Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 1, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 September 1917 — Page 1

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DUSTRY State Can Grow Own Sugar. - Adding $15,000,000 Yearly to Industrial f ' Wealth', "Tho average American consume eighty-two pounds of ?ngar each year, anil only ton pounds or that ration an now produced lu this country. The farmers of t lie country should keep that money at home in other "words, put it in their own pockets." The foregoing statement appeal's in a bulletin .which the Department of Ag riculturo has just Issued reviewing tinprogress of the beet uignr Industry during the past year. The report pro ceeds to point out that while the pro duction of sugnr from beets has ad vnnced very rnpljuy, more than 5;000, OOO tons of beMs 'having been grown Inst season, 2,00)00 acres additional should be devoted to thfe crop in order to produce at home the sugar now purchased from Abroad. w This Is a subject of particular ln: terest to Indiana for t he reason that tiis state lies in tlie center of one o.f tiie most important beet sugar producing sections of the eountry. Not only havo repeated tests in sugar beet growing demonstrated that Iudiann oil is adapted to the production of this valuable crop, luit the success fu' operation during the pa-st season o! the state's tirst beet sugar factory has proved it conclusively. Although the season was an unfavorable one and most of the farmers growing beet? IK AN 1NOTANA BOOA,iS IIICIST fJKID. Were unfamiliar with the band ling o tills new crop, the results obtained Ip the new plant at Deeutur show tha Indiana is ccpabJe of iiViirttutiiL: i beet sugar factory in eery count .throughout i lArge ion ion of tbe i;-.it At least, and that the sfate rou.d ea.-ib produce not only all the sugar repuri or home consumption, but also, if necessary, could grow and mtiuufactwi balf of ail the sdgar required by tne United States. Some tlsrures from the actual opera ticas of the beet sugar plant at lh catur during vhe past ye.tr will soul" suggestion of the po."sih.i!tia n this industry for Indiana. AsUc froi the iavestment of $l.0tj0.0o) or moiv üvhicb the plant itself represents, th factory paid out to the farmers win grew beets about .$55t),UU0. Some $7."), OOO was paid out in wages to factory and held operatives. The railways of the state received from the trausportion of Ikvts. sugar and supplies over $100,000, while considerable sums were distributed fr limestone, cotton "bagging and otherarticles required In the process of manufacture. Thus, about three-quarters of a million dollars was distributed through various channels of Indiana industry as a result of the establishment of a single beet sugar factory within the borders of the stale. Accordiug to the estimates of the statistical bureaus at Washington the people of Indlaua consume over 100,000 tons of sujrüfrft year for which ithey pay VJL pi:u or mure. Previous to this year all of this money Went outside the stat most of it to the reat trust refineries of the eastern jaeaboar1. Mstifuf it still goes there lt, howiMi Indiana produced from ,lier own only enough sugar for the us nr home population ail this m. vuuld tzo into the various ehaunr r homo" industry, and it

