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Show THE schools and a modern hotel. : ew The Home Page of Live Topics OF INJURIOUS PEST REPORT SERVICE of the army superintendent nurse corps and dean of the Army School of Nurs ing, is the only woman major In :he United States MaJ. irmy. for Thte Supplied by rhs Amrlrnn Department Ttrlon News Service.) Copy C. Julia Stimson served as chief nurse of the American Red In Cross Paris SHE JUMPED FOR THE LEGION Hammond Pleased to Oblige Rothschild r pX Feet at To climb out of an airplane cockpit and dive headfirst toward the earth feet below on her second ride off of terra firma required a good deal of 8,-0- perve. At least, the act made thousands of spectators gasp for breath and shudder lest the harness fall to work and the parachute, which trailed behind her, remain unonened. Miss Verna Welcn was creating the sensation. The spectators were the good citizens of Wichita Falls, Tex., In informally and have luncheon with the Rothschilds nt their bank once or twice during each of my frequent Sn-- , g- - Ar three-quarte- i7 , . - T Number of Trained ' Doughboys Has Been Reduced, Bringing Total to Not More Than 20,000. Doughboys of infantry are becoming almost as senrce In the regular army as shave- rolls were some time ago. Every time there is a reduction In the size of the tiny, the number of buck privates Is cry perceptibly cut down. At tne present time, it Is said that there are mt more than 20,000 plain, unspeelal- xvx&i ;? X Fit Just Before the Flight. IN LEGION "bucks" Ized in the ranks of the United States army. There are only S3" men In all branches of the foot witnessing the American Legion's aviation meet, one of the biggest ever held In the Southwest. Miss Welch dropped like a deadweight for several feet and then the parachute very slowly opened and the drop oar.hward became more gradual. She hit the ground with a Jolt but was uninjured. It was a proud young woman who received the congratulations of the hundreds who crowded aronnd her for her daring act. But Miss Welch says that she isn't sure that she wants to Jump from airplanes for a living. The big aerial meet was staged to raise money for a Legion clubhouse at Wichita Kails. ACTIVE just plain buck privates regiments while there were more than enlisted man In the Infantry when the war started In April, 1917. Impending additional reductions In the sue of the army will show a further drop In the number of pri vates, officers say, and leave the In. fantry only a framework of highly trained specialists with just a few humble bayonet-wieldinbucks here and there to give a sketchy suggestion of a wartime force. This framework of specialists will be maintained, the War department declares, so that In an emergency the army may be able to quickly expand. filling In the vacant ranks with raw recruits who, with a few weeks' train ing, will make our fighting forces a highly trained machine. 53,000 g AFFAIRS Rises May Merritt, Indiana, From Auxiliary President to National Committeewoman. Miss PREFERS TO MARCH AS 'BUCK' From the presidency of the first local American Legion Auxiliary unit at Connersvllle, Ind., to the office of Indiana national committee-womaIn lest than six months Ii the simple story of the suddeO rise of Mlsi May Merritt, Mlsi Mertltt, as chair man of the Auxnational iliary's emblem commit tee and chair man of the resolutions committee, hat had much to do with formulating the plans and polices of the organisation during the past year. Aside from her work for the Legion Auxiliary, Miss Merritt Is chiefly In tcrested In better educational udvan tnges for the children of Iloozlerdom. Brig. Gen. William V. McMaken, Ohio, Has Served His Coun- try for Forty Years. William V. McMaken of Toledo, ho was a brigadier general In 0 the La Follette's Revolutionary Amendment ALL WILL BE GIVEN After Crop Is Once Planted and Field Is Found to Be Infested There Is No Practicable Way of Getting Rid of Them. the United State Department (Prepared by of Agriculture.) Outbreaks of webworms In corn in the Middle Eastern states can be preUural methods, acvented only by Careful Study Being Made of Possible Methods for Gathering and Distributing Information to Those cording to the bureau of entomology Interested. of the United States Department ol Unlike most of our deUnited State th ((Prepared by Department Agriculture. or A rlcullurtt.i structive pests, the various species Plans for a nation-wid- e live stock re of webworms are ull natives of Amerporting service showing the monthly ica and have not been Introduced changes In the live stock situation on from foreign lands. farms are now being made by the Unit