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Medford Mail Fifth Section Eight Pages UNE Fifth Section Eight Pages MEDFORD, OKKOOX. SUNDAY, .11' A' is. i;il). No. 127. AGE IS THE WHEAT QUEEN OF KANSAS RlTp.LKTTK, Kits. W1) A mithlU' netl woman of tis is proving tJiat there's money to bo mul in wlieat fiirminp, with or without farm "rti-ll-f." They fall Mm. Ma Welkins the "wheat quen" of Kansas primarily hecausfi her farm 1 ItiMirntf.s an ap plication of big business methods to atfrltuilture. She has mlaiitoil metropolitan factory methods tn her 4, .100 acres near here to earn that title. A cattle fiueen of Oklahoma be fore shf pame to Kansas to raise Kohlen fields of Rrain on a larse scale, Mrs. Watkins, a widow, will Hftt her Si 0 years of farming cli maxed this year by the largest crop she has harvested. And this woman who is showing the way to the wheat farmers of the west is no white collared 'ex ecutive. She direct the work of her farm, aided by the lessons her years of experience have taught her, and when the harvest comes, nhe personally supervises the great task. She Is systematic and business like in the management of the farm. She ' keeps ac counts of all operations. Only the most modern farm equipment is used. She pays her employes for the time they are hired, rain or shine. Tractors work day and night. Her business shrewdness has been demonstrated more than onOe to her financial advantage. Iist year she had 2,500 acres in wheat and when flO.oOO bushels were harvested, he decided she wouldn't sell any of it for less than $ 1 a bushel. She waited and with profit. When her husband died in 9f2, she was left with a ranch with 1650 head of cattle. Assuming charge, she operated the ranch for eight years profitably before she was lured to Kansas by the prospect of great profits in wheat. She bought some land for $H,fiihi and in the first year harvested a crop which brought her SH.XOO. The acreage was increased to 280 in l!-3 and In four years she sold $J8,000 worth bf wheat from that tract, . This year she expects to harvest 7 5.000 bushels. , , . . Mrs. AVatkins farm-. U a show place during the harvest season, fehe employs scores of men who work in three shifts of eight hour: each tn complete the gathering of gram in a minimum time. Mr-. Watkiiw has h.-r wn lnl- . "i.phy atu.ui farmiiig and it en-, taint no ,-ry fr farm r,-li-r. To the country. si,. juts IheiV ru.ir.' pr.-fiuil.l.- busiu-ss in the mid west ihan farminii. and believes thai wheat fanners wilt find relief in cooperating in growing and mar-' keting their crop. "Hard work, rnix-d with nun-' mun sense, never starved to death on a Kansas farm." she oftentimes has s.iid. und a nu1y of her own profits indicates the basis for her statement. v "Th-y i.iM nu. the wheat queen" she muses. "Well, if I'm Mij.-,n f anything. Tm .pJe-n of hard work." FEDERAL FARM BOARD AT FIRST MEETING Friday in America, Saturday in Europe, Back Home Sunday I Floating landing fields for trans-1 I Atlantic air transportation in use I within the next five years is tin , confident prediction f Kdward R. I Armstrong, consulting engineer, j the du I'ont corporation. Mr. Arm- strong Jias designed a seadrome i which, he says, will be put into ; immediate use. A series of eight of these large floating islands, strung across the I Atlantic at intervals of UTT. miles, i he says, will remove the hazard , from ocean flying and make it pos . sfble to leave the I'niled States by ; airplane Kriilay. spend Saturday , and Sunday in Ktirope ami return to New York In time for the open ing of business Monday. He rn--. tinries: 'This is not the idle dream of an opt i mist Ic imagination. Kive , years at the least should see the ; system of air transportation in complete operation. In fact, the ! first seadrome, now under con-jsirtu-tion. will be placed in opera tion between New York and Iler muda next year. When It is thor oughly tested, construction will be gin on dromes for the trans-Atlantic route." I Nor is the seadrome a wailing ' infant financially. It lias the sup j port of a prominent group of husi- ness men. many of them being ! active in the dn Pont and General j Motors corporation. The cost of ! building this first of the series will i be between M.finu.Mun and $2. lion, - tutt) loss than that of some of the first-class land airports and about 1 0 per rent of t he cost of the largest passenger liner. A seismograph is a devise for measuring the shocks and un dulatory motions of earthquakes. An Arkansas flying school re quires students to construct and fly an airplane. 