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SCJTIHilAVIATOr DIGS FROM PRISON AND SWIMS RHINE Calls Y" Work In German Prison Camp "Life Saver," While Con. fined At Vllllnnsn. ' New York, Fib. . ..Lieutenant Conrge Puryear, of Memphis, Tenn., an aviator, was one of a trio of hardy American adventurers who were sue eeaaful In a wild dash for liberty from the Vllllngon prison camp on October 8. Sixteen men made the attempt, but only Puryear, Lieutenant Harold Willis of Boston, and Naval Lieuten ant Isaacs of Portsmouth, Va., got awny. Word has just been received at Y. M. C. A. headquarters here con cerning their almost hopeless esca pade, Tbe men brought back remarkable accounts of Y. M. C. A. work even at Vllllngen. "The 'Y' sent us books of all kinds and even sporting goods," said Lieut Puryear. "We played basketball and Volley bull Incessantly our space was too small for baseball and football. 1 tell you, those games were life savers to us, and they kept us in fair physi cal condition." It Is reported that Puryear and his comrades slipped out of the camp through a tunnel under the wire. All but tbe three named were headed off before they reached the river Rhine but the Intrepid trio swam the river a terrible feat in Itself and made their way Into Holland. HONEY SENT HOME BEFORE BIG BATTLE Doughboys "Cleaned Pockets" for Home Folk, When Return From Fight Was Uncertain. Y. M. C. A. Has Delivered Millions of Dollars For Amex. Paris, Feb. '...The steady unsel fishness of the American soldier, shown by the way he "cleaned his pockets' of money before going into action, to be sent home if he didn't come back, Is told by W. J. Baker of Portchester, N. Y., who served eleven months as a Y. M. C. A. worker with the 26th Division. His particular charge was the third battalion of the 103rd Infantry. He Joined that unit : on the St. Mihiel front, went with them to Chateau Thierry, and later was In the famous St. Mihiel clean-up and the drive before Verdun. "It was Just before that action be g;n,M said Baker'that I saw the finest example of the characteristic unselfish ness of the boys. They 'cleaned their pockets' for the folks at home. They knew they were going np against the real thing, and they wanted all their money to go home In case they never came back. In all, I was entrusted with 8,000,000 francs upwards of tl.DOO.000 before thaf attack. We handled such funds through the regu lar Y. M. C A. service established for sending money from soldiers to rela tives in America." Baker lived with his battalion, and snw lively times, as the "Yankee Division'.'' as it was called, was kept on the fighting front almost continu ously. MICKIE SAYS ; iF 10U u& OV.. I PI vivvtp, , a GOOD F6U.ER, r SAW Ml rt OOHM NVKKt MUCH OlPFEftENCt vnHE-fneR now -feu. us oa 6OrAS6O0S BUSH, JEST SO -vou tsUv SOMEBODY it VMILU DO OS GOOD evfHEft. VWV. -mNK NOU VWAVimMjK NOU 1 TEXAS PREPARING TO REDUCE ACREAGE Along the Same Line That Are Beina Followed In Other Southern 8tatee. Press dispatch from Dallas says Cotton Growers, with 1.GO0.000 bales stored away, see dunger of losing money. Fearing Cotton prices will siifc near tbe pre-war( levols. unless measures are uisen io prevent It. Southern cot ton growers are Joining in a move ment for general reduction of 1919 acreage. In Texan the move has taken the form of a pledge to reduce acreage to two-thirds of that of 1918. The State Agricultural Department Is emphasizing the benefits of planting grain on the acreage thus ;aved. The Government crop report placod last year s Texas production at 2 580 000 bales. Cotton was arouml 35 cents a pound at the close of the picking season, but many growers and some speculators felt It would reach 40 cents and did not sell. -Prices fell, however, with tho signing of the ar mistice, and since then hav" been wavering between 21 and 25 cims. Bunkers who loaned money to grow ers found their security diminished. and plantation owners found their crops of less value than when har vested. Texas growers estimnte there are 1.600.000 bales stored by Indi viduals and In the compresses. They declare much of this has been dam aged by winter rains. While cotton at 21 to 25 cents Is higher than before the war. growers say production costs is so much higher that they will lose money at 25 cents a pound. Last year's government reports placed the Texas acreage at 11.235,- '100.. Py reducing this one-third, hankers and nijttaiUnrista feel"! th.it prices can be . held