The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 263, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 23, 1917 Page: 9 of 48
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HOUSTON DAILY POST: SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 23. 1917.
V;
Mil SITOATIOH
HOT DISCOURAGING
Firccri Eiti No Ream for E&i
Disccsragei.
All Funi 3htald 2e Cleaaed V by
Having Kabbiah i and Trash
; r B.urnetl--Habita of Insects .
Should Be Studied. .
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gY W. W.'-tVANS. .
(Specialist In control work with fsdtril
Horticultural loard Btiumont. Ttxas.)
Tbo prooenco of Uio pink boll worm
In th . sswal countlei of Southeut
TeiM should not prorent the fanners
and popla tnrlly in thoa counties
whsrs th1nfeeUtion la found and where
a qurntln restriction with regard to
rrowtnff and fcaadUa cotton ta eminent
from n taring tbe ow year full of hope
and' ntauataam for prosperity and suo-
eesa and with aa earnest and sincere rss-
olutlon to make this aaetlon of Texas the
tree test agricultural part of the State.
We hare realised from past experiences
and lessons the need of better cultural
metheda with reference to ill farm crops
better orchard practices better live stock
management and better systems of (arm
management so that we can have hap
pier homes and more contented lives and
better and more cheerful surroundings
and to provide our farm homes with more
of the necessities of life.
We ahould all feel with all tbe tin-
cerlty that we can commend that we are
a living part gf the community in which
we abide and that the school and church
and trading center ' the roada and the
farmstead are the Instrumentalities
through which the highest aspirations of
life and the ultimate goal of agriculture
may be reached.
BACH PIRSON
MUST DO PANT.
We know that In order to have all these
things we must each do our part in
this greet co-operative movement from
which we should all derive a beneficial
share. I make this statement for the
reason I nave heard it said that some
cotton farmers would move from the
countlea if a Quarantine was placed over
them preventing the growing of cot-
ton. It may be that these farmers would
do better to mova to other sections
under most any condition! but the mov-
ing of these people should not be at-
tributed to work of suppreaalngethe pink
boll worm. AH farmers In Southeast
Texaa ahould engage themselves at this
time in cleaning up the (arm by burning
rubbish and trash to study the life
hablta of Insects which live upon our
crops and destroy annually millions of
dollars worth of crops; to become
familiar with the history of the pink boll
worm and assist In the methods of con-
trol through the office of the federal
horticultural board at Bpaumon.
Seek the advice of this office before
plowing stalks under Whsie Infection has
been found or ia suspected to exist.
Clean up the farm of all cotton cotton
seed and cotton sed hulls through the
wfSxanri means provided for by the of-
fl 3 the federal board and the 8 tale
depigment o( agriculture. Prepare for
the planting of other crops than oottton.
The eyes of the State the cotton south
and the nation are upon this section of
Texas. Congress has acted and the isgis-
lature of the Slate took unprecedented
action in providing the wave and means
of safeguarding the; cotton industry of the
country.
EVERY PERSON WILL
HAVE DUTY.
Each individual in the Infested area
will have a duty to perform In sustain-
ing the action of the State and nation
nnd thoso duties will In duo course of
time be dtflned. .The chief cofiMern Of
the farmers ef the counties of jTffsrsotii .
Hardin Libert?! Chambers. Oalvsa on anJu
Harris counties where the in testation Is
known to be is the production of food ;
and clothing. All i other farm Interests i
are auuovauwll to inose.
The production of cotton In this sec
tion ia the least in importance of alU
pursuits but the manufacture of cotton"
seed products the market for cotton
lint and the export ot these products i
among the greatest In the world. The
demand (or Protecting the industry Is
unanimous and tbe work of stamping out
the pesf is under w ay. !
Farmers cotton factors bankers and
merchants have an opportunity to beconio
close s'udents of co-operation.
There . may be sacrifices necessary on
the pntt of a few In order that the work
of stamping out the pink boll worm may
be thorough. But through the co-operH-tlon
of all tin numerous big problem
nfay be made more easy to solve and
more clearly defined should at
least not be afraid of what ia called lor
by the instincts of all concerned and
I venture the guess that If the minds !
or men trained to think along definite
and constructive lines will assert Itself
tha infested cotton urea now proposed for
quarantint and the temporary abandon-
ment of cotton will come voluntary and
as a result of the co-operative move
food and feed crops will be substituted
for cotton seed and fertiliser will be pro-
VkSad. The co-ODerativ ua of rriit
should be extended by which farmers
may purchase milk cows to offset tho
milk and butter famine. More peanuts.
corn and potatoea. pork and beef should
lie produced. Adequate water facilities
provided (or rice farming and more land
applied to the production of rice.