10 PASSION PLAYS: WASHINGTON, p. C, July 27. '"Nancy, Fran v e, which still bears the scars of the fa mono Haitle of Nancy of the World War, is resuming Ia Vassian a Nancy (The Nancy Passion Play this summer," says a bulletin from the Washington, n. '. headquar ters of the National Geographic Society. "Nancy, with more than 1 00,000 inhabitants, is an Important Junc tion point of railroads running from Paris eastward and from northern Kuropo to. the Mediter ranean . It lies due east of Paris a bunt the same distance as New York City is from Washington, It. c Oiu-e Capital of liormlno "Nancy began its long, event ful history as the site of the pal ace of the Dukes of Txirraine in the twelfth century, hut th trav eler is not long in the French city before be is aware- that Stan islas Leczinskl. former king of Poland and father-in-law of louls XV, was the moving spirit in de veloping the city. Th taxi cabs from the railroad swing into the Kue Stanislas, a wide thoroughfare- which nearly bisects Nancy. Near the center of the city the thoroughfare passes under the Porte Stanislas, an old arched j gateway, and. several blocks be j yond. terminates at Stanislas 1 Square where a bronze statue of ! the Duke reposes. j " 'Nancyites' and some- travel-j ers aver that the Fquure is one, if the most beautiful in Kurope. j In two corners monumental foun-; tains play while here and there j are gateways and balconies of grill work by artists of the eigh-j teenth century. The Square is I surrounded by a theater building, j a military club, the Grand Hotel, and the Hotel de Ville. The hit ter now is a combination museum i and art gallery. Its hallways arej hung with painting by leading, Kuropenn artists, and in some ofj its rooms are- displayed tapes- i tries, furniture, glass work and statuary that, have figured in Nancy's history. Ornamental Gateways Itecall Kiirly Walled City "Within a stone'H throw of the Square, the traveler passes thru the Nancy Arc de Trlomphe and into a maze of narrow winding streets which pass buildings that were old when Jamestown, Vir ginia, was first settled. This pur- I I V to T IDE CHEERS UP 10 GET REWARDS J COTTON Hjf--''-.- ! -1 1-1,, a r:iuH, j T N, ,Iuly :rs. (,-1v-- Trous women are becoming ar the cotton iiidutiy in a world which has cunt i'i -erreed short skirts during yea i s. pajamas. oy. cut sailor fa sash are 1 of trou? rails and hloti with moile in ers which began with (he bloomers worn bv the daring few ilutlni; the bievi le Members of the newly organized farm board as they met for the first time in Washington. Left to right, sitting: James C. Stone of Lexington. Ky.. vice chairman: Arthur M. Hyde. creUry ol agri culture and ex officio member: President Hoover: Alexander H. Legqe. chairman, and Chanes C. Teague of Los Angeles. Standing: William F. Schilling ol Northfield. Minn.; Charles S. Wilson of Maii N v.. r.ari VVlUiam ol Oklahoma Citv and C E. Denmari ol Frminqton. Mo I I,eoptdd. a narrow parkway on : tilt! Southwest of the old city, i runs the length of the old wall site. : "Nancy owes much of Its de- velopment to the railroad junc i lion, but throughout the city there are tobacco factories and tion of the city was once sur rounded by a high wall, of which only a few gates remain. At one of these gates Charles the Kohl perished when he attempted to take the city. "Near the site of the obi north east wall, the Place tie la Larrierei ,.,, inbacen factor!' is one of the old towns few open IU( weaving mills. Kadi year spaces. The Place is entered: tmi University and numerous far through the Arc de Trlomphe. Bt.lot,M ur uu (.iVl as well as the Nancy Thermal, whose waters are sought by sufferers from rheu matism, gout a nd arthritis, bring many visitors. 'Wherever the traveler may find himself in Nancy, he is sel dom out oT sluht of a church tower or steeple. The guide points out this edifice as the place where Marie Antoinette once prayed at the altar, ami thai idlfice as the phice of burial of an important widespread is the use of i j such garb becoming that the styl, idvisory board of the National Association of f'otton Maunfae-' j tuiers suggests, in its monthly re-. port issueii toil ay. that women throughout the country will don! pajamas fur house wear, and even porch and lawn use. within a year. "The present vogue- for t runs- 1 ers h:ul its beginning in the , bloomers worn with bicycling .-oh-' mines." die reports sets forth. "At that time (hero was a loud outcry ag-ainst disappearing fa m Inlnity. breaking up of the home., subservience of men, etc. ! i 'Hut the entrance of women In to t be field of war work was a ( different story. It was considered a noble duty to discard feminine frivolity. The farmerette appear ed, women donned overalls In fac tories and uniforms were almost general. "Trousers for women during the period between HO it ami lit-1 1 IIAUTFOIM). Conn. 7T Caress ing the pocketbouk or spanking it ha been conceded by experts to be a most potent means of rewarding or punishing good or bad deeds. I io I. bins It. Stoeckel. motor ve hicle commissioner, has t his In mind when he proposed to a 19-9 legislative committee that the rare i fill, inoffensive driver be "noticed" as much as the careless, habitually trouble making one. So the legislature enacted a law, be the first of its kind in the country, through which the Connecticut motorist who Is "good" will lie rewarded, via the pocket bouk :nd t he motorist who is 'bad" will be punished, via the I said ;i Die itilte member of a Kuropoan royal fam ily. In the same tome, he points out the St. Kpvre Church in the ohl town as the site of a church,; meant men's knickerbockers, worn in the tower of which 100 Kur-lfor any possible excuse. The idea gundian officers were hanged In j was there to stay. So fashion de 1 177 because they took the llfelrjtied to capitalize it. The slate gives official sanction, and provides an o."f Icial basis, for a pla 11 t hat has been used by in surance