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This Week
b Arthur Brisbane
Nathan Straus
A Farmer's Charter
So Much Russian Money
See Your Country
The death of Nathan Straus in New
Ifork, three weeks before the comple-
tion of his eighty-third year, is a great
loss to this country.
Mr. Straus set an example of wise
philanthropy, devoting more than a
quarter of a century of his active
working years, and a substantial for-
tune, to his fight for pure milk
throughout the United States. As an
example to others he distributed pas-
teurized milk, including milk properly
modified for young infants, In the poor
districts of New York.
His influence' Is felt In foreign coun-
tries as well as here. Because of his
work pasteurization of milk and care-
ful handling and bottling are now en-
forced by law, and, thanks to Mr.
Straus, the death rate among infante
la New York has been cut down 50
per cent.
Mr. Straus was one of three broth-
ers, all distinguished for good citizen-
ship and public spirit.
His brother Isador, whose heroic
death on the Titanic will be long re-
membered, represented his state in
congress, and was one of the three
greatest merchants produced by the
C'nited States thus far. A monument
lii New York city was erected in his
honor. Oscar Straus, the youngest
brother, represented this country as
ambassador to Turkey at Constanti-
nople, and was in the cabinet of
Theodore Roosevelt.
Nathan Straus literally saved the
lives of millions of children. His
naemory will be enshrined In the
hearts of mothers all over the world.
Farmers of Saskatchewan have for-
mulated a "charter of liberty." They
ttireaten "a co-operative common-
wealth within the British empire."
That has a Russian sound.
The demand a basic price for wheat
to covr the cost of production, retro-
active to the first of last August. That
sounds like Uncle Sam.
They would abolish grain ex-
changes and all speculation In farm
products. And they would have the
government crop insurance, "guaran-
teeing all farmers' production against
all natural risks." That sounds like
hoaven.
Also the farmers ask an arrange-
ment that would regulate the cost of
tilings bought by farmers to fit the
selling price of commodities that the
farmer produces.
Where does Russia get the money?
Her annual budget Is $16,500,000,000,
much bigger than ours, biggest In the
world, and she has a-surplus of $750,-
000,000, while we face a deficit.
The Swedish Krupp works receive
from Russia an order for military
supplies amounting to $14,500,000, and
Germany has just shipped into Russia
thirty carloads of machinery and
equipment for a large ammonia fac-
tory, one of several such shipments
sent by Germany to Russia within the
last few years. German engineers and
chemists will erect and supervise the
factories, which can be used, and prob-
ably are Intended, to manufacture
poisonous war gas. Perhaps we
underestimate Russia. The allies may
have made a mistake disarming Ger-
many and making her worthless as a
buffer between Russia and western
Barope.
Every American should see all of
this wide, beautiful country, West,
East, North and South, going by one
railroad and returning by another, and
without fall making one trip through
the Panama canal.
The pessimist especially should see
his country, from the giant trees of
Washington and Oregon in the North-
west, to the palm trees and sand
beaches of Flordla.
A trip from the Atlantic to the Pa-
cific means only three nights on the
train now, and the comfort of modern
travel is unbelievable—solid trains of
steel cars, running smoothly, with ev-
ery comfort of a first-class hotel, and
the additional pleasure of going some-
where and seeing the world as you go.
You sympathize with the turtle be-
cause he cannot go far. But at least
he goes as far as he can.
You feel sorry for the Texas "tick,"
brushed from a cow„and unable in his
whole lifetime to crawl more than two
or three feet in search of another
cow's leg to start in business again.
Don't be a turtle or a Texas tick.
Travel, see your country.
Doctor Williams, editor of Mental
Hygiene, says, very truly, that those
that practice or contemplate trial mar-
riage 'lack sincerity and faith in each
other."
The girl In the partnership may be
sure of one thing—namely, that the
man thinks little of her.
If his opinion Of her were what it
should be he would want to marry
and forever, with no trial, no doubts
and no misgivings.
Detroit, after a period of hiberna-
tion, shows signs of life at full speed.
Tens of thousands of additional men
bftve gone to work. Seventy-five thou-
ssnd started at the Ford River Rouge
plant.
Chevrolet promises 30,000 steady
lobs through the winter. Dodge, Hud-
son, Lincoln, Bulck, Cadillac and
Chrysler are all Increasing Inventory.
(0,1911, by King Feature* Syndicate, Inc.)
WORLD
WAR
YARNS
by Lieut. Frank E. Hagan
Romance
When a body of Australian troops
Won permanent possession of a sector
in Belgium over which there had been
bitter fighting, they found in a cave
a desperately wounded "Aussie" named
Billy La Salle. He had been found by
a group of Belgian orphans, who had
for three days kept him alive.
