HALSEV ENTERPRISE
FAGB 4
FEB. 2.
1922
Britain ta lk s ol freeing
Egypt
by tha forest aervlre thia yeaf. bla an­
nua! report states, showed the extent
of the depletion ot the nation's tor-
i cats, and have served to focus atten-
I -loo on the fact that the country le
1 short of growing forests and that
something must be done at once. The
acute
shortage
and
skyrocketing
~ Tn knars« whispers. M rs M lilo llan d
chided her husband for an exclama­
tion be had ottered
"John! On Sun­
day! Ton ought to be ashamed."
“I couldn’t help It," he exclaimed
“Who on earth Is his clinging vine?
Why, she's got lavender tops on her
shoes and— ”
"Don't look round !'* she warned him
sharply, "Don't— "
“W ell, what's he doing at a Baptist
By BERNARD M. BARUCH
church? W h at’s he fidgeting at hie
handkerchief about?
Why can't h<
walk like people? Does he think It's
obligatory to walk home from churcl
(Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly)
anchored arm-in-arm like Swedes ot
a Sunday Out? Who la this cow-eyed
fat girl that's got him, anyhow?"
' ey. We Americans are prone, ns Pro­
fessor David Friday well saye In hla
*<
" H u s h D o n ' t look round again,
To taka a tolerant and sympathetic adm irable book. "Profits. Wages and
John.'*
view of the farm ers' strivings for bet­ Prices,” to sack a "crim inal Intent be­
"Never fe a r!" said her husband hnv
•ng disobeyed. "They've turned off. ter things Is not tn give a blanket hind every difficult and undesirable eco­
they’re crossing over to Bullard street. endorsement to any specific plan, and nomic situation.” I can positively as­
still lees to appMud the vagaries of sert from my contact with men of
Who Is i t r
some of their leaders sod groups
large affairs. Including bankers, that,
" I think her name's Rust,” Mrs Mil
holland Informed him. “ I don’t know N either should we, on the other hand, as a whole, they are endeavoring to
fu lfill as they see them the obllgutions
what her father docs
She's one of allow the froth o f M tte r agitation,
the girls In his class at school.
It false economics, sad mistaken radical­ that go with their power. Preoccupied
would be pleasanter If he'd taken a ism to conceal the facta of the farm ­ w ith the grave problems and heavy
tasks of their own Immediate affairs,
fancy to someone „hose fam ily be­ ers’ disadvantages, and the practlcahlh
Ity of elim inating them by well-con­ I they have not turned their thoughtful
longs to our own circle.”
sidered measures. It may be that the personal attention or their construc­
"Taken a fancy!" he echoed, hooting
farmers w ill not show the business
tive abilities to the deficiencies of agri­
"W hy, he'a te rrib le ! He looked like
sagacity sad develop the wise leader­ cultural bnslneas organisation.
Agrt-
a red gllled goldfish that's flopped It­
ship to carry through sound p la n t: hut
chltdre, It msy be said, suffers from
self out of the bowl. Why, he— ’’
that possibility does not Jastlfy the
their preoccupation and neglect rather
" I say I wish If he felt that he had
i A Good Stand of Young Short-Leaf
obstruction of th eir upward efforts. than from any purposeful exploitation
to take girls anywhere," said Mrs. M il
Pine Which Ranges From New Jer­
We, at city people, gee In high and ! by them. They ought now to hegln to
holland, with the primmest a ir of
sey te Texas,
speculatively
manipulated
prices, ' respond to the farmers' difficulties
speaking to the point— " If this sort of
spoilage, waste searcHy, the results which they must realise are th eir own
orices o f lumber and newsprint early
thing must hegln, I wish he might have
On the other hand my contacts wit
of defective distribution of farm p - d-
n the year also contributed to the
selected some nice girl among the
the
farm
ers
have
filled
me
with
reaper
□cts. Shouid it not occur to us that
rowth of the movement.
daughters of our own friends, like
wc have a common Interest with the for fhem— for their sanity, their pr
The forest service Is advocating a
Dora Yocum, for Instance.”
W ithin the last
farm er In hl» attempts to attain a de­ tlence, their balance
program based on the conviction that
Upon the spot she began to undergo gree of efflclencj In distribution <■ r- year and p articu larly ar a meeting
the problem Is national and not local,
the mortifications of a mother who respondlng to hl# efficiency In produe- called by the Kansas State Board of
lia s expected her son. Just out of In | Hon?
