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APPEAL
, BY JOSEPH MACQUEEN.
THEY were talking- of the delight
experienced In wearing pink silk
socks, but differed sharply as to
glories of shades and colors did two
stalwart-looking young men of this
city recently.
You would have thought they were
discussing politics, football, baseball
or boxing. But no. These young men
were rich, carefully dressed and mani
cured, in the latest fashion of some
idle-rich Americans.
They lolled on their club sofas and
yawned.
"Tell you what it Is," said one gay
"bird of leisure, "let's go for some exer
cise in the open air. Let's go to the
ball game.
They bought a fresh supply of cigar
ettes, and exercised in the open air that
eunny afternoon by sitting on a base
ball stand watching and applauding a
game of ball. They ate so many pea
nuts that the dinner that followed
didn't taste good. More lolling on the
sofa at the club.
''We have spent a patriotic day I
don t think," said a six-footer. Glad
It's bedtime. I'm afraid exercise in the
open air don't suit me. S'long!'
This is no fancy sketch.
I have nothing against baseball. It's
all right in its place. But we have too
many soft-muscled, flabby, stomach
laden, anaemic young men particu
larly in our cities who don't get in the
game, who aren't growing into strong
men. able to take part and excel in the
battle of life.
Such young men would talk fight if
you questioned their Americanism, their
patriotism, but at the same time they
would decline, probably, to obey any
order that didn't suit their convenience.
They have no idea of the blessing of
real discipline., or working gladly in a
Hi. as. for the benefit of a. whole.
If you tried to curb them, they would
Accuse you of wishing to impose cruel
militarism on them. They would
bridle up and remind you that they
are free-born Americans who insist on
looking another man between the eyes
and telling him to mind his own busi
ness. Discipline? Drill? Huh!
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Employers are beginning to size up
healthy-looking, stalwart, clean shaven,
neat, well, but not expensively, dressed
young fellows among their employes
for promotion: men who obey orders,
as if on the crack of a whip; men who
gladly do teamwork; men who don't
carry a chip on their shiulders; men
who are so healthy that they don't
waste business time by being ill often;
men who are examples of high-class
but not noisy efficiency. "Bluffers"
and "soft-snap men" who work best
when the boss is near, men who work
by the clock, men who snivel: "Let
George do it." when rush orders come
In machine shop, office or bank, need
not wonder that promotion passes
them. They have been found wanting
as employes. Their bodies and minds
are not in tune with business efficiency.
J "What's all this about?
J Just National service. t
J Not European militarism,
i Xo. sir.
I mean military drill In the Oregon
Xatlonal Guard. To be exact. I want
- to interest you in the big guns of Bat
tery A, field artillery, with headquarters
at the Armory, Tenth and Couch streets,
- where the men of Battery A, Captain
Charles W. Helme, commanding, meet
lor drill every Friday night.
Young man, if you have no bad
habits, if you are sober, if you are
healthy, if you will be persuaded that
cane military drill in reason will make
you a better man and a better Amer
ican, if you love horses, why not think
About joining Battery A.
Not next year (you may be too lazy
then, or married to a wife, mother-in-
EXTENSION WORK OF
O. A. C. FAR-REACHING
Co-Operation Is Keynote in Many Activities That Are Undertaken for
Benefit and Knowledge of Farmers. .
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis. March 25.
(Special.) The work of the ex
tension department of the Oregon Ag
ricultural College last year reached out
into every county in Oregon, aiding
farmer, housewife, business men en
" gaged in industries allied to agricul-
ture, teachers, school children and even
professional men. according to the an
nual report this week, submitted by
Kalph D. Hertzel. director of exten
sion. -
The extension service is distinct from
-the college experiment station work,
and the resident instruction in that
it is directed to the instruction of those
not able to receive the resident work
and In that it aids the experimental
service by carrying the facts discov
ered by the research men to the people
of the state.
The work is carried on co-operatively
with the United States Department of
Agriculture, according to the rneasures
of the Smith-Lever act providing funds
for extension work.
7 Work Is Far-Reachlns.
. The extension department has been
organized to include county agent ser
vice, boys' and girls' club work, cor
respondence courses, lectures and in
stitutes, press bulletins, movable
schools, field and farm demonstrations
in co-operation with individual farmers.
Judging at fairs, co-operative field
dairy work, general correspondence,
educational exhibits, the bureau of or
ganization and markets, and the annual
farmers' and home-makers' exercises
on the college campus.
The two latter lines of work were
added to the field of extension service
during the past year. Hog cholera con
trol and demonstration work was be
gun during the year under the direc
tion of an expert from the United
States bureau of animal Industry, but
due to the outbreak of foot and mouth
disease in the East, which required the
services of the entire available Gov
MADE FOR ENLISTMENT WITH BATTERY A BIG GUNS
Military Training Improves American's Standards and Instills Idea of Patriotism, Says Joseph Macqueen.
