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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 27 Jul 1922, p. 6

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.art #W,i We Return Restored to Fao© Anew the Responsibilities of Life . ^ jf'i. i By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN, Chicago Write*. , ?re This is the time of year when the call of the wflfl ••li btwd by the city dweller even above the roar of the struggle for existence. The call is pretty much the same to all of us. Nature's persistent message, which we cannot escape, is something like this: "Come and play! Drop work! You have lived the strenuous life long enough. You know the penalty I exact for all work and no play. Pause, take taettfr, relax, rest!* ' " 1 / - Yes; the call is much the same to all of us. But its interpretation varies according to our knowledge and experience. Those of ue ate fortunate to whom ' ji^e means one thing only--whether it is the fashionable summer ^Ijesort, or the automobile tour, or foreign travel, or the magic glow of the «amp fire upon the gleaming tent, or the lure of the rushing stream where Ittde the trout, or the spell of the mountain trail to the peaks of ever- | lasting snow. > But many of us are not so fortunate. To the unfortunate the call ffears no clear message. They rejoice at the prospect of a holiday, but Ihey do not know where or at what to play. They do not know what to do with their playtime. The annual spectacle of a people at play includes Jfche saddening sight of thousands getting little enjoyment and less rest-- Ijrasting their precious vacation days. f. Let us not be of these unfortunates. Let us mix brains with our fpay. Let us put common sense into our vacation plans. Lfet us profit % the successes and failures of past vacations. Let us play temperately. Jpt is easy to make the play too strenuous. On the qther hand, mere idling ||oe8 not bring rest a* compared with a change of occupation in different Environment In short, the right sort of vacation is a godsend, while the wrong may be worse than none. To come back from our playtime to rest from our play--that's one thing. To return with renewed strength fmd courage--that's another and a very different story. Let us therefore flay wjrfly. So shall we return to our work refreshed and restored and with determination to faoe anew the responsibilities of life. y BEEFPROWCERS Opto Stable for Cattle With Feed .^iv: Storage Above, WlLt BE 0000 INVESTMENT ^><!SdJi>!H»ffig5Z5E5€5Sg5Z!5ig5HSrgSg5H5B5S5S5Z52SB5g5Z5Z5g52SZ5Z5S5Z5Z525S5Z P. of L. Action in Refusing Support of Propaganda for Soviet Autocracy By SAMUEL GOMPEBS, President A. F. of L. ; especial significance was the action on Russia. Our convention the representatives of labor rose to the full height of its dignity on that issue and took its stand for freedom. After years of propaganda, particularly intensified during the last year, the campaign for soviet putocracy was crushed in defeat. . ;y Every possible effort has been made to win support for the soviet Autocracy. Not a single local union has been overlooked by the propagandists for soviet brutality. But our convention emerged from that «gloud of deeeit and stood true to American principles. With their arguments literally torn to shreds, the supporters of the HWviet horror mustered at the end hnt a handful of votes. The trade 0Biion movement has again demonstrated its clear vision, unflinching jRDurage and faithful devotion to American ideals. The victory over this propaganda which has had for its object the fMstruction of the American labor movement, as a condition precedent to Jtfee destruction of the free government of the American people, is a victory of the most vital importance to the American people. Our line has tald strong we are proud tim servies our movement Itasmade. - ' - ' ISZ525anSgSZ5a5g5a5a5g5g5Z5g5a5Z5a5a5g5a5a5a5a5g5H5g5g5a5e5g5a5H525g5; jBteps Necessary to Put Aerial Touring on a " Par With Road Touring Automobile Engineer. essary to place aerial touring on a par per is that this evolution will take place by ag those which led to the rapid growth of the Ind the consequent extensive rise of the motor car fjr*' ••r $ '• i > • f c . ^ ' |: What will with road tou IKcomplish Sutomobile fbr tour>g _ It'is. afl/^tablished fact that ones a mechanism has been developed %eyo;id the experimental stage, its commercial development is carried out |pl'ing certain well-defined