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Fifth Section
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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-
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IDE CHEERS UP 10 GET REWARDS
J COTTON
Hjf--''-.- !
-1 1-1,, a r:iuH, j
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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.
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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.
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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