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law and a bunch of new relatives) but
now.
Intending recruits, there will be an
artillery officer at Battery A rooms.
Armory, every night this week, wait
ing for you. See him. He will explain
gladly all you want to know. It won't
cost you one cent. Do as much for
yourself as an American, and for Unci
Sam.
Take warning from my case: I re
gret deeply that years ago I did not
Join the National Guard. I wasted my
youthful time. Had I then known mili
tary efficiency; military drill and the
willingness to obey discipline I would
have been a better American.
What, then, has changed , me from
my former peace-at-any-price views?
The big war in Europe. Oratocs like
David Starr Jordan and Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise talked so eloquently in my
presence of universal peace and against
the .horrors of war that they persuaded
me there would never be another world
wide war. "The world is too civilized
tiow. The bankers and democracy of
the world would ne,ver permit another
big war. Aroitrate everytning. Love
your enemies. Melt your cannon." and
so fonth, were the peace arguments.
I believed such talk up to July-
August. 1914.
But. biff! Europe became blood-red.
ernment staff, the project was tempo
rarily discontinued.
The extension service occupies the
entire time of 33 specialists in various
lines ,of agriculture and home econom
ics. Members of the regular college
staff to the number of 31 devote a
portion of their time to their part of
the extension projects.
Boys' and Girls' Club work, which is
carried on by the extension department
in co-operatiori- with the State Depart
ment of Education and the United
States Department of Agriculture, has
been very successful during the past
year. Various projects were outlined
for different localities and different in
clinations of the young people.
The following numbers were enrolled
in the respective projects: Corn clubs.
625; potatoes. 798; gardening. 2210;
canning. 1020; poultry, 1043; pigs, 272;
bread-making, 1620; sewing, 2750;
handicrafts, 500 ; dairying, 225; seed
grain, 98; fruit. 25,. and advanced agri
culture. 21.
Exhibits Made Daring, Summer.
The work of the extension service in
club work has been in charge of Pro
fessor F. L. Griffith, who recently re
signed to accept similar work in con
nection with Cornell University. Pro
fessor H. C. Seymour, formerly of
Dallas, will carry on the work this
year. Miss Helen Cowgill is assistant
in charge of the home economics work,
and Leonard J. Allen, a graduate' of
the college, has been placed in charge
of pig-club work.
The ciub work was carried on during
the Summer under the direction of the
extension staff, and exhibits were pre
pared for the various county fairs and
for the State Fair by the club members.
While no spectacular yields or results
were obtained, many of the club mem
bers produced from two to three times
the average yield for the state in
growing corn and potatoes.
Many unprofitable dairy cows were
sent to the block as a result of the
records kept by club members, and sev
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TITE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, POTITLAJTD.
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'the 7&roZs:
Big nations began to gobble up little
nations. Seas did not prevent inva
sion. "Kings can do no wrong."
Our America is vulnerable, but it is
worth protecting, worth carmg for.
Ocean distance from envious nations
won't save us when the kings, the emperors-get
land hungry. We are rich,
the only one of the big powers not
wasted by war. We are a business peo
ple, not a military one. But many of
eral of the club members demonstrated
that pork could be produced at a cost
of 4 to 5 cents per pound.
Interest Is Wideiipread.
Widespread interest was manifested
in the home-canning projects as relat
ed to both home cosumption and the
market. Such work is expected to have
a direct bearing upon-the marketing of
by-products and the elimination of
waste in seasons of overproduction.
The farm demonstration work, which
is carried on through the county agri
culturists, is the largest single branch
of the extension service. The organi
zation for the past year included 12
county agents and a state leader and
assistant. Since the report for the past
year was compiled, four more county
agriculturists have been added to the
number, and several counties have the
employment of an agriculturist under
consideration at present.
More than 30 direct lines of work are
taken up by the county agents, the
variations in the work being due to
different climatic and crop conditions
in the different sections of the state.
Individual assistance both by personal
visits to the farms and by correspond
ence is a branch of the jvork which
reached thousands of farmers.
Demonstration AVorlc Done.
Co-operative demonstration work
was carried on with 821 farmers. Cow
testing and breeding associations,
drainage district organizations and co
operative marketing enterprises were
other projects taken up by the county
men. They assisted in the conducting
of farmers' meetings, demonstrations
and movable schools, co-operating -in
this with the extension field Special
ists of the college.
The revival of several county fairs
and the conducting of acre corn contests
were other branches of work carried,
on by the county agriculturists.
Very fayorable results were obtained
from the Introduction of grains and
grasses new to a number of localities
in both ' Eastern and Western Oregon.
It was conclusively demonstrated that
alfalfa could be grown in rows in the
semi-arid districts for the production
of choice seeds.
Corn Yield Is Increased.
