672 
^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
A Country Town Goes Over the Top 
I have been reading lately of the differ¬ 
ent cities’ subscriptions to the third Lib¬ 
erty loan, but in none have I seen our 
little town mentioned, and, being proud of 
it, think outsiders should know we farm¬ 
ers are not slackers. Two weeks ago 
posters were out saying two Scotcli Ca¬ 
nadians just from the front would give 
us a little talk on the war. One was a 
piper and the other a sergeant of the 
Klack Watch of Montreal, Canada. They 
wont over, numbering .‘1.3,000, and after 
over three years at the front only 2,000 
remain. But to get to the meeting. No 
notice was given that the people would 
be called upon to subscribe to the third 
Liberty loan, but after playing the pipes 
and giving us .a talk they got down to 
business. Our quot.a for East Chatham 
was .$12,000, but we raised .$12,300, and 
only about 175 people attended the meet¬ 
ing, Now this is not a rich farming sec¬ 
tion, hut all felt they mu.st do their bit to 
help the boys over the top, and we did, 
and two days after it was raised to about 
$18,000. We are the first town in Co¬ 
lumbia County, N. Y., to raise its quota, 
and hope to make it $24,(XK) instead of 
$18,000, so as to have a star on our own 
flag. We have mir flag stretched across 
the road for the people who pass by to 
see what East Chatham has done, and 
trust Columbia County will produce more 
towns to go over the top. A. s. 
It. N.-Y.—We pidnt this simidy becau.se 
it was the first report to reach us di¬ 
rectly. Since then we have many reports 
from other country towns which h:ive over¬ 
subscribed. We have never advised any 
farmer to take money ab.solutcly needed 
to conduct his business for a Liberty loan 
investment. It Avould be a mistake to do 
that. What we advise is to cut out all 
the siieculative questionable chances and 
use that money in bonds. AVe also think 
that i)art of the money laid aside for that 
“rainy day” should be loaned to the gov¬ 
ernment. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—April 25 the Erie Rail¬ 
road .shops at Lima, O., wmre destroyed 
by fire, with a loss of $500,000. Firemen 
wei-e hampered by lack of water, and sev¬ 
eral suspicious incidents suggested incen¬ 
diarism. 
April 25 the transport St. Paul, ju.st 
out of dry dock, sank at her pier in New 
York, many workmen on board having a 
narrow escape. Three lives were lo.st. 
Three men were killed and a number 
injured at Hamilton, Out., April 25 by 
an explosion at the plant of the Hamilton 
Tar and Ammonia Company. The cause 
of the explosion is not known. 
A military trap laid for bogus army of¬ 
ficers at Boston April 25 resulted in the 
detention of nine men wearing officers’ 
uniforms, three of whom are suspected of 
being Cerman spies. Five others of those 
arre.sted, according to officers of the 
Northeastern Department, are former 
army officers who. tbi’ough discharge, or 
for other reasons, have forfeited the right 
to wear uniforms, and one is believed to 
be a hotel swindler. 
The bodies of three workmen wei-e 
found April 26 in the ruins of the Bur¬ 
lington, Vt., Milk Chocolate Company’s, 
plant, which was destroyed by fire. The: 
loss is estimated at $1,000,000. Spon-, 
taneous combustion in the shipping room 
was blamed. The company W’as working 
on a big contract for the Belgian Relief 
Commission. 
Fred Wilson of Poughkeepsie and Will-! 
iam .1. Holmes of New Haven, arraigned 
in police court at Springfield. Mass.. 
April 26, for the larceny of two trunks 
with contents valued at $1,100, Avere 
turned over to the Federal authorities 
and held in $10,000 each for the Federal 
Grand Jury, this being the first case here 
since the Government assumed control of 
the railroads th.at an offen.se of this 
nature has been i)rosecuted by Federal 
officers. The trunks, the property of a 
newly married couple, w^ere taken from 
the New Haven Railroad by the expe<lient 
of exchanging baggage checks. 