lines, and this will apply as well to the airplane it has to the automobile, radiophone, phonograph, etc. In the case of the airplane, however, we have * somewhat distorted ferspective of its growth, due to the tremendous impetus given to its evelopment during the World war. What we are inclined to lose sight . jpt that the war plane was more or less of a specialized development, in ^ which not the slightest attention was paid to commercial or civic require- ^fnents.. We Ire only now beginning to appreciate that the enormous growth aviation during the war represented what might be termed a false |tart toward the era of aerial transportation, and that in many instances |t will be necessary to retrace our steps and find the correct path. ©attls May COme and Go •> They Please in Fair Weather--Stable .. Cao Be Closed to Provide V Protection in Winter. WILLIAM A. RADFORD * Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the Subject of building work on the farm, for ttae readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he Is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago. III., and only Inclose two-cent stamp for i»ply. Comparatively hljfh prices for meat animals and low prices for grain and feed have made breeding and feeding livestock a profitable business during the last year. At least, farmers are getting a great deal higher price for the grain they produce* by "marketing it on the hoof' than by selling It as grain. Of course, during the summer the cattle or hogs are allowed to run in the feed lots, where forage is plentiful and the self-feeders supply the fatmaking rations that the animals require in addition to the grass they get from the pasture. But in winter a weather-proof stable is necessary to protect the animals from the cold winds, which take their vitality and force them to use up much of the food they consume for bodily warmth. height the im'Mttg; gives target storage space falthe mow. The building may be mt on either a concrete or stone foundation, and the floor may be either of concrete or of cinders. In either event it should be so constructed that there will be good drainage, as the floor should be kept dry. The self-feeders are not secured to the floor, but are loose so that they may be moved at will. Removable partitions also can be Included so that a part of the stable may be partitioned If the owners deem it necessary. The building Is of frame construction, the lumber used being of the first class so that the barn will be weathertight. Such a bam as this will be a good Investment for those farmers who Want to make the most from their cattle feeding operations. Before deciding on such a building, however, it is best to consult the local contractor and material dealer, either or both of whom can give a good idea of what this building will cost. Prices of materials and labor vary in different sections, and much depends on local conditions. WHERE PORTER GOT NAME Latest Story Would Appear to 3e the True One, and Destroys Old IIlusicn, Saya Writer. .origin of the pseudonym *0# Henry," signed to the well-known stories of William Sydney Porter, is arousing no little excitement. The "intelligentsia" are Investigating. In France, It is rumored, experts agreed a long time ago that Porter found his pen name in a medical book and recently, in America, a biographer of Porter's offered a very plausible theory as to the source of the gifted writer's non-de-plume. Back in 1858, a book for chemists and druggists, signed by Ossian Henry, pere, and Ossian Henry, flls, was a common possession of country apoth- IV J « SSMOWk That is why successful cattle breeders and feeders Lave such a barn as Is shown In the accompanying Illustration. As will be seen by the floor plan that accompanies the exterior view of the barn the first floor is open--that Is, there are no stalls or mangers In the stable. Instead, ranged along the sides are self-feeders, in which there Is a constant supply of hay or other roughage, and feed boxes underneath 1 I ! ? • - < ' K ommercial Vice Organized Cold-Bloodedly V ind Callously for Profit By LADY NANCY ASTOR, American-Born M. P. The average man is too apt to, have the idea that the less women IOW about life the better they are. This is one of the reasons many men ite to see women enter politics. You begin to see life when you enter politics. I have seen more j ; aption and more vice than I dreamed could exist* but I know now /y ', jthat the greater part of vice is a commercialized proposition, not a spon- •{' jtaneous outburst of human nature. I know now that commercialized vice tfes; • Is organized callously and cold-bloodedly for profit, and that many young ^..