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Show The Cache American, Loan, Cache County, Utah Page Two A Flared Skirt for Your Dressing Table Lincoln Establishe dDepartment Of Agriculture 84 Years Ago opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought as agriculture. Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two where there once was but one is both a profit and a pleasure. And not grass alone, but soils, seeds and seasons, saving crops, diseases of crops, what will prevent and cure them; hogs, horses and cattle; trees, shrubs, fruits, plants and flowers each is a world of study within itself. His words were prophetic of the research conducted today by plant breeders, animal husbandmen and soil scientists at state agricultural colleges and experiment stations. There was great room for progress in agriculture when Lincoln entered the White House. Farming was still being done with horse power although an impressive start had been made in mechanization. But it still took about as long to plow a cut a flared dressing HOW toskirt without fullness at Distance Dims Reality I have caused the department of agriculture of the United States to be organized to carry opt the act of congress of May 15th last. The commissioner informs me that within the period of a few months this de- Well-Beiof U. S. in Contrast to Bleak A partment has established an extensive system of correspondence and Ruins of Old World; Trials of Nazis both at home and exchanges, his at sat Abraham Lincoln Point Up Evils of Militarism. abroad, which promise to effect desk studying a document a highly beneficial results in the development of a current knowledge clerk had laid before him. of recent improvements of agriculBy BAUKIIAGE Now and then he would glance new of Introduction in the ture, News Analyst and Commentator. out the window at a blue-cla- d and in the collection of the products like sentry pacing the White House agricultural statistics of the differ- WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., ders, the minor Streicher because they were too ent states. Also It will be prepared Washington, D. C. lawn. to distribute largely seeds, cereals, Back in this beautiful country small to be caught in the meshes of Soon he finished reading, law. Since then and cuttings, and has already where houses have roofs, furnaces an steel-bowe- d plants spectook off his and liberally diffused have coal and larders have food in the prosecution has shown how all published tacles, reached for a pen and much valuable information. them, and cigarettes are thrown these men were deeply involved in to last the name of his The agriculture department I find it hard to the vicious plot and counterplot of signed away thus played its part in the Civil reaze that what I saw in wracked Nazidom whose prime purpose was page. war. Its services to the nation s an(j aching Europe is other than an aggressive, predatory war itself. The paper he signed that May day have continued to grow, ugjy nightmare farmers orWhy didnt we shoot the conspirag In 1862 was not an Every farm home today feels its.; For that reason I am less stunned tors in the first place and be done der that would change the tide of with it? Because we wished to show battles, but nevertheless its effects by the American attitude which borto the world that democratic nahave been felt in war and peace in ders on indifference as to what tions can put behind them the law of a century that the happens across the Atlantic. Less of the an eye for an eye and was have followed. The document stunned, yes. Not less alarmed. a tooth jungle, for a tooth. Because we wish Act to Establish the Unitedan When you walk among the ruins it connever occurs to you that Ameri-- I to demonstrate that we, the States department of agriculture.to not do intend invoke the querors, cans who are the most generous, Thus in the agony of the Civil war victor, was bom an organization which tothe most sentimental and kindly law of the conqueror volentes populos, dat dura day serves six million of the napeople in the world, who will empty that we per believe in the dignity of their pockets for famine-stricketions farms. remember Lincoln Americans folk from man and are willing to give that best as the Great Emancipator Murmansk to Cape Horn, are not spark of manhood a chance to be by his peers, that we do not L-- 1 whose principles have stirred men ?. willing and anxious-thelp rebuild judged believe that two wrongs make a Few over. perthe world citizens, what others have torn down. Last winter people died of exposure in- right or that that right is imple haps, realize the profound effect Lincoln and his administration had side their own homes in the city of mented by might alone. on the agriculture of the United Paris. This winter will be worse for Must Reform States. For not only did he foster vast sections of many European German Mind J the act establishing the U. S. decountries. Trees have been cut down The battle of the democracies is and burned for fuel, clothing has partment of agriculture, but he pronot a fight of body against body, moted other legislation that gave been worn out, bedding has been it is a fight of mind against mind. farming an impetus that has speedILLINOIS HOMESTEAD . . . This is the last rarm home built by refashioned into crude garments, The democratic concept which is ed its development to this day. Thomas Lincoln, father of the president. Abe Lincoln, then a grown man, the flapping sheets of canvas which based on the teachings of the ChrisLincoln was farm bred. He nevhis father build the house and visited it often. It is in Coles county, patched bombholes in the roof have helped er lost the feel of the earth. All his near Charleston. been shredded by the wind and tian religion must triumph unless the world be divided forever into life he was a close student of agrisleet a race of fighters and a race culture. He knew its needs and the field, plant a crop and cultivate it benefits. Farmers everywhere are But all that is far away. Far of slaves. The long task ahead of possibilities of its advancement as as it had in