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Show BRAVER PRESS jl on 1 wai mi .a l i' Fatuous American lgkK JOHNE'S DISEASE IN CATTLE HMDS 1 I your lastfa deseryoil, Infection Exists to Some Degree in Every btate fPr.pared fcr th. United State. Department pnce of Johne'g disease In ,oriq n manv- sections of the United States, as determined by state and federal veterinarians, gives rise tho hellef that the Infection exists to some degree In virtually every state. acThig disease (pronounced yonez, cent on first syllable, a long "0" and short "e"), also known as paratuberbacculosls, Is an Incurable, Infectious, terial dysentery which affects cattle nrtnMnniiv. hut may also affect horses. serious sheep, deer, and goats. Its ness, whenever It occurs among cauie, is such that reactors to the Johnin test are slaughtered and indemnities paid. The Infection, which Is thought to nave been introduced into the United States originally in shipments of cattle from Europe, is more fully described m circular 104-C- , "Johne's Disease of Livestock," Just Issued of animal industry. bureau by the United States Department of nn, ti WUic caKBuSK Lincoln III v TJ In: r. v ..k 1 1 - t f ! for.. (Para-tuberculosi- s) vivsv' i; P,11 "WashTngtonJYionumeni j.theMolkerof Yfashmqton Hank5 Lincoln Monument 103101 I 4 . VMO(vO00&Unwtiwooo SW WjliiAjtSCVJi 01 ii AY 11 of this year Is Mother's day, ,a day Jor ,)onorlnK our mothers, not 4 II II I only those who are here to receive our love but also those who are no longer with us. It Is also a day for paying tribute to those mothers of the past who gave to a nation Its , great men. In virtually every case ,thefanie of their sons has so far transcended their own that they are but little known, even though those ' sons have been the first to acknowU edge, their Indebtedness to their mothers for whatever elements of greatness they themselves possessed. Such was the case with the first great American, George Washington, and his mother, Mary Ball Washington. In an address to "the Wor-hlpfMayor and Commonalty of the Corporation of Fredericksburg" in 1700 he thanked them for the "honorable mention which la made of my revered mother, by whose maternal hand (early deprived of a Father) I was led to manhood," When she died In. 1780 and congress passed resolutions of sympathy, his reply contained this tribute to her: "I attribute all of my success In life to the moral, .intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother." Even though that statement Is closely akin to Lincoln's famous tribute to his mother, "God bless my mother. All that I am or hope to be I owe to her," It Is doubtful If there was the warmth of feeling In Washington's words that there were In Lincoln's. For the truth of the matter is that there was never the close mother-and-so- n attachment between George Washington and Mary Ball Washington that there wus between Abraham Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, or even between the Great Emancipator and his stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. Left motherless at the age of thirteen, Mary Pall was married to Augustine Washington at twenty-twand gave the name of George to her first-borIn honor of her guardian and girlhood tenefactor, Maj. George Eskridge. That she was a stern parent seems to be the unanimous verdict of all of the early Washington biographers. Of her, Lawrence Washington of Chotauk, once aid: "I was often there with George his playmate, schoolmate and young man's companion. Of the mother I was ten times more afraid than I ever was of my own parents. She awed me In the midst of her kindness, for she was indeed truly kind. I have often been present with her pons, proper tall fellows, too, and we were all as mute as mice; and even now, when time has whitened my locks, and I am the grandparent of a second generation, I could not behold that remarkable woman without feelings It Is Impossible to describe. Whoever has seen that air and manner, so characteristic In the Father of Ills Country, will remember the matron, as she appeared when the presiding genius ef her household, commanding and being obeyed." Because she was a stern parent, It has pleased orae biographers of Washington to paint her as a Spartan mother. But this role did not Include Bending hlra forth to war with the classical Injunction about "returning home with your shield or upon It," for we have the evidence of George Washington Parke Custls that she had two great fears, one of war and the other of lightning, and the evidence of contemporary documents that she persistently discouraged Washington In his military ambitions. Much of the latter has been brought to light by a modern biographer, Rupert Hughes, whose honest effort to learn and present the whole truth about Washington has brought down upon him so many accusations of being a since the first volume of deliberate - his life of Washington was published by William Morrow and company four years ago. In that volume he says of Mary Ball Washington, "While she has been the victim of almost as much deification as George she has been set next to the mother of Christ she seems to have been a terrlfylngly strict mother, and not to have shared George's Ideals of rebellion . . . Few women have ever had such rhetoric of adulation heaped upon them, and Washington Is quoted as Baying that he owed all he was to his mother. But If Is a cruel truth that she was chiefly remarkable as a very human, cantankerous old lady who, from being a fond taskmaster In her early jMtherhood, evolved Into a trial for everybody. u HAJfKODS.rOTS V- - fY e MM LA x?si 'IN-,.