1315 
The Abject Surrender of Germany 
At livo o'clock on tlie inonnn.2: of Novombor 11 it 
l)<-><';'.ino known in tbis conntvy that (Jorniany had 
siirnMidemt. Instantly millions of bells began ring¬ 
ing. and every whistle with steam in its throat began 
s<-reaniing. The end of the hideous world war had 
i-oiiK'- -peaee was in sight. The end finally came some¬ 
what like the closing of our Civil War—unexpectedly. 
When Richmond was taken most people thought 
that the (Confederate armies would fight on for per¬ 
haps a year longer. With the loss of that i^ti’onghold 
the whole thing fell like a house of cards, and be- 
frayed a mere shell which had heen held together 
only hy the siipreme exei'cise of human will power. 
In somewhat the same manner “the iron walls of 
(Jermany” suddenly turned to sawdust and fell in a 
heafi. It is hard for us to realize the mighty things 
which have been done in the past few months. It 
seems hut a few days ago that the derma ns were 
smashing on toward Paris, brushing aside the Allied 
.armies like a powerful tractor crushing its plow 
through a stubborn so<l. That was the time we ques¬ 
tioned and wondered and began to realize the size 
of the .iob this nation had undertaken. Then, all at 
onee. the situation changed. The Allied armies 
halted, stood still and fought the enemy back, and 
then, with a mighty effort, like the return swell of 
the ocean tide, they rallied and swept the dermans 
back. back, until they were overwhelmed. 
Many of us have wondered .iu.st what happened at 
Chateau-Thierry. I’he world now knows. Our young 
m(>n stood there eatijig their hearts out with impa¬ 
tience. c|’hey saw the French and Rritisii falling 
Itack and they felt that both dermany and the Allies 
could not (piite believe that this army, hastily gath¬ 
ered fi’om American farms and shops, ever could fight. 
It is well known that the dermans regardcvi our army 
!is a crowd of boys on dress parade. Then oim day the 
impatient si)irit in our men boiled over and practically 
without orders they rushed forward like an army 
of furies and drove those derman veterans off the 
map. g 
From that day dermany’s fate was sealed. The 
I'hysical shock of those American bayonets was hard 
enough, hut it was the moral shock which sent the 
foundation of Prussian autocracy trembling. All 
through this war and before it the war lords of 
dermany had built upon treachery, brihery, false- 
jiood—the meanest elements in the hearts of men 
in order to win. They expected Egypt and India to 
revolt. They even exi)ected Americans with derman 
blood in their veins to renounce and hetray the 
Republic which had given them freedom and oppor¬ 
tunity. Xo wonder men with such distorted views 
of moral obligations believed that the American 
Army would never prove a lighting force. Thus 
when th('se Americans dashed into the tight and cut 
through the Prussian duard they put a new teiioi 
into the dmanan heart from which the enemy never 
recovered. Again and again on the soil of France, 
since Charles Martel beat back the Saracens into 
Spain, free men have stood at the last desiterafe ex¬ 
tremity and performed the miracle of Ix^adiig back 
an invading horde. The dermans were sw<‘pt-out of 
France because the free, open vision of the Republic 
l>roved morally .superior to the arrogant, proud, cruel 
spirit of autocracy. 
When the end came we find dermany eaten inside 
to a mere shell. The A.iiser is a fugitive, society in 
a ferment, with no strong government. The proud 
nation which defied the opinion of the world, sneered 
at moral obligations and trampled over the weak and 
helpless, must now crawl abjectly in the dust and 
submit to the most comidete and disgraceful sur- 
i-ender ever endured by a great empire. Most of us 
demanded “unconditional surrender"—what dermany 
is forced into is surrender with the most awful con¬ 
ditions dictated by her compierors. And who will 
say that dermany does not richly deserve her fate? 
In the present temper of the world she will he 
stripped to the bone and made powerless for two 
generations. And while there are millions who in 
(.rdinary cases would avert their faces rather than 
witness the humiliation of a beaten enemy, who in 
all the world can find willing sympathy for this 
wretch among nations now' humbled in the dust? 
In company wdth thousands of our readers we feel 
a great joy and pride that tluf hoys wdiich we 
have seen grow up from the cradle have had a 
biave part in this wuir. dod grant that it may he 
th(‘ last of their soldiering, but that they may come 
back to the old life and the old duties unspoiled, 
>et with more of a man’s desire and courage to help 
tight the harder battles of peace. Tiik R. N.-Y. is 
(piite willing to leave the settlement of surremler and 
the closing of the war to the great leaders who know 
what to do. We have no advice to offer. We are 
JShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
more concerm'd with the future—what is to happen 
when our great army is demobilized and sorted out 
into industry ouce more. After the divil A^ar. as we 
remember it, too much time was lost in flag-waving 
and rejoicing ov’er the beaten enemy, and through this 
part of the moral obligation entailed upon the nation 
was overlooked, (me of our readers suggested that 
this is a time for reading Kipling's “Ri'cessional,” 
and the first two verses seem to us very appropriate; 
dod of '-.nr fatlwrs, known of (dd. 
