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The Annual Town Meeting will be held on Tuesday next. The caucuses are called for Saturday next. With Buick Syncro* Mesh, everybody becomes an expert at Client gearshifting. You can accelerate faster with Syncro- Mesh. And you can shift to second instantly on steep hills, retaining com* ptete control of the car. aoif AND UP--£ o* b. Flint, Mich. * t * 0/1931 Buick Straight Eights will he romtJm mtd thrmgkut tb* cvmmg summer *mdf*U, HOverton & Cowen Buick Motor Cars Flione 6 West McHenry BUIC btctlds it Sen. Capper Discusses Qeorge Wash' ington's Farm Problems and Compares them with Present-Day Agri- "vf -• # - r*"' S . { C-: '5cultural Affairs TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO During the windstorm of last Wednesday the wind mill on the farm of Henry Dolbeer was blown to tho ground, smashing it all to pieces. Clarence and Frank Cobb and Charles Geske, victims of the recent dynamite explosion, are able to be out again. • Collector Peter Niesen returned his books to the county seat on Friday. Out of the total amount levied, $21,- 594.36, the collector returned $20,- 433.84. Mrs. Rosaline A. Covell died at the borne of her son, S. H./Covell at Portland, Oregon, March/14, at the age of 84 years and 6 months. The boys' and girls' basketball teams journeyed to Dundee last Friday evening where they met their brothers and sisters in contest for honors, and came home well satisfied with showing made and treatment received. < A little misunderstanding between Clark Huson and John E. Kaiser, the latter a tenant on the former's farm during the past year, was settled before Justice H. C. Mead last Saturday altocnoon. * ' TEN YEARS AGO William Kennebeck, son of Mr. and -Mrs. John Kennebeck, fell from the top of the porch at his home on Wed nesday evening and broke his right leg. The McHenry bakery, which is ever adding new equipment, has just installed an electric bread wrapper. One of the large plate glass win. dows in the N. H. Petesch drug store which was broken some time ago, was replaced last week. George J. Schreiner, meat cutter at the Central market and grocery, has just purchased a lot of Miss Ellen Doherty on Court street and contemplates the erection of a home thereon this summer. The services at^the various churches in McHenry im Easter Sunday were very well attended. j£ Math Freund, the Pearl street implement dealer, disposed of his handsome driving mare In Chicago on Monday. The Everett music store in Center ville is again being enlarged to make room for a stock of pianos which are to be tarried in the Mm, Metals u Coin office of the director of the mint says That* nickel contains 75 per jcent copper ahd23L|>er cent nickel. A .^one-cent piece contains^ fl5 per ceftt copper and 5 per cent tln^and zinc. 4. County Produce Co 7 McHenry, IIK Sauk City, Wis. ©utter, Eggs a Wanted 300 Heavy Hen* for Next Week P.W. FRETT & SON Phone 302! Central Garage johnsburg FRKD J. SMITH, FraprUfg (ftevrolet Sales. Genenl Automotive Repair Wot - , Give us a call when in trouble mam* WELDING jurctuum BUOUM: Day Phorte 200-J Night Phone 640-J-2 a Senator Capper pushed back his chair from a desk heaped with papers and repeated the question ask^d him: ••What does the American^ farmer of today owe to George Washington, the farmer?" # Few members of the Senate are better qualified to answer what should interest every farmer in the country, for Senator Capper is acquainted first hand with farmers and their problems and has been deeply interested in the legislation of the past two years in the farmer's interest, according to a statement from the Division of Information and Publication of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. "Well," the farmer-legislator thought for a moment, "if you think of it, Washington did set the first example in American farming. The farmers of today, as I know them, are too everlastingly busy with current history to look back a century or two. I know that's the case with me. And yet," the Senator thought on, 'they should do tl\at. "The American fartoier of today," he settled back to say, "has every reason to feel toward Washington, the farmer, an almost filial respect and duty. In his occupation at least, he's a lineal descendant of the foremost farmer of a century and mbte ago. If modern invention enables the farmer of today to improve on the methods of Washington's time, nevertheless Washington's example in experiment and pioneering remains the same. It could hardly be improved upon," the Senator smilingly asserted, "but the modern farmer has carried on that pioneering spirit unabated." As his thought on the subject shaped itself, the Senator went on, MThe modern farmer can feel a sympathy for Washington because Washington's problems as a farmer sound like the problems, the aims of every farmer of the present. If memory serves me, Washington's experiences with one of the great farms of his time was not an unbroken record of successes., "To begin with, Washington's land was not the finest soil in the young country. Many a farmer of today has to face the same discouragement. And like Washington, he does struggle against the handicap. That is one bond of sympathy between them. "But perhaps the closest parallel between Washington and the mode American farmer is the fact that bot knew the worries and vexations of declining prices as the result of a production