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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1923)
THE FRONTIER P. H. CRONIN. PUBLISHER. W, C. TEMPLETON, ■Wlftor and Butin*** Manager. fflKIlLL, ^ ~~ NEBRASK^ On th« ground floor or a new offlc* building. being erected by the First Methodist Episcopal church at the cor ner of Washington ar.d Clark streets. In toe Chicago business district, has been built the church proper, two stories high, and capable, with Its balcony, of seating more than 1,300 persona A large foyer Is run from Clark street to the church, so that both convenience and privacy are secured. The business elevators ar* reached by another foyer opening on Washington street. Tho building, 21 stories high, Is admirably done In French gothic, and has a beautiful steeple, with chimes, rising to a height of 65« feet aliove tho street level, one fovt higher than the Washington gnonument. It Is be ing erected to give expression to th* Idee that religion Is not merely a "Sun day mat ter,” but rather an Integral part of life which should be of coneem ti> the business man and worker every da>’ In the week. Carrying out this theme. It Is planned to hold services' at noo.’i throughout the week, and conduct the various charities and activities of tho church within "earshot" of the worker. The teachings of Coue are not In con flict with the tenehings of the Homan Catholic religion, according to a treatise entitled "Couelsm In Theory and Prac tice," written by the Rev. E. Boyd Bar rett, a Jesuit and published by the American Press. Father Barret in his paper, pays trmute to autosuggestion as a “theory of simplicity and unlimited adaptability, combined with lnexpcuslve fiess.” "The Coue system Is quite In harmony with human experience,” con tinues Father Barrett, "for we are-all to some extent children and very many of us suffer from ‘complaint’ as unreal ns the imaginary fears, tiredness, and Indispositions of children.” The smallest races of mankind are the Eskimos, Mongols, Burmese, Japaneese, Bengalese, Malays, Javanese and Hot tentots, whose average weight, when full grown. Is between 120 and 130 pounds. The big races Include English, Scotch, Scandinavians, Bulgarians and the nor thern or Tartar Chinese. The average weight of nn adult mnn *.# these races Is about 160 pounds. Next oonie French, Italians, Spaniards, Arab*. Turks and southern Chinese. Their average weight Is between 136 and 140 pounds. Moscow's official newspaper, the Pravda, prints an enthusiastic tribute to Charlie Chaplin as a communist and friend of humanity In connection with the first production of a Chaplin film In soviet Itussla. The Pravda gives a great boost to '’Comrade Charlie" as a man whose heart long was known to be on the right side and who, according to the, latest reports from America, now has Joined the communist p&rty, says a spe - cJfll dispatch to the Philadelphia Public Ledger**' _ — 1 The "best dressed wottian In the world", Mrs. Smlth-Wllklnson, who dazzled Europe a year ago, has deserted her husband and gone to Africa. He has been left with hts army pension of 8 shillings—$1.75 a week—and Is hunting a Job In Condon. A collection of 538 bottles, made In the days when glass manufacturers vied with each other In turning out unusual designs in whisky containers, has been purchased by a bottle connoisseur at lloostck Falls, N. J. He paid $11,000, an average of $20 a bottle. The most val uable Is a dark blue flask with the bust ®f Jenny Ltnd blown In It. It was mado In I860, The International Educational asso ciation of Japan has decided to In vestigate tho Japanese national readers, history, geography and music of the primary schools of various countries to make a comparison and strike out from Japanese books whatever Is detrimental to the cultivation of International Ideals find sentiments. The tone of tho Jap anese text books Is regarded as de cidedly Jingoistic. A ragged stranger appealed to a res taurant owner for a meal In New York. He was told to give his order, and tell the waiter to present tho check to the desk. A little later a cheek for $1.25 was \httnded to tho malinger. "What under the sun did he eat?" asked the manager. "Only two plates of straw berries, some cake and coffee," replied the waiter. Scottish mill owners at Glasgow are attempting to cheek a gambling aruze which recently has obtained a hold on feminine workers. They are bad losers and the betting spirit Is responsible for trouble among the women, it Is said. Jean II. Norris, New York’s only wom an magistrate, has started on a tour of the wiTld to learn how woman offend ers are treated. Among other things she will Investigate the manner In which of ficials In the east handle the trafflo In narcotics. A new use for advertising has been