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4 Wednesday Sept. 7
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you can get them anywhere.
But if you want fine fabrics choice
patterns correct styles good fit and
perfect finish then you should come
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At the Blumenthal Corner
The Conservation Congress
Addressed by Many Noted
Persons Principals of
Conservation Explained.
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prospers while the soil responds to
"his work and yields good crops; he
ceases to do well When the soil re-
fuses to respond to his labor.
"The people of the older nations take
care of soil fertility' as a matter of
prime necessity- and long ago ascer-
tained the proper succession of crops
their relation to the soil and the feed-
ing of man and animals. They knew
the soil must be fed and the proper
nVitri onnrHitions to maintain and
learned from experience how to do it.
"During the short history of our
country we have had new soils to draw j
upon when exhaustion resulted irora j
the robbing process and much of the
nation's prosperity is the equivalent
of what the soil. has lost. Our people
have been well fed and until recently
thev have been cheaply fed. This hs t
been due in part no doubt to the occu-
pancy of land easily obtainable as
soon as ithe older refused to yield
abundantly and is one of the prima
cauess of farm desertion that is now
attracting so -much attention.
Soil Is Robbed.
"ifanufabtures increased and pros- j
pereu rgreariy aurcng rae last 'uh.il ecu-
tury because food was cheaper in our
country than in any one with which
we competed. Food is cheap no longer.
Population has increased faster than
production from the soil. A new soil
given to ali who desired was the basis
of our past prosperity. The soils of
our older settlements were robbed and
neglected in the east and in the south;
they had little or no attention.
Waste of Water.
"The federal government is expend-
ing large sums to Irrigate western
landv which is wise but the amount or
water Impounded is small compared
with the vplume that flows Hq waste.
In a recent visit to the mountain
states. I saw that the most advanced
localities are every year making more
heservoirs to -hold winter and spring
flows of waters that go free of man's
restraint to the ocean. The nation the
states and private enterprises have
ample fields in which to work toward
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greater crop production in this direc-
tion. "The lands of the mountain states
are with little exception very rich in
plant food and while water continues
to escape In such large quantities it
will pay to turn them on these lands
and reap the heavy crops that cer-
tainly follow.
Dry Farming-
"After all the lands are irrigated
that can be practically immense areas
remain that lie above gravity irrlga-
tiontv Efforts are being made by the
federal government the states pri-
vate companies and individuals to
grow crops on the high lying lands
that have 13 inches of annual rainfall
and less.
"The department of agriculture in
obedience to congressional requirement
is exploring similar lands that exist
under similar conditions throughout
the old world. Some success is being
had.
"At 13 stations in seven states we
have parties of scientists studying
methods of plant management on our
dry lands. If our growth m popula-
tion is to continue we must look to
the soil and conserve moisture which
Is the. transportation system of the
plant. Without adding water beyond
what falls from t2ie clouds it is prac
ticai to greatly increase crop fields by
better soil management and adding
fertilizing material.
Water 3Iost Important.
"The office of water in growing
j plants is comprehended when we real
ize that from 300 to oOO pounds of wa-
ter are required by the plant to enable
it to make one pound of dr matter
and that a shock of corn standing in
the field for weeks after it is cut has
from 25 to 40 percent of moisture.
"The cattle fever tick of the south'
has prevented the profitable production
of beef in that section of our country.
Congress has provided for the exter
mination of the pest which is being
done; 140000 square miles is now free
from it. This will bring into active
production within a few years all of
the southern states pastures will be
prepared the prime element in. a sys-
tem of rotation of crops cotton seed
meal wjll be fed where it Is produced
and southern fields will become much
more productive helping to feed our
growing population while more cotton
wiiL be grown on fewer acres.
Grazing Lands.
