Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1921 — Page 20
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jASK FARMERS IN SOUTH TO RAISE STOCK Southerners to Be Aided in Project by Northerners. S A project by which fanners of the [“cotton belt” would be educated to raise istock and to raise both stock and food [instead of one crop Is being advocated [by Eugene Arnett, of the Eugene Arnett •Sales Agency, of Arnett Acres, a subi nrb of Oklahoma City, Okla. Mr. Arnett [who In Indianapolis, said yesterday he i intends to spend two or three days In to visit as many as he could ol ithe officers of breeders’ associations, |farm bureaus and others Interested In \ stock breeding, to explain the project to them. J The livestock for this purpose, he ex- ! plained, would be pui’hased in the north, but no purchases would be made ! until the southern fanners who par- ( tldpate.l would have time to raise ths necessary feed and make the necessary preparations. Because of this, he added, there would be no market for stock, la ‘carrying out this plan, for a year at least, but It was the wish to let this plan be known in the north that the stock might be available when required. Air. Arnett said the project provides for co-operative live stock associations and an appraisal committee of t"'entyfivo members with H. M. Mum' ,-ri, Chicago. as chairman, and this committee would be composed of men who are experts in animal husbandry. The Eugene Arnett Sales Agency, he said, would serve as a sort of connecting link between the association;, and the committee. Active officers of &i per cent of the banks of Oklahoma, he said, are writing ? their farm customers there will be no more credit for them on a cotton basis unless the borrowers would try the methods advocated by the Government farm experts. i Mr. Arnett organization work under the plan he Is advocating is being carried on in Oklahoma, where It was begun about ,four months ago and tentative work is ’ being done there on cooperative live stoca. associations, and it is the wish to carry this work into the South.
PUNCTURE GHOST IS LAID AT LAST Invention to Protect Tire Solves Problem. ■ Ever since the pneumatic tire was Invented, the Idea of a puncture-proof tire has agitated the tire manufacturers and the public as well. Various tube and tire fillers have been tried out. and the construction of tire walls experimented with, all with this end In Tiew, but the puncture still holds its old place as one of the greatest vexations of motoring. It Is curious that an internal rubber cushion like the Coffield Tire Protector, designed primarily to protect the tire from bruises and blowouts, also should practically solve the puncture problem. That it does so is merely a happy coincidence or accident, but the result is accomplished just the same. Its success in eliminating punctures is due to the well-known principle that you cannot drive a nail into a light object which has no support behind it. A good example is trying to drive a nail through plaster Into lath midway between the studding. The nail will not penetrate the lath, but pushes it away, and the nail bounces back. When the tack or nail enters the easing and strikes the protector, the latter
When to Decline Credit
The credit department should refrain from approving an order from anew custojner when sufficient information has not been secured upon which to base a .decision, for to act otherwise is nothing less than a gamble. The “take-a-chance” method should be a thing of the past, for credit management in recent year* has been reduied to a scientific basis. The applicant for credit who is in poor standing is sometimes very astute and ha is successful in quite a few instances In getting under the guard of the credit man. Iu one instance of this kind the credit man decided to withhold delivery of the order, and he wrote the firm requesting a financial statement, but received in reply a communication Instructing him to cancel the order, if it was .necessary to go through all the red tape specified, as they could readily get credit jtrom other sources. The credit man. in fear of losing l the order, rushed the good* forward and never received a dollar in payment of the account Orders should be withheld when anew account has reached the limit placed upon it, for the danger of loss is
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DE, "OIT, Sept. 3.—One a farm In Watertord County, near Pontiac, Mich., a man dressed In bregans and overalls can be seen feeding the chickens and pige or curry-combing his favorite mount. He is “up with the chickens'’ every morning at 5 o’cl.-ck. He milks the oowg, mows the lawn, weeds the garden and goes swimmin' In the old swimming hole. He goes about his day’s work as thousands of other American farmers. To his friends and neighbors he is “Ned Denby, who owns the Denby place.” In Washington he Is called “Mr. Secretary” and holds down the job of bossing L’ncle Sam's Navy. For “Ned” Is no other than Secretary of the Navy Edwin Benby, spending a two-weeks' vacation on his farm. “The Secrtfary is taking on weight.
is poshed back In the same manner, having no solid support behind it; however, it exerts an intermittent pressure against the nail which usually enters at an angle, and this bends the nail over and eventually clinches it between the protector and casing. Coffield's positively eliminate 93 per cent or more of all punctures. Texas Constructs 2.500 Miles of Roads AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 3.—According to R. M. Hubbard, chairman of the State highway commission, there are under active construction in Texas about 2.5*10 miles of highway, for which State and Federal funds of more than $30,000,000 are available. Os the 192 projects now under way, eighty-four milee are of concrete. Contract! for seventeen additional projects, totaling 14* miles, will be let soon. For construction in the first seven months of 1921 the commission has ppent $4,432,078, or an average of $170,402 a month —Copyright, 1921, by Public Led-, ger Company,
greatest In the early career of an enterprise. If anew customer who has been in business for some years does not pay his account when due or respond to letters In which payment is requested, further shipments should be withheld. It is very easy for an account to increase rapidly when a portion la past due, and if the credit department would pay strict attention to this feature it would result in reducing bad-debt losses to a minimum. If any danger signal makes its appearance the account should net be permitted to Increase until the matter has been thoroughly Investigated. When a merchant has a bad record credit should not be extended, no matter how favorable his future might appear. For when a man has been associated with a questionable failure it is a reflection on hi* character, and without this all-im-portant elemetn no risk will stand the add test. Crad.t Is a privilege and not a right, and a premium should always be placed on honesty and a penalty on dishonesty by refusing to extend further favors when those of the past have been abased. —Copyright, 1921, by Publlo Ledger.
