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ONE CROP.
HE 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 B ale” 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 m anufacturing
' .country and its prosperity depends largely
On the products of the soil. The utter failure
of a m arket for cotton then, is seen to be a
catastrophe. The method th at is being used
to divert disaster is being applied in Oregon
for the relief of apple growers who have no
European m arket, and the slogan in Oregon
cities is “ Buy a Box.”
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 th at the success of several may he
offset by the failure of others. And in the
present case the cotton and apple growers
can be 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 farm er if he will put his hand to
several different projects so th at 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
vest 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.
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WAR UNCIVILIZED. .
HAT ANY CIVILIZATION that is not
founded on the principles of human
brotherhood cannot endure, is the edi­
torial conviction of the Portland Oregoniafi.
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 w ar could
not destroy the products of its boasted twen­
tieth-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 de­
populated, her cities in ruins, Antwerp taken
after a ten days’ siege. We see a large part
of fair France tram pled 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
Galfcia 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 sho 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 C’hina and the Pacific. On all
hands, in the supposedly most civilized
countries of the Old W orld, we see death,
suffering, disease, misery, poverty, hunger
and devastation.
“ This is a picture which should take away
all. m an’s pride in the achievements of his
race and Rliould fill him with humiliation. It
reveals the human race as harboring barbar­
ism in the same brain which develops civil­
ization, and as mailing the arts and sciences,
the great discoveries, the skill of hand and
brain, the broadened knowledge and the uni­
versal education—all th at com post what we
call civilization—m ere instruments of barbar­
ism. The world which we have been accus­
tomed to call civilized has proved to be
naught else hut a world of highly educated,
highly skilled and highly developed barbar­
ians. We have been humbugging ourselves
with the term ‘civilized w arfare.’ Now we
realize the absurdity of the phrase, for the
two words contradict each other. W ar can­
not be civilized, in the true sense of the
word, for war is barbarism and destroys
civilization.
“ Grim fact«, force us to cast aside all
shams and to abandon all delusive phrases.
We are brought back to the fundam ental
tru th th at 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 th a t 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 a^ain 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.
( ( ’l y f l i n j B th e re ’s life th e re ’s hope.”
‘ ‘ Perseverance means success ’’ and
other bromides will receive new
life from the latest example of the victory
of determ ination—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 transform ed; gate receipts in­
creased by the thousands, and even a great
w ar could not pre-empt the interest received
by the national game.
Back of it all was a determ ination to win.
The “ B raves” did not lose hope when then-
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
largo p art of cast-offs from other teams
(Gowdy, the batsman who sprang into fame,
was released by New Y ork; Evers, field
m anager and second baseman, was “ fire d ”
by M urphy of the Cubs) proved the great­
est baseball factor in the nation. The men
played like a mighty machine without the
jealousies which often mark an “ all-atar”
team, and they did not lose hope. And there
is the secret!
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TH E TRANSFORMATION.
OT A GREAT MANY centuries ago *
certain carpeuter of Nazareth preach-
cd 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
bom “ culture” and “ enlightenm ent” , there
broke a war, in which, in the frenzy of blind
hatred and barbarity, civilizations that were
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’ hovel*.
Like some gigantic illusion the crimsoa
glare of war overspread the eastern world.
And the teachings of the Prince of Peace
seemed ta r away Indeed.
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DAIRY COWS AND STUMPS.
AIRY COWS will be a leading factor m
the logged-off land problem. The rick
valley lands of the Coast section withia
easy reach of transportation pays out on the
cost of clearing in a few years. It is the up­
land clay soils with stumps which are slow
in being developed, but mnch 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 thw
stump land in the early p a rt of September,
harrowing or hand-raking among the stumpa
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.
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A green driver is afraid to scorch in sa
automobile through city streets, an experi­
enced driver knows better. It is only the
fool that takes chances—and he may be sober
or ha m ar ba drunk.