Nebraska Newspapers

    Baking Companies
Unify Operations
New York.—The National Biscuit
Company and the Iten Biscuit Com
pany, will unite their operations
throughout the Central West, a joint
announcement states. The two com
panies have been affiliated since 1928,
but have continued to operate sep
arately, each maintaining its own
complete line of crackers and cookies.
The move will take effect short
ly, and Otto H. Barmettler, of
Omaha, Neb., President of the Iten
Biscuit Company, has been elected
Vice-President of the National Bis
cuit Company to have jurisdiction
throughout the territory, with head
quarters at Omaha. Mr. Barmettler
has been a prominent figure in the
linking Industry for thirty years, hav
ing had previous associations with
the American Biscuit Company, the
Continental Biscuit Company, and
also with the National Biscuit Com
pany.
The Iten Bakeries at Clinton, la.,
Omaha, Oklahoma City and Memphis,
and the National Biscuit Company
bakeries at Pes Moines, Kansas City,
St. Louis, St. Joseph, Mo., will con
tinue to be operated on the same
scale as heretofore. Iten products
will be made and distributed by
National Biscuit Company under its
name and trade-mark. So far as pos
sible, sales and delivery territories
will be rearranged to provide work
for the employes of both companies.
This move will co-ordinate the
business interest of the National Bis
cuit Company in Nebraska, Iowa,
Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkan
sas, and Tennessee, and parts of
Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado, New
Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississip
pi, Alabama, Oeorgia and Kentucky.
The National Biscuit Company was
organized in 1898, and is the largest
baking company in the world, em
ploying about 25,000 people, and op
erating fifty bakeries and 2G0 branch
•flices. It makes approximately GOO
varieties of crackers and cookies.
Collectivism Basis of
Power of Inca Ruler3
The Inca rulers were enabled to
build up a socialistic state at a pe
riod in world history when the ex
istence even of a feudal empire
would have been a miracle, largely
by their keen understanding of psy
chology, Dr. Victor A. Belaunde, Pe
ruvian scholar, declared in a George
Washington university Hispanic
seminar lecture.
Doctor Belaunde said that, while
the Indian as an individual Is lazy
and will remain inactive if left
alone, his race collectively Is very
active. This fact, neglected by most
historians in their speculations upon
the civilization of the Incas, Doctor
Belaunde asserted, was thoroughly
understood by the Inca rulers, who
never relied upon the natives to
work individually, but organized
their activities upon a “team-work”
basis.
MercolizedWax
Keeps Skin Young
Get an ounce and use as directed. Fine particles of agwl
•kin peel off until all defect* such as pimples, liver
•pote. tan and freckles disappear. Skin is then soft
and velvety. Your face looks years younger. Mercolized
Wax brings out the hidden beauty of your skin. To
remove wrinkles use one ounce Powdered Saxolit©
dissolved in one-half pint witch hazel. At drug stores.
Makes Water Run Uphill
The United States and 18 foreign
■countries have issued patents to
Toribo Bellocq, an Argentine in
ventor, on a new pump that makes
water run uphill, despite the laws of
nature which say that can’t he done.
ISy creating waves in a pipeful of
water this new “wave pump” can
draw water up from almost unlim
ited depths. According to Popular
Science Monthly the operation of the
new wave pump is so extraordinary
that even Bellocq himself admits
that he is not certain of its prin
ciple.
“Written Up” by Hawthorne
The Great Stone Face, the famous
profile in the white mountains of
New Hampshire, was first seen by a
white man in 1803 when Nathaniel
Hall went out one morning to shoot
partridges for the breakfast of a
number of road workers encamped
in the southern end of what is now
known as Profile lake. Nathaniel
Hawthorne visited the spot in 1S32.
and 16 years later he wrote the tale
which immortalized the profile and
made it one of the most famous nat
ural curiosities in the world.
Gentle Reminder
Friend—You’ll soon forget all
about her and be happy again.
Jilted Lover--Oh, no, I won’t I’ve
bought her too much on the install
ment plan!—En Rolig Hal Timma
(Gothenburg).
Third parties fail because nobody
will sufficiently finance them.
| Try Lydia E. PinKham’s Vegetabla Compound
Felt Terribly Nervous
Fagged out... always melancholy and.
blue. She shoul d take Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound. Its tonic
actioa builds up the system. Try it.