found hy William Allen White, of Em poria, Kan. While Mrs. White was In New York recently the Emporia editor In serted a notice tn his newspaper for an invitation to Sunday dinner. He receiv ed 20 in a half hour. A Wichita, Kan., artist drew a cartoon tor nn olectric company showing a cow kicking a lantern. After looking It over, a friend hurriedly called him. “A man ®f your experience," he said, “should know a cow doesn’t kick with both feet like a mule but with one foot like a chorus girl." After the sheriff and his deputies at Wichita, Kan., had wrecked a giant still and taken the owner to Jail, they were Invited by the still owner's wife to have coffee. She wanted to make them welcome, she said, and If they had made It known they were to call, she would have prepared a chicken dinner. Because the court held she failed to substantiate her claim, a New York roman lost a 910.000 damage suit against a cremating company. She claimed the ashes of her two husbands were handled carelessly, and they were In danger of mixing.— Turmoil of city life was too much for POO hens at the New York poultry show. The hens went on strike and refused to lay eggs. One poultryman suggested thac the hens suffered from shell shock, due to blasting In the vicinity of Mad ison Square Garden, where the show wus held. A bride for iwp hours is the record of a v’--.man suing for divorch In Pittsburgh, Pa. The separation was sudden, she says. She and her husband walked about the streets of Baltimore. He asked her to kiss him. She refused to do so In view ot the passing crowds. He walked away and left her. She has not seen him since. The longest ski slide In the world, ex tending over 60 mites, will be opened at Oberhof, Germany, this month. The course Is laid out on an old road winding through hills of Thuririglan foreBt. A Maryland girl announced her en gagement to a party of friends in a unique way. She let a live cat out of a bag. On the cat’s nack were tied cards hearing the names of her fiance and herself. London banks are overflowing with sliver. It Is estimated there- is twice as much sliver In circulation In England as Is necessary, and that.ha.lf of the 60,00ft, 000 pounds Vorth of coined silver could be dispensed with. It Is said dungeons of the Tower '-i London have been requisi tioned *'*. 'goring tbe surplus metal. ME TO ABANDON SCANDAL PAPER Appointment of Censor Com mittee at Nebraska Uni versity Causes Students to Give Up Publication. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. l6.—The ap pointment of a censoring committee at the state university has resulted In the abandonment of the publication of the Shun, an annual, which Is devoted to scandal. A year ego the Insinu ations were so broad and pointed that a big row followed Its appearance This year the authorities decided to require that tho copy be first sub mitted to a fuculty committee. Then camo the announcement that thert would be no Shun. This followed also by the announce This was followed also by tho an nouncement that the annual stunt night would be adandoned. The stu dents say they did this out of protest against censorship. —♦— CREAMERY COMPANY HEAD IS BEING QUESTIONED Omaha, Neb., Feb. 10.—Leroy Cor liss, former president, and three other former officers of the defunct Water loo Creamery Company, were called Into federal court Friday for ques tioning concerning the company’s as sets. Herbert £?. Daniels, court re ceiver for the concern, on whose ap plication they were called in, said he had been able to obtain cash assets totalling $103, whereas books of the company at the time it went Into re ceivership showed assets of several million dollars. Mr. Corliss said so far as he knew the $103 represented all the cash assets. TO H COURT Ask Early Hearing of Injunc tion Suit to Prevent Collec tion of Fees for Inspection. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 9 (Special).— Attorneys for the Standard and a number of other oil companies pre sented an application to the state su preme court asking for an early hear ing of their Injunction suit to pre vent the collection of what they say are excessive Inspection fees. Th,e companies say that the state Is charg ing more than the work costs, and turning the remainder Into the gen eral fund to relieve the general tax payer. They want the excess lopped off, and said that they asked a speedy hearing so that the legislature, should they win, may reduce th.e Inspection fee. Once before the companies brought such a suit', and wore successful In restraining the collection of all moneys In excess of what the Inspection costs. EPPLEY HOTElVaTTER BECOMES MORE TANGLED Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 9 (Special).