Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 30 September 1921 — Page 3

FRIDAYi SEPT.'30, 1921.

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PLAN TO REDUCE

FARM FIRE LOSSES

Secretary Wallace Endorses Prevention Week.

Fire plow a few furrows along the righv

of way as a fire break.

| Kerosene lamps should be examinev to see that the burners are in goo condition, and should never be let where they may be upset. Kerosem and gasoline receptacles should b

National Fire Prevention Week is to be observed October 2-9. Its object is to call attention to the vast annual loss by fires

which might have been prevented, kept apart and should be so differem and to’emphasize the necessity ' nvnirl nf * miatnlrp

of safeguards against future fires. The Nation’s total loss is estimated at 15,900 lives and'$500,000,000 in property each year. According to the statistics of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, there were 38,206 fires on farms in a single ye>ar—1918—and the estimated loss tvas' $18,166,710. That means that 38,266 rural families in 1918 suffered loss in degree varying from slight damage to the loss of home, live stock and, in many cases, human life. Farmers, and allpersons in rural communities, well may join in the observance of fire prevention week, both individually „ and in public gatherings, such as schools, churches, and farm organizations.

Henry C. Wallace,

Secretary of Agriculture.

as to avoid possibility of $ mistake Ordinary friction matches shouh be kept in safe receptacles, away fron children, and never carried loos Smoking in barns and garages neve should be permitted. Fire marshals o Western States report greater fir losses in grain and straw the pas season from carelessly throw, matches’, engine sparks and automo bile and tractor backfire, than evei

before.

Buildings may be made safer bj seeing that the chimneys are withou. cracks and free of soot, which maj take fire and scatter sparks on dn roofs. Flues which may become ho should be covered with asbestos am any near-by walls and ceilings pro tected. There should be a sheet oJ

metal under every stove.

Out of all the losses by lightning not one was on a building protecte(

Farm fires cost about $20,000,000 a i by lightning rods. It is now definite year—$18,166,710 in 1918. Of the fires j ly known that lightning rods affor(

that year 33 per cent were from causes classed as preventable, 37 per cent from partly preventable causes, and 30 per cent unknown but believed to have been Iai*gely preventable. With inadequate fire-fighting equipment on farms, fires are hard to control. Prevention is the best way to deal with

them.

Defective chimneys and flues took toll to the extent of $1,962,031; sparks in roofs, $1,181,171; careless in use of matches by smokers and others, $1,071,987; petroleum and its products, $732,067; and stoves, furnaces, boilers,

and their pipes, $674,968.

The largest item listed as partly preventable is lightning, $3,933,950.

protection. If installed intelligentk they reduce the risk from lightning almost to the vanishing point. Public schools' may well devote ai hour or afternoon to a special fire prevention program. Some promineni citizen could be called in for a talk Essays and, perhaps, a playlet by tht children would help impress the matter on their minds. Some schoob already have a weekly 15 minut lesson on fire prevention. The plar

is admirable.

Meetings of farm organizations ar( particularly proper occasions for fin prevention programs. These organi zations frequently have a fire in surance feature, and every fire los:

Fire Prevention Week should be | means larger premiums for the mu-

made a special time for looking over the premises to see that the buildings are in the best practicable shape to prevent and resist fire; that inflammable rubbish is cleared away; and that habits of safety are instilled in the handling of matches, lamps, stoves,

and kerosene and gasoline.

Gasoline has come to play such an | important part in farm life that I special care should be taken to see that it is not stored in inflamable buildings, and is never opened in the

presence of uncovered flame.

Fire Prevention week ends on the semi-centennial of the great Chicago Fire. While occurring in a great city, the traditional cause of this fire was one which is liable to occur in the country—the upsetting of a lantern in a stable. If lanterns must be placed in barns, they should be kept in good condition, set or hung in a safe place, and never filled or lighted in the barn. Numerous disastrous fires are caused by thrashing .machines, both by'iwattyrecT 'sparks' arid "einhets and by dust explosions in the separators. All smokestacks should have sparK arresters, and the ground around the boiler should he kept clean and wet down if necessary. Grain dust explosions are largely preventable. The United States Department of Agriculture has made exhaustive studies of the subject and is prepared to recom-

fnend adeauate safeguards.

