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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1918)
JULIAN BYRD Manager SATURDAY. JULY IT. !! SUBSCRIPTION RATES M.00 140 71 Kntered at the Pout Office at Bumf, Oregon, aa Second Clans Matter. KH'UMJIKXII I.KSH VAX ON I IKK I- In view of the unfortunate exper ience last winter of some feedem of heavy cattle, the continued high price of grain, and the uncertainty of a continuation of the good prices well finished heavy carcasses recently command the United States Depart ment of Agriculture believes that feeders should concentrate their ef forts on the production of economl. tally short-fed cattle. Of course. this statement does not refer to baby beef production, which is a specialty within Itself. There Is no question that for the last s-everal years cattle IV dors have been making beef too tat lliat is. they hae put mere finish upon tlie animals than economy would Justin This idea was evidently In the minds of the Advisory Committee of Agri cultural and Live Stock Producers apj.o The minimum age limit for volun teer enlistment In the United States irmy la fixed by Congress at 18 years. There have been no many applica tions for release from the Army of boys under this age who have enlist ed that Abjt. Qen Henry P. McCain has issued the following circular let tetr: "The large number of applications from parents and guardians for the discharge of minors under 18 years of age, inclosing satisfactory evidence that the soldier Is under this age. In dicates the necessity of more care on Hie part of the recruiting officers In order to avoid unnecessary expense to the government and annoyance to troops in the field in the subsequent discharge of mob men. and to avoid placing a blot for life on the record Df i bo) whose elTeuse of mliistale nienl of his age arises usually from u patriotic desire to servo his country. "Hereafter no applicant under the registration ago will he accepted er enlisted until he has proven to the complete satisfaction of the recruit ing officer 'hat he has reached the age of IS years. The proof required will he (at birth certificate, baptis mal record, or school certificate, or, Jn case (a) is not available? (h) affi davit of parent or of guardian with legal evidence of guardianship." . o it nkwn contiviks r.woit- ABI.K The dally papers arriving yester day evening continue to bring news of the success of the allied force in the Ii!k world wur. According to this late information it appears there is a strong probability of the American and French urmles trapping the Crown I'rliue of (iermany and hi army of r.00.000 men, ullhotiKh ex perts state that It Is likely many of the uertnana may got away, too al lied tone, have this number of the enemy in a pocket and are closing In toted by the Department of Agrl- ' "" """" '" Hldttlon to this the (ier- I'ljitur. and the Pood Administration when lint committee recently made the following recommendation; "We feel that cattle marketed at the present time in class 4 (long fed or export and highly flnisHied cat t lei. and known as "exports," owing to the high cost- of labor ami feed, are not an economical product, and their firoMUfiion should not lie eucourugei . Not only has the udvlsory com rait tec thus warned against thol heavy feeding of cattle, but It Is ulso understood that the Government of- j liclalu directing the buying policies' of the Government will not consider ', themselves responsible for the price of very fut cattle. decent experiments by various State experiment stations and the I iiiieii States Department or Agri culture have borne out the fact that good beef can he produced by using a relatively small amount of grain. or with nitrogenous concentrates in connection with silage ami omi Other cheap roughage in the form ol bay, The principle that should be fol lowed in future feeding operations, according to the advice of the De partment of Agriculture, Is to reduce to a minimum the amount of high priced feed and to make judicious use of cheap roughages. In other words, instead of feeding from 50 to CO bushels of dry corn per steer for a long feeding period, as was the cus tom In the past, the quantity should be, and may be profitably, reduced to J 5 to 20 bushels In a shorter feeding period, or the dry "corn grain can 'lie eliminated altogether, us the liberal use of good quality wlluge will furnish an excellent ration. The use of cottonseed meal, Un seed meal, or other protein-rich feed, ereu though high in price, Is to be highly recommended, because the higher other feeds are the more prof itable becomei 1 1 - use of a protein Huj.plement. Expensive hay may he completely eliminated in the