Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 62, Number 45, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 April 1920 — Page 6
Light on Late Committee on Public Information WASHINGTON. Congress or at least the senate apparently would like to Know something about the actual operations of the late lamented committee on public information and the present condition of Its affairs. Anyway, Senator Smoot of Utah, introduced a
resolution the other day, which was read, considered by unanimous consent and agreed to In part as follows: Resolved, Tbat the director of the council of national defense Is hereby directed to report to the senate as soon as practicable : A statement showing all the expenditures of the committee on public Information by principal classes, such as salaries; traveling; printing done at the govern
ment printing office; printing done elsewhere than at the government printing office ; advertisements, photographs, and films; telephone, telegraph, and cable; office furniture; rents; and automobiles. In this statement set forth" in detail the name, address, position, business, or occupation of each payee, together with an explanation of the purpose for which such expenditures were made. If the expenditures were for traveling, including subsistence, state fully the purpose of such traveling, whether the expenditure therefor included persons other than the payee; if so, the names and addresses of such person, together with a general statement as to the extent and purpose of the traveling. A statement of the unpaid accounts of the committee on public information In the same form as the foregoing statement. A statement of the funds and property In the possession of the committee on puhlic Information, Its employees, agents, or representatives, and the location of the same at the time the council of national defense was placed In charge of its affairs. The resolution also calls for a statement of funds and property recovered, and disposition of files and mailing lists and all other pertinent facts in connection with tho auditing and closing of the accounts and affairs of the commlttee. Apparently, ah, the senate is in a hurry, since if the information is not ready a preliminary and partial statement is requested. ' 18,000 Ex-Convicts Organize "Gray Brotherhood" A MYSTERIOUS organization of ex-convicts, known as the Gray Brotherhood has a membership which is believed to exceed 18,000. It is stated that Its alms are to humanize the prisons and develop the ambitions of the inmates toward cleaner and better lives. Its
officers and leaders are unnamed, but tho head, who is known as the Gray lirother, is said to be a man of much capacity and influence. lie is on terms of friendly intimacy with several United States senators and is said to be not unknown at the White House. The Gray Brotherhood Is responsible for several prison investigations brought with the desire to improve conditions and not merely to play polities or satisfy a grudge. It is al-
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so claimed on behalf of the Gniy Brotherhood that it is thoroughly patriotic and American. A statement of the program of the new organization is substantially as follows : The Gray Brotherhood will attempt to help, individual prisoners during their incarceration, and especially on their release. The Brotherhood will provide jobs for released prisoners and 'try to educate the public to a more intelligent attitude toward the man who has committed a breach of the, law. An attempt will be made to clean up the prisons, morally, hyglenically, and politically. A fight will be made on tho grafts said to bo rampant in all prisons. The Brotherhood will fight the political control t of prisons by entering the political field itself. It will try to force the wardenship and other prison offices out of the hands of politicians and into those of penological experts and students. The Brotherhood will be organized in every state to force advanced prison.reform measures through the legislatures. It is the purpose to wipe out utterly the present penal system.
Shortage of School Teaphers Threatens Nation THE country is faced with a serious shortage of school teachers, chiefly through failure to provide adequate salaries, according to reports to the United States bureau of education. Conditions are becoming slightly better, however, the report states, in some
sections, compared with those of last October, when the National Education association conducted an inquiry into the situation. Based on returns from state school officials, the reports show that on February 13 last there were 1S.279 schools closed because of lack of teachers and 41,000 were being taught by teachers characterized as "below standard, but taken on temporarily in the emer
gency. Greater shortages are snown to exist in southern states. Salaries paid teachers in 101 S. statistics show, were on an average of $000 for elemei.tary teachers and $1,031 for those teaching In high schools. From salary schedules collected from various states, giving salaries received by individual teachers in three counties in each state, it is shown that wages paid rural teachers fell far below the foregoing average in many states, many localities showing salaries paid as low as $1T0 and 3200 a year. In KX) state, county, city and private normal schools, representing GO per cent of the total normal schools in the country, there were 11,500 fewer students enrolled November 1, 1910, than during the prewar period. A similar falling oil is shown in teacher-training departments in colleges, while other departments show great increases in enrollment.