Do not the recent fluctuations tg rlcu ltu re and at another called by and must be bandied as such. Natlon-
„ Ide protection from forest fire for
fancy, to look shout him with lit» eve in the May wheat opth n, apparently • he Committee e f Seventeen, I b a i t
all (la s s e s o f forest laud. Colonel
of s critical matron of forte fit?
mar
many
of
the
leaders
of
the
ne
•
unrelated te B .rn n l Intsi action if
Greeley states. Is the first and most
M oreoier, she « a * Indlsoeet enough supply and demand, offer a timely farm movement, and 1, testify Ifl all
essential step.
It Is h l* belief that
to express her views to Ramsey, a proof of the need of some such stabil­ sincerity that they are endeavoring to
the police powers of the states offer
week later, producing thus a scene of ising agency as the grain growers have deal with their problems, not a t pro­
the best means of enforcing reason­
useless great fury and no little sound
moters of s narrow class Interest, not
In contemplation?
able requirements against forest de­
" I do think It's In very poor taste
It la contended that, I f their pro- as exploiters of tha hapless consumer.
struction.
to see to much of any one girl, Ram
p- sed organizations bd perfected and ' °®‘ ” merel,* M » « ‘'•P » "« » . but as
Legislation Needed.
sey,” she said, and, not heeding hl» ;
honest'meat bent on tha Improvement
operated, the farmers w ill have In
The expense of fire protection, the
protest that he only walked home from
of tha common weal.
forester says, should be borne Jointly
school with M llla. ‘about every other their hands an Instrument that w ill he
W e ran and must meet such me i
capable of dangerous abuse. We are and such a cause h alf way
by the landowner and the public. He
day," and that It didn’t seem any
Their
told that It w ill he possible to pervert buetneas la our buslnqgs— the nation's
holds that federal legislation Is need
crime to him Jusl to go to church with
ed to provide for a comprehensive
her a couple o' times, Mrs. Mllholland It to arb itra ry and oppressive price­ business
plan of co-operation with the states
went o n : ." R u t If you think you really
fixing from Ila legitim ate use of order­
In fire prevention and the development
must be dangling around somebody
ing and stabilizing the (low <»f farm
of forestry practice, and the extension
quite this much— though whal In tin- products to the m arket, to the mutual
of the national forests through pur­
world you find to m lk a h o n i w ith ib is
of producer a n d c o n s u m e r
I
chases. through the inclusion of other
funny little M llla Rust your poor fa
have no apprehensions on thia point.
ther says he really cannot s e e -a n d
timber lands now in federal owner­
In the first place, a loose organisa­
of course it seems very queer to us
ship and through exchange.
tion, such as any union of fanners
now when your mind ought tn he en­
Advice Is Particularly Applicable
There are still large quantities of
must be at heat, cannot ba' eo arbi­
tirely on your studies, and especially
timber In the United States, the re­
tra rily and promptly controlled as a
to
Sheepskins.
w ith such an absurd looking little
port states, but they are not In the
great corporation
The one la a lum­
thing—
right place. More than 80 per cent of
bering democracy and the other an airlla
"No, you must listen, Hamse.v, snri autocracy
what Is left lies west o f the Great
In the aecond place, with
let me speak now. W hat I meant was all poaalble power of org ntaatlon, the Sell Direct to Tanners, Thus Elim inat­ Plains, fa r from the bulk of the coun­
ing Middleman or Agents— Re­
that we shouldn't be quite so much farmers cannot succeed to any great
try's
population,
agriculture
and
peated Handling Tands tn
distressed by your being seen with a extent, or for any considerable length
manufacture. The country is taking
girl who dressed In better taste and of time, in fixing prices. The great
about 28.000.000,000 feet of wood from
Reduce Quality.
seemed to have some notion of refine
forests each year and Is growing only
law of supply and demand works In
ment, though of course It’s only nat­ various and surprising ways, to the
A fte r country hides and skins have 8,000,000,000.
ural »lie wouldn't, with a father who undoing of the best laid plana that heea properly and securely bundled
Idle Forest Land.
la Juat a sort of ward politician. I un­ attempt to foil It
In the third place, and tagged ship them to market with
"W e have used up our forests with
derstand, and a mother we don't know, their power w ill avail the farmers out delay, advisee the United States
out growing new ones," says the re­
and of enurse shouldn't care to. But,
nothing If It be abused
In our time Department of Agriculture.
