Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 301, 18 December 1922 — Page 9

, THtUHlCHMDND PAELADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, DEC 18, 1922.

PAGE NINE;

The Farm and the Farmei By William R. Sanborn

LIVE STOCK PROFITS The sixth annual fat stock exposition was held at .Nashville, Tenn., last week and Everett C. Brown addressed the exhibitors at the dinner on Thursday evening. Mr. Brown seems to be a man, who, right or wrong expresses his mind freely and lets it go at that In the course of his remarks he said: "During 1922 farmers feeding live Btock have made more money than during any other year in the last twenty. Corn fed to cattle, hogs and sheep made from 50 to 75 cents a bushel more than If marketed as -grain. Range cattle sold In 1922 at from $5 to $10 per head higher than in 1921 aad the value of live stock on our farms increased approximately $1,600,000,000." After jeviewing grain prices along the same- line he concluded by attack

ing the statements of "calamity howlers," professional statisticians, etc., as follows. . He tells ua that these have ruined the farmers credit, In these

words :

"Professional statisticians and liars for the last two years have done their best to ruin the credit of the farmer. One of these $15,000 publicity farm experts last week scattered broadcast the report that the average income per farmer was $465. I will bet that there are over a million farmers In the United States who spend more than that annually on the upkeep of their automobiles. A farmer can not be 'bunked as readily now as he could twenty years ago. In these days of the radiophone, telephone, farm weeklies find dailies the farmer ia not Bwallow-

ing the 'knockout drops from the high salaried reformer that he did two years ago." . , Having read Mr. Brown's conclu-

r teiona as summarized you will weigh

MASK AND MANTLE

PLAY ANOTHER "HIT"

them up in the scale of your Individ

Hal experience. But that there are a number of men who are making political and other kinds of capital out of their efforts to hang on to or climb aboard the farm bureau, farm wagon, can not be denied. It isn't to be expected I that all men and everybody connected with any great, progressive movement are heart-whole philanthro

pists, laboring without reward for the

common weal. Don't forget that there are loaves and fishes on the table. But even so, we can't build up and sustain anything worth while without money. Wheat Price Insurance Representative Steenerson. Repub

lican member of the house from Minnesota, has introduced a bill providing for a bureau of wheat price insurance, to protect farmers from unreasonably low prices at primary markets. This bill would create a revolving fund of $100,000,000 for buying, selling, transporting and storing wheat, flour and other wheat products, "whenever necessary to prevent undue depression or unjust market manipulations, which would tend to increase the liability of the United States under the insurance policies." , .The, bill cites that: "The secretary of agriculture, before the planting season each year, wou d determine the insurable value of the various classes and grades of wheat to be raised the following year, based on the average cost of production lor the preceding three years. The buveau would then fix rates of insurance premiums and publish them. Mr. Steenerson does not intimate how many more men would be needed

at Uncle Sam's feed trough to carry

out the provisions of such a bill, nohow many millions it wTould cost tr i run the machinery, nor the effect

upon the consuming public or in th?

world's competitive markets. Has any reader anything to offer on the sub

ject? What do you think of the

scheme, and do you think it possible to pass such a bill? Let's have your

opinions, gentlemen. The Real Foundation

When G. K. Chesterton, the English

author, returned to England from his . visit to this country, he wrote a book on "What I Saw in America." In it he said: Wooden houses may not Oast; but farms will last, and farming will always last. The American can

: ow and plow and reap and live by those everlasting thirgs; nor shall the

foundations of their state be moved."

This is offered as a "thought for

today" to the discouraged tiller of the

toil. Because of the" large number of con

tpstants and an exceptional closeness of choice between first and second prize winners in many instances club

officials at the Ohio state university!

have announced a list of reserve state champions in each of the 14 farm and home junior projects on which state championships were' announced. As in stock shows, the term "reserve champion" indicates second place in the final choice. In 'Other words, these 14 club reserve champions are the second 14 among the 19,000 farm boys and girls who did club work in Ohio last year. Like state champions, reserve champions were selected during Winners Week at . tho 'Ohio university, which brought v r.ft4 county champions to the university two weks ago. Owners of farms in Decatur county will find the soil survey report prepared by the department of agriculture , and the extension department at Purdue, a mine of information on the various soil types and definite suggestions regarding the farm practices and fertilizers peeded.