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America Rapidly Becoming Most Befurred Nation FURS in a temperate climate have always been a sign of wealth. As we are the richest nation of the earth, we are rapidly becoming the most befurred nation. The last five years have seen the largest amount of furs sold in this country in its history at stead
ily increasing prices and at the moment the United States, next to Russia, is probably the greatest consumer of fur garments in the world. While London still disputes the fact. American fur dealers say this country has become the center of the fur industry. It is interesting to note the 12,000 Alaska sealskins offered for sale account of the United States government were dressed, dyed, and
machined in tins country instead of at London as formerly. The furs sold in February in St. Louis, came from every corner of the world and included 200.000 China dog mats, used mostly for coats in cold northwest countries; from Siberia. 1.500.000 squirrels. 200,000 ermine. 8,000 white fnx.'s. 70.(ak kolinskies, 200,000 marmots. 125,000 flt- h, and C.000 Russian cables. Australia sent 1,000.000 pounds of rabbit skins, 500,000 Australian opossum -10,000 wallaby, 11,000 kangaroo, 100,000 ringtail opossums, and CO.000 red foxcy. From Persia and Turkestan were offered 10,000 Persian lambskins. Lumpe contributed .so.ooo moleskins and many thousand red foxes. The United States offered 800,000 muskrats, OO.OOO skunk, 22,000 beavers, aO.UW wolves, 1.000 silver foxes, 125,000 raccoons, aud many other varieties.
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Cabbage Grower Likely to: Be Discouraged at Prospect of Fight.
CUTWORMS MOST INJURIOUS Larvae of Number of Kinds of Medium-Sized Grayish or Brownish Moths Are Found in Garden Allowed to Grow Up in Weeds.
When the grower enters his well-kept garden, in which a day or two before he has set out a fine lot of cabbage or tomato plants, and finds that a goodly part of them have been cut off near the roots by some invisible and insidious foe, he is likely to become discouraged at the effort to fight the stealthy attacks of these nocturnal marauders, and to wonder whether the game is worth the candle, especially after the plants which he resets are attacked in the same manner. Tf he is familiar with the habits of cutworms, however, he will, before replanting, make a search of the soil within a few inches of the base of the damaged plant, and will probably be rewarded by uncovering a smooth, greasy-looking, gray or brownish caterpillar from an inch to an inch and a half in length, the foe for which he Is seeking. Found In Weedy Garden. Cutworms are the young or larvae of a number of kinds of medium-sized grayish or brownish moths, and are likely to be found wherever a garden has been allowed to grow up in weeds the previous season. They pass the winter as half-grown caterpillars buried in the earth, and In spring come forth with a several-months appetite which they satisfy with the first edible vegetation that comes to hand, this often being the gardener's choicest transplanted vegetables. As the sea-
As Preventive Measure Scatter Poison Bait Over Garden Before Setting Out Plants. son goes on, they become mature and enter the ground, there undergoing the transformations which are completed by the issuance of the moth in midsummer. If the garden is known to have been weedy last season, the proverbial ounce of prevention may be exercised by scattering thinly over it, just before setting out the plants, a poisoned bait. This is prepared by mixing thoroughly a quart of dry bran with four or five tablespoonfuls of white arsenic or Paris green. It is then made into a wet mash by the addition of a quart or more of water, into which has been stirred a half cupful of cheap sirup or molasses. It may be scattered thinly over the field a day or two before planting, or will serve as a protection to the newly set plants if a little is sprinkled around the roots after wetting them down. Detter results are secured by putting out poison after sunset, since cutworms begin to feed about dusk. Poison Is Dangerous. Care should be taken that this bait is scattered thinly, as it might be dangerous to children or domestic animals. In small gardens, transplanted Ye$o tables may be protected by surrounding their stems when setting them out with a somewhat stiff paper band extending from about an inch below the surface to two or three inches above. Tin cans with ends removed afford similar protection.
