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Show JMER1CA PITS NEW WHEAT KING AGAINST BOLSHEVISM Cooyricht. 1919. by Public Lffdcer Co- aE lone American, a man whom thousands of you probably "-CflfV ' Jlr 4VL0 i L Vf , -S-, ! 0 never have heard of before, may knock the bottom out of -lCU"Sf Cl lT Kf i Bnuhevism. His name is Julius H. Barnes, and he is neither T&- ll Y HCr fGXM' ' i 1 spellbinder, Socialist soap-box spieler nor ambassador 'M-. ? p yiWr - 1 'v raordinary to the courts of Omsk, Popocatapetl, Timbuctoo -f , h YrX a - MvhsTl . ' oshkosh. He is an American business man whom Uncle sF" - 'fcV $ . L has designated as the new federal wheat director of the XiJ I :, rnjted States of America, which eans Pain words, that V ' Jf f jnij'sinc'e the hunger germ has been found, and it is held to be Science Discovers Hunger Germ Breeder of Bolshevism Hkm ' ' : lone American, a man whom thousands of you probably i 0'ever have heard of before, may knock the bottom out of i Bolshevism. His name is Julius H. Barnes, and he is neither - i fjjjical spellbinder, Socialist soap-box spieler nor ambassador , 1 Vraordinary to the courts of Omsk, Popocatapetl, Timbuctoo ! lrQshkosh. He is an American business man whom Uncle 1 Li has designated as the new federal wheat director of the ;-nj'te(i states of America, which means, in plain words, that ; yjlis H. Barnes is pretty much the world's best bread man. ;.: ,n( since the hunger germ has been found, and it is held to be the basic cause of Bolshevism, it may be Mr. Barnes is the -' man after all to silence the Red Guards' machine guns with '4 batteries of long American loaves bread "like mother used J tn make," all nicely coated with creamy butter and maybe '- "1 another layer of good old made-in-America apple butter! uGive Every Boy a Good Start!" "OTART a boy right and you have given him a ticket for at least half his journey," says Wheat Director Barnes, who, having himself started as an office boy and climbed to the top, is interested not alone in keeping himself there, but in giving other boys a chance to get going. Patriotism sheer love of America and a sound physique are the twin points Mr. Barnes urges in "boy building." To impress his point he backs the Duluth Boat Club, encourages outdoor sports and conducts a summer camp for boys. Oh yes, he knows something about the grain business, too, and likes his employes so well that he is building them a model town. V " - I I MAN' aft" America's own heart is . A A Wins H. Barnes, who has been " i ippointed federal wheat director of the vj United States. His life is a story which , muld thrill the heart and iucite the j mbition of any small boy, while to the 1 older American it carries the message : 'J Hat ability and character count more heredity and opportunity in making ; i "peat man in a democracy. With no ; ' hip he climbed the steep ladder which "i mounts to the success of the self-made ,'j jud, starting as farmer boy aud news- . boy before becoming office boy in the '! tnnof which he was later to be senior ; jjrtner. I The American boy likes Mr. Barnes j tot only because he has demonstrated i to the ambitious youth "how it can be . i te," but because, having arrived at lit top of the ladder, he now turns to jire a helping hand to the lads at the loot. His business is to be the leading j pain exporter in the country ; his pleas-, pleas-, ' '3 r is to work with and for the boys, ?! ud to give them advantages which he '! aver had, for his boyhood, as he looks back upon it now, seemed to be one long continuous grind. i There are two more qualities which o into the making of the American i toy's hero a fine physique and strong j patriotism. Mr. Barnes stands six feet 'j two, and has proved a good athlete in j tie few fields of sport he has had the j opportunity of entering. Of his patriotism there was ample proof during the war, when he worked iD a ten-hour- -J B-day, dollar-a-year position as president presi-dent of the United States food adinin-jjj adinin-jjj titration grain corporation. Mr. Barnes comes out of the Northwest, North-west, the land to which young America crop of the world. He was first under Food Administrator Hoover in the Department De-partment of the Interior in Washington. It is said that Mr. Barnes and his staff worked from 8:30 a. m. to 7 p. m. and "that the elevator men aud the telephone tele-phone operators were so profoundly shocked at the gross violation of the sacred government hoars that they combined com-bined iu protest and consequently the food administration moved over to the old Gordon Hotel, where they might work all night if they so cared. Later, when the grain corporation was organized organ-ized and Mr. Barnes made its president, it opened separate offices in New York, under a president who worked ten hours a day." Business methods which had proved so successful iu private life he applied to his new work of running a $1,000,000 corporation,, of which the United States owns all of the stock as a one-man concern. con-cern. He was the only man iu the country who could buy wheat. Such was his prodigious capacity for detail that he had virtually all matters pass over his desk. The wheat busiuess was so familiar to him that he could form his judgment on most questions in an instant, yet he never gave the impression impres-sion of being