companies for many years - giving hv. basic, liability get 1 1 1 1 11 trouble and raising the rates to drivers who rarely or never rates of (hose who figure too fre quently in police or civil courts. All but "perfect" drivers wilt be classified. The "perfect" will have the basic rate. Those who make minor infractions, of traffic laws will go Into class A. and their in surance rates will leap It) per cent. Clifss II will hold the "many-accident, many law-breaking" drivers, with rates per cent above the b;.sic. clucc c the "habitual of fender and the drunken driver" will be rated &11 per cent over the basic. Insurance companies will work out the rates. Mr. Stoeckel will provide the classification lists. Just inside on tho right is the 1 Palace of Justice. At tho other! end tf the opening are the Gov-1 eminent and the Ducal Palace, the latter dating three years he-, fore the discovery of America. I "The Promenade d la Pepin-1 lere, a large- parkway bordering the old town on the northeast, 1 Is another feature of the city that owes its existence to Stanislas, and Is but one of many shaded spots where the people of Nancy spend their summer evenings. The Hotanical Gardens can bo reach-,' ed in a few minutes' walk fromj the Promenade while the fours: textile-of a Cnambevlain of Lorraine. During the World War Nancy im! somewhat like Metss who-' church spires can be seen from the hills about Nancy, and St. Mihicl where the American troops defeated a German army. Nancv residents were so accustomed to healing shells and witnessing the devastation of their city by enemy uiin the that within a few min utes after the city locslim warn-j ed that the enemy had ceased i bombardment, children emerged J from their underground shelters and bad their kites in tlio air." 1 "The demand for sun and nlr brought the Idea out in the open. In Venice, on t he Lido, smart society found that It could bo both smart and comfortable lying n round the beaches all day in pajamas." The latest costumes are the ov eralls, printed or plain, wit h hats of rough straw or cotton fabric. And the logical answer to men's plus fours, the stylists believe, uro the long duck or crash trousers j cut sailor fashion and worn with j a sleeveless tnck-ln shirt and pi rale sash at tennis or sailing. I ''.Truths About the Meter" Is thp title of an interesting and educa tional booklet being mailed by tho Southern Oregon Gas corporation witlt their monthly bills. Tho booklet explains In an tin derstaudable, non-scientific way, exactly how the gus meter works. Probably everyone has nt one Mm or another wished they could read their own meter. liow to read your meter Is a simple and easy thing to do if you follow the instructions. Plnaalf ixi nd vrtlne . remiU. Et9 . . . . the Truck that THE CHALLENGER has the rieht Out- Climbs 11 1 Pulls Performs IS ChaUenging A&riety at our Color Show Come see the beauty and variety which Essex offers at no extra cost. In every other way open to proof Essex has proved its right to dare. It chal 1 lenges the performance, the style, the luxurious comfort of any car at any price. No other gives you back so much for every dollar you put in. wheel brakes, radiator shutters and air cleaner are standard. V T VT VTTTT VT VTV YT YY YWTWTWTf TTTVVVTTt all othersy of similar rating, under full load THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ranges of pulling power six forward speeds do the trick. There's an effi cient gear ratio for every road and every load I It is the one truck that can take a full load and go out and out-climb, out-pull. WE are glad to introduce this heavy duty speed truck to our home community because we feel that our friends who have rural hauling to do need its outstanding performance. It is the one truck designed and built A big, adult-size "Six".. Fine to look at. Roomy and com fortable. A SUPER -SIX motor challenging up to 0 miles an hour. Hydraulic shock absorbers, 4- Your present car will probably cover the entire first payment. The II. M C. Put chase tlun oflers tha lowest terms available on the balance. ARMSTRONG MOTORS, INC. Add up yourself the $100 in "extras" that Essex provides at no extra cost. 4 Wide Choice of Color AT .0 EXTItA COST &?5 AMD fACJORY from end to end specially for rural service. It is the one Speed Truck with six speeds forward and two reverse and it has 4 wheel brakes into the bargain. It is the one truck that can pull a 60-bushel load of wheat up a 38 grade, across plowed ground, through deep sand, and in and out of ditches, and then light out at a good, fast clip when it hits the hard highway. The two Here is the Secret! Tlit twn-itetdrtat axlt.combintd with Iht regular transmission, iivei Iht Sir-Speed Sfiexial Truck mine an opportunity lo deliver its full tower through the proper tear ratio for every road and load. and Out-perform all others, of similar rating, under full load. We are not guessing at this there are good mechanical reasons why the Six-Speed Special can do these things, and do them easily. Come in and tell us you're "from Missouri"; we are ready to back up every thing we've said with a truck dem onstration such as you've never seen before. ELWOOD'S AUTO SHOP 118 So. Central Avenue Mcdford, Ore. Phone 769 101 S. Riverside Ave. Mione 13