Sioux City Ptj. Co.. No. 37-1932
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Taips of Real Dogs By Albert p*y50n Tcrhune
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He Hurled himself at the Door
Jack started life on the streets,
As far as any records go. He was
picked up, starving, by an agent
of the Atlanta, Ga., Humane so
ciety, and taken to the society’s
shelter. So clever and likable was
he that the officials felt certain
someone would adopt him soon.
They were right. Jack was
picked out, " from many another
canine waif, by W. R. Elsberry, a
night watchman. Elsberry and the
wistful-eyed dog were chums at
first sight. When Jack became fa
mous, a newspaper described him
thus:
“Jack is not an Airedale or
anything like that. He is just
‘plain dog’.”
But four years of pleasantly un
eventful life were to be lived out
by the mongrel before fame ar
rived. Meanwhile, he shared his
master’s long night vigils at a
local roofing warehouse, and
learned to be on the lookout for
intruders or for other perils to the
property he guarded.
Jack took a personal interest—
a queer sense of proprietorship
—in everything connected with
the warehouse. It was evident he
understood the nature of Elsbcr
ry’s job, and that he considered
himself as responsible for the
building’s safety as was his own
er.
Then, when Elsberry died, his
soninlaw, J. W. Pike, inherited
the night watchman position. Also
he inherited Jack. So the dog
kept on with his old duties, under
new ownership.
In the daytime, he lived with
Mr. and Mrs. Pike, at their home,
two blocks from the warehouse.
At night he was tied in the ware
house yard except when Pike was
making his hourly rounds of the
place. Though Pike owned the
dog, Jack’s devotion and loyalty
were even more for Mrs. Pike
than for her husband.
Then, late one windy night, fire
swept the warehouse. Nobody
knows how it started. But almost
instantly the gale-fanned flames
were roaring among the rolls of
tar roofing stored in the loft.
Jack had barked furiously at
SIMPLER LAW
New York Evening Post
A new set of rules of legal pro
cedure regarded as “likely to revolu
tionize the entire system of ad
ministration” law has been an
nounced in England by Lord Chan
cellor Sankey. The rules delegate to
the civil courts the power to dis
pense with the juries in certain
cases; to accept affidavits instead
of calling witnesses in persons; to
fix a date for a hearing of a case 1
and then adhere to it! to reduce j
the number of expert witnesses and i
the first breath of smoke, and had
tugged with all his might to
break the strong rope with which
he was tied. His warning barks
gave Pike notice of the fire much
more quickly than the watchman
otherwise would have become
aware of it. As it was, the tar
fed blaze was making fearful
headway. Pike dashed to the tele
phone, to give the alarm to the
nearest fire company. But he did
a humane thing first.
Realizing how fast the flames
were spreading, and that his dog
was tied helpless and might well
be burned or suffocated, Pike
checked his own rush, to the tele
phone long enough to slash in
two, with his pocket-knife, the
rope at which Jack was straining.
Then he telephoned. And, while
he waited for the engines, he hur
ried back to the fire, fighting it
single-handed. Even in that mo
ment of stark excitement, Pike
noticed that Jack had disappeared.
The man could not understand
the desertion. In all moments of
danger, the dog had ever stood
stanchly by him. Yet, now, in this
supreme peril, Jack was nowhere
to be found.
Pike believed the brave dog had
forced himself into the swirl of
flames with some canine idea of
rescuing the loft’s contents. That
seemed the only likely solution.
As soon as the firemen arrived
and took over .he task of extin
guishing the blaze, Pike risked his
own life by entering the building
and searching everywhere for
Jack. He shouted the dog’s name,
and he sought for him until the
heat and smoke checked his quest.
Then he appealed to Fire Chief
Terrell to help him. The chief
seems to have been a good deal of
a man. Willingly, he joined in the
search. But neither he nor Pike
could find Jack anywhere. They
made up their minds the dog had
bpen overcome by smoke some
where in the loft.
Now, that is precisely what had
not happened.
Jack had the heart of a hero.
But also he had a quick and
logical brain. He was not going to
to frame an agreement between both
parties not to appeal. Some other
modifications are not of general
interest in the United States. Con
servative England leads a long way
ahead. Elimination of jury trials in
some types of criminal cases has
been urged n ths country. The agi
tation is not new, but it continues
to be agitated. Simplification of
procedure and elimination in both
civil and criminal cases of many
costs that are based upon archie
ideas would save millions of dollars
annually.
throw away his life uselessly by
running into a burning building
which contained no one he could
save. It was high time to get help
—human help. And Jack set forth
to get it.
