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Ten thousand pounds of live p Guitry can be shipped cn one trip
for any distance and be fed and wa tered enroute in this tractor
trailer combination truck being us cd by Louis Cohen of Louisville,
Ky. Food is mixed in a tank on the truck and is carried to feed
troughs by force. A generator supplies current for 42 lights which
Illuminate the coops at feeding time.
SON OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY
PIONEER IS AMONG LEADING
HAW KEY E STATE FARMERS
BY FRANCIS T. MARTIN
Fifty eight years ago, when Jo
seph Sitzmann emigrated from the
state of WiscoaSin to Plymouth
county, Iowa,' what did he find?
He found a vast, open, boundless
prairie, but he was young then;
nothing daunted him and his pri
mary purpose in coming was to es
tablish a home for himself and
family. He did that very thing and
he saw his holdings increase to 1,
300 acres and those acres are among
the most valuable in Plymouth
county.
Besides acquiring rich acres of
farm land, Sitzmann did what most
pioneers did, raised a large fam
ily.
The subject of this sketch, how
ever, is George Sitzmann of Kings
ley, one of Joseph Sitzmann’s sons,
and what the father has done, the
son has done. Today, George Sitz
mann is one of the towering oaks in
Plymouth county’s agriculture, a
successful man, whose early train
ing stood him well in hand when he
assumed the responsibilities, and
the actualities of life.
Love for Soil
George Sitzmann like his father
had a passionate regard for the
soil. The soil was kindly to his
father,' why should it not be the
same to him? It was, and what a
fine monument he has erected by
staying close to the acres his fath
er gave him, in the rearing of an
excellent family of children all of
whom have been given the advant
ages and the opportunities to be
come worthy members of society
and to bring honor to the names of
their forbears.
George Sitzmann is known as one
of the most progressive farmers in
his community. He gives to the
business of farming the most in
telligent direction that he is cap
able of, and the productivity of his
acres are kept at a high peak sim
ply because livestock breeding and
feeding enables him to do so.
Legume growing is a great hobby
Political Parson Gets Rap.
From Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
Although what Justice James K.
Hines of the Georgia supreme court
said in his speech at Midway, Ga.,
on the subject of preachers and
churches that adopt political side
lines, comes two years too late to do
the most good, it qualifies as a sig
nificant public utterance even in
1930. It is interesting to have the
Georgia jurist utter the judgment—
"That any preacher who becomes a
partisan in politics, and as such be
comes the champion of any political
party, or of the candidates of any
political party, descends from the
high pedestal which he ought to oc
ot his, in fact, he overlooks nothing
that will tend to maintain and in
crease the fertility of the soil.
Raises Choice Shorthorns
For many years a choice herd of
Shorthorns has been on the farm,
one of those kind of herds that
never fail to give a good return on
the investment because it is han
-dled in a practical and sensible
manner, and producing a class of
seedstock that can be sold to one’s
neighbors at live and let live prices.
The best bulls are bought to head
the herd, and the sire in service
now is of the wellknown Cumber
land strain and a sort that is rec
ognized as the best. Poland China
hogs are extensively raised, too, and
at this time more than 600 head of
registered hogs are on the farm.
That’s a lot of hogs, but George has
the facilities with which to care for
them. Sales are usually held and the
better end of the crop are sold for
breeding prurposes. This tells the
story of George Sitzmann’s success
as a farmer and grower of good live
stock.
There ought to be more men of
his standing, for it is these kind
that are the backbone of agricul
ture.
Agriculture as it is known in the
corn belt always will be kept in the
foreground with such men as
George Sitzmann back of it. They
stand as pillars of strength for all
that agriculture is and for all that
it hopes to be in the future.
Northern Nebraska Wants Paving.
From Norfolk News.
Hie men representing 16 towns
in north Nebraska who Tuesday
night unanimously indorsed an ex
panded paving program were not
visionaries led astray by impassioned
eloquence. They were business men
capable of passing judgment on a
business proposition.
The highway question in Nebras
ka is being resolved into a plain
mathematical problem. It can bd
demonstrated as easily and as con
vincingly as the multiplication ta
ble. You have certain factors giv
en and these factors lead to an
cupy and does immeasurable injury
to his worth and value as an apostle
and evangelist of the religion which
he espouses.Whenever a
; preacher undertakes to use the pul
1 pit of his church to advocate or de
nounce the cause of any political
party, or whenever any church as an
I organization by itself or by its coun
1 cils or commissions, undertakes to
participate in the administration of
the government or in the enactment
of laws, it violates the principle of
separation of church and state, and
its action should be suppressed.
By such action the church will lose
its beneficent influence and Dower
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inevitable answer. The meeting
Tuesday night was able to see this
so it lost no time in putting its
conclusion on record.
State Engineer Roy Cochran pre
sented the figures from the records
of his office. He did not try to
reach a solution* as to what the
state’s policy should be. He left that
I to his audience. But taking those
figures into account his audience did
the computing and found that as to
a percentage of our highway sys
tem the present gravel policy is
wasteful of the people’s money.
There is no. gursswcrk r bout this.
The various factors in the 6ost of
paving and of motor car operation
have been worked out accurately.