Serious losses are caused by sparks from locomotives, which ignite dry wooden shingle roofs and start many fires in straw, stubble, and grass

tual insurance associations.

The lesson of fire pi’evention should be taken to every rural home and community. Precautionary measures will do much to cut down a loss that takes millions of dollars out of the possession of rural Americans every year and leaves nothing in its place. Prevention is better than regret.

Anti-Beer Bill Laid Aside by Agreement

Forecftst Is Made That Consideration Of Measure May Be Delayed Several Weeks.

Washington, Sept. 29—Several

weeks’ delay in consideration of the anti-beer bill forecast in senate after

conferences between leaders. An agreement, announced by Sena-

tor Sterling, Republican, South Dakota, in charge of the measure, was reached to give the legislation right of way afte'r disposal of the peace

treaties and the tax revision bill. The anti-beer measure was shunt-

ed aside in favor of the German treaty, but assurances for its eventual enactment were given by Senator Sterling. “Sentiment of the senate,” he said, “is overwhelmingly in favor of it, but as everybody knows a final vote has been prevented by

during dry seasons. If a railroad the tactics of not exceeding a half

runs through the farm, it will pay to dozen senators.”

Say Freight Charges Force Farmers where it is expected costs will be ro-

te “Dump” Their Products.

Columbus, Sept, f,9—Needs ox the farmer for reduced freight rates were sot forth last week by officials of the Ohio 1 e.-.n Bureau Federation at the :: t rte public utilities commission's investigation of fates on farm products, -1 •. F. O. Kctacr. market director.of the fede ration,, shewed the comparison of live stock prices- and freight rates of 1013 with last week’s prices and rate increase far in excess of increases in prices obtained by the farmer. Bxf Under IN3 Prices The price of beef cattle, he said, row is under the 19'2 market, while tra spoliation prices have more than doubled; ho >s are o by 12 per cent abo e JO!3 while transportation has increased f 'om 100 to 109 per cent; lambs only 15 per < er.t higher with t"ai’ipc -tation .100 To. 114 per c coat hirher. Murray D. Lincoln, executive sccre1 ary of the federation, testified that corn is selling for the least in twenty yea s, that wore hay now is on the farms than over before known, and that in many instances transportation cost was greater than the price received by the farmer for his product. Ue nfsh dcclardff that there #ere instances where farmers had been comrelled to “dump” their products because transportation costs were more than they would get fo>’ the product. F r a b; li t C h a rg e !] 16,000 H' said that a train load of feri lizcr shipped from Atlanta. Ga., to Pickaway county farmers piled up a J’rei lit charge of $16,000, enough to buy one of the best Pickaway county 120-acre farms. Mr. KcLoer toll how the organi ration of co-operative livestock associations in various counties had reduced. cost by loading livestock for shipment from 40 to 90 per cent. He said there r.ow are the forty-four such county associations. He also said plans are being made to organize such associations at the terminal market,

duccd in like manner in caring for the stock until they are delivered to

the packing companies.

MARQUIS ON. DEATH BED FOR-

GIVES POLITICAL FOE

I Deputy Mussolini, leader of the Fascisti (anti-Soditionists), flying from Milan towards Rome, when over Pisa i threw a message of admiration and I regret on the funeral of Marquis Scrlupi. The latter, when dying,, found himself in hospital in a bed next to a Communist who had fatally wounded hiwi. The,Communist was also dying. The two youths—Marquis Serlupi was only 21—asked one another’s pardon. VISCOUNT TURNS ACTOR ’ London—Viscount Glerawly, son and heir of Earl Annesley, has adopted the stage as his profession. He will he the butler in a new society play. I DE ATH ENDS UNIQUE CAREER London—Prohibitionists of England age mourning the death of Rosalind, Countess of Carlisle. She became an ardent teetotaler a few years ago and destroyed her wine cellar. She also forbade Hunting oh her estate as a luxurious amusement. *

DRANK FROM DOG’S DISH Paris—Mme. Sara DeVos has been arrested for feeding her 15i-year-old step-daughter on stale bread cruets for two years. During that time the child was kept in the attic with the dog, and had to drink from his disii.