MASS MEETING TO
BB CALLED SOON.
To employ to the best advantage cap-
ital and credit and the educational agen-
ciea to develop the Infested section both
agriculturally and industrially.
It is expected that a mass meeting will
be called soon at which a large number
01 representative larmers as well as rep-
resentative buslneaa men should be pres-
ent in order that the problems which
confront them Jointly may be considered
to the best advantage. It may be pos-
sible to perfect a special farm service (or
this territory in order to alleviate any
uisiui unnco in uie i arming practices now
used. The time is ripe for a change
and by the best counsel and advice of all
concerned a moat satisfactory under-
standing may be had and the control
methods ss applied to the pink boll worm
put Into effect and the peat stamped
out
It is not my DuronM or mv 4nv t
state what the other Agencies of tha State
or federal government will do with re-
spsci im a special service. Tnls will de
pend upon the demand for special serv
ice nner aeuoeraie; counsel; but I am
usuiiea in recommending te the farm-
ers In the infeoted area that thay con-
sult the county demonstration aa?nf hn
are the accredited representatives of the
united States department of agriculture
uu . fyi.unMii vouRga witn regard
to any special service which will be re-
quired under the clrcumstenoea.
H will ba the purpose of Jhe offlQlsli
In charge as It la manifestly cur duty
to do. to sustain the work of tbe Stats
and federal governments already inaugu-
ated. '
American Engineers Tell of The
rocities: Committed by Germans in
ier Retreat Before British Advance
At
Th
Members ot the 11th United States
engineers regiment who enlisted In Iftw
Tor and who have taken a prominent
part in the recent action at Carabral
have found the atrocities perpetrated by
the Germans in retreat to be far worse
than reported in the' newspaper dis-
patches. Letters received from them since
they hare been at tbe front were read
at a masting of their parents relatives
and friends at the Engineers society It
West Thirty-ninth street In almost
every ease the writer was a man who
had not been inclined to place any faith
In the report of- atrocities received in
this country before he left for France.
On arriving on the scene of action
however they found a state of affairs
which according to their letters in-
spired them with the deepest resent
ment against the Hun and made them
regret that their country had waited so
long before taking a hand In the war
against Germany. Whole villages laid
waste; thousands of women and chil-
dren rendered desolate. Inmates of con-
vents subjected to outrageous violence
graves pilfered homes dynamited which
had not been touched by shell fire were
some of the acts disclosed to their eyes.
Without reason or sense for no mili-
tary purpose whatever the Germans
according to the letters of the Ameri-
can engineers make a systematic prac-
tice of devastating every bit of French
soil that they leave in the course Of a
retreat. One of the officers of the
regiaient In a letter to Robert Ridge-
way of the public service commission
wrote:
"The devastated country and villages
destroyed by shell fire I suppose must
be expected. But the thing that makes
One boll Is the absolutely unnecessary
and wanton destruction wrought by the
retiring Hun. His usual wonderful and
systematic methods hsve been applied
to thia destruction. Whole towns that
have hardly been touched by ahell fire
have been completely destroyed by dy-
namite. We find nltohes cut in the few
standing wall and marked with the
sine of the charge to be usee. Evident-
ly every building had been systematically
prepared in that way long in advance
for blowing up upon retirement.
GRAVES DESPOILED
FOR JEWELRY.
"So homes beautiful cbateaus garden
walls little summer Douses are all blown
up. Shade trees flowering shrubs are
cut down so the trees -lil die Cemeteries
have been ransacked; grave and vaults
opened; bones thrown about or In heaps
on the ground. 1 have seen the ceme
teries that are awful sights; one body
dragged half way out of the caaekt coffin
broken open and the bones from several
dumped into one. Evidently the boche
was looking for Jewelry was simply ma-
licious or both.
"Those thing cold not be done with-
out the knowledge and permission of the
officers and tbe thing Is so complete
that it looks as though It was all a part
of an official program. I never did be-
lieve the stories we got In America of th
outrages. I have to believe them now
and they are many times worse than the
stories that I heard at home. Certain
Canadian and Scottish battalions tske no
prisoners. They give and ask no quarter.
