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ipp ILL :\j£r Hv. .. S*-'" " am--. !sS&- offices at Washington,!!. C., dnriag the World vw ar. • > The morning ceremonies at Sterling were most impressive and largely attended as priests, delegates and representatives from nearly all of the 77 parishes of the diocese were present. The convention wAs opened by a Pontificial high mass. Delegates from the various assemblies and fourth degree Knights of Columbus were in attendance and stood at attention thruout the entire'"services. It was one of the most solemn, beautiful and impressive ceremonies that has ever been witnessed in the diocese. The convention convened immediately after the noon-day dinner which was served by the Catholic ladies of Sterling in one of the large parochial school halls. There were many able speakers and much good work completed. The work of the last year was reviewed and the work for the coming year planned. Conference chose Freeport for ths 1926 convention at the closing session of the two days meeting. Officer* elected were: P. J. Andrews of Sterling, president; D. F. Quinlan, of Woodstock, vice-president; Miss Emma Schultz of -Hampshire, secretary; Thomas L. Sizer of Rockford, treasurer. Mrs. A. F. Litchenberger of Freeport was named as delegate and Miss Schultz of Hampshire as alternate to the national convention of the! Women's conference. Frank Carney j of Rochelle was chosen as delegate and i D. F. Quinlan of Woodstock as alter-) mate to the National convention of the' men's conference. | Celebrate the Fourth at McHenry. .-4KI law would depend upon the individi construction given by every constable J. P., and palice officer in the stat "This is one of the most vicious piece! of legislature introduced at the sessiof just passed," said Charles M. Hayes president of the Chicago Motor club. A bill providing for an increase license fees of 33 1-3 percent was alsi killed. This bill would have cost mo-j torists of the state $4,000,000. The old controller bill which ha-v made its appearance regularly for the* past three sessions, was another bill opposed by the club. This bill provides that all cars must be equipped with speed governors, costing motorist^ about $15.00. The killing of this bilf saved the motorists of Illinois f 000,000. A bill which will militate agamsfs speed traps passed house and senate?! and will become a law with the govei ig nor's signature. This bill provides thai the department of public works had the right to regulate traffic on stat^ roads in cities or villages, and car pass ordinances or revoke local ordT-i nances where the local ordinance i conflict with the regulations of the partment of public works. The legi*-" lative department of the Chicago Motor club sees in this bill a decided step^jfUJ toward eliminating speed traps. Automobiles must come to a 8top at all state highways, according to the provisions of a bill also awaiting the governor's signature. Manufacturers of devices showing red and green lights forward, were hit by a bill prohibiting automobiles, other than those used by the fire departments, from showing red or green joowTXptr Simple Explanation of Joner? Little Blunder His wife was a tall brunette. Jones had waited on the appointed corner for her for IS minutes and was beginning to grow impatient. At last be espied a tall, feraillai^appeiirinf figure coming down the street. She arrived at the corner, and he toot; her by the arm, saying: "Come, dear, we most "hurry." "Sir. how dare you?" the woman answered. "Why, Hartle, what in the world--** "Officer, this masher is attempting to be familiar with me," the tall woman said to a .John Law who bad just approached. On his way to the station Jones had an opportunity to think it over. JSud denly it dawned on him--he had forgotten to remove his colored glasses and had accosted a blonde Instead of his dark-haired spouse.--Washington Columns. TWICE MTHIS jnmurs in Lpdia E. PSnktam's Vegetable Compound Helped Her from Sickness to Healtfei 1 jsaz&H: j&j&E&aazAS? orir 4 By All Means Spend the Fourt The laughter of man la the contentment of God.--Weiss. Do your friends laugh at you? Your friends notice how your cat ran*. If the motor knocks and rattle* and fails to work smoothly, they nouf n^ite'cM^Xepnarteotor in tip-top shape. It will pot pep, power, and zest into yonr car and five It a new grip on mileage. Enjoy driving to the fallMt only NnaMelSK OIL MonaMotor Oils & Greases Many mean men are men of meana. =a* -4 Hard Walkers (JSKIDE SOLES «o4." mrrniMQ-mrt* ynitsd States Rubber Company Try the New Cuticura Shaving Stick PIMI* Ijtbtfinf Milli iiial mnA FmnlHtnt g. Fam rs have lacent. Acof Agrlner could ome since elf out as t e portion* mi cannot s improveprovemeat ly ceased. And thonghthe attendahce ln olBW cotfrses in oar universities and colleges has largely Increased since the war, the number of students in agricultural courses has decreased about a third. Abandoned farms, which in the New England stat* excited so much comment a few years ago, are now found