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16 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SAIjai, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNINGDECEMBER 11," 1927 1CB'J"8PIT0F : ST: L IS cnn u u 1 III World" Alliance Meeting, For : Universal Peace, Held " In-Missouri . MAINE WILL RESTORE CAPTURED WAR FLAGS TO SOUTHERN STATES (The following editor!!, con tributed by Dr. Frederick Lynch, formerly editor of the." Christian Work, appeared Jn, the' December ist issue pi xne congregational- 1st, Boston and; Chicago. It Is a remarkably, clear, article. Every - thinking person ought to. read It. It . Is . Wonderf ally T complete, though, concise,. report of the re cent meeting Jejd .stSt.: irois; j Fire -hundred peace-makers, mostly active workers in Ithe r hu rches Jhsrre recentljv been, , to gether In. St. Louis for three days. . .The World Alliance - for- Interna tional ; Friendship ; Through the Churches has verywlsely set its annual meeting In armistice- week and turned It Into a conference on international good will. The pen eral theme of ' the discission this ' year was whether war was an Ine-- if not what steps ought Christian people take to get rid of It and to make it Impossible for it ever to return. - ; -:"' ' There was a unanimous feeling - upon the part of eTerybody pres ent that war could be eradicated, . but there was much .difference of - opinion as to the best way to get tid . of It. If anyone believes a : peace conference Is a "dull place he should rlslt . these annual ses- - eion of the World Alliance. The three days at St. Louis were vl brant and tense with feeling and with most stimulating argument, i Eyerybody was agreed that the - time had come to outlaw war. It was . when ' the necessary steps to secure this outlawry " were dis cussed that the divergence of opinion: began to bemarked. One group urgently and elo quently insisted that; there was just one thing to do, and that was to stop playing with the war sys- em In any way and stop wasting time on palliative measures such : as leagues, treaties,, disarmament programs, councils of conciliation, and the rest. ' and. eradicate the whole " war system,: root , and branch. Borne of this group seem ' to hold the same view that some Socialists hold toward the social system when they condemn all at tempts to reliere poverty as stand ing In the way of removing the capitalistic system, which, to their "minds, is - the . cause of poverty. Others of the group are not as extreme as this, but air.of them are conrlnced that 'the" only ' way to outlaw war Is for the nations immediately to get together and tote war a crime, set up a world court with affirmative jurisdic tion and create a" code of binding f international Maw Their conten ( tion has recently' been set forth - at length in Dr. Charles Clayton Outlawry" of War." The rrouo was well represented at St Louis. The majority of the speakers at : St. Louis, equally, eager to out, law war, urged with all terror the taking of those steps toward ban ishing the war system thai seem possible, practical, and that' hare In . them, promise of reasonable success. To many , of this group - the League of Nations offers more promise of achlerement than any thing else in sight It was inter . est in a to .note at .St. Louis how almost air the speakers felt that the great promise of outlawry was in those measures already well under way through the League. ' It is by I the closer "organization of the world, as It if going on at ' Genera, that war will eventually be eliminated from the political system of, the world. Mr. ;Wlck Aham ; Steed.T the ! famous London v editor, even went so far as to say that Great Britain and the nations of the continent were mor : ing toward m sort of "United .- States of Europe.'-' This is per ' haps too strong a statement, but many of "the speakers evidently feel that It will be by this grow ing solidarity In the League that : the end of war will come, as it has come Detween the states, in , the United States. While the various , speakers said little ? about the ; United States entering the League there seemed to be a general im pression that the League was the first great experiment of the 'na tions In" learning to lire together by those same Christian principles lire together and that as the na tions learn the community t life throuah the Learne: war will rn . it ubs suae oeiween : inairia- Tials. - ; ; v, ; ;- .. - pinned their hope of outlawry up on the extension of all inclusive abrltrative treaties. Locarnor was . continually referred to - as an il lustration rot now .outlawry. will come.' ." It has practically come, be . tween ' the powers signatory - to that treaty. , It has come by" the treaties signed by Norway, Swed en, Holland. Switzerland, an the other nations, through the Inspir ation of the League. If the Unit ed States accepts the Trench pro posal and negotiates a treaty with France there will be another step In the outlawry process. Let all the nations sign such treaties with each other and the outlawry Is secured. . Attention was repeated ly ' called to the fact that