Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 92, 26 February 1913 — Page 8

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THE .RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGKAM,WEDXESDAY,FERRUARY 2CS 1913.

ECCENTRIC MAN IN PREBLE INFIRMARY "Black Frank" Does' Not Talk He Sleeps On An Iron Bed.

WAS FOUND IN WOODS Shy cf Company and Spends His Time Alone Fond of Work. (Palladium Special) EATON, O., Feb. 26. For more than 85 years "Black Frank" has been an innate at the Preble county infirmary. During all this time be has never spoken a word, hardly uttered a sound. Many years ago he sneezed, and was himself apparently surprised. And since then, II he ever felt like it, the sneeze was suppressed. He is "Black Frank," possibly the most interesting inmate of any charitable Institution in the whole state. Half wrapped in a-thin little blanket, "Frank" was found when a babe in a deep wood in the country, northwest of Eaton. He was taken in charge by the county, shortly after the poor farm had been established. Efforts to get trace of his parents failed after a long search, and where he was born was never learned. He was given the name "Frank" by another of the inmates at the institution. Being rather dark complexioned "Black" was added to the name "Frank" and he has ever since been caJled "Black Frank." "Frank" seemingly never liked to look like a man and refuses to wear either trousers or coat. It has been tried to dress him up, but always he would tear into pieces any clothes other than his "sacque." Notwithstanding his unusually good appetite, to which appeals rotten apples, cigar stumps and old quids, his health has been remarkable and never in his life has he spent an ill day. He does not use knives or forks, but prefers to eat with his fingers off a tin plate. After violating the laws laid down to keep one's stomach in good condition, he climbs onto his little iron bed, and with his head upon an iron bar, sleeps like a log. Despite the soundness with which he sleeps, a snap of one's fingers brings him to his feet, ready to obey the orders of any one. If requested to dance a little he will comply, and then retire and in one minute be fast asleep. "Black Frank" has an idea that no one can "make his bed, and daily attends to the matter himself. He likes to do work and when asked to do anything his face lightens up with a broad smile. When he is not given any particular task he busies himself in placing into neat piles small pebbles, or strewing them uniformly along on the ground. It is seldom he ever throws down a stone, but instead bends over and places it carefully on the ground. Chicken feathers and other small articles he finds in the yard will always be carefully placed by him out in the middle of the road in front of the institution. He is shy of the company of other inmates and passes the time alone. Because of his many strange little traits and his prompt and willing obeyance, "Black Frank" always has been liked by superintendents in charge of the institution. WHIRL OF THE WORLD. What Would Happen if We Crashed Into Another World. We are spinniugthrouh space nt the rate of more than a thousand miles a minute. What would hapen were we to meet another world moving at the sumo speed? In the first place, the heat generated by the shock would be so great that loth worlds would'be transformed into gigantic balls of vaKr many times the size of the earth today. This, however, might not happen if the inside of th earth is comiosed of sollder mid colder matter than scientists believe it to be. " Although there is small chance of any such aerial collision taking place, scientists have already calculated the probable results fairly accurately. One has expressed the amount of heat that would be generated in this way. It would be sufficient, he says, to melt, boil and completely vaporize a mass of ice 700 times the bulk of both the colliding worlds an ice planet 150.000 miles in diameter. Scientists have often considered the possibility that the end of the earth would cosine about in this way. Certain it is that planets as great as the earth have been destroyed by coming into collision with other huge bodies.--New York Press. Unfortunate. - "Poor Jones! Life to him is just one scrape after another. "Unfortunate, eh?" "Unfortunate enough. He has to shave twice a day." Boston Transcript DO YOU NEED MONEY? We will advance you money on your household goods, piano, team & etc., without removing them from your possession, you can pay us back in weekly or monthly or quarterly payments. In case of sickness or loss of work, time will be extended without extra charge. Get our terms before borrowing. Private Reliable THE STATE INVESTMENT AND LOAN COMPANY 40 Colonial Bldg. Phone 2560. Take elevator ta Third Floor. Richmond, Indiana.

Over-Production Is Calamity

BY I, L. TOTTEN A chop failure is a terrible thing, but what of over-production? When a crop is raised, harvested and stored, and then cannot be sold it means one of the most deplorable conditions that can be imagined. Last year the onion growers of northern Indiana found themselves experiencing this condition. It is customary, I know, to tell of the successes only, but I believe that we can find much that is worth thinking about in what I am about to say regarding the onion situation as I know it to be today in and around Starke county, Indiana. Year before last those who were engaged in the onion growing business here made such handsome profits that it caused practically every one within a radius of several miles of this place to go "onion crazy." It is not surprising, however that it did this when the fact is taken into consideration that the profits last year ran all the way from $ 120 to $1,700 to the acre. Think of it! An "Onion Epidemic." Our local papers published incident after incident all of them true, too of how men, and even women, had made small fortunes from only a few acres of ground put out to onions. The onion fever spread it became an epidemic. The thoughts of suddenly acquired riches placed the systems of practically every one here in just the proper condition to become iunoculated with the onion fever germ. Onion onion onion, was all that could be heard wherever two or more were together; the daily news of the outside world had no interest for any one. The discovery of gold could not have fired the minds of the people to greater hopes than did the miraculous reports of our 1911 onion growers. Court House officials, merchants, dentists, doctors, lawyers, blacksmiths and even bank officials either bought or rented patches of muck soil for the purpose of engaging in the onion growing business. All summer long the roads were kept hot by automobiles and other vehicles transporting loads of men and women and boys and girls to and from the onion fields. Borrowed to Invest. Many men and women invested all the money they had in the business and some even borrowed more to invest, and many borrowed all the money that they put into the onion growing. The banks loaned out money to the protection limit. That there could be such s thing as failure did not seem to enter the mind of any one. Under ordinary conditions, it costs between $60 and $90 an acre to grow and harvest and market a crop of onions. Last year, however, it cost more to grow them than ever before. The increased acreage caused a greater demand for hired help, and with this came the demand for higher wages. Boyc of fifteen and eighteen years of age demanded and were paid $2 a day; girls of that age were paid from $1.25 to $2 per day. Seed costs about $2 a pound. The weeds were more troublesome this year than ever before because of the excessive rainfall. Many of the onion growers harvested only a half-crop, because they could not get the help to keep ahead of the weeds, and the weeds took the other half. But even this additional expense did not seem to worry the onion grower at first, because in his mind the expense was comparatively nothing when the crop would bring such big returns. "What do you think onions will be worth this fall?" One onion grower would ask another. "Dollar a bushel, to be sure!" was the reply invariably. Such a spirit of optimism as prevailed here throughout the entire summer is rarely experienced anywhere. New houses were planned; some were built; houses were remodled, and many planned to remodel their houses; other planned to install furnaces, et cetera; several had automobiles in sight, all on the strength of the onion harvest. Three new onion storages were built with a combined capacity of seventy YOU'RE THE ONE who is to pass judgment on what you buy here and we make sure that the word you pass along to your friends is an advertisement for us We INSIST on pleasing you You'll find it so too when you VISIT US The Greek Candv Store Specials