"The grazing lands of the public do-
main are being steadily reduced to un-
productiveness by overstocking which
results in reduced production of meats
and animaB products. While public
lands are held for the iiomesteader
it is difficult to suggest a remedy that
would not interefere with the policy
of ultimate settlement by the home-
seeker. The tendency of congress to
give larger areas to the settler seems
to be in the Tight direction.
y'The most important farm conserva-
tion is undoubtedly the preparation of
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The picture snows Gov. Brooks
at Cheyenne during the recent military and civic demonstration in honor of the former president. From this
stand the coaonel shouted Waved his hand laughed and joked according as he recognized some one in the passing
throng and according as some remark or jest was hurled at him that like flint and steel was bound to bring
forth a retort. Some of the wood of the reviewing stand-Is already being preserved by the ultra admirers of the
ex-preside.nt as a souvenir of what they believe will be an event of political history.
farm youth for better farm manage-
ment. We have inherited our system
of education that looked to the farm
for the best 'material to reinforce the
professions and the industries. ( Edu-
cation has therefore prepared (young
people for everything but farm life.
' Educating the Farmers.
"Twenty million pieces of literature j
relating to the fairm were sent outi
from the department of agriculture j
rlurintr the last fiscal year. The state
agricultural colleges all contribute to
the volume of printed matter relating
to the farm. '
"Irrigation and dry land fainflng
new bread and fodder plants the
growing of sugar beets last year to
make our 500.000 tons of sugar th"
prospect of using the carbon dioxyde J
of our atmosphere to maKe an our
sweetening the development of r'ce
on the gulf coast to equal our con-
sumption the study of tobaccos of
(home growth to save the nation s j
money the exploration of the old world j
for plants to increase the food of te J
people and add to its variety; these and j
a thousand other activities that affect !
agriculture the people read about and j
approve.
There are well known methods OI
farm management practiced by ' our
best farmers that brings good results
and well known methods and prac-
tices that reriaice fertility and rentier
operations on the farm unprofitable.
"If our country is to grow and de-
velop as patriotic people hope we must
conserve the fertility of our soils and
the moisture that is precipitated not
only on our farms but that which
falls upon the highlands and now flows
idly to the seas in all sections of our
country."
Too Many People ia Citle.
Henry Wallace of Des Moines Ia an
editor who was a member of Roose- J
velfs Country Life commission said:
"The most real and vital question be-
fore the American people for the next
twenty years will be how to keep j
enough skilled men on the farms to
grow food at a price which the people
in the towns aid cities can afford to
pay. The present high price of food
products in all the markets of the nation
furnishes conclusive proof that we nave
too many people in the cities too few
in the country; too many eaters too
few food producers.
"The problem for the city man Is
also complicated and that jserlously hy
thf fact that he does not now obtain
thA farm's nroduets at the farm price.
or anything like it but pays always a
third more often twice as much
three times sometimes four and five
times as much as the farmer receives.
It is still further complicated by the
fact that the average city man Is not
content to live as his father lived or
Uas he lived ten or twenty years ago.
He must have strawberries from Texas
gfeen peas from Florida; must have
spring chicken young and tender (from
cold storage of course) in February;
must have othox fruits out of season:
must have the most tender cuts of
beef not bought at the market house
but ordered by telephone.
"The farmer is beginning to wake up
and finds to his surprise that his yield
per acre has been slowly but surely
declining for forty years. He finds that
he has squandered his forests of hard
wood and pine and "worse still he has
burned up the humus of the soil by ex-
tensive cultivation. This farmer is a
hard fellow to waken; when Roosevelt
and James Hill talk to him through
their megaphones he rouses himself
rubs his eyes finally concludes that it
Is only a scare and then goes to sleep.
One of the objects of thisconvention Is
to waken both the town and the coun-
try to the facts of the situation obvi-
ous to every man who will open his
eyes.
City People Live High.
"If the townsman is to live on his in-
come he must improve his system of
distribution; he must get farm pro-
ducts from the farm to the kitchen door
cheaper than he has been getting them.
He must do--'the marketing himself
rather than' ordering by telephone
which adds about 16 percent to the cost
of his food. He must get rid of th
baby trusts which fix prices both for
town and city and vermin-like which
live off both the farmer and the con-
sumer by their method of fixing prices.
He will have to be satisfied with less
food out of season gathered before its
time.
On the farmer's side we can add
some food for producing acres mainly
by irrigatfcn a slow process and lim-
ited at best and by drainage. Our
main hope is by increasing yields pet
acre. That means more intense farm-
ing by which we mean better cultiva-
tion crop rotation and live stock farm-
ing Intensive yet diversified. Just
here we are up against the real thing
for better farming means more labor
and skilled farm labor is not to' be
had in sufficient quantities either on
the farm or in the home.
