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VBE ^"ATEETOWN HERALD.
Saturday, August 8, 1914
rounded In 1886, By Jere Coughlin
THE COUGHLIN CO:, Publishers
#©kn B. Coughlin, Pres.
W. Montgomery Coughlin, Vice Pres
, Teresa Coughlin Ho 1 .brook, Sec.
Richard Coughlin, Treas.
*Q*'p»-k Place, Watertown, N. Y.
The Herald is ls*aea every Saturday
morning in time for the first mails
North, South. East and West and contains
all tfte latest news of importance
until, the hour of going to press.
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Sympathy For The President—
In the great sorrow which has
come to the occupants of the White
House, the entire nation is bowed m
sympathy "for its chief. The ideal
&ome life of the President and his
family has been an inspiration to the
American people; their devotion to
each other and their children during
these years of constantly growing
cares and duty has set an example
" Which well may make our citizens
proud of them before the world. -Mrs.
Wilson was an ideal tyjpe of helpmate,
ill the home as well as in the larger
activities of her husband's life. Her influence
for the betterment of civic af-
• fairs in Washington had been felt to a
far greater degree than was generally
known.
The nation ean but -give its sympathy
to Mr. Wilson in his sorrow. It
does that with full heart.
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War and Waste-
War has been declared in Europe,
and we may well believe we are com-
1 lag- to the confirmation of the old
prophecy that Europe will be so defasted
by wars and famines that the
people of the new world will have to
fiock to the old to repeople it.
America, is fortunate in having no
'entangling alliances to draw her into
the awful havoc of war. We will feel
its effects severely, however, in business
and- shipping and in a depleted
sold reserve. When war is decided
apon everything but gold is sacrificed.
•Id is the chief sinew of war because
'ft is the basis of credit. Those who
make war" hoard nothing but gold.
" They waste lives, homes, crops, indnstries;
they suppress or suspend
religion, charity, civilization; they
mortgage the present for the future to
get gold.
Our industries may reap a temporary
benefit by haying the world mar-
Sets outside of Ejiirope to supply, and
our farmers majjggbe called upon to
provide foodstufSpto warring nations,
if ships under the American flag can;
be found. The absolute destruction of
property and lives in this huge con­
flict, to say nothing of the loss of production
by withdrawing twenty mill-
Jon men from active industries, must
lay a heavy burden upon thevworld
at large. A poor nation can not buy
4 heavily from us.
If "the war has come, the knell of
militarism has been sounded and
never again will it be in the power of
half a dozen human beings to march
millions of their fellow men in front
~ of belching guns and redden earth
With their hearts' blood. Never again
. Will millions of dollars be wrung from
toiling masses with which to fashion
engines for their own destruction.
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Army Air Craft-*
A bill creating in the army «f«nal
torps an aeronautic section with sixty
officers and 200 enlisted men has been
passed by Congress. The measure is
m recognition of the important place
aviation has taken in the science of
war, and is in keeping with the progress
of otfher nations in the science of
aviation in ita relation to war. According
to a report* showing the relative
importance of European nations in
their aviation strength, France has
500 aeroplanes; Germany, 375; Russia,
315; Italy, 275; Austria, 220; England,
180, and several of the smaller countries
of the continent from 75 to 100
each.
During the last five years Germany
has spent $28,500,000 or war equipment
for the air; Prance, $23^50,000^
Russia, $112v500,OOO; Italy $8,500,-
000; 'England, $4,000,000, and Japan,
% 1,500,000. These figures indicate the
seriousness with which these nations
look upon the aeroplane and dirigible
balloon as aids in defense and offense.
They also, together with the recent
action of the United 'States Congress
in creating the areonautic section of
Its military service, help in giving an
understanding of the difficulties ordinary
mortals have in making both
ends meet
(Hundreds of millions .of dollars
fcave been spent by the nations of the
World in an effort to prove the efficacy
of the aeroplane as a destructive
agent, and as a means of scoitj
and reconnoitering. It is a spectacle
almost as pitiable as that witnessed
when the automobile—a machine ot
so much value to the business world
and capable of giving -so much pleasure
to the people—was seized upon
with the avidity of a vulture
changed into a means of destruction
by the military enthusiasts, assisted
by the manufacturers of the machines
it would be a wonderful progress
the world made i: everything were not
looked upon as promoting the destrnc-
,tiveness. of the time-honored art o:
war.
