The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 January 1932 — Page 8

THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1831

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(Continued from Fjfst Pag\) “I’ve seen girls 14 years old hop the tender of an engine going at 20 i i miles an hoqr much more easily than 11 can do it? I “They aren’t all coming east from California either—at the division points we’d see Jrain loads of them going west. They’d ask where we werie headed for and we’d say Chicago and they’d say, don’t go to ■ Chicago, things are awful there. And j our crowd] would tell them not to. igo west things were awful there. “Three J quarters are* ex-service . men traveling. They are the most bitI ter of all. But everyone is bitter and to mention the president’s name almost Starts a riot. The standard ‘ i joke is: ‘He said elect him and he’d ' put a million men on their feet. Well, he did.’ In Los iVngeles, Smith McMullenLof Rochester, N. Y. He had always worked steadily in the east. When he was dismissed he | drove his car to California taking a I little motfiey with him. to try to tind I work there. He says t hat money went, and then the car, “You know, you can’t eat a car.” He started east with Smith. They parted at Parsons, Kansas, as it Was Iso cold McMullen s.fid he thought he’d stay there till morning. Smith decided to catch the first freight . homeward bound. But McMullen j caught a faster train the next mornfiffe hours Both say. the brakemen and engineers on the railroad “treat . you white./ 'Noattempt is made to get rid <>f these car loads of people out of. WOrk. If there chances to be an empty baggage car that is heated a I brakeman will tell those freezing in ■! freight cars where the heated car is. iyi.e ake-m.m said he did that. “BercgujwH.l may be but of work I t>? tips .time ne\: week.” j ThO most Smith ever counted in a i freight car at one time were 75 hti* I beings. (Where are the days of I the 40 and 8?) McMullen said he rode |in one car once that had 105 just I jammed in. One ofy his fellow pass•er.ge.rs was a little i>.,y aged 11. He i hail rust buried- bis m <ther in. !.•■.< fAngeles. His father had died the I year before, and he was on his way jto New Jersey. On being! asked how to keep warm jin a freight 'car, the young men ; both explained. “You don’t. A few i people have , knapsacks, regular bed ; > rolls with them that they can roll up jin and keep warm. But mostly no one. has even an overcoat. One boy tin our ear did have on 19 shirts' d though. You light waste and news-, M papers on the floor of the car its | surprising how much heat one news' paper will make. You have to keep ’moving the fire to keep it from burn- ■: ing through the boards of the floor. I Sometimes someone .has a candle to /burn, by which to wprm his hands. But often when the brakeman goes through the car aS the end/ of the ; line he finds people who have frozen to death.” Repeating it isn’t the burns who travel that way now. Smith said the

law of the road is “to clean up the jungle.” The “Jungle” is the camp where travelers build fires and eat. There’s always a helping for someone with no food from the mulligan stew dish, he said. But even, if you are lucky, you don’t average more than a meal a day. The law of the road is to clean up the eating place, dispose of old tin cans. The travelers are personally clean too—*s far- as it is possible, the young men say. A cake of soap is a standard of exchange. Everyone washes, and men carry along their razors and shave every day. Os course one’s clothes get dirty traveling that way, but every effort is made to keep as clean as possible. The old that used to be on the road are staying in Salvation Army halls or such places in cities now. The others are on the road, Ipokmg for work.- You ask ’em where they are going hey say, “nowhere, just killing tin e,” Smith reports. Orle of ihe men Smith met in Parsons, Kansas, on the side-door Pullman, was a civil engineer. He was on his way to Nebraska where he had a contract for a job, but he hadn’t any money (to get there so he was riding a fright. A steel construction fellow was on his way from San Francisco • > Cincinnati, O. His family lived there, he’d been sending every cent he could get hold of there, and now he was bumming his way to a possible job ip Kentucky that he’d heard ‘of. - . Peojde in big cities, and police deparments are (me. the young men report. They/try to be helpful and do everything for you. Its in smaller places they you should have the defor slammed in your face. , /McMullen says st one placfe where, he asked a woman if he could-/do some work for her in return for some food, she told him to go 1 to a lumber yard if he wanted board. Prohibition is a laugh all over the country they say. Sailors who are forbidden to go. to Tia Juana for Tear they will get drunk get all they can drink all the time they are ashore in Los Angeles. They*y® st epped making whiskeyin Mexico, they learned at the border. If its made in Mexico, the counts gets- the lai from it; So its cheaper sot Mexicans who wish to sell whisk®y to ship .it .inlfrom the States where its made by untaxed The three places' that al! freight car travellers -regard as the worst in. the United States are: - Big Springs, Texas; and Peru and Fort Wayne, Ind. These three towns are hard on the travellers. ■ ®- In one town in California where 15u got off a freight train ;and went to doors asking for food they caused such alarm that the stores and bank were closed, then the hungry wanderers were fed and each given $2 to get'ouL °f town. ' , That community realized what those travelers can do .if someone ever sets them off, Smith and McMullen claim. It’ll only take a match’s spark to set the dynamite off. What they could do all over the country, covering it as they do—would be too bad, they sum it up. These young men claim that the w< rd on the r«ad is that there are 29 million out of work in this country now-. _— -o —' GETTING ELECTRIC SER- ’ VICE TO THE FARM

