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r v; v-• ' %&>. 3 * »»•„ ,..v :,., . v/'} «•--* v m r ' v . V 7 L?ti*: ifet >4^' *"-' ** w>* tr#4^^T. f ^ £• .., .....,r.4_. - •.*- -"*"T ;'.£, * **<«* • **&*-** v t? >. v ^ ^4 , May 34,1834 gsssaBjs hfiSis •f^i .1 Contract Signer Gets Income From Two Places 'Prices which the 500 AAA corn-hop iignors of McHenry county get on the |>pen market represent only a part of ' the total income which they will receive from their 1934 hog production, 'it is pointed out by Farm Adviser W. A. Herringtpn. During* the coming jnonths these cooperating farmers will get their returns from two different Sources--from the sale of animals at the itime they are shipped to market • fcndlfrom the government in the form of Benefit payments. , If the market price of 225-poun-l • hogs should be around $10 a head, when the contract signlr disposes of .his spring farrowing, he knows that this represents only about., two-thirds.- of his actual gross returns. By-February he will have received additional returns amounting to $5 a head, less local administrative costs, in the form of AAA benefits. "The- portion of the hog grower's income which comes in the form of benefit payments under the adjyst- < incnt "plan js just, as real as if,St were nil paid oijt directly to him at the time of sale in the form of a higher J>rice for. the hogs," explains the extension service of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. "In fact the processing tax, which produces fund's for ,the benefit pay- SLOCUM'S LAKE Mrs. Harry Matthews and sons Robert -and Lyle were callers at McHenry Friday afternoon. . While there they called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Schaefer. John Blomgren Was a business caller at McHenry last Thursday afternoo: Emmet Geary of Waueonda spent last Tuesday at the home of his father, Henry Geary. Arthur Wackerow and Robert and Llye Matthews were callers at McHenry Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Celia Knox of McHenry spent last Thursday afternoon at the homo of her "father, Henry Geary. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hayford of Crystal Lake spent Sunday evening at the home of'Mr. and Mrs- Harry Matthews. J . y" Mr. and Mrs. Johp/Blomgren were business callers ar McHenry Saturday afternoon.- , Harry Matthews was^a caller at Gray slake Saturday. . > Mrs. H. J. Shaffer of McHenry spent last Friday at the home of her father here.* Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse were business callers at McHenry last Wednesday. . Mr. and Mrs; John Blomgren spent last Friday at the home of Mr. and ments, and the whole adjustment pro- Mrs. Raymond L__u sk at Maple Park. jrram are likely to be misunderstood | "the"'afternoon they accompanied unless the reduction benefits are re- | Mrs Lusk and daughter Betty to a jrarded as a part of the price for hogs to which the producer is*'entitled as a result of his adjustment efforts. ' "When the processing tax, which has been in effect since November 5, is taken into account, it appears that packers at Chicago actually paid from $1.06 to $2.83 a hundredweight more from week to week during November 5, 1933, to April 21, 1934, than was '-paid during the corresponding weeks in 1932-1933. But because the processing tax was being gradually stepped up from 50 cents to $2.25 a hundredweight during the winter, the open market price from week to week registered a more moderate increase, rar^ing from 14 cents to $1.10 a huniweight higher than for the cor- ^sponding weeks a year earlier. "In other words, the increase iri the 'rate of the processing tax tended to take up, for issuance as benefit payments td cooperating producers, i large part of the improvement in hog I values which was noted through the winter. Because cooperating producers share in the reduction payments and non-cooperators do not, the tax thus constitutes an effective protection for the contract signer. "Farmers, however, should not conclude from these facts that the price ©f hogs today would^ be higher«by the amount of the tax, if no tax had been levied. On the contrary, the sum of the open market price of hogs plus the tax now undoubtedly exceeds substantially what the open l^rket price „ of hogs would have been had no tax been levied. "If no tax could have been levied, the emergency pig and sow marketing program of last summer could not have been carried out. Thus relatively heavy hog supplies, which otherwise " Would have prevailed during the winter and early spring months, would • have kept hog values at a lower level • than they have been. "Adjustment in hog production, of • course, is not yet complete. Further adjustment will tend to i: crease the aggregate income as well as the hun- ' dredweight value of hogs, and the processing'tax will preserve this increase in value for the contract signers." Circus at DeKailb. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams and son James Howard of CryMal Lake were Sunday dinner and afternoon guests at tke home .of Mrs. Clara Smith. Mr., and Mrs. Earl-Daves wore callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs.. Earl Converse Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams and son James Howard of Crystal Lake were Sunday dinner and afternoon guests at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Daves were callers %at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse Monday. Mrs. Elmer Esping spent the weekend with relatives in Forest Park. Mrs. Clara Smith was a caller at the home of Mrs. Jos. S. Haas at Waueonda last Friday morning. Mr. and R£rs- W. O. Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. William Sears of Waukegan were callers last Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Berg spent last Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Foss at Libertyville. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nordmeyer and two. children, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfard Darrell, Mrs. Harry Matthews, Mr. I and Mrs. Wm. Foss, Mrs. Celia Dowell and daughter and Mr. and Mra G. J. Burnett attended the funeral of Mrs. G. A. Vasey at Volo Saturday. Mrs. Lucile Rohman and Alfred Rau of Chicago were supper and evening guests last Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brooks. Miss Lillian Tidmarsh and Mrs. Mayme Gilbert of Waueonda called on Mrs. Willard Darrell last Thursday afternoon, i Mrs. H. /fi. Schaefer and Mrs. Mc- Cracken of McHenry attended the meeting of the Ladies Aid Society of the' Federated Church held at the home of Mrs. Harry Matthews last Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Ray Dowell and daughter, Dolores, spent last Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell and Processing Tax Assures Corn-Hog Payments Farmers in McHenry county cooperating in the government's corhhog adjustment program can be asrured that benefit payments will be made in accordance with the contract, and rumors to the contrary are entirely without foundation, Farm Adviser W. A. Herrington told the Ftaftldealer today. \ False statements arc said to have been made to the effect that the government intends to delay making cornhog benefit payments until after planting time and then default. "Such Ftatements are so preposterous that it should not be necessary to deny them," in the opinion of county, state and federal officials' directing the AAA corn-hog program. "Funds for the payment of the corn-hog benefits have been accumulating from the federal processing tax since, last November, and already millions of dollars have been collected for the expressed purpose of meeting the corn-hog benefits," explains ai communication .from the extension service of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. "Furthermore, the adjustment act provides thai; the secretary of tlje United States treasury shall advance funds, if and when necessary, for the payment of the corn-hog benefits. The treasury will be reimbursed later by future collections of the processing tax. "Any doubt that benefits might not be paid should be dispelled by the fact that benefit payments have already been made in Iowa, where contracts bearing the 'waiver' have been accepted by the secretary of agriculture. It was originally believed that all contract signers would have received their first benefit payment by this time, but the gigantic task of collecting, checking and completing the 1,111,600 or more contracts signed throughout the country has required more time than was at first anticipated. * . "It should also be realized that the AAA contracts are as much of an obligation of the United States government as they are of ttie producers cooperating in the program. Since the government has never defaulted on any of its financial obligations, there is no reason for conr-hog contract signers to harbor doubts. latelligence of the MINN Jud Tunklns sayq he believes In the Intelligence of the masses, but even the masses are liable to be confused when they're compelled to try to settle too many things at once. daughter, Dolores, were callers at Grayslake last Saturday evening. Mr. and Mra Wm. Harris of McHenry, Miss Ethel Eatinger, Leonard Mcintosh and Mrs. Jane Eatinger of Waueonda were visitors Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell. Arthur Wackerow was a business caller at Waukegan Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs- Geo. Eatinger spent Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell. t Mr. and Mrs. LaDoyt Matthew^ of Forest Park were dinner guests Tdesday at the home of the latter's parents. Miss Frances Converse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl / Converse will graduate from the W-T-H.S. Friday evening, June 1st as validictorian of a class of twenty. Miss Converse holds the highest average ever held at the high vschool, it being a straight "A" average for her four years of work. Cora fa* CUu Corn, native to American continents In the western hemisphere, was grown In China long before It was grown by the English settlers at Jamestown. A photostat copy of • Chinese book published in 1573 reports that maize or Indian corn, there called 'imperial grain," had been grown in China for years, and that it had been Introduced from the west by way of Thibet or Turkestan. The indications are that the Spaniards discovering maize in the New world took home the grain from South and Central America, that the Arabs carried it from Spain to Mecca, and thftt it then spread eastward through Central Asia'to China. LAKE ZURICH?'8 OWNERS TO CHARGE $10 A BOAT . Lake Zurich cottage owners may go jump far out in the lake this sumftier-- if they pay $10 for a permit to use its waters. Otherwise, they'll have to do their rowing OR a rowing machine or wade along the shore, and buy their fish at some market, if August Froeiich And Mrs. Margaret Pearce have their way. The courts have decided that Mr. Froeiich and Mrs. Pearce own two-thirds of the lake bed, and at Lake Zurich the water flows right over the lake bed! Public Pulse " First Um of Paper