Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 14 July 1922 — Page 3
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FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1922,
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DO ROADS DESERVE PUBLIC SUPPORT?
CINDERELLA” FOOT ISN’T ALWAYS MOST PERFECT ONE, SAYS SHOE EXPERT WHO BUILDS SCIENTIFIC SHOE
President Rea of Pennsylvania System Thinks They Do and Tells Why
Railroads Made This Country What It Is Today Ig Assertion of Rail Chief BY SAMUEL REA Editor’s Note:—One of the world’s greatest systems of railroads^ is the Pemnsylvania Lines. Its 'president, Samuel Rea, is a national figure. His activities go outside his own road and his interest in the general development of railroad perfection is wide. He is in close touch to every new invention, method or law that touches railroading and in addition is a student of economics as they are affected bjr'railroads second to none in this or any country.
cars, vestibule trains, dining-cars and
ventive genius
Together with the present day powerful engine, v/e have developed the heavy capacity freight car, carrying 50 to 100 tons or more. Ths combination of the two has made possible the long, heavily loaded American freight train, traveling great distances and producing the most efficient lairge-sca^e transporta cion service ever known.
Tracks and Bridges
To accommodate such trains, we have re-built our tracks and bridges to sustain safely a greater traffic burden than is carried by the railroads of any other country. In short, here in the United States we have transformed railroad transportation from a sn all- scale, localized service into a service of national and continental scope, playing an indispensable part in practically every activity of our
The future of our railroads is in
the hands of the people. Public opin- ..
ion will determine whether under the ! P^P 1 ®- . , . . , , . Transportation Act of 1920, they are I In i the manufacturing industries its to have a new era of life and progress ! counteipart is found m what we call with the spur of private initiative ! “massproduction. Mass production and healthv rivalry, or whether they 1 13 the distinguishing feature of Amershall be allowed to lapse into gov- 1 lcan industry, and may justly be ernment ownership with support i n ‘ re S? ar ded as the most am poitaut part by taxation. Experience in other i §. 0 ' irce our national wealth, becountries leaves no doubt that the i ca ,se ot her nation have rivaled us, second alternative would mean bu- | °f a ^ e ca P abl f ° f rivaling us, m Bureaucratic direction, management for 1 ryultural output. But, in the effipolitical ends instead of service, and CiC : a V production of manufactmed
oppressive increases in our tax buidens. i There is no question that the vast majority of our people want to avoid that outcome. They desire private ownership and management to be re-
tained. They do not wish public , ^ , . , , , • , ^ regulation to be sacrificed, and there j j;|* 0 basis of large scale industry is is no reason why it should be. They j assembling ac one point of imdo desire, however, that regulation Fi ense quantities of raw materials shall be brought into harmony with. f rom widely scattered sources, folbusiness principles in order that per- ‘ ,ftw ^ hv An:,fl11v ™nt,nnm, s and
articles in great quantities we stand
alone.
" Now it is worth noting that before wq could have mass production in industry we ha£ to. have the equivalent of mass production in transportation service. This is true because
lowed by equally continuous and prompt distribution of the products. It therefore follows that we had to have the railroad capacity ready before our great mills and factories could operate, and in the past years this was invariably the rule. It also necessarily follows that if for any reason railroad' progress in this country should be permanently cheeked, the progress of our industry will be checked also, because the rate of production possible to our industries is limited to the capacity of the railroads which serve them. Moreover, our railroads have become ona of the greatest employers of labor and one of the chief purchasers of the
products of industry.
sonal enterprise in the management of our railroads may survive, as the energizing spirit of transportation prog-
ress.
The problem is to make these wishes and desires effectively felt. It is true that public opinion rules in this country, but* no inert public opinion. The only public opinion which counts, in shaping ohr political affairs, is that which demands recognition and vigilantly insists upon respect. A majority slow to assert itself is a Constant invitation to minority rule. There are forces at work in this country striving to bring about a breakdown of our present system of ownership and regulation of the railroads. Their purpose is to create a situation from which there shall be no way out but for the government to take over the railroads as a means of preventing a complete collapse of
service.
