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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1914)
HOME AND FAEM MAGAZINE SECTION Home and Farm Magazine Section Editorial Page Timely, Pertinent Comment Upon lien and Affairs, Following the Trend of World News; Suggestions of Interest to Headers; Hints Along Lines of Progressive Farm Thought. TO'ADVERTISERS. Advertisers In this locality who wish to fully cover all sections of Oregon and Washington and a portion of Idaho will apply to local publishers for rates. General advertisers may address C. L. Burton, Advertising Manager of Farm Magazine Co., Publishers Oregon-Washington-Idaho Farmer, 411 Panama Build ing, Portland, Oregon, for rates and in formation, s TO READERS. Readers are requested to send letters and articles for publication to The Edi tor, Oregon-Washingtor-Idaho Fanner, 411 Panama Building, Portland, .Oregon. Discussions on questions and prob lems that bear directly on the agricul tural, live stock and poultry interests of the Northwest, and on the uplift and comfort of the farm home always are welcomed. No letters treating of reli gion, politics or the European war are solicited, for the Farm Magazine pro claims neutrality on these three matters. Comparatively brief contributions are preferred to long ones. Send us also photographs of your live stock and farm scenes that you think would be of gen eral interest. We wish to make this magazine of value to you. Help us to do it ONE CROP. THE SOUTH is now learning the pro verbial lesson which teaches the fool ishness of relying on but one thing for prosperity. Cotton, the greatest of southern crops, is practically a drug on the market, the European war shutting off a demand for millions of bales. A frantic .effort is being made to dispose of the cotton on hand without disaster to the grower in the "Buy a Bala" movement. This project will meet with success, we hope, but it does not hide for a moment the improvidence of putting all the eggs in the same basket. Tobacco is a big crop in some sections of the South, but cotton is assuredly the great est of all southern products, and it over shadows other industries in this section. .The South is not a great manufacturing .country and its prosperity depends largely on the products of the soil. The utter failure of a market for cotton then, is seen to be a catastrophe. The method that is being used to divert disaster is being applied in Oregon for the relief of apple growers who have no European market, and the slogan in Oregon Cities is "Buy a Box." i Yet it is not always folly to put one's money in one crop. Often it is most improvi dent to invest in many varieties to such an extent that the success of several may be offset by the failure of others. And in the present case the cotton and apple growers can bo forgiven readily for not counting on the possibilities of a European war, for, until a few brief months ago, none on this continent and few in the old world knew the lighted match was so near the powder keg. Still, it will often prove to the advantage of the farmer if he will put his hand to several different projects so that the failure of one through an unforeseen calamity will not bring poverty to his door. Also, it is a poor economy that leads the grower to in Test his all in one crop and to depend on the profits from that to furnish him with necessities of life that could be produced on his own farm. WAR UNCIVILIZED. , THAT ANY CIVILIZATION that is not founded on the principles of human brotherhood cannot endure, is the edi torial conviction of the Portland Oregonian. In a recent comment this newspaper says: "The so-called civilized world has been reading for many years of the horrors of war. It has read of the wars of former times and of present-day wars in remote countries which it regards as the frontiers of civiliza tion, but has vainly dreamed that war could not destroy the products of its boasted twentieth-century civilization. It is now appalled at the spectacle of war devastating the con tinent from which enlightenment was pre sumed to radiate. "We see Belgium laid waste and half do 0ulate,d1 her cities jn ruins, Antwerp taken after a ten days' siege. We see a large part of fair France trampled by Germans, whose army is now face to face with the allied French and British forces in a grim, inde cisive struggle 'of mutual slaughter. We see Galicia overrun by Russia, many of its peo ple fugitives. Austria and Hungary are prey to dread cholera, their cities crowded with wounded and fugitives, and Russia and Ger many are at death grips in the East, pouring millions of men and money into the conflict. England lives in dread of bombardment from the air, as she makes over-late preparations for defense. Little Holland, wedged in be tween the belligerents, is swamped with the care of a million Belgian, refugees, and with difficulty maintains neutrality between the conflicting demands of Britain and Germany. Italy and Turkey arm to the teeth and hesi tate whether or when to join in the fray. Japan strives to drive Germany from her outposts in China and the Pacific. On all hands, in the supposedly most civilized countries of the Old World, we see death, suffering, disease, misery, poverty, hunger and devastation, "This is a picture which should take away all, man's pride in the achievements of his race and should fill him with humiliation. It reveals the human race as harboring barbar ism in the same brain which develops civil ization, and as making the arts and sciences, the great discoveries, the skill of hand and brain, the broadened knowledge and the uni versal education all that composes what we call civilization mere instruments of barbar ism. The world which we have been accus tomed to call civilized has proved to be naught else but a world of highly educated, highly skilled and highly developed barbar ians. We have been humbugging ourselves with the