Money^-^ * IPiper money has performed an Important part In the history of these United States. Adopted as a matteh of necessity, and not from choice, by the •Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1090, it was graduallj^issued by other co'lonies until in general use by all. It was the original intention of the Colonies to have it equal current coin, but depreciation took place, followed by succeeding issues of paper money, until it became practically worthless. V The owners, accordingly, • began making plans yesterday to keep trespassers off their property. As they explained, they do not want to work any hardships. There will be no charge for the breeze from their lake. Jioy, I apt now almost eighty-two, my . Church Built of Bones "'rMaita has the ugliest church In the world, the Chapel of Bones, In Strada Mercanti, Valletta. The architecture in this gruesome chapel is comprised of the bleached remains of those originally buried in the adjoining burial ground. The altar has a background of human skulls and crossbones and the arch above It is rendered in semicircular rows of skulls. ., . Lake Champlakl Lake" Cliamplain Is chiefly In the United States, between New York and Vermont; but has its northern end six miles within the Canadian boundary ^wythin the Province'of Quebec. Its extrers^Jength from north to south Is about 125 miles and its breadth Is from Vi to 15 miles. Its total area is 000 square miles. Cottage owners will bei. asked to pay a $10 boat fee, and as most of them live along the part owned by Mr. Froeiich and Mrs. Pearce, the owners believe they will have no trouble collecting. Boat concessionaires get a reduction--aft<>- their tenth boat! The owners plan to mark their boundaries with bright painted stakes on shore. As no methods have been devised for painting boundary lines on the water, of course, the cottagers will be expected to draw imaginary lines between the stakes and then go back home. Or pay up. Spending $2.34 For Each Dollar Collected (All communications for this department must be signed by the writer, otherwise they will not be publisjipd. The Plaindealer invites, its readers to express their opinions in these columns.) THE OLD BURTON BRIDGE Editor Plaindealer: ^ - It has occurred ia me that f «i about the oldest fossil surviving here and possibly the one--the only one now--left to hand down, apme historical information that otherwise might be lost. Somewhat more than three quarter i of a century ago, when I was a small fathey'acquired and remodelled the bricl^academy building, at Crystal LakeWw occupied by Mr. Mathis. It was tlwo a square brick building, standing alone on unbroken prairie. He added )the wing, bams, etc., and built a picket fence around it, a five acre lot. He also built a square, open top observatory on top of the old acad-. tmy building. I mention this observaadoro tiie five acre? and took me with him. ^ Now this is what I started to tell i-you and look what my memories have done to me, left me no room to write what I started to do. Well, we arrived at "Burton's Bridge." It seemed to me immense. Was old and shaky even then. Must have been about the first put^ up. Sloped quickly up td high middle point and then steeply down and then shook s^> perilously that father had me walk on ahead, possibly thinking how the world would need me and that if it went down with him and the team I would be spared. I learned afterwards that it was built so that steamboats could pass under. It was built before the railroads were considered, when river transportation was the thing and Fox River was laid out, by the Government, as a navigable stream, its sides meandered, and title kept in the government as navigable waters. This bridge must have been replaced soon after and I have seen several built to_replace it and its place is now occupied by quite a massive structure. McMillan built a saw mill where the Terra Cotta factory now stands, then when he had used up what little timber there was and wheat had come to tory and the picket fence with emo- i be the universal crop, he changed if 7: No Egg* Alike The guillemot stands alone among birds for the variety of coloration It achieves In Its egss. No two birds produce eggs alike, it is said. They may be almost any color from white, cream, brown, claret and red to any shade of blue or green and may be marked with spots or blotches In one or more different colors* First to Use Postmark# According to the Stamp Collectors Fortnightly, the first postmaster to use postmarks in Boston was Tuttle Hubbard, a stepson of Benjamin Franklin's brother, John rranklin, who assumed the office of postmaster In 1750. He was the last of the Crown postmasters in Boston. (Jtocle Sam has been passing out an average of $14,000 every 60 seconds, day and night, for the. past ten months. Government spending for the first ten months of the present fiscal year has .averaged $19,152,392.14 a day. Against this expenditure it has collected a daily average of $8,184,159.89. This means that $10,968,237.25 of every day's expenditure is borrowed. In other words, for every $1 collected the government has spent $2.34 of which $1.28 went to emergency recovery expenditures. Since last July 1, the government expended in all about $5,822,427,211-- a figure made up of $2,591,838,460 of routine running costsvand $3,230,588,- 750 of emergency recovery spending. Receipts in the same period have been $2,987,803,087. This leaVes a deficit of $3,334,444,- 123. But only two months remain of the fiscal year