Sinister Forces
That these forces are vastly in the minority, I believe must be known to any fair minded man. That they are working for selfish t. is is equally clear. They consist cmefly, On ’the
one hand, of those elements of our ,
population which misunderstand the j TT , ^ , privileges and duties of organized la- i Home demonstration specialists are bor, and, on the other, of aspirants ™rrymg on the wheat field lours for political power who are willing to i which have been held m a number of sacrifice our free institutions for their ; ^ bl ° counties samples of bread baked own ends. Both close their eyes to j ^ om , 11 ® or v arieties, and froni the the fact that the history of govern- ! standard varieties recoinmended by ment ownership elsewhere is a record ^10 millers, and by the State College
of hopes unrealized and promises un- or ■■ygTiculture.
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Market Gardeners Study Practices
Market gardeners in several sections of Ohio are checking up on their individual proctices by means of tours on which the practices of the better gardeners in the community are studied, according to C. W. Waid, marketing specialist of the Ohio Farm Buuehu Federation. The first of such tours held this season was that of the Cincinnati Vegetable Growers Association held the early part of June. Growers around Marietta, Washington County, held a similar tour June 29. Columbus growers have announced a trip for July 12 and Toledo gardeners will visit their neighbors July 15. All of these affairs are under the direction of the local market gardeners’ association. About 60 gardeners studied gardening practices of their community on the Cincinnati tour. The experiment farm was the center of study of the growers at the Marietta trip June 29. At this farm 10 acres of experiment plots have made a profit in crops raised above the cost of carrying forward , original experimental work, according to reports.
Co-operative Shipping Covers Large Area
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Gii.ei E. Ik* Bidder, above at right, and three steps in measuring the perfect toot and buna shoe. Beiow. at lelt, measuring contours of the arch of the foot.. At right, verifying those uicasuri ment* on the east. Above, at left, a cast of the foot sole, showing the curves to be reprocuced ... U
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N, woman with norma! feet | foot is the perfect foot. The ! * re the” views of Oliver E. Do' need he ashamed of them nor | small foot-is not necessarih the J ^ulder. noted shoe designer who seek to conciF! ’ thAr fo.m to ideal foot. The ideal foot is the | plans a new scientific shoe to fit prahfv her vanity. Th^ ror.hial i one without distortion. these 1 eauu iodiviouaiS
Co-operation in Ohio Brings Butter Results
More Than 40 Stations In Office Farm Bureau Federation.
Get Best Bread From Standard Bread Wheat
Home Demonstration Workers Exhibit
the Difference on Tours in
Six Counties
fulfilled.
Where the tour halts for the usual
The first outstanding fact is that 1 P icmc . at . ao f}> JJ 63 ? workers sec up our railroads, built, owned, and dper- , an exhibit of both kinds of bread and ated by our citizens, have been the P ass out samples to the picnickers,
pioneers in the country’s develop- Ami ment. They and they alone made ” "
from Trumbull, Gladden, Portage or any of the other standard varieties makes bread of better flavor than
“just wheat.”
Over 100 farm people took their autos out on the county tours lately held in Crawford and Wyandot Counties. Other counties that have toured to inspected fields of standard-bred wheats are Ashland, Richland, Del-
possible the creation, within less than three generations, of the gbeat and populous inland empire of culture and advancement west of the Alleghanies. Before the advent of railroads, American civilization and settlement were chiefly confined to seacoast fringes, as is largely the case today in Aus-
tralia where politics and labor trou-j "Vo' ur bles have prevented the construction ' aware an d feumnut.
of adequate continental lines, a situation which, in combination with unfavorable features of soil and climate, has retarded the growth of popula-
tion.