"The rapidly inciasing agricultural
Intelligence among farmers -which en-
ables them to use the little skilled la-
bor they can secure to the best advan-
tage and repair wasted fertility will do
much in the way of eventually lowering
the prices of farm' products in the city.
"This nation cannot maintain its high
standard of civilization unless the drift
from the country to the towns can be
in some way arrested. The cities use
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up men and families as they use up
horses. The country cannot stand muqh
more skimming of its cream into ttie
city."
Red Cross Work.
iliss Mabel BoarSman of Washing-
'ton member of the American National
Red Cross society's central committee
spoke on "Conservation the Principal
of the Red Cross.' She said in part:
"It is in this principle of conserva-
tion of human life that the Red Cross
has its being. Though first inspired
by Florence Nightingale in the Crimea
it was born on the bloody battlefield oX
Solferino more than fifty years ago
when Henri Dunan witnessed the terri-
ble waste of human life because of the
lack of medical and nursing care. It
has become one of the great conserva-
tion forces of the world
"Recognizing two facts first that no
medical service of any nation can be
adequate to the demands of war and
second that at such times the human!-
ty and patriotism of a people become
deeply stirred into active life and
that this activity should be utilized in
such a systematic way as to be of real
value in the saving of life for the sake
of humanity and for the sake of the
country the members of the original
vjcea coiuerence reuurameuueu to me
signatory powers the formation of these
volunteer aid societies.
"Thus the Red Cross had its origin
in the purpose of conservation of hu-
man life in time of war.
"It seems impossible in a non-military
country like ours to obtain and re-
tain a large supporting membership
with small annual dues as is done in
other countries. When the reports of
great calamities fill -the papers our
people give with wonderful generosity
but the minor disasters wh'ereby small
communities' suffer greatly receive bui
little notice from our public
-in tho work bf the jfted Gross first
aid department lies the far reaching
results of conservation of the wage
earner of the family as well as the la
bor producer of the country or in case
of his death in disastei as'at cherry
the administration of the relief funds
so that the unfortunate widows can
keep their little children at home. A
by-product the conservation of the
family.
"The preservation of life in time of
war has not only its humane feature
but its patriotic reason. In fact the
Japanese Red Cross puts this principle
first. The saving of one of the most
important assets of any country that
of its young manhood becomes a by-
product of conservation for the sake of
patriotism.
"And lies there nothing in the
thought that both in peace and war
there is value in the preservation of
lives so dear in many of the homes of
our country? A by-product of conser-
vation for the sake of love.
'Another product is the conservation
of communities. Whether some little
hamlet or some large city suffersYfrora
the overwhelming calamity of fife
flood storm earthquake or pestilence
or the still more pitiful disaster of
widespread famine settles over a great
province or empire its people are
brought down to desolation and de-
spair." To Prevent Waste.
John B. White of Kansas City chair-
man of the executive committee of the
Conservation cangress in an address
today said:
"It is not the purpose of conserva-
tion to preserve from exploration and
discovery urrknown resources if there
can be found for new fields men brave
and fearless enough to take the risks
of life and capital. We are willing
to encouraere the enttintr nut of the
I way and doing all we can in this tren-
eiation believing that the next gen-
eration will find new duties suited to
their advanced condition and change
of needful requirements.
"Wise conservation with us means
the maximum of efficiency and profit
with the minimum of waste and cost.
We do not wish the few to have un-
fair advantage. We desire each and
all to have opportunity according to
his talents and his physical or finan-
cial ability that the known and un-
known resources of a country shall
not be gobbled up by a few without
an equal opportunity to others who
can furnish the same needed measure
oC requirements to insure success.
Economy Necessary.
"Conservation and economy must en-
ter into our very life; and every effort
should be made to get the most out of
little; to find a use for what we are
now in various ways wasting. In
European countries the hard struggles
of the masses have produced the
saving habit a virtue we have got to
learn and practice individually and as
a people before conservation will be-
come a national success.