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thousand bushels, and the -aggregate cost was around $12,000.00. Optimistic Feeling. The optimistic feeling continued right up to the harvesting time, and when the first buyers appeared offering 40 cents a bushel, many of the growers laughed at them. "It's a hold-up game the buyers are springing," said the onion growers. "They want us fellows to pay for the new storages." And they mentioned J that last year, the buyers offered only j 56 cents at first and the price soared to $2.25 later. "Forty cents, humph! That's no price for onions. I'll hold mine a while," was the current remark. The buyers did not seem to be very ' anxious to pay even 40 cents, in fact, it soon became appirent that buyers were conspicuous by their absence, i No one sold for 40 cents; but when 30 cents was offered optimism had epilepsy. I Even when 30 cents a bushel was offered there were many who refused to sell; because it had cost them nearly that much to raise the crop. There were so many, however, that began to shake in their shoes, and who were I anxious to get the 30 cents before the .price went still lower as it showed symptoms of doing that it was not j an uncommon sight to see from five j to ten onion growers trailing a buyer, i I saw one buyer moisten his finger on his lips and then touch the tire of a j farmer's buggy as a woman does in testing tne neat or a flat iron, indicating that the farmer had come in so fast that the tires were hot. Stampede Resulted. The report was circulated that the price would drop to 25 cents a bushel; a stampede resulted, and the buyers refused to buy at any price. Those j who had first cjass storage onions were finally offered 20 cents, and the I grower was glad to get that, because j cold weather was approaching rapidly and he had no place to store his i onions from the freezing weather, j Several individual growers shipped icar loads of onions to St. Louis, Mo.; j Louisville, Ky.; Chicago, 111.; Hami mond, Ind., and wherever they thought jit possible to sell them. The returns j on these car loads ranged from ten I cents to 23 cents a bushel. A few of the growers went to the cities with j their cars, hired wagons and teams, and peddled their onions on the streets; but, even by doing that, the net returns, in some instances, amount- , ed to only 10 cents a bushel, j The three storages here are full of onions, some are still in the cribs, cellars are full, many old buildings

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have been turned into temporary storages and filled, and there are several hundred bushels buried, and there is no market. Have you ever experienced a condition of this kind? If you havn't, can you imagine what a calamity it is? AH that work of producing, all that work of harvesting, all that work of storing and then to be unable to sell at a price that pays only a little more than the cost of handling after the crop is harvested or perhaps be unable to sell at all. A crop failure does not compare with such a condition. "What is the cause for all this?" you ask. I do not know, they tell us that it is because of overproduction. It is claimed that many of the other onion growing sections cannot grow large crops only during the years of heavy rainfall and this year they have certainly had the moisture. We can raise good onion crops here in the dry years as well as in the wet years because our soil retains moisture. Business Affected. Can you imagine the affects of this onion situation has on business here? Remember that the banks were loanout to the limits early in the season, clothing stores, dry goods stores, hardware stores, grocery stores and even furniture stores extended credit freely to the onion growers who were positive of obtaining big returns from their venture. Land was bought on short term mortgages, the mortgagee little dreaming of the results as they are. Many of the merchants borrowed money so that they could carry the poorer class, and many of the others until the onions were harvested. The majority of these people are unable to pay, and it will take them a long time to get caught up again a whole lot of them never will pay. The shortage of money has caused a decrease in business, and work is scarce because there is little money in circulation with which to pay. To hear one onion grower's story is to hear practically all of them. The losses being in proportion to the amount invested. One man told me that when he began work on his onion crop this spring ho had $1,400.00 in the bank; he now owes the bank $400.00. His onions, about 6,000 bushels brought him something like $800.00. Few Made Money. There are a few of the onion growers that came out ahead a very few. however. They are the ones who sold early and who harvested big yields something like 500 and 800 bushels to the acre. An onion grower can make good money at 30 cents a bushels for his onions if he has a good yield. Those who placed their onions in storage are anxiously awaiting the pleasure of the market, and they are also hoping. The question with them is: will we get enough to pay our storage rent and a little besides, or will we have to pay storage rent and

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