In the second part of the report, w hich w as prepared by the experiment station, each soil 13 taken up in turn and discussed from the standpoints of

its need in organic matter, nitrogen, lime, drainage, crop rotation, fertiliza

tion, and trie Rind-or larming teat wui best keep up the fertility. With the "aid of the colored map, which shows the location of the various 60lls, the

individual farmer may apply this information to his particular farm. Fi G. King, secretary of the Indiana Live Stock Breders' association, announces that 32 contestants were awarded gold medals for producing litters of one ton or better and that 17 others were awarded silver medals for. exceeding 1,800 pounds, while the six low men .won bronze medals on litters weighing 1,600 and under 1,800 pounds. The medals will be presented at the annual meeting of the association during short course week at Purdue, on January 11. The rules governing the club next year will -provide that contestants must become members of the association by January 31, in order to be eligible to win a medal, this not being the case In 1922.

Farm women played a more im

portant part in the deliberations of the American farm bureau convention

this year than ever before, two of them being on the resolutions committee. Mrs. W. C. Martin represented Texas, and Mrs. Charles Schuttler,

Missouri, on that committee, and did

their part In wading through 180 res

olutlons that were piled upon the

table, many of which never saw daylight. Washington reports that our farm crops for 1922 were valued at $7,572,890,000. an Increase of 32 per cent over the crops of 1921. The increase in valuation is due largely to higher prices for cotton and corn, based on the prices current on Dec. 1; New Insect Pest. C. L. Marlatt, chairman of the fed

eral horticultural board, says that a real Japanese invasion threatens the country in the form of the Japanese beetle: He expresses the belief that this Is one of the most dangerous insect Introductions made in this country in many years. Just when or how this threatened pest reached our shores Is not stated at this time.

but probably was when the depart

ment first discovered it.

Twenty fanners in one county, by test feeding and the keeping of accurate accounts in connection with the

extension department of Ohio, demon

strated that breeding and rearing was more- important than the feeding, in

the matter of profit and loss.

The extension department states that five of the 20 farmers had a cost

of raising 100 pounds of live weight in

excess of the price received. The greatest factor in this cost was the

number of pigs raised per brood sow.

"This does not mean, says the re

port, "the number of pigs farrowed per sow, but the number of shoats fed to marketing weight for each brood sow

kept.

"The eight farms which used the

most tankage were divided into two

groups of four. One group fed

pound of tankage to every 24 pounds

of corn, and raised pork at a cost of

$6.31 a hundredweight The second

group fed almost the same amount of

tankage ,one pound to 27 pounas or corn, yet had a production cost of

$8.31 a hundredweight.

"The first group of farms raised an

average of nine pigs per sow, and the second group raised an average of only five pigs to the sow; That made all

the difference.

"Proper feeding isJmportant, but it

is not more important than keeping the sows, in full production, and in

raising a large proportion of the

young pigs.

The Mask and Mantle scored another hit with Earlham. audiences when they presented "Seventeen" in the college chapel Saturday night. The . presentation of Booth Tarking-ton's-well-known comedy by the college .players was well appreciated.

Although the play was slowed: up by inadequate facilities for changing scenes on the college stage, the interest of th audience was kept to the highest pitch1 throughout the, produc

tion, i The perplexities of life at eeven-

teen present many amusing incid.ents and thse are presented in an effective

and amusing manner in "Seventeen'

Willie Baxter feels that he needs

dress suit in order to keep up his social reputation but his father re

fuses to get him one-. Mrs. Baxter is an understanding mother and tries to

smooth out the situation. Willie is

forced to work at very cheap labor to earn enough money to buy a dress suit after his father's evening ' clothes,

which he intends to appropriate, have

Been sent to the tailor to be altered

Francis Robinson as Willie and

Amelia Ra'rick as Jane were entirely suited to their parts and played them

with exceptional ability The author's

original Willie Baxter could not have

filled the role better than Francis Rob

inson nor could anyone have in terpreted the difficult part "of the' in

quisitive little eister better than Miss

Rarick. Pauline McCray was an ideal

mother and her charm and ease on

the stag wre features of the presentationi Alan Wallace disolaved his

usual stage ability in the person of Mr. Baxter and rendered the part of

Zero Weather Brings

Many Calls From Poor With the mercury volplaning below

the zero mark, call3 for assistance in

the way of fuel and clothing were com

ing inthicker than-ever Monday, ac

cording to C. O. Edgerton, township

trustee. Demands for relief orders for coal almost doubled over the amount issued for the same time last week

when the first real winter weather ar

rived in this vicinity.

NEW COMET FOUND

HAMBURG. Dec. 18. Another com

et has been discovered. Dr. W. Baade of the Hamburg observatory announces his find declaring the comet may be

seen in western skies headed in

southeastern direction. This makes

the third comet of the year, the other

two haying been discovered in South

Africa the Comet Beid on Jan. 24 and

the Comet Skejellerup on May 1".

but tactless father

Mildred Whitley "as

a well-meaning with precision.