the League Assembly In its last ses-j sion aonolated a commission to encourage the signing of such treaties anions "all the states la its membership. : Prof. Janes T. Bhotwell point- At tne instance of Charles. Tibbets (left). Augusta G. A. It ret- eran, Maine is returning to ten southern states battle flags captured in . tne Clva War. Got. Jlalph.O. Brewster (right) Is helping ar range the ceremony, at Washington. Below are a group of Maine reterans with some of the captured flaga. - -AUGUSTA, Me. (AP)The PHD TO OH CO PLETE SKY PJIIGHT IHTEREST Thirty Billion Stars Would Be Brought To Attention In Picture (Coctlaatl ca Page 17) By W. W. Campbell, LL.D. Sc.D. (Pridnt, UairersitT ef California 1 BERKELEY, Cal (AP) The wonderful reflecting telescopes which hare become arailable in the last SO years and the photogra phic dryplate have enabled the as tronomers to make astounding dis coveries about the stars.. -v-' V;'" The best eyes, unassisted hy tel escope, are able to count not more than 7,000 stars in the entire sky. If time could be taken by trained observers to ft weep the largest ex isting telescopes overt the" whole sky, approximately one, hundred million stars could be koted." : ' If with our modern reflecting telescopes we were to. make-long- exposure photographs of the com plete sky, under good conditions, the photographic plates would re-, cord the images of at least three billion starsthree billion suns. ; Radiation of Star Light ! ' Our sun, our star, is believed to be appreciably smaller and radi ate ie?e light than does the aver age star of the three billions. It is possible that the number of stel lar Images recorded with long-ex posure photographs secured with the 100-inch reflecting telescope of the Mt. f Wilson Observatory might even be as large a 30 billions..-. ' i ' , -: ' ' : , I am speaking only of stars wlthfn our own galactic system; the -system whose most conspicu ous feature lis ; the Milky Way, which all ; who- for a time' dwell away from" the glare of electric lights have eeen and admired. The stars in oar own stellar sys tem "do' not i exist" af greater" and greater distances Indefinitely, but are contained within a volume of space which is somewhat, the shape of a relatively very thin watch, or double convex lensl-An observer on ' the earthv situated, near V the ure, and at some, distance from- its center, viewing the Milky Way, is looking out-through the greatest dimensions of our stellar system in the direction of the" edges of the lens figure. -- - Speed of Light Uncertain . The .actual dimensions' of our stellar system are still' uncertain. According to ? Shapley,' a ray j of light, travelling 8 6,0 00 miles 'per second, would, require about 3 0.-1 000 years to : trtfvel - f rom a star on one edge of the system, through the center, to a star on the oppo site edge of the aystem. Perhape a more -conservative : ; estimate would be 20.000 'light yarns.' The thickness of the system,- using the same time scale, la. perhaps one- fifteenth aa great; that is, from 14,000 to 20.000 light years. ; " The ; two most interesting of Hnbble's group of srreat spiral ne bulae, known as Messier 31. and Messier 8 3,! proved to be slightly more thaal 800,000 light years away. Knowing the angular - di ameters of these two objects. It to easy to say that that diameter of Messier 31 Js about 46.000 light years, and of Messier 33, 15,000 light years.5 These are minimum values. . , '. Stars Ijarger Than Ban Astronomers .now. hold , confi dently to the belief that each of these objects contains tens o&mll Ilons of stars, stars larger on the wondering comment of children gazing at captured - Confederate flags In the rotunda of Maine's oapltol led a Union veteran to in augurate a campaign for the re turn of the ClvU War trophies to the statea whence they came.' And so on a December day soon on the steps of the national capi- toL with- the participation perhaps of President Coolldge, commit tee of .. Maine membera of the Grand Army of the Republic wIU present to representatives of sou thern states ten flags captured by Maine troops from regiments of Carolina Texas and Virginia. Thel originator ; of the plan is Charles Tibbets of Augusta. He found sentiment In the Grand Ar my ranks predominantly agreed that in keeping the flags Maine was fostering ' a fdast which true patriotism might ' well forget" He hopes that all other northern states- will Join, -as many are do- ingv In returning southern battle flags and- northern banners, and then that finally a great national reunion miy be held of veterans who fought on etther side In the Civil War. When the return of the : battle flags waa first conceived Gov. Ralph jO. Brewster of Maine took them with him for a governor's Got. John Richards' of South Car olina, but the two . executives a- greed that the presentation might well take place at Washington, with war; veterans sharing in the program. - , lEOfflUCfflWIillGllE FIL1EHI5 FOB ALL FORESEEfJ Public Educated, . Can :f and .Vyni'Carry Burden and . - Assist Others vi - " 2' By George Thomas ' (President. TTnlmraJtv f TTi.i' " .The" educational thought of the nation for decades has stood, firm tor state maintenance of elemen tary ana secondary education. , For years prior ; to" the "pesen t decade educational thought moved etrong- souc EOF POWER 1 . Prophets of New Engineer- . ihg Believe Lone Man Jo Control Much REAM OF LIGHT JOINS LONDON MUSIC HALL TO FAMOUS CHURCH y - r By John Ii. Cooley . - (AnocUted Prea Seime Editor ... " . NEW YORK.