Business Men and Conditions—
The great army of business men
throughout the United States gi-.e
little attention to thejjeneral and underlying
causes which produce good
or bad business. With them when
business is good they do ail they can
to make the most oMt: they increase
their output, borrow perhaps more at
the bank and keep their various methods
of getting business, such as tru\eling
men. advertising, circularizing.
etc., ^oing at a top notch. When
business is bad or growing bad they
grumblingly .take in sail and adapt,
themselves to the situation.
As to the cause and effect, they are
not, as a rule, well posted. They
read the newspapers, generally the
local newspapers, and as these are
read largely devoted to politics, outside
of local news, and little given tu
analyzing the great currents of force--.
which play back and forth and produce
good times or bad times they
form their" own notions. If these
times are good they credit-the party
in power, and if they are bad thev
damn the government at Washington
and prepare to switch their votes at
the next election so as to bring some
other party into power.
Now the fact is that the party in
power, as far as its actual performances
are concerned, has had very
little to do with the basic causes
which have brought about the busi­
ness depression that exists. It is true
that some trades have been badly
hurt by the tariff and that some industries
bid fair to be wiped out
through the operation of the tariff, but
these are only instances here and
there; the rank and file, the great
army of manufactures, have not been
injured.
The Canal Opens—
Announcement that the Panama
canal will be informally thrown open
to the commerce of the world Saturday,
Aug 15. was made from Washington
last week. No cermonies will
mark this event. All the formality
will be conserved until next spring.
Use of the waterway will be limited to
vessels of not more than thirty feet
draught, but this limitation later will
be removed when the channel in all
parts will be made adequate to acmodate
any size vessel HOW afloat.
While there will be no formality about
the opening of the canal, there has
been some desire to hold the honor of
being the first' boat of commerce
through the waterway. This honor
probably will be conferred on the
^Christobal, a war department steamer,
although the distinction of being the
first steamship through the canal belongs
to the Alex La Valley, a crane
construction boat, which in the course
of construction, finished the passage
January 7. The boat had been working
alon gthe Atlantic entrance, but
was sent through soon after the Gamboa
dike was blown up. and before
the earth slides obstructed the passage
way. Only the crew of the vessel
were abroad.
That Koad Dream—
Twenty-five years ago when tlie
bicycle was regarded as the acme of.
perfection as a means of travel from
town to town, the subject of good
roads was agitated in virtually every
state of the Union, in every city,
village and hamlet. As a result of the
agitation no doubt the roads were
proved—at least in spots. The agitation
died out, but the work of building
and repairing roads went on year
after year, with not very much improvement
as a result of millions of
dollars spent on them in a haphazard
way.
With the automobile came a revival
of the good roads movement, in more
aggravated form. In the agitatio
during bicycle days there was n
"grand conceptions" of ocean-to-oct^n
highways, with connecting links a;i 1
feeders reaching out in all directions.
The bicycle agitators wanted a smoo i h
roadway between towns, which in M.
final analysis is the same thing a
is now desired by the cross-continei:
highway builders. There isn't a community
in the country that would nor
rather have twenty miles of gooi
roads extending to the four points o
the compass than a hundred miles of
good road extending in one direction
An ocean-to-ocean highway is a gran 1
conception, but the cities and tov n
want roads that will permit farmti.to
come to town with their products
their products, and to the county seat,
where they can pay their road taxes.
The farmers in Utah or Ohio do not
expect to do much business with the
people of San Francisco or New York
by hauling farm products to those
cities for sale. Neither do the merchants
of Colorado or Illinois expect
to do much business with farmers a
housand miles away. So the farmers
do not seem to suffer seriously from
the ocean-to-ocean highway craze, notw^hstanding
the glorious prospect
held out to them of seeing happy a 'tomobile
parties speeding by, w:A\r
they labor in the field to get. the
money to pay the next installmem o
road tax. Nor do the merchants alone
the proposed, route, in their enthusiasm,
throw discretion to the wind.
Certainly the >want the •. ocean-toocean
highway to pass their door, but
they realize that the sales will not -e
increased a dollar if a thousand" or a
million automobiles go through theii
town and past their very door every
day.
The agitation, although backed by
unbounded enthusiasm, evidently fails
to produce the stuff with which road fa
are built, for the national Congress,
has been appealed to. A bill in that
body provides for a federal highway
commission to supervise the expenditure
of $100..0(H.t.uou a year for' five
years, to be raised by the issuance ot
:) per cent, bonds. The measure has.
the approval of the Senate committee
on postoffices 'and postroads. Before
states may participate in the funds
they would have to issue an equal,
amount of 4 per cent, bonds, for which
the government would pay cash.