The saving in cost of maintenance
effected by paving is easily com
puted. The saving in the deration
of cars on pavement as cjmprred
with gravel has been arrived at by
extensive experiments. Taking these
factors into account and applying
them to the cost of hard surfacing,
it is found that on some of the
heavily trafficked Nebraska high
ways, the cost of paving would be
paid in five, six or seven years, leav
ing from 13 to 15 years uie of the
pavement as “velvet.”
At least 1.500 miles of Nebraska
highways would show a profit if
paved now. As the number o. cars
increases and the mileage per car
grows, and more trucks end buses
lisa the rosds, this 1,500 miles will
become 2.000 or 2.500. But the good
roads enthusiasts arc net inclined to
go too far in anticipating the future.
What they went to do is to pave
now the highways that will show a
profit now.
An increase of a cent in the gas
oline tax to be devoted wholly to
paving will help meet the situation.
It will enable the state to take ad
vantage of all the federal aid mon
ey offered to it. But it will give us
our pavement slowly, only at the
| rate of 300 miles a year.
So the Tuesday meeting favored,
i in addition to the increase, an
i amendment to the Nebraska consti
tution which would permit the stste
to issue highway bonds. A $40,01! 1,000
issue, retirable from gasoline tax
funds, would give us cur l.tOO miles
of pavement within a year or two
; after adoption, and it would impose
: no tax burden on anyone but those
who make the profit. The levy on
general property would not be af
fected.
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Washington — — Farmers
in drought areas have been advised
by the department of agriculture,
to select or purchase seed corn now,
to prevent the possibility of a short
age of suitable seed next year.
“Unless farmers in the most se
riously affected drought areas recog
nize the situation promptly and
take steps to meet it,” the depart
ment said, “the ill effect of’ the
drought may not stop with the cur
rent crops.
“It is probable there are few areas
so seriously affected that sufficient
corn of local adapted varieties can
not be had for planting in 1931. but
the seriousness of the conditions
; must be recognized and steps taken
immediately to insure that enough
seed of these varieties is saved.”
SUGAR PRODUCTION HIGH
Baton Rouge, La—iAP)—with
a sugar cane crop 74 per cent of
normal August 1, Louisiana has an
indicated production of 189,432
short tens of sugar in 1930. This
will be about 10,000 tons below the
1929 crop, but 27,000 tons above
the average for 10 years.
and will contribute to its own hurt
and downfall.”
It is possible that Judge Hines’s
view of th- preacher and his mission
I ts old-f jshioned. Few, nowadays,
W'ould hold that the preacher is to
I be debarred from hold-ng political
! opinions or from uttering them, but
: between this inalienable right of
self-determination and the assumed
I right to make use of vast denomina
j tional foundations to further the
i preacher’s political views and im
pose them on multitudes as Mews
colored by some divine autborh.w I
yawns a vast chasm.
Georgia ream 3
Selects a New Bat
Tyrus Ilaymond Cobb, veteran
luminary of the great American
Eastime, exchanges his baseball
at for a golf club at the Ashe
ville Country Club, Asheville, N.
C. The former chief of the De
troit Tigers, popularly known as
the “Georgia reach," nas taken to
the ancient Scottish game with
great enthusiasm.
ilu:ernation*l New artel)
“Divine Sarah's*’ Kin
Actress and Writer
Lyeiane Bernhardt, granddaughter
of the famous Sarah Bernhardt,
one of th» f/reatest actresses in
history, as she appeared recently
when she announced that 6he it
talcing up the study of screen act
ing and is preparing a new novel.
She was recently divorced from
Louis Verneuil, famous French
playwright.
(International Newereai)
(failed Queen of Beauty
At Rio de Janeiro Show
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Miss Yoland Pereira, as a repre
sentative of her native Brazil,
w n first place from twenty-seven
beau ies from other parts of the
world .n the international beauty
contest nt Rio de Janeiio. Her
dark Spt rish type of her.uty met
favor v.'i i the judges, who award
ed her t’.e $10,000 tir*X prize ui
> *w. »ui. “Him
Victim of New Street Menace
Little Afvin Krulik, 6, lies in <>
his home at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
the victim of a new kind of
hit-and-run driver. After hitting
the bov. the
long enough to press £& iain
his hand before speeding away.
Police arc looking for Urn new
•pecies of W eet menace..
Signal Giver of
Army Gridders
College Professors
Father and Dci^htef
Wendell W. Bowman, quarterback
of the West Point Military Acad
emy football team, about to hurl a
forward pass during the first
workout of the squad at West
Point, N. Y.
(International Newereel)
•
Rummer school students attending
the University of North Carolina
this year were treat** to the
unique experience of finding
father and daughter, Professui*
George M. McKie and Bfias Eliza
beth McKie, professors is the nania
institution.
Queen of Legion Air Races
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Deputy Controller S. Davis Wil
son of Philadelphia presents
Miss Violet Kilpatrick, also of
Philadelphia, with the trophy
which she won in the parachute
jumping eontest. Approximately
• 50,000 persons wmudwd tbs,
thrilling rices which romprssea
the two-day prograss at th*
municipal airport, Phihiriyhi^
Pa.