to a point that w!ll brln k a profit -and also bring a higher price for the unmoved crop of 1513. The council of defense chairman in each county and the county agricul tural agent have been named as coin mlttoes to aid in an extensive adver tising campaign to persuade all plant ers to sign the two-thirds acreage pledge. MUST 8TAND TOGETHER. The farmers will all have to stand together or they will oil fall together. Co-operation Is the one salvation of the farmers and when they undertake as they have done to all hand together In order to force a higher price .for the product on which so much : of their financial future depends, no fair-minded peraon can do otherwise than Wish them well. And the farmer, committed to the ptan of holding his cotton us a means of boosting the price, ought to dis play genuine bulldog tenacity. It will not do to hold a 'couple of weeks and then let go Just because the market shows a little upward slant. Thi( will not be keeping the pledge. This is not the sort of attitude that will make an impression on the man and the interests who are matching their wills with those of the farmer. II the farmer wants to provo to those men and those interests that he is In deadly earnest he will have to shorn more than Just a little temporary de termination to hold his cotton. Nor is self-interest the only incen tive that should move, the farmer In the preesnt emergency. Equally ns groat a motive is the necessity of n spirit of Royalty to his fellow fnrmers The cotton grower his his obligation to his fellow eottnn grower ns well an to himself, and it certainly Seems that he owes It to the rest of tho men in the calling to adhere closely to thi program which the majority seem It feel is the wisest under the clrcurtt stances. . ' There has been a disposition on the part of one part of the public to take It for granted that the farmer has been making big money " In recent years. And the farmer has done bet ter than in the pre-war years, but tin high cost of living and of materials has hit the farmer as severely as it has any ono else and' his net profits have, been by no means extraTagant He is entitled to the sympathy of ev ery one who wants to see fair play in the great game of American enter prise. News and Observer. The following information In regard to the 'progress of the cotton associa tion's fight was given out: "Editors In the leading financial papers state that 'the organization of cotton farm ers throughout the entire cotton belt we find, is more complete and the most systematic and moat thorough The men behind the movoment' under stand the Importance of the vital ne cessity of the organization. A per sonal investigation of men in the field convinces us that beyond a shadow of doubt the pledge reductions win be carried out to the letter. Further more, that most important of all, Indi cations are that steps being taken will lead to remarkable changes in tho marketing of cotton. It Is an uhwrit ten law that following all wars re markable changes and various nha.f.ei of - business nsuitlly result and the .chance ire that one of the most re markable changes wjl! take place In the ebtamercial life of ths gouth.'" FraiAlin's Spring Street Home Ptila'delpbia '.". v . . "V .2. .... -'',.. -r - 3 1 1 4 p tin KL!-''v: ', Ai&? - i. I , t ,b Within a few blocks of the Frlend3' Burying Ground In which lies the body of Benjamin Franklin, whose picturo adorns the 1919 issue of .war Savings Stamps, Is, a quaint three-story brick dwelling, one of tho places where the inventor-philosopher lived while in Philadelphia, .tho house is la Spring Street. In the center nt Colonjal life In the Quaker City. It is in excellent slate of preservation. The 129th anniversary of Frankiln s aoatn will do com memorated April 17. Fran'ilin's thrifty sayings did much to stimulate among tho American people the habits of w:e buying, sane sr.vlrig, sasuro invest ment and avoidance-of waste. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmKmiim ri LIBERTY LEGS 'Jmbs Blown Off by Shell, But This Man Continues to Trip Light, Fantastic Toe to Jazz Accompaniment. Lillard Evans Is a colored soldier ioy who bad both legs blown off in iction. Ho -lives for the preaent at Internum General Hospital at tho Presidio in San Francisco. He can ind does dance fox trots and one iteps. I low? Why? Of course to dance a fox trot or I one-slop a follow has to have legs good 1ck. Well, Evans has -them not hia own legs' off fleoli and, bone, but his own willow legs with joints ,in d everything. He is, going to leave LrttiTimin pretty soon and go hack to work and mnke his living and prob- ibly "get married ana raise cmiaren. That's the hdw. The why of It Is the government' of the United States has gone in for leg and arm making.' It Is giving a specially built leg or arm or hand or a pair of legs or arms or hands to "ev ery soldier who lost his legs or arms In tho war. At Letterman in particu lar they are making Liberty legs and arms and hands in their own Work shop. They are making them because they have hit upon a better artificial limb than some manufacturers were turning out. . . This is one phase of the reconstruct tion work that Uncle Sum is quietly carrying on. It Is one of tho least ex pensive, but It. is costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. - Romoinber tha't when Uncle Sam 'comes a knocking at youV door with the Victory Liberty Loan.- Much of tho money you will lend is going to regenerate these men who gave of their fleah. and blood for their country. ' MICKIE SAYS 'Then tin an be S6ME PLACE WHERE TH6V OO A BETTER JOB PP-IMTlNO ; J TKhN MMfkT VJB OO M I THIS OPPtCB, EOT CANT J PINO VT ON THIS , ' Jt CHAHU4 .' . ' .'.K....:i ; 'T ' .' v - . :,Al ' Cotton Producers On Road To Victory i . ; . " From every county, town and ham let in Texas come reports that farm ers are signing pledges to curtail their cotton acreage this year at least i 30 per cent of last year's acreage. Some lndtvloual farmers even limit their planting to one-half of their last year's iw-.eage. Reports from other cotton states in i dicate a like action by the cotton growers. . . An unusual feature of the movement I Is the active enthusiastic partlcipa ! tion of bankers, merchants and profes ; sional men. All classes have awak ened at last to the necessity for co I operation in nn effort to secure a legitimate price for the south's'cot- I tOU. ''-:. '.; : ! . Hitherto the farmers have not act ' ed in concert and they had little as- slstance from other classes. They 1 did tbe best they could to Control the market for better prices; but without organisation their efforts, culminated in windy, wordy resolutions, and still lower prices for their cotton. The methods by which the govern ment secured co-operauon m prevent ing foodstuffs going too high in prios during the war have been an object lesson to the cotton growers, and they iire appropriating fa some measure those methods to prevent cotton from Kolng too low" m price in time of peace. They ore signing pledge cards to raise less cotton this' year and by limiting tho supply. Increase the demand nd the - price. They have passed beyond, empty resolutions for publication.. They are doing some thing tangible. Actions speak louder tbsn words." They are in tbe road to the goal. Let them "keep in the middle of the" road" and they , will reach , that goal. -0nce they have demonstrated their n snriirs llvlnc prices for their i great agricultural product, they will have won economic inaepenuence iur themselves,' their children and their children's children In the years to fol ,low. fjpttoh and Ootton Oil News. PREDICTS UCE$8 FROM ACRE . ,tiGE REDUCTION MOVE. ' f - ,' - '" i-j ' . Baton Rouge, La., March i0.--Buc-cess' of the cotton acreage reduction movement in Southern states was pre dicted y Governor Pleasant of Leals iana upon his return here tollay from Washington, where he attended tie conference of governors. New York brokers may bluff their courage up, but It is plain that since the farmers started their 'talk about holding cotton and reducing acreage the tendency of. the staple has been to go upward instead cf to sag fur ther. Ncw:i end Observer, , 'The infallible Plan" of the N. C. Cotton Association is proving a great spring tonic for the farmers of North Carolina: - Every county is reporting acreage ' reduction and a determined spirit sin-jug the :rmers to hold thetr cotton now on hand until they at least gat Ike cost of production for It - conon PROPOSAL IS GRIPPING SOUTH Movement is Spreading Like WOd-Fire AU Over Jhe Cotton Belt Reports received at . state head (uartsrs, Raleigh, of the North Caro lina Cotton Association during the past tew days Indicate that the move ment Inaugurated at the recent coun ty conventions held in practically ev ery county In the state last week to hold the unsold balance of the pres ent .i rop and to reduce the aereage for the coming crop by one-third as