TREATMENT FOR SICK FOWLS
Weak or Ailing Hens Should Be disposed of at Once, or Separated and Treated.
Any weak or sick hens should be disposed of as soon as discovered, or separated from the ilock and treated because they are not only likely to die but they are likely to infect other mem bers of the llock with disease germs.
MOTOR TRUCKS VERY USEFUL
TWO STEMS OF CLOVER
Lime the land for clover. A ten of lime on wheat in the fall will make two stems of clover grow where cne grew before.
Bought by Farmer Not as Single-Pur-pose Machine, But for Variety cf Uses on Farm. It Is only In the past two or threo years that tractors have been used extensively as general-purpose machines. They were bought for and used principally, for plowing, and, to quite an extent, for threshing and filling silos. Now they are used for harvesting, preparing the seedbed, drilling, hauling manure spreaders, and so on. The trixtor, to be a paying investment on most farms, must be profitable for a variety of work. So it is with the motor truck. The truck salesman lays special stress on
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Truck Gathering Potatoes in Field. the hauling of crops to market or shipping point. This is a very important use, but it is a long way from covering all the farm needs for a truck. The truck salesman's hauling-to-mar-ket argument is comparable to the earlier days of the tractor when it was sold around the plowing idea principally. Both the truck and tractor will be bought by the farmer not as singlepurpose machines, but for their application to a variety of uses. The farmer's hauling requirements may be divided into two general classes: (1) Hauling on the road and (2) hauling on the farm. On most farms where trucks are used the hauling on the farm will constitute by far the greatest number of uses for a truck. Power Farming.
STRAW ROUGHAGE FOR STOCK
That Obtained in Threshing Soy Beans Has Been Found to Be Satisfactory for Cows.
Soy bean straw which is obtained from threshing out soy beans for seed makes a very good roughage for all kinds of stock. It will not dry up cows, but on the contrary it has been found that it will increase milk production. It is a common practice in sections where the crop is grown extensively for seed to bale the straw after threshing and sell it to dairymen and stock feeders.
ESSENTIAL PIG POINTS The essential points in the care and feeding of the brood sow and litter are 1. The provision of comfortable farrowing pens. 2. Individual attention to each sow and litter at the time of harrowing. o. Plenty of exercise and sunshine for young pigs. 4. Liberal feeding of the pigs on grain in addition, to milk of the dam.
The legumes are our most important crops. Fanning is a profession as much as a business. Garden, chickens, bees, fruits and other sidelines are worthy of attention. Some seed and manure might cover up that bare spot in the meadow or pasture field. Ilogs should never have damp sleeping quarters and their bedding should be changed often. Examine clover and grass seed with a magnifying glass to see whether there are any noxious weed seeds in the lot. Do not neglect the fences till planting time when it will be a difficult matter to spare the time required to repair them. A good cellar under the house where it Is cool in summer and warm in winter is one of the best places to operate an incubator that can be found. The farm library goes with the farm office. The bulletins from your experiment stations and state college ought to be handy to the desk where you keep your papers and nccounts.
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own-save paying rem zna reduce cost ot Iivine where th?y could reach prcsperity and independence by buyiig on ooty terms Fertile Land at $15 to $30 an Acre land similar to that which through many years has yielded from 20 to 45 bu9hc!s of wh3it toths ocrt. Hundreds cüarmcn in Western Canada have raised crops in a single season worth more than the whole cost of their land. With ?uch crops come prosperity, independence, good homes, and all the comlorts and conveniences which make for happy living. Farm Gardens Poultry Dairying are sources of income second enly to jrain growing and stock raising. Good climate, uood neighbors, churches. - - - .a.itt, .