ration by the use of a cheaper dry roughage, nuc.h as corn stover, coarse hay, or straw. The department believe that by avoiding too heavy feeding and too high finish, and by following the nuggestions given above, .feeder should be able to feed cattle at g profit in apife of the high prices of Teed and labor. The recent state ment of the I nlted States Food Ad ministrator and the available reports from foreign countries indicate that there may be a great increase In tie demand for beef, which Is encour aging lo the cattle feeders of this country and especially those who suffered losses during the past feed ing M-a.MJU. J man HUiiiriv centers are threiileiierl and some have actually fallen Into i he bands of our men. Should the allies succeed in eap furii",' the Crown Prince ami his ir:n it will he otm of the greatest victories iii the history of the war ami will be the means of hastening the end in fact will ba'tha hetin- UlUg Of the end. even lr it has not nl- read started The allied armies hate been the j aggressors during the entire week and are making great headvvav to ward ptinhlnK the enemy back and gaining important ground Muny prisoners have been taken together with equipment, o COOL CMEAll SOON .ITKIC KKP-Alt.VriXG PltKHIfYTKitlAN (HIIUI1 Weston r, Shields, pastor During the month of July the pas tor will be away on hlH vacation. The regular Sunday School session will be held at 10 A. M. every Sunday, and regular prayer meeting aervlce very Thursday evening at 8:00 P. M. Milk should always be separated j when -vurm and the cream cooled Im- I mediately, a cooler is a practical 1 utensil to use. "In passing the milk over a cream ' cooler from the separator, ii U aer ated, thus getting rid of the cowy or loamy flavor wrhlcb Is so common In ' milk and cream." said V. D. Chap- pell, assistant professor of dairy hus bandry In O. A. C. "If a cream cool er Is not used, the fresh cream should be placed in a tank of cold running water and stirred frequently as stir ring allow the cream to (tool much more rapidly. "A common fault is to pour the sweet warm ream In with the night's cold cream. This should not "" none inr ine warm cream warms up the cold cream to a point where ba lerla will grow rapidly, thus causing the cream to sour. The proper method is to have two cream cans. In one keep the cold cream and use the other for cooling tlj frsstl i renin. When cold the ( ream can be poured into the other can of cold cream. "It is advised that every farmer have a milk house and a cream cool ing tank. The milk house should he a Short distance from the barn and used for handling milk only. Tho milk house should also be near the well so that the cooling lank could be between the well and the stock wat ering tank and so arrange that tho cold water will come in at the not ion,, out at the top and Into the stock watering tank." o WAIl POLICY IX ROAD III IIIHVt; HTATKD BY HK ItKTAItV HOCHTON roads not of this cla.;i; and Hint It is desirable, wherover possible, to use local materials for road building and maintenance in order to relieve mil road traffic. Important highways, as described In the Secretary's letter, include on ly those utilized, or to be utilized, by the military establishment, those which carry a considerable volume of material and supplies essential to war Industries, and those which have a bearing on the production and dis tribution of food supplies, connecting population and shipping centers with surrounding agricultural areas. Attention is called to the forma tion of the United States Highways Council. This hoily was suggested by the Secretary to coordinate I'ed oral agencies Interested In lilgliwnv problems The council is made up pf a representative each irom l lie US pnrtineiit of Agriculture, the War Department, the Kullroad Admlnls Iratlon, ami the War Industrial Hoard. It will form n unified ageie v for dealing in behalf of the Federal Government, with highway construe Hon, malhtennce and policies, it will, of course, through the "Office of Public Koads and Itural Knglueer- l Ing of the department, Continue' the both formally by law and Informally by practice, with the State highway commission In each State. When the United States entered the war the work of planning State highway systems, so that, as far as, necessary and feasible, they would connect with the systems of Other States, was well under wuy. This i resulted irom enorts to administer the Federal aid road act. so that the roads of vital Importance for econom ic, military, and other purposes should first be dealt with. The Fed eral aid road ucl Involving an aggre gate five year expenditure directly and from State and local funds of $ i lio. ooo. ooo