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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
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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.