-- , . "Mother Town" Tablet HarrodsbuTgrCtj: . , ; 'These are the abundantly supported facts, and there Is no excuse for the maudlin perversion of the truth; yet the picturesque little old woman ul struggling with unusual hardships and her own traits should have all the sympathy In the world. It cannot be comfortable to be the mother of an arch-rebel.- ' , o n well-ordere- d : ' " as to his Inheritance through her of the qualities which he deemed to be some of the best within him, he spoke with deep feeling, "God bless my mother. Ail that I urn or hope to be I owe to her." Although in this utterance, her son spoke of the mental traits he inherited from her, thought himself to rather than her direct influence over him. It was of her mind and character be spoke when he said that however unpromising her early surroundings might have been "she was highly Intellectual by nature, had a strong memory, accurate Judgment, and was cool and heroic." In a later volume he says of her: "She was a difficult mother, though he was a devoted son. '. . . Mary's name appears Incessantly In Washington's account books and diaries. He took good care of her business for her, visited her with filial regularity, and paid her profound respect, saying nt the last: 'I attribute all of my success In life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother.'" So, even though we cannot think of Washington's mother as an outstanding example of the warm, which we associate with the. gentle mother-lov- e Idea back of Mother's day, surely the result of the "moral. Intellectual and physical education" which she contributed to the making of the great character that was the Father of Ills Country ahould be enough to Insure for Mary Ball Washington the lasting gratitude of this nation. While there do not exist, and probably never have, any such contemporary records, as in the case of Washington and his mother, to show the closeness of the bond between Nancy Hanks Lincoln and the son thnt was born to her on February 12, 1S0D, yet there Is a weulth of tradition, reliable enough to warrant Its acceptance, about the tender and deep love that was theirs. One of the leading Lincoln scholars. Dr. William E. Barton, has nptly called her "a backwoods madonna" and In his book, "The Women Lincoln Loved," published by the Bobhs-Merrlcompany, he presents thee glimpses of mother and son : ll If Abraham .Lincoln received from his mother a rich heritage of qualities which contributed to his greatness, that greatness also owes much to another woman who bore the name of Lincoln. She was Sarah Bush Johnston, widow of a Daniel Johnston, a Kentucky pioneer, whom Thomas Lincoln married In 1819. Already the mother of three children, marriage added to her responsibilities that of the rearing of Tom Lincoln's motherless son and daughter. Of her Barton writes: Sally Bush was not slow to discover In her new son qualities which were not present In the sob who was of her own flesh and blood. With no word of disparagement of her own boy, she never failed to praise and eacour-ag- e Abraham. The time had come when Thomas Lincoln and his son did not understand each other any too well. The boy had shot up marvelously In stature, and the changes of adolescence wrought In him unaccountable transformations, ne became dreamy and at times unsociable. There were within him the stirrings of strange ambitions which did not please his father. . . , Thomas Lincoln now and then became angry at his boy's perverseness. In this situation the mother often understands the boy when the father does not This fact is the basis of much silly sentimentality, and has become the occasion of a most unjust disparagement of fatherhood and a flabby and adulation of motherhood. But the experience of the Lincoln household Is not unique. Blessed Is the hoy who at such a time has a mother who under-atand- s hlra and Is able to express a sympathy which the father perhaps does not know how to define or perhaps even,to think necessary. Such sympathy Abraham Lincoln found In his new mother. She encouraged his reading and persuaded Thomas Lincoln to look upon it with favor. Sally Lincoln saw this d lad outstrip her own son. and was not Jealous, but encoursged Abraham to persevere. So far as we have any data to serve as the basis of correct Judgment, her Influence on him was wholly good. Year In and year ont, through the long period of his late boyhood and young Abraham Lincoln saw and admired and loved this handsome, curly-hairenew er of his. and he carried Into life" a mothfiner Ideal of womanhood for what he discovered In her. Easy Access to Water Beneficial to Swine It has been demonstrated . ... many times by experiment stations as well as by thousands of producers that hogs do better and make larger gains from a given amount of feed when they have. constant access to water. Normally a hog drinks only small quantities at a time, but It likes to drink often. It will drink several times during one feeding period when it can run to a at will. When the feed Is thrown on the ground or ob a feeding floor where the Individual hog must eat In competition with a large group It Is not likely to atop for water so long as there Is grain to eat. But when it can run to a It soon learns thnt there will be plenty of feed left when It returns. Then It begins to eat more Sir Walter HaleigUd-lo- down tlaat powerful pipe of yours Sir Walter vl! do it. It's a particularly mild and 1 mellow mixture of excellent tobaccos. And tne tokeco wrapped in Heavy gold keep it firesk and fragrant last pipeful in tnc tin. is foil to to tJac TUNE IN on "The P.I.igh Friday, io:oo to moo p. m. (New YkTio orcr the WEAF network of 1(. J. c RW, cout-toto- SlR<EK Raleigh It's