The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 15, Number 25, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 October 1922 — Page 3

CROP REPORT FOR INDIANA Corn, spring wheat and barley in Indiana show a slight decrease in estimated production compared with the September estimate, according to the monthly report of the co-opera-tive crop reporting service, issued recently. Oats and potatoes show a small increase fbr the same period. Other crops all show some change, but not sufficient to make any material difference, except for tobacco, which shows a gain of 340,000 pounds. The 'report follows: ? The corn condition is still \ somewhat variable throughout the state, but generally shows about the same as last month. The average was 83 percept of normal on October 1 and indicates a total production of 177,391,000 bushels, compared with 177,782,000 bushels shown for last month and 169,848,000 bushels harvested last year. Bottom land corn generally is very good, ; but that on upland is variable. : Much of it ripened too rapidly ' And will be more or less chaffy. ! Practically all the crop is now J Out of the way of frost. In some sections the corn is down badly And interfering with 'wheat- and fye seeding. Silo filling is completed. I The average yield per acre of Spring wheat was 15 bushels in Indiana from which a total production of 60,000 bushels is fore-, cast, compared with 65,000 bushels shown for September and 48,000 bushels harvested last jrear. The average' yield of oats per acre was only 21 bushels and is probably the lowest ever reported in the state. On this fi- j gure a total production of 33,516,000 bushels is forecast compared With 33,002,000 bushels shown for September 1 and 45,072,000 bushels harvested last year. The average yield of barley in Indiana wa's only 17 bushels per acre, from which a total production of 884,000 bushels is forecast compared with 918,000 bushels shown ‘for September arid 1,235,000 bushels harvested last year. The condition of buckwheat in Indiana at the time of harvest was 77 percent of normal which indicates a total production of 99,000 bushels, compared with 101,000’bushels shown for September and 114,000 bushels harvested lAst year. . White potatoes show a condition of fiT'-'-percent of normal in Indiana, from which a total production of 5,740,000 bushels is indicated,compared with 5,596,000 bushels , shown for September an<J 3,570,000 bushels harvested last year. The estimated production of sweet, potatoes in Indiana was 352,000 bushels on October 1, compared with 382,000* bushels for September and 396,000 bushels harvested last year. The condition of tobacco in Indiana at time of harvest was 86 percent of normal and inditotal production of 16,409,000 pounds, compared with 16,069,000 pounds shown for September and 12,250,000 pounds harvested last year. On the October 1 condition figure for apples it is estimated Indiana will produce 4,427,000 bushels, compared with 4,462,000 bushels shown for September and 1,029,000 bushels harvested last year. \ ' The condition of clover seed M you Uve headache, backache, toothache, neuralgia, rheumatism, sciatica, you'll be surprised at the quick relief Dr.Milee’AntkPalnPilb wiU A package of these pills in your pocket or in your you

at the time of harvest was 79 percent of normal in Indiana. Alfalfa seed showed an average yield of 1.4 bushels per acre on a slightly increased acreage compared with last year. The October 1 condition figure for grain sorghum in Indiana was 80 percent of normal; field peas, 85 percent; grapes, 92 percent; pears, 80 percent; sorghum cane, 83 percent and sugar beets 80 percent. The conditionof pasture in Indiana October 1, was 62 percent of normal. , i I Field beans in Indiana for both grain and forage, were nearly, a full yield on a somewhat increased acreage. Tomatoes showed nearly a normal yield with the acreage slightly larger than last year. The yield of cabbages in Indiana was 5.4 tons per acre and the onions 235 bushels per acre. The acreage of both were considerably larger than last year. RURAL SCHOOL’S MISSION The special mission of the rural school should be to promote an inspiring and enthusiastic view of country" life. It must make the children enjoy and love rural scenes. It must implant in the child mind at an early age the fundamental ideas of rural industry. It must make young folks feel that there are good opportunities for business success, comfort, and enjoyment in a country town. This is not said from any selfish desire to build up the town of Syracuse by denying young people their ri T ht to go into greater centers if that is really their best course. There are some having exceptional gifts, who can not find scope for their peculiar talents in a small place. The country town always gives up generously those who seem to belong to the larger world, and it helps fit them for wider spheres of activity. But at least 90 per cent of the country young people have no such extraordinary gifts. If they quit their homes, they do so because they are dazzled by city propaganda and false glitter. They will only Ke hangers on around the big show. Country life offers them far more if they will fit for it right. . ... AH sociologists say that too many of the American people drift to the cities. They overcrowd the mechanical trades, creating long period of unemployment. The country is out of balance, and the cities are topheavy and congested with people who are living in an artifical and costly way. The rural school teacher should be a missiqnary and a salesman, who should try to convert young people the benefits of country life, and sell its advantages to them. o By taking a second wife a man pays the highest compliment to the first,, by. showing-that sjie made him so happy as a married man that he wishes to be so a second time.