Lola Pratt, the "baby-talk : lady" ap

peared well on the stage and interpreted the peculiar cnaxactarstlcs of Lola with ease and clearness. Herbert Bowles as Mr. Parcher and Rob

ert Rellum as Genesis showed marked ability in their respective parts. All

the other characters played their parts with exceptional ability for

amateurs and deserve special com

mendation.

The characters were espclally well

cast by the director, Mrs. ,H. R. Rob

inson,, which accounted for the good

showing made by the college players. Ia scoring a success the Mask and

Mantle added another to the list of

hits" that they have made at the

college since the club was organized in 1920.

Ohio1 Briefs

COLUMBUS Herbert Anderson, 22, was killed instantly when the frame of a truck he was driving bueltled, crushing him between the cab and the stere-

ing wheel. -

COLUMBUS John Poe. 38, negro,

proprietor of a poolroom, was shot and killed by Patrolman W. J." Banner, in self-defense, the latter claims, when Poe pointed a revolver at the officer as he was being arrested.

CINCINNATI A two-day conference of national and departmental executives of Veterans of Foreign wars came to "a conclusion here today.

EXHIBIT, PROGRAM

AT GALLERY TONIGHT

An exhibit and entertainment will

be held Monday evening from 7:30 to

9:30 o'clock in the Public Art gallery.

The exhibit Is of Christmas work by

pupils of the high school, Starr school,

Dennis and Garfield junior high

schools. A musical program is to b

presented during the evening. Designs striking in color and good in drawing have been effectively used on black trays, baskets, pillow covers and other work; Tied and dyed work of beautiful colors and interesting patterns have been made by some of thi students as well as an assortment of tiles, parchment lampshades, flower pots, paper knives and other articles. Boxes of all kinds and shapes with designs applied in contrasting shades are conspicuous in the Dennis junior

TOUNGSTOWN Martin ' Struati

stood for four hours with his hand.

caught in an electric. bread mixed before a passerby discovered his plight-

He may loose his hand.

COLUMBUS Thousands of state employes are happy today because

their pocketbooks are to be reinforced

in time for Christmas. Payrolls up to

Jan. 1 will be-ossued Friday.

high school's display. Lambs, trays and table mats are another interesting

part of this collection, ing in hicker han ever Monday, ac

Garfield, tied and dyed pieces, pillow

covers, flower pots and fans made by

the girls comprise the greater part of

the Garfield exhibit

Cut work, blotter pads for desks, and books are chief items in the Starr

school s exhibition.

The high 6chool is showing trays.

Dasfcetwom, pendants, batiks and tiles

The tiles which have not as yet been

DaKed, show lovely original designs,

Parchment shades painted with attrac

tive designs and picturesque scenes

also are in the collection.

omen s exclusive specialty

Especially Featuring Art Wares-Gift Things-Beauty Lotions Infants' Apparel linery Hair GoodsFurs Corsets and Other Distinctive Apparel If emstitching Dressmaking Shops-arid Beauty Parlor

Shops

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XMAS SPECIALS Boudoir Lamps . ..$3.45 Electric Percolators t....$f.95 Electric Irons $5.00 Everything Electrical STANLEY PLUMBING & -ELECTRIC CO.

Gifts for Your Mother Sister Sweetheart

PICTURES Violet Ray Studio '814 Main StT

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' SPECIAL SALE FUR COATS Seal, Mink, Muskrat, Squirrel New Line of Fox in the new shades. DENNIS FUR SHOP 800 S, 13th St. Phone 1946

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ternity. Refreshments will be served. Dancing will be from 9 to 1 o'clock.

The balcony will be closed; The noon meeting cf the Virginia Asher Business Women's club will be held at the Red Men's hall. . Miss Haley Harold will be in charge of the music. A praise and song service will be held followed by an experience meeting. A group of women from the first English Lutheran church will serve the luncheon, Mrs. L. F. Ulmer will be hostess to the Ever-Ready class Wednesday, Dec. 20. at an all day meeting, at her home, 933 P.hoctnnt ctroot Ftf rmor- n-ill ,r

served cafeteria fashion. A Christmas program will be given in the afternoon and an exchange of gifts held. Each member is asked to bring a donation for the Salvation army. Election of officers for the coming year will be held and a social hour will follow. A rabbit supper for the community of Middleboro will be held at the

church-at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday evening. Everybody is invited. Tho Rev E. D. Gates will deliver an address in the evening, and music will be furnished by the Middleboro orchestra.