i5e eni BjMfl It's mUa Aerial Studio for Africa Built especially for the photograpbIng of an area of 63,000 square mils In northern Rhodesia, an airplane li soon to be put Into commission. The machine Is literally an aerial photographic studio. It can be flown at 1 height of 20.000 feet and remain it this altitude for seven and hours while the pilot and photoAi grapher map the country below. over t be will most of the flights wild country the plane has two eother ngines so that If one falls the will carry the machine to safety. - one-hal- f The Fate of Maa becomf Every now and again we we to as knowing quite pessimistic, f life the In that there Is a time man when he either gets hardening of the arteries or softening of the brain. Judge. self-feed- raw-bone- Southern Indiana was then a wild region, and the settlements back of the Ohio river , were few and sparse. There were at first no regular church services, no physicians, do schools. Perhaps Thomas Lincoln did not regret the absence of schools so ranch as Nancy did. There ts no reason to believe that he opposed such education as his children were able to secure, but apparently the mother was more Intent on the securing of an education for her children than was the father 'Abraham Lincoln was old enough now to look with more possibility of appreciation on this mother of his, and to estimate somewhat ' her qualities. She was now approaching the !' She was above medium age of thirty-five- . height and had a slight stoop as though predisposed to consumption. She weighed about a hundred and thirty pounds. Her complexion was dark, and her face was thin and sallow. Her forehead was unusually hlt'h. and all ber relatives commented on this feature of her appearance as belonging to and exhibiting . her Intellectual nature. She was tisually cheerful, but her face In repose was sad. At times she displayed a marked tendency to mirth, but she had moods of melancholy. Abraham had a boy's limitation of Judgment; perhaps he did not appreciate these qualities bo fully In his youth as he did later, . but we have no reason to suppose thnt he was wholly blind to them. She was a good mother to him. and he knew It. She was ambitious for him, nnd desired that he should have the opportunities which both she and her hus. band had missed. . He loved his mother hl1e she lived, and he loved her memory afterward. It was a pathetic memory, and had In It elements concerning which he was properly reticent; but The first svmptoms of Johnes dis ease are a temporary loss of appetite. and, In cows, a. radical diminution of the milk flow. Intermittent diarrhea which fails to respond to medicinal treatment usually foilows. The coat becomes rough and the animal looks , unthrifty. The appetite may be re-and few days gained after the first may remain normal. Affected animals may drink large quantities of water. In the last stages of the disease the animal becomes greatly emaciated and dies as a result of exhaustion. The disease Is spread from herd to herd by the Introduction of diseased animals, by allowing healthy stock to graze with diseased stock on communi ty pastures, and by permitting animals to drink from contaminated brooks. It Is snread within a herd by bacteria which are expelled from a diseased animal and contaminate feed or water. Althoueh there Is no satisfactory treatment known for Johne's disease. temporary relief Is sometimes obtained by restricting the feed and placing the animal on a dry ration. Isolate suspected animals until a diagnosis can be made. Cures are not to be expected. The diagnostic test consists of an Injection, Into the Jugular vein, of a biological product known as Johnin. Indemnity funds have been available since July 1, 1927, when Congress granted to the bureau of animal Industry authority to pay Indemnities to cattle owners for animals slaughtered because of reaction to the Johnin test. These payments are made on the same basis as are Indemnities paid on tuberculous cattle. Further details concerning the payment of indemnity may be obtained by writing to state livestock officials, or to the bureau of animal lndjstry, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. TET self-feed- deliberately and to drink several times before It has satisfied Its man-hoa- d Weed Eradication Plan Being Helped by Sheep ... But great as was the contribution of these two Pioneer mothers, who bore the name of Lincoln ...... u,tt , tney were by means the onlv ones ofimuon, ...... . . thMr hand In that In a little park .nth! Har' I 8 n,nsslve ""ault boulder .T. cb Is a bronze tablet upon thee . bearing words: "Erected b uv.m.,-h co? Slieep and sweet clover are being tised by Cass county (North Dakota) farmers in a weed eradication campaign. Sweet clover Is used to smother sow thistles and sheep are turned on the land to pasture both weeds and sweet clover. The sheep seem to like sow thistles in preference to clover. Last year farmers rodsburg. honoring the Mother Town of Imported 3,000 Ken ln the ucky founded June 10. ,774, and mpargn and rP,SieJlfled remembering 2.000 acres of sweet clover the Hrst Mothers of the West to enter the and 20,000 acres of alfalfa. The lamb crop was about 00 per cent which with " " A trlb. the I'enton. wool about paid for the ute from womanhood f the ewes. hood of the past. June Id. - t0 Wmnn" The erecting 0f monuments Plenty of Shade mother has become a frequent ocenrrencj "mCT cent years In many parts of the country! Vntj of shade In warm Some of them are great statues which show what June plenty of ventilation they may ner of women were these who pushed tier ever westward. 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