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Show THE One McRAE AMERICAN LEGION Copjr for ThU Department Supplied bj the American Lesion Newi Service.) RADIO IS USED BY LEGION Widespread Membership of Veterans' Organization Reached by National and State Official. The voice of the American Legion Is being heard over the radio by members of the organization throughout the country. Almost dally some officer or Legion leader talks to the widespread membership of the veterans' association using the wireless telephone as the means of dissemination. This is made possible by the Installs tlon of hundreds of receiving sets in the homes of local Legion posts throughout the country. In practically every post may be found some man who worked with the wireless telephone through the days of the war, or who has become an ardent fan since the broadcasting of regular programs came into vogue. Officers of the Legion recognize this fact and are taking advantage of the closer touch afforded them by means of the latest "miracle." One of the first Instances of this vse by officers was the broadcasting of INatlonal Commander Alvln Owsley's "keynote speech" from Lincoln, Neb. This was heard by Legionnaires all over the country, some as far away as the Atlantic coast. State department commanders in many instances are beginning to make use of this method to reach their members, many urging the installation of receiving sets for this purpose. In the future further use of the radio is planned. The Decoration day address of Commander Owsley In San Francisco Is to be sent out by a powerful station so that Legionnaires In the West may hear the commander at this time. At Kansas City, Mo., when a new Legion home was dedicated, Commander Owsley's talk was heard by Legionnaires of five states, who were asked to "stand by" at special meetings to hear the Legion leader. Followers of radio, who are active In the Legion, predict that within a short time all official utterances of national officers of the men's organization will be relayed by radio to the more- - than three-quartof a million members throughout the United States. And because of the power of ninny of the broadcasting stations. Legionnaires in other climes may soon be "listening In" on what their comrades at home In the states are doing. HASTEN HANDLING OF CLAIMS Decentralization of Legion .Service Work Will Be Carried Out on Joe Sparks' Plan. Decentralization of service work undertaken by the American Legion will be carried out by the use of a plan put Into effect by Joe Sparks, national chairman of the committee of the Legion. This plan, Mr. Sparks believes, will expedite the handling of claims referred to the Legion, and will draw quick action on the part of the veterans' bureau. Under the new system, all claims coming to the attention of the national service division will be forwarded direct to the Legion department service office In the state In which the claim originates. Contact with the subdlstrlct offices of the United States veterans' bureau will be maintained by these officers and the offices which have Jurisdiction over the claims presented will be regularly visited. Any Inattention or lack of by veterans' bureau heads will be reported to the national service division. If for any reason a claim Is not settled satisfactorily by the subdlstrlct office, the department head will refer to the liaison representative of the American Legion at the district office Flics In the of the veterans' bureau. majority of the cases are In the office of the district In which the veteran lives. FOR DISABLED COOKIES MEN Hundred and Thirty Auxiliary Units of Kansas Make Regular Donations to Hospitals. One containing 1S.720 cookies should satisfy the most ravenous appetite. That's the number of cookies prepared by members of the American Legion Auxiliary of Kansas for disabled veterans In hospitals at Kansas City and Leavenworth. There are 130 units of the Auxiliary In Kansas. Each unit prepares and malls 12 dozen cookies to the hospitals every monih. The cookies are sent to the chief dietitian of each hospital and she places them In big Jnrs In the corridors. When the cookie Jar Is set out, the d I so bled men come from every ward, on crotches. In wheel chairs, and with canes rapping the floor, eager to get a hand In the Jar. Norses say the boys reach around he Jar until they And the cookies with nuts on them and fruit chopped up on the Inside, The old fashioned flat sugar cookies do not seem to be popular. A cookie-Ja- r TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, PRAISES THE LEGION Durum Wheats Are Past Commander of First Poet In tha United States Finds Bride, Also Former Leader. Kenneth H. McRae, a past commander of Vr$ first American Legion post to be organized In the United States, lays claim that the Legion Is an organization for service. From his activities in the Veterans association, he has obtained many benefits, but he believes the utmost In service was rendered when association with Legion affairs provided him with a wife! McRae, who was active in the doings of George Washington post in was thrown Into Washington, D. frequent association with the com. menders of the other posts In the city. He met Miss Lois May Beach, a past commander of the U. S. S. Jacob Jones post, composed entirely of "yeoman-ettes,- " or, as they were known during the war, Yeomen (F). Miss Beach had successfully guided the affairs of her post for a year and had left an active duty station In the naval reserve force at the close of her term of Legion leadership. Soon romace between the two Spring Varieties Differ in Adaptation