"Getting service to the farm means more than just the con- 1 struction of a pole line to support the copper* wires carrying the electrical energy. It means that a tremendous investment must also be made in generating equipment, cross-country transmission lines, substations, and other equipment which will assure 24-hour continuous service to the farmer whether he lives near the source of power or hundreds of miles away,” said W. J. Parvis of Indianapolis, in speaking before one of the groups at the Agricultural Conference at Purdue. “A few years ''ago, because the limited use of electricity the problem of getting electrib service to the farmers of the sta*te on an economical basis to all concerned seemed practically impossible,” said Parvis, but today, thanks to the splendid investigational work done at Purdue and other state universities, over 200 practical time and laboV saving es of electricity on the farm have been developed. These practical applications have made desirable load for the utilities and has resulted in the electrifying of over 25,000 Indiana farms. It has made it possible for the farmer to utilize electric service in reducing farm production costs. It has taken .‘the drudgery out of house work and has modernized the farm home.” Electric utilities do not consider their work done when a line is built to a farm home but they feel it their duty to assist in the proper application of electricity on the farm. This has resulted in most utilities organizing a rural service department, whose duties are to aid and assist the farmer in the safe and profitable use of electrical energy on his fam.. o——— Chickens in the breeding flock need some source of vitamins E. This vitamin affects fertility and seems to be necessary to reproduction. The best source of vitamin E is wheat germ, although green feeds, germinated oats, yellow corn, cotton seed and olive oils, and milk contain it in small quantities.

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THE MACHINE AGE SPOILS A PROPHECY

By H. L. RUSSELL Advisory Council, Agricultural Commission, American Bankers Association. A NOTED British scientist forecast * * thirty years ago that by 1931 all available wheat land in the world

.would be urfder cultivation, and if the yields per acre could not be increased beyond mac which then prevailed there would be a world shortage. The average yield then was 12.7 bushels per agre. During the past seven years, the world over, it has been 14.1. On the 320,-

