Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 29 April 1921 — Page 4

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The present congress includes two hundred and ninety-eight lawyers. No wonder there is such a wide difference of opinion on most questions. After seven years of war and famine it does seem about time fur the European countries to decide it is cheaper and better to be peaceable than to have so many extra men on the police force. Senator Pat Harrison who recently attacked Colonel Harvey is a fox. He waited until the editor with a dirty pen and unexcelled vocabulary had issued the last number of his famous weekly. At that Pat told the truth. Evidently the normalcy program means a reduction for the laboring man, the farmer, the small business man but must not effect the millionaire or the mighty men of Wall street. When freight rates and other things controlled by them are reduced the people will feel considerably better and not until then. The .freeze at least has not killed all the “plums” in Washington, according to press dispatches for that city is simply overrun with job hunters. big and small, and about all that is being done by the heads of departments is to let the majority of them down easy. There are about two hundred applicants for every job. Get the rubbish and the old cans and bottles ready and pile them in the alley so the city wagons can get them on their first trip starting Monday. Remember this does not include your garbage or ashes but you are urged to plan to get rid of them also next week so that the city will Tairly shine as a result of the annual clean up. It’s a duty you owe yourself, your neighbor and your community. Please help make this the best week of the kind ever attempted here. Another meeting was held last evening at the Brandyberry school house and we say “wonderful” advisedly. A large number of farmers met and discussed with business jnen the conditjpns which effect both of them. They agree that much benefit can be derived by a mutual under-

PROCLAMATION Clean Up & Paint Up! HEAR THIS, YE PEOPLE—THINK! ACT!! Conic on. let’s put things in order. Our whole city can and should be made as clean and orderly as its cleanest home. Then we will have a safer, happier, healthier city. Ambition in its highest conception is to dream big dreams and make them come-true. The splendid ambition to have a city clean and beautiful is soon to become a reality by the co-operation of all the people. I Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in mP as Health Officer, and with the hearty approval of many farseeing and zealous citizens, we hereby proclaim the first week of May as the Opening Week of a Continuous CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP CAMPAIGN Away with the rubbish piles! Banish the plague spots! Clean up streets and alleys! Cut the weeds, mow the lawns and trim the hedges! Repair and paint every building that needs it., We net'll this thorough cleaning and renovation. It is the sensible thing to do for the health, safety, thrift, pride and happiness of all our people. It is everybody’s job. Every man. woman and child will be expected to help. Let there be no slackers. ANNIE M. DOWLING, Secretary City Board of Health

f. standing and u year of these meetings will make this in truth, the I greatest community in all the world. >. It will be a fine thing when every r 'one is for his neighbor and his fellow »• {citizen and it Is nbt Impossible. r Taxes are high everywhere, not due to local government but to the new luw though there are those who ’: would have you think otherwise. ) 1 4 gYour taxes are high because of the • hi’w which permits high taxes by inl 1 creasing the valuation and now the I tax board will ask you for more pow- , er and the right to levy an income tax in addition. Are we all crazy or just too indolent to post ourselves? The great trouble with the present laws and the real cause for •rxorbit-

) ant taxes is the fact that by its pro | visions greater taxing limits were giv en each community. The valuation! were. Increased three times and the limits of bonding indebtedness were , not changed. You can easily reasoi . it out if you will. • In every count) , [ the taxes have become burdensome 1 and in the meantime the ktate hat millions to spend. When you pa) your taxes think it .over, for some thing must soon be done to stop the wild orgy, and you must do it In the legislature. We hear the complaint occasionally that things are not becoming normal and that |he middle man is overcharging and that the goods you buy now are as high as a year ago. A Chicago paper says that the following is from a sign dug up in the window of a small town store and in it there is some room for thought: “A year ago we sold 100 pounds of sugar and 1 bushel of potatoes for $36.00. Today we will sell you the following for the same amount: 100 pounds of sugar 1 bushel of potatoes 10 pounds pt coffee 25 pounds of lima beans 25 pounds of navy beans 1 dozen cans peas 1 dozen cans corn 1 dozen cans No. 3 tomatoes 4 4S pound sacks of flour ) 10 pounds of rice 1 gallon of syrup' 10 dozen eggs 5 large packages corn flakes 25 pounds corn meal.” Idle land is the cause of America’s growing timber shortage —idle land that should be utilised for growing trees to replace those cut for the industries. The chief forester of the federal government estimates these idle acres at 81,000.000, an acre increased by 8,000.000 acres each year. This is not land adapted to agriculture. It would serve the nation best by growing timber. It is idle and unproductive because Americans continue to pursue wasteful polcies in forestry. In spite of modern substitues for wood in construction, snore wood is used now than ever before in this country. Concrete and other

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fire-resisting materials, admirable as they are, are not Mvtng our disappearing timber. More wood is used ! in building railway cars, for instance, than before the steel car was devised. Similar ingreases in many branches of industry are inevitably hastening the day when America's magnificent forest heritage will become exhausted. Already three-fifths of our primeval forests are gone and of the remaining portions 61 per cent lies west of the great plains.