“TURN OF THEEtfAB® SIGHT,” SAYS**' & 1 , DIRECTOR OF WAR FINANCE CORPORATION i

The turn of the road in American

business is in sight,- says Eugene Meyer, Jr., Managing Director of the War Finance Corporation, the organization that has been authorized by Congress to make loans, not only to promote ojir export trade but also to facilitate the or- , derly marketing of our staple agn- : cultural products in this country, i “One of the difficulties in the j present situation/' says Mr. Meyer, : “is the fact that retailers, whole- ; salers and manufacturers are now | conducting their business on what ; might be termed a hand-to-mouth | basis, each carrying the lowest posI sible stock of goods. The direct result has been to throw back upon i the producers and the country banks that finance them the raw materials which normally are carried by mills, wholesalers, jobbers and retailers. Growers of wheat, ! cotton and other producers, unable ! to market their products as rapidly j as formerly have been compelled to i hold them for a longer period than

! usual.

; “To meet the situation, and also the situation brought about by the failure of foreign merehsuts arid manufacturers to purchase their requirements for the year in the nerio-d immediately following the harvesting of our crops, as in normal times they were accustomed to do, it became necessary to provide additional financing for carrying the products until they could be "marketed iii an orderly way.

Advances to Producers.

“The War Finance Corporation has been able to give substantial i aid by making advances to various ’ associations of producers of cotton, wheat and other commodities, as well as to banking institutions and exporters, and it will be in position, under the Agricultural Relief Bill just enacted by Congress, to render even more effective assistance. “If the business men of America i would resume the carrying of normal stocks, the load forced back i upon the producers would be more generally distributed, resulting in a freer circulation of business and a greater buying power on the part of our agricultural population. f^V'Undue lack of confidence is just ' as detrimental as reckless overconfidence, and the present price

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World Periled—Must Disarm or be Ruined

rUGSTNE-' -AZf K£74? - e/ 3 levels warrant greater confidence; than exists today. At the present; time, no other single thing would, contribute more to the restoration! of business in a sound and conservative manner than the carrying of normal stocks in proportion to; probable demand. The worst stage of agricultural and business de-! pression has been reached!'- 1 The turn ■ in Jthe. roadjs ,in, sight.” j

DAVIS ON 1088-300,000 OUT OF WORK IN STATE OF OHIO

By Harry L. Davis Governor Of Ohio Columbus, O., Sept. 29—There are conservatively 300,000 persons out of work in Ohio. In the nation the figure has been placed at Several millions. As a large proportion of the jobless have dependents, the number affected is greatly multiplied. The fact to he faced in the unemployment situation is that unless dealt with intelligently, thoroly and promptly, winter will bring with it severe hardship and privation for large numbers of men, women and children. Clearly, there is but one healthy way to deal with the problem—to provide work and afford opportunity to those in enforced idleness to support themselves and their families. Solution of the problem would seem to lie in the following two directions: FIRST: The carrying on of public work as extensively as possible. SECOND: Making what work is available go as far as possible in furnishing employment to the greatest number. These two purposes Ohio has set out lo accomplish. Nearly three times as many miles of highways will have been built in 1921 as in any previous year. Extensive grading work will be continued in winter. Other Measures All this will provide work, but not enough, of course, to furnish continuous employment to all. We have, then fore, ordered that all labor jobs requiring no special skill, connected with state work, be prorated among unemployed of the state on a two-week basis of employment, so that at the end of each ; such period a new set of jobless may j be given work. | Wc have also asked that municipalities. counties and townships adopt the same practice,, and that private employers follow the policy so far as possible. State activities alone will thus furnish jobs for thousands. On highway work, there now 15,000 directly and indirectly, performing common labor tasks. Inclement weather will of necessity 'reduce this number to around 5,000, Agencies Extended , Jliru the State Department of i Industrial Relations, other agencies I are being set up in territories not ) reached by city free employment ' bureaus. The state will furnish to these agencies lists of jobs in their localities. Local authorities and private emp 1 overs are asked to furnish similar lists. There is one main n ie that wi. govern operation of thin plan; a: between the unemployed, marriei men with families will be providec with jobs first, as against men who have no dependents. This method that is now being worked out in Ohio will clearly not cure the unemployment problem, but there is every reason to believe that it will materially alleviate its severity.