^jpwple are led into it simply that others may make money. 'J?r\ >>i So.far the standard of law usage has been set by a male outlook, ^ / rfcanded down from old times. In the future the laws must be based on ,f jtae woman's standard, which eliminates the double standard of morality. K .}-' ^^ere must b® no special standard or punishment for either set. We must work for one standard and only one code of legislative and administrative treatment for both sexes, ^i Mrs. Elizabeth Crandall, Chicago Juvenile Protective Association. want to raise the standard in Chicago dance halls. There are twelve . halls which have a total of $5,000,000 invested in them. Their average attendance is 85,000 a week. Dancing is one o£,tha eaoet jrportent factors is the life of the young people. i--0-#- D--CC »j« J)3i Floor Plan. . > to hoMi gram rations, voutfie ijintn at both ends on each side permit the cattle to come and r»o at will, or they may be closed to Tceep them indoors during the worst weather. Overhead is the mow floor wherein the roughage, such as alfalfa or timothy hay, or chopped corn stalks are stored. Also there :s plenty of space for grain bins, so located that the supply needed for each feeding may be secured by gravity through chutes running to the stable *oor. The barn illustrated Is 62 feet wide and 115 feet long, which provides ample space for a rather large herd of steers. The monitor roof adds ecary shops and It Is known that William Sydney Porter began bis literary career as a drug clerk In the hinterland of Texas, North Carolina and Ohio. The deduction, then, is just this: Porter had occasion to use such a book; was struck by the brevity and oddity of the name of the authors; wanted a fictitious writing signature and adopted that of "O. Henry." Too bad! Too bad! Such a solution shatters, completely, the rumor that Porter cribbed the frontispiece of "Call Me Henry" Lansburgh, and pre- Ixed It with that popular alphabetical «clamatton. "O."--Washington Post. Glulty of an Oversight. A story is being told in the knit foods trade of a man who, with some others, *went into tho manufacture of silk hosiery not so very long ago after having been associated with the production end of a well-known mill for many years In a minor capacity. Recently the new mill was closed for about a week, and while it was closed some one asked the man in question what the trouble was. "Oh, there's too much to think about in this business," be replied, "and I forgot something." "What did you forget?" persisted the inquirer. "Oh," replied the mill man, disgustedly "I Just forgot to bujr son# mspSSsffion. ' "This movie ought to be good." "Why so?" asked the saturnine citizen. "Harold Heartbreak, the peerless screen lover, leaps from a precipice 2,000 feet high." "Does he break his neck f "Of course not. It's just a camera trick." "Then that particular movie Is not worth a quert«c..to n^"rr-Blraloghain Age-Herald. ; " "V-< Charlie's Investigation. "What are you reading, Charlie?" "It's a book Called 'Child Training' that I borrowed from Mrs. Jones," re» turned the young son. "Do you find it amusing?" laughed his mother. "I am not reading It for that. I merely wanted to see if I had been arought up properly."--London Tit- Bits. Gen. Thomas W. Salmon, Columbia University.--It is time to take the treatment of mental cases out of the custodial and asylum class of IttDMn misfortunes, in which a medieval attitude has kept them so long, fklace them in the category of the general public health movement, TRAINING AGAINST DIZZINESS Most 8teeplejacks and Bridge-Builders Have to Become Educated to Extreme Height. There Is nothing more curious In the make-up of mankind than the matter of having a head for climbing about at great heights. Some children are born with it. and are like monkeys or squirrels, in that they never know what it Is to be giddy. But cases of this sort are very rare and, as a rule, a long apprenticeship Is required before anyone can stand or work unconcernedly on tall buildings, or climb high mountains. Edward Whymper, one of the greatest mountaineers who ever lived, and the leader of the first party to ascend the Matterhorn had, as a boy a wretched head. He could not stand on a house roof without holding