and Practically Permanent if Properly Made and Set. Yielding Ability and Resistance to Drought. The use of concrete fence posts Is Crowe, Scott and the Mount Mystery Here Is a new portrait of State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe of Cook county, Illinois, who took personal charge of the Investigation of the mystery surrounding die death or disappearance of Leighton Mount of Northwestern university at Evanston, 111., when be saw that his subordinates were getting nowhere. He conducted inquiries on three lines of theory: murder, manslaughter and suicide. None of the Inquiries came to anything; the mystery simply grew deeper with the results of each day's Investigation. Then Fresldent Scott added to the mystery by offering In the name of the university a reward of $10,000 for the person or persons furnishing information, "not already In the hands of the state authorities, that leads to the Indictment and conviction of any person or persons for the murder of Leighton Mount ; that leads to the Indictment and conviction of any per son or persons for manslaughter in connection with the death of Leighton Mount resulting from a class rush ; that leads to a determination by Inquest that Leighton Mount committed suicide; that leads to the discovery of Leighton Mount alive and his return to Evanston, 111." Woman "Financial Wizard" in Gothani Here Is a portrait, just taken, of Myrtle B. Hayes a "financial wizard," who has set all New York to talking about a "second Cassie Chadwlck," a "feminine Ponzl," and all that sort of thing. The largest guessers also talk about a "$3,000,000 fraud." Anyway, Mrs. Hayes has been Indicted on a charge of forging the name of Charles M. Schwab, the "steel king," to one of 17 notes totaling $325,-000- . Mrs. Kenneth H. McRae. Legion members budded, and within a few months Legionnaires In the capital were Invited to attend a wedding ceremony which united the two. Mrs. McRae enrolled in the United States Naval Reserve force on April 8, 1918, and served In the navy department until February 15 of this year. McRae served with Nebraska troops in France and has been very active In Legion affairs. He Is now historian ol his post. MUST PROTECT OUR CITIZENS National Adjutant of American Legion Declares Foreign ' Labor Should Not Be Given Preference. Substitution of foreign for American labor was declared contrary to the interests of America by Lemuel Holies, national adjutant of the American Legion, In a recent letter to the com. mander of the Legion post at Ore., which recently protested against the discharge of Americans and the employment of Japanese laborers on a large fruit orchard neat the town. "We must be ever alert to protect the Interests of American citizen! against the encroachment of thosf 'rom foreign lands who have In mind In coming here, nothing but the en rlchment of themselves at the expense of our people and of our resources," the letter stated. "Our people must be made secure In the American stand-- , ard of living and In the enjoyment of satisfactory working conditions. This Is Impossible unless the Influx of al' aliens from all lands Is checked." Vigorous and united action Is necea sary as a measure of prevention, ac cording to the Legion national adju tant, "first In the education of all our people so that they may present a nnlted front against the efforts being made to promote further foreign Immigration ; second, In the enforcement of all laws, particularly those designed to regnlate the number of Immigrants reaching our shores annually, or to totally exclude them, and third, the enactment of such additional legislation as may be necessary to preserve America for those who are capable of appreciating and becoming worthy citizens of the Republic." Med-ford- WELCOME TO ALL FOREIGNERS and Distinction Between Foreign-BorAmericana to Be Erased at Sioux Falls, S. D. Harold B. Mason Post nf the American Leirinn Is fostering a plan foi Americanization In Sioux Falls, S. D., where a "community center" has Just hern formed for the purpose. Working through the schools. It Is tilanned by the Legion men and co workers along the same line that all and distinctions between foreign-bornative Americans will be erased. A committee of 12, representing as many In organizations offering the city. Joined with the American Legion In the plan, and a special worker of the local school force was employed to direct the work of the "community center." This will be eonducted In the form of an Institute with set talks on Amerresidents icanization for foreign-borof Sioux Falls, schooling in citizenship and other subjects for American-born- , Special programs will be redered nl each session and as no added attrae Hon refreshments will be eerved tin w who attend. Lessen Fence Bills With Concrete Posts It appears that Mrs. Hayes pulled the purse strings of business men by the naive statement: "You know 'Charley' Schwab? He Is my dear friend. He'll back me for any amount. Why, look at tills." And then she displayed one of two agreements the one of December 17, 1922, In which "C. M. Schwab" agreed to stand behind he'r to the extent of a cool million, and another In which the Bethlehem Steel chairman wrote that Myrtle B. Hayes was "good" for $l,loO,OUO. Mr. Schwab said that after word of the $25,000 note reached him, he cut short his European trip and hastened back to America. He met Mrs. Hayes In his office and she frankly confessed she had forged his name to the note, Mr. Schwab said. Friends said Mrs. Hayes had at one time worked In Chicago as buyer for a department store. She married C. H. Hayes, a "gentleman