. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Pase 16 BETTER FRUIT Novcnibc The War News.—If you want to ab- solutely waste two or three hours a day without learning much of anything, take the war news each day and read it all. In previous wars the war news as given furnished leliable and full in- formation about the progress of the war. In this present war news is cen- sored so severely that from the war news given in the papers one seldom gets more than a few of the unimpor- tant details, which are enlarged into four-column articles. The war corre- spondents of some of the greatest pub- lications in the Un
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Pase 16 BETTER FRUIT Novcnibc The War News.—If you want to ab- solutely waste two or three hours a day without learning much of anything, take the war news each day and read it all. In previous wars the war news as given furnished leliable and full in- formation about the progress of the war. In this present war news is cen- sored so severely that from the war news given in the papers one seldom gets more than a few of the unimpor- tant details, which are enlarged into four-column articles. The war corre- spondents of some of the greatest pub- lications in the United States are cabling a one and a half colunui mes- sage which absolutely gives no further information than to state that the writer slept on a bed of straw on the floor of a garage or he only had a loaf of rye bread to eat in three days. Such news about the war is tonuiiyrot and it is certainly a waste of time to read it. In fact most of the war news so far is about siiuilar details and slight engage- ments which have no significance as to the actual conditions. About the only information that seems worth while is that either one side or the other is ad- vancing, and just how valuable even this information is becomes a question, for the reason that the war report from one country states the enemy has re- tired and the war reporf from head- quarters of the other country on the same day reports just exactly the opposite. So, again, it seems well enough to say: Do not spend so much time read- ing the war news, but spend your time talking business and attending to your own business. Perhaps in no section of the United States have the railroads and agricul- tural colleges shown more progressive- ness than in the Northwest. Every yeai' the various railroads of the North- west in dill'erent states send out dem- onstration trains, accompanied by a stall' of lecturers from the dilTcrent agricultural colleges in Oregon, Wash- ington and Idaho. These trains are equipped with exhibits
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