TALK TO FARMERS - • French Quinn and O. L. Vance Attend Meeting at Brandy berry School SIXTY FARMERS TQERE Dr. Hamilton Talked on Tuberculosis in Livestock —A Good Meeting Sixty farmers attended the meeting of the Washington Township Farmers’ association at the Brandyberry school house, five miles south of Decatur. The meeting was arranged by the township president, Fred Busche, and County Agent Busche. Fred Busche presided at the meet'ng, and addresses were given by

French Quinn and O. L. Vance, Decatur business men. and also by Dr. Hamilton, of Fort Wayne, federal in spector of tuberculosis in cattle. Messrs. Vance and Quinn each gtrv. good talks on “Co-operation.” and the ideas advanced by these men appealed to the farmers present, and they ex pressed themselves as being well pleased With the talks. Mr. Quinn also talked at sortie length on the farm loan act, and its many advantages for the farmer. * Dr. Hamilton, who is an expert on tuberculosis in livestock, talked on the subject "History and Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis." His talk wes to the point, and he showed to the farmers the damaging work of tuberculosis in cattle, and why any animal detected of having the disease should be immediately removed from a herd to preserve the good health of the re mainder of a herd. His statements were proven by facts and figures, he being one of the best informed men on the subject in the state. County Agent Busche showed a number of lantern slides on livestock, and the meeting was very helpful to all. The next meeting will be held at the same school house the last Thursday evening in May.

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WHAT THE HEAD OF MICHIGAN BANKS THINKS ’ OF THE SUGAR BEET CROP

It is safe to say that there are few men. whether serving in a public or corporate capacity' who keep a closer tab on local financial and industrial conditions than the state commissioners of banking. For this reason more thun ordinary significance is attached to the following letter from the head of the Michigan banking department: lamsing. Mich., Marsh 28, 1921. .Mr. Louis Rowley, Lansing, Mich. Dear Sir: In answer to your inquiry regarding the effects of the beet sugar industry on agricultural and financial conditions In Michigan, 1 beg to state that in my opinion nothing har contributed so directly and so powerfully to improve these conditions as the industry referred to. It is strictly within the truth to say that never'has an agricultural interest so consistently and unimpeachably vindicated itself as a promoter of scientific cultural methods and as a producer of profitable farming returns. It has been ffie most the state has ever known. It has enhanced more farm values, paid off more mortgages, created mors community prosperity, and helped more effectively to establish the general economic w-elfare of the state on an unshakable foundation, than any other industrial development in Michigan. When the full impact of the tide ct deflation hit the farmer last fall, the sugar beet crop was the only one that brought him a substantial cash return. It literally “saved the day" for him have no hesitation in stating that it will be altogether his safest crop while awaiting the return of the entire world to normal fiscal and industrial condi-

tions k These are the salient and indisputable facts regarding the beet sugar industry as a stabilizer of agricultural prosperity and a creator of indispensable economic values. Yours very truly, x F. W. MERRICK, Commissioner of Banking. It would seem like a waste of words to try to add anything to this impressive testimony to the value of beet sligar factories as generating stations for agricultural efficiency and prosperity. It is as true of the northern Ohio farmer as it is of the Michigan farmer, that when he was caught last fall in the whirlpool of post-war. economic change, and the prices of many of his staple products tumbled almost over night to the extremely low pre-war levels, his beet crop was ’he only one that returned him a substantial profit. He received the fac-tory-guaranteed price for his beets, and his put some real kale in his pocket. It is a small wonder, therefore, that Banking Commissioner Merrick says that sugar beets are the Michigan Farmer's safest crop while waiting for the clouds to roll by. Although owing to the slump in the sugar market. the 1921 contract price for beets is lower than it was last year, the farmer will -nevertheless share proportionally in any advance of price that may occur later on. He will thus en-