on. He cured himself by lying on the ledge of the great tower of the cathedral of Notre Dame ir Paris, and staring down Into the street for an hour at a time, Most steeplejacks and bridge-builders have to become educated to heights in similar fashion. Some people are affected by running water as others are by heights, and are not to be trusted on the edge of a swift river. Quite against their will, they are forced to walk over the edge. The whole question of giddiness Is a puzzle. The contributor, whose head fcr heights is so bad that he cannot walk along a ledge thirty feet above the street, has looked down from an airplane hundreds of feet up, on to pointed roofs far below, without the sUgbtest degree of giddiness, w * ^ on the A Concession to Modesty. "Our dancer says she won't go tonight." . "What's the trouble?" asked manager. "This la her old hony town and doesn't want the people here to see how little she wears." "Oh, I'm not unreasonable, 1 hope," said the manager. "Tell her to put on another string of bead*.**---Birmlngham Age-Herald. - Facts 1^++++++*++++4+0+0+4 SAMPLE APPLES BY WEIGHT Object la to Speed Up Movement of Fruit and Avoid Expense of ItepiHrtg, ««r tlM *nit«d <*»tM Pup Mt net Acricnltur*. > Within recent years several fruitshipping organizations have adopted a system of sampling apples by weight In determining grades and sizes of apples packed for each grower. With a view to organizing accounting records so that all unnecessary clerical work may be eliminated, the United States Department of Agriculture has devfsed new forms of accounting, which are now published in Department Bulletin 1006, Accounting Records for Sampling Apples by Weight. The aim of sampling apples by weight Is to speed up the movement of the fruit through the packing room, and to avoid the expense of repiling and checking which frequently arises !n attempting to retain the identity of each grower's lot of loose fruit on the packing-house floor. A sample is selected from each lot of fruit received. This is graded and slxed, and a record made of the weight of each grade and size in the sample. The percentage relation of the total weight of the sample to the total weight of the lot Is then applied to ascertain the weight of the various grades and sizes that make up the lot, and the grower Is given credit for the total weight, classified as to grades and sizes. The new forms devised by the department reduce the clerical work of the sample-test clerk to minimum, providing computation tables showing at a glance the relation between the various features of the sample and those of the entire lot. Copies of the bulletin may be had free upon application to the department at Washington, D. C. PICKING WITHOUT BRUISING Arrangement Shown in Illustration Ifl Useful in Gathering, Fruit te , * Avoid InJuifL * t^fcfclrtng fruit without fei^ng It, In the home garden, or for exhibition purposes, the fruit-picking pole shown in the sketch is useful. A wire ring is fixed to the top of the pole, and the bag, suspended from It, Is fastened to the pole at Intervals. The mm Fruit-Picking Pole With Gravity Delivery Chute. fruit la removed by means of the ring and drops to the bottom of the chute, which Is held closed by the hand. For picking large quantities of fruit a receptacle Is carried by the picker.--Mrs. Ella Ii. Lamb, Mason, Mich., hi Popular Mechanics Magazine. SPRAYING FOR GOOD APPLES Abeolutely Necessary for Select Fruit --•Pruning Means Cutting Out Small Limbs. Most of the home orchards need pruning and they need spraying, but they need spraying lots the worst. You can raise apples Without pruning, but you can't raise good apples without spraying. Unless you spray, you get mincemeat--part apples and part worm--which Is all right If one la built for It. A tree can't bear any more fruit than there is bearing surface and the fellow who gouges out big limbs is the fellow who greatly reduces the apple crop. Good pruning does not always mean a big brush pile; It more frequently means cutting off small limbs here and there that compete for sunlight. Pruning will make more large apples. PEACHES PRUNED IN SUMMER To Prevent Crowding, Enough of New .Sheets Should Be Rubbed Offcp ' • Pinch Baek Topa. i4; ft pays to summer priine peaclies. Rub off enough new shoots throughout the top of the trees so that they will not become crowded, and pinch back the tops of those shoots that are growing too rapidly. Time to Apply Nitrates. Apply nitrates to the orchard just as growth starts and before any pink at blossom can be seen; that's the best time. " Mulch Savee Trees. - To prevent newly-set fruit® from dying their first summer, place around them a heavy mulch of stable manure, straw or pine needlef../«' Stevens Gut Their Goats; So Did Hiey they belong, Paye to Plant Trees, -v',.