EMORY SAYS LEGION WANTS BONUS

STILL

Pittsburg, Sept. 29—John C. Emery of Grand Rapids, Mich., national commander of the American Legion, in an address here before delegates attending the third annual convention of the Pennsylvania state department of the legion said that members of the orgnization still were engaged actively in obtaining a bonus for World War veterans from the government. “The American Legion will not let up in its activities until Uncle Sam has paid the veterans of the World War everv penny of compensation they are entitled to,”

THEATRE CHOCOLATES London—The law forbidding sales of chocolates in theatres and shops after 8 p. m. is now under attack Candy manufacturers want the hour extended to 9:30 p. m. THREE DAYS IN BLIZZARD Zurich—A party of American and Canadian tourists climbing the Mat terhorn wci*e trapped in a small Inn on the mountain for three days. Tw members of the party were badly f rostbitten. WHY WOMEN GO MAD London—“There is no doubt,” says the official report of the Asylum Visit ing Committed of Eastbourne, “that the great preponderance of femah lunatics is due to the stress and strain and Wear "and tear of housekeeping.” GERMAN WILES Berlin—Unprejudiced investigator: declare that the official reports cf German unemployment are greatly above the actual figures. This, they assert, is to. indicate that Germany L worse off than is really the case.

ETERNAL TRIANGLE—$10 New York—Mrs, Frederick Slater sued her husband for separation, alleging that he had asked her to share the home with another woman who loved him so much that she gave him $10 a week.

New York, Sept. 29—A new drive for permanent peace has been started A tidal was of public sentiment must be put in motion. The power of the people to get what they want must be demonstrated. The press is askec to help. It is feared that the disarmament conference will be a failure unless this is done. Every man and woman is askec to write three letters, and then get three other persons to do the same One is to be mailed to the president one to a senator and the other to i ?ongressman. Letters to local papers also is advised. The movenent may spread to other countries ft may become an irresistible denand by the world’s peoples on their governments for disarmament and 'ermanent peace. The people can abolish war if they go at it in earnest. The alternative is to prepare for another and greater world war. Insures Permanent Peace The nations should reduce all concert at least half; merge and use the discarded armaments to create one mutual world police power; or>anize a reprentative Association of Nations to manage and control such mutual power and use it to prevent national re-armament and protect jvery nation against attack from the outside. It is the only way to abolish « ar and get permanent peace. The only way re-armament can be orevented without involving part, if not all, of the individual nations in xnothe'r war, is to create by a merger of armaments a mutual world police power that would be ever ready and strong enough to prevent re-armament by any nation. That would end war, because nations cannot fight unless they can arm. If they arm, they will fight. That is human nature and it is history. American System Best The American representative system would be the most model for the proposed association of nations. It can be modified to fit the limited field. Every nation should he represented on an agreed fair basis. Its assembly wsuld enact all international laws. Is world court would enable nations to get justice v/ithout resorting to war. Its council would conduct the business and use the mutual power for the impartial p'rotection of all nations and to prevent any national re-armament. That is civilization’s bast machinery. The whole responsibility and duty of maintaining peace and preventing re-armarnent would be on the association. Individual nations would not be involyed at all. That makes it safe for every nation. Under the League of Nations plan, it is the nations themselves that must furnish and apply force. That would be war. It might involve all nations. That plan is dangerous. Anarchy Would Rule There are just two alternatives. Hereafter the family of nations will be policed and guarded by one orderly mutual power or it will be terrified and Avrecked- by the 40 national competing powers in a world war that will largely exterminate civilization and mankind. The nations now must abolish war or they will he destroyed by Avar. Red anarchy then would rule the Avorld. Hereafter the entire world must not be left to depend for its peace and security wholly upon the will of one mad monarch, nor upon the action of one ambitious or frenzied people.