—The refusal of Referee In Bankruptcy Bay lor to accept the new proposition of Eugene C. Eppley with relation to handling the properties of the bank rupt Nebraska Building and Invest ment Company, of which Mr. Eppley has possession, has resulted in a hear ing on an order to require Mr. Epp ley to turn over the hotels to the ref ere.e. Mr. Eppley has $200,000 Invest ed In them following his. purchase ot • a receivers’ snle, later knocked out by the courts. He was given five days In which to file a brief In opposi tion to the motion for the order. —^— EMERSON, NEB., THIEVES HAUL SAFE AWAY Emerson, Neb., Feb. 9 (Special).— Alex, Wennndt's soft drink parlor was robbed Wednesday night. The thieves removed.the safe from the building and took it one mile west and a half mile north of town and blew It open with dynamite. No on,e has been ap prehended. In the neighborhood of $200 was secured. * NEBRASKA BRIEFS ♦ »♦♦♦♦♦++♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦ TABLE ROCK—Not guilty was the plea of A. M. McFarland, alias Harry Lewis, arraigned before County Judge D. \V. Neill on the charge of kidnaping Paul Morris, 18, son of C. E. Morris of this place. He was bound over to district court under $6,000 bond, which he was unable to furnish. McFarland was ar rested at Kearney. OHAND ISLAND—The record of chat tel mortgages In the office of the county clerk for January show the value of those released to be more than twice as great as the value of those filed. Ninety were released, aggregating $426,282; 146 were filed amounting to $194,689. GREELEY—Stockmen who In the past three years have shipped stock over the Burlington to Omaha are receiving re bates as the result of the action of the local chamber of commerce, which showed that the Burlington rate was higher than the Union Pacific's. AVYMORE-Members of the Gage county Holstein association have ar ranged to buy a carload of dairy cows from one of the best herds in Wisconsin. Within 10 days 1" carloads have been shipped hero from that state. HASTINGS—Adams county Poland China breeders formed a county associa tion, electing Clay Saddler, president; W. H. Fisher, vice president and William Lowman. Jr., secretary-treasurer. BUR WELL— More thau 360 loads of gravel have been placed on the state trunk highway leading north of this place. The project Is part of an improve ment program for this section. GREELEY—Several families In this community have advanced passage for girls In Germany who are In financial distress. The girls will be 4-mployed as maids In homes here. FREMONT—Spinal meningitis cases have been reported here, the latest vic tim being Lydia Roberts, 12, who la It a serious condition. HE HEED OFFICE, Omaha Man Goes Through Legal Procedure to Be come Citizen, Though He Is Late. Omaha, Neb., Feb. 8.—Before com ing to Omaha two years ugo, Neis Martinson, superintendent of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, had voted for 29 years, had held of fs e in Minneapolis and had been justice of the peace, without ever suspecting that tie was ryot a citizen of the Ulfited States. He was admitted to citizenship this ■week by District Judge Day. He told the Judge that on coming to Omaha his vote was challenged and that in vestigation disclosed that h.e was past 21 years old before hi3 father became naturalized. — 4— BLIND INSTRUCTOR FOR 40 YEARS 13 DEAD Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 7.—Edwlh , C. Cook, 62, for 27 years an instructor at the State School for the Blind at Ne braska, City, died Tuecday in a Lin coln hospital. Although himself blind for more than 40 years, he was regarded as a man of unusual abil ity aa an Instructor. FORT CROOK SUPPLY HOUSE IS BURNED Orrnha, Neb., Feb. 8.—Fire de stroyed a large supply house and 60 tons Of hay at Fort Croolt. The loss Is estimated at $20,000. Cause of the blaze is unknown, but Is be lieved to have started by combustion. An entire battalion of soldiers aided In fighting the blaze and worked for five hours before It was checked. PRISONER’S MONEY BEING GARNISHED Minnesota Court to Decide Whether That May Be Legally Done. Luverne, Minn., Feb. 8.—The ques tion of whether money taken by a jailer from a prisoner can be garn ished by a creditor is to be ruled upon by Judge Reynolds in court here. Joseph H. Jones has started garnish ment proceedings against Sheriff Wlggin to recover $37.50 which the sheriff holds belonging to Peter Sahn. Jonese wants the money to apply on a house rent bill which he holds against Sahn. APPEALS DIVORCE CASE TO SUPREME COURT Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 6 (Special.)