If railroad building in this country had merely followed the advance of settlement, our national progress would have been very slow. But the spirit of the pioneer and adventurer prevailed, and most of our great systems were pushed far ahead of the country’s actual needs. This made possible a rapidity and permanence in, the settlement and development of theV United States which has no parallel in history. Dependent on Roads The United States is more dependent upon railroad transportation for ist existence than is any other country in the world. This is a truth whose importance is not as generally grasped as it should be, but a moment’s consideration will make the situation clear. The United States was fashioned— in what, from historians’ viewpoint, is a very brief period of time—out of absolutely raw material. We have created a civilization in. the interior of this continent which in some ways is even more complex than that of Europe, and we have done it almost entirely on the basis of railroad transportation as the means of holding it together. Today with only 6% of the world’s population and 5% of its land area, the United States has 250,000 miles of railroad line, or between 35% and 40% of the world’s working mileage. That abundantly illustrates the relatively great importance to us of rail transportation and our dependence upon it as the mechanical agency by which the unity of our national life is preserved, and swift and easy communication provided over our vast areas of mountain, valley, prairie and_ desert. American railroads have led x the world in the mechanical and technical advancement of transportation. The air brake, modern automatic signals cars, vestibule trains, dining-cars and sleeping cars may be mentioned among the notablle improvements brought to perfection by American insystems, automatic couplings, steel
$5.00 Saving on Stock Shipments Anncnnced
actual weight of the mixed ship-
ment.”
This question of the proper charges on mixed carload shipments v/as almost the first to receive the attention of the Farm Bureau after the
PLAN SINGLE-HANDED RACE ACROSS SEA
The establishment of co-operative cream shipping stations in Ohio is resulting in the improvement of butter fat produced l}y dairymen, according to leaders 6f the co-operative movement. This is expected to result in improved quality in Ohio-
made butter.
There are more than 40 co-opera-tive stations recorded in the office of the Ohio Farm Bureau federation as operating in the state of Ohio at the present time. The movement js comparatively new, the fii'st one being established in Knox county in December, 1920. The greatest number are in the northwestern part of the j state, with smaller numbers in the ! Miami valley and southwestern Ohio I and a few scattered in other sections. The stations now established are handling in the neighborhood of
NEW YORK, Julv 13.—William ; Dandling in the neighborhood ol a Washburn Nutting, editor of a ma- | ton of butter fat a week, according to vine magazine, announced today he j E. D. Waid, of the federation’s dairy had ^ent a mesage to the Duke of j marketing department. Butter fat is
.j question was already before the In-
A saving ©f ]?«r car on. liva terstate Commerce Commission in stock shippad in mixsd carloads is Docket 11699, in which the complaint announced by the American Far:r had been submitted by the National Bureau Federation as the result of Live Stock Exchange. The Farm the decision of ths Interstate Com- , Bureau intervened and presented conmerce: Commission«to go into effect siderable testimony at the hearing in
ch=1 '! brouKht ^ the ^ oduc ? r ? *? th ! ! ocai
on or before August 19.
The decision provides that the
February, 1921. Traffic Manager C. Hutchings showed that it is impos-
charga for live stock shipped in mix- 1 sible to load some kinds of stock to ed carload lots shall he based on the ! the present minmum even when rate and minimum for that kind of ! shipped in straight carloads, and it stock which on a straight carload ; would be still more difficult to reach basis produces the highest charge, i the present minimum in the case of This --ehange—in charges takes- the mixed shipments.—place of the old method which the j At the hearing the railroads showCommission found to be unreasonable j e <i Hiut the. application of th# proand which applied for the collection ! posed rule in the complaint would of charges on shipments of live stock i permit fraudulent mixtures to be
in mixed carloads by using the highest minimum weight applicable upon any kind of stock loaded in the car and the highest rate for any kind of stock in the car. At Sioux City, Chicago, Louisville, Buffalo and Jersey City, more than 300,0(H). mixed carloads are receivect each yehr. The saving $5 per year means $l;50Q,0Q0
per year at those markets alone. The Commission’s ruling is:
“When cattle, calves, hogs, sheep.