When the Australians started to
send Billy back to a hospital he de-
manded that the little girl of early
"pigtail" age who had found him on
the battlefield and iad directed the
work of getting him into the cave, be
sent back to the hospital with him.
The doctors told Billy that death was
a matter of only a few hours for him.
"All right." he answered. "But I
want to do something for this little
girl. How about leaving her my in-
surance?"
That would be diflicult, they told
him, since she was no relative of his.
"Then I'll marry her" declared the
dying La Salle. The marriage was
arranged after various bands of re.1
tape had been severed. The horribly
wounded "Aussie" collapsed after the
brief ceremony. Then, almost imme-
diately, he began to recover.
When it was found that Billy La
Salle would, some day be well again,
hospital all church authorities scur-
ried about They sent the tiny child
wife to England and a convent. Billy
eventually returned to the front. Of
course he was wounded again. And
while he was recuperating In "Blighty,"
the Armistice was signed. Then the
British government shipped him to
his old home in Australia. With him
went the tiny Mrs. La Salle—and a
chaperon•
"Finally we were allowed to live to-
gether as man ?nd wife," Billy La
Salle explained whei he visited this
country years a*;o. "But when we
first came back to England it was diffi-
cult for me to rent living quarters be-
cause of the youth of my wife. It
wasn't so much a problem after the
first little La Salle arrived." There
were two of the youngsters with them
when they arrived in the States lo
19221
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"N. G."
The patronizing attitude toward the
National Guard by the regular army is
as old as the history of this republic.
It cropped up from time to time dur-
ing the World war, even though Na-
tional Guard outfits, fused into the
A. E. F., repeatedly proved that it
wasn't justified. ». typical illustration
of this ancient prejudice is told by
William Shinnick, a lieutenant of in-
fantry then, now writer of financial
news on the Chicago Tribune under
the name of "Scrutator." He says:
"I was at a town about seven miles
behind Chateau-Th erry with Regi-
mental. Ordnance Sergeant Gammon,
an old-timer in the regular army, of
the Fourth infantry.
"WhJe we waited near a rations
dump where scores of mess sergeants
had gathered, a German aviator dived
down toward us, spraying the sur-
rounding countryside generously with
machine gun bullets.
"Every soldier there grabbed rifle
and oistol and blazed away at the
hostile aviator. One man so far for-
got himself as to snatch the pin from
a hand grenade and huti it into the
air at the flying plane. He missed of
course. It was only by good fortune
that none of us were wounded by the
exploding grenade. Sergeant Gam-
mon grabbed me as the grenade burst.
"'Did you see that?' he exclaimed.
'It's terrible. It's a wonder we aren'i
all killed by that d—d grenade.' Then
he glared at me.
" 'It's what comes, lieutenant,' said
Sergeant Gammon, 'of letting these
National Guardsmen into the army."'
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They Laughed Too Soon
A short, stumpy officer who com
manded a regiment of the Sixth di-
vision In 1917 was commonly regarded
by enlisted men of the old army as Its
hardest-boiled exponent of military
discipline.
The officer was Col. Matthias Crow-
ley, later chief of police in Brooklyn,
N. Y. Few have been gifted with his
succinct and picturesque speech.
More than twenty "90-day" officers
from the first training camp were as-
signed to his regiment In the summer
of 1917. Their welcome was typical
of Crowley for through an adjutant
the brand-new officers were advised:
"Gentlemen, go out and take a
brisk walk for one hour. Return then
and the colonel will receive you."
A few days later, Colonel Crowley
lectured his ninety-day officers on the
psychology of handling troops.
"With large bodies of men," the
colonel concluded, "it has been my
observation that at least 2 per cent
will be found to be thieves, rascals
and so-and-sos.
"Don't laugh, gentlemen," he ad-
monished them as a snicker arose. "J
Include you In my calculations!"
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Body Aids Ghost Legend
The legend of an apparition at
Skibo castle, Scotland, one of the
homes of the late Andrew Carnegie,
was given added credence among
neighbors by the discovery of a body
at the place where the natives said
the "ghost" always disappeared. It
wasn't Identified.
THE SCHULENBURG STICKER. SCHULENBURG, TEXAS
Diverting the Waters of the Mississippi River
What State Department Building Will Look Like
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Model, approved by the national commission of fine arts, showing what the State department building in Wash-
ington will be like after the proposed extensive alterations. It will conform with the design of other federal struc-
tures in the . Capital City.
MAYBE HE'LL STICK
Dr. Jose Maria Reyna Andrade, the
provisional president of Guatemala,
who took office on January 2, the fourth
man to become head of the republic
in the short space of two weeks. First
Gen. Lazaro Chacon was elected
president, but he being -incapacitated
by Illness, Baudilio Palma was ap-
pointed provisional president. Then
by a coup d'etat, Gen. Manuel Orellana
set himself up as head of the country.