-MAP) Vacuum tubes.'those Aladdin lamps of ad ence that run the I world's radio sets, are making a back number of Jules Veftie. Within their fragile shells, are Iy In the dlrection-ot higher e4uca-bmUf87r leetrlc weT de" .-a j UAVIMBi numoers sent their sona and daughters to college. However; when the colleges be came overcrowded, the Instruction-! ai rorces overloaded, and the main tenanee funds insufficient.' the de- sirauiuty o sucn an ideal was questioned. It must be said that at no time has stateniupported higher educa tion commanded unqualified gup port. There were always those who maintained that this type of edu cation should be ;pald , for by the Immediate beneficiaries or snp- portea by private beneficence. The opponents of state-support-, ea institutions of higher learning said that too many were, going to couege. that college education was not worth the cost, la spite of the fact that the durability of our in stitutions depends, upon the intel ligence of the electorate. ' ? , t- -or some -years a number of very valuable : studies in mental measurements had been carried on, and In recent years some results became . available. . Unfinished as they were, .they were set up' as reasons to Justify limiting the facilities of higher education to tha chosen few. Just how -these few were to be chosen neither the layman nor educator augareats sat isfactorily, but limited they must be! A question then- arises: Are we; because of the increased cost due to increased, numbers, ; over- turn a policy well along In its for mative stages, and turn, to the de velopment of a special class, where the privileges of education will be limited to the few who possess wealth T , It is the writer's opinion that no Intellectual or financial reasons have been set forth to Justify such a policy. With the wealth of the nation increasing as never before. what ' fundamentally sound argu-l men t is there that the state can not carry the added load? If the old national ideal of leav ing the door open for those with ability and energy is to be set aside, and a new one adopted, it should be considered with great care and deliberation. Such-a policy of curtailment Is not the way out. But with, the pub lic educated to it we not only can, but will,' carry the "added burden and ocntlnue the pollcyof a col lege education for thoss who want it. - con trol that lead to a hew field ' of engineering so ".vast- that it re quires the Imagination of a .Verne to suggest' its limitations if in deed there 7 are any,' - -" J "t Open Doors, Torn On lights r- ; Research -men, f reticent gentle men who direct the progress of a busy world from their obscure lab oratories,' already have developed tubes capable of controlling such diverse accessories of civilization as garage doors airway flood lights and municipal lighting sys tems. What these scientists have up their sleeves is not for public disclosure,; but they have divulged enough to keep Industry hustling it 'endeavors to: keep up with them. -. " Not long ago the late Elbert H. Gary waved a hand in front of a little glass bulb in. his; New York office and the new! electrical mills IV- 1, SHOD OF HOI IDS ii STUD I S I and J- - : The Coliseum, London's famous music hall, now throws Its beam of light at night on the church of St. Martln's-in-the-Fleld He"). . " GROWERS NEEDING E G MO N hundreds" of miles away, 1 - were believes OOme rrODlemS May the London Coliseum, London's LONDON (AP) The church and the stage have been brought nearer together In London b y great; beam of light. ' " The clock In the steeple of St. Martin's-ln-the-Fleld8, under . ; a new arrangement. Is now brightly i illuminated at nirht br a search light projected from the tower of The Shedd Maeonle and Eastern star lodges are making pfans for construction of a building large enough ; to i accommodate their membership. They have outgrown the hall they are using at present. started for the first time. Recent ly the Westlnghouse Electric St Manufacturing company demon strated a '.'mechanical man." a de vice permitting one . man control of power at great distances. Again, the same company showed how the roar of an airplane motor,, ap proaching a landing field at night. could be made to turn on the floodlights of the airway. Operate Crossing Signals in eacn case the miracle was worked by a vacuum tube, so sen sitive to light or sound that the flick of a hand, the vibration of a voice or motor, sent the electrons In the tiny chamber scurrying on their errand of establishing an electric' current strong enough' to operate an ordinary relay and cir cuit.