"Unless we halt In our mad extrava-
gances perhaps there will come to us
In some degree these sad experiences
of suffering which have put the sav-
ing prnciple into the very fiber of the
old world peoples; and we will learn
our lesson as they long ago learned
theirs. We must each share the bur-
dens of conservation and we will like-
wise all share in its blessings.
Conservation as Philosophy.
"The science of conservation as a
philosophy is wholly independent of
who owns the property. Compare the
country butcher and his 50 percent
waste with the million- dollar packing
and Gen. Smith on the reviewing stand
house which has no waSte. It is not
the fault of conservation that there
are extremes in combinations result-
ing in trusts and monopolies. They
are practicing conservation in the ex-
treme in saving of raw material by
greater utilization and by the discov-
ery of new uses for by products. The
Standard Oil company is another ex-
ample of the very fineness of division
and subdivision of by products which
find a place In therapeutics in the arts
and in saveline. paints dyes and a
hundred other valuable chemical pro-
ducts. This Is conservation."
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"The expression 'Conservation of na-
tional resources' is not everywhere un-
derstood in its broadest sense; I think
that to some minds It conveys only tho
narrow idea of the withdrawal from
present use of some part of tlfbse re-
sources" said W. W. Finley president
of the Southern Railway.
"In some cases it may involve a
measurv of present self-denial as -when
in the case of an owner of 'forest lands
it Impels him to cut only the matured
timber and leave standing immature
trees that have no present market
value but in that case it leaves him
with an asset which increases in value
with each year's growth of the stand-
ing timber.
"Notwithstanding the wonderful in-
dustrial development of the south since
18S0 it is still preeminently an agri-
cultural section. It is a ruction there-
fore In which the conservation of the
soil is of the highest importance.
"Under continuous use with proper
rotation and intelligent use of fertili-
zers soil productivity can be largely
Increased. This is a matter of partic-
ular interest to the south because with
our advantages of soils and climate we
have an ideal region for soil conserva-
tion through crop rotation and inten-
sive farming.
Conserving: Raw Material.
Other things being equal the con-
servative use of raw material what
ever it may be consists. In its manu-
facture in the locality of production
through all the stages of preparation
for the final consumer. Manufacture
lng in the .south has reached its pres-
ent growth and is being still further
developed on the basis of this kind of
conservation of raw material. But a
large proportion of the southern cot-
ton mill products lumber pig iron and
other commodities advanced through
the first stages of manufacture are
still shipped out of the south to serve
as the raw materials of industries in
other localities. This is a waste of
energy which under ideal conditions
of conservatlon.could be avoided.
One of the most valuable of the nat-
nral resources pf the south is its tim-
ber. It is obvious that if southern
wood working industries are to survive
and are to be handed down to future
generations immediate and effective
steps should be taken for the conser-
vation of southern forests.
Tax oa Waste.
"I would suggest their consideration
of whether it might not be possible to
devise a "system of taxation that would
differentiate between timber lands so
managed as to insure the perpetuation
of a great national resource and those
so managed as to hasten Its exhaustion.
I would also suggest the enactment
ot proper lire Jaws and the establish-
ment of an efficient patrol. I would
also suggest consideratidn of the prac-
ticability of encouraging the planting
of trees on lands of little or no agricul-
tural use.
"The railroads are interested in con-
servation of soil forests etc. because
it means among other things prosper-
WHY SO WEAK?
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Life Away. El Paso People Have
Iienrned This Fact.
When a healthy man or woman be-
gins to run down without apparent
rause becomes weak languid depressed
suffers backache headache dizzy
spells and urinary disorders look to
the kidneys for the cause of it all.
Keep the kidneys well and they will
keep you wen. Doan's Kidney Pills
cure sick kidneys and keep them well.
Hero Is El Pasox testimony to prove it.
Charles M. Wilson. 1313 Texas street.
El Paso Texas says: "I have used
Doan's Kidney Pills off and on for
many years and have been given ample
pvoof of their merit. In February
1907 I publicly recommended Doan's
Kidney2tlls and at the present time I
take pleasure In confirming all I then
said in their favor. I began to suf-
fer from kidney trouble over twenty
years ago and during changeable
weather or when I took cold my condi- t
tion was always worse. I had an acute i
pain in my right side and any sudden
movement caused sharp twinges to
dart through my body. Often I was
confined to my bed for a week at a
time. I finally began using Doan's
Kidney Pills procured at Kelly & Pol-
lard's drug store and they brought me
prompt relief. As they have always
benefited me when I have used them
since then I naturally hold a high opin-
ion of them."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Mllburn Co.. Buffalo
New York sole agents for the United
States.