term 'civilized warfare.' Now we realize the absurdity of the phrase, for the two words contradict each other. War can not be civilized, in the true sense of the word, for war is barbarism and destroys civilization. "Grim facts force us' to cast aside all shams and to abandon all delusive phrases. We are brought back to the fundamental truth that the first essential of civilization is justice and fair dealing between men and nations the Golden Rule that each should do unto others as he would they should do unto him. Any civilization that is built on any other foundation is a mockery and will be swept away by new tides of barbarism, rising not alone from without but from with in, as the civilization of Babylon, Nineveh, Egypt, Greece and Rome were swept away. When this war ends, mankind, humbled and disillusioned, will need to begin again toil somely to build up a new civilization on the solid rock of justice and truth, and must suffer no barbarism disguised in civilized trappings to exist." AN OBJECT LESSON. -, HILE there's life there's hope." Perseverance means success and other bromides will receive new life from the latest example of the victory of determination the team which startled the baseball world. Tail-enders with the season half gone; pennant winners at the season's close; world champions by the unprecedented winning of four straight games from what was believed to be the greatest of baseball machines this is the record of the Boston "Braves." A year which threatened the very life of organized baseball was transformed; gate receipts in creased by the thousands, and even a great war could not pre-empt the interest received by the national game. Back of it all was a determination to win. The "Braves" did not lose hope when their best players were crippled at the opening of the season and they lost game after game, while the Giants gained an almost insur mountable lead. And the team composed in large part of cast-offs from other teams (Gowdy, the batsman who sprang into fame, was released by New York; Evers, field manager and second baseman, was "fired" by Murphy of the Cubs) proved the great est baseball factor in the nation. The men played like a mighty machine without the jealousies which of tea mark an "all-eiar" team, and they did not lose hope: And there is the secret I CONCERNING ADVERTISING. THE READERS of a magazine make the magazine. If the publication is ap proved of by them and merits their support they will show this by patronage of the advertisers. This co-operation is neces sary to the success of any venture in the publishing field which secures its revenue through its advertisements. The cost to the reader of the average newspaper scarcely covers the expense of the white paper upon which it is printed. It will be seen that a magazine is a co operative institution. The publishers of the Farm Magazine invest capital and employ the men to write for the paper, to put it in type and to mail it to subscribers. Through their subscriptions, the readers contribute their portion. The advertisers, using the cir culation to carry to the consumers informa tion concerning their goods, contribute their share. For this reason we earnestly request our readers when writing to the advertisers in the Farm Magazine or,when ordering goods, to state where they saw the advertisement Thisjnsures the readers full consideration, and gives added value to the advertising columns of this publication. It is not mueh to ask and is of great benefit to us and en ables us to put before you a magazine that merits careful reading. There are many things you need with' which you are not familiar. Extend your knowledge as far as possible concerning th various labor-saving implements of agricul ture and the labor-saving household appli ances. We commend our advertisers to your consideration. They are a selected list, stirr ing to serve you. Unless commerce is mutually profitable ta buyer and seller, it ends. Our advertisers da not compete with your home stores they ar selected that there may not be such a con flict. Bringing to your doors articles yon need at reasonable prices, the advertiser should bo considered a friend and a neigh bor. Patronage of our advertisers benefits yor them and incidentally us. THE TRANSFORMATION. NOT A GREAT MANY centuries ago I certain carpenter of Nazareth preach ed a doctrine of peace upon earth, From a handful of fishermen about the Sea of Galilee, his followers increased until they were numbered in millions. Then, in a world called Christian, upon a continent where was born "culture" and "enlightenment", there broke a war, in which, in the frenzy of blind hatred and barbarity, civilizations that wert centuries in building flug themselves at each others' throats. Lovers of peace and slaves of war lust mingled their blood in the shambles of battle. Stately cathedrals crumbled by the side of peasants' hovels. Like some gigantic illusion the erimsoa glare of war overspread the eastern world. And the teachings of the Prince of Pe&ci seemed far away indeed. DAIRY COWS AND STUMPS. DAIRY COWS will be a leading factor the logged-off land problem. The rieS valley lands of the Coast section withia easy reach of transportation pays out on tbt cost of clearing in a few years. It is the up land clay soils with stumps which are slow in being developed, but much of this is worth from $10 to $25 per acre for pasturage. Some of our leading dairymen seed clover and mixed varieties of grass seed on this stump land in the early part of September, harrowing or hand-raking among the stumps to cover the seed as best they can. This af fords pasture by another season and gradu ally the stumps can be taken out from year to year as opportunity affords. A green driver is afraid to scorch in an automobile through city streets, an expert enced driver knows better. It is only the fool that takes chances and he may be sober st he mai be drank.