Do not port.
"A t the bottom of the whole
oh, Ramsey ! I f you had to make your­ and country power la of value to Its let the bundle remain In the sun.
problem is Idle forest land. The
self »o conspicuous why couldn't you
possessor only so long as It Is not drafts or water, or against rusty or United
States contains 326,000,000
he a little hit more fastidious? Your
abused
II Is fa ir to say that I have corroding metals. Promptness Io ship-
acres of cut-over or denuded forest
father wouldn't have minded nearly so seen no signs In reapons hie quarters I ping and delivery Is always advisable
containing no new tim ber; 81,000,000
much If It had been a self respecting,
of a disposition to dictate pricee. hut applies particularly to sheepsk'ns.
acres of this amount have been com
Intellectual girl
We both say that If
There seems, on the contrary, to he a They heat rapidly a fte r being bundled,
pletejy devastated by forest fires and
you must be so ridiculous at your age commonly beneficial purpose to realise and In hot weather especially must
methods of cutting which destroy or
as to persist In seehig more of one girl
/T
or^ r1’’ ! reach their destination quickly
prevent new tim ber growth.
than another, why, oh, why, don't you
abundant flow of farm products
Hides and skins should be skipped
“T he area of Idle or largely Idle
go and see some really nice girl like
to the consumer and ensure reasonable | as directly as Is practicable and eco­
land Is being increased by from 3,000,-
Dora Yocum?"
and dependable returns to the pro­
nomical to reliable dealers who sell 000 to 4,000,000 acres annually as the
ducer.
Ramsey was already dangerously
direct to tanner*, thus eliminating un­ cutting and burning of forests con­
distended, ns an effect of the earlier
In view of the supreme Importance necessary middlemen or agent*
Re
tinues.” These facts, together with
part of her discourse, sud the word
to the national well-being of a pros­ pealed handling fends to reduce the
the steadily Increasing distance be­
“fastidious" almost exploded h im ; hut
perous and contented agricultural pop­ quality of hides and akin*
For moat
tween the average sawmill and the
upon this climax, “Dora Yocum," he ulation, we should be prepared to go
farmers, ranchers and small butchers
home builder, "have had a vital hear­
blew up w ith a shuttering report and
a long way In assisting the farm ers to It would be desirable If they could
ing on the high cost of lumber, which
leaving fragments of Incoherence rlco- get an equitable '»hare of the wealth
dispose of their hides and skins Im­ during the year reached a prohibitive
ehettlng behind him, fled shuddering they produce, through the Inaugura­
mediately a fte r removal, without salt
figure for many uses and checked the
from the hous*.
tion of reforms that w ill procure a Ing and curing them, hut thia Is gen
building of home* which It so urgent­
For the rest of the school term hr continuous and increasing stream of eraity Im praetlctble. since only a few
ly needed.”
walked home with M llla every after
farm product*. They are fa r from get­ are near enough to tanneries or d al
noon and on Bunday« appeared to have ting a fa ir share now. Considering er* equipped to handle their products
become a resolute Baptist.
It was hla capital and the long hour« of labor
NATIONALIZE M IS T R A L S HOME
Whenever thus favorably situated,
supposed (by the Interested ‘tneinhere put In by the average farm er and hl*
producers find It both profitable and
of the h!«h-echool class) that Ramsey fam ily, he la remunerated leas than
practicable to sell the hides and skins Suggestion T hat Post Ba Henorto' as
and M llla were “engaged." Ramsey any other occupational class, w ith the
W a * Fahre, tha Great Ento-
In the green, unsalted condition. In
moiogiat.
sometimes rather supposed they were possible exception of teachers, reli­
no case, however, should this method
himself, and the dim Idea gave him a gious and lay. Though we know that
bo considered unless the producer Is
aensatlon p artly pieasant, hut mostly the present general distress of the
Paris — I t would seem that all the
certain that the green hides and skins
farm ers Is exctptional and Is linked
apprehensive; he was afraid.
ruin and devastation of the great war
w ill he delivered promptly. Aa a rule
with
the
Inevitable
economic
readjust­
He was afraid that the day was com
had filled the soul of France with an
24 hours a fte r skinning la the maxi
ment following the w ar. It must be
Ing when he ought to kiss her.