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OFFERS GREAT FUR Larger Yields of All Crop Following Beet Gulture Boost Value of Farm Lands. ' s OOQ.C ."Tn cm.' tiirne unmnec or iisv state. That Is only one, and the le' Im portant, of the beneliclal results thai would follow tie utilization of a com paratlvely small portion of Indiana's farm lands for tha production of i lie sugar, which the people of the state are consuming In yearly increasinc quantities. Of utilf greater vabn would bo Its effect In adding trximen dously to the farm wealth of thestab by. increasing the yield of other crops frown In romtlon with sugar beets Experience lneountries like Franc md Germany, where sugar beejs havf boen grown for many yours on n ln.rtr cale, show that Iroin lunid which la plantedto this crop one year in lour the yield of -wheat, oats and othr cereals grown in the intervening years 1b increased from ,50 to 80 per cent Records collected from in erica nfurin ers in sections where beet cufturo has been followed for a number yeai iihow that the yield of oj.tier crops growti tn rotation vith beets has increased an average of 44 pter cent. The 3leld of wheat on these lands ad vanced from 20.1) bushels per acre to 43.1. Corn went up from 41.6 bushels to 53.1 and oats from 40.9 to 00.0 bushels. The effect of the deep plow ing and thorough cultivation require by sugar beets in boosting the yield of the other crops grown in successivi years is all tjie more striking, as th yields obtained by these farmers be fore beginning sugar beet cultiviktioi were well above itho average. Atmh ing thliT rate of Increase to Indiumfarms wjoujd mean that the agricur tural wealth of the stato would' be hu creased $25,000,000 a year by the geh j4eral adoption of sugar beet growing. Not only does the establishment oi the sugar beet Industry add directly to the w.ealth of tho state from tin money it brings In, or keeps at liomt and indirectly through tho increase o other farm erons crown In rotatioi with beets, but it algo adds greatly t the market value of farm landjL In Michigan, where the sugar beet in dpstry has reached such proportion that the state produces all Its owj sugar and ships a considerable amoun; to other jparjeets, its effect upon faru values and business prosperity in tb( sections surrounding the factoriejai cleariy marked. Many of the farms k these districts were heavily mortgaged ton years ago. The mortgages havt been paid off so rapidly that today al most the only farms In the sugar coun i try that are not debt free are thost that hare been bought In tho. past fe years by newcomers who want to share In the prosperity that accompanies thl? crop. Bank deposits have göne up Tho sellers of agricultural Implements. dry goods men and dealers tu all othei lines tell of improved sales and report that collections of bills are made vitl iuh greater promptness wherever tho sugar Industry has been Introduced. O. A. Dugan, a banker of Decatth? who has watched the development of the industry there, keeping careful roc ord of business transactions in the city, has estimated that the value of land ii. the city and on the surrounding farm for a distance of several miles has lis an nearly 25 per cent since ttfe falory s establishment. riHs is not siu prising in view of the fact that In ev ery case whore the beet sugar iudustrv has been established In anyrpart ofatlro country a gain of from 30 to 100 per cent has taken place ,in land values wlthfn three or four years. When thv beet sugar factory at Pauldipg, O", not far from Decatur, was started two years ago the same upward tendencyI of land prices was observed, and it J has been found that tho increase since jthat time has totaled more tfian $5.000,000 In rii Hiding county alone. The adjoining state of Michigan, ! whose soil produces Ixets m no way superior to those of Indiana, now has i seventeen beet sugar factories. Inrikuia could support no less than 100 if all the available land were used for the crop ouly one year-in four, While this figure represents a distant possibility, there Is no reason why the state should not have fcrom fifteen to tweifty-five siiQh establishments. Taking the lowest figure, fifteen factories would mean tint viieu they were well under! wav the s4uie would have a yearly in-1 come of S1GV ,000 year for sugar alone. Of this huge sum 500,000