Lord of onr far-flung battle liic'. 
Reneath Whoso awful hand we hold 
Dominion over jialni and pine. 
Lord dod of Hosts, bo with us yet 
I.est we forget—lest we forget I 
The tumult and the shouting dies. 
The captains and the kings depart— 
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, 
A humble and a contrite heart. 
Lord dod of Ilost.s. be with us yet 
I.est we forget—lest we forget I 
Advance Milk Prices; Country Milk 
Company 
Ry mutual consent the price of milk to consumers 
in New York City has been again increa.sed about 
one cent a ipiart over the prices lix('d on November 
first. This increase took effect on November 14. 
1'here will be no advance to the producer laTore 
December first at best. 
Cents 
di’adc A bottled milk, retail, quarts. Ih 
(fradc botth'd milk, retail, pints. 1’2 
drade I! botth'd milk, retail quarts. IT 
drade R bofth'd milk, retail, pints. 11 
drade R bottled milk, to stores, (piarts. 
drade If botth'd milk, by store's, (piarts. 17 
T.oose milk, to stores, quarts (drade R). L'>Vt 
Loose milk, hy stores, (piarts (drade R). 14 
Loose milk, wholesale (drade R). 10 gallons or 
over, to restaurants, hotels, ice cream iiarlors, 
clubs, etc. 
Loose milk, wholesale (drade R), under 10 gal¬ 
lons .. i:i% 
Figured on the estimated city supply of 00,000 cans 
daily, this gives the dealers an extra profit of .$.‘1X4,- 
000 for the remainder of this month. For the sale 
of bulk milk to stores the dealer gets .$1.M7 a can for 
delivery from the idatform to the st()re door. The 
])ri(‘e to the producer for R grade is $;k.‘17 a can. The 
cost of distribution for R grade is .$5.<>0 in bulk. .$(>..‘'0 
in bottles for grade R and $7.4.1 for grade A. It costs 
.$0.41 to deliver a can of grade A milk in pint bottles, 
.$.S..«0 to deliver a can of grade R in pint bottles. The 
year before the milk fight the average cost of distri¬ 
bution in bottles was six cents a ipiart or .$2.40 a can. 
'I'he policy of reducing cost of distribution for which 
we all contended for so long has been abandoned. 
Of course war conditions increased the cost of de¬ 
livery as well as of production: but with all allow¬ 
ances. the dealei’s seem more firmly entrenched than 
ever before. .\ little extra windfall of .$.TS4,(K1() in 
]() days is some jirofit. 
* * * * 
The Country Milk Comiiany is now out of the dis¬ 
tributing business in New York ('ity. The remaining 
-plaiit-has re-verted to the McDermott int('r('sts. The 
delivery, ('(piiiunent and routes were sold to deaU'rs. 
The Milk Marketing A.ssociation sells the milk of 
about 10 plants. This si'lling agency is maintained 
at tlu' rate of about $25.000 a year. .\11 the other 
plants have con(ract('d to dealers for six months or 
a year. ^Milk has be('n scarce and easily sold. Some 
of the plants have sold their outiait at a premium 
to April first, and there is yet a demand for more. 
The effect of the new advance on consunuition cannot 
y('t be deti'rmined. Some dealers estimate the present 
supply 20 per cent below the average for November. 
The Prospects for Prohibition 
The (leA'at of Cov. Whitman in New York State 
does not luevent the ratification of the Federal pro¬ 
hibition amendment. We understand that the New 
York Legislature has a majority in both branches 
favorable to the amendment, though much will de- 
Itend upon the organization. ^lany of the politicians 
will not supiiort this amendment unless they are 
driven to it. and temperance peoiile should start after 
their Senators and Assemblymen at once if they ex¬ 
pect ratification. A Federal amendment to the Con¬ 
stitution is first passed by both Houses of Congress 
and signed by the I’resident. It must then he ratified 
by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the States. 
I’his means that the I.egislatures of .‘K! different 
States must give a majority in both branches for the 
amendment. It then becomes a solid point of the 
national law. As we understand it, 12 States have 
already done this. It is now claimed that 80 States 
have voted “dry.” that is, have prohibited the sale 
of liquor in their territory. These States will nat¬ 
urally ratify the amendment. In addition live States 
which have not yet been voted “dry” have, through 
their Legislatures, already ratified the amendment. 
This would make 8S, or two more than enough This 
list does not include .\ew’ York or New Jersey. The 
Legislatures of both these States can be carried for 
ratiti('ation if the temperance people are willing to 
bring full pressure to bear upon the memlKirs. Thus 
it would seem that national prohibition is assured 
within the next two years at h'ast. As we have often 
pointed out, this demand for iirohibition is essentially 
a country or rural movement. In most States where 
thei-e are large cities the (piestion has made a clear- 
cut issue betw een city and country. That is unfortu¬ 
nate, bei'ause it introduces other questions on which 
the plain, ('ommon people ought not to divide. Tliere 
is also a movement on hand for world prohibition. 