Summer or very early full plowing ed States Department of Agriculture, should be practiced. Plowing In late under the $70,000 congressional ap October or November has little effect propriation recently made for this because the worms are already In work. The service will also Include their winter webs under the surrace the forecasting and reporting of the of the ground. Land thnt has been In sod or pasture, or lain fallow and important live stock movements. At recent conferences of statisticians grown up to weeds and grass should and crop and live stock estimating ex- be plowed In July or August, If It Is folperts It was felt that the monthly re- intended to plant It to corn the ports of changes on the farm should lowing spring. Grasslands of all kinds meadows, Include reports of births, deaths. norlosses, marketings, purchases, and pastures, or lawns furnish the mal food of sod webworms, but tliey also g.iKW young corn plants below the surface and deform them so as to prevent the production of grain... After the corn is once planted and the field Is found to be Infested there . ! r is no practicable method of getting WW rid of the worms; the only thing that It can be done is to produce conditions V that will permit the corn to grow in spite of hem. In the spring, the application nets of Discing it fertilizer, and the sowing of sound seed are the chief preventive measures that will have any effect." Neither poisoning nor trapping has met with any success. v. j two-thir- Beck Takes Issue With Lloyd George , semi-annu- Booth Tarkington on Plot in a Story hard-boile- DETAILS Control Webworms in Corn by Cultural Methods. Senator Robert M. LaFolIette of Wisconsin Is boldly advocating what In effect would be a revolution In the constitutional government of the Unit ed States. He proposes a constitutional amendment which would deny the power of the courts to declare fed eral statutes unconstitutional, and would authorize congress to nullify any Supreme court decision on unconi KEEP WEEDS OUT OF GARDEN stitutionality of a statute by the simple method of the law In quesa! tion. If adopted it would make the With Few Pieces of Flat Iron and an whim Old Wheel an Efficient Tool CaiV--B- e of any temporary legislative Made. majority of erratic politicians In con gress superior to the Constitution of the United States. A Man May Feel Independent If He From a few pieces of flat Iron, such as old buggy tires, and a wheel that Possesses a Nice Bunch of Canle. The United States Is a republic ; the can be taken from an old wheelbarrow rights and liberties of Its citizens, the animals bred, with periodical classi or truck. It is possible to make an efinstitutions which make, administer fications of the numbers of animals ficient weeder for keeping the noma and enforce its laws, stand upon a on rartns. This service will be an garden free from weeds. written constitution. It Is basic Jo our of ..'11 experimental work car expansion The device Is constructed, as Indi'rhfairtat and economic super social, political ried on by the division of crop and cated by the drawing, with a Made, structure. It may be altered by repeal or amendment upon the deliberate action of live stock estimates during the last parallel with the ground, which is vote of the states composing the three or four years. Monthly reports - pushed along Just uudenicath the surthe people expressed through a will be obtained from 70,000 to 100,- face, cutting the roots of weeds and Union. 000 farms, and state Indexes of other plants outside the rows. Not changes at least for the corn belt. and eastern and southern states will be developed. The range states on cattle and sheep will be covered bj reports beJames M. Beck, solicitor general of a series of ' the United States is an orator, an ex cause of the difficulty of getting pounder of the Constitution and a 100 monthly reports from those states. The forecasting and reporting of the He gave the per cent American. Britishers a taste of his quality re- Imnnrtont 1tve atfwlr mnvpmpntl will i movement of feeder cently, speaking at the rilgrims' club be based upon the cattle and lambs from the range states In London before Justices, ambassa dors and lords. He took direct Issue to the corn belt feed lota, the move with Prime Minister Lloyd George's ment from the feed lots to market, A Homemade Garden Weeder That recent statement In parliament that the movement Into the eastern feed Not Only Keeps Down the Weeds the the United States gave advice freely lots such as Lancaster, Pa., and and but Serves as a Cultivator to p. Mit" the movement out, forecasting to Europe, but was slow to Hard Crust Bet sen the Up th and lamb of