The reason Is that the boche has several
time crucified the Canadian and Bcotr-h
prisoners and held them above the
trenches In view of their battalions. In
one such case a Canadian battalion went
right over th top after tbe trenches with-
out orders. Very few of them have come
back. A British chaplain told me that
he knows personally ot a Belgian con-
vent where they found that S7 out of
it nuns had been violated when the
boche fell back.
"I can not understand what the men-
tal operations or processes of the Hun
can be. I can not understand what his
object can be. It must be the wrathful
spite of a disappointed degenerate mind.
In fairness to our many very fine ac-
quaintances of German birth in America
I will ssy that the German prisoners I
have seen appear to be largely a differ-
ent type from the German In America
They look not of a particularly high
type. Major does not agree with
me In this. He says ha can see among
them the counterpart of every German
he ever knew.
"The prisoners will not believe that
we are American troops. They say:
'No it Is Impossible. . Our submarines
have stopped all traffic between America
and Europe.' That is the way with the
German soldier and I suppose every one
In Germany is kept In Ignorance of the
true situation."
TEPRISLI TALIS
BY REFUGEES.
In foncluslon the writer states:
"It Is too bad that America did not
come In sooner. Now that we are In. I
trust that th country will contlnus
united In. a strong determination to
properly deal With th Hun not only
for the grievances we have against him
but (or the terrible campaign of fright-
fulness that he has waged against 'ha
millions of non-combatants. Only a few
days ago I was talking to a French
clergyman who had Just got back from
Germany through Bwltserland. He had
been driven with the whole civilian pop
ulation ahead of the boch when tbey
fell back com month ago. If all of
America could bear the horrible tale
that these refugee tell and see the
country about us here there would be
I.MO.OQ American soldiers training for
war and war loan would be oversub-
scribed by billions.
"We frequently see or hear evidence
among the soldiers and officers of the
British and French of the wonder and
disappointment that they experienced as
America stayed out month after month
for these years. There is a story going
around her of an American- soldier who
objected to a gtass of beer claiming that
it was very flat. The reply or
miM wa a Whv shouldn't it h?
of the bar
It has
been waitiiu three years for you.
Another letter rrom an ennsteo man
In the company Donald Max Isaac read
in part aa follows:
"I have seen work of these Dutchmen
and am seeing it every day. My old
feelings of riving them a
scran have been chanced to one
hatred and nothing would please me
more than to get In with a pioneer en-
gineer outfit where I could get a chance
at them and they wouldn't get a sport-
ing fight either. In spite of the fact
that the papers have been hammering it
In for three years you can't realise the
rottenness of these reptiles unless you
see their work first hand.
"The kaiser seems to be an extremely
stupid and stubborn man. but I think
old Hindenburg is Infinitely more stub-
born. As near as I can figure from Ger-
man political events the kaiser aaems
to have lost all control to Hindenburg
In the last six months. Also the prison-
ers I have seen who were recently taken
all seem te be in good shape and this
somewhat discredits the newspaper re-
ports of the German lsck of men."
The meeting of friends and relatives
at the Engineers society was held under
the auspices of the auxiliary of the 11th
regiment of engineers the purpose being
to exchange views on ways snd means
of keeping in touch with the needs of the
men. Frederick Cranford presided and
the letters from the men were read by
Robert Rtdgway. Aside from those de-
picting the atrocities of the Germans
other letters were read which clearly in
dicated the healthy and cheerful spirit
witn wnirn tne engineers were racing
the business of modern warfare. Not
one had a word of regret or grievance
unices It wa a complaint that the engi
neers were not permitted to see more
action. One letter from a boy In the
regiment. William Stephens told In da
tan of the effect that France French
women and French cooking were having
upon him. He could apeak French a
little and therefore was in a Doslt on
he wrote to have much more fun than
many of his comrades not similarly
equipped.
Famine in Printing
Ink Is Threatened
NEW YORK Dee. U.-Demorallxatlon
f the printing ink industry of th United
States a threatened by the embargo on
the shipment of carbon black a principal
Ingredient ordered some time ago by the
lederal priority board and Publishers ef
newspapers magazines and all other uitrf
of printing ink aoon will be vitally af
fected. Phillip Ruxton president f th
National Association of Printing ln
Mimuiaoturw. declared in a .stanmiot
Issued here Saturday. t
' President Wilson has been asbaut
bringv about a modification ef th prlv
irity Jhoard' action which by falling to
nwm enrneu waw anions wis mate
rial that may be accepted Tor hlptnent
w
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vW must have carbon black from Vlr.
rlnla at cur 19 . plants 'making every
eun4 el yrintlo; InK ud 1 AmW'
by railroad mekes it imcoasibU far ink.
tankers to ostein supplies cf that product
Wr. Ruxton said..