I have said, he was utterly de
voted to Mrs. Pike. That means,
in the case of a loyal dog, that he
regarded her as the supreme dei
ty of his small universe; the one
person, above all others, to go to
in case of trouble; the one per
son who could accomplish any
thing and everything.
So Jack scampered of at ex
press train speed to his master's
home, two blocks distant, where
Mrs. Pike was asleep.
He hurled himself against the
locked front door, clawing and
biting at its unyielding panels,
and screaming at the top of his
lungs. The ear-plitting din awoke
Mis. Pike. She ran downstairs and
let him in. Jack galloped around
the half-awake woman and tugged
at her nightgown, and then ran
back to the front door, trying to
coax her to follow him. She did
not understand, or else thought
the dog was romping.
Failing to make his wishes clear
to her, Jack scrambled upstairs to
her bedroom and yanked her
heavy coat from Its hook in the
closet there. Seizing one corner
of the coat between his teeth, he
dragged it downstairs as fast as
its cumbrous weight would per
mit.
Then he laid the ccat at the
astonished woman's feet, and once
again ran to the front door,
barking frantically for her to fol
low him. By this time, Mrs. Pike
saw how tensely in earnest he was.
So she slipped on the coat and
went out on the porch.
Jack was overjoyed that he had
at last made her comprehend his
meaning. He ran down to the
street and back again and pulled
at the hem of the coat.
Mrs. Pike feared some mishap
had befallen her husband and
that Jack had come to take her to
the night watchman. So she has
tened along toward the warehouse
in the wake of the frenzied dog,
just as the fire appartus tore
past on its way to the blaze.
I have told this true story be
cause it shows that the right kind
of a dog can combine brains with
heroism. Hundreds of dogs will
bark when they smell smoke in
their master’s homes. They win
praise for this, a praise they do
not always deserve. For, often
their barking is just a sign of ex
citement at the unusual ordor.
But a dog which—like Jack
will not only give that alarm, but
will then try to bring help, is a
dog that is 100 per cent worth
while. Mrs. Pike seemed to Jack
to be all-wise, all-powerful. So, in
time of stress, he rushed to enlist
her aid; not for himself, but for
the property he guarded. A good
dog!
DIVERSIFIED PHILOSOPHY.
I wonder if hitch hikers know
They've grown to be a curse;
That they are beggars, every one,
Save only when they’re worse.
There's two inventions that I know
Could even now be sold;
A lawn mower and garden hoe,
Each radio controlled.
I’d like to be the president;
For every time I note
A picture of him catching fish,
He never rows the boat.
And would it now have helped ua
some,
Relieved a bit our pain,
Had all those jokes, when they wcra
fresh.
Been wrapped in cellophane?
—Sam Page.
THEFTS REPORTED
Two minor thefts Monday eve
ning were being investigated by po
lice Tuesday. Mabel Stein, 422 Sixth
street, reported theft of a handbag
containing $2.90 from her home.
Walter Hindricks, 3951 Monroe av
enue, reported a shotgun stolen
from a garage at West Third street
and Wesley avenue.
CRYPTIC *S IGWLS
Ashland Daily Independent.
If there is such a thing as mind
reading, it should be a great help
when the driver in front holds out
ha hand.
| OF INTEREST TO FARMERS |
CIIF.AF' FEEDING BEEF CALVES
Creep-feeding of beef calves dur
ing summer and fall whlie they are
nursing their darns is rapidly
spreading , It Is regarded by cattle
men as the greatest improvement
in cattle feeding !n a generation,
because it produces substantial
early gains at two to three cents per
pound, puts calves into fall feed
lots weighing 50 to 100 pounds more
than ordinary calves, avoids the
shrinkage that comes when calves
first go on feed, and produces
calves that go onto lull feed In the
fall without loss of time. The plan
ha.*sueceeded well on small ranches
and livestock farms. Tire first ex
perimental evidence of the value
of this practice was disclosed re
cently when the preliminary re
sults of a co-operative feeding ex
periment. During a 160-day feeding
period, beginning August 17, 1931,
calves In a 2,000-acre pasture fed
grain in creeps to supplement their
mother's lrilk gamed about twice
as nruoh ns those getting only pas
turage and dams' milk in a special
1.500-acre pasture, nnd more than
three times as much ns a third lot
turned into the main herd with
their mothers. Ranchers who fol
low’ed the experiment were prepared
Tor results showing thit creep-fed
calves roundly outweighed the
others, but they were amazed to
learn that the cows whose calves
were fed in creeps gained 79 pounds
In weight during the experiment
ns compared to an average gain
of only 28 pounds per head for cows
on clean range whose calves were
not given supplement feed. The
creep-fed calves numbered 69 and
gained 210 pounds each, or 1.31
pounds per day. at a feed cost of
two and a half cents per pound,
while the 49 calves nursing their
dams without supplemental feed
gained 111 pounds apiece, or .69
pounds daily. The 102 calves turned
with mothers into the main herd
gained an average of 69 oounds, or
.43 pounds per day. All calves
weighed about 275 pounds at the
start. The creep-fed calves received
a mixture of four pounds of ground
milo heads to one pound of cot
tonseed meal in a self feeder. Dur
ing the latter part of the faeding
period ground ear corn replaced
the ground milo heads, but the pro
portion of grain to cottonseed meal
was kept the same.