In considerable and Increasing number la every state of the Union. And yet despite these fact*, which are gatherad from the records, there has been a perslstiBt effort during all these years of farm distress te minimize the seriousness of the agricultural situation. Interviews from prominent financiers, articles in magazines--one going so far, I recall, as te characterize the agricultural depression a mythhave appeared with astonishing regularity during aU this time, denying that there has been a serious situation upon the farm, or announcing confidently that the farmer's trouble* were over and that tfce future was assured. Whatever may be the popnlar opinion In the cities upon the subject, the ablest farm economists generally agree that the farm situation Is deeperate. This they think grows out of the great disparity between the prices of the things the fanner has to sell and the prices of the things he has to buy. They can see no permanent relief until this disparity Is removed. They think that It may take from fifteen to twenty years to effect thl* adjustment if nothing Is consciously done to help the situation. They expect this to be brought about by the natural Increase in our population ETUI by the running down of the great FORM plant of America. At the end of that time they tell u* there wtH be another maladjustment of prices, but this time In favor of the farmer, with a great and unwholesome Increase in the cost of living to the so-called consuming classes, with Its attendant distress. A few rnttdth* ago the Department of Agriculture Issued Its statement of the estimated value of term crop* for the last year. This was heralded a* another proof that agriculture had come Into Its own. For It found that the total value of the farm crops for the year was three-quarters of a billion dollars In excess of the value of the crops of the year before. This, of course, was welcome new*. The report, however, disclosed some very perplexing facts. To illustrate, the corn crop was about 20 per cent smaller than the crop of the preceding year. The total value, however, exceeded that of the preceding crop by almost $200,000,000. And every one knows that the quality of this year's crop was far below the quality of the preceding crop. And yet, under a marketing system which it is claimed is one of the most noteworthy achievements of this commercial age, the smaller crop of Inferior corn was worth more In the market than the large and superior crop of the year before. The cause of this lesser and Inferior crop was a cold, wet summer. It was a summer disastrous for corn, but very favorable to the growth of grasses In meadow and pasture. There wa*. therefore, an Increase in the production of milk, with the result that something like 100,000,000 pounds more of butter was produced In 1924 than la the year before. This was but about 5 per cent of the total annual production of butter In the United States. It created a surplus, however, on account of increased domestic consumption of only about fiO,000,000 pounds, or 2% per cent, as compared with the surplus of the year before. This relatively small Increase, doe to the same wet days and cold nights which so seriously, Injured the corn crop, resulted In a decrease of the price of butter from 20 to 25 per cent. Now suppose that the corn growers and milk producers had been completely organized during these years, do you believe that this depressing and puzzling condition would have come aboutf It Is safe to say that the larger pert of the • > fe? He Feels Like a Boy at Forty ; 777:1^ *"Fot over * ve« I ' »nd constipation. Someone *t my dub sug. ie«ed Becch.m'. PUU. I tried th«n »heTreli<-vcd mc. Vmonlyfcrtvand 1 feellhk« fc bar Y. Follow it, and |Y'j ditatwt duorin. cimmpatim and W«w 3* nut mt ovttcarwt by Sttcham s nui» For FREE SAMPLE--write tg. AHm CO., 417 Street, N«w YoA it fro«* roar draniat in *§ ""* «•• bo*t* Beefiham's Pills bumper corn crop of 1923 was sold at a price which did not cover the cost of production. If corn growers had been organized and found that the market would not receive their corn at what It cost them to produce It they would not have dumped the larger part of the crop upon the mar- ?ket In a few brief months. They would have sold sparingly. Tliey would have stored the remainder, knowing full well that seasons of bountiful production are always followed by seasons, of. low production, and that at no distant day tiiey would receive a profitable price for their corn. As, it only a few of the corn farmers were able to hold • their corn for the higher prices which they had rightly anticipated and which were later received. Of course, even if organized, they could not have expected to receive as much per bushel for a 3,000,000,000-bushel crop as for a 2,400,000.000- bushel crop. They would doubtless have asked a somewhat smaller price, but they certainly would have asked a price--anil have received It--which would have made the 3,000.000,000 bushels of corn worth more to them than the very next year 2,400,- 000.000 