■ made, reducing the charges on straight carloads. For instance, it wjls .shown that the addition of a single goat to a carload containing 12,000 or 13,000 pounds of hogs would materially reduce the charges. As a result of this situation it became evident to the Farm Bureau representa- 5 tives that it would he imnossible to j hope to secure from the Commission approval of these rules. Accordingly, J attention was directed to the framing ‘
station, where it is weighed and test-
Mr. Nutting said he v/as prepared ed. It is then shipped for sale and to meet any of the conditions the duke i the returns are made to the producer may propose and would build a suit- j on the basis of the local record. In able boat in 1923, if the English I this system the producer is paid for sportsman apeepts. Mr. Nutting is j the quality which he furnishes and a Fellow of the Royal Geographic i consequently he takes better care to Socitey. \ ^ ! market his perishable product in The Duke of Leinster’s sketch is de- ! good condition,
scribed as a lightly rigged vessel of twelve tons ‘ with a 20 horse-power
engine. He recently announced he intended to start a trip scon from the west coast of Ireland with New York as the objective in an cndqavor to win
a j(vager.
LIVE STOCK EMBARGO KANSAS CITY, July 13.—Due to the strike, the Chicago and Alton railroad placed an embargo on outgoing shipments of live stock from here. ,
MATH1LDE AND DAD . Will Sail for Europe Next Week From New York, j Chicago, July 13—Harold F. McCormick, chairman of the board of f directors of the International Har1 vester company will lease here next week for New York, front where he will sail immediately for * Europe it was announced tonight. He will be accompanied by his daughter Miss Mathilde and his son, Fowler Mc-
Cormick.
Fifty six counties in Ohio are now organized on a county-wide basis for the co-operative shipping of livestock^ according to word received from the office of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. Organization of companies in Miami, Wayne, and Carroll Counties during the past month have brought the total county figures to this amount In addition to these counties there are several others which have one or more local co-operaetive companies. Leaders in the co-operative shipping movement believe that this extension of the service puts the cooperative method of shipment within reach of nearly all the imnortant livestock,, producing territory in Ohio. At the same time the amount of livestock shipped co-operatively has more than kept pace with the number of companies operating. . Those interested in the co-operative shipping movement give several reasons for its growth. The^r point out the elimination of one step between the producer and the consumer as one of the important advantages. It also gives the small producer, having but a few head of livestock to ship at any one time, a better opportunity to combine with his neighbors in the shipment of carload lots than other systems of forwarding to market. Each shipper gets a return on his own stock, and the importance of quality is emphasized. Working together over the st^ate has brought out some of the “leaks” in expenses, and by studying * best practices of all companies the marketing expense and shrink have been cut down, according to leaders’ statements. The keeping of uniform records over the'state has effected a savings in this item of expense. Covering losses by co-operatively insuring shipments has also proved profitable.
Last Summer Spray Goes on This Month
Bordeaux and Arsenate Mixture Now Being Applied in River Counties
Apple orchards in the Ohio river counties are now receiving the final spray of the season, the summer spray, applied between 9 and 10 weeks after the petals fall, and aimed particularly at control of the codling moth. This spray usually comes in the southern counties about July 1; toward the middle of July for central counties; and as late as July 30 in the north of the State. The recommended formula is Bordeaux mixture 3-5-50, plus arsenate of lead, a pound of powder or two pounds of paste to 50 gallons of spray. Besides the codling moth, takes care of black rot, bitter rot, and blotch.