During the w'eek ending April 29, Amer¬ 
ican ship-builders launched 41,105 tons, 
making a total of 1,405,000 tons since 
the building program got under way. 
Nearly 50,000 tons of completed ships 
were delivered during the week. Three 
steel ships aggregating 18,.305 tons, and 
one wooden ship of .3..500 tons were 
launched in one day. 
Ninety-eight Germans arrested in the 
Panama Canal Zone were taken to Ellis 
Island April 28. They arrived at an At¬ 
lantic port in the charge of the immiga- 
tion authorities, but were later turned 
over to Major Chester R. Haig, in charge 
of the detention of enemy aliens on the 
island, and will be sent to an internment 
camp. They w-ere said to have been en¬ 
gaged in various German activities in the 
Canal Zone. 
Maximum sentences of two year.s’ im- 
pri.sonment in a Federal penitentiary and 
fines of $10,000 each were imposed at San 
Francisco April 80 upon Franz Bopp, 
former German Consul-General, and E. H. 
von Schack, former Vice-Consul, following 
their conviction on charges of conspiring 
to foment revolution against British rule 
in India. Twenty-seven others, including 
Germans, Hindus and Americans, were 
also sentenced for complicity in these 
plots. The total of the prison terms im¬ 
posed was twenty-three and tw'o-thirds 
years. The fines totaled $64,000. Louis 
T. Heng.stler, San Francisco admiralty 
lawyer, was the only defendant to escape 
a pri.son sentence. .Tudge Van Fleet re¬ 
mitted a jail term of four months after 
Ilengstler made a plea to the court, as¬ 
serting his Americanism and denouncing 
German imperialism. A fine of $5,(X)0 
remained against him. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The annual 
meeting of the American Guernsey Cattle 
Club will be held at the Auditorium Hotel, 
('hicago. May 1.5, at 10.80 A. M. 
To meet the shortage of seed corn in 14 
of the large corn-producing States be¬ 
tween now and .Tune 8. the Federal Gov¬ 
ernment, through the Bureau of Markets, 
has announced a special seed-reporting 
.service which will assist local organiza¬ 
tions and individuals in locating and dis¬ 
tributing seed corn to farmers in these 
States. 
A milk exposition will be held at Grand 
Central Palace, New York, May 20-25. 
A fuel regulation has been issued by 
the TJ. S. Fuel Administration limiting 
all florists to .50 per cent of their normal 
supply during the year from April 1, 1918, 
to March 31, 1919. 
In the next few weeks contracts will 
be made by the office of the Quarter¬ 
master Gener.al of the Army for the sale 
of manure accumulating at all the Na¬ 
tional Army cantonments. National Guard 
camp.s, remount depots, and other im¬ 
portant Government posts. It is antici¬ 
pated that these contracts will cover, in 
the aggregate, approximately 3,000,000 
tons. 
The use of milk tickets throughout New 
England, to reduce the price of milk to 
the consumer, will probably be established 
.soon, according to Philip L. Allen, of the 
New England Regional Milk Commission, 
W'ho presided at a continiied hearing at 
Boston April 25 on the question of de¬ 
termining the retail price of milk during 
May and .Tune. Henry Q. Millett, aud¬ 
itor for one of the leading milk contract¬ 
ors, said the strip-ticket system of buying 
milk undoubtedly would bring about a re¬ 
duction in prices, as his concern loses Tin¬ 
der the present system $30,000 a year 
through bad bills. 
As an example to the nation to u.se 
every available bit of grazing ground for 
the fattening of food animals. President 
Wilson has bought 12 sheep, and turned 
them loose on the White House grounds. 
WASHINGTON.—April 25 the De¬ 
partment of .Tustice reported that at least 
3,900 convictions had been obtained dur¬ 
ing the last year under “wholly inade¬ 
quate Federal laws against .sabotage, dis¬ 
loyal utterances, and other forms of in¬ 
terference with the war.” These figures 
were gathered from partial reports of 
United States attorneys and actually rep¬ 
resent only a small part of the Depart¬ 
ment’s work of policing the country, it 
was .said. On charges of interfering with 
operation of the draft, .3,465 persons have 
been convicted or have pleaded guilty, and 
181 h.ave been acquitted. Under the Es¬ 
May 11, 1918 
pionage act, which has been stretched to 
cover many varying cases of disloyalty, 
there have been 226 convictions and 17 ac¬ 
quittals. Under general war statutes, 228 
have been convicted and 89 acquitted. 