Remember tho name Doan's ant
take no oth-
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ity to the farmer and an increase in
the volume of farm products to be car-
ried and also an Increase in their ton-
nage of agricultural machinery and
implements and of all kinds of mer-
chandise which a prosperous farmer
will buy."
y Beverldge Speaks.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge of In-
diana before the congress today said:
"The United States IS. The American
people are a nation not 46 nations. In
war we fight under one flag for our
common safety; in peace let us strive
under on flag -for our common wel-
fare. "The affairs that concern the people
exclusively within a state are the prob-
lem and business of that state. Affairs
that" generally concern the people of
the natiorvare the problem and busi-
ness of the nation. Even in solving
the problems of its own people every
state must remember that i people
are part of the American people. Of
states as of men it is written No
state liveth to itself alone.'
"Just as the idea of provincialism
has worked other evils so it has
worked the waste of our natural re-
sources. The provincial idea -was that
'the natural wealth belonging to all the
American people should be handed over
for nothingto special interests. This
was done under the plea of encourag-
ing individual enterprise and hastening
of local development
"And so forests which once belonged
to all the people have been ruthlessly
felled and upon their rums have risen
the empires of our lumber kings.
Priceless deposits of coal iron ore and
copper which once belonged to all the
C. R. MORSHEAD. President.
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CAPITAL SURPLUS AlfD PROFITS $175CCQ.
A Lejitiiaate Backing Business Transacted ia All Its Braacis.
HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR MESICAK MONEY.
Rio GrandeVailey
W. W. Turney Prest.
S. T. Turner Vice Prest.
W. Cooley V. P. & Mgr.
CAPITAL SURPLUS AND PROFITS $150000
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS
ESPECIAL ATTENTION TO OUT OF TOWN ACCOUNTS
CITY NATIONAL BANK
EL PASO 'TEXAS.
tTITITED STATES DEPOSITARY
Capital Surplus and Profits $350000 '
OFIICERS AND DIRECTORS:
U. S. Stewart Frank Power. C. H. Leavell H. J. Simmons
A. G. Andreas W. B. Latta B. Blumenthal
J. F. Williams H. M. Andreas J. H. ITay
YOUR BANKING BUSINESS IS RESPECTIVELY INVITED
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wJ Securities for all Savings Deposits. The Guaranty Trust!:.! I
and Banking Co. has complied with the laws in every
Kiw particular.
Our Savings Accounts are secured by fijst mortgages
on improved Texis real estate bonds and cash and
besides by our Capital. Surplus and Stockholders liabil
ity amounting to ?6S0000.
El Paso Bank S: 1 rust Co.
319 San Antonio St.
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Capital Stock $100000
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people have been surrendered freely to
special interests.
"All of i.s waste and robbery of the
people's wealth must be stopped. No
ancient and provincial interpretation
of states' rights must prevent the en-
forcement of the people's rights. No
special plea for hasty local development
must hinder healthy general develop-
ment. No temporary state politics
compelled by the wealthy few must im-
pair permanent national statesmanship
Ffor the general good of alL
"Had we kept the natural resources
of all the people and made private in-
terests pay the" people a just return
for exploiting those resources the na-
tion's income thus derived would now
pay most of the nation's expenses;
those resources wduld have been -wisely
used aiid not exhausted; and ou
whole growth would have been ra-
tional and sound instead of unbalanced
and defective.
Nation 3Iust Act.
"The nation must keep and adminis-
ter for all the people those natural re-
sources belonging to all the people.
Every state should aid and not hinder
the nation is doing this great duty.
"Some of New York's swollen fortunes
have been expanded by corrupt coun-
cils selling for a song to private own-
ers water fronts and other real estate
of great present value and almost in-
Inestimable future value. Had New
York kept the property which be-
longed' to the city the city's wealth
would be greater; the dangerously
great private fortunes would not be so
vast. The gigantic income of the heirs
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