farmer" from Pigeon Cove, Me., after divorce from Dr. Albert T. Graf of Los Angeles. hard-heade- d J. M. Beck Called to the English Bar The Masters of Gray's Inn bench have called to the English bar James M. Beck, solicitor general of the United States, and the British barristers are quite excited about It. Sharp dif ferences of opinion and equally sharp criticism are being voiced by barris ters of the four English Inns of Court ! s l V'Vi--'''' In London. A large section of Eng lish banisters take exception to the fact that for the first time In the history of the country, a foreign lawyer has been admitted to practice here without having to go through any of the formalities for entrance, which I take three years to mm complete. ' I It is also being pointed out not i Y I on,7 that Mr- - Beck n V vHt3 , " J-'fd11 admit iea 10 me oar over me strictest or all the rules, namely, a banister must satisfy the benchers that he has not practiced law aa a solicitor, a condl Hon which would keep out Mr. Beck, were It applied to his case. So strictly Int. tlna rule been enforced heretofore that It has kept out Australian barris ters when they have come from those states In which the professions of bar rister and solicitor are amalgamated. Solicitor General Beck will argue a case for the United States before the Privy Council in London In July. No foreign banister has been permitted to argue a case before the Privy Council, and when that bory informally consld ered the matter It found It could not depart from precedents without the con sent of the bar. fl yf '(I - y How Can American Women Aid Peace? Here Is a new portrait of Mrs. Wood Park, president of the National League of Women Voters, who attended the recent congress of the International Woman Suffrage alliance In Rome as a delegate from America. With her as delegates were Mrs. Glfford Pinchot, wife of the governor of Pennsylvania, and Mrs James Morrlsson of Illinois. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the American woman suffrage leader, president and founder of the alliance, presided over the regress and declined Incidentally Mrs. Catt Is one of the "Twelve greatest living American women" of recent election. The American women had planned to make a tour of Italy, France, England and Germany under the auspices of the league. Their purpose Is to find out what effective peace work Maud one way of cutting down the tremendous bill which the American farmer There are twelve varieties of durum has to pay for fences. Some authoriwheats commercially grown In the ties estimate that approximately one United States. They differ In their billion fence posts are used each year adaptation and yielding ability, resist- In the United States and that their toance to drought and rust, and In the tal value Is In the neighborhood of quality of their grain, as well as In $250,000. their appearance. They are all deConcrete fence posts when properly scribed by J. Allen Clark and John H. made and set are practically permaMartin of the United States Depart- nent, but a great deal of the durability ment of Agriculture In Farmer's Bul of the fence as a whole Is dependent letin 1304, "The Durum Wheat," Just upon the strength of the end posts and published. corner posts. The main strain of the The durum wheats are all spring va rieties with thick, compact heads, long stiff beards and large hard kernels. They are grown principally In the northern Great Plains area, where they are best adapted because of their re sistance to drought and rust, which en ables them to outyield other spring wheats. During the past ten years the center of the durum acreage has moved northward and westward. Used for Granular Flour. Most of the durum varieties have white (amber) kernels, and the grain Is used chiefly for the manufacture of a granular flour called semolina, from which macaroni, spaghetti and other Reinforced Concrete Post Brace. alimentary pastes are made. There dewire fence, which, to give the best usually has been an active foreign mand for this wheat, but the flour service should be stretched very tight, mills In this country were not equipped comes upon these end and corner posts. for satisfactorily grinding these wheats If these posts are made large eiwwgh and there was little demand for the and are deeply set Into firm- - soil. It product on the domestic market. More may not be necessary to brace the Qi i recently, however, large mills have but should a brace be necessary been constructed for grinding durum good way of providing It Is shown I A considerable the illustration. wheat exclusively. trade in semolina and durum flour has A concrete bar five Inches squ Jft developed, and finally a large macareinforced with steel rods is cast. roni industry has been established. a length great enough to reach di. The Industry now uses annually more onally from the base of the last than 20,000,000 bushels of durum, or post to a point near the top of 1 nearly half the average annual pro- corner post, where It tits into a no duction In recent years. provided for It. The strain w hlcVJ Kubanka la High Yielding. comes on the corner post Is then trn Kuhanka Is the variety best adapt- mitted to the base of the line i ed far all the varying conditions In which Is In turn supported by the sections producing durum wheat. earth so that It will not break g It Is a wheat, considerSome wires extending from the to ably resistant to rust, of good milling the line post to the base of the quality, and best adapted for making post and twisted up tightly- -! both macaroni and bread. double purpose of further supj Acme and Monad are two similar