comprcd with 1918 Is spreading like wild-fire in all parts of North Caro lina. The bankers, merchants and farme,-s who attended these conven tions last week let no grass grow urider their -feet upon their return to their homes. The New Orleans, Hous ton, (Jalveston. Dallas, 1 Memphis, Montgi"Tnery, Atlanta. Little Rock, Charleston, Savannah and Birming ham newspapers have been publish ing dal'y reports of county and State meeting held In these States to ratify and pul into practical effect the work outlined by tho general convention re cently held In New Orleans. In fact, It would seem as if every Southern State and every county in the cotton belt wero. vielng with one another to see whlcV will make' the best record In the matter of reducing the cotton acreage in 1919 and holding the cot ton now on hand for remunerative prices. ,; . . . '- ". " -. 1 Alarmod over this movement, which threatens to-break the strangle-hold wh'ch tte spinning interests of the country, tided and abetted by the bear speculators in the New York market, have had on the cotton market for some wecl;s past, the Northern press Vi atte i pting to throw ridicule on the movement and to belittle it. A typical Instance of this bear propaganda to offset the cotton acreage reduction movement ts furnished by an article published In a recent issue of the Journal of Commerce. Some suppos ed correspondent from the South Is quoted in that Journal,' which has al ways been very friendly to the New England spinning Interests, as saying: "I take little stock In resolutions to decrease acreage, as such attempts at reduction are economic heresy. Too well do riany of us remember the days of f-rur and five cent cotton In the nineties. Conventions were held In Memphis and elsewhere to reduce acreage. Solemn oaths were signed, but always tbe result was the same, an increase of acreage, because each went home with the same determina tion to Increase his own acreage as he believed his neighbor was going to decrease. , " . Such articles as these, full of mis statements of facts, are calculated' to have' Just the opposite effect in the South, from that Intended by the au thors. Much water, In an economic way, has passed under the mill since the early nineties. Tbe cotton grow ers of the South have learned by sad experience that a small crop with good prices pays better than a, large crop with low prices. If they had any doubt on this score Secretary Hes ter's annual reports, showing the total value of the various crops produced by the South, state ths facts only too plainly.. The Journal of Commerce statement to the contrary, no signed pledges were required by the cotton convention ' previously held - in the South, and it. was this very lock of signed pledges that foredoomed th acreage production movements of pre vious years to radical failure. There never was a year in which a conven tion of this sort was held that the acreage was not materially decreased, although the cut In acreage did not always come up to what the conven tion had planned. Lack of proper or ganizations by States and counties, the failure to get signed pledges to carry out the obicts of the cenven tion and the fact that no subsequent convention was held later In the sea son ta receive reports as to the prog ress made by the different cotton- growing States in effecting a reduc tion In acreage were some of the rea sons that the former conventions provod failure in so far as accom plishment went All thes loopholes have been closed by tpe recent con vention, and,. In addition, u resolution was adopted by . the convention to brand any man in the cotton belt vho refuses to co-operate as "so lacking in public spirit as to forfeit the confi dence of the community in which he lives." -,-i;-,;:.-':v--'.1",!'"' The "economic heresy" oit reduclpg the cotton acreage, to which the Journal of Commerce refers, is a One sounding phrase, but cotton men say it will not deceive- anybody In : the South who stops to think. The New England and Southern mills, when they find a stock of goods accumulat ing and no buyers coming into, the dry goods market at once take steps to reduce their output. It is argued, therefore, that if it is a good thing for the mills to reduce their output of the -manufactured goods, in order to stimulate demand, why should It not also be a good thing for the cotton (rowan ta the South who produce the raw msUrlal? This is the point of view thai the eottoa kjtansts of ths HUGHS i - TOAKE