— Margaret Illian has appealed to the supreme court from the action of the Platte county district court in refus ing her a divorce from Frank H. Il lian. Roth are members of prominent and well to do families in Roone county. Both were married before. Mrs. Illian charged that her husband had ruined her 14 year old daughter and had subjetced her to abuse for a long time. Illian vigorously denied this. He said that his wife had been guilty of extreme cruelty in making these and other charges, and also in calling his children vile names. Both asked for a divorce. The district court refused to grant either a decree, and dismissed the case. Mrs. illian insists the court, upon the evidence she adduced which included that of the daughter, should have given her a decree. FUNERAL OF BISHOP O'REILLY THURSDAY MORNING Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 6.—The funeral of the Right Rev. Chas. O'Reilly, Catholic bishop of Lincoln, who died Sunday evening, will be held at the cathedral Thursday morning at 9 o'clock. Most Rev. James J. Keane, archbishop of Dubuque, la., will pre side at the ceremonies and will preach the funeral sermon. Bishop ,T. H. Tihen, of Denver, will celebrate the requiem mass. Among church digni taries who are expected to be pres ent, arc Archbishop Harry, of Omaha, Bishop McGovern, of Cheyenne: Bishop Duffy, of Grand Island, and Bishop Hcelan, of Sioux City, who wil give absolutions at the end of the ceremonies. The honorary pail bearers will bo priests of the diocese. BLIND VETERAN*OP LATE WAR DIES AT WAYNE Wayne, Neb.,-Feb- 6 (Special.)— George Smith, a veteran of the late war, is dead following a lingering sickness. He contracted the flu while he was stationed at Camp Dodge, la., shortly before the armi stice was signed, and was left total ly blind and with other compltm tions. While at the government hos pital in St. Louis, he underwent sev eral major operations which proved of no avail, and was discharged from there ns totally dieahlcd. He returned to Wayne to spend his remaining >ears with h's relatives. Mr. Smith leaves a wife, formerly M.ss Fonts Wrigljt of this city. MEXICO BUYS AIRPLANES FROM NEBRASKA CONCERN Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 6.—A contract has oeen closed by Ray Page, presi - dent of the Lincoln Standard Aircraft company, and Htr.-y C. Barru, gen eral purchasing agent for the MexD can government, for the delivery of 13 airplanes to the southern republic. Two of '.he machines will be liown to Juarez next week and will be used in border patrol work. The others will be used by the war department and for experimental purposes and to establish an air mall route. Jk 9 HOT AGREED OH Some Nebraska “Pill Rollers” Believe “Store Educated” Clerk Should Be Given Protection, Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 12 (Special).— Druggists are lined up on both sides 'bf the pharmacy bill in the senate. The opponents of the bill say that it will bar the druggists from getting their future supply of pharmacists from the hoys who work their way through the drug stores, and that it is drawn in the interest of the pharm acy schools. David S. Sims, president of the state association, told the committee that it was nothing of the sort, that the schools want druggists required to take a four year course, whereas they think two years is all that is es sential. He said that if Nebraska did not adapt Its standards to those of a large number of other statw?, the man who learns pharmacy in a drug store may still continue to get a cer tificate in this stat*. but that he will be barred from accepting better of fers in other states, which refuse reciprocity unless the two-year school provision is added here. Governor Bryan haS affixed his signature to the fourth bill presented to him. This authorizes county boards to rotate clerks in county of fices from one to another as occasion requires. Most county officers have deputies and clerks who are idle dur nig a part of the year, and this law proposes a plan whereby the total employes can be cut down to meet actual needs the year around. —4— INDIAN LAWYER APPEALS TO SUPREME COURT Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 12 (Special).— Arguments were heard by the su preme court in a case brought by Hi ram Chase, Indian lawyer, of Thurs ton county, to prevent Judge Graves from proceeding in a matter involv ing lands in"which he claims an in terest unless he is given a jury trial on the question of ejectment. Judge Graves declares that Chase is too late and that the supreme court has no jurisdiction. PUTTING XX TO PETTljmtS Nebraska House of Represen tatives Killing Everything But the Most Import ant Bills. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 7 (Special).