Twenty-three persons have been found 
guilty of making threats against the Pres¬ 
ident and ten .acquitted on this charge. 
Rejecting all amendments designed to 
limit the I’rcsident’s authority the Senate 
April 26 passed the Overman bill with its 
general ga\ant of power for the Executive 
to co-ordinate and reorganize government 
departments and other agencies during 
the war. The vote on the measure, which 
now goes to the House, was 63 to 13, As 
passed by the Senate, the measure author¬ 
izes the President to “make such redistri¬ 
bution of functions among executive 
agencie.s as he may deem necessary” and 
to “utilize, co-ordinate and consolidate 
any executive or administrative commis¬ 
sions, bureaus, agencies, offices or officers 
now existing by law, to transfer any du¬ 
ties or powers from one exi.sting depart¬ 
ment, or to transfer the personnel there¬ 
of,” ^ These powers, however, “shall bo 
exercised only in matters relating to the 
conduct of the present war.” 
“How’.s TOTHi boy getting on at the 
training camp?” “Wonderful!” replied 
Farmer Applecart. “I feel a sense of 
great security. An army that can make 
my boy get up early, work hard all day 
an’ go to bed early, can do most any¬ 
thing.”—Credit lost. 
ALL year ’round utility characterizes the Cleveland 
Tractor. It performs its varied duties regularly, 
season by season. It is a “man-of-all-work.” 
It plows. It harrows. It plants. It reaps. 
And it does all of these things faster and better 
than was possible before. 
But that isn’t all. It does the thousand and one 
other things that require mechanical power. It pulls 
your manure spreader. It runs your saw. It operates 
your pump. It cuts your ensilage. It drags logs and 
lumber. It pulls road 
machinery. It does prac¬ 
tically everything* that 
horsepower and stationary 
engines can do. It develops 12 horsepower at the 
drawbar for hauling and gives 20 horsepower at the 
pulley for stationary work. 
The Cleveland Tractor plows 3% miles an hour— 
eight to ten acres a day—which is equal to the work 
of three good men with three 3-horse teams. 
It travels on its own endless tracks which it lays 
down and picks up as it goes along. 
It operates easily over gullies, ruts, and uneven 
ground of all kinds. Because of its 600 square inches 
of traction surface it goes over sand, gumbo, mud and 
slippery clay without packing the soil, without sinking, 
miring or floundering. 
The Cleveland weighs less than 3200 pounds and 
is so small that it can be readily driven under and 
among small fruit trees. 
Cleveland Tractor 
It steers by the power of its own engine and will turn 
in a twelve foot circle. 
It requires less space to house than a single horse. 
The Cleveland Tractor was designed by Rollin H. 
White, the well known motor truck engineer—and is 
manufactured under his supervision. 
He has designed the track for long service. The 
sections are constructed to prevent filling or packing 
with mud and protection is provided to prevent dirt 
and mud from falling into the track. The sections are 
joined with hardened 
steel pins which have their 
bearings in hardened 
steel bushings. 
Gears are protected by dust-proof, dirt-proof cases 
and are of the same high quality as those used in the 
finest trucks. Materials used throughout are of the 
best. 
Every step must be taken this year that will speed 
up farm work—that will enable machinery to replace 
muscle—that will help produce—and increase heurvests. 
The Cleveland Tractor is already bearing a big 
share of the war burden. Farmers are producing larger 
crops because of the Cleveland— and are making 
greater profits. 
You too can help the nation meet the food emer¬ 
gency—and incidentally make more money for yourself. 
Write to us now for complete information and the name 
of the nearest Cleveland dealer. 
THE CLEVELAND TRACTOR CO., Dept. L, Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A. 