the yearly estimating "We were not slow to Rows. , and of the states, calf range crop when we gave the blood of our army, feeder hog moveinstrument will this 4,000,000 of our youth and $25,000,000- - estimates of the keep dowa A careful only but It also acts as a 000 of our treasure a tenth part of ment in the Middle West the weeds, of possible all our treasure to come to the relief study Is now being made cultivator by breaking tip the hard methods for gathering and reporting crust between the'rows and conserving of the allies," said Mr. Beck. Information. this "We were not slow In the moisture for useful vegetation. m A to held conferences develop when, with every nation staggering un live stock reporting program, repre- C L. Metier, Fargo, N. D, In Populai der a burden of taxation while we for sentatives of farmers' organizations, Mechanics Magazine. tunately were better off, we voluntarily live stock shipping asreduced the expenditures of naval arm Most Profit In Ducks. the establishments, sociations, aments at Washington. It is not fair and other livepacking The most profit Is derived from stock interests were to accuse us of offering advise and telling any nation what it should do. They Many large live stock pro- ducks If they are sold at the age of President recognizes what for a time may be the best policy for the United present. ducers' associations In the Wet have ten weeks or thereabouts green StHtes Is not necessarily that of other nations. ducks, they are called. also Indicated a desire to service to which he gave 40 years of his life, says that he prefers now to march as a "buck" In the rear rank at pa triotic and memo- rial demonstrahis tions since military career la nut this over. s o m e-modesty 1 mes causes him a little enibar- rnsstnent. tMtrlng the American le gion parade at the national convention tn Cleveland. In lO'JO. when Mr. McMaken marched In the ranks, he received the "bawling out" of his life fiom an erstwhile sergeant who noticed that the former brigadier Unite Organizations. May had failed t "dress right." A new edition of "The Magnificent In a majority of the countries that general Mr. McMaken was a brigadier com has nn Introduction by Ambersons" took part in the World war, there is mander In the Thirty-seventdivision Julian Street which contains extracts a movement In favor of a unity of during the World wnr. from letters to a friend by Booth Tarkveterans' organizations. In CJreat Ilrlt-aiIt is the Ilritltth legion has a member ington (portrait herewith). generally admitted that Tarkington U ship of over 2.000,000. I'lans are be one of the shiest of our literary craftsCarrying On With: the ing worked out In Germany to com' men. Here's something be says about : a i bine the four largest organizations which have a total membership of 1, plot: "Don't norry about the plot, or In France, South Africa and 600,000, one for Ciinndn plans The lnfatilry of France will be your 'alleged lack of Inventiveness.' single, strong organization In each country have stepping out In the familiar khaki of What you 'mean Is something you The characters been under way during the past year. the American army as 'soon as the oughtn't to have. change can be made. The existing make their own plot all the plot stocks of the Frenrh "horizon blue" there should be. Think of them In Lack of Patriotism. their relation to one another and they must be worn out first. some own his of because Enraged will make your story. Your struggle to when refused stand countrymen be against should dead everything soldier from of al names The A wns "Deutsehland uber lies" lclnjc It is unusnnl poignancy thai In Union the have state most every sung In the smoking room of a trans- been burled In Mammoth Cave, Ken- makes a book unusual, not unusual young C.erman offatlsntlc liner, tucky, by the Kentucky American Le- plot. icer, son cf a Oermsn general, created A monument wss placed In the "Treatment Is the big show. Forhis wine a sennntlon by dashing glass gion. was which a of when you work, about any rebase the at rave, get, his otherwise showing tn the flor and names box the but stone the art result to you. Pick seated sult containing disapproval of th lack of t.trltlstn of the desd. Voiir reader: the best reader yon have inside you: then mak displayed by bis fifTltmn cotntxinlnns. who doesn't know y.mr artist-self- s ioteutions, - t Plans Being Made to Give Month ly Changes in Situation on It had been my custom, extending to Farms of Country. over a period of many years, drop visits to London. On these occasions always the most Interesting topic of jnd later as dl- conversation was my estimate or tne rector of the