A large Increase in both the acreage
and yield of corn was obtained throiiKh
the introduction of adapted varieti&s
and the testing and selection of seed,
in Malheur County corn was not for
merly grown, but as a result of the
campaign of the. extension men 12U
f ' '"to, 4. - .
us say we won't fight for America
except when we are Invaded.
In that case we must remember that
it takes six to nine months to train
a soldier, and that the trained enemy
who lands in our America won't wait
until we train our soldiers.
,
Therefore, I believe heart and soul,
not in greedy and cruel militarism, but
In sensible preparedness. Train all
bushels were produced on a single acre
and the yield averaged 80 bushels to
the acre in a county contest. In Tilla
mook County, long thought to be poorly
adapted to corn growing, 60 tons of
silage was produced upon the best acre
devoted to corn. Average silage yields
were satisfactory.
Interest has been aroused in the
benefits of drainage in the Willamette
Valley. Individual farmers were aided
in the establishment of private drain
age districts.
Union, Marion, Malheur, Lane, Lake,
Klamath, Wheeler, Harney. Tillamook,
Coos. Crook and Jackson counties had
agriculturists last year. Multnomah.
Wasco. Yamhill and Josephine counties
have this year employed county agri
culturists. As far as is possible, grad
uates from the Oregon Agricultural
College who have lived on Oregon
farms prior to their college days and
who have since been engaged for a
few years in agricultural w.rk in the
state, are appointed county agricul
turists. Forty-four Bulletins Are Issued.
The bulletins and circulars of the
extension service issued during the past
year numbered 44 and covered most
of the branches ot agriculture and
home economics. These publications
were prepared In non-technical form,
in a manner to be readily interpreted
by the farmer and housewife for whose
use they were published.
The bulletins ranged in size and
scope from two-page circulars' on some
special phase of an agricultural prob
lem to a 48-page bulletin. More than
200.000 of these publications were is
sued. An elgh-column press bulletin
containing timely articles and news
stories was sent weekly to the news
papers and agricultural press of Ore
gon and other states.
During the year the extension staff
held meetings ranging in length , from
one day to one week, with a total at
tendance of 112,580 persons. Meetings
were held In every county.
Movable Schools Conducted.
This includes 91 days of movable
school work at which there were reg
istered 15,065 persons. '''hese schools
are heldby from three to five mem
bers of the extension staff of agri
cultural srecialists and are usually ar
ranged so 4hat each day. or a portion
of each day, is designated for instruc
tional work in some special phase of
agriculture and home economics, there
by permitting the farmer and house
wife students to gauge their attendance
STARCH 26, 1016.
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our young men. at home, to be soldiers.
In Battery A recruits have to drill only
one night per week more if they want
to. They will be supplied free of all
charge with uniforms and general
equipment.
A.t the Armory there are four three
inch guns, or cannon, 1904 model,
weighing 835 pounds each, with a
maximum range of about 7500 yards,
and each gun, made by the United
States Government at Watervleit arse
nal, N. Y., costs $10,000. These guns
are lent to the State of Oregon by the
National Government and are cared for
-at the Armory by jblo. expert mechanic,
Charles M. Pickard.
These guns are as closely attended
to as your watch, or kitchen range.
The Government instructor and .drill
master is Sergeant William Petrick.
The "life" of these big guns lasts, ex
perts say, until 3000 to 8000 rounds are
fired.
At Clackamas, Or., is the state rifle
range, including the artillery depot.
There are 28 artillery horses there, in
charge of Sergeant Elkins and four
by their, individual interests. Field
work by the extension men usually
preceded or followed these schools.
The central staff of field specialists,
consisting of J. E. Larsen. agronomist;
E. D. Pitts, dairyman; Ralph E. Reyn
olds, animal husbandryman; C. C.
Lamb, poultry husbandryman; W. S.
Brown, horticulturist, and G. V. Skel
ton, highway engineer, -held 192 demon
strations in various parts of the state.
Included, in these demonstrations were
pruning and spraying, road repairing,
livestock judging, laying out of drain
age systems and the handling of poul
try and poultry products.
Associations Are Formed.
Two men are employed continually in
co-operative dairy work with the. Unit
ed . States Department of Agriculture.
One has headquarters at the Oregoi
Agricultural College and the second is
now located at La Grande. These men
aid in the formation of co-operative
dairy organizations, organize and di
rect dairy herd record clubs, deliver
lectures at farmers' meetings, and aid
in the building of silos in addition to
carrying on other branches of field
demonstration work.
New cow-testing associations were
organized last year to include 216
farmers, placing 3715 cows upon test.
The tests so far have proved that from
33 to 50 per cent of the cows in the
average herd are entirely unprofitable,
and that the net returns from the five
best cows in such. 'herds amount to three
to four times the .net returns from the
five poorest cows. Assistance has been
given in the organization of a co-operative
creamery, a cream shippers' as
sociation, and a co-operative cheese
factory.
