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Woodrow Wilson Seventy-one years ago Wednesday there was born in the little town of Staunton, Va., a man whose life today fills more pages in the encyclopedias than that of Julius Caesar and almost as many as those of Napoleon and George Washington. From the obscurity of a rural .son he rose to a position where he swayed tfc® whole world. That man was Woodrow Wilson. No monuments of stone and granite 1 reared in Wilson’s memory in Washington today, or mark the simple slab where he is buried, but there are other monuments greater than these which cast his lengthening shadow over the deeds of men today. Foremost of these perhaps is the machinery he set up for the guaranty of peace among men—so far as such can be guaranteed—which he called the League of Nations. Though this nation is not a member, the league is functioning along the lines that Wilson laid down. Successfully he piloted this nation—and, in a large measure, all the allies—to victory in the greatest war of all time. Then, expanding still further, he laid down enduring principles for the freedom of men everywhere and guaranties for the self-determination of all peoples. To quote the words of a British statesman at the time, “It was like the voice of God talking over our heads to all the nations in the world.” These were uttered on tire occasion of one of his visits to wartorn Europe, by whom he was welcomed as some sort of ft heaven-sent Messiah or an angel in human guise. But Wilson was neither of these, despite the tradition that has been thrown around his memory by those who would canonize him. Being human, he had faults. At times he was intolerant and at times autocratic as is apt to be the way of those who achieve the power that was his for a time. Three years after his death and ten years after his prime, our perspective is too short now for an appraisal of Wilson that might not be clouded by the recollection of enmity on one hand or semi-idoiatry on the other. That is for history to say after time has ripened and the clouds of partisanship have passed away. But history will treat him fairly. Regardless of whatever human faults and weaknesses Woodrow Wilson had, it must admit that he performed a service for humanity comparable to that of few men.

Uncle Sam Pays Reparations discussions in Europe reveal an interesting connection—at least in the minds of Europeans—between the German payments, allied war debts to the United States and private loans by United States bankers to various governments. And, as usual, Uncle Sam is between the millstones. S. Parker Gilbert, agent general of reparations, proposes that payments by Germany be fixed. Secretary Mellon supports him. The French at once object; they will agree to nothing, they say, that might reduce the amount of indemnity they can recover from their erstwhile enemy, and they fear this is what Gilbert’s proposal means. French spokesmen further announce they are unanimously opposed to any modification of the Dawes plan that does not carry with it a revision of allied war debts. The capacity of the allies to pay America depends on payments to them by Germany, they say. In other words any reduction in the payments by Germany to them must be followed by a reduction in their payments to us. A French financial authority says Dawes plan payments should have priority over external debts which Germany has contracted since the Dawes plan became effective. America obligingly evolved the Dawes plan at the invitation of the affected powers. American bankers loaned Germany money with which to stabilize her currency and with which the Dawes plan payments have been made. Having done this, we are told that the debts of Germany for reparations payments are of secondary importance! Private debts figure still further. Germany can be expected to advance the plea that because of heavy reparations payments she is unable to pay the loans advanced by American bankers. The allied countries doubtless will argue—and certainly will argue If reparations are reduced—that they cannot pay huge sums to America over a period of sixty-two years, and at the same time pay interest on private loans by American bankers, of which there are billions. It is all very difficult for the mind unversed in the ways of international finance. One version is that the whole muddle is but a continuation of the pressure for the cancellation of war debts, which in reality has never ceased. This view supposes that adjustments already made were primarily for the purpose of gaining new access to the American money market which, having been accomplished, is now used as an additional weapon against us. The one certain conclusion seems to be that your Uncle Sam will pay. An Acknowledgment of Service He was on liaison duty with a battalion of the 306th Infantry, which was surrounded by the enemy north of the Forest de la Buinonne of the Argonne Forest. After patrols and runners had been repeatedly shot down while attempting to carry Jjack word of the battalion's position and condition, he volunteered for the mission and successfully accomplished it. The citation does not express the hell that was the Forest de la Buinonne in those awful days. No citation expresses fully the great deed of the man it is meant to praise. i How he ran, how he dodged, how he flattened out and crawled inch after precious inch through what seemed hours, and through what seemed endless miles of mud, how he fell into a shell hole just as a hot hail of machine gun bullets swept the field, how he felt, in that last mad dash, the sudden shooting pain that told him he had been hit—all this the gjftatlon leaves out. r But that is what the man did, and he saved “the lost battalion.” His name—probably it will not live as long as Nathao Kale’s or Paul Revere’s—is Abraham Syotoshinsky, and his home New York. The other day President Coolidge, by executive order, made Abraham Krotoshinsky eligible for ap-. pointment in the general executive service of the Goverment. That means he can be appointed anywhere in the United States to a Government job. And, for this crippled veteran, out of work, but |oo proud to ask for charity, it was little enough, after fcn these years. It represents the barest acknowlKrement of service Abraham Krotoshisky could Kive. > I