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91 INTERESTING PUBLICATION u BY THE STATE GEOLOGIST e Indianapolis, Oct. 14. —Indii- ana’s geographic location is fortunate declares a publication bee ing issued by the division of a geology of the state conservation i department, according to advices - received from Dr. Logan, state geologist, by Richard Lieber, des partment director. Because our state is at the 1 center of the nation in several • important respects, and Indian- _ apolis with its splendid rail and 1 electric line facilities, is coni' nected with all parts of the state -by a splendid state highway - system, the capital is logically 1 the great convention city which i it is coming to be, Dr. Logan declares. 1. According to the publication J 'ndiana is located at the center J )f the Indianapolis near the cen- - ter of Indiana, also passes through the center of the United States. The north-south line bisecting the eastern half of the United States passes through ; r ndianapolis. The eastern half >f the United States is far more mportant in most respects than t he western half because it rer reives more rainfall, has more t valuable resources and is other- ( wise favored,-Dr. Logan says. . Most of the people of the ’ United States live in the eastern ' half of the country, it is pointed ' cut; also the crop production is ’ vastly greater than that of the western half, likewise nearly all of the country’s manufacturing t is done in the eastern half, and most of it in the northeast ‘ corner. With reference to the difference in population, production and industry on either side of ’ ihe meridian, Dr. Logan says: “It is not surprising that the ’ ‘center of population’ of the ’ United States should be near the I center of the eastern half. • It has been in Indiana since 1880. Since 1900 it has been a short distance south of Indianapolis; near Columbus in 1900, in Bloomington in 1910 and exactly 10 miles west of Bloomington in ’ 1920. The ‘median point' of the i population of the United States ■ is a short distance northeast of Indianapolis in Randolph county. The term ‘center of population’ as used by the census bureau is the point to which all the people of the U. S. could come with the least amount of travel, if they could travel straight line. ’ “The median point is the point in respect to which as many peo- ' pie live east, as west, and as ' many live north as south. The center of urban population of the U. S. is a few miles east of Indiana, northeast of Indiant apolis. The center of the rural population is in Illinois, only a few miles northwest of Evans- . ville (Ind.). The center of fore-ign-born population is near the northeast corner of Indiana, just across the line in Ohio.” i A complete discussion of this > subject is contained in a descrips tion of the geographic conditions I of Indiana written by Dr. S. S. i Visher, for the Indiana handbook of geology in press.

SYRACUSE AND LAB® WAWASEE JOURNAL

SLATS’ DIARY By Ross Farquhar. I ‘ Friday—All of are famly and also myself was invited to a party witch was give for the ___________ honor of a girl A J frend to a neiMg b° r °f ma’s cuzzen’s sistern -'"W l aw - The girl H witch the party was give in honor of is go- | ing away Sunday nite to > study Hospitalg •'* Safe? ' ' n o! 'd er so |y she can be a trane nurse in ’ sickness and cr °nick disability and etc. Saturday—Ant Emmy says it s wicked to take chances. Any 1 witch takes a chance is gamboling she says. Pa sed he was i natcheral borned gamboler if that is a Case and all ways has ben. Why the Ist wk. of his narryed Existents he tuk a ?hance on 1 of his wifes pies. ( gess he wood of tuk a greater chance if he wood of refuse to partook of same. Sunday—The preecher ast his audience last Sunday to send in there idea as to witch was the most intresting and best feeture of the Sunday morning service, sum fokes sed the quire singing, sum sed the sermon and one | wit person rote and sed the most intresting feeture was the Benediction. Monday—Ant Emmy sed she never new munkeys cud tawk altho they look intellengenter than lots of other fokes. But at the pitcher show tonite where she and ma went she sed it showed on the screen where a munkey sed to a cat You shall nay for this insult. She sed Will wanders never seize. But she doubts if the cat understood. Tuesday—Ma had a letter from her bro. out West and he had sent his dawter to a finishing skool — it had finished both she and her pa a specially the ladder. He ast to borry a 100 ss. Wednesday—Pa went to a lunchen with a frend today and when he cum home I ast him what was the difference between a lunchen and a lunch and he replyed and sed Just about a $ and a quarter. Thursday—Ole man Hix is so stingy that when he got well last week frum being sick he woodent get out of bed till his medicine was all tuk so he cud get his moneys wirth. o Theater Masquerade at the Oakland Theatre Monday evening, October 30.