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000.000 acres in cultivation this increase would amount to almost a half billion bushels more production than the world standards of thirty years agd. In place of dire distress due to shortage, we have had dire distress due to surplus. ( Wheat farmers have shown no great inclination to curtail materially their output; perhaps a 10%/decline compared with 70% reduction in steel. This unwillingness, or perhaps inability. to adjust production to current needs makes the problem all the harder t) solve. 1 Not only are we nowAgrowing mere wlitut per unit of land, but' acreage hr.s tc‘en^gMs*-^grrea‘'A_exte n ded. In tv.-cnt/*years has increased rt -e 250%, Australia almost as much. Another significant fact is the materially lessened use of wheat. A much more diversified diet has developed. More vegetables and fruits! are used than formerly. The reduction of 1.2 bushels consumed per person per annum since the last generation necessitates nearly 150,000.000 bushels less wheat than was formerly required. Machines Increase Supply The factor that has exerted the most potent hifluence in this rising world flood of grain has been the rapid development of the machine. The old days of the cradle required from thirty to forty hours of hand labor to harvest an acre of grain. Then came the bind er, which reduced the process to four or five hours per acre. Now the combine does the work in forty-five min utes per acre Where it used to cost ten cents a bushel merely to thresh the grain, the modern combine cuts and threshes at a cost ranging from 3 to 5 cents a bushel. With this reduced cost of production. the possibility of acreage expansion is tremendous. Lands heretofore' regarded as worthless except for grazing have recently come into competition with the older wheat belts. The Russian Effort Within the past Itwo or three years another disturbing element has come into the picture. Soviet Russia is at tempting a comeback fraught (with possibility that cannot yet be fully evaluated. Russia is eagerly utilizing the very latest of scientific knowledge to enlarge her agricultural. possibilities. With feverish anxiety she is literally pouring millions into the expansion of her university research institutes, experimental stations and breeding farnfs. Her scientists are combing the earth for new crops and new methods No country in Europe is manifesting more interest and activity in laying hold of the best science, wherever it may be found. It is of more than passing interest that the wheat yields reported on the huge trust farm known as the “Giant” ran last year as much as 18 bushels to the acre. On this single farm the crop harvested is reported to bavd been 3.865.000 bushels. A single farm cf 427.000 acres under government control and mechanized as fast as human energy can be applied <s a new factor in the world’s picture. There can be but little doubt that the Russian situation may yet assume quite a different attitude from what obtained even in pre-war days. Bankers Hold Farm Conference A “feeders’ conference” was held in a state bank at Presho, South Dakota. attended by fifty farmers. The conference stressed the feeding of low price wheat and barley, and marketing it through livestock. Later, booklets on the feeding of wheat were distrib uted'among the farmers, and a feeders column was carried in the local paper each week. “We have had more success with the conference and with the feeders column in the local paper, than with any other undertaking we have tried.” the bankers said. “As a result there is about three times as much livestock being fed out in our territory than ever before. We plan to hold other similar conferences the coming year.” - J The benefits of civilisation exist because of the capital accumulated by those who have gone before. Through accumulation of capital our great railroads have been constructed, our public utilities have been built and our mills, office buildings and homes have arisen.

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FORT SILL HAS THRILLING HISTORY

One’of the most historic of the old military strongholds of the West is Fort Sill, around whose sturdy ramparts an Indian battle was fought in the good old days. The fort, also, was the last home of Geronimo, the notorious Apache chieftain who gave Uncle Sam plenty of trouble for so many years. In an interesting story on “Fort Sill and Its History” in the current issue of the National Republic, Carrie J. Crouch says: - “Beneath the Stars and Stripes which have floated over Fort Sill for sixty-three years, all that represents America have marched by— Indians, explorers, hunters, pioneers, soldiers, and settlers. Yet, the glory of (Fort Sill is not alone historical It is today one of America’s great army posts, one that added fame with its cantonment in 1917, one that will be ready if war drums beat again. “Fort Sill came into life with the tabling Os the West, when civilization stepped forward from’the army posts, when the ofiky settlements in Indian Territory yvere Fort Gibbon, Fjort Arbuckle and-Fort Cobb, and they were hundreds of miles apart ajnd thousands of Indians were between. Fort Sill was the next step forward after the Civil War, “In the winter of 1868-69, Gen. Philip H. Sheridan was stationed at Fort Dodge, Kansas, in command of the division against the Cheyennes land Kibwas, and one of those army dispensations arrived ordering a new base for winter operations. With a battalion of the Tenth Cavalry he moved down tp Camp Supply, in the Territory, and then on to a new location near the Wichita mountains which he designated by calling it “Camp at Medicine Bluff Creek,” and here in January, 1869, he left Major H. Kidd in command. “The camp became permanent, came to be called Camp Wichita, and was increased by companies from the Sixth U. S. infantry, which were stationed at Fort,- Arbuckle;, and by spring itghad taken on the aspect of a western garrison. On July 2, 1860, orders came changing the name of Fotft Sill in commemoration of the services of Brig. Gen. Joshua W. Sill United States volunteers, who fell at Stone River, Tenn., December 31, 1862. * From obtainable records of the government, it is seen that Fort Sill was first intended as an Indian reservation for the Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indians. A tract of 23,040 acres was, by executive order of October, 1871, set apart as the Fort Sill Military Reservation, and it was subsequently enlarged by successive orders, and finally Comprised 51,293 acres. “With to civilize the depredatory tribes of the planes, Fort Sill became a scene of stirring events. It was in the locality Where much had already happened. The historical Treaty of Medicine Lodge had been made the year before, just over the line in Kansas and that very winter, Black Kettle had been killed in the vicinity, one of the greatest Indian had taken place on the Washita River. In fact, it was the Battle oK the Washita that had speeded the government’s decision to place more military posts on the fronter. “On November 27, 1868, Gen. Geo. Custer with U- S, troops fought Black Kettle and his Cheyennes along the Washita. It was a noted battle for Custer and Black Kettle Were famous fighters.” o— The southern gardner who gets results with his summer vegetables because of root-knot—which is prevalent in the south, especially in sandy sections—can control the disease by a 3-year rotation of a vegetable garden, chicken yard, and corn patch. Fence off the ground into three sections. Have the chicken house in the center at one end with three doors opening into the yards. Plant only annual crops in the rotation. Perennials susceptible to rootknot, such as grapes and figs, must be planted in a separate place.