“GETS-IT” TICKLES CORNS TO DEATH First Stops All Pain—Then Peels the Corn Off. Don't trv to fox trot on corn tortured feet. Get rid of your corns. It you ' W Au a WjOM| BBMQ gets it F Make Your Feet Happy! Remove Thoae -Corns With "Geto-lt.” “ have never seen a corn tickled to death, just apply a few drops of "Gets-Tt” to yours. Then watch that corn die—peacefully as It It had gone to sleep. Soon it is nothing but a loose piece of dead skin that you can lift right oft with your lingers. Get after them now. Your druggist has “Gets-It.” Copts but a trifle—or nothing at all if it fails. Mfd. by E. Lawrence St, Co., Chicago. Sold in Decatur by Hotthouse Drug Co., Callow & Kohne; Smith, Yager & p’alk. and Enterprise Drug Co. ‘ ' —. VT TO STOP FALLING HAIR t 4 '——— f ♦- You can easily clean your head of dandruff, prevent the hair falling out and beautify it, if you use Parisian Sage. ■ Holthouse Drug company sells jit with guarantee to return price if jnot satisfactory.

joy Ute quite unprecedented advzntage of guaranteed not oMly a fixed and profitable return from his crop, but atr equitable partlcipttioß in whatever extra profit may come through a rise in tho sugar market. What other crop offers him such an oppor tunity to play absolutely “safe”. , i ThSre is no use trying to shut our eyes to the fact that these are critical times for the farmer. Deflation has hit him hard. Many of his staple products are selling today below pre-war prices, it is stated on the authority of the department of agriculture that comparatively- few farmers have been making large profits during the recent years of high prices. IJke the beet sugar factories, there were no war profiteers among them. The governmental policy of food control put art effective curb on their prices. While the average return on their investment increased only four per cent, in 1913 to seven per cent in 1918. most of them are still making less than SSOO cash over and above the products of the farm used by the family Jor its living. It will thus be.soon that the farmers have no margin of safety for taking any extra chances. Barring advSrse weather conditions, the sugar beet crop offers them a sure thing; and it is their one best bet for a return to normalcy—yea. perhaps for even the bare means wherewith to meet their taxes and interest. For. in the confused times ahead of us —with Europe still economically demoralized and this country staggering under the bugden of war's waste and excessively high tranportation rates —’who can say what the prices for the farmers' wheat and corn and pork and beef will be? There is always the possibility that they may be depressed to still lower levels —to the point where even deflation can seem to go no further.

In any event, it is altogether probable that the farmer will have to be the goat for the deflation movement clear to the end of the chapter—and it promises to be an unusually long chapter. For the competition of the producers of our great staple crops is not only with the tillage acres of tho United States, but it is with the tillable acres of the world. As a consequence, their prices are fixed not in the domestic but in the world markets. It is different in the case oi sugar beets. The farmer’s price sot

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beets is fixed here at home and fixed to insure him a profit. The sugar factorles have guaranteed him this—possibly to their own ultimate loss, as has happened last year. In tho light <>f the above incontes-

Snappy Savings for Saturday Shoppers Beal money stivers that you can’t afford to over look. Throughout the entire store, our new Sorin < I goods have been marked down to prices that ma? every purchase a value. Huy your groceries for Sun day’s dinner, from the bargains listed below—they’ii save you money. ’ J ,* x. • - Rio Coffee, - _ High Grade, Tb IjW Macaroni, Spaghetti, Egg Noodlee, _ JtfUO, ’ All Flavor# . Perfect Red Beans, t Can ?... l(|c Little Elf Corn and Peas. Fine Flavor, Good Quality, can 18c: 2 for Navy Beans, ’! > 1 qs Pound 8c: 5 for Hart Brand Pumpkin, Can 15C Perfect Brand Sweet Potatoes, 300 Value f ?.‘. . Canned Peaches and Apricots, q. Large can , Tomatoes, . a Can Ilk Perfection Wafers, « n Fresh and Crisp, tb IOC Swift’s White Soap, » q« 6 bars ~. Zt)C R-N-M, Kirk's Naptha, American Laundry and an lighthouse' Naptha Soap, 3 bars.. ZvC Washing Powder, qp Box. sc; 6 for .... wt)C — SPECIAL! • SPECIAL! For a limited time enly.'wc are offering a 24’i lb. sack of Perfect Flour, made of . the choicest Rid Turkey Wheat, and one pound of delicious Perfect Coffee, both regularly selling for $1.70, d* IQr I— : 1 We have hundreds of more bargains, Mailing for the thrifty. Drop in the store on your next shopping trip. It will be well worth your while. The Fair Store Ford Bleeke, Prop.

1 table facts It |» • why Banking (’om mlltl says that the sugar b ePt 7* N 1 been the greatest stsbll agricultural interest « « • has known.