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SOY BEAN MEAL
Recently some discussion has
arisen in regard to the r-elative ;
palatability of soybean oil meals
manufactured by the hydraulic or
“old process" and by the newer
method, known as the expeller
process. It has been claimed that
meal manufactured by the expeller
process has a most desirable nut
like flavor which that made by the
hydraulic or “old process” does not
possess. There was a time when
some manufacturers secured a
meal by the expeller process that
had a fine, nut-like flavor, while
other who made use of the hy
draulic process made a meal that
had a somewhat raw, beany taste.
However, it has now been definitely
demonstrated that the difference in
the flavor of soybean oil meal does
not depend upon the process em
ployed in its preparation, but
rather upon the manufacturing
technique. Certain manufacturers
employing the hydraulic or "old
process” are making soybean oil
meal with just as fine nut-like
flavor as those employing the ex
peller process. In fact, there are
manufacturers who employ both
processes, and one can not detect
any difference in the taste of the
meals made by either method. Not
all meals made by the expeller
process possess the r.ut-like flavor,
now regarded as adding greatly to
their palatability, nor do all meals
made by the hydraulic process pos
sess It. This, in short, means that
the consumer need not concern
himself with what process was em
ployed in the manufacture of the
soybean oil meal which he buys.
If' the meal has that delightful
nut-like flavor, which is liked so
well by livestock, he can rest as
sured that he will make no mistake
If he buys on a price and protein
content basis. Some years ago. be
fore the technique in connection
with the hydraulic process was
fully worked out, some makers did
get better results from the expeller
process but such is no longer the
| ease with those who have perfected,
so to speak, the hydraulic or “old
process” method as applied to soy
bean oil meal manufacture.
THE FARM FENCE
If there Is any one thing on the
farm more than any other that so
often degenerates into such a run
down condition that it is evident to
the passer-by, it is the farm fence.
The money-making value of good
fences, especially woven wire fences,
is not generally appreciated, if one
is to judge from the many poor
fences he sees in driving through
most rural sections. When a man
has his farm well fenced with wo
ven wire, he has an asset the
value of which It Is difficult to
estimate In dollars and cents. Cer
tainly, its value is many times as
great as its original cost, when one
| considers that a good fence will last
I 20 to 25 years or more. In some
J years, good fences pay bigger divi
dends than in other years, because
there are times when grain crops
are beaten down by storms about
the time they are ready to har
vest. When such accidents happen
to a field that is not fenced, the
crop is often a complete loss. On
the other hand if a field is fenced
‘hog tight and bull strong,” the
damageed crop can usually be
PAINTING BARN PAYS
During the last two years a study
has been made of the buildings on
some 25!) farms In this group there
were 115 barns that had never been
Dainted. The expected life on these
bams was 37 years. Sixty-six barns
had been painted when built, but
were now in need of paint. The ex
pected life of this group was 46
years. Thus, the application of
paint when the barn was new in
creased its serviceable life 24 per
■rent. Ninety-two bams were painted
as paint was needed. These had an
expected life of 53 years, an in
creased life through the use of
paint, of 45 per cept. Where a good
picked up by livestock without any
loss whatsoever, or at least at a
comparatively small loss. Then, too,
the man wno has his tarm weU
fenced because of that, fact is very
apt to become a much better far
mer than it fences are lacking or
are too poor to really protect the
livestock. A totation of crops is
much more easily carried out on a
well fenced farm than on one that
Is only partially fenced, and it
almost invariably means the grow
ing of a larger acieage of hay and
pasture, one often feels like saying
that the basis of successful agri
culture is the growing of legume
roughage a3 well as grain crops,
The man who grows a large acre
age of legumes usually has plenty
of rich pasture in summer and an
abundance of clover, allalfa, soy
bean and other legume hay in
winter. That calls for livestock,
and as a result of the growing and
feeding of a large amount of leg
ume crops to livestock, the soil be
comes richer in plant food from
year to year and more grain U
grown on a comparatively small
acreage on such a farm than on a
large acreage where little or no
legumes are raised Ordinarily, wa
give livestock credit for building
up the fertility of our soils and
there is no objection to that way
of looking at soil problems; the
fact remains, however, that unless
we use legumes to the fullest ex
tent possible, our livestock prob
lems are not likely to prove profit
able ns they might. When every
field is fenced so that all can be
used for pasture, the farm is in the
best condition to bring maximum
returns, and that means it must
be well fenced — if it is fenced
hog and sheep tight, so much the
better.