-. . . . ..i, . t Utilizing . the same , principles, engineers say it would be possible for a motorist to open his garage door at night merely by allowing his searchlights to shine on a tube placed near the doors. Similarly, automobiles could operate their own traffic or grade crossing sig nals, and in like manner the com ing of dusk or dawn could auto matically turn on and off a mu nicipal lighting!, plant, ' thus elimi nating the human' agent.' Some day.' say these prophets of the new engineering a lone man stationed at a strategic point will control completely ' and Infallibly the operation of a vast power sys tem extending over 'half a conti nent, "Mechanical men" Vacuum tubes on duty j throughout the network of wires will instantly tell him when anything goes wrong. and he will be able to ascertain at a glance the location of the trou (Ooatianad ea pas 17) Palace Cellar Searched Yearly j On Guy Fawkes Day in England (Continued on page 17) LONJ)ON; ( A PJ Underneath the Palace of Westminster, queer figures bearing steel halberds with reda&d gold tassels and lan terns' poked about,'; peering into aamp corners , ana oenina eariy tudor staircases. ? ; i Only, the shuffle of - their feet and the occaslonaly Clank of their medal a echoed through the hol low vaults, tThe " flickering oil lamps glinted dully on their royal red tunics with ; purple facings, and gold lace ornaments. Often the outlines of : their red knee breeches and red stockings were lost in the shadbwsV K':' : Their inspection orer. the Yeo men, of the Guard climbed labor iously tor most of them are old men with beards up the various stairways ; leading r up ' Into the houses of parliament and reported that all was safe.- They have gone through the ceremony- every time parliament resumed sittings since the November day in 1605 when other "Beereaters" seized Guido Fawkes in the act of blowing up the British congress. . - , Thus resumed, the ;; house of lords and the house of commons were called to order and parlia ment resumed its .1927 session. : The' British cling Jealously to traditions, -- and Guy Fawkes Day waji,. celebrated as . zealously - this year as It was in the early sixteen thcentury. . Effigies of Guy Fawkes, regarded in England as a "Benedict Arnold", were burned t."'-U:--.V-." r r r 7 Be Solved By Building Community Houses . .... ji!-. -.... w Tsars since Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Palace of Westminster In England the reproduction of an old print (right) abows him alarmed In the act -but the palace cellar sUll Is inspected before each resumption of Parliament by the Yeomen of the Guard, shown (left) ; returning from the' 1927 ceremony. Fawkes home (below) ta London Is the scene on each Guy Fawkes day of bonfires In memory pt his slot. at public bonfires all fcfer Eng-' land. The occasion gave license to hordes of street urchins to beg pennies,-supposedly to buy kind ling wood for Guy, X'a-Ices bonfires.- " c The- Gun" Powder? Plot, which gave rise to these. celebrations of deliverance, was conceived by per sons who 'were allegedly persecut ed during the reign of Queen Elis abeth, and James I. Guido (Guy) Fawkes, a soldier of fortune who had distinguished himself In Flan ders fighting with the Spanish ar my, was put la charge of the tn txigue. He rented a house adjoin Ing the building where he poser') as the eervant of the owner. With the other j conspiroatons, C SACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec. S. (AP) The American deciduous fruit grower either must extend and strengthen the cooperative marketing system to increase his margin of profit and . work for a' high-grade industry or engage in a battle for the survival of the fittest, from which he may emerge as a casual,' says J. L: Nagle, man ager . of the California Fruit Ex change. ". 'K ' ' ' "... ' : The situation In the . industry, which also Includes grapes, ' not alone " In California but through out the United States, generally is unsatisfactory,' Nagle declares, due to the fact that growers are not working, sufficiently together to gain control. - : "Present conditions cannot con tinue and Improvement be expect ed, as there are too many shipping factors, which include the specu tators or cash buyers,1 contributing situations ' decidedly unfavorable and unbeneficial," he told The As sociated Press. "- " r Marketing Study-Needed i "Growers, if they will organize, have It entirely within their power to save the industry.- Through or ganization they can control the in dustry and can regulate distribu tion, "thua ; avoiding - gists and famines in the market and can maintain prices at, a higher leveL 4 While growers received good re turn for this year's crop, none are overburdened with cash, Nagle de clared. - He is optimistic about the 1928 outlook, but he is cautious. for he believes the recurrence next year of conditions encountered this past season will bring no general Improvement in deciduous fruit raising such as must be put into effect, he says, to save the Indus try. Production costs have mount ed from year to year; until now, he declared, the : margin . between ex pense and individual.