and the budget bureau estimated a deficit of more than $7,000,000,000 by June 30. tion, for my parents, New Englander and holding New England ideas, firmly believed the adage that Satan was ever busy in providing things for idle hands. Firm in this belief, they saw to it that their little "Willie" should be seldom, if ever, idle. So I was [provided with white paint and a brush and, whenever there was nothing else for me to do, I was to paint that picket fence. It seemed to me a life's work, four sides of a five acre lot. No, I didn't have to paint the backs of the pickets, just the fronts and edges. The weather was always hot- Other boys passed on their way to the lake to swim in its cool waters, but I knew none of Tom Sawyer's methods and personally attended to the painting myself. Sometimes' I mixed it thick and sometimes ttiin so the different tints stood out vividly, contrasting for a time, but wore out before I got around. Which, by the way, I never did. That painting job stood, to me, as a symbol of eternity. Then, too, the floor of that observatory leaked and I put coat after co»t of paint on it. I was sure some little painter, toiling With my brush physically and, mentally, planning a piratical career. Well, to get back where I started. It must have been in the late fifties. The house was finished as was also the fence when my father decided to drive across to Waukegan, to a nursery there for trees and shnJJjs to to a grist mill, doing quite a business. Another dam was put below, at what came -to be Barreville, and another grist mill there, two or three houses and a store by the Pattersons, who ran the mil! and the store, and did quite a business. They later went to the Chicago Stock Yards and there thriving. The dam later washed oat, the mill wrecked, the store abandoned and the village slumped. Well, in those remote days, there was much prairie, unfenced, trans* portation was by horses or oxen, and McHeury was much further from Crystal Lake? consequently. MV memories only go back to Dick Bishop, Hank McLain, the Owens, and some others. It was said that the Hankins brothers, who, in the late seventies or early eighties, became the leading gamblers in Chicago, came from McHenry. In the three quarters- of a- century now gone since I saw this bridge I doubt if there be anyone still living, other than myself, who saw it. It reared itself, hard to climb, the first half, easy to descend the second.. Something like life, requiring effoft and climbing, then, the summit past, down and quick. It was then so old that it shook, appeared tired and worn, discouraged waiting for the boat that never came. WM. D. GATES. y Plaifidealers for sale at Wattlea. Some Snake* Hatch Own Egg* Not all egg-laying snakes bury their eggs In the sand and let the sun do the hatchings The python Is one that takes care of the incubating Itself by coiling around the clutch until th« young emerge. The pine or bull snake, performs in the same manner, Advances Cosmic Ray* Th--ff ' E^loding stars that burn with & flr®< equal to 100,000,000 suns for six day* and then are reduced from a diameter of 500,000 miles to little spheres fourteen miles thick are the cause of cosmic" rays, an authority states. ^ ^ + * © SdVC time • *' Head Hunters The hunters, of which there are five tribes, ar§_ wholly subjugated, but some of them still practice their weird ceremonies, of which aa enemy's skull forms the basis. When Mercury Solidifies Mercury solidities at about 38 degrees F. below zero, becoming a soft, tin-white, malleable and ductile metal; capable of being worked to some extent at that temperature. Michigan's Third. River The St. Joseph river is the only Michigan river that has any .considerable drainage area outside the state. It Is Michigan's third largest Navajos' Weaving Art - The Navajos are believed to have, learned their weaving art from captive Pueblo women about the middle of the" Eighteenth century. Average Span of Life On the average, women live to be older than men. Tin average span ofj life for a man Is-50 years and fof a woman 58 years. e DON'T TAKE TIRE WORRIES ALONG ON YOBR TRIP Drop them off here before you start out this week-end of next Wednesday It's a lot safer, more pleasant and cheaper in the end to start out on new tires--particularly since prices are still so low... And because Goodyear makes the most tires--by millions-- and so offers the biggest money's worth at every price-^it's a lot wiser to choose new Goodyears . . . Gome and see why more people buy Goodyears than any other tire--just name your price and look at the Goodyear it buys! First Telegraph Line ^ The first telegraph line in the United States was built in 1844; It ran frbm Washington to Baltimore. Daniel Webster in Congress In 1824 Daniel Webster was re elect ed to congress by a vote ef 4,990 out . of a total of 5,000 votes cast. Israelites Conquest of CanMUt Areheological evidence shows that the Israelites began their conquest of Canaan about 1400 B. O. First Steamboat Had Saila The first steamboat that crossed thf Atlantic In 1819 had stills for emerge ency use. 1 Do You Get Yours? it takes 2,100 pounds of foodstuffs fc year fo feed the average person. Leather Stationery The Israelites used leathet a*"~a material to write on. CbrLrult the, WANT ADS NEW G-3 GOODYEAR ALL-WEATHER The g r e a t e s t Goodyear tire of all time -- 43% more non - skid mileage-- tougher rubber and more of it -- the tire that outgrips and outlasts them all. See it! 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