— House committees are continuing the policy of putting the ax to every bill that cannot justify itself on the ground of importance. Heffernan, of Dakota county, lost out on his bill to regulate the charges that commission men may make in handling live stock. The state realtors’ bill, which aimed . to put the business of real estate on an ethical and license basis, was re ported for indefinite postponement. The same thing happened to Vance's bill to limit the charge for hay and grain furnished to livestock in tran sit to 20 per cent, above cost. The house changed front on the minimum wage for women bill when it came up for passage. It failed by a vote of 38 to 43. The senate passed a bill Wednesday morning authorizing county boards to pay a 10-cent bounty on crows and 50 cents a dozen for crow eggs, one withdrawing the protection of the game laws from crows and one rais ing the salary of the penitentiary warden from $2,500 to $3,000 a year. The house passed several bills, among them one paying coroners’ juries $2 a day for services; one pro hibiting child labor in restaurants, but permitting children to appear In public musical and dancing recitals; one providing the same punishment for alders and abettors of any crime ns for principals; one limiting to resident property owners the right to petition for paving in cities and vil lages of less than 40,000 population and making the minimum punish ment for auto thieves three years and maktng possession of a machine with the number mutilated prima facie evidence of theft or unlawful posses sion. _.A._ KNIFE CIGARET BILL. Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. 8 (Special).— The house committee on revenue and taxation of the legislature Thursday put to death the cigaret bill. It was patterned after the Iowa law and provided a tax to legalize sale of clg arets. The house committee on cities and towns Indefinitely postponed the Omaha electric light bill providing for an extension of lines. The bill authorizing the state board of control to establish a general store in Lin coln for distribution of supplies to state institutions was advanced to third reading. The senate Thursday kilied a bill making the county the unit for tele phone exchange services and one re ducing the mileage fees of sheriffs. The ancient armor displayed In the Metropolitan Mucseum in New York forms one of the greates collections of Its kind in the world. HOODED MEN APPEAR ON LINCOLN STREETS Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 12.—Several white robed men stood in the sleet and snow at the entrance of a vacant building on one of Lincoln’s main thoroughfares Saturday and handed out copies of a Ku KIux Klan publi cation. The paper contained a gen eral denial of the klan’s connection with the alleged murders at Mer Rouge, La. It Is the first public ap pearance in Lincoln of robed and hooded men. CORN AND ALFALFA PROVE BEST CROPS Wilber J. Fraser, University of Illinois. Profitable dairying depends as much on growing efficient high yield ing crops as on keep high producing eov'S. But the crop side, and espe cially the legume side, never has been considered half as much as the cow side. This is true In farm practice in dairy investigation, and in dairy teaching. A great campaign of in vestigation and publicity revealing the. poor, unprofitable cow, and show ing the great value of the high pro ducing cow and how to develop her, has swept over the country for more than a decade, widely establishing the absolute necessity for the good cow and the folly of feeding and milk ing the poor cow. This knowledge and the hundreds of demonstrations of it, have produced a great effect on dairy practice. Much progress has been made in the improvement of dairy herds. • We <11 understand that the dairy cow worth keeping must have a high ability to consume feed and manu facture it into milk. But we never and equally fundamental phase of dairying—that the crops grown upon an acri should produce a large amount'of suitable material for mak ing milk. The acre is an investment and the labor to cultivate it is an ex pense. It is just as necessary that this acre should produce a high yield, of raw material for milk as that the cow should be an efficient manufac turer of milk. In the milk per acre demonstration C/rried on foV six years at the Uni versity of Illinois, to determine the amount of milk and fat that could be produced wholly from the crops grown on a given area, the first nec essity was the selection of the crops that wTould furnish the greatest amount of digestible nutrients or feed value, both per acre and per day’s labor, and still supply a palatable, nu tritious, and well balanced ration tor dairy cows. The best basis on which to compare the efficiency of crops for this purpose is the digestible nutrients produced per acre, as shown in the accompanying table. The total amount of digestible nutrients pro duced by each crop per acre is shown graphically ^.by the length of line af ter each crop below the table. The heavy portion of the line represents