bushels of poor corn actually brought In the market. In other words, the corn farmers. If organised, would have adjusted the supply to the actual demand. And they would have made this adjustment before the price became demoralized In fact, the adjustment was made later, but only after the great bulk of the crop had left the farmers' hands. It cannot too often be stated that the supply of any commodity which affects the price Is not the entire stock of the commodity In existence, hut only that portion of It whiqh Is offered for sale at a given priced And so, If the dairy farmers had some way by which they could have taken last year the Incubus of 60,000,000, or at the outside 100,000.000, pounds of butter off the market. It Is almost certain, in the opinion of experts, that this depression In the great dairy Industry would not have occurred. If, in other words, this added 50,000,000--or,' If you please, 100,000,000--pounds of butter had been purchased at a cost, say. of $50,000,000 and stored by the farmers themselves, awaiting a season of less luscious grasses, the dairy farmers of America would have received as a return upon their large investment and their labors many million dollars more than they actually did receive. And so I say this report from the Department of Agriculture discloses very perplexing facts. Now, I produce both corn and milk upon my farm. I feed the larger part of my corn in the form of silage to my cows. I sell It, therefore, in the form of milk. I receive considerably less for It than I did a year ago. And so these glowing figures of the increased value of the corn crop over which the financial writers of the great metropolitan dallies gloat do not comfort me much. I am Indeed puzzled to know what to do. I have been ' taughT that to produce 60 bushels of corn to the acre Is a finer achievement than to produce 45. I like to see the milk pail brimming full with sweet, pure milk. But when I see 45 .bushels of corn wfA+h more than 00 bushels of corn, and when I see the milk pall but two-thirds full worth more than the brimming pail of another year, I become confused and hardly know what to do. Last slimmer the cotton crop, particularly In the Southwest, was suffering severely for lack of rain. And then one day the heavens opened and the rains descended. As a result, the government, which before had estimated the crop at 12.400.000 bales. Increased the estimate to 18,000,000 hales. This was an increase of less than 5 per cent In the yield, and yet, because of this estimated Increase, the price declined In the market 20 jier cenj. This meant that the total crop of the larger estimate was worth less in the market by $800,000,000 than the crop by the lesser estimate. And yet at that very time the world needed cotton as It had not needed it before since the Civil war. And this paradox was the result of a timely rain. Now. there Is no music sweeter to my ears than the patter of raindrops upon the roof breaking a drought In the summer time, and yet, to save my lite, I cannot tell whether that rain is a sweet and fragrant bearer of a benefit--or bankruptcy. When the hot summer winds scorch the fields, I do not know whether to pray for rain or to thank the Almighty for the unbroken drought. Something is wrong with our methods of marketing when the aggregate money value of a larger crop of a prime necessity is smaller than the value of a smaller crop. There are untold thousands of - men and women and children who need more cotton to clothe them than Is produced In the world today. To say, therefore, that 12.400 000 bales of cotton are worth more than 13,000,000 bales is to condemn a fjmtem of marketing which so mea» ores value,1' * Our agricultural colleges and our Department of Agriculture have constantly urged larger production. They have assumed, and naturally I think, that the more wheat and corn we raise the fewer hungry mouths there will be and that the more cotton we produce the fewer people will be obliged to go naked or but half clothed. For whatever economists may say as to surplus we know that there really has never been too much of food or too much of clothing for a needy world. And of course it follows that the larger the production per unit, the cheaper will the product be. But when large production Is used to drive prices down so as to make large production less profitable than small production, large production will not continue, and the world will therefore have to pa^ more for the necessaries of life. This therefore t* tbe consumer's problem as well as the producer'*. It has been shown again and again that competition. when It -goes to the extent of forcing price* below the cost of production. In the end Is as disastrous to the consumer as to the producer himself. The demoralization of an Industry which inevitably follows results In an Increased cost of production which the consumers finally must meet. Organization Is a most powerful factor In human progress. The economist as long ago as Adam Smith found In organization the key to Industrial