The United States' refusal to recog-
nize Orellana led to his resignation
and tiie subsequent election of
Andrade. It is believed that Andrade
will hold office until an election can
be held.
SLAYER OF LINGLE?
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Yes, Melvin Maas Was Down in Panama
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Proudly sporting a hat that makes Calvin Coolidge's world-famed ten-
gallon lid look like a skull cap, Representative Melvin Maas of Minnesota
returned to the National Capital following an air tour to Panama and back.
Th-3 hat, acquired by the congressman during his trip, measures four feet
across and two feet from top to bottom.
World's First Triangular Bridge
This is Leo V. Brothers of St. Louis
who was arrested end indicted in Chi-
cago for the murder of Alfred Llngle,
a police reporter on the Chicago
Tribune.
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The Bonnet Carre spillway, 28 miles above New Orleans, is rapidly nearing completion, and when finished
will divert the waters of the Mississippi river into Lake Pontchartrain when swirling floods threaten the city. All
that remains to be done on the $3,000,000 safety valve is the completion of side levees from the spillway to the
river. This interesting airview shows the expanse of concrete.
TURKEYS RAISED
IN CONFINEMEN1
Idea That Large Fields Ar«
Needed Disproved.
The poultry department of th«
Pennsylvania State college recently
published some interesting work on
feed consumption and cost of raising
turkeys In complete confinement. Ap-
parently the idea that turkeys require
large fields for range has been dis-
proved. E. M. Funk, who conducted
this work at the Pennsylvania State
college but who is now with the
poultry department of the Missouri
College of Agriculture, summarizes
the experiment with turkeys as fol-
lows :
1. The average weight of the Bronze
toms at 24 weeks was 19 pounds and
the White Hoiiand toms averaged 16.4
pounds at the same age.
2. The rate of growth obtained was
greater than that heretofore reported.
3. The mash and grain consumption
per bird for the first 24 weeks was
58.05 pounds and 56.12 pounds for
the Bronze and White Holland varie-
ties, respectively.
4. The feed cost of producing a
pound of gain was 14.7 cents for the
Bronze and 15.3 cents for the White
Holland.
5. As the birds approached maturi-
ty, the feed required to produce a
pound of gain increased from 2.56 to
7.71 pounds.
6. The protein intake remained at
a high level until the eighteenth
week, varying around 20 per cent.
From the eighteenth to the twenty-
fourth week the level decreased from
20.2 per cent to 14.8 per cent.
7. More than 93 per cent of all tur-
keys started were raised to market
age.
8. The loss from blood and feather
dressing for the males was 9.5 per
cent; for the females, 10.4 per cent.
The full drawn birds showed a total
shrinkage of 24.2 and 24.7 per cent
for the males and females, respec-
tively. These differences are due to
size, not to sex.
9. Excellent market birds were pro-
duced in complete confinement.
Cod Liver Oil Help to
Breeders and Chickens
Experiments at the Kansas and
Wisconsin experiment stations have
demonstrated that cod liver oil Is a
valuable feed for both hens and young
chicks that do not have an abundance
of sunshine. This product contains
a vitamin that helps to take the place
of sunshine, In that it helps the birds
or chicks to make proper use of the
minerals in their rations.
With hens that are used for breed-
ers this helps to develop a better shell
on the egg. This seems to cause the
eggs to hatch better, as a better lime
content is furnished the chicks and
less evaporation takes place. In ad-
dition it makes hens healthier, there-
by Improving the vitality and vigor
of the flock.
In the northern part of the United
States it Is necessary to hatch some
chickens before it is possible for them
to run outside where they get the
benefit of direct sunshine. The addi-
tion of from 1 to 2 per cent of cod
liver oil to the mash will prevent rick-
ets and help to keep the chicks in the
best of health.
View of the first triangular bridge ever built. It is a railroad span at
Duren, near Berlin, Germany, and was designed by Dr. Z. Tils, a noted
engines-
Raising Turkeys While
Confined Is Practical
The Minnesota plan of raising tur-
keys in confinement consists in match-
ing and rearing artificially and rang-
ing them on clean soil. One plan is
to build a roosting shelter in the mid-
dle of the range, containing four trap
doors, one leading into each fenced
lot. The entire fenced area contains
about an acre of land over which no
poultry have ranged for several years.
Each one-quarter acre lot has prov-
en large enough for 200 or 300 young
turkeys when they are turned out of
a different trap door into a different
lot at least once each month. The
plan calls for careful feeding and
keeping the turkeys away from chick,
ens at all times.