the amount of. protein and the light portion the carbohydrates. Two Crops Above All Others. A study of the table and graph shows that alfalfa and corn are crops producing approximately two to four times as much digestible nutrients per acre as the other crops commonly raised. Corn in the form of silage not only makes more digestible nu trients of both grain and stalks avail able, but has an added feeding value because of its succulence; and alfalfa being a palatable feed high in pro tein and minerals, will balance the ration when fed in the right propor tion with corn. This is a revelation of the highest importance. A ‘real understanding of it may nearly double the produc tion of milk per acre without mater ially increasing the cost for feed. Corn yields the highest amount of carbohydrates and total nutrients, leaving protein as the most neces sary element for a companion crop to supply. The alfalfa hay from an acre contains nearly three times the total feed and nine times as much protein as an acre of timothy. In ad dition, alfalfa is more palatable than timothy and also keeps the cow’s system in much better physical tone. Reduce or Eliminate the Poorer Crops , Timothy hay is not to be considered at all as a dairy crop—not a whit more than a cow that produces only 75 or 80 pounds of fat in a year. And yet at the time this demonstration was started, timothy hay was grown to feed dairy cows on a great many farms, and it is still used for that purpose. Bluegrass pasture makes a still poorer showing of total nutrients though it has some special advant ages of its own as it saves la.bor and is good for cows. Oats are so low in feed value per acre that the amount raised should be reduced to a minimum. \ And an acre of clover hay, while excellent in quality, is greatly lacking in quantity, having only half the total feed value and only a third of the protein produced by an acre of alfalfa. Corn and alfalfa are inseparable dairy feeds. Protein is the high priced constituent in dairy feed when bought in the commercial market, and the paramount advantage of alfalfa is that it is high in protein and thus a balancing feed, no less than in its remarkable yield. On these two great counts, most protein and the greatest total yield of nu trients per acre, alfalfa is the pre mier companion crop of corn, doubl ing or twice doubling the feed value of any other farm crop. These differences In production were never dreamed of, were in fact incredible until comparisons were made in feeding tests. The cows like ail these feeds and there is good feed value in all of them, but these feeds had never been compared as to ouantity and suitability—the i>er acre idea with its unit of investm ment and labor had never been ap plied. Only Possible Choice Of Crops. A careful study of these facts made it evident that the demonstra tion area must be devoted almost entirely to corn and alfalfa, and this was done with the exception of a small amount of soiling crops some years, and rye as a catch crop after corn for" pasture in the fall and Men with their little private doubts are safer than they used to be. 1 Doctor Grant In the Episcopalian church has doubts of many kinds, and expresses them. His bishop tells him he won’t be tried for heresy, because what he says is “ambiguous.” “Ambiguity” wouldn’t have saved Doctor Grant a few centuries ago. One of half a dpzen sentences would hava sent him to the stake to be burned alive, without any influence, buts or nonsense. A fire department was called to Staten Island and used its long ladders to scale a tree and get a kitten belonging to a little girl. spring. Th© acreages of corn and al falfa were about equal, as these •” great companion crops almost exact ly supplement each other to form a balanced ration. All of this seems sound reasoning and necessary deduction, but how does it work out? This is what tha demonstration was for—to carry good theory over the practical re sults and indisputable evidence. And this, is exactly what the demonstra tion did under all the varying condi tions and practical difficulties of six successive years, as the details In coming chapters will show. WORLD’S DAIRY CONGRESS. Washington, D. C.