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As Miss West Sees It Miss Bina M. West, a member of the Republican national committee for Michigan, puts a common sense interpretation on President Coolidge’s recent declaration that he would not accept another term, in a letter she sends to fellow Republicans. Says Miss West: “Mr. Coolidge, in his recent address tb members of the national committee at the White House Dec. 6, gave a clear expression of his views on two important matters. He reiterated and emphasized his decisions to eliminate himself as a candidate for President in the next campaign . . . There should no longer be any doubt about the position of the President and his determination not to permit his name to be used as candidate for President in the next campaign. It is therefore evident that Michigan Republicans must turn their minds to the selection of another choice who will best reflect the sentiments of the State.” It is too bad that Miss West cannot persuade Charles D. Hilles, national committeeman from New York; William M. Butler, chairman of the national committee, and other Coolidge diehards who are muddying political waters, to the same view. The party needs leaders who will devote themselves to obtaining the best possible candidate, instead of playing politics with their own futures in mind. Pre-Digested Literature Truly we are a busy people. When the end comes some of us can't quite see what we have done with our time, but at any rate we pursue the phantom of industry so assiduously that we must have everything cut down to fit our schedule. The latest device to save time and at the same time gain wisdom is a magazine called “The Reader’s Digest.” It condenses ail the best feature articles of the leading magazines of the month and sends them out to the tired business man and wearied society dame so they can keep up with things without the effort of making their own selections. The pamphlet sent out to advertise this enterprise is filled with laudatory comments by such outstanding persons as Archie Roosevelt, R. Louise Fitch, president of the American Association of University Women; C. D. Barr, vice president of the American Cast Iron Pipe Company, et cetera. The publication will no doubt answer a purpose. It may be a boon in many a household. But what real good will any of us get from pre-digested literature? I’d rather buy one good magazine, read it leisurely and read it all, than to get a smattering of thirty-one articles of which somebody else had selected the pithy parts for me. The people who are too busy to read won't get much out of that sort of thing anyway. It’s been my observation that the folks who constantly explain how they have no time to spend with a book don’t really want to read. It is merely a good excuse. And those who like to read will, regardless of how busy they are. With such floods of published matter coming out each week, it 1$ out of the question for any one person to read everything. Even the critics who earn their living thus can't do that. For most of us, it is merely a question of selection, but why not do your own selecting, at any rate? This step, however, is in line with our general policy of having somebody else make up our minds. A nation comprised of over a hundred million souls that is too spineless to make its own individual moral decisions will probably enjoy having somebody do its reading for it.