But I am going to stop that,” he laughed. “I've set myself the task of taking a tenmile walk every day.” “Politics? Not a wotrd—at least not right now.” He looked about his acres. “Do you know,” he began. “It's a mighty fanny thing, but every snilarmam loves the land. You'd think they'd want to spend their vacation and rest time o-a the water. No alree! Not by a bo’n spike. They all want the land. “Ttere s a story. It’s about a sailor who put In forty years on the sea. He
MEN AND BUSINESS By RICHARD SPILLANE
Special to Indiana Daily Time* and Philadelphia Public Ledger. ON THE ROAD. Sept. 3. TOLEDO girls have established a fashion of going hatless. You geo them out walking, out shopping, on the trolley cars and driving automobiles with their heads uncovered. It may be pretty tough on the purveyors of women’s headwear, but it is a pleasing sight and it is good for the hair. • 0 • POSTMASTER GENERAL HAYS had better buck np or Samuel Rea will put him out of business. A carload consignment of metal goods was loaded at the David Lupton’s Son's plant in Philadelphia and left the next day for Cleveland, The car arrived in Cleveland on Sunday, was switched on to the siding of the Lupton branch establishment there and unloaded. More tha* twenty-four hours after the car had bean unloaded and switched back on the main line, the bill of lading arrived by first-class mall. Ths stamping showed it had been posted in Philadelphia on Friday and arrived In Cleveland at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday. This Incident probably will interest the late lamented Mr. Burleson. • • • POLICE chiefs who think they have traffic problems should contemplate Detroit. The city has somewhat less than 1,000,000 inhabitants and more than 130,000 automobiles In service, or nearly one for every seven Inhabitants. And yet the taxi Is everywhere and the taxi robber thrives. If persons’l experience forms a fair basis for Judgment. It may be said that taxi charges are higher in Detroit, home of the automobile, than In any other large city In America. That Is, unless you watch the clock and do not let the chauffeur fool you. • • • FROM a car window it looks as if the crops of western New York and northern Ohio, both grain and fruit, are not anything to brag about. Corn, in particular, looks below average. Apples appear fair, but peaches, pears and grapes do not seem to have done so well. —Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Cos.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1921.
finally decided to retire. He came ashore and, putting an oar on fils shoulder, Started Inland. “ 'Where 'bouts you going to settle?’ asked his mates. “‘I don't know yet,’ was the reply. 'l’m a-goiiY to walk inland, and when I come to a place where no one knows what this thing I’vo got on my shoulder Is I'll drop anchor right there.’ ” Just then young Ned Denby, Jr., came racing up. “Baddy,” he coaxed, “you’ve got to come bathing with us.” The Secretary looked askance at the photographer. “Remenber,” he cautioned. “no pictures of me in the water. Wait until the effects of those ten-mile walks are more apparent. Wait until 1 have regained my lithesome grace.” "Farmer” Benby then passed aTonnd apples and milk hot from the cow and finished up with roul “store” cigars,
U. S. UNDERBIDS HUN IN ARGENTINA Several Large Deals Made in Buenos Aires. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. K United States manufacturers are under quoting Gormans In the Buenos Aires market and several large transactions have resulted, writes an Argentine customer of the Corn Exchange Bank of Philadelphia, In a letter dated July 2S. “Twelve large oil tanks have Just been sold by United States firms to the Argentine government,” the letter says. “German manufacturers bid, but their bids were higher than those of the Americans. “A little over two months age the government called for bids on some boilers, with the exchange calculated at 148 for the dollar and 60 for the mark. The Amerl-an bids were 20 per cent under the Germi.n. I understand the order has been placed with the American firm. “Tha greatest trouble with Argentine business now is that the market and purchasing power are becoming extremely restricted because of the lack of demand for Argentine goods abroad." The wriler suggests Investment of American capital In the paper Industry In Southern Argentine, and urges busintss Interests In the United States to annlyzo the wants of South America In order to avoid overcrowding It with merchandise. —Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company. i
McCRAY’S FAMOUS FAIRFAX HEREFORDS UNDEFEATED AGED HERD. ORCHID LAKE STOCK FARM KENTLAND, IND. INVITES the attention of Indiana breeders to the unequaled opportunity to procure stock from this well-known breeding establishment at private sale. Registered Hereford sos all ages at prices fully in line with those offered by any reputable breeder. Magnificent herd from which to make selections will be represented at the Indiana State Fair by an outstandingexhibition herd. Correspondence Solicited JAMES HENDRY, Mgr. WARREN T. McCRAY, Prop.