New York has shown the way to
build its own state highways without
federal aid. There has been scandal
and rumor of scandal aplenty, but we
ha\e the roads. A federal appropria-,
tion of a hundred million would sprea I
but thinly over the county, though it
would be a welcome addition to th?
pork barrel, much appreciate^ by certain
inland, "statesmen
Drinkers Beware! —
As everybody knows, a very large
part of the territory of the United
States is under prohibition law. Thaiis,
it has been made illegal for any
person to sell spirituous, vinous ite each parce.
is the amount of tax due on the sam.
and the expense of advertising obtaining
descriptions of the property, inter­
est, etc. No bids will be received in •
sums less than the said amounts.
F W. Mayhew
Counts Tr°3s lrer
--.VATERTOWN—
Ward Brothers, Parcel containing
3 acre>> of land on south
side State Street road known as :
Wards Gravel Pit, Bounded on j
North by Highway. Bounded on j
East by lands of \Y. Hart. j
Bounded on south by land? of ]
Sheldon. Bounded on the West
by lands of Geo. Newman. Tax j
and Expense $ 9.87 !
Fayette N. Herrick. Parcel 1
containing 1 acre of land on !
north side o: Massey Street :
Road, known as Herrick poperty |
and hounded on northwest by j
lands of 13. YV. Graves. On the j
the East by lands of J. Netto. i
On the south by highway. Tax j
and Expense $17.72 j
James H. Gray. Parcel con- !
taining :) acres of land near east j
side Hunt Street. Bounded on
North by New York Central |
Railroad (Carthage Branch). \
Bounded on the East by lands
of Staples Estate. Bounded on
South by lands of J. Gotham.
Bounded on the West by lands
of L. Van Rupp and known as
Gray's Ice Pond. Tax and Expense
$ 5.76
De Esting Smith. Parce! containing
i2 and '_• acres of land,
located on West Side of Rome
State Road and bounded on the
East by said Highway. Bounded
on the north and west by lands
of Dewey Estate. On the South
by lands of .John Smith. Tax
and Expense $ 7.11
Big Yield of Wheat.
The Norman Brothers of Torrey
have harvested and threshed their
wheat from 20 acres of land and ha\ e
700 bushels, or 35 bushes to au acre.
According to those figures the yield
in l'ates county equals that of Germany
where they claim to have the
most productive soil and intensive
farming in the world. Should the
price of grain advance a few more
cents their return will be as great'as
it was during the civil war.
Burglar Was Hungry.
The general store of ex-Postmaster j
Floyd N. Stone at Richburg, two j
miles north of Bolivar, was broken
into and $15 stolen from the cash j
register, which had been left open !
The thief also carried off 12 boxes oi \
imported sardines and a like numbpi
of boxes of Uneeda biscuts. Entrance
to the building was gained through
a side window. There is no clue.
Freak Storm Hits Torrey.
The town of Torrey was visited by
some freak storms last week. One w;is
a hail storm that damaged only one
vineyard owned by Harry W. Geldr
on Long Point, the stornv apparently
originating above the Gelder farm.
Lightning struck the ground within a
few feet of w-here E. C, Xutt of Dresden
was working a few days ago tear
ing a great hole in the earth.
Children Cry
*0R FLETCHER'S
CASTO R I A
Watertown's Greatest Economy Event
Continuing Through This Week
Saturday, August 8, 1914
Very Decisive Reductions are offered in Seasonable Clothing at the
Midsummer Cash Clearance Sale. The price changes
affect the following suitings :
Men's and Young Men's $20 to $25 Suits at $15.00
Men's and Young Men's 15 to 18 Suits at 10.00
Men's and Young Men's 12 to 12.50 Suits at 8.00
Men's High Grade Mohair Suitings at 20 per cent, off
100 Pairs of Men's Separate Pants $3 to $5 at one-haif off
100 Men's Overcoats originally $12 to $25 at $ 8.00
150 Boy's Suits (sizes to 15; $3.50 to $12 at one-half off
Children's Rompers and Wash Suits $1 to $5 at 1-4 off
Boy's Light Weight Overcoats $4.00 to $8.00 $ 2.00
. Our Entire Line of Straw Hats at One Half Price
Men's Suits to Order at $25 Cash
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