hurried or of losing that poise which kept him level-headed. It is a significant fact that the grain corporation was one of the departments which ran so smoothly that little was heard of it during the war, for it is often bad rather than good management manage-ment which causes the wagging of tongues. Record V. S. Wheat Crop When it was decided to have a federal fed-eral wheat director there was no ques-, ques-, tion who should be appointed to the position. Mr. Barnes has now taken control of one of the greatest of the post-war problems. Through the efforts ef-forts made during the war to increase the output of grain, combined with a favorable winter, the Uuited States has this year the largest winter wheat crop in its history, according to the recent re-cent report of the Department of Agriculture. Agri-culture. The total is estimated at 837,000,000 bushels. The value of the winter wheat crop on the basis of this forecast would be $1,801,620,000. The spring wheat crop cannot be estimated at this time, but Department of Agriculture Agri-culture officials have predicted it would range between 223,000,000 and 300,-000,000 300,-000,000 bushels, which would increase the total value of the nation's wheat crop to $2,500,000,000. The winter wheat promise on April 1 of 837,000,000 bushels is nearly double the yearly average production in the United States for the five years before the war (442.000,000 in 1009--1013), aud is nearly 50 per cent larger than the production during the war years 1914-191S, wheu the average was 502,000,000. The condition of the crop is higher than has been reported on April 1 sines 1882, and the indicated yield is higher than any actual yield in auy year with the exception of 1914, when the yield per acre was IS. 5 bushels per planted acre following an April 1 condition oi 05.6. Big Man For Big Job ' Production of winter wheat lost yea was 55S, 4-19, 000 bushels and in 1917 it was 412,901,000 bushels, while the rec-. rec-. ord crop of GS1, 990,000 bushels was produced in 1914. This forecast also indicates that America will have a greater surplus than ever before. The United States requires for iis own yearly consumption consump-tion about 5.3 bushels of wheat for each person. With approximately 110,000,000 persons in the Uuited States and adding approximately 75,-000,000 75,-000,000 bushels of wheat, which is nec essary for seeding purposes, the demands de-mands of this country this year a';o estimated at more than 650,000,000 bushels. With n spring wheat production estimated es-timated at 225,000,000 to 300,000,000, it would appear that the surplus available avail-able for export would be about 450,-000,000 450,-000,000 bushels. What these figures mean is indicated indi-cated in statistics showing that before the war the Uuited States exported on an average of 100,000,000 bushels yearly. During the war the greatest quantity exported in any one year was about 335,000,000 bushels, so that the available supply this year will be mora than 100,000,000 bushels above the maximum ever exported, even when practically all the warring allied aud neutral nations were depending upon the United States as the maiu sourcs of their food supply. While these figures are so large that they cannot be comprcnended by th average person, they do give some conception con-ception of the "big business" which the new wheat director is called upon to handle. Looking back over his record rec-ord from the time he entered the business busi-ness as office boy, one comes to have a feeling of confidence in this big, strong, manly personality which has come from out of the great Northwest and to believe be-lieve that as ho has efficiently filled every place which opportunity has offered of-fered him, so he will meet the responsibilities responsi-bilities of his new position. f ' ,4 ''Yi I .i n 1 -H' A ' bil -' earner and of helping support the family, fam-ily, which had depended on the rather small earnings of his father. He started out. to gee a job. The first thing he did was to turn to one of the pillars of the church which the Barnes family attended. ,Had this "pillar" been a pork packer, or a lawyer, law-yer, or a railroad man, Mr. Barnes today might hold a quite different position posi-tion in the meat business, as judge, or statesman, or as railroad magnate. It is safe to assume that whatever field he had entered he would have climbed to the top. But the "pillar" happened to be Ward Ames, the big grain merchant mer-chant of Duluth, who gave young . Barnes a job as office boy in the grain company. From Office Boy fo Partner The new office boy was physically strong, had played hard in the old days on the farm, and when he had been captured from play to work he had worked hard. He applied the same principle to his new workt was intelligent intelli-gent and diligent. There was nothing spectacular about his rise. Very soon after he began his humble work as office boy Mr. Ames came to find that he was dependable and gradually gave him more and more to do. Steady, hard plugging at the job on hand, coupled with natural ability, led to. one advancement ad-vancement after another. Before he was thirty he was doing so much of the work that Mr. Ames had formerly done that the latter awoke to the fact that he had a complete understudy who could manage the business about as well as