- It pays to plant trees provided f&i plant good ones. Dressing Ducks Tiresome. Dressing ducks ordinarily is a tiresome job. but It can be made less tiresome by first dipping the duck in hot water and then sprinkling powdered resin oyer it. This will cause the feathans Mucosae out in handfuls. T^BLAVAN LAKE, WIS. --When ^ eleven millionaires, most of them Chlcagoans, paid $25,000 for seventythree Toggenburg does, they set a new record high mark for the sale Of goats and signalized the elevation of the formerly humble animal to a position of Increasing importance in the dairy Industry In this vicinity. The goats, which were bought In California in April by Charles A. Stevens at the behest of eleven chasers, are said to be of the finest milking stock. Forty-four of them are pure bred, and the others are high class registered grades. The pure breds averaged >400 each, and the grades brought an average of $172 each. The sale Wfts .held In a specially coa»| strueted pavfUon at Awgwam, th»| forty acre |pt*te of Charles . A, Stev-j ens. More than 200 persons, many of well known Chicago Gold Coast!' "•"N^nts, motored to the scene or( ttfwed thither on the "Goat Sale! 8P®raal»" a train of six parlor car* MM diner, chartered by Mr. Stevens. OoL George L. Bain of Lexington. Ky., one of the most expert livestock! auctioneers, "cried" the sale. Arthur L, Farwell paid $1,000 for one animal, Rosemont's Polly Alpha, the highest price bid at the sale. Col, Otto Falk of the Allls-Ch&lmers company, Michigan, bought the second and third highest priced animals for $1,400 and $1,200 respectively. Col. Falk was the largest purchaser, paying $4,860 for seven animals. Arthur L. Farwell was second, with purchases amounting to §4,300, and W. O. Washburn, e millionaire flour niill owner from Minneapolis, was third with $4,105. Other purchasers were Mrs. James A. Patten, A. Watson Armour, William Wrigley, Jr., J. Lehmann, F. C, Farwell, Joseph P.. Allyn, wealthy resident of Delavan, and J. C. Vaughn. , ll 4 :7 K-sS T*7A^TKD--the oldest man and *" oldest woman actually engaged In farming In the United States. These two oldest farmers, whether they live along the Atlantic or Pacific coast, Gulf of Mexico, near the Canadian line, or plow corn in the Mississippi bottoms, will be given $100 In gpld and a complete outfit of modern farm implements, and all their expenses will be paid to the first annual exhibition of the Central States Fair and Exposition, Aurora, III., August 18 to 20, Inclusive, officials have announced. The search for the oldest man and woman--not necessarily man and wife --in the whole country has been started by farm bureaus, farmers' institutes, farmers' unions, farmers' equity, and other agricultural organizations, aided by city and country newspapers and farm magazines. The man and woman may live In different parts of the country--one may come from Florida and the other from Washington--but no matter what state they live In, the association will pay all expenses of the trip both ways and will give $50 In gold to each. c8? To make farming easier for thesi when they go back home. Implement manufacturers will equip them with a complete outfit of tools from hoes aniQ rakes to plows and harvesting m# chlnery. America's oldest Indians In the We4j! end colored farmers in the South will have a chance to make this trip, fA farmers of all nationalities are elfc> glble. Every community has Its veteran farmers and the fair officials reque# that they be entered In the contest by sendtng their names to Clifford B> Trimble, secretary, Central State!'. Fair and Exposition, Inc., Aurora, I1K : rife British Women Find Mates in Canada OTTAWA, ONT.