man at the top could not lift his companion ! They had not reckoned on the weight or 800 feet of rope! He could just raise the man without the additional burden of many pounds of rope. Many a farmer gets into just such a predicament as that. lie can easily carry on a farm that involves 1G0 acres. Thinking another section would increase the income two-fold he buys, only to find that he hns as sumed a greater burden than he can bear. The increased fencing, the need of more help, more machinery, the mortgage and all, is just a little "too much rope" and he can't make it go. Many a man has become enthusi astic over some new line of effort and, unwilling to start in a small way and gain experience, has dipped in too deeply. The losses have been heavy, the outcome of the venture discouraging. He couldn't pull him self out of the hole because he had not reckoned on all the points in volved. Sometimes x man takes desperate chances on the board of trade, or in a bucket shop, or on the regular market. He thinks the matter over and sees no reason to fear the ven ture. But he has not seen the long coil of ropo that the other fellows have slipped about him to weight him down and hold him while they fleece him. You may.be strong, you may bo well fixed, but beware lest you be come "land poor" or fettered by ob ligations that you could easily avoid. THE COST OF THE WAR. STATISTICIANS are busy guess ing at the cost of the war in Europe. It's all wasted effort, for figures cannot compass nor the human mind comprehend the appalling cost of this civilization-wrecking conflict. The cost of the War is not measur able, and even those details of it that .can be estimated will exceed all esti mates. The cost of the war involves these items, some calculable, some incal culable : 1. The cost of equipment guns, ships, ammunition, unforms, horses, forts, etc. 2. The cost of maintenance sub sistence for men and beasts; pay of officers and men, etc. 3. The cost to industry through the withdrawal of men of the high est productive capacity. 'I. The cost to society in the loss of social efficiency through the kill ing and maiming of men. 5. The cost to future generations in the loss of those fittest to carry on the species, who are those chosen for war. The Napoleonic wars, mere skirmishes compared with this holo caust, had a marked and shocking effect on the French race because war took the fittest and loft the unfit to breed succeeding genera tions. (5. The cost in property destroyed in the process of warfare a cost measurable by money only in part. Who shall count the vajue of a Rhcims cathedral? 7. The cost of human heartbreak, in the woe of widows and orphans. S. The cost in brutalizing human ity, in debasing civilization. Every item in this listTs a definite charge upon war, a definite count in the indictment of civilization against war and militarism. WHAT SPREADS HOG CHOLERA THE responsible causes for the infection of nearly 3000 herds of hogs with cholera presents an Interesting angle of the question, showing how this serious disease is spread. These figures have been kept by the Federal investigators in their recent studies of the chol era situation. The largest number of cases, more than a third, were carried by men either in exchang ing labor or in visiting on neighbor ing farms. Birds are charged with over 17 per cent of the cases, this being the next highest figure, fn lGli per cent of the case3 it was be lieved that the infection was har bored on the farm from previous outbreaks. Dogs carried 9V per cent of the cases, and 8'j per" cent were caused by direct exposure to side hogs of the neighbors. The bringing in of new stock started only 3t' per edit of the cases. Cannot farmers develop some sys- Zl .. jnuttdi,. "om infection yJr le most seriou'H boofSawd"fc infcctanUtSi? Yh!tor fa enJi ; leet before enW: w Practical JaE to employed? neil 4&fe'H .t3l?. etl OV thr o.i.. -""Hi ty. 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