Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 211, Hammond, Lake County, 24 February 1921 — Page 8

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WHEAT MEN I!! GIGANTIC SELLING POOL

HUTCHTN'SON'. Kan., Feb. 24 A !3"inUo wheat pool, the first of a series to be organized In wheat Let: states In a farmers war for living prices was formed here to-lay hy tin1 Kansas Branch of the National Whit Growers' association. The pool wi'.l dispose of 50.000,000 bushels of 1521 crop In Kansas. It v. ill bs umier a one man control. The executive committee of the association today adopted final plan?, including: tho naming o? A. C Bailey of Kinsley, Kan., as maiU'Tlr director of the pood. Bailey -will dispose of t'.-.a 50.000.000 Vah4l8 plaed in the pool by Kansas farmers. The purpose, the committee announced, was to stabilise wheat pr'oea during the coining season. Every member of the wheat growers association is bound by the committ"o's action, it was announced, to turn over one-half of h'.s 19C1 crop to tho pooL TTntll this time, membership in the association was voluntary and each farmer made disposition of his oven crops. The pool is the first attempt at community marketing In the Kansas belt. . "We are groins to wtablUsa the what market ao farmers can gret a fair price for their crop," .said TV. II. MrGreevy. president of the association. '"We believe this action -will stabilize the 1S21 market-" McGreevy aa stated other states wheat organizations throughout the wheat belt would take similar aetlon. He intimated some action r-.il.s-ht be

taken by farmers to dispose of tne! ' other crop.

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KIRBY'S KISSED LET WORLD WAG

CTTT. Mo., Feb. 2 4. The iate "unkiswed" Kirby Mcnill was still ireekins a wife today. Kirby, the wealthy Kansas farmer, who never drank, chewed, smoked, g-amblad or rwore, ha." at last been kissed. He dropped into Kansas City afrer . having1 withstood the wiles of Chi- " ca?o' Cappers. He b-iasto.i cf his pal "5 and nver k!sed" once too often. Overheard "by newspapermen, Klrby wsa yictimired. ilias Flossie EKsvere. staje soubrtte.

yav Kirby hia flret kiss. And Ki.-by. recoverins; from & daz.y, turned his other oheak. "To-a can't tell m he's never hcn kissed before," was Floscie'si comment. Ha now Intends to walk to San Francisco on a hunt for a brkb- to shaxe his 247-acre farm near Tcnsar.oile, Kan.

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RAPIOLV RESTORING HER DESTROYED TftANSPORTATiON

By FnAr.'cis II. Sissof Vice President (uarantv Tri"t Co of New ork

;eigium s suuation on rrprrpir-.j the war is tar chfTcrTit rtr.n x

citlier fc-i-.lar.d or respects Ikt case j-- t

vas all but complete! v o rruri enemy and because it was a m ItiruiK center the bulk t.r i's :' was of a sort rca-:hlv dest roved paired. Nevcrt1ielea. as in itie

her Allies, a carelnl stud ation gves rcoin f ir a ontlooK for her future. ! The Peace 1 rratv prov inanv shall rcmi1.,:rse bonds for advain.es y: v 1 i s bciorc tlie Arnust;.

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t!ie stgmnc of n.e Arnisi: 'a'ent to awroximatelv .. This is a h:;le UMrc 1:1.1: , debt 111 Jul . 1914. Of tbcxiernil dci,t. (1: ) advances l v Auies siuee th.

' On the eve oi l!ie. war liclguur! v;t . one of the busie-t cr.nntrb-s nf tli

world. Allhoiigh it: area only a li' larger than Vermont, it eut.rfortcd

nopulation of more than ",50 ."0. lit.-!

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?cd by no other country. Land-owning in small units by workers has been encouraged. The intensive ctil ivadon of jtnall farms, a certain traditional aptitude for agriculture, an excellent system of npricultural education, low railroad rate.--, good roads, and a spirit of mutual helpfulness as shown by the more than 1..500 ---operative societies have all contribu o the prosperity of the farming element. But it is the manufacturing and related industries, diversified and intensively developed, that have t,iven ;!: country so prominent a place among the commercial nations. For some years before the war the coal output averaged a. - ut 23.000.COO tons, and until llH37 ffif ly'ljl (ported more coal than it irn-

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the decade before the war lic!jri'.Jm increased its pro.'.;: tl-" 1'.0 per r(-nt. the total pio'bieiii-i in 1912 bei'-g, in round numb r -, J.ciH.OCO tons. The output of fi::i i ircn and steel was erf a'ly in excels .-f the (tomesri.- ;,.(is and here was ;;r.--ivitic; market for tit-: hi.i grade 1'.. lian steels, famous the world over. There has been a significant expansion of various related lines of manu-

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iai turmu. t -pcia

tfine works, and the construction of railway equipment and automobiles. The zinc, lead, chemical, glass, and textile industries are among the other more important industries.