CUT DOWN DAIRY
CHORES BY SILO
Some Heat Needed
The Ohio experiment station 1s ad-
vising the use of brooder stoves in
those laying houses which are subject
to extreme changes in temperature.
Poultry raisers realize the disastrous
consequences of a 40 to 50 degree
drop In temperature, and can modify
this change without cutting off the air
necessary to carry off moisture. Shut-
ting up the chicken house to the point
where moisture accumulates, weakens
the resistance of the whole flock to
disease.
Get Fertile Eggs
Most of the eggs are fertile within
five days after a male bird is placed
with the females, but it is better to
mate the pens two to four weeks be-
fore one wishes to save eggs, so that
the birds may become accustomed to
their new quarters and to each other.
In case another male has been with
the flock before putting a new male
in, one cannot be sure the eggs
will all be fertilized by the new male
until at least three weeks hare
elapsed.
Labor Saving Plan of Mov-
ing Feed Is Big Help.
Farmers travel farther in feeding
than In any other operation connected
with dairy production. Any practical
method of reducing travel should be
beneficial. Convenient silos and feed
bins, with a labor saving plan of mov-
ing feed to the cows or live stock, are
a big help. In the dairy, carrier trucks
which will hold enough ensilage or
meal for several cows will cut the
work in two, as compared with carry-
ing feed in baskets. Arrangement of
the barn, smooth floors, accessible
mangers that are easily cleaned, are
all factors in making feeding a shorter
task. ,
Live stock men know that silo loca-
tion affects time required to feed. Sil-
age should not have to be hauled to
distant feed bunks. A valuable silage
cart is described in Circular No. 75,
prepared at Iowa State college The
feed bunks are built in a long row
out from the silo, and the cart runs
on a track supported by posts over
the bunk.
Conveniently located milk bouses
save time for dairy operators. Con-
struction Is also important. Smooth
floors and walls which can be easily
cleaned will prove a good investment.
Handy arrangement of equipment,
such as wash troughs, drying racks
and sterilizers for the milker, often
bring thanks from hurried workers.
Running water and some means of
heating it should be considered es-
sential.
It Is hard to conceive of a well man-
aged barn today that does not have a
convenient means of removing Utter.
Carriers are indispensable In trans-
porting manure to a storage pit, but
some barns are now constructed so
that the spreader can be driven be-
tween rows of stalls. This saves time
when weather conditions are not fit
for hauling manure to the field imme-
diately.
Steel stanchions and stalls have
proved themselves more economical
than those of wooden construction.
They are easier to keep sanitary and
are far more durable. Single stalls
protect the cows and help make them
comfortable. Drinking cups are near-
ly as essential from a financial stand-
point as are mangers or any other
standard dairy fixtures.
Silage Excellent for
Winder Dairy Feeding
With the exception of legumes In
the dairy ration, there is nothing that
will make as much improvement or
help as much In winter feeding as
silage.
"Silage Is of advantage in dairy
feeding, for It furnishes succulence.
It Is as nearly an approach to sum-
mer pasture as it is possible to get,"
according to J. W. Linn, extension
dairyman, Kansas State Agricultural
college, in way of encouraging the
growing of silage for greater dairy
profits in Kansas the coming year.
"Silage furnishes a = cheap carbohy-
drate roughage with more pounds of
food value per acre than any other
common farm grown feed."
But to get the most feed per acre
it is essential to select the right si-
lage crop for any particular section
of the state, warns the dairy special-
ist. Since it is forage that the dairy-
man wants in silage and because the
cane or sweet stalk variety of the
sorghums usually grow more forage
yield and the stalk retains more juice
or sap, they are usually considered
best for silage purposes. Acre per
acre, cane will average making 20 to
30 per cent more milk per acre thaw
corn.
Practical Plan to Build
Profitable Dairy Herd
It is a well-established fact that
there is only one way for the dairy-
man to build up a profitable herd and
that consists in breeding to good reg-
istered bulls and raising the heifer
calves from his best cows to take the
place of the old ones or such as prove
to be unprofitable or for other rea-
sons undesirable. The man who sells
cream finds no difficulties in the way
of such a program, because he has an
abundance of skim milk available at
all times. Where whole milk is sold
the question is different. When there
is no surplus milk available he cau
raise his calves on a very small
amount of whole milk and supple-
ment this with powdered skim milk
or powdered buttermilk, both of which
products may be secured from almost
any feed dealer.
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Wheat for Cows
Durum wheat has been proved to be
a very palatable feed for dairy cows
and In some cases it has been possible
to use It for as much as two-thirds of
the ration. In North Dakota, tests
with a basal ration of oats, corn, bran,
and alfalfa hay, together with corn
silage, ground wheat compared very
favorably with ground barley. If
wheat becomes too low in price, this
will be found to be one satisfactory
disposition of at least a part of the
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