PRICE CONTROL IS HINTED AT IN PROBE ON COAL One Company Fixes Value for Half of Northwest, Says Witness. ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 3.—lnterests engaged In the production, transportation and distribution of coal are so closely interwoven as to be a menace to tho public was the testimony of one Independent dealer given to State officials who have been making an Inquiry Into the ' fuel situation. A single mine operator controls about 50 per cent of the anthracite sold In Minnesota, and his agent virtually determines the price to be charged was another feature of the State report Just issued. High prices asked for coal are forcing consumers in Minnesota to cooperate and buy their coal in quantities at the mines says the summary. J. H. Hay, who conducted the Inquiry and made the report, says there Is ample coal In the State for the winter, but that It Is largely In the hands of dealers or on the docks. Mr. Hay says in his report: “One authority announces a division of consumed coal as follows: Industry, 45 per cent; railways, 25 per cent; domestic use, 30 per cent “The supplying of coal as a fuel to homes, hospitals and power plants is more than a mere business enterprise to
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b maintained solely for financial profit. “Dealer No. 6 testified that anthracite coal cost him a ton: 1918. 1020. 1921. Wholesale at Duluth.s7.oo $ll.OO $12.00 In cars, Twin Cities. 8.20 13.05 15.19 Cartage .45 1.15 I.CKI Selling cost 1987 .339 .517 Yardage, degradation, shortage, interest, Insurance profit... 1.151 1.259 1.135 Retail delivery price. 10.00 10.40 17.55 “This dealer announced that ha made a trifie mora than 20 cents net profit a ton. “Inquiry, however, developed the fact that the coal business is a paying business. Poor years are counterbalanced by other years which furnish profits. “A chart prepared by William H. Groverman, formerly secretary of the Northwest Coal Operators’ Association, shows clearly the meshing of the interests be tween the dock companies and the mines. “In this connection It might be mentioned that the testimony of one witness who stated that the sales agency of which he was manager handled approximately the last year 855.000 tons of anthracite coal of a total of 1,500,000 tons, which annually is sold from the head of the lakes for domestic consumption. The fact that one mining company through one sales agency and through the manager of this agency virtually sets the value o’n more than half of the anthracite coal entering the Northwest is a significant fact in the study of the coal trade. “A study reveals that the organized coal Interests vigorously oppose any interference. On the other hand, individuals representing the public and occupying very high positions Insist on the necessity of regulation and direction. “Prospects are that the winter of 192122 will see a very large quantity of wood cut within shipping distance of the Twin Cities,” ho says—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.
GREAT HIGHWAY COAST TO COAST READY IN 1922 Signs Already Up on Western End of New York-Frisco Victory Road. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3. Under the direction of the California State Automobile Association the work of ’signing” the western end of tile new Victe y highway, a transcontinental stretching from Sew York to San Francisco, is now under way. Engineer James W. Johnson of the association is engaged in completing a reconr.aisance of the route. Over 5,000 of the regulation C. S. A. A. road signs and auxiliary signs bearing the name of San Francisco and the mileage thereto coming west and New York going east, will be erected. The regulation road signs will sho wthe nearest town and large city with the mileage thereto In either direction. Eight or ten months will be required to complete the work. The Victory highway will be a national monument in honor of the living and the dead who served in the great World War. The road will stretch from the Atlantic to the’ Pacific, passing through Topeka, Kan., the approximate geographical center of the Un ted States. The eastern terminal of the highway will be New York and the western terminal San Francisco. The Victory Highway Association, In selecting the route, has had in mind a highway that will best serve the people In time of peace and the Government In
time of war. The president of the TIW tory Highway Association is Geonge W< Stansfleld, a capitalist of Topeka, Kan., who early in 1921 conferred with officials of the State Automobile Association t obtain their co-operation in signing this national monument to those who fought and gave their lives in tha World War. The association plans to complete sign-' ing the highway to Jefferson City, Mo., this year and by the fall of 1922 the entire route to New York will be marked*, lodine and Honey Cure for Influenza LONDON, Sept. 3.—A new prevention for influenza has been discovered by Dr.j J. A. Taylor, a prominent English medico. i Describing the result of his experiment in the British Medical Journal, Dr. Taylor says ordinary tincture of iodine is mixed with honey and placed on the tongue every two or three hours or I oftener. When the recent Influenza epidemic i broke out Dr. Taylor was In Uganda, : and he says that while Europeans and j natives who were treated in this way escaped the epidemic, in other settlements and camps around him the was very high. DIES AS HE PRAYS. “SWANSEA, Wales, Sept. 3.—Ex-Maya* Gwilym Morgan had Just begun a fervent prayer in Pantygwyde Baptist ! Chapel when his head fell forward and : he toppled over. He was dead when ' picked up. — 38 LCNATICE AT LARGE. EDINBURGH, Sept. 3 —Of the 154 pep ■ sons who escaped from Scottish ; during the year ended Aug. 15, there jare thirty-eight still at large.