Mrs. Grayson’s Venture Mrs. Frances Grayson and her three companions have vanished with the amphibian plane, the Dawn, in which they were undertaking a flight across the ocean. Their names doubtless will be added to the long list of those who already have perished in similar undertakings. The country is saddened by this misfortune, and extends full sympathy to families of the victims. Sympathy, however, should not obscure the fact that the flight was ill advised, and even if successful would have contributed nothing to science or to the development of aviation. A flight across winter seas was said by experienced persons to be practically impossible, and added to that was the known fact that weather conditions were unfavorable. The tragedy will be of value if it puts an end to similar attempts, which serve no useful purpose but to advertise the persons undertaking them. The Measure of Culture A minister recently completed a two-year survey of American cities and announced that Cleveland now is the most cultured city in the United States. The reason, he says, is that Cleveland now spends $1.39 per capita for annual library maintenance, against smaller sums spent by other cities, New York buying only 40 to 50 cents’ worth of new books per year per head. The minister, in giving the results of his survey, however, gave one of the best reasons why it can be disputed. He told the story of the rich man who found that a home built for him had fifty-two feet of book shelves. Thereupon he sent in an order for “fifty-two feet of books.” We do not believe the ownership of books determines culture—at least we hope it’s something higher than that. Nobody can qualify for the 100 per cent American club these days until he has asked Lindbergh not to do something. Love is that which a girl has who goes with a man who doesn’t own a motor car. But maybe her idea is compassionate marriage. Anew phenomenon in the skies has three tails. Maybe we’d better ask Billy Sunday what It Is. What this country needs is more presidential timber and a few less congressional blocs. Last Lines: “We were told two could live as cheaply as one.” Nature adjusts things pretty evenly. The wife Is generally willing to make allowances in about the same proportion the husband is willing to give them. Sophistication is that process by which a girl gets her modesty equipped with shock absorbers.

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BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright, 1927. by The Ready Relerence Publishing Company.) BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A—ace: K—kins; Q—queen; J—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) 1. When you hold Spades A Q 10 X X; hearts, K X X; diamonds, XXX; clubs, X X, what should you bid? 2. When you hold. Hearts,A JlO X X; clubs, K X X; diamonds, X X X; spades, X X; what should you bid? 3. When you hold spades K Q J X X; hearts, Q J .X; diamonds, X X X; clubs, X X; what should you bid? The Answers 1. One spade. 2. One heart. 3. One spade.

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(Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) (Republican) At the request of a district attorney's office in a Rhode Island city readers of gas and electric light meters have been instructed to spy and snoop about the houses which they visit in the ordinary course of their duties, and to make report of any evidences of liquor law violation. We cannot easily comprehend the workings of a mind which could possibly conceive that such a system of wholesale snoopery would promote any improvement in the observance or enforcement of law. Indeed, we are convinced that such procedure will tend strongly to exercise the directly opposite effect. It is almost certain to increase and intensify opposition to the whole prohibition policy on the part of those whose homes were thus subjected to an impudent search without warrant, and, in fact, among all who have objection to snooping methods in general and who value the privacy of the home as a thing more precious than rubies. As we have known them, meter readers are a very decent, polite and friendly lot of fellows, who, in exchange for their salary, go about minding their own business when they are in somebody else’s basement. Most of the meter readers we have known have given evidences of traits of character that revolt at snoopery. Most of them, we make no doubt, would make tacit refusal to act as cellar spies; but it is possible that some of them might be tempted, by an official order such as was recently promulgated in Rhode Island, to go in for blackmail and the solicitation and acceptance of bribes. Surely there is no need for any more corruption than already has been shown to exist in the present prohibition system! Besides, our zeal for searches and seizures with lax and questionable warrants may set some dangerous precedents. There have been too many abuses already of the privileges of search and inspection. The good ends set in many of these instances do not justify the means sometimes employed. For instance, no more commendable end was ever marked than the prevention of fires, yet the means employed in Ft. Wayne during the last local observance of national fire-pre-vention week were far from satisfactory. There can never be any fair Justification of the policy pursued here which permitted city firemen, without warrant issuing upon probable cause, to force their way into the basements of private residences to have a look-around. Suppose, if you please, the case of a family ever diligent in guarding against fire hazards. There is no rubbish in its basement. All the members of that family know there is no fire hazard anywhere about the premises. A fireman comes to the door and states that he has come to inspect the basement. “There is no need for you to enter here,” says the wife. “I can’t sanction your coming in here to go wandering about my house.” The fireman pushes past her and searches the cellar. Is this an extreme and impossible case, say you? It couldn’t happen? Well it did happen, and it happened in Ft. Wayne last fall. There was no justification for it. It was unconstitutional procedure. It was contrary to the spirit of the bill of rights. But it happened. It should never happen again. No new precedents of snoopery should be established here or elsewhere. Creation of an army of spies and secret service snoopers to nose around the cellars and attics of private homes will assuredly not increase the volume of supporting sentiment. Rather it will markedly reduce it, and it is eminently to the credit of the American spirit, ever cherishing liberty and the rights of citizens, that It should!