- sales is ex tremely narrow. l ... z .. .' : - Not only must growers organise Into associations and shipping groups. hut they must give more attention : to marketing, that " the industry may be brought back to proflUble levels," Nagle said..FaH ure of growers to give attention to the marketing of their own prod nets he regards as one of the most deplorable .conditions in the indus try." He holds that in the growing of a crop there Is no profit; profit comes from orderly selling. Grow ers who' are members of the big and orderly cooperatives receive this margin. 7 Those who sell to speculators or cash buyers do not. for the margin, Nagle believes. goes to field buyers. A meeting will be held at San Francisco fin the hear future, he said, for the purpose of Interesting not only growers, but also" bank ers, railroad executives and ship pers in the necessity for extending the orderly selling system. - Nagl-a holds that the railroads should de mand of all -shippers heavy bonds for their own protection;?? Fur- jttermore, he believes banks should insist upon adequate assurance that crops they finance be disposed of through orderly marketing channels. ' . - Survival of the Industry also li dependent, Nagle thinks, upon, in ternal improvement through strict er and better standardization, grading and packing, elimination of " varieties' undesirable to the trade and reduction by improved methods of pruning and fertiliza tion of the small fruits that lack public; demand. t Community Parking nouses - He "believes some of these prob lems can be solved with the aid of the community packing i houses, such as those operated by the Ex changed In them fruit may be preperly graded and packed. ? The community packing house he regards also as a means of re ducing the growers'; overhead, be cause it eliminates the necessity of each grower maintaining pack ing forces in vineyards and or most gayiy illuminated music, hall. - The arrangement is Intended to be permanent, ' as a convenience to the public and to Indicate the good feeling existing : today be tween the church and the thea ter. St Martin's, built in 1726, is to London' British theatrical folk what the Little Church Around the Corner Is to New York profes sionals, and Sir Oswald Stoll, own er of-the Coliseum, himself is member of -the church. - : - Nell Gwyn Is burled there as Is Thomas - Chipendale, fampous cabinet maker. It was at 6t. Mar tin's that. Pious George III acted as churchwarden, The crypt of the church, never closes and has been made com fortable so that London't home less men and women may find a place to sleep there at any time of the day -or night. SAYS LEWS IIS T BE WELL QUALIFIED From Point of View of Equipf ; ment Schools Keeping ,. Pace With Time (Continued on Page 17), (Continued on Tags Z . By Dr. Brace R. Payne (President f Gtorfi PnMr CUt -. xor xeaeaen, nasartua, Tena. .The fact that modern life, has suddenly called upon the average man and woman to face problems and make decisions for which they know no precedent and hare.no preparation, presents perhaps the gravest danger which threatens our civilization today. It la our belief that the only agency which la suflclently wide spread in Its Influence and sufl clently homogeneous in Its or ganizatloa and purpose to be en trusted with the solution of this problem is our public school sys tem. - ; There are 23.259.000 students enrolled In our public schools but 97Ter cent never go to college. ; Thus, our public schools which represent the maximum organized education which 97 per cent of at Americans ever receive offer the only practical agency for the so lution of the problems on whose solution depend, as never before, the future of our civilization, thfi trend of our Institutions, the kinl of society and the measure of its opportunity under-which the chil dren and grand-children of all of us will have to work and' live. From the point Of view of build ings, equipment and number of teachers our public, ichool system is ovblously keeping pace, with modern Jife. . f , - . But what is going on Inside all those costly. buildings? Our uni versities, colleges and professional schools are . paying big dividend) in national economic advancement, in. physical welfare and. In new knowledge. But these institutions are not training the kind of lead ers who will pass new knowledge and .understanding , down to the average citizen, in order that they. In turn, may , take an Intelligent and constructive' part In this new world that is now growing around them. j : :-:T i; ,' rA- iy -1 ' ' This vital function Is left today. almost entirely, to'a new type of institution the college for teach ers. " : V '". " From: Its long Intimate touch with our national public school system and as the result' of in vestigation, George Peahody Col lege fox Teachers haa reached the conclusion tnat the only hope of the public schools meeting the re sponsibilities which our age calls upon them to face, depends upon the same coordinated whole-prob lem scientific effort in this field as has achieved such remarkable results in other fields. ? 