B0!aD5 Special ' Appeal oa Bdutlf of Liberty Loan Imu u pen Out by Washington Kepn . aentatire of National Grange. . I ;-ri -'.,:''. Every fanner la America l pected to support the Victory Libertr Loan,, says Thomas 0. Atkeson, th Washington representative of tha Ra tional Grange Patrons of Husbandry, who has sent the .followis latter to tha officers of every farm grange In tha United States: " 'Victory Liberty hi tha slogan fof Oie, new low). Tha drive is to bafts' April tl, for tha sala of six bflUoa dollars in Victory Liberty Booaa, These two words visual be aU tkat best In American spirit' Amarfcaa fanners must respoad to 1 appeal, "What tha farmers of America didl in sacrifice and In acoompUanment, la food production, and In bond bsyias; during tha war is a part' of tha record It Is a war record of which any class may be proud.. It must be made good now by meeting tha obligations which result from the outpouring of Ameri can strength which- conquered tha enemies of Liberty and crriUsattoa.' Time to Oat Read. - : "It Is time to get Into this Vlctorr Liberty Bond campaign. No appeal of the war has gone unanswered to thai full limit when brought to the atten tion of the farmers.- Men. ' money, wheat, other food no matter what the'obstacles or the difficulties tha answer has been full and certain. Tha answer must be tha same In this coa Ing drive. , ..'"'"''"" v "Millions of soldiers must be brought home; thousands of sick must be cared for; thousands of wounded and muti lated must be' mads ready for future usefulness. We armed a nation and mobilised Its resources Into a war ma chine of such tremendous potential power .that our anemles surrendered rather than face it and thereby months or years of fighting and thoua ands of lives. Were aaved. Now we mast pay the obligations created by this effort. Who can deflect to pay hut Just part for that which prevented so great a sacrifice af lira and blood. , World Wanta Products, v "There lies Just outside tha doors of the -American farmer a hungry world, world which needs all our product, American farming rests 'on tha safe basis of need and service. The invest ment of the hard earned dollars of " American farmers in Victory Liberty Bonds Is a safe Investment with a certainty of fair ; return, and' tha money will coma back Into drculatloa -making more business, increasing th market and the demand for farm pro ducts, and Increasing prosperity.' Buy ing Victory Liberty Bonds - will mako farmers Vletory-Llberty-Praspar. " Ity-mcn. Do your part to put tha Vlo tory Llborty Loan over ths top. . "Make your Investment in Victory Liberty Bonds tha measure of rout confidence in American institutions and that democracy for which your , cons offered the supreme sacrifice; a symbol of your determination that th war shall not have been fought 1 -vain; an offering of thanksgiving for peace." " s G9 UF IN VALUE History of All Loans for a Cen-'' tnry : Shows That Advance Has '' Always . Come with .'Peace. ' Will history repeat itself? That question is In the minds of many bond buyers these days. Records show that the prices of bonds were way down during war times of the past bat toon after peaoe was declared advanced rapidly. Daring Napoleonic war prices of English 1 per cant consols rwaged from (?Vs. the high and MH. tha iow, in 1814 to 9t tho high and the low. In 1824. ,) During th nam period French 5 per cent, rentes rose from 84, the high, la 1814 to 104.1 ia 1824. They also went as Iow as 45 in 1814. French I par cent rentes during th Franco-Prussian war ranged la sric from 7S.1 to 87.3 and M.I to" ILL. ' United States bonds during tha Co, federate, war sold tor' t. th high, and 83, the low, In 1861, but from then -on they' had practically a steady ris -untU 1878, at which time the high was 1U and the low 111. Ths tea-forty-year boada, pot out it 1884 ad vanced from 143 H to 1184 In to years. ';'"' ' ' ".'.-'' f. . Four series of Liberty Bgnds bar been issued and the ' fifth to -be known as the Victory liberty Loan will soon be offered. (Theie securities hav behind them th mightiest pro tect Ion aver devised tths rasoorcat and tbe pledge and the faith of on, of th great nations of tha world. Th Investment value df th bona . caa saver decrease, for th interest will aleays ba' paid and ha bonds win- h redaemed at full rfaca valua a taatarlty: y TV. A Ml i -:- s f afc i" '"' I-:"."." 5- '-:,- " . ) J i :. ' i i- t l:. I
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