--The cream of young British womanhood Is flocking to a vast Gretna Green on the fertile plains Of Canada. In the last two years up to April 1, 1922, 62,408 women have come from the British Isles to Canada, the vast majority of these being listed as "unaccompan'ed women," and the reduction of Britain's million surplus women just has begun. Within a year after thefr arrival It Is estimated 40 per cent of these girls are married. The Canadian government is the Cupid In this romance. The Dominion department of Immigration naturally Is one of the most important branches of the executive department. Throughout England, Scotland, an| Wales there Is an organized prop&> ganda by lecturers who travel stantly through the counties. chief of this division Is Miss Mary Burnham of Ottawa, who served France as nurse. # The lecturers agree to place girls in jobs in Canada. Owing to thi industrial depression in Canada no\ty all positions offered are in domestic service. The provinces are ready tf ' agree to pay the passage and nece$> sary expenses of the girls, the inoneS to be repaid on easy terms from thi wage received. A Canadian official takes the glif' '< from her home to the port of embark* ^ tlon. An official conductress aecouir v panles the girls on the ship, Uvini' with them throughout the journey an§l ' continuing with them In a special trail from Quebec to their employment. j-r- Ontarlo reports that 95 per cent the girls whose expenses to Canadll* were paid In advance met their om£ gations on time. "M • A. E. F. Romance Gets Into the NEW YORK.--The daughter of a papal count, • lawyer who was a major in the A. E. F. In France and an actress, who Is a magazine cover artist's model and who has been declared a prize beauty, figure in the $50,- 000 breach of promise suit begun In Supreme court by Miss Catherine de Cathellneau, twenty-eight years old. The defendant Is John L. Feeny. thirty-three years old, an attorney and a member of a well-to-^o family. The prize beauty, for whom it Is alleged Mr. Feeny Jilted Miss de Cathellneau and thus spoiled a wartime romance fras Miss Alison Frances McBean, but now is Mrs. John L. Feeny. Miss de Cathellneau caused Feeny's arrest on an order from the Supreme court. He furnished bond of $2,500 and was released. The French girl's father ws» the Count de Cathellneau. In the course of his wooing, said Miss de Catheilneau, her hero told her that he was receiving $5,000 a year from a law firm In New York: that his family was "well known and quite well-to-do," Upon their parting ^ on Jyly 15, 1919. be promised h# would send for her to come to thl# . *- country. " " 4, Three months later she receive^- 800 francs from him and she came tf| -A;. America. Then, In April, 1922, he tol# her that he no longer loved her, but /' * ; that he Intended to marry another » girl. 4 \ The plaintiff said Feeny suggested/ she go back to France. Then, salt l", -? Miss de Cathellneau, last May Mlafci • • , McBaln and Feeny were married ^ In May, 1921, Miss McBean re< first honors as a prize beauty. How Many Morons in the United States Rape for Farm Stocllfc"^ Rape makes good pasture for all farm stock excepting milk cows, and while It makes milk In amount equal to clover or alfalfa that m^llk has such a strong cabbage flavor as to make It fnf yy ALBANY, N. Y.--An estimate based on the figures obtained by the army draft boards during the war Is that there are 45,000 mental defectives In New Yor* state. It follows that, roughly, one person In every 250 Is mentally deficient and Is Incapable of reasoning efficiently or of making sound judgments as to the right or wrong, the wisdom or unwisdom, of the decisions he has to make. Of this number, 5&K) are la sfate institutions, 500 are In colonies attached to state institutions, and 7,500 are enrolled in special classes In publie schools. This leaves 31,000 without any special supervision. ^ How many of these "morons" ar| in the United States is hard to figurf , • --undoubtedly, however, several hun» dred thousands. The word moron comes from th«f ~. Greek moros--fool. Use of the ten#*'i was found convenient with a da recognition of the existence of a border line class of mentally persons not up to par, but whose tal defects are not so conspicuous as t# lead to their classification qmoag Lul * * beetles and idiots. ; . ' ! The defective, who la left to shift' ' for himself, la usually a liability t*fr' 4 society. • ' Mental deficiency and Insanity ait < two entirely distinct problems. Insai* Ity Is a mental disease which in a^? S least 25 per cent of the cases is cuifl' able and In perhaps 40 per cent Dr«# ; ventable. Mental deficiency is a del* f ^ n i t e l a c k o f m e n t a l c a p a c i t y a n d i f " , » u s u a l l y I n h e r i t e d . I t c a n n o t be c u r e c&v *"® Science cannot add w»t natsrs hai ; - I omitted. i :f3

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