"If we do nto aet immcdlat rt!f tha-
will Do-bo Ink for dally paper or pus.
tuna nor. ios any eonv
whataver." reads a tela.
am seat to the president by Ruxton.
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STORE OPEN LA TE CHRISTMA S EVE
; CLOSED ALL DAY. CHRISTMAS
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LAST MINUTE SERVICE
'THE STORE'S MAIN MESSAGE of today is of ite fpien:
1 did readiness to help you select your gifts even up to the
last minute. Everything is in readiness to give you the "best "
service" in the last day's rush of gift hunting. The store's service I
is at its best Deliveries are being effected without a liitch.
Extra salespeople have been engaged in fact the whole organ-
ization is working like a well-oiled machine in perfect unison in
perfect effort to give you all that the word "service" implies.
The same low prices which have prevailed since the new man-
agement assumed charge applies to all Christmas merchandise.
Suggestions For
Last Day Gift Seekers
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Gifts for a
Woman
Furs
Silk Kimonos
Negligees
Bath Robes
Perfumery
Gloves
Hosiery
Handkerchiefs
Umbrellas
Glassware
Silverware
Silk Underwear
Waists
Sweaters
Toilet Articles
Silk Bags
Leather Bags
Ivory Sets
Jewelry
Sewing Baskets
Table Linens
Neckwear
Traveling Cases
Ribbon Novelties
Satsuma Ware
Coats
Suits
Dresses
Petticoats
Stationery
Blankets
Comfort-
r
Gifts for
Men
Bath Robes
Collar Bags .
Shaving Mirrors
Shaving Mugs
Scarf Pins
Cuff Links
Military Brush Sets
Mufflers
Whisk Broom Holders
Silk Shirts
Gloves
Hosiery
Handkerchiefs
Desk Clocks
Clothes Brushes
Neckwear
Umbrellas
Tie Clasps
Picture Frames
Tie Racks
Knife and Chain
Traveling Cases
Watches
Fountain Pens
Stationery
Sofa Pillows
Poker Sets
Combination Sets
Safety Razor Outfits
Bath Robe Sets
Wool Sweaters
Suspenders
Tobacco Pouches
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Gifts for a
Girl
Furs
Sweater Sets
Hair Ribbons
Coats
Handkerchiefs
Gloves
Hosiery
Umbrellas
Ivory Mirrors
Ivory Brushes
Vanity Bags
Rings
Guest Bags
Fancy Garters
Beauty Pins
Perfumery
Toilet Articles
Leather Bags
Manicure Sets
Coin Purses
Glove Boxes
Stationery
Boudoir Caps
Pearl Necklaces
Beaded Bags
Imported Dolls
Atomizers
Jewel Boxes
Knitting Basg
Earrings
Neckwear
Scarfs
Fancy Pillows
Sale of Winter Coats
The Gift Useful
If you want to make a friend or relative happy on Christ-
mas morning just choose one of these Coats and your
gift problem will be solved.
Coats from $19.95 up to
S2-.S1495
CoaU from $29.95 up to
.on.. $24.95
Coats from $24.95 up to
$27.50 on AC
sale at D JL 7 0
CoaU from $37.50 up to
$39.95 on trf ty.
sale at v)mUvO
All Higher Priced Coats Reduced in Proportion
Sale of Christmas Waists
A Gift that will he lonrr remrinhprpd
after Christmas is over. Tomorrow
over 200 New Waists will greet you t'
making this the greatest Waist Sale
ot tne season. Splendid quality Geor-
gette Waists in white and flesh only ;
regular $5.95 $6.50 and $6.95 Waists
(in gift boxes) at
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FURS-The Gift
Supreme
Of al! Gifts Furs easily take the lead. Ask any man and
he will tell you hr would rather give his wife Furs than
anything else; and ask any woman what her choice of
Gifts would be and she will answer Furs. We carry
tmly reliable Furs whether a Neckpiece Muff or Coat
each piece carries with it our guarantee as to ttyle
quality and. service. You make no mistake lu buying
Furs here. We gladly invite a comparison of prices. ; 4
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