There are more miles of railway in P.cl'.nm in proportion to area than in any ..t'ner ount;y. Practically ail the standard Kaiigc roads are owned by the Stair. The operation of the State railways since -1835 has been financially successful, 'i he cai.it.d invested in the roads in l'M2. $53.1.00(1,000, was cQual V) nvo-d.irdN of the - State di bt. The I Ijoans have for a !on;.r time held a prominent po-i-ion in international finance, the estimated volume of foreign investments in 191 1 being $540,000,000. almost twice the present external debt. Belgian capital is found in a ereat variety of enterprises almost all over the world. The national wealth of Belgium was estimated in 1912 at approximately $6.000,000.000. In considering the ratio of the debt to the value of the wealth at

the present titrc it must be recognised that both are expressed in terms of a money whose, v. due s greatly below that of pre-war tim-s. It is we'd known that the Germans destroyed and carried away great quantities of wealth. How much of this was in the form of rehthch fixed capital equipment, as compared with consumption goods, it is impossible to saw By the terms of (he Peace Treaty. Belgium is to be compensated for all the destruction nr appropriation of property incidental to the war. Put the indemnities cannot be immediately available in full; nor, if they were immediately collectible, could thrv be transformed at once into buildings, machinery, etc. In any event, the country is confronted with a situation characterized chiefly by a shortage both of con-

stimable goods and the means of pro-

cing 1::em.

A report made early in 1919 after investigation bv the ("eiural Industrial Cfrtiiiiit e of p.elgium .dmwrd that the condition of Belgian industries was not so unfavorable as had generally been supposed. It was found t'n.it most of the industries cuM resume ooeraoon in part at hast, isnmcdi ttely. Belts and other accessories ol the industrial plants bad in many cases been removed, but il.c deliberate wrecking of plan's was shown to have been narrowly Confined. Th-? Germans had need of the output of various industries during the occupation and these had been carefnily preserved. The greatest handicap was found in the inability to resume adequate operations promptly in the basic metallurgical industries. The main Belgian railways were completely Germanized during the war. The tolling stock which fell into enemy hands was in general worked almost to the point of destruction. Rapid pro-

press has been made in re.-torirg the roads to a workable condition.'-.. Considerable replacement of e ;uipme)t from German stocks has been erected, and pra.tically all the statienery equipment has been so far renortd as to provide transportation of slow freight about as in norma! times. An interesting project iii connection with the reconstruction of Belgian railways is the proposed clecti uiration of the v. he -le svstcm. The port f a- i'i'ies of Belgium were

damaged in varying degree by the Ger

ms.

The

repair was no less urgent

than that of the raiiwavs. The work of

charms- obstructions w undertaken immediately upon the signing cf the Armistice. W'iiMn a few weeks navigation between the sea and Antwerp was completely rc-establi -bed, with all buoys and lights rela;.l. The cargo-handling facilities of this port are in good condition. Work at the port of Osiend has Leen pushed vigorously, and by April the harbor could accommodate vessels of fourteen feet draft.

Inasmuch as Eelgian sttel and Iron manufactures and other allied iron and steel products comprised over 12 per cent, of the total pre-war export trade of Belgium, it is necessary for these Industrie to reoume operations as soon as possible. Furthermore, as textile and other manufacturing: plants have been stripped of machinery, it will be necessary for new machines to be instilled, and it is desirable that the Eelpiaa steel works should assist as much as possible in refitting these plant. Although the

DC'kidu strei companies were tn a verv bad way, due to the destruction of mosof their property, several 'mills could operate at the time of the Armistic. and others have since been put in or der. Some 10 or 12 of the largest steel companies in Belgium have undertaker, the formation of a large steel corpora tion similar in plan to the United States Steel Corporation. Each of the plants, it is understood, will specialize in seme particular branch of the steel industry. German prisoners have been u,sed to advantage m clearing away the debris of ruined buildings and in other work Many carloads of machinery and fix turcs taken away by the Germans have been returned and set in operation. Re

employment ot tne workers at hierh

wages has resulted in the withdrawal of

public aid from nearly all of the 800,000 prrsons who were being assisted m

November, 191$. Official reports indi

cate that the yield cf this ear's cropwill not be much below that of normal

pre-war years.

In the .Belgian Congo there is an as

set -which will prove cf increasing im

pcrtance in the future development of

Belgium s industries. In area the colon v

is eighty times as large as Belgium itself. Although situated in equatorial Africa, its climate is. on the whole.

much more salubrious than that of mos? tropical countries, berause the srtatrr

part of the country is a comparatively high plateau.

Among the surest evidences of a wise

preparation for the future development

t the Congo is tri oihcial recognition

of the fact that the foundaiton of a stable economic life and of end.'-'-atf

general prosperity there, mut be found

in agriculture, tn iviu tlie iroverniner.: began a comprehensive program of sj-

nculiural education and experimenta

tion. (Juite naturally, ths development of the transportation sjVe.m of the ioiony began with the utilisation of thCongo River and its t.uutarits, the world's second largest river system, with about 10.000 miles of navqr. ble water. In January, P-516, th'. re , -re 1,165 miles of Congo railways in operation. Important additions to this wiieage have since been made. The vast mineral wealth of the Congo includes copper, tin, j.l L diamond-, iron, and coal. The r.iief mining interests are the copper piopcrties in K:i tanga, the southeastern SiCdon of the colony. Only a small proportion of tNs tot?l deposits sre being worker?, but tr.t estimated output in 1918 m 40,000 tc- -. The colony's exports snd '-nperts it. 1913 had a value of approximately 42.".000,000, and in IV. 6 the foreign trade c:.credcd $33,01 S.000. The depletion of rr.an-poarer ia 3Bcb gium during the ar was no as great proportionately as vas experienced by most cf the hell.grrent nations, for the sudden rush of th invasion made ;t impossible to mobilize a large numbcv of the men of military age. The proved industrial capacity and dependable character of the masses of the Belgian workers ac he nation's best assets in the present emergency. The record of the nation's achievements in the past and its quiet and confident grappling with present difficulties arc the surest guarantees tha-. the Belgians C4.1 and will solve their economic prob-