THEY CAN’T WED-10,000,000 SPINSTERS ARE IN EUROPE

London, Sept. 29.—There are 10,000,000 women and girls in Europe condemned by a surplus of their sex to support themselves thru life and die spinsters. This condition, aggravated by the war, is resulting in strenuous competition by women for men’s jobs. The situation is especially acute i v the British Isles, Avhere the first preiminary reports of the 1921 census shows the females greatly outnumber 'he males, and the city population vastly exceeds the country dweller For more than 100 years there has been an excess of females over males, but never anything like the present proportion, 1095 to 1000. Total Figures Total number of people in England and Wales is 37,885,242, ox whom 18,082,220 are males and 19,803,022 females. This is an excess of 1,720,302 females^ compared with 1,179,276 in

1911.

In Scotland the excess of females is 185,482. This means in Great Britain there are nearly 2,000,000 women who cannot hope to marry unless they marry foreigners or emigrate. This phenomenon is common to most of Europe. The last available figures for the continent are in the man. those of 10 years ago, which show the folloAving excesses of females over males. Russia 2,500,000

West Ham Kingston on Hull Bradford

300,905 287,013 £.. 285,979

Red Cross Support Urged by Harding

Issues Statement Asking People to Aid In Success of Columbus Convention .

Germany France ■.,

841.000 683.000

Italy 628,000

Spain Austria .. Portugal Hungary Sweden Norway i-.... Denmark Switzerland ' 'Belgium Netherlands

550.000 506.000 303,009 196.000 15.000 111.000 84.000 62.000 62,000 60,000

Finland 22,000

,6.000

Ireland Including the excess of Great ^Britain at that time, Europe had a total of nearly eight million more females than males. . The excess now is at least 10,000,-

000.

All of the belligerent countries lost huge quantities of their men during the war. And in Russia, Poland and new states of Russia, there have been additional losses from famine and disease. Growth cf Cities But the growing city population of Great Britain is just as alarming to the social economists. One hundred years ago England and Wales were self-sustaining as to food. Now Great Britain is a huge workshop which must buy its daily bread and meat from abroad and pay for it in manufactured goods. The present census shows in urban districts of England and Wales the pooulation was 30.034,385 as against oPly'‘7;850,857 in the rural districts. Concentration' - in 1 ’'cities' is illustrated by the huge towns: Greater London 7,476,168 Glasgow 1,034,069 Birmingham 919,438 Liverpool 803,118 Manchester 730,551 Sheffield 490,724 Leeds , 458,320 Edinburgh 420,281 Bristol 377,061

Washington, .Sept. 29—President Harding in a statement addressed to the American people, called attention to the national convention of the Red Cross to be held at Columbus, O., next month and invited support for it. The statement follows: To the American people: “The executive committee of the American Red Cross has arranged for a national convention to be held at Columbus, Ohio, October 4-8, inclusive. Its particular object is the assembling of as many as possible of the great number of devoted men and women who undertook voluntary service in behalf of humanity during the world war. Many of them are still giving time and activity to the permanent program of the Red Cross, and the convention will'’concern itself with a discussion Of those activities as they bear upon the present and future welfare of the nation, “A series of public meetings will be addressed by distinguished speakers and the convention will be brought to a close by a pageant setting forth in attractive fashion the history of the American Red Cross and the /program of service mapped out for the future. , “As president of the American Red Cross, 1 invite ail who have at heart the eontinuaticRi of the helpful and patriotic s^yvicc of this organization to join" m every consistent way all effort to insure the success of this convention.” “Warren G. Harding.” MAD LOVER’S REVENGE IS FATAL TO SELF AND PAIR J ! Rome—Returning from R army service, Lieut. Pablo Giovanni found his sweetheart had lost her heart to his brother Luigi. Surprising them in the garden one evening, he stunned and tied them. Then he mutilated them frightfully. To complete his crime he carried the bodies into the house and set fire to it. As it Avas burning he threw himself into the flames. >.,..—

BULLFIGHT MOB REPELLED Marseilles—Spectators disappointed by the bullfight to which they had paid admission at Nimes, stormed the arena and mobbed the toreadors. Suddenly three fierce bulls r ,which had been reserved for the climax were turned loose. They attacked the mob, seriously injuring a score of persons.