—The value of the World’s Dairy congress as a means of informing. Americans about the methods by which some foreign coun tries have forged ahead of them in various branches of the dairy indus try was emphasized in a speech de livered by L. A. Rogers, director of the dairy division laboratories. United) States department of agriculture. Thd congress is to be held in this country in October, 1923. Mr. Rogers, who is chairman of the program committee, was a guest at the annual banquet of the National Association of Commis sioners, Secretaries and Departments-, of Argiculture. He said: “There seems to be an assumption in some quarters that our progress in. dairying has been so much greater than that of other countries that we have everything to give and nothing to learn. This Is a fallacy which we should lose no time -in getting out of our system. It is true that our meth* ods of handling city milk and in some of our manufacturing processes ar* no doubt in advance of those of other countries; but, when we compare the average production of our cows, the general quality of our butter and cheese, the status of our co-operative buying and selling organizations with those of some other dairy countries, we must adpnit we still have much to learn. “Nothing can be more fatal to pro gress than the asumption that we have nothing to learn. This congress, in so far as we can make it so, is t» be a clearing house for the most re* cent information on dairying—a ree» ord of the most advanced thought of this time. When, through our radio set, we get signals that are too faint to hear distinctly, we add an amplifier to magnify the sound and make it intelligible. We hear faintlv reDOrtff that in New Zealand they have de veloped a successful co-operative or ganization for supplying their largest city with milk; that in South Africa, they are successfully centralizing, sweet cream for butter making; that, in Holland they are using a satis factory method of officially branding dairy products. What we propose to dp is to amplify these reports untli we can hear clearly and understand ing^ what these people have really done. “When we Include in this gathering people interested in dairying from all parts of the world, we greatly increase the possibilities of mutual benefit. The direct benefits will come from the exchange of ideas. There will also be> effect on the general public which cannot fail to react favorably on the consumption of dairy products. It is our aim to bring to this meeting men who can speak with authority on all the important questions that are agi tating the dairy of today. We realize that there will be people pres ent with very diverse interests. The program will, in so far as possible, be arranged to interest the business man as well as the college professor, the social worker as well as the technical factory man.” When writing to advertisers d»o not forget to say, you saw their adver tisement in the Butter, Cheese & Egg Journal. It will do you and the ad vertiser good. There are several reasons for the increase in consumption of dairy pro ducts, most important of which are the scientific researches which demon strate the absolute necessity of dairy products for growth and maintenance of health in old as well as young, and that there is no substitute for them. This Information has been dissemin ated to the public through many channels such as the National Hairy Council, the United States department of argriculture, various organizations of dairymen, the health authorities, schools, etc., and has created tre mendous interest in the use of diary products. Prohibition is another factor which has tended to increase the use of dairy products, and the in crease in ice cream consumption is another. Obviously, as long as consumption keeps ahead of production, as it has done thus far, no one need fear over doing the business and it will continue __ in a healthy and prosperous condi tion. How far.this consumption per capita can be increased no one knows. but the best authorities noiu umi omy about half as much dairy products are now being consumed as there should bo for maximum health and living: economy. This means that there is a possibllity of doubling the dairy pro duction, even with the present popula tion The prospect ^aggers the im agination. This natural increase in consumption which is bound to occur, together with the improvement in production per cow, more economical methods of production, better quality of products, and more economical r-tfirketing, all of which are receiving a great deal of thought andi effort for accomplishment, are seemingly bound to make the dairy industry the most dependable and prosperous of any. __ Battling Siki is to have a role in a photoplay to be made by a Dutch con cern in a Paris suburb. The boxer wilt act the part of a faithful servant whose master's little girl has been kidnaped. As the plot unfolds, Sikl rescues the child through his prowess as a pugilist. He is said to be quite as “photogenic" as his rival Carpentler. A rabbi in New York warned against Emile Coue, declaring the country is af flicted with “new-itis” because of the popular interest in the auto-suggestion healer's visit. The rabbi warned that the chief danger from mental or spiritual healing was the tendency to seek a cure for all forms of ailments in the same treatment, often resulting fatally.