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110 HTl CULTURE 



May 



1»18 



Obituary 



An iiuli'-iMiliililc lavv nl' iin^ liai 

 I hill you ciiniiut gfl more power out oi 

 a machine (han you put into It — In the 

 form of fuel. 



Perpetual motion tlnkerers have 

 tried in vuin to violate that law, and 

 every one of them has failed. 



A similar failure awaits the na- 

 tion that ima^tlnes it can thrive on 

 war industry alone. 



No industry under heaven pays its 

 own expenses. No industry under 

 heaven consumes its own products. 

 Kach Industry draws the fuel for its 

 power from other industries. The ex- 

 lenses of each industry are paid hy 

 consumers occupied in other indus- 

 tries, and hence the success of one 

 is bound up in the success of all. 



The consumer of war products i^ 

 the Government. Here is a consumer 

 who is not In turn a producer, and 

 cannot therefore pay for what it gets. 

 It is compelled, as are all govern- 

 ments, to secure funds (to exchange 

 for war products) by means of taxa- 

 tion. Taxes are imposed hy the Gov- 

 ernment — upon industry. Hence it is 

 unavoidable that in order to secure 

 funds with which to secure products 

 for war purposes the Government 

 must have the support of industries 

 able to stand the strain of the neces- 

 sary taxation. 



The process of getting blood from 

 turnips has not yet been successful. 



Unless industries make money they 

 cannot produce money tor Govern- 

 ment use. They cannot pay taxes. 

 They cannot buy bonds. 



Trying to confine the industries of 

 the United States to war industries 

 exclusively is an effort to send the 

 American dollar through a narrowing 

 spiral that eventually comes to a dead 

 stop. 



Hence to prosecute the war success- 

 fully our industries must be kept busy. 

 and they must make money. The only 

 way in which industries at large can 

 do this is for as many of them as pos- 

 sible to do business with others than 

 the Government. And this volume of 

 non-war business must be big enough 

 and with profits great enough to meet 

 all industrial expenses and. in addi- 

 tion, to supply funds for Government 

 war needs. Hence, unless our non- 

 war business can be made to pay for 

 the war the war will eat us down to 

 poverty. Therefore, the need of non- 

 war business is imperative beyond any 

 question. 



The recent Liberty Bond campaign 

 shows the early effects of the narrow- 

 ing spiral referred to above. Four 

 weeks of the most wonderful and cost- 

 ly advertising, four weeks of innumer- 

 able and amazing "stunts." and four 

 weeks of the most tremendous selling 

 effort were required to put the issue 

 across. Why? Because people were 

 unwilling to buy bonds? Because the 

 people did not know a war is on? Not 



btaiiil biliind thi-ir liiuurniiniu iliaii 

 we Americans are. Hut— when tin- 

 Government 's need is money, our abil- 

 ity to supply that neeil depends upon 

 our alilllly to earn money. And the 

 fact Is that in recent months so much 

 money has been taken out of non-war 

 Industrial channels (and not n-turned 

 thereto) that the .American people are 

 not BO certain of their ability to buy 

 btmds as they were m previous 

 months when industry was going along 

 more smoothly. An inlluence here, to 

 be sure, was the approaching income 

 tax day. The same Jliiii would not 

 pay income tax and buy bonds. Men 

 were forced to make provisions for 

 the tax, and in many cases their bond 

 buying ability was reduced. 



This condition in general will grow- 

 worse instead of better, unless very 

 decided steps are taken to encourage 

 non-war industry. 



It did not take a war to bring us 

 the soup-houses of 1893-4. 



And we shall certainly again make 

 the acquaintance of soup-houses un- 

 less non-war industries are encour- 

 aged, and that speedily. 



This is no special plea for the au- 

 tomobile industry. It Is a plea for all 

 industries, it is a plea for the United 

 at the front and our people at home. 

 For, assuredly, unless the morale of 

 the people at home is maintained, un 

 less they have food, clothing, shelter 

 and some degree of happiness, our 

 boys at the front will lack that abun- 

 dant provision which they ought to 

 have, which they must have, to be 

 successful, but which they can have 

 only on condition that we maintain 

 our jirosrerily at home. For out of 

 poverty no nation can prosecute war. 