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veniences of old settled districts. For illustrated literature, maps, description of famiotiportunitiea in Manitoba,. Saikatcheran. and Albrta. redueed railway rate, rte.. writ
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DONT WHINE IN SICK ROOM
( Remember to Carry Cheer, Not Sym pathy to Those Who Are Ternporarily "Shut In."
Every one is called upon now and (hen to visit the sick room. Conditions surrounding the bedside visitations present a wide variation. There is one rule " that holds jxood under all conditions, and that is to carry cheer and sunshine not a Ions face, but a smile. If the patients are able tall; to them of what Is froing on outside. Help them to forget themselves. A man who for over twenty years had been paralyzed, was visited by a friend who was profuse in expressing hia sympathy and" regret at the sick man's helplessness. As lie was about to leave, the afflicted man said, "Come ngnin, won't you, but when you do please forget to tell me that you are sorry for me as every one tells me that. I've heard it every day for twenty years. Help me to forget it. I5rin me a breath of the outside world." Flowers are always a gracious help in making the sickroom a place of cheer. A book or a magazine also helps. Thrift Magazine.
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Rare Sugar Found in Honey. Investigation of certain stores of crystallized honey found in various places in Pennsylvania where the bees had died from starvation led to the discovery of a quantity of rare sugar, known as melezitose, which has been extracted and purified and placed at the disposal of the bureau of chemistry. The weekly news letter of the department of agriculture says that melezitose is one of the rarest sugars. Minute quantities of It have been available to men of science for many years, but the supply has neve; been sullicient to permit of extensive experimentation. Now the United States department has several kilograms.
SAYS PILES ALL GQNE AND HO f.:0 RE ECZEMA "I had eczema for many years on my head and could not set anything to stop the agony. I saw your ad and pot one box of Peterson's Ointment and I o;ve you many thanks for the good it has done me. There isn't a blotch on my had now and I couldn't help but thank Peterson, for tha cure is great." Miss Mary Hill. 423 Third avenue, Pittsburgh. Pa. "I have had itching piles for 13 years and Peterson's is the only ointment that relieves me, besides the piles seem to have pane." A. B. Rüper, 11U7 Washington avenue. Ttncine, Wis. Use Peterson's Ointment for old rores, salt rheum, chafinp and all skin diseases. 3T cents. Druprgists recommend It. Mail orders filled by Peterson Ojntment Co., Buffalo. X. Y. HARDLY PAID FOR EXERTION
Small Sum Collected Frcm Burglar Didn't Recompense John for His Disturbed Repose.
Balked His Desire. A jrcntleman and his wife were admiring some college buildings erected by wealthy alumni. Presently they came to a noble hall, over the main entrance of which was a tablet readin?, "Erected by John C. Black, as a memorial to his beloved wife." "Oh," he said with a siph. "that-is what I should like to do for my collepe." And for the lifo of him he couldn't understand why his wife suddenly became cold to him.
There would be.n very sizable rush of town boys to the farm If town boys had their way.
The clock struck the hour of three. The wife' rose on one elbow and listened. Then she nudged her side partner. "John' she whispered, "there's a burglar downstairs." "The deuce there is," exclaimed John, jumping out of bed. "I'll show him." He crept downstairs. There was tho sound of a crash, a revolver shot and the sullen thud of men engaged In mortal e"mbat. Then a window smashed and all was still. The terrified wife turned on the light and hurried into the hall. "John!" she called timorously. All right, my dear," called John. "I found him. All he had was GO cents."
Much Alike. The stage manager was hurriedly giving instructions to his property man. "Did you say you wanted a window or a widow, sir?" asked the latter, somewhat perplexed. "I said window," lie replied, and added, with a laugh, "but they're both much alike." The property man scratched his head. "Don't see how you make that out, sir." "Well," replied the stage manager, "when I get near either of them I always look out!"
FOOD FORTIFIES against exhaustion and illness 'if it's the right kind of food.
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