the line post and or preventin, durum varieties which are very re- brace bur from being dislodged. sistant to stem rust. Acme is the high est yielding durum variety In most of South Dakota, and Monad the best Cocklebur Serious Weed yielding variety In North Dakota. Both Pest in Many Sections produce maeargnl of a grayish color, considered by manufacturers less sal In certain sections the cocklebur la able than that made from Kubanka a serious weed pest. Its competition wheat. Mlndura Is Upmost protij-- i with cultivated cropp and Its objeetion- tfive variety In Minnesota. )le tii's- HMikaJthe cm kleb'trr refy-wrThe distinguishing characteristic aesiraMe. It is comparatively easy and tbe adaptation of the twelve dif- to eradicate If proper attention Is ferent varieties are discussed In the given to Its control. Although an anbulletin, which may be had free of nual plant, a field infested with the charge from the United States De- cockleburs must be watched 'for two partment of Agriculture, Washington, or three years if the burs are to be D. C. killed out, due to the fact that normally only one of the two seeds In each bur will sprout the first season, Difficulties in Getting the other holding over until the secGood Start of Alfalfa ond season. There are a few difficulties in the way of getting a good start of alfalfa Hasten Rate of Growth In the spring, and when these are and Maturity of Chicks guarded against It Is easier than to get red clover started. It is of but little The rate of growth and development use to seed alfalfa on land which is sour In both surface and subsoil, and nf fhlckft ran he Influenced nulf itlft even then It Is risky until limestone terlally by altering their ration. The feeds, such as meat, tankhas been applied. Alfalfa can secure the same food from humus as from age and milk, tend to hasten growth limestone, but It can get It from the and mnturlty. Accordingly, if pullets humus only aa the humus decays, and are hatched so early that there Is danbeginning to lay before during the dry part of the summer the ger of their season passes, the feeds humus may cease to decay sufficiently the molting to supply enough food, and the alfalfa mentioned should be removed from the soon as the chicks reach full perishes. If plenty of limestone is ration as On the other hand, a free growth. secure the the alfalfa may present same kind of food even when the hu- use of these feeds will help to overcome the handicap of late hutching. mus does not decompose. the United States Department (Prepared by of Aitrtcult lira. I high-yieldin- fsLV hlgh-protel- n New and Effective Way to Protect Cucumbers Thinning Plants Is Hard Task for Many A new and effective method of controlling the striped cucumber beetles is recommended by the entomology section of the Iowa experiment station. This method consists of dusting the young cucumber plants with a material made of one part of calcium arsenate and twenty parts of gypsum. Plants should be kept thoroughly protected by frequent applications of this dust. This method has been found more effective than the old method of spraying the vines with lead arsenate. The calcium arsenate acts as a poison and the gypsum stimulates plant growth. Only a hardened professional or an amateur gardener calloused ity long years of experience will thin his plants projierly without some hesitation. The pulling up of so many seedlings seems wasteful, but usually from one packet of seeds many more plants than are needed are raised, and a few properly spaced so that they may develop t their full capacity in the long run will give far better returns than three or four times their number too thickly planted. Dwarf Essex Rape Best Forage Crop All-Rou- f "'"'"l III iwiii nd women .can American accomplish. They will question women of Impor tance In each of the countries visited. In nnort I hey will return with a cleai Idea of what the leading women of Europe think the American women can tent do In the Interests of world peace. The National League of Women Voter la the old National American .Voman Suffrage association and la distinct from the National Woman's party Failures in Securing a Good Stand of Alfalfa Dwarf Essex rape Is one of the best crops to grow for hog forage to take the place of or supplement the more permanent crops like clover and alfalfa. It Is good for calves, cattle and hores but particularly adapted to hogs and sheep. It is a good emergency crop which can be sown as early as the ground can be worked or may be put In any time up to the last of July. When you fall to secure a stand of alfalfa. It's best to look for the cause of failure before wasting any more seed. Here are the principal reason for failure In securing a stand of alfalfa: (1) Sour land, (2) a poorly prepared seed bell, (3) Improper seeding, (4) poor seed. The quicker a farmer recognises the factors which cause failure, the quicker he can correct them and make alfalfa a profitable crop on his farm. Thrash Soy Beans With Common Grain Separator Dairy Cows Profitable When Given Proper Feed d - - Soy beans may best be threshed Ialry coma are nt profitable unless with the grain separator, according to fed properly. Btmllage and alfalfa hay The canes, the farm crop authorities of the Iowa sr the hest cow feeds. experiment station. The grain separa-o- r kaftrs, darso, jfeterlta and Corn are does Just as satisfactory work ax good row crops for the silo. If alfalfa 1 regular bean holler when a few cannot be grown, cow peas, soy besns hsnges have been made to reduce the or peanuts are leguminous cropa to of the cylinder. plant for dairy cow feeds. pd . |