in addition ha at lea i IIOOO.OuO.ooQ spent Independently each year by the States provides thai the State must maintain the roadt, and thai before any money can be expended 1 1 1 - - roads must be elected gad approved ami plans. ipeciflcations, and contracts suhmlt l i it ai o provides that the Feder al Government must Inspect Hie con struction of the rouds. Soon after the United Stale, enter ed the war the Department of Agri culture requested the Slate hlgliwa.' oiniuisHions to join ii in directing expenditures only on roads of prima Importance for economic and military purposes. In this undertaking, the Secretary says, the department has received the cooperation of Stale authorities. The department has been gotive 1 cooperating with the Oipltal Is sues Committee In Its task of keep lug out of the market road bonds the Issuance of which was not urgent from the point of view of aiding the Nation In winning the war. The Secretary also culls attention to the fact thut road engineers have been provided by the department for caefa Of the armv cantonments and lor wo'.k on roads elsewhere in which military authorities were Interested. Curious Plant Which Qrowi en Borders of the Dead 8sa Pro duces This Fruit. ths The Dead sen Is situated In the soiithcnst part of Palestine, and Is called by the Arabs Ilnhr Loot, or Sea or hot. It Is shout 47 miles long, with nn nvernge breadth of nine miles. Its depth varies considerably. It Is fed by the .Ionian from the north, and by msny other streams, hut has no ap parent outiet, Its superfluous water be ing supposed to be entirely carried off by the evaporation. The north shores of the sen are marked by the blackened trunks nnl branches of frees which ore Incrusted with wilt, as Is everything thnt Is exposed to the spiny of this sen. On the southern shore Is the reiiuirlt nble mass of rock culled Udstini (Hod 01), It N ii narrow, rugged ridge of bin extending live miles northwest, and consisting of foci; salt. To the north of udsum, and st no great dis tance, llle supposed site of tile un dent Sodom. On the borders of the Demi sen a CUrtoUl plant grows which yields fruit Called the "Apple of Sodom." beautiful on the outsldt; hut bitter to the tasie, and. when mature, Oiled with liber mid dust. The ineittl level of the Pcnd sen Is 1,309 feet below the level of the Modi terriiiiean. The wnler contains from M to M per cent of salts, of which 7 per cent Is common salt. A suit-water fish put Into the Dead sea perishes at once. Owing to Its density due to salt the water of the scu Is very buoy-lint. lil Page's Sweet Shop "BMBiiiMiiiiMBMBaBMBaaBBBHBBBBBBMBMBBBBB Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobacco, Confectionery and Ice Cream You will alwavH find at our store the purest of confectionery aud the best grades of ice cream. PUREST FRUIT JUICES Clean tables and clean glasses tvo cater to par ticular people. We Carry the Only Stock of FRESH FRUITS and VEGETABLES in town I YOUTH AT A DISADVANTAGE Younger Men Are Ineffective In Ob taining Credit ss Well ss In the Control of Workmen. f'hiisiliiri iJirl, president of the Standard Parts company of Cleveland, o.. savs in the American Magaslne: "When a man "f noticeably youthful appearance goes to n cautious bunker seeking to ilmnn ran tho soundest kind of a proposition, his line of argu ment is discounted before he soys word, by his youthful liu. The banker Is al'mld of helm: curried nwny by mere boyish enthusiasm and is no Ids guard, if I were much under iii'r t; y live unci had a tiptop bualness scheme to finance, t would get ten old er nan of established reliability ami conservatism to present it for ma to the bunkers. "Tenth is not always so good, either. In the production end of a big busi ness handling force of men and getting t in- work net of them. In the Brat place, the man who u bossing the lob should have occupied nil the. leaser Jobs between him find the bottom rung of the ladder. This aafulrea time, And. furthermore, men do not Ilk- to work under u boss who looks too much like ii mere boy. no mutter how siniirt or caimble or experienced he may Ice. It Isn't ncccsicrv thnt he be as obi as most of them, but he should be old enough to give nn Impression of ma turity. The average workman doeaot eara much whether the boss is thirty or forty, but It inlu'ht make a. differ ence whether be is thirty or only twenty." Painter's Freniy. The pointer-engraver, Alexander Lu nccis excelled in Oriental acenea, lie had passed half bis life in the bands of tbe Ifuaaetman, His works were full f light, lull of color, full of move mint. .During bis last illness, at Par is. where hN elegant apartments looked out upon the quay, he wee on bis couch, burning up with fever. Prom time to time he threw a ululioe upon ii beautiful Van Pyck. The pic ture whs Covered by a (lass. Sudden ly III the reflections of ii gliiss of water hc ImilL'illcd Ibfit be Kim- In tin, u,.,rl. loner llass found It necessary to Nl Kht a dnme of .l,.lls,p,es. such leave before the work of the regular as In former days be had seen In Ton tern at the rirst of this month hud been entirely completed, there-tor-it was considered advisable to hold iin adjourned lerm at this time, es aimoi i:kd TERM OK COUNTY rot ItT An adjourned term of county court bus been In session during this week. 