(Muncie Press) (Republican) Women are discovering that It takes a peculiar type of their sex to be deeply interested in politics. The thing is too new in their lives to have aroused as yet the intense feeling that exists among men partisans, and the ordinary interests of women have been so far removed from the contests and publicity which attend political happenings that as yet they have not become accustomed to these things, and as a class perhaps never will be nor especially wish to be. Yet whether they wish to be .conspicuous in political affairs, or even whether they ever desired to have the ballot, the women of the United States, now that they have full citienship, owe it to themselves, their families and the State to inform themselves fully upon public questions in order that they may exercise intelligently the right of franchise. The wrong kinds of women and the wrong kinds of men always will be found at the polls on election day. Asa matter of selfprotection. the right kinds of women and of men should consider it their duty also to vote and to do so intelligently—and intelligent voting can only be done after adequate information upon public affairs has been gairffed.

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Greek Satire Found Many Targets

ARISTOPHANES AND EURIPIDES BUT there was another target at which Aritophones aimed his satire: and in this case with intent to kill. For Aristophanes, unlike Euripides, the great martyr of philosophy, was a conservative aristocrat. not an aristocratic radical; his ideal was the old fashioned Athenian who had fought at Marathon, and had loved his cities and his gods without asking questions. He despised the new-fangled scepticism of the Sophists, the socialism that was beginning to appear among the slaves, and the individualism that was wrecking Athens under the leadership and example of Alcibiades; above all he scorned the alternate misogyny and feminism. the sentimentality and rhetoric of Euripides. This man he set out to destroy. He began with a play called “The Thesmorphoriazusae” (411 B. C.), from the women who annually assembled at Athens to celebrate the Thesmophoria—a feast of Ceres and Droserpine. They discussed the latest diatribe of Euripides against their sex, and planned revenge. Euripides gets wind of the proceedings. and persuades his uncle, Mnesilochus, to dress as a woman and enter the meeting to defend him. A woman complains that Euripides has deprived her of a living; she had made wreaths for the temples, but since Euripides had shown that there were no gods, the temple business had gone to pieces. Mnesilochus, rising to the defense, pursues an unexpected line of argument; Euripides should be let off because, first, his worst sayings about women are palpably, visibly, and audibly true, and because, again, the charges are mild compared to what women themselves know to be the truth. The ladies suspect (though here Aristophanes shows an imperfect knowledge of the sex), that this traducer of womanhood cannot be a woman; they tear his disguise from the face of Mnesilochus, and he saves himself from being scratched to death only by snatching a babe from a woman's arms and threatenihg to cut its throat if they touch him.

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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION

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As the women nevertheless attack him, he unclothes the child, and finds that it is a wine-skin disguised as an infant to escape the revenue officer. He proposes to cut its throat just the same, much to the distress of the wine-skin’s mother. “Spare my darling,” she cries. “Bring a bowl. If it must die, let us catch its blood.” Mnesilochus solves the problem by serving at the bowl, \fhile the women conclude the play with a unanimous vote of condemnation against Euripides. a st tt ARISTOPHANES AND UTOPIA HAVING attacked Euripides for dislike of the expensive sex, Aristophanes turns about, with comic privilege, and attacks him for favoring the emancipation of women, for joining Plato and Pericles in their efforts to remove the disabilities that limited all honorable women in ancient Greece, and for playing so persistently with those Communist utopias that were so prevalent in the last year of the war, as they were in our own magnificent holocaust. In a middling play called "The Ecclesiazusae” (393 B. 0., i. e„ “The Alderwomen,”) aclever suffragette, Praxagora, berates her female friends as fools for letting themselves be ruled by such dolts as men. She practices a fiery speech, arranges a meeting, and proposes laws nationalizing everything but toil. But she concludes with a careful exception: “All labor and toil to your slaves you will leave.” In the famous comedy of “The Birds” (414 B. C.) the attack on Utopia continues.