George Washingtons assisted by county agents in imfrom me and I find that when us in is the few presidents have before or since. time. This was particularly true in proving their tillage methods, test- away Germany I lean back and look up from my of the German mind. That will take The story of Lincoln's boyhood on the pioneer areas of settlement in ing their soil to determine plant food keyboard at the tip of the Washthe patience of the teacher, not the the farm is an American classic. the West needs, so as to increase the output ington monument, hazy as it is in skill of the fighter. If we are unon a were His early days spent and of their quality crops. the distance, it appears a real, livReaper Coming into Use. tract near Knob creek about willing to spend the money and the The land grant college act or the The early 1830s had witnessed the ing and adjacent thing, compared time and make the sacrifices neces 10 miles from his birthplace at Morrill President act, signed by I to the scenes of which was a part sary to introduction of the reaper but its the German men Hodgenville, Ky. use was not universal when the Lincoln on July 2, 1862, marked a such a short time ago. The things tality, that will be used mentality to Indiana. Moved Civil war broke out. Farmers had milestone in the development of sci- I saw with my eyes, the voices I by others who know only too well entific to act The When Abe was seven years old, been agriculture. gave heard, the emotions I felt seem so how to channel it back into the using the steel plow for abdut the family moved across the Ohio 25 years. The modern fertilizer in- each state as many times 30,000 unreal now that they form only a of the warrior. river into southern Indiana. Tragedy dustry was not established until acres of public land as it had sena- strange shadow-shoin the re- ways It is no trick to kill Naziism, that was to come early into the young 1850, after scientific experiments in tors and representatives this land cesses of my mind. Itself is unpalatable to those who boys life for it was here that his Europe had demonstrated the value to provide funds for the establishHow, then, can you and I, going mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, of plant feeding. By 1860 production ment and support of a college about our business, reading a few have borne its yoke. The Germans are sick of it for it brought them and mechanical lines in died. ITie Lincolns had established had reached only 20,000 tons. Last of agriculture newspapers and periodi-- . only defeat. But Naziism was only themselves on a knoll surrounded year farmers used more than arts. cals, listening to a husky voice on Today the state agricultural col- the radio, seeing the quick flash a local afflication of the German by marshy fields. Abe had 12,000,000 tons. Their chronic ailment is which to administraLincolns haul drinking to walk a mile of events in the newsreels of these people. Food production was just as im- leges militarism. It will take a long and to tion create of are one the water. helped distant folk, realize that we are portant In the Civil war as in schooling to remove that said a still, as we were in the Thomas Lincoln had taken an op- World Wars I and II. Lincoln and farmers greatest allies, of patient from their blood and to poison statement of the Middle West soil Cain and Abel, our brothersdays tion on 160 acres of land at two his advisers sought measures both keeptransmute its power, its sacrifice, recent- er? committee dollars an pere. He completed pay- - near and long range that would improvement its stubborn energy into the con Their scientists and teachers ments on about half of that total, strengthen the position of agricul- - ly. Seek to Curb structive forces without which Euvarying his farming activities with ture. The administration threw its are constantly discovering new carfacts soil rope cannot survive nor live at about of War the its and and occasional plant Aggressive jobs hunting weight behind three major bills and Since I returned, the question peace with its neighbors. pentry. Seven years after the family within a year they had become the food needs, crop and livestock imAs I look back on the efforts had arrived in Indiana, the farms law of the land. They were: the act provement and better farming meth- asked most often of me concerning ods. cultivated area totaled only 17 establishing the U. S. is the very which were made by the United the trials Nuernberg department Practical Training. acres. same one the Germans asked me States military government to exof agriculture; the land grant colThe Lincoln family moved to IlliThese colleges equip young before the trials began: Why dont ploit the trials as a means of delege act to which the nations farmnois in 1830, taking up land along ers today owe the existence of the men to apply their training to prac- they shoot those rats and get it over veloping an of understanding the Sangamon river in Macon countical farm work. Here and in the with? (To the Germans the pris- democracy in Germany, I feel that g system of agricultural ty. Soon after arriving, Abe reached colleges in every state of the union, agricultural stations, oners are the men who led them to they have missed a remarkable opexperiment his 21st birthday. That meant freeportunity. As far as I know at this and the homestead act. agronomists are carrying on tests bondage and defeat) dom from his fathers yoke. So he And so I have to repeat, wearily, writing, the speech of Justice Jack-soLincoln had advocated the estab- with crops, soils and fertilizers. bade farewell to his family and lishment of a department of agricul- The benefit of this information is with the realization that most people which explained the purpose of moved on to New Salem. ture in his first message to con- available to any farmer seeking ad- have missed the whole point of the the trials and convicted Nazidom Student of Agriculture. gress, in December, 1861. Then he vice in applying nitrogen, phosphor- trials, that the miserable prisoners out of its own mouth, is yet to reach us and potash to his land for profit- in