TYPHUS IN OHIO Chillicothe, July 13 — Specialists pronounced the illness of Dr. G. S. Mytinger, 43, as that of typhus. This is thought to be the only case in Ohio.
of a substitute rule. Examiner Jewell,'
lambs, goats, 1 kids, horses' and (orj j handed down an unfavorable tenta-
mules are shipped in mixed carloads
tive report. Fred S. Jackson, who
charges shall be based on the rate represented the Farm ,Bureau in the
and minmum for that kind of stock which on a straight carload basis produ'ces the highest charge, except that in no case shall the charges per car be less than on a straight carload of 'the highest rated kind and
WOMAN’S HAIR IS BEAUTY HALO WHEN 1 MECHANICS OF COIFFURE ARE HIDDEN
oral argument, worked out another ; rule which he presented on December | 30, The Commission accepted the Farm Bureau suggestion, concluding
as follows:
“It is established that mixed ship- 1 ments will not ordinarily load to the ) minimum weights as determined by ( the present rules, and it is apparent : | that an undue burden is placed upon : this traffic which to a large extent 1 is necessarily borne by the small live stock shipners who have not sufficient tpnnage of each kind of stock to ship in straight carloads.”
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CHICAGO.—“The gloiy of a ■woman is her hair.” So declared Solomon, wrtose reputation as a connoisseur in feminine loveliness was equal to his fame as the wisest of men. Fashion experts of today, as sembled in convention in < hieago agreed with the ancient k:rnr, hui tliev declared that to be a >*'om■ t s glory, hair must be arrangeo wth an art that counterfeits nature “Nothing,” said a beauty . pecial ist at this national gathering, “is so conspicuous in a woman ..s her han Gown, toque, lingerie, jewels have each their separate appeal .o the eye. But their combined, efiective- . ness is destroyed if the ^oiffure is
incorrect.
“The hair must be arranged with careful carelessness. It >i ist luivt thd* appearance of unstudlen natu rain ess. The piechamcs ol ilu-
coiffure must not be noticeable. He nets, pins, and o u her contrivancoto for holding the hair in place must not show. The prettiness of a coiffure ts lost in evidences of artificiality. "On a correctly gowned and beautiful woman a double-mesh hair net, plainly visible, is a tragedy. It is a detail out of drawL.g in the oicture, a discord in the music. It has an air of cAeapcess. Its only excu.e is its durability, bit who wants durable ugliness? “Well-bred women have discarded ih .se coarse-strand, visiole vetsThey lack style as well ns beauty. Fashion has placed its imprimatur upon single-strand invisible nets of real nair or fine silk. They create j an illusion. An indefinable charm t diMinsruishes the woman who ore- i server the, individualitv or her'J • .ifTuiv beneath their strong, wi-] 1 ‘•‘■rands.” jS
Redouble Effort to Rip Out Barberries
Twelve More Scouts Take Field July . . 1; To Scour Half State by Winter. .
Farm to farm inspection to locate plantings of the American barberry, harborer of the black stem rust of wheat, were accelerated July 1, when . 12 new federal scouts took the field in ! Ohio. Heretofore, the barberry eradication effort has been handled by only two inspection teams. Increased federal appropriations now available make possible this increase in the force. Teams of scouts are now working, or will shortly start work, in Lucas, Wood, Hancock, Hardin, Logan, Allen and Putnam Counties.' It is now proposed to cover half of Ohio in the search of the disease-harboring barberry Jbefore winter. Work in Allen and Putnam Counties already has located 45 plantings | of this noxious ornamental plant, i distinguishable from the harmless i Japanese barberry by its greater size, and by spiny-toothed leaves.
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ORDER FOR DIRIGIBLES Akron, July 13—The Goodyear ;Tire and Ruber Co.' deceived a government order for the construction of one semi-rigid airship and five nonrigid dirigibles.
301 E. Main St.
Phone 755.
PROBE MINE MASSACRE Marion, 111., July 13—Investigations of the mine massacre near here, June 22, probably will begin July 17, when it is expected Judge D. T. Hartwell will summon a special grand jury.