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IMMIMM ,ttvirüeefs; r?ijmjmroTiiTr go to tho 1 000 or 5J0OO workmen who would be given employment and the greater port tho remarn'der would stay within the Ute. The Increase In land values would bo ajrnost too great U) estlmatocortainry not less than $-iu00O,0Oa Erom tho results obtained In the pro duction of beet sugar In Adams county and surrounding sections and fron, testa In grvwlng beets in other partiof tho state, which show that Indiana can produce as 'high a gradp of sugat beets as any state In the couy'try, thenla no doubt Amt If the policy of gaowj Ing within tbo UnlUnl States the sugai to feed the Amoriertn people continue. to receive ythe encouragement of th'c federal government as It has in tinpast fifteen yearsIndiana will take n leading part In the sugar beet Industry and through It will ndd millions of dol lars to her ani-Tual wealth That tin upbuilding of this Industry Is impo't tant to the consumers as well aa to tin producers of the state washown plain l.y enough in 1011 when the price o sugar, which had gone skyrocketing uj to 10 cents a pound and wasf being heir at $0.75 to $7.50 per hundred pound wholesale by the trust and oilier renn ers, came tumbling down to Its norma level as soon as the yield of the nogs oeet fields came upon the market 6'.i Stcrv. A. measuring worm "vrgiitout one day Ott plaid. He measured a skirt '2Vrr n big little boy, . L'a& tlife big Uttfe bor Chit ma'dL At the Zoo-jrGood gra,cious! .Hon deavy my barrow is toda.y?Von V fant. "You wouldn't UJiTRtcat fellow wmi rorth F1.00O,O(9. would you?" "Gnnious, no!" 'Well, he hi:t.M-Philadelphia Pres His Thrifty Sons 1 I j With the Fingers ! H&ys Corns lift Out ! Without Anv Pain Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or anv kind of a corn can shortly bo lifted right out with the fingers If you will annly directly iiDon the corn, a few drojfe of freezone, says a Cincinnati authority. It is elaimeäpfct at small cost one cän get a quarter of an ounce of freezoneat any drug storo, whidh is sufficient to rl one's feet of every corn or callus, without pain or soreness or. tne aaj 'or -infection, v . r This"m?w drug is an ether" compound, and while sticky, dries the moment it is applied and does not inflanib or ev.en irritate the surrounding tissue, H This announcement will interest many women here, for it Is said that the present high-heel footwear la putr

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WINSOME VIOLA DANA MAKES METRO DEBUT

"The Flower of No Man's Land" . . Her Initial Offering. VifVla Dana, on of tho most gifted and charming of the younger stars of tho screen, will mako her debut on tho Metro program in "Thoi '

Flower of No Man's Land," a fivo part production. This story was especially selected for Miss Dana to Introduco her to Metro audiences It is a strong story that gives her VIOLA DA 4 .splendid nöiilttesrmko tho kost otjlraniaüc tafents. 1 UimiKil ce'ibeen exercised ; isfcouuMnier with a capable ' k cast, and'exens will bo spared ! to make h'er'debut with Metro a ! notable one. "j Miss Dana is a supremo artisV-in.j every sense of tho word. Her 'versatility and charm aro delightfully refreshing and her powers of -drat. : matic expression have a quality; that is all Miss Dana's own. Early in her caroer she oreated a sonsation In her wonderful delineation of ' the stellar role in "The Poor Little Rich Girl," ono of the most success,ful play.s ever seen on Broadway. "Since coming to motion pictures Miss Dana has found the most com.; . plete expression of her art. For in j .the silent drama she is called upon uto essay a new character everyv.few j frWeelcs, while on the speaking stage "L she was held to one part for from f one to two years.. PICTURE AUDIENCES ARE HIS CRITICS. Handsome Ed. Coxen, Mutual Star, Always Shuns Publicity. Although he is one of the most popular young leading men in motion-picture work, Edward Coxen. who, with Winifred Greenwood, has starred in a coRntless number of Flying "A" (Mutual) dramas, avoids publicity as a mother woufd whooping cough. "The limelight never held any glamor for mo," this extraordinary young star rocently declared, "I believe in doing my best before the Handsome Edward Coxen, Star of rounttess Flying "A" CUutual) Dramas. camera and leavine: it to the audiences to decide on my abilities if 1 have any." - No one will deny that Coxen has abilities and lots of 'em, ' too. Coxen has been in screen worlt for about, four years, and has woh a large following among ardent motion, oicture fans throughout the country. He is one of the most versatile pUfcrs in the profession and is equally at home in a cowpuncher's outfit or in a bVcss suit. Coxen was born in Ixmdon, EnghuTd. He arrived in America whilö still a mere kiddie, and spent most of his life in San Francisco. He studied civil engineering, but gave it up to go prospecting. Finally he decided he was cut oat for an. actor and secured an engagement at the Majestic Theatre in 'Frisco. Then the 'quake and fire came ami Cxen entered stock work, remaining at it until ho entered the Flying MA" studios in Santa Barbara. Cal-

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