growth. Organisation mentis the difference between the mob and a highly organised progressive society. --Hln the modern world, the farmer alone has been the last to realize the value of organization for Its own sake. And therefore It happens that when this farmers In. any community organize for any purpose. they soon find that there are other benefit* derived In addition to the one that was their special aim. A finer community life, a widening of sympathies with their neighbors and associates, a broadening of their outlook upon the world, a new •ense of the dignity and worth of their calling, an elevation of the ablest and worthiest among them to places of leadership, are among the by-prodacts of fanners' organizations. Agriculture has emerged from Its primitive state. It must therefore conform to those practices which hove been found necessary to the success of other great industries. In all other fields of commerce, unrestricted, free and open competition In the marketing of products has been jpmdualty disappearing. Agriculture, therefore, finds Itself with Its millions of members freely competing among tliem- ' selves while It Is obliged to sell Its products In a highly organized Industrial and commercial world. Now. if the farmers are to put themselves upon terms of equality with the great Industries of the country they. too. must organize. It is not desii> able that they should Imitate the great Industries, adopt the corporate form of organization and operate their farms through corporate management. It would weaken our whole social structure If 9or millions of fanners were to surrender their Individualism In this way. Nor Is It necessary. While much Improved efficiency In production Is still possible. the farmers have made and are making constant progress in this respect. The problems which press hardest upon him today are concerned with the marketing of his products at a price which will enable him to live and to go on producing. He must find some way to restore the proper relationship between the prices he receives for his prodacts and the prices he pays for other commodlttee. Those who oppose the principle seem to think feat In some sort of way the co-operative associations are seeking to avoid the operation of the law of supply and demand. Quite the reverse Is true. Those who advocate this form of marketing are seeking only to create conditions by which that taw will operate fully a* between the seller and tbe buyer of farm product*. At present It does not. Farmer*' co-operative marketing associations, however, are making real progress. Some have felled. Doubtless others still will fall. The mortalltv among them, however, has been no greater than among new business organizations of any other kind of which I know. We have been gathering a large fund of experience which will enable •ot only those already organized, but new ones yet to be to avoid largely the errors of the past. They are destined one day to occupy the entire field, tor there Is no other way out. Just when that happy day shall come no man can tell. It depends largeiy upon the farmers themselves. This Is not the problem of agriculture alone. 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In other words, ne Is built to dig Into the earth with his stubby paws and to penetrate the underground lair of his prey. Into the stony earth of the wiliest fox the Scotty his way, there to attack and kill and drag forth the den's lurking occupant. No collies or other large dog can do that. Yes, and whatever the odds against him, the Scotty wll| plunge eacerly into the hole of badger, otter or fox. Down there he -may well lose his life. ( But he will lose it fighting with every atom of fight that is in him. He, will not o»|| earnedvowlintr. He will come out drazplng his prey, or else he will never rome out alive. He Is 100 per cent a hero. Like the collie and like many :inother grand Importation, the Sootty halls from the Highlands. There, for centuries, ffc has been known and honored* Yet up to about 1880 he does not seem to have carried his fame bejrond northern Scotland. By the way*, his pet name among his ancestral moors was the "die-hard" terrier. He earned the title If ever 3*6! ftTfT>ocfrfr EwAfr rsT St. t.<nriis haa the foresight to go heavily Into Scotty breeding and form a local club t(tr that purpose did the tide of public favor turn toward the game little blackish dog of Scotland. Since then he has won his way to nation-wide popularity. The first pair of Scottles were exhibited at an Am^r^n dog show In 1883. "J Gryfi Glass side curtains for atrtotnnbllee that can be Installed without tools have been Invented. MOTHER:- Fletcher's Castoria is especially prepared to' relieve Infants in Arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Fevens'^ness arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach ami Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving natural sleep. To avoid imitations, always look for tbe ngaatore of fermfcss - No npatM. Physicians everywhere ucommut it _ •£V - 'y'r<.