HER EIGHTEENTH CHILD Isleworth, Eng.—Mrs. Mary Setton gave birth to her eighteenth child Avhile the municipal baby show was in progress here. The new baby Avas voted a special prize.

TO REPEAL RENT LAWS

HUSBAND’S VIRTUES Chicago—Mrs. Rose Lewson applied to the police to learn whether she had to keep a lazy husband. She was told she nad to keep him with all his defects and virtues. “All right”, she replied, “but mine lias more defects than virtues,”

London —A movement is on foot to secure repeal of the rent laws on the ground that they have done more harm than good by stopping the building of homes for rental. ONE HEN, 21 CHICKS Swansea, Wales—Sitting on 22 eggs, a hen belonging to Charles Griffiths, of Gwynfe, hatched out 21 chicks. Last year the same hen hatched out 18 chicks from the same number of eggs.

A WHALE OF A DROP London—Agents of Norwegian whale oil companies who came here to sell their product at $35 a ton have gone home without any orders. Last year they asked and received $90 a ton. GERMAN LABOR UNITING Berlin—The present membership of German trade unions is 8,000.000. ‘Before the Avar the unions had only 2,500,000 enrolled members.

AMERICAN FARMERS, NOTE Newnham, Eng.—Oats grown on the farm of Mrs. Mary Hunter this year varied in height from 7 feet 9 inches to 9 feet. This is the tallest crop of oats ever groAvn in England. SPAIN SPURNS CANADIANS Madrid—The government has declined the offer of 300 Canadian ox soldiers to form a foreign legion for the Moroccan campaign. To Proiect Aluminum. To protect aluminum m.J nl iniinu. alloys from corrosion, says the .I<»u nal of Industrial and Engiaeerin Chemistry, L. von Grottlmss lias triet browning the metal elonroh-tioally By using this method, the almtmiuu may be bent or rolled willimit (In coating. Aluminum thus treated \va* Immersed in a salt solution for two months without showing the slightest trace of corrosion.—Chemical Round Table.

WANED ‘SOMETf-UUG 7 THAT/ anv lAmdiaua.** Fifteen years ago if any one had taken a vote as to who was the best known American, the answer would probably have been “Mark Twain.” Today if any one were to take a vote as to who is the best known Canadian, the answer would probably be “Colonel George Ham,” and for the same reason, namely, that each in his time has been greatest laughter maker of his native country. In his ordinary conversation he has a ripple of quaint phrase and amusing story, that make him unforgettable even to chance acquaintances. Repartee comes to him like second nature. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada’s most famous Premier^ thought to plav a joke once upon Colonel Ham. “George,” he said, “the Cabinet in Council has decided to appoint you Admiral in Chief ^ of , the. Capadian x Navy,”

“Thank you,” said Colonel Ham, like a flash, “but if it’s all the same to you I’d rather be watchman at the Mint for one night.” Mark Twain had the advantage in securing world-wide recognition as a humorist through his books, for the Canadian has hitherto reached his audiences only by word of mouth. At last. Colonel Ham has been persuaded to publish a book—“Reminiscences of a Raconteur”—sixty years of amusing recollections. In this volume he re-tells many of the stories that have made him famous, weaving these into a record of Canadian life of the last sixty years, which will be invaluable to the future historian. Col. Ham was the first Canadian war correspondent, seeing service in both the Louis Riel Rebellons. He was Editor of the Manitoba Free Press

him for the Canadian Pacific Rail-} Way. 5 In his racy account of the wars with the half-breeds and Indians in the Northwest, he tells how" as a reporter he visited Red Crow, Chief of the Bloods, • for information i about the intended uprising of the Indians who were charged with the proposed slaughter of all the whites in the Northwest. “And if you be-! lieve this,” said Red Crow, “how{ dare you come without a gun to defend yourself?” Col. Ham non-' chalantly replied, putting his hand over his upper vest pocket: “Oh, I have something here that will kill! any Indian I ever met.” Whereupon be produced a lead pencil. The whole tribe laughed heartily when this was interpreted to them, and Col. Ham was henceforth known to the Bloods as the “Man^With a