Insatiable desire to conserve the hab­
mum
tim
e
advisable.
remembered that, although represent­
itations and relies of her sons, he their
ing one third of the Industrial product
claim io Im m ortality ever so humble
(To be continued)
and half the total population of the
The chamber decided that the h am as
nation, the rural communities ordi­
nr cottage, at Serignan In Provence,
Men Student* to Raise Child.
Orono, Me - - The home economics narily enjoy hut s fifth to s quarter of
where the great entomologist Henri
the net annual national gain N o tw ith ­
Fahre lived and died should become
department of the University of Maine
standing the taste of prosperity that
national property.
has temporarily adopted Frances Uadi
the farmers had during the wgr, there
But the Proveneaux was not yet con
Ine. four months old.
The 18 young
Is today a lower standard of living
men students of North hall In caiing
tent. They now demand a like honor
among the cotton farm ers of tha South
for their great M istral, whose ntas
for the Infant w ill use the latest sclen
than In any other pursuit In the country
Policy Favored Which Will Insure Is at M atllane M istral's widow »tin
tide methods.
L ittle Frances It tn
In conclusion, It seems to me that the
resides there, a* does the poet's pet
perfect health and sleeps and ti kes I farm ers are chiefly striving for a gen­
Adequate Supply of Various
nourishment on a well defined * bed
spaniel, which wears a collar w ith the
erally tveneflctal lnfegrartoh of their
Forest Products.
proud Inscription. I am Jougenr, the
gio
business of the same kind and charac­
dog of the poet M istral."
ter that other business enjoy«
I f it
Some Aspects of the
Farmers’ Problems
BENDS IN SEPARATOR BRUSH
Straight Handle la Ineonvsnlsnt and
Raquirea Much Tw isting ef
tha W rlet.
The w ire bristle brush which Is used
to clean certain parts of the average
cream separator Is straight and to
do a thorough Job requires lots of
bending of the wrist. By making two
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Parts
A farm er In Nov on
who wished In destroy Ids old
dog gave It some crow |*o|son
The farm er wglted sadly for the
death of Ida old companion, hnl
to his surprise the dog Jumped
about anil harked furiously. The
poison for soma extraordlnnrv
reason, had < ompletely rejnven
alert the aulnial, and It la new
full of fnn and vigor
f" » -W »
I
Nation Wide Fretectien From Fire I t
Fire« and Meat Ktoontlal Step. Ac-
aerdlng to Chief Forester W.
B. Greeley.
daily requirements of cow
Food Used far M ilk Production Mu at
Ba In Addition to T h a t Nacaa-
aory fa r Body.
A cow weighing 1.000 pound« needs
every day. fo r the maintenance of her
(Preaered to
l’»it»<i * » ! • • r*»r»r*"'»»( body, an amount of food equivalent to
•f
)
A demand la growing on tha pari of that supplied in eight pounds o f clo­
wood-using Industrie« and the public ver hay and twenty pound* of good
She must have this food
at large for a national policy of for corn silage
««try which trill Insura adequate fu regardless of whether she produces
ture auppllea of tim ber amVother fnr- any m ilk. Food used for m ilk produc­
est products, according to Chief For tion must he In addltloo to that re-
> W S i ¡Jfurja lajhjrvd QulroiJ to ¡saipttlB toe cow s b-dy.
r*
N a m o l C
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^L»ANY
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Harold Albro.
Manufacturing Optician.
right-angled benda near one end, thus
forming a sort of crank. It w ill be
found that the brush can be used to
greater advantage than before. Cut
off the loop In the end and operate the
brush by turning the handle as a crank.
‘—Farm and Home.
We m ake a
S p e c ia lty o f
F r ie n d s h ip ,
E ngagem ent and
W e d d in g
R in g s
Lib rary ef the Lords.
The library of the house of lords
contains about 80.000 volumes, and
they are set ont In a luxurious suit*
of rooms. The llhrsry Is particular­
ly rich In historical w ork* and me-
moil's, and Include» nne o f the fl»»-«t
collection» of law honk» In London
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p t o m
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Bends in Brush Make It Quite Easy
te Clean Parts ef Cream Separator.
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n an geb
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I n n in u
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A good ligh t w ill niake your eye* last longer and
give better service.
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should he found on exam ination that
the attainm ent of thia end requires
methods different from those which
other activities have followed for the
asm* purpose should we not sympa­
thetically consider the plea for the
right to cooperste. If only from our
own enlightened self Internet, In ct>
talnlng aa abundant and steady Bow of
farm products’
In examining tha agricultural alius
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