SANTA CLAUS SALE of the famous Bluebird Washing Machines Electric Clothes Washer Dennis Implement Co. 15 South 7th 1

VAPOR BATHS Health Baths and Beauty Ba at Vapor Bath Parlor G. C.WILCOXEN. D. C, Prop. Exclusive Dept. for Ladies Graduate Nurse Attendant 1220 Main St. PbyDne 1603

Fur Coats and Fur Pieces Cleaned

Phone 2807

We Clean the Finest of Fabrics LADIES' EVENING DRESSES, COATS and SUITS WILSON The Cleaner 1018 Main Phone 1105-1106

Gifts for Her She will appreciate PERFUMES that come from Quigley's. A full line of Imported and domestis perfumes. Toilet and Manicure Sets Quigley Quality Drugs 727 Main

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GIVE HIM TIES THIS CHRISTMAS

803 Main Streot

Let Your Gift Come from VIGRAN'S A GIFT SHOP WORTH VISITING

Emblems . Military Sets Ear Rings Cigarette Cases Belt Buckles Bar Pins Safety Razors Casseroles Bread Trays Cake Plates Baby Spoons Cream and Sugar Sets Chains Belt Buckles Rings La Vallieres Ladies' Elgin Wrist Watches Ivory Pyralin Roger's Silverware .

Cuff Links Stick Pins Baby Lockets Sheffield Ware Manicure Sets Toilet Sets Shaving Sets Ivory Clocks Gold Knives Purses Umbrellas " Icy-Hot Bottles Mesh Bags Opera Glasses Chains Fobs . Men's Elgin Watches Eversharp Pencils Pearl Beads . Seth Thomas Clocks

335

SHOP EARLY

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SAM S. VIGRAN

617 Main Street Phona 1295

For those whose tastes demand simple and refined art

Phone 1S30

710 Main

TRACY

Santa's Headquarters For Candy, Peanuts, Walnuts and Mixed Nuts

FRESH STOCK CANDY

Gum Drops Jelly Beans

Assorted Chocolates

19c

SPECIAL Choice Mixed Candy 19eLb.,3Lbc 55c

MARSHMALLOWS 5 -lb. box for. ... . .95c Absolutely fresh ......

2TCtS. O lb.

Get Your Feet Off Your Mind

Dr. T. R. STOCKTON Foot Specialist Podiatrist Lady . Attendant 269 Colonial Annex Phone 2941

Avoid Gray Hair by Using Our High-Speed Gray; Hair Remedy Restores hair to natural color. A world-famous process, used exclusively by the best American Beauty Parlors, from coast io coast. Bring sample of hair for testing. Steele's Beauty Parlor 2nd Natl. Bank Bldg., Phone 2499

PEANUT SQUARES PEANUT FUDGE 19u.

Old-Time STICK CANDY Box of 50 Stlck3 42c

PEANUT SQUARES 19c Lb.

CANDY CANES Small, 3 for 5 Lge.. 5c; 6 for,25i Christmas HARD CANDY 19d and 23 Lb.

English Walnuts

New Crop No. 1 Diamond Brand Per lb. ....32c 3 lbs. .....

95c

COCOANUT Shredded, in bulk, fresh Btock,' one-half pound i P only JLDC

MIXED NUTS 25c Lb.

New Crop

COVERED BUTTONS Pleating. Beading, Braiding, Embroidery, Button Holes and Scalloping. LACEY'S 14 South 9th St.

WELL WELL WELL I have been in every store in Richmond but have not seen the like of your assortment of Xmas Greeting Cards and Folders said one of our customers the other day, and yet they go at 2 price. Don't fail to get yours. Richmond Typewriter Exchange

9 South 7th

In the Colonial

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Why Pay More When You Can Buy the Best Quality and Style at Jay's)

Gift Suggestion at NICHOLSON'S BOOKS KIDDY BOOKS BIBLES PRAYER BOOKS ROSARIES HAMMERED BRASS NOVELTIES See our stock of Leather Goods, the finest line of its kind in the city.

Nicholson & Bros. 29 Main St.

The Town Car Your Lady

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The MILBURN Light Electric The ideal car for ladies to drive about town. Easy and economical to operate. Decide now to give your wife or daughter a Milburn this Xmas. Chenoweth Electric Service Co. 1115 Main St. Phone 2121

Every 20 Minutes A FRESH Roast

PEANUTS

3 lbs., 37c PINEAPPLE, No. 2 1-2 Sliced, in Syrup, 3 for $1.00

Main TRACY'S Main TEA, AND COFFEE HOUSE OPEN NIGHTS UNTIL CHRISTMAS :

How Many Kinds of a Man Did You Marry? Is he a sportsman? A smolcer? A motorist r A businessman? A reader? Once you've decided just what he is, you know what sort of things to give him for Christmas.

It's easy to pick them out am3rtg the' little ads under "Gifts For Him" in the "Christmas Gift Suggestions" columns in today's classified section. -

PALLADIUM WANT,. ADS BRING RESULTS