J. L. LEVY & SON Announce Grand Cloak, Suit and Dress OPENING Saturday, October 21 Two representatives of the Combined Cloak and Suit Mfg. Co. of New York City will be here with 15 trunks of Ladies’ and Misses’ coats, suits and dresses to deliver to our customers. No Distance .too Great to be Here. J. L. IE V Y & SON Money. Indiana

| BUY ADVERTISED GOODS (By H. A. Groth) Advertising benefits the consumer—most of all. Advertised | goods are trade marked to proI tect the consumer for quality I and quantity. Think of the infinite variety •of prepared foods, from which the greater part of a wholesome meal may be prepared with almost no work for the housewife. Think of the household conveniences and business conveniences—the time savers in your office or home—the accessories which make your automobile a . greater pleasure. All of these things are rather I intricate. It would cost a small fortune to prepare a few of them for private use. How do you suppose the man who first thought of these things was able to make them for you at a price you could afford to pay? It was through advertising—of course. Advertising organizes co-operative buying units. The man with a new idea knows that he can tell thousands or millions if people about his idea through advertising. He knows that the mited buying power of all these oeople will enable him to produce his idea in practical form at a cost which is only a fraction of what the first article would cost. One of. the best example of how this is done is Eskimo Pie. j Within six months after the in- 1 ventor first had his idea, everybody in the United States knew about these delicious new chocolate covered ice cream bars. This was a spectacular demon--stration of how advertising can ! bring a new idea to the whole [ American public. But in every | advertising success, the same; principle holds true. But advertising does more than introduces new ideas to you. It safeguards you in the purchase of any advertised product. You can depend upon it—nothing can succeed through advertising unless the article itself has merit. Advertising a bad product will make just as many enemies for that product as advertising a good product will make friends for the good product. And so, if an article has been widely advertised for a long time, you can be sure that it is good or the public would never have supported it. You know that the advertised and trademarked product must have a definite quality—and be fully worth the price. You can be sure that you get more real value in an advertised product for every penny you spend, than you will in an unadvertised product, because advertising is the cheapest selling method there is. You know the advantages of

co-operative buying. You have heard a lot about the idea in the last two or three/years. You belong to a co-operative buying i society every time you buy an advertised product. Read advertising. Buy advertised products. It is the surest way to be certain of satisfaction and money’s worth. ' MIGHT BE EFFECTIVE It is doubtful if many persons • believe an automobilist would : ntentionally hit another with | lis machine, thereby producing death or serious injury. Whether the 'death or injury • esults from malice or from care’ossness, the results to the victim are the same. Motive can : nake little difference in any case. I It is a matter of interest that | he judge in a county of New 1 York state has sentenced a care- i ! ess driver of an automobile to lot less than three or more than >ix years in prison. The person sentenced had struck and fatally injured a woncn two weeks prior to the imposition of the sentence, and ittle time was required to bring the case to judgment. It will be understood, of course, that every case of this should not be condoned if death or serious injury results. Automobile drivers doubtless would be somewhat more careful if they realized that a prison term awaited them for harm due ( i primarily to carelessness in driving. o KANGAROO IS A BORN BONER The art of boxing comes naj turally to the kangaroo. The , i mother gives the young kangaroo ! his first lessons in this mode of | self-defense. Afterward the j father takes up the teaching, and with much gentleness and patience trains him to box. When kangaroos box they back off and rush in and prance about very skillfully. Each one watches for an opportunity to strike, and at the same time tries to prevent the other from striking. They cleverly try to move about so as to get the enemy below them on the slope of a hill. The resounding blows they give with their hind feet can be heard far away. The kangaroo fights like a gentleman. He is a good sportsman, even he is fighting with his enemy. The animals strike with the flat of the foot, and never use against each other their terrible ripping claws. — -0. Try the classified columns. LOTS FOR SALE at Redmon Point, Dewart Lake see Ike Klingaman Syracuse, Ind., Route 2.

AGE OF A FISH The size and weight of a fish are no indication of its age. Its length of life is revealed, just as that of a tree is, by its rings. The fish has annual rings also, but not in its body. Put a fish ! scale under a magnifier and you | notice the scale is covered with . little rings some close together . and some farther apart. When I the fish grows slowly because its I food is scarce and the water is I chilly, these rings lie close toi gether, but when its food is plentiful and the water is warmi er, and the fish grow bigger quickly—as it were, stretches its skin with good feeding—then ■ the rings on the scales lie well apart. Each of these rings reI presents one year in the age of fish. There is another way. It is by tracing out the markings on what are termed the earstones of the fish—the tiny hard things in its inner ear. Put these earstones under a powerful microscope and you see tiny light and dark rings. Every light ring tells of one year’s growth! So by counting these light rings you arrive at the fish’s age. o TAXES Vfc. CROPS Princeton, Ind.—“ When our taxation absorbs the revenue from the six largest crops grown in the county, it is time to give the matter some thought.” R. M. Chappell, addressing the Kiwanis club here, made the foregoing statement. He said that of every hundred dollars paid in taxes in Gibson county, less than $5.00 goes out of the county. The rest is spent by county commissioners, township trustees, school boards and city officals. o Subscribe for the Journal. ’’l HOW OFTEN -SHOULD wVOORE'fES Ml J BE TESTED’ // Your eyes should be tested at least once each year. During this time changes may take place in the eye structure that call for a change of lenses. We grind our own lenses at PRE-WAR-PRICES Why pay more? F. G. FITCH Warsaw, Indiana