SEPTEMBER 15, 1916 



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I tliink the above liits it iMclty well. 

 Modern Avarfare is the busiuc«s uf killing 

 off our brightest and best young men, and 

 that, too, right in the prime of life. I 

 might add it is the killing-off of the most 

 courageous and ttseful young men the world 

 can produce; and the responsibility, as 

 hinted at above, of having this awful car- 

 nage continue, rests on the shoulders, more 

 or less, of every one of us. 



Here is something from the Independent 

 Farmer along the same line. With what a 

 fine piece of sarcasm they dignify the kill- 

 ing business as a new " industry " ! 



THE EUROPEAN KILLING INDUSTRV. 



The war in Europe is now reaching out toward 

 tho two-year mark. Its murderous ramifications 

 now embrace the earth, sky, sea, and subsea. Its 

 industrial and commercial phases and requirements 

 reach to the ends of the earth, and influence the la- 

 bor and culture of all civilized nations. The war 

 has been so insistent, so steady going in its homi- 

 cidal enterprises, that the world has come to regard 

 it somewhat as a great industry, not of mining nor 

 of comTuerce, but of killing. We have become so 

 habituated to the tragedies of this war that any 

 sudden termination of it would give the world some- 

 thing akin to an intellectual shock. Tlie mood, the 

 spiritual attitude would be voiced by the words : Is 

 is possible ? Can it be that those demon spirits that 

 have been actuating the warring rulers of Europe 



so long have loosed their grip on the mentality of 

 those kaisers- and czars and kings and sultans, and 

 that reason has once more been enthroned in the 

 seats where wars are made-? There is little doubt 

 that when the end of the war appears it will come 

 upon us suddenly and from an unexpected source. 



PREPARING FOR WAR TO PRESERVE PEACE. 



We clip the following from the Christian 

 Herald, written by Rev. R. C. Helfenstein, 

 pastor of the .First Christian Church, Ur- 

 bana. 111. : 



I believe our nation !iad a thousand times better 

 make an appropriation for a billion dollars to re- 

 lieve the sutfering millions in Europe today than f i 

 spend a billion dollars in preparation for human 

 destruction. I believe America had a thousand 

 times better spend a billion dollars in seeking 

 to promote peace than to spend it in seeking to pre- 

 pare for war. Suppose wc spend a billion dollars in 

 building battleships that are superior to any owned 

 by England or Germany. Those countries would 

 not rest until they had built ships just a little supe 

 rior to ours, and equipped them with guns that 

 would carry just a little further than ours, and so 

 the game would continue indefinitely. As long as 

 preparedness for war is in vogue, no nation is going 

 to rc't until it outdoes the others in efficiency of 

 armament, and hence there will be no rest. Wars 

 and rumors of wars cannot cease so long as nations 

 follow the damnalle policy of preparing for war to 

 preserve peace. 



POULTRY DEPARTMENT 



God blessed them, saying. . . . and let the fowl 

 multiply in the earth. — Gen. 1:22. 



AN OPEN-AIR "SLEEPING-POHCll" FOR CHICK- 

 ENS; MY CHICKEN STORY. 



For several years past there has been 

 much talk and quite a little excitement 

 about sleeping outdoors in wire-screened 

 sleeping-jjorches; and a lot of good people 

 sleep practically out of doors in winter as 

 well as in summer, even up here in the 

 North, where we have zero Aveather; and I 

 believe the general agTeement among doc- 

 tors and everybody else is that outdoor air 

 is of gi'eat benefit. Of course elderly peo- 

 ple as a rule cannot stand as well the 

 outdoor sleeping-porches in the dead of 

 winter ; but the Avhole wide world has, I am 

 sure, been greatly benefited by what has 

 been said and done about outdoor air, espe- 

 cially during the hours of sleep. There is 

 one queer thing about it that T have never 

 been quite able to understand fully. If I 

 sit down by an open Avindow, especially 

 with my back turned toAvard the breeze, I 

 am sure to catch a cold. We are told that 

 a " draft," especially on the back of the 

 neck, is apt to do harm. Put when one is 

 right out in tlie Avind no harm comes at all. 

 J remember reading about a man who 



cami^ed out ip California. As long as he 

 slept outdoors on the ground, no matter 

 how cold and Avindy, he Avas all right; but 

 Avhen he slept indoors, even Avith the win- 

 doAvs and doors all open, he caught cold, 

 because indoors there was a " draft," or 

 Avhat people call a draft ; but right out- 

 doors, say on top of a hill, there is abso- 

 lutely no such thing as Avhat people call a 

 draft. I can remember the time Avlien doe- 

 tors told their patients that the "night air" 

 Avas bad and unwholesome, and advised 

 them to shut every door and Avindow. Yes. 

 I have a few times been obliged to sleep in 

 rooms Avith every door and Avindow closed 

 because the other occupants of the room 

 could not stand a bit of di'aft; and it Avas 

 doAvn in Florida, too, but it Avas years ago. 

 I haA'o been in church Avhen the doors and 

 AvindoAvs Avere all shut tight because some 

 old " granny " couldn't stand the breeze. 

 Well, the Avhole Avide Avorld is " getting 

 wise," at least I hope so, on the importance 

 of outdoor air. 



Does some one say, *' I llionglit by tlie 

 heading that this was going to be a fhicken 

 story "? Well, friends, lAve have .iu.*;! uot to 

 the point. I have been telling you all along 

 about the Lady Eglantine chickens. Well, 