4 . Our program at Peabody pro" poses the creation of a cooperative, scientific organization to attack the problem of publio school edu cation as a whole. i Sanitary Equipment Labor Saving Devices tM mong Amcies k Washington, D. C. Dec. UQf , therlng and compiling facts on , , sandtary equipment and IabtiC- i ving ; devices and - other, valuable" s information on that most basic of all American . institutions, - the Home, '.was the .first step . In - unique program . of ; the . Genl . Federation of Women's Clubs, in- T itiated by. Mrs. ' John Dickinson i Sherman ;wnen, sue . was eieciea president three years ago. ; Information gleaned from near-A, Iy 8,000,000 urban hOmeaand 40- j 000 farm homes, the greatest andjT most amazing mass -of facta and figures on this super-vital subpect. ever assembled by any organ tion or agency, is now being ! llzed. - Interesting, even startl , aa mucn or tnis lniormation is,M valueless except as it serves as a basis for effort to remedy de fects and improve: conditions. The Home Equipment survey was not the end of this gigantic organized effort; it was fcut the beginning. ' The great, thrilling accompllsh menta actually getting water piped Into homes Into which it has heretofore been carried by the tons 'annually; getting electricity wired into homes to raise burdens from already bending backs; get ting gas piped -into homes-that have hitherto had only old f ashl ioned wood and coal .stoves . for cooking - and ..heating-; -these , are the. next remarkable projects on which the Federation Is embark ing. . . High Commendation Given with what success and interest this work is meeting is set forth not only in letters of gratitude from women whose problems tiiV Federation Is frying to help eolv, ' but also from leaders In America VlT govern m en tal life, including tK Departments of Agriculture, Comj merce and the Interior; and from the greatest minds In science, let ters and" Industry,- the nation's professions and Its industries be ing fully represented in the Gen eral Federation's rirrespondence files In the highest commandat5on of the Federation's Home Equip ment Survey and Foirow-up Cam palgn..,, , . ,-To.ia-te S3 State Federations cf Women's Clubs have expressed the desire to do something to im prove the standard of home mak ing methods and home making e quipment revealed in their states by-hesurvey. .This Interest has tor ayear past taken the form ot definite activities In many of the states. In others Intensive work is now being launched or It will be launched before" the -nx"of, the year.x ts- , . vUnder the .competent, direction of Mrs W. E. Minier of Oakland, president.. 1915-1927, of the Ne braska Federation of Women's Clubs that state was first to get unoer way a state-wiae program to- bring, home equipment condi tlons abreast of jnodern sclentiS j achievements. Nebraska approach- X ed- its-problem through- publicity' V exhibits and club programs on the ' . Ul.! - ... ... V Nebraska Is Premier State . -"The Home equipment story of all towns and cities .In Nebraska that, Were surveyed was . sent to the "editors of the newspapers in those places and In most instances Is was published," says Mrs. Min ier. She i says: "The .Nebraska Federation has , had splendid co operation from the Agricultural cslleges of the - State University, business v- firms.' manufacturing houses, public utilities companies. newspapers, magazines and motion picture houses.' "In turn one of the comments made by Mr. J. W. Searsoh of the University Publish ing Company of Lincoln in a let ter; said: .-'Many hundreds of homes are being definitely benefited as a re sult of Ihe constructive and force ful; campaign in the Interest of better equipped homes. The syn dicated articles on Better Homes are the first ever published In N- a 1 a - - - - orasaa wnicn nave made anvthtnt: like a lasting impression I cea. tainry congratulate the president otthe Nebraska State Federation on the splendid results achieve ; - . Texas a Close Second . :; Texas yery shortly followed Ne braska's lead. A campaign was gottea.under way In that state during the second week In Feb ruary of this year. Following the Wlllard Bayliss, who has addres U.'FIelds. and the American Home Department Chairman, Mrs. J. I Young, initiated activities by cull ing a Joint meeting of representa tives of the State Federation, state educational Institutions, tbe press and public utility officialo. Through initial meetings the co operation of the business men', un iversity Extension Services, the schools and the rural groups were assured. The Minnesota camnairn has been going on informally for some months under the direction of Mrs. Y ed more than fifty thousand w-f men to date, on health, cons;' " tion and the elimination -of dru- j " ery through adequate home equiL raent. ' - Other states doing just as fine, and fascinating things to raise the standards of living In American Homes include Nevada, Rhode Is land Florida. Ohio. Illinois, Mi' ssippi. Colorado. Oregon, Wash ington. Idaho, Ne w Hampshire Maine and ; many otters. , Japanese farmers have started t an insurrection, according to ca- J ble dispatches. Wonder if they j Ihlame their condition ca to th rordner-McCwter tsri!:?