ESTABLISHING SWEET CLOVER
For several years I have been
engaged in making a study of farm
experience and farm practice with
sweet clover throughout the Corn
Belt and Plains states, says an
extension service field man. Taking
the reading from the experience of
thousands of farmers visited, there
is now made plain the sure-fire an
swer for getting a stand of this
crop, even under extremely trying
conditions. The trick consists in
having a firm seed bed. If the sweet
clover is going to be seeded alone
on land which has been tilled In
some row crop the previous year,
the surface should be merely lightly
scratched in preparation for the
spring clover seeding. If the crop
is to go in along with spring seeded
grain a roller or subsurface packer
should come right along after the
seeder. The firm seed-bed principle
of seeding clover not only insures
a stand in ordinary seasons, but
even when the weather is unsea
sonably dry. This was illustrated
last year in the drought-stricken
area of North Dakota, where in one
community I found three fields
with perfect stand, when all other
seeding in the neighborhood had
failed. Each of these farmers had
drilled the sweet clover along with
flax or small grain, the clover seed
and grain or flax being mixed to
gether before drilling. These suc
cessful farmers used from four to
six pounds of sweet-clover seed to
the acre. The usual seeding in this
section is eight to twelve pounds.
But with the packer firming the
ground right behind the seeder r
thick star»l was secured.
GROWING SOY BEANS ^
Early cultivation has been found
by investigators to be an almost
certain way for farmers to get
better crops of soy beans off the
larger acreage of this crop which
they are now growing. Such culti
vation kills many weeds. Soy beans
in rows wide enough to cultivate
are easy to free of weeds, but it
is better to cultivate with a rotary
hoe before the beans are tall
enough to cultivate with u row
cultivator. Soy beans drilled solid
are especially likely to get weedy
unless special precautions are taken.
In such fields a crop or two of
weeds should be eradicated on the
ground before the beans are planted.
Secondly, the crusty soil should be
broken before the beans are ready
to come up. Third, a rotary hoe
should be used often enough to
keep down the weeds until the
ground is shaded. The rotary hoe
should be moved fairly fast to get
satisfactory results. Just because
the plants are being injured should
not stop cultivation of soy beans,
getting rid of the weeds will more
than offset any reasonable reduc
tion in stand. In one experiment
it was found that the stand of
soy beans was reduced less and
the weeds killed better when the
beans were cultivated one half inch
high. The next best height of soy
beans from the standpoint of
killing weeds was three inches and
the least best six inches. Stand
was reduced less in plots cultivated
in the afternoon than in those
cultivated in the morning.
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DEFECTIVE EGGS
A blood clot in an egg is due to
bleeding in the ovary or oviduct,
from heavy feeding and stimul
lating feeds. Feeding more green
stuff may relieve the congestion.
An affected egg is much less likely
to hatch, but if hatching occurs
the chick will probably be normal.
Affected eggs should bo rejected
for hatching purposes.
AND POWER IS COSTLY
Dull knives in the ensilage cutler
Increase the cower reauirement
about 50 Der cent.
grade of siding is used or where
knots and rosin spots are covered
before painting, the results are
much more favorable. These fig
ures show that paint will at least
pay for itself in extra life of the
building, besides bringing returns
in sanitation, appearance, and gen
eral satisfaction to the owner. In
addition to all this, painting makes
the farm an asset to the commun
ity. An attractive, well painted barn
and a neat, clean farm homestead
are special assets to the dairy cattle
breeder in both the sale of his milk
ajid sale of surplus saUle.