he himself could and who knew all the tricks that might be tried on him. Then Mr. Ames made sure that he would not lose his understudy by taking ihim into the firm of which Barnes is today the senior partner. It was friendly interest on the part of Mr. Ames which had given him opportunities in the guise of a position as office boy; it was his own ability which enabled him to leave far behind him the office boys who had started in at the same time and to reach the highest possible point in his line of business as grain cxrcert of America. But it was a hard pull and it meant-the meant-the loss of healthy boyish recreation, the value of which he fully realizes. He was able to stand the strain of continuous contin-uous work at odds produced by the lack of education and opportunity for physical phys-ical exercise, but he well knows how many a less healthy boy would be unable un-able to overcome such obstacles. Having sacrificed much of his boyhood, he became be-came more and more interested, as he tasted the joys of success, in helping other boys toward the realization of their ambition. "Start a boy right and you have given him u ticket for at least half his journey," jour-ney," he says in explaining why he is trying to help the young manhood of the country. Realizing the value of a strong body as well as a strong mind, one of his first moves was in putting on its feet the Duluth Boat Club, which was a small, struggling organization. In the old farm days he had been fond of rowing and always kept up his interest in-terest in it. Largely through his personal per-sonal attention and generous contributions, contribu-tions, it has now grown to a membership member-ship of 1500 and affords an outlet for the energy of many of the youth of Duluth. Model Town for Employes In 1917 he told the club officers that if they would conduct the annual regatta without a loss he would give the club a natatorium. Not only did the regatta committee turn over a profit of $1000 instead of the usual loss, but the club crews won every race which they entered. en-tered. Mr. Barnes made good by putting put-ting in a natatorium which cost him $70 000. He and his partner subscribed heavily for the Y. M. C. A. building in Duluth, and he took $100,000 out of his own pocket for the boys' department, which is a model for the whole world of how to equip a gymnasium that will hold the attention of youngsters, give them plenty of interesting exercise and yet not permit them to overtax themselves. them-selves. In the summertime he pays an instructor in-structor for a boys camp, to which, by the wav, he sends his own son. This is not a charity, as the boys pay a small sum, but they get in return far more than they could hope for were the camp a commercial enterprise. Another of his many activities is the erection of a model (own for the employes of a Duluth shipbuilding plant which he owns. . :, n-ar nnd lh- taking over of the control of wheat by the government Mr. Barnes, as foremost rrain exporter of the country, assumed the leadership. It was largely due to his management that the wheat situation situa-tion was so well handled last year and that its scarcity, resulting from the large exportation, did not result in soar ing prices. Before the grain corporation corpora-tion was organized he brought 100 of the leading grain men of the country together in Washington and readily persuaded per-suaded them to fall in with his plans, although it meant that few of them could turn a penny so long as the war lasted. i For the duration of the war the firm of which he was president, Barnes & Ames, of Duluth, Winnipeg aud New York, the largest exporters of grain in the world, withdrew from business. Barnes devoted himself to stabilizing the flow and the price of the wheat crop of this country and, by indirect means, the 'J.'. JULIUS H. BARNES n Hi, $' federal wheat director, "nose big job this summer Is to I. he world, for which job vi, have America's premier ',; eat Veld, probably well abovo a billion-bushel crop Vf t.'0ks for its heroes, for the great, sari'" meu who rise from the common '': J", ' for th men who do things. Born '"l- ' be was taken as a little boy Jt to the state of Washington and j back to Duluth, Minn. At the age f. 1 sixteen he would have been set down Jt a big, healthy farmer boy, with sslriliig characteristics which would .;.:: hct for him a future more brilliant :;( .an for "'her boys of his acquaintance. '! , f d been to the country schools, and Picked up a certain amount of ; ' ,rjctieal knowledge at the farm. He is f haVe been "strong, active, large ''L,!' hls and a good fighter when : j be, but no one had given him any -als for brightness or thought of ,,i: - I ,8 other than the makings of a I?'1 r fanner who might be able to get ; with somewhat fewer hired men than lf other farmers of the neighborhood. e';',; SJ Barnes himself, he had no par- ,!;lar "'MS except to steal time from -( ... Hi work to spend in the open, par- Ud rowiug aud fishing- I he ;j ;: . the consuming ambition which jrJn? en are supposed to have, his-'' his-'' has failed to make proper note ; n." Th ... , "en the whole course of his life was his father's death. Up to !':'-; 'lme 116 ha(l worked on the farm, "ewspapcrs and done other odd jobs ta" to the lot of an average boy. 'nly he was confronted with the kohem -t |