'omii.i i KobliiH had been ah-1 sent from the county und Cnnimis- Government agencies dealing with highway problems fully recognize the vital military und economic impor tancs of the country's roads, accor ding to u letter Irom -cretary of Ag i.cit.ture liouulon to Arthur II. I'lemlng, chief of the State Councils Section, Council of National Defense. The Secretary, whose department administers the Federal aid road uet stated also tho Government recog nizes that it ll necessary to construct, reconstruct, or maintain roads es sential for military and vital ec cm peclally as the Stale Highway Kngl neers were here ami th court desir ed lo confer with them. Among the orders mac!.- at I lie pi mil lerm are: The cieri; Instructed to make an additional appropriation, of HOd to the fund set aside for poison tor grasshoppers. The court also authorized Waldo Oeer to procure the services of at least three men to locate the depos its of grusshoppers. Ira Neisou road- ordered viewed and surveyed. F. Klsaenger roud ordered viewed. V. Cawlfleld road ordered viewed. County Treasurer directed to trans fer 8000 from the rabbit bounty fund to the load fund, lllghwuy Knglueer M. o, Bennett and his assistants were before the court Thursday afternoon aud the mutter of the roud between this point and Crune discussed, ulso changes in tho line to the west, one already authorized, or rather petitioned for and ordered viewed and surveyed on Sage lien, changing the road north of tho Tom Jenkins plucu to avoid some low ground, and another proposed chunge lu the Bend road lo the north of Glass Duties. Tho court had expected a confer once with the engineers yentorduy uf ternoou, but Instead the road men went to tho country and looked over the field. stantlilople. II mid not restrain himself. He leaped from his bed unci nil trembling, he seized bis palette, Ills brushes, ami frantically set at work upon a marvelpua sketch. I II wlfe found Mm. nude save for a slight CpVrrlng ever Ills shoulders, his eves sunken, his leelb chattering, painting c ltd the fury of a imidmnn. She- led him buck to bis COUCh. He clled n few clnys later nil'' lb,, uk tcleicoc- of the great nnisi remained unfinished. Played Too Slow Pleceg. Wlenluwskl had his humorous ex perlencea this even after be was quite widely known. On one occasion, relates Alexander Itloch In Ibe New York Times, he was asked by h wealthy British nobleman lo state Ills terms for playing a half hour at bis home. They came to an agreement, ami on the evening "f tho muaieale Wieiilawskl opened the program "lib Beethoven's Boinanae In F. lie was playing his best and deeply engrossed In I he music when he sud denly noticed out of tb -tier of his eye the host nervously looking at Ids Watch This happened several times before tbe RoOMHWe mm finished. At Its close, us he was bowing his acknowledgments to rapturous up- phllise, the British I c-atlgbl III III by the sleeve and Whispered In Ids cur: "For henvin's sake, man, how much do you epect to g HiioukIi lu half an hour nl this ratal Why do you pluy such slow pieces?" Steady as s Rock. Parmer Haye That Jones boy thnt used to work for yon wauls me to give him a Job. Is he steady? Parmer Reads Wall, if ha wad any steadier he'd be motionless. N. BROWN & SONS Brown 's Satisfactory Store QUALITY MERCHANDISE Walk Over Shoes Stetson Hats Bon Ton Corsets limns. Oregon We currj goods advertised en tin- "li ome Products Piigc" W. T. LESTER A.A.TRAUGCTT Inland Empire Realty Co. Building and Farm Loans Made Direct Farms and Ranches Homesteads REAL Blueprints ESTATE Fire Insurance Life Insurance Oilier Phone B-HO Resident Phonts G-06 and G-43 L Agents for WRAY'S STAGE Members Barns Commercial Club LIBERTY THEATRE Sunday, July 28th Big 7-Real Programme Pallas Pictures Present Vivian Martin in "The Trouble Buster" Miss Marttn has in overflowing measure wlmt Charles Prosaan called th greatest pif tl the theatre I'll ATM . Ml , 7 eLaiBBew im VIVIAN MARTIN in The Trouble Buster" JlQkuamoiuaQkctui Wednesday, July 31st Billie Burke in tho "Mysterious Miss Terry" i