above the capacity ofuthe market to consume. It sounds very modern to read in Washington's diary his complaints at the falling returns fromhis tobacco. • His problems and those of the present day fanner may differ in technical detail^but in essentials they- are the same. "After all, the farmer of today buys with his wheat or his corn what he wants and needs. He may first convert his grain into money; still, whatever the means of purchase, it's the farmer's product that supplies him with buying power. In Washington's day that was more directly the case. The nation was then undeveloped and without an efficient monetary system, and tobacco itself had to serve in place of cash. So Washington, as he himself complains, felt it when the value of his crops shrank in value, and he had to offer more of it for goods or for cash in return. If Washington were to return today, he and a hundred thousand of our farmers could talk in terms of perfect understanding. "Yes," the Senator said, to emphasize the point, "Washington would underatand our farmers perfectly. Thousands of them may never have had time to read of Washington's farming experience, but they are going through the same experiences today. As 1 recall it, Washington was a tireless experimenter. He sent to Europe for the newest books on the science and practice of agriculture. He im ported new and better seeds and cuttings. He read up on new and better formulas for fertilizer. He even mixed experimental varieties of compost with his own hands. In every sense of the word he was a dirt farmer, "And today," the Senator brought out with conviction, "Washington would find his successors on the American farm just as progressive. The farmer of the present is just as eager and quick to adopt new and better methods. He no longer reads European authorities, because his own periodicals are as good or better. But the point is, he reads them. He forever experiments with the means to produce better crops. And in one respect he has an advantage that Washington never knew--the advantage of time--and labor-saving machinery." A new turn to his thinking amused the Senator. "Washington's efforts at advanced farming were not unvaryingly successful. The fact is, he had to complain of a rather high percentage of disappointments. It was only natural, of course. In Washington's day agriculture was still somewhat primitive, in the light of modern practice it was without benefit of the accumulation of broad scientific knowledge and experience that we enjoy today. If Washington were to return today, the average American farmer could show him a thing or two--probably to Washington's mingled envy and delight. He might regret that he could not have profited by what "But the thing that would plea Washington," said Senator Capper, "would be our epic conquest of the great West and the reduction of its wonderful soil to production. To me," the Senator mused, "there is something infinitely touching in" Washington's hunger for as much of that fertile Western soil as he could possess. The continental West as we know it he never saw, but he had more than glimpsed the Ohio Valley, and sensed what lay behind. He sent his agents to lay claim to as much as he could handle of the better land beyond the Alleghenies, and throughout his correspondence during the Revolution he returns again and again to his anxiety to safeguard his holdings. His heart and his business sense both lured him in that direction, in the conviction that there the great development of the country would center. "Today the people of my section of the country would convince Washington that he was right! For every reason and in every sense of the word they would make him feel at home. He would be among people, too, who are after his own kind. As farmers, at least, they have had every experience that fell to Washington. "You have only to glance through Washington's diaries to see how quick SXtOOTOK'S LAKE Wayne Bacon and Lloyd HarVel of Griswold Lake spent' Thursday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell and twtt daughters were callers at Woodstock Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Geary wereE callers at McHenry Saturday evenings Harry Matthews and son were vis-r itors at Cigrs&al Lake Wednesday. 1 Mr. andfiTMpt. John Blomgren were callers at McHenry Saturday. < Willard Darrell attended an agency meeting of the Life and Casualty com-» pany in Chicago Saturday. Earl Converse was a callers at Libertyville Saturday. Mrs. Wm. Foss and daughter were we know, but he could be the first to callers at McHenry last Wednesday: rejoice at the progress made. / /Mrs. Henry Winkler, Sr. and Mrs, Se Waall ter Winkler spent last Tuesday at the home of M£ and Mrs. Charles Snyder at Grayslake. Mrs. John R. Knox and Mrs. H. J; Schaffer of McHenry spent last Fri* day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H, Geary. Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Dunn and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schrieber of Chicago spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foss. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Maiman of. Wauconda spent Friday evening at thp home of the latter's parents here Roy Winkler and Miss Catherino Fleming of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs*; Charles Snyder and son of Gravslake, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winkler* snent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winkler. Mrs. E. Bacon and daughter of "Roseville visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren and Mrs. Raymond Lusk of near Round Lake were callers at Crystal Lake Thursday evening. Miss Pearl Foss, Leslie Foss and William Berg spent last Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Foss at Libertyville. Mr. and Mrs. Williard Darrell, Mr. , and Mrs. Harry Matthews, Mr. and | Mrs. John Blomgren and Mr. and Mrs. fm • WAX POLISH There Is a startling new discovery abm?t a famous old product. Johnson's Wax Polish will rid your furniture of l/z tho dust, free you from Vi your dusting. To introduce tM« new-found advantage, we are giving •way FREF a 35c dust doth with every 7Se bot tip of Johnson's Liquid Wat Polish, Iks (Av lwlik I Hnatted time only* Come in today, Thomas P* Bolger EVERY INCH A DRUG STORE •QREBN ST. MclIENRY, ILL. •' Jr ' .%?;•*- v .'t*\ vt >, > •,) v. . Jt* ? } * > 1 syl ly they would understand each other, j LaDoyt Matthews of Crystal Lake Out of those intimate jottings speak the real George Washington farmer, and what a modern language he speaks!" The Senator referred to one of the volumes, priceless because so revealing, and read: "j'une 16, 1768. Began to cut my Timothy Meadow at Doeg Run and did not finish it till the 8th July--the weather being bad and rainy--which almost spoiled 30,- 000 weight of Hay. "On July 25th he records that he found rust in a 28iac^efield'of wheat, and adds this note: Trom the most accurate experiments I could make this year upon Wheat seized with the Rust before it is fully formed and heginning to Harden, it appears to be a matter of very little consequence whether it is cut down so soon as it is seized with this distemper (I mean •the parts of the field that are so) or suffered to stand; for in either case the grain perishes and has little or no flower in it.' He meant flour," the (Senator interpolated, with a smile for Washington's spelling, and finished the quotation, 'That indeed which is suffered to stand may gain a little, and but a little, in respect to the grain, and the other in respect to the straw; so that I think it is nearly equal which of the two methods is followed.' "Many a farmer of today is as close a student," the Senator said, smiling as he leafed through the book. "And many a modern farmer will listen with sympathy to< such a passage as this: 'Eliab Roberts, William Acres, Joseph Wilson and Azel Martin set into work today and I think worked but indifferently.' So Washington had his complaints aeainst -farmhands, too. But here, I think." Senator Capper exulted over his finds, *are two entries that reveal the man that Washington the farmer must" have been--shrewd, observant, the instinctive business man. forever trying what would best serve his advantage " 'Noted,' " Senator Capper quoted from the book, "'that when Pease are sown the ground should be rolled smooth so that the pods can be raked up, with time saved from picking them up by hand.' There is the great man watchful of the minutest details And here in another small detail is the inveterate experimenter. In an entry dated December 6, 1787, Washington records: Three plows at work In one I put the she mule which worked very well. The horse mule is intended also for this plantation.' "It's just such homely touches," the Senator leaned back to say in concluding "that would make Washington a man among men if he could return today among the people of my section. When you think of it," Senator Capper lighted up with sudden feeling, "what better tribute could we pay the man tbjn in saying so often to ourselves, 'If Washington could return today.' Isn't it a new measure of our, respect and affection for the man that we wish so much he could come again, so that might show him what we, as stewards, have done with the great trust he built up and placed in our hands. "We may have made mistakes in judgment,'" the Senator finished, "we may not always wisely Control the great economic forces we have unloosed with our modern science and invention; but on the whole I believe Washington would approve what we have made of the country he fathered." spent Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Darrell near McHenry. Kenneth Bacon has been numbered with the sick. , A party of relatives and friends surprised Mrs. Wm. Foss at her home Saturday evening, in honor of her birthday anniversary. Five hundred was played and Mrs. Foss received gifts in memento of the occasion. A lunch was served at the close of a pleasant evening. , W. E. Brooks and son, Chesney, were callers at Buffalo Grove Monday. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Dugan of Lake Bluff were Saturday evening callers at th W. E. Brooks home. Mrs. Elmer Esping spent Monday at the home of her sister at Crystal Lake. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks and son were Sunday guests at the home of Darwin Brown at Wauconda. - Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Haas of Wauconda were* Sunday callers at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Cook and far. and Mrs. Ora Cook and son Russell, of Wauconda were Sunday callers at the W. E. Brocjks home.' Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams and 'son of Crystal Lake were Sunday supper guests at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. 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