Such is the good sense of the Amer- 

 ican public that, no matter what prob- 

 lems arise, we find eventually the right 

 answer and come through victorious. 

 But it would be tragic beyond meas- 

 ure it this war were to be lengthened 

 a single hour because of the confusion 

 of today, which is directly due to our 

 mistaken prophets. 



Therefore, if we are serious in want- 

 ing to win this war. we need first of 

 all get rid of misleading doctrines, 

 and to spread quickly and vigorously 

 and broadcast the knowledge that our 

 safety and our success in war depend 

 upon greater production, greater ac- 

 tivity, more business and greater pros- 

 perity here at home, right at this 

 time, and so long as war continues. 



We must wake up, and we must 

 wake up in a hurry. 



— Charles \V. Mears. the Winton 

 Company, in yew York Sun. 



Adolph Kruhm. who has been with 

 the Garden Magazine for some time 

 past and is well known, especially in 

 the seed trade, is now handling the 

 advertising in the Garden Magazine. 

 Mr. Kruhm was formerly connected 

 with Burpee's and T.,ivingstone's and 

 has also been in the advertising 

 agency business. He is a fre^iuent 

 writer on vegetable growing. 



Wm. C. Beckert. 

 W ord ha.s Jusi been received of the 

 death of William ('. Dockert, axed 68, 

 Iiri-sidunt of lleckerfs Seed Store. 

 Ninth Side, PIltsburKh, Pa. 



Erneit C. Loeffler. 

 Krnosl ('. I.oelller of Washington, U. 

 <", brother of .Mrs. William K. Qude 

 and life member of the S. A. F. and 

 (). II., passed away quite suddenly last 

 wiek from heart failure. His death 

 occurred at the home of his brother. 

 .Andrew l^oerfhT, of Hennlngs, D. C;. 



Ernest W. Bowditch. 

 Krneat W. Bowditch, who did nota- 

 ble work In landscape arthitccture 

 throughout the country, is dead at bis 

 home at 33(i Adams street, Milton. He 

 was in his CWth year and was a native 

 of Brooldine. He was the son of Wil- 

 liam I. Bowditch, a conveyancer. His 

 mother was Sarah Iligginson Bow- 

 ditch. H was a direct descendant of 

 Nathaniel Bowditch, author of "Bow- 

 ditch's Navigator." 



David R. Craig 

 David K. Craig, an enthusiastic 

 amateur horticulturist, and member of 

 the garden committee of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, died at 

 his country estate In Wellesley, Mass., 

 on May It!. .Mr. Craig, whose health 

 has been failing for the past two 

 years, was 04 years of age, a native of 

 .Middletown, Conn. He leaves a widow, 

 one daughter and three sons, one of 

 the latter being a second lieutenant in 

 the motor transport department In 

 I<>ance. 



Mrs. James Taplin 

 Mrs. Taplin. widow of James Tap- 

 lin, an able and distinguished gardener 

 of a generation ago, died at the 

 family home in Maywood, N. J., on 

 May 10, aged W years. She was born 

 in Worcester, England. She is sur- 

 vived by two sons and two daughters, 

 the two sons .1. S. and W. H. Taplin 

 being well-known plant growers and 

 one of the daughters, Emily Louise, 

 being a clever writer on horticultural 

 topics and for many years filling an 

 important position in the office of the 

 Rural New Yorker. 



NIAGRA SULPHUR SPRAY. 

 Fruit growers are warned against 

 combining with arsenate of lead a 

 powdered spray now being sold as a 

 substitute for liquid lime-sulphur. 

 This is called Niagra Soluble Sulphur. 

 When combined with arsenate of lead 

 as a summer spray, it is apt to cause 

 burning of the foliage and many of 

 the leaves to drop. This company 

 now advises against its combination 

 with arsenate of lead, though dealers 

 are selling it as a substitute for the 

 liquid limesuli)hnr in such combina- 

 tions. In Ohio orchards it can be used 

 with safety as a summer spray only 

 in case asenate of lead is omitted 

 form the spray.— 7". H. Parks. Ohio 

 State Vniversily. 