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Yotr can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical. Ugal and marital auvlce cannot be given aor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are coniidentlal.—Editor. How many Quakers are in Great Britain and Ireland? The Society of Friends (Quakers) consists of 19.081 members and has 376 places of worship in Great Britain and in Ireland it has twenty-seven places of worship and 2,237 members. Why does the ocean not freeze the same as lakes? There are two reasons. Salt water freezes at a lower temperature than fresh water and oceans are deep enough so that the temperature of the whole body of water does not reach the freezing point. The cold water on the surface sinks to the bottom and is replaced by warm water, which rises to the top. What is the area of Holland and what city there is the largest. The land area is 12,582 square miles and including water, it is 13,205 square miles. Amsterdam, having a population of 712,222, is the largest city. How old Is the Queen of the Netherlands? She was bom Aug. 31, 1880. What calendar do the Russians use? They now use the Gregorian calendar, the same as the rest of the Christian nations. What do "status quo” and "status quo ante” mean? "Status quo” is translated into English "the state in which,” meaning the present or previous condition. "Status quo ante” is translated "in the state which was before.” Was there any exchange of prisoners during the World War? There was no exchange of prisoners to any great extent during the World War on the part of any of the belligerents. Occasional provision was made for the repatriation cf permanently disabled men, some men over 48 years of age, and the medical personnel captured. A conference of French and

Two citizens who despair of Athens climb their way to the abode of the birds, hoping there to discover the finest way of life. With the help of the birds they build a Utopian city. Nephelococcygia— Cloud-Cuckoo-Town—the great bird city. All sorts of unbidden guests try to get in, poets, priests, soothsayers, geometricians, lawyers and sycophants; but they are driven out. New goods are invented in the image of the birds, and those made in the image of man are deposed. “No poet, not even Shelley,” says Symonds, “has exceeded the choruses of the Birds and the Clouds in swiftness, radiance and condensed imagination. Shakespeare alone in his “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Tempest,” or Calderon in some of his sallegorical dramas, carries us away into some enchanted land, where the air is purer and the skies are larger than in our world, wheer the stars are close above our heads . . . and dazzling fireflies are tangled in the meadow-grass beneath our feet.” But in the end Aristophanes dreams of a Utopia himself. There was one thing that he hated far more than Socrates and Euripides; it was those middle classes which had undone the old aristocratic rule of Solon and Pericles; it was their money-grabbing that disgusted him beyond bearing and made him lament that under such leadership Athens would never again produce an Aeschylus or build a Parthenon. Utopia wDuld be where they should be put in place. (Copyright. 1927. by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

German delegates opened at Berne, Switzerland, on May 15, 1918, to make arrangements for an extensive exchange of prisoners, but the matter was still pending at the time the armistice was signed. There was no exchange of prisoners on the part of the United States. What is the meaning of the Latin phrase “ex post facto” and how is it used? A literal translation is "from what is done afterwards.” It is a legal term designating something as done after or arising from or affecting another thing that was committed before. In this broad sense it is applied to the acceptance of an estate by the grantee in a deed, conveying it to him, which estate he had the right to accept or reject. It is also applied to every act of a legislative body or of a court having a retroactive effect. Who was “Fair Rosamond?” The name is commonly applied to a daughter of Lord Clifford. She was the acknowledged mistress of Henry 11, who maintained her in a bower at Woodstock, accessible only by a labyrinthine approach, which the King followed by means of a silken thread. According to the popular account, she was discovered and poisoned by Queen Eleanor about 1173. Where does the Red River rise? In Elbow Lake, western Minnesota, near the sources of the Mississippi. Who was Edward William Morley? An American chemist who collaborated with Michaelson in measuring the speed of light. What part did Clara Bow play in “The Keeper of the Boos”? The part of Alice Louise Cameron (Lolly.) Who played the part of Pierre in the motion picture “The Prince of H'-d Waiters?” Lewis Stone. What are the age limits for admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point? The regulations provide that candidates for admission are eligible from the day they are 17 (or 19 if from the regular army or national guard) until the day they are 21 years of age when they are no longer eligible.