There will soon he a meeting at Columbus, Ohio, at 
which delegates from all over the world will meet 
to plan a world-wide campaign against the liquoi 
Imsiness. 
Selling Second-Class Apples 
I should like your advice in n'gard to selling iny apples 
this year. I have a good trade for good spiaiyed fruit, 
and customers have been satisfied. This year I wa.s 
unable to spray my trees in Spring, and in consequence 
have fruit that has never been larger, never better col¬ 
ored. but never more worm holes. Should I try to sell 
this to those who have bought before, telling them ex¬ 
actly what it is. or would you advi.se marketing in some 
other way? All my apiiles go to one man. who then 
(lisjio.ses of them. \Vhat price would be a fair one for 
such fruit? Surely such fruit must have a place in 
these times, m, j, c. 
Connecticut. 
This \vas answered personally when received, but 
it is of some general importance. In our own case 
we .sell .such fruit to our regular customers, telling 
them carefully just what it is. We usually give it 
a distinct name, like “pie apple.s” or “cooking fruit.” 
IVoiile hny it willingly when they know what it is. 
Customers rarely find fault unless they feel that they 
have heen deceived. Our price for such fruit is 
usually (50 per ci'ut of price for No. 1 
Up-State Farm Notes 
LROOM (.ORN RAISINC.—Y'^ears ago Drouin corn 
wa.s succe-ssfully grown in Onondaga County, N. Y., bul 
the industry had ('iitirel.v died out until its revival this 
seaeon. W. A. Peck, of Warner, conferred with a broom 
manufacturing firm in Syracuse last Spring, finding 
them much interested in the production of broom corn 
nearer home than present stock, all coming from Texas. 
A small plot was planted and the manufacturers inspect¬ 
ed it from time to time. T'he crop grew fast and ma¬ 
tured well. It was harvested and taken to the factory 
and made into sonu' (iiu* (piality brooms. Next year, 
larger plots will be planted by several farmers of the 
section, Avho watched the experiment, and wish to add 
to their crop program. 
SALOON.S DECREASED.—The State is greatly 
benefited to the amount of O.odO less saloons this year 
than last, though its revenue may be $4,778,854 less, a.s 
reported by the t^tate Excis-e Commissioner. The de¬ 
crease is due to local option ri'gulations mostly, to the 
Brown law limiting the number of saloons any city may 
ha-ve with the population as a basis,- to national prohi¬ 
bition propaganda, to the denying of fuel to brewing 
concerns, and .t(> increased tax rates. Both city and 
country has profit(‘(l. and will much more so after next 
J'lly.L Local option is a great help, but its real value 
is being prov('d to depend mainly on the city aiul county 
officials in the territories affected. In Auburn, a dry 
city, the city police, the local street railway company 
and a justice of the peace'.in (4wa.sco. a small town four 
miles out of the city having a liipior license, have formed 
a triple alliance against booze, and they are lining up 
the drunks daily in bunches of a dozen or two, handing 
out stiff fines and jail sentences to transgressors of the 
law. The effect is very beneficial to both the small town 
and the city, and to the jiatrons of the electric railway 
company, whose late night cars were becoming unsafe 
for travel. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES.—The cabbage mar¬ 
ket is very inactive, many local buyers refusing to buy 
for a time at any prici'. The last price paid was $0 a 
ton for Dani.sh cabbage, $7 for domestic. Buckwheat is 
binuging $8.50 a bushel in some sections. Fresh dairy 
cows are high, being $100 and upwards, accoriling to 
quality. Ed Trombo of Lapeer recently sold 24 head to 
Cortland buyers for .$2,400. 
DEATH OF NOTED PEOPLE.—Two of our col¬ 
leges are in sincei-(*st mourning. Cornell Universitv’s 
first president and its sjiiritual founder. Andrew D. 
White, is dead. He was widely famous as an educator, 
a historian and as a statesman, being a former and 
notably brilliant ambassador to Cermanv. To his broad 
views and goial judgment much of the miraculous success 
of this great college is due. Syracuse University has 
lost a most (h'voteil siqiport, both financially and educa¬ 
tionally. in the (h'ath of Mrs. Ru.seell Sage, who has 
given lavishly of money, time and personal interest and 
sympathy to the development of this growing institution. 
HORSE TRAFFIC AND MOTOR ROADS.—The 
New Y'ork State Association of Horsemen has annealed 
to Edwin Duffey. of Albany. State Highway Commis¬ 
sioner, to see that horse traffic is considered in the car¬ 
rying out of the order calling for open roads this Win¬ 
ter for army and other motor traffic between Buffalo 
and Albany. The horsemen fear the scraping of the 
roads for motor trucks will snoil the road for runners 
and hamper horse vehicles to a bad extent. From ex¬ 
periments carried on on the Sacki't.ts Harbor Road last 
AVinter. horsi'icen bi'lieve it impossible to scrape roads 
so as to keep them open to both kinds of travel. Mr. 
Duffey promised to give the horsemen careful considera¬ 
tion. Xf o. w 