the dock, despite the fact that the Germans in full text. It is exAs a successful lawyer riding the had said: their names were once blazoned ceedingly difficult for the Informaable crop production. Illinois circuit and visiting neigh"Agriculture, confessedly the largtion Control division (former OWI) The third great agricultural across the world as the boring states occasionally to try est interest of the nation, has not a - to take any positive steps over and are of measure unimporwhich marked Lincolns nor a a history, was Lincoln close student but a cases, bureau, department contribution to the future of Ameri- - tant. That it is far more important beyond the established institutions of agriculture. He was often invited clerkship only. While it is importo speak before farmers meetings. tant that this great interest is so can farming was the homestead to convict in open court, through which they created before the lid was clamped down (the few estabOne of the most notable instances independent in Its nature as not to act which he signed May 20, 1862. due process of law with all the voluhave demanded or extorted more Since the day this act became op- minous evidence, the ideas for lished American published magahistorians record of his appearerative approximately 250 million which a Goering, or a Keitel or a zines, the one newspaper, the news ances before farm groups came in from the government, I respectfula year before he was elected ly ask congress to consider whether acres of public domain have been Von Papen, or a Schacht, stood, service and the radio). However, 1859 than to convict the men themselves. the speech will eventually be transwhen he was invited to something more cannot voluntarily thrown open to farm ownership. President That is the purpose of the trials lated and appear as a brochure The effect of the homestead act address the agricultural fair held be given with general advantage. which will be sold at a low price in promoting farm production dur- which are dragging their slow, By the time he delivered his .secby the Wisconsin State Agricultural ond annual message, the departing and after the Civil war was tre- democratic length across the pages and will be greedily absorbed like society at Milwaukee. of current history: to convict the every other piece of reading matOn that occasion he said: ment had been created and Lincoln mendous. y Reich. "No other human occuf-aiiowas able to report: By its provisions, 160 acres of prisoners as conspirators in the ter in the Nor was the trial properly covland was given free to every set- planning and the carrying out of agtler who would live on it for five gressive warfare; to establish in ered by the German newspaper years. Landseekers rushed to take the law we recognize, that such men. After a long argument an arrangement was finally permitted advantage of the offer. Before the warfare is illegaL war ended 2.5 million acres were al- - Many lawyers quibble over the whereby a certain number of seats eight at first were assigned to located or an average of 15 thou- technicalities of the process but I think when this case is studied German newspaper men. They were sand farms of 160 acres each. Railroad lines were extended to in the perspective of history, it will never all filled while I was there, link the western farm lands with be clear that the creation of the The explanation was that transpor the markets of the east. The food precedent which it seeks to estab- tation was difficult for Germans these new farms produced helped lish is worth all the time and money Newsmen were furnished with per supply the union armies, and com- and effort which has been expended mits to travel but they werent fur bined with the agricultural output upon it. The law makes precedents nished with jeeps, or space in a bouncing truck, or seats on the of the east, built up a surplus that as well as follows them. This precefound a profitable market in Europe. dent, if established, will serve as the overcrowded trains. They were left in a structure of to fight it out for themselves. And Following the Civil war the home- foundation stone stead act was instrumental in build- collective security, a structure we believe me, there is no room for a as we are blind kraut on a vehicle if anyone else ing up the farming empire west of cannot build as long the Mississippi which became the to the evil of a nations deeds, wants the space and if he does get land of opportunity for the veterans which we accept as a crime when j a seat, what will he eat? There is no food available for the itinerant they are done by the individual of that war. The authorities should I reported in my first article from As America hails the 137th anni, .' - s V to was seen there doubt it that every German have that Nuernberg of Lincolns birth, agriculversary LINCOLN VIRGINIA HOMESTEAD . . . The ancestral home of Abrature acknowledges its debt to him. that certain of the prisoners could newsman for whom space at the trials was available was occupying ham Lincoln in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. John Lincoln, great- The progress farming had made in be convicted, that the military leadgrandfather of the martyred president, built the original house. Thomas the past 80 years would never have ers might escape on the slender that space. And he wouldnt have excuse that they merely obeyed or- - needed a second invitation. Lincoln, father of Abe, was born here before the family moved to Kentucky. been possible without his help. Great President Always Remained Farmer at Heart army-shiftin- three-quarte- the top, is something worth knowing. You may be making a smartly tailored affair of white pique with pink bindings and buttons, like the one shown here; or an under lining for a full skirt of transparent material. Of Europe's Need of Aid ng balf-smoke- j rs n, d, fire-swe- pt The diagram shows bow to make a pattern for half of the skirt The center front may be placed on a fold of the goods In cutUng If there Is no front opening. Cut the paper by the dimensions In the diagram. 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