. Record Keeping; Organised.
Dairy record keeping was organized
In 45 rural schools and in many of the
schools Judging teams were organized
and directed. Emergency ' veterinary
work is a feature of the service ren
dered by.the dairy field men.
Educational exhibits were prepared
by the extension service for display
at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, the
State Fair and the Portland Land Show,
in addition to several county grange
and community fairs.
The Farmers' and Home Makers' In
dustrial Conference Week was taken
over by the extension department last
year. Several farmers' organizations
were formed at these annual one-week
courses and are meeting with growing
success. Among them are the Ore
gon Drainage Association and the
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assistants; and Sundays Battery A boys
go to Clackamas and enjoy horseback
rides. They drill, eat a Government
lunch, and their railroad fares to and
from the city are also paid for by the
Government. You see, there is no ex
pense to Battery A men. Everything
is "found." .
July 16 this year Battery A leaves
this city to attend a two-weeks' in
struction camp provided by the United
States Government near Monterey, Cal.,
on a range of 40,000 acres leased to
the Government at a yearly rentat of
$5000. The men will be conveyed from
this city by a Southern Pacific Railroad
train and this year the artillery camp
chosen is to be near to the famous golf
links and Del Monte Hotel, Monterey,
Cal. Artillery officers of the regular
Army will "boss" the encampment and
there will be a good time in the open
air for all. Strict sobriety and good
behavior are insisted on at every Bat
tery A event. Last year at the Monte
rey camp there were 170 trained artil
lery horses, and the big guns were fired
947 times. For the Monterey camp in
Oregon Field Crop and Seed Growers'
Association.
During the year the Bureau of Or
ganization and Markets was organized
under tho direction of Professor Hec
tor Macpherson. Business forms, con
stitutions, methods of accounting and
bookkeeping have been outlined and
distributed to persons Interested In co
operative organizations of different
types.
Correspondence In reply to requests
for information exclusive of that per
taining to administrative work, and
schools and lectures amounted to 15,096
letters.
UNCLE SAM, STORK KEEPER
Physician Urges Government Repre
1 sentative at Every Birth.
MILWAUKEE. Wis.. March 17.
"The day is coming when we shall
want to use the scientific knowledge
we are acquiring, so that every child
coming into the world will have at
birth the presence of a Government
physician to see that it is guaranteed
life." declared Dr. Carles Zueblin. of
Boston, in a lecture at the library under
the auspices of the Milwaukee Ma
ternity Hospital.
"The mother may have as many pri
vate physicians and as many other
people as are within the command of
her pocketbook, but the Government
will guarantee a decent entrance into
the world. That is a perfectly legiti
mate requisite on the basis of the sci
entific knowledge we have. Does that
seem Utopian?
"We already Impose penalties for
failure to report a death. Surely it
is more of a crime not to get children
into the world properly. Once in the
world, the child is tie offspring of
the Nation, as well as of the mother
and father. As we inspect the chil
dren coming from Europe, we must
inspect those coming from nowfhere."
Wheat Is 40 00 (Years Old.
DALLAS. Tex.. March 21. When the
late John Cardwell, of Austin, was
United States Consul at Cairo, Egypt,
he sent to his eld friend. Colonel F. P.
Holland, of Dallas, a small, quantity
of wheat that he had taken ' from the
tomb of one of the ancient kings in
newly-explored ruins upon the banks
of the Nile.
This wheat was known to be more
St
m? Up,. There;.
July. 1916, a few more recruits can b
accepted, if you enlist now. Battery
A can be recruited up to 133 men.
field artillery acts as a unit with
Infantry and cavalry, but especially
with infantry. The war in Europe
shows that to win a modern battle a
preponderance of artillery is neces
sary to batter to bits the enemy's
trenches, to prepare for an infantry at
tack with bayonets. The famous French,
field gun Is 75 millimeters, or 2.95
inches, while in the German and British
armies the field guns of this type
slightly exceed three inches. The field
gun of the United States Army is three
inches he same as the guns of Bat
tery A.
I have nothing against the infantry,
cavalry, machine gun men or naval
militia, but I whoop it up for the bis
field guns. Why? They appeal to me.
In action the big guns speak first, and
in this country artillery batteries are.
weak. There are only 70 of them in
the United States National Guard. Too
many recruits pass by the artillery.
This should not be.
than 4,000 years old. Thgass con
tainer which holds the grain is her
metically sealed. To all outward ap
pearances the wheat is Just as sound
as the day it was flayed from the
head in the long ago, when the earth,
was inhabited by a civilization that is
now forgotten. The grains are plump
and large.
"I have been told that the gralna
would probably germinate if planted,
but I have never tried any of them,"
Colonel Holland said.
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