wealth of llockefeller and other rich American e x p Americana. Lord Rothschild invari forces l ursine service, ably Introduced the subject and, fore Mth 10,000 nurses warned, I was ready to give him the desired thrill, lie would start wun under her control during tne World some "piker" capitalist whose wealth war, before becoming superintendent 7 did not amount to more than the pal of the army nurse corps and head of the school of nursing. try sum of one hundred millions of dollars and then worked up by queries Major Stimson was born In Worces2sm t until he reached the American Croe ter, Mass., and graduated from Vassar sus. John D. Rockefeller. It would be y when barely twenty years of age. She an unpatriotic American who would first went overseas as chief nurse of belittle the wealth of a compatriot at the St. Louis unit, base hospital No. a time like this, and after having 21. She holds numerous awards and modestly admitted, In reply to Lord citations for her services during 'the Rothschild's Question, that Rockefeller war. was certainly worth five hundred millions of dollars, assuming an air or One of the major's most recent exI would allow him to extort what was to him a delect periences was the honor of christen of a billion ing the army transport Chaumont. able fact that Rockefeller was worth at least around the table stared at me with an ex "General Pershing was there," Major dollars; and when the money-bag- s con Stimson said in speaking of the event, pression of pleased surprise, but not of doubt, I would In subdued tone "and I spilled champagne all over the vey to them the fact that in Informed financial circles of America, the dollars! The Interna general's best uniform when. I broke Rockefellers' wealth was estimated at over a billion tionalism of the Rothschild family and the utter lack of envy Is evidenced In the bottle over the bow." the unmistakable pleasure which characterized the reception of this titbit of FEW DUCKS NOW IN U. S. ARMY high finance. John Hays Hammond in Scribners. Wichita Falls. V EAST JUAB COUNTY PREVENT OUTBREAKS NEW LIVE STOCK The LEGION ft Suggestions for the Farmer and Housewife, prepared by specialists in the Department of Agriculture for the people of East Juab County. : : : Short stories about people of prominence in our country : Julia C. Stimson, Dean of School of Nursing, Served as Chief Nurse of Red Cross. Amebkm ' T jj invites the stranger within its gates to investigate the possibilities afforded here before going elsewhere. The famous Levan ridge is known throughout the world. Two railroads pass through Nephi. : : ,NLY WOMAN MAJOR IN ARMY IflE til Miss Verna Welch Plunges 3,000 in Parachute From Airplane NEPHI. UTAH S, no ii inme NEPHI, county seat of Juab the county, Utah, greatest dry (arming section cf Utah, owns its own electric light plant, water works and 1 8 miles paved streets. Two banks, lumber yard, plaster mill, fine flTT TIMES-NEW- al gbeen manuring aids soil Really of Oldest Methods-Cr- ops for This Purpose Were Used by Ancients. One h 1 him a person Green manuring plowing under green crops as a means of soli Improvement, although It has been emphasized In recent years, can hardly be railed a new discovery, says the United States Iepartment of Agriculture. It Is really one of the oldest methods. Crops for this purpose were used by the ancients, the Ilomans usin Seping lupines, which were sown tember and turned under In May for the benefit of the following crop. In Germany the use of lupines began In the middle of the Nineteenth century and has proved an Important factor In reclaiming the sandy lands of parts of Tnissla. In England legumes and other plants are commonly used: In India and Japan the farmers gather green plants of mnny kinds, sometimes even cutting twigs from the trees and carrying them to the rice fields. f la to United dtatea U tt sieclal e crops Is much more general In the South than In the North. Under Irrigation they plsy sn Important ruff In orchard culture In the West, but not under conditions. A green-manur- Output of Laying Flock. good laying flock should average The number of 100 eggs a year. eggs each hen should lay per month Is: November. 8; Ieccniber, 10; January, 10; February, 12: March, 19; April, 21; May, 20; June, 18; July, 16; August. 13; September, 7 and In October, 6. Gees Easy to Raise. Oeese are very easy to raise, a A good, they require so little csre. dry spot for a resting place, plenty of range for forage and grazing, with water always accessible. Is all that la necessary. Prying Out Scrub Sires. Pnrel red sire associations are becoming the tvpriues with which tit) scrubs v.111 be pried out of vuinj |