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HOUSE PLANT TROUBLES Probably the worst enemy of house plants is coal gas, said Dr. C. T. Gregory of Purdue University, speaking at the Annual Agricultural Conference there, Jan. 11 to 15. This may come from a leaky furnace of base burner or a gas stove. Simply because we cannot smell gas in the house is no indication that the plants are not being injured by gas. One part of illuminating gas in 40,000 parts Os air kills buds and prevents opening of carnation flowers. One part in 80,000 parts of air will cause the flowers already open to close. One part of ethylene, one of the constituents of illuminating gas, in one million of air is fatal to flowers. Gas causes yellow leaves and poor flowers are caused by too dry an atmosphere in the house, lack of moisture dr too much moisture applied to the plants, and a lack of fertility, especially nitrates. When house plants are not growing properly or are not flowering consider these points to remedy the trouble. . 1. Is the plant placed where it can get good light and with sunlight at least part of the day? 2. Can the plants be moved to a better ventilated place? If not, then open the window near the plants a little to admit fresh air. 3. If the air is dry spray .the leaves as least once a day with water. 4. Add a small amount of nitrate of soda or ammonium sulfate to each pot? Not more than a quarter of a teaspoonful and then water heavily. Allo|w this to act for about a week and note the results. If the leaves begin to turn green again then repeat the dose in about two or three not more frequently. Do not V 6verdo the fertilizer application. Too much fertilizer «may kill the plants. 5. Plants that are covered with scale or bugs may be washed carefully by hand, using soapy water to remove the insects. * 0 — 104 MEDALS GIVEN IN TON LITTER CLUB LAFAYETTE, Ind. (Special)—A total of 104 Indiana farmers won medals in 1931 in the Hoosier Ton Litter Club, the classic for Indiana pork producers, according to a report on the project made by J. W. Schwab of the animal husbandry extension staff, recently to the Indiana Livestock Breeders’ Association. The project is sponsored jointly by the association and the extension department of the University. Schwab’s report showed that Ardon Mosser of Adams County weighed up the heaviest litter in the club during the entire year, 14 pigs tipping the scales at 3,240 pounds, when six months of age. Erwin F. Fuelling of Allen County had both the second and third heaviest litters, one litter of 13 pigs weighing 2,892 pounds and another litter of 12 tipping the scales at 2,832. A total of 320 farmers were entered in the project during the yeajr. Sixty-four litters got into the gold medal group, for weighing 2,000 pounds or more at six, months of age; 30 in the Silver medal list for 1,800. to 2,000 pounds and ten in the bronze medal list, for 1,600 to 1,800 pounds. All breeders used purebred sires. The club is conducted to demonstrate mpre efficient methods of production and ways Os reducing costs. Enrollment already has started for the 1932 club, the first four entries coming from Madison county, Ralph Thurston, Fred M. Robertson, W. C. Wood, Sr. and W. C- W’ood Jr., and the fifth from Lake county, from George J. Sauerman.

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