DEC. 28, 1927

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Library Shelves Groan With Manufactured Crime; We Can Not Deal in Second-Hand Horrors, Much Less Glorify Them in the Name of Art, Without Drawing a Real One Noiv and Then.”

Library shelves have been made to groan with manufactured crime, some of which was artfeUc enough to be called litut iturc. The simplest and most conso.ins: thing is to excuse what this unfortunate Hickman, confessed child murderer, says he did, on the ground of insanity. If great authors could conceive the same kind of revolting acts, spend years studying them out and then peddle them to an eager public, and if that public could sit up nights drinking in every detail, why call it insanity whenever some crack-brained youth actually performs them? We cannot deal in second-hand horrors, much less glorify them in the name of art, without drawing a real one now and then. What interests and thrills large numbers of people, someone is bound to try. The popularity of theft, murder and other crimes on the printed page has tempted more than one youth to regard it as glorious. tt * * Dead Bandit Reward That $5,000 reward for every dead bandit recently offered by Lie Texas Bankers Association has borne bitter fruit. Three harmless Mexicans were shot down last Friday while standing in front of the bank at Stanton. Two were killed outright, and the survivor declared that they were told to come and wait there by C. C. Bayes and Lee Smith, peace officers, who had promised them employment. Bayes and Smith have been indicted for murder, the former confessing that it was all a “frameup” to collect $5,000 for each dead man. tt n tt Murder for Money Five thousand dollars is a lot of money to dangle before the eyes of poorly paid deputy sheriffs, especially when offered for any poor devil who may be showdown on no better ground than the mere suspicion that he was, is or might be a bank robber. Such a sum of money prOifiised under such circumstances constitutes little les sthan an open invitatio nto murder. If a boy can shoot his grandmother for $1.25, as happened in Maine, and if another boy can kidnap, kill and cut up an innocent 12-year-old girl for $1,500, as happened in young Hickman's case, why is it not reasonable to suppose that $5,000 cash in hand might inspire some deputy sheriff or some constable to “frame” and murder an innocent man in Texas? tt tt tt Artificial Breath It was kindness, of course, that inspired friends and relatives to pump air into Alma Overguard’s lungs for thirty-six days. So. too, it was kindness that inspired friends and relatives to do the same thing for Alfred Frick and Walter Booth. These three were victims of paralysis. Except for artificial respiration they would have died quickly and painlessly. Hope of saving them not only drew friends to their assistance, but prolonged the agony of death. >t tt tt Cruelty of Kindness An English laborer drowned his paralyzed daughter in order to spare her further pain, and was acquitted of murder. A Colorado doctor put his imbecile child out of the way for fear no one would look after her properly in case of his death, and also was acquitted of murder. Here you have the same spirit of devotion expressing itself in a very different way. Some people see it as a demand to prolong life, no matter what the sacrifice or suffering involved, while others see it as a justification to take life for the sake of refief. There are times when kindness is cruel, and there are times when cruelty is kind. a tt tt There’s Life; There's Hope With all its progress, science has not yet enabled us to determine when a case is surely hopeless. In that lies the difficulty. Much as we have learned about the human organism and the diseases with which it is afflicted, we still are forced to fall back on the adage that “while there’s life there’s hope." Mans intelligence is not sufficient for him to say with assurance that any human being will die because of appearances. The greatest doctors are making mistakes in that jdirection, as well as in the other./ When the late Senator George called Dr. Osier in to tell him the truth about his condition, Dr. Osier told him lie had about two weeks to live, and collected SSOO for the information. Asa matter of fact, Senator George lived six months.

Where were the battles scenes in the motion picture, “The Rough Riders,” filmed? In Texas, at San Antonioo, and vicinity. What is the best way to break in anew pipe for smoking? Fill it with damp salt and let it stand for four or five hours. Another way is to dip the pipe in water and smoke it slowly the first few times. Vhat State produced the highest average yield of corn an acre la 1925? New Jersey had an average yield of fifty-two bushels an acre.