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Show THE $iHt.j AMERICAN I Tibute to the Legion If any fEHTAINLY v- - I organl- - ration Is In a position to $ recognize the value of mutual understanding between nations, it Is the American Legion," de-clared Wllllani Mather Lewis, X president of George Washington X university, In an address on "Education for. International Un-- $ for Thl Copy Department Supplied by the American Lesion News Service.) derstanding" made before the assocla-Educational J National tlon at a recent meeting of that "CLEAN 'EM UP," IS $ organization at Washington. ' HARRY FOX'S MOTTO President Mather continued : "The Improved architecture In i various parts of our nation, parHarry Fox, ace of American Legion membership campaigners ' In South ticularly in smaller communities, Dakota and the Middle West, Is a dry beurs testimony to the effect cleaner by trade. which their stay In Europe bad "Clean 'em up" Is his motto In busiupon our soldiers. Likewise, ness and In his Legion efforts. He la the Improved sanitary conditions the niftiest little mopper-u- p In the reconstructed districts of going, when It comes to getting the boys to J France bear testimony to the J lessons learned from our troops." sign up for the Legion. If you don't believe it Just take a In referring further to the Le- alight peep at his record. Two hun- J glon, the noted savant stated : dred and eighty-fiv- e members J "It seems to me that one who paid-u- p would not go to the defense of signed up In the first four months of this year. If there's a better record it his government In Its hour of X hasn't been disclosed to date. has no right to enjoy Its J danger Fox Is a charter member of Harold benefits In time of peace. The $ Mason post of the American Legion at ? Legion has that right." Sioux Falls. S. D. ? This Isn't his first attempt to sell Legion memberships, either. He is one of those fellows who keeps everOBTAINS AID FOR lastingly at it. In 1920 he first begun MANY LEGION MEN operations on a department store scale The national rehabilitation commitThat year he signed up 80 members. The next year he came under the wire tee of the American Legion at Wash with a grand total of 100. A 25 per lngtori has thrown the spotlight on cent gain wasn't just Harry's idea of a many little obscure dramas of the huolthy, growing business. The next World war that for many seasons past year he hitched up his belt a little have played to an unresponsive house, with the result that hundreds of distighter and rolled in 150 members. Then the membership, somehow, abled veterans, who of themselves struck a slump. Harry didn't have aa were unable to obtain relief, are now much time for it, or something. The on the road to health and happiness. There Is the case of John Adams, distest he could do was 125. He was downright disappointed. He abled veteran, to whm the Legion extended a helping hand. will confess It to you himself. In June, 1018, John Adams enlisted But he was game. He merely grinned with a grin that meant busl- - at Pittsburgh, Pa., as a private in the The following October, infantry. while participating In bayonet drill, be got tangled up with that Instrument and Jabbed himself In the groin. He was bandaged up by one of the camp doctors. He got better and, though his side troubled him now and then, he didn't take any particular pains to tell the army surgeons about It when he was examined for discharge, and consequently got by the mustering-ou- t officers with a clear bill of health. John went back to his pre-wa- r work aa a stationary engineer and carried on for some ten months. Then his old bayonet wound began to assert Itself. He had to give up the struggle and filed a claim for compensation In December, 1019. He was sent by the veterans' bureau to a government hospital to be operated on several months ' -' latef for gland trouble In his groin. ' Immediately following the operation he grew worse, until It became necessary to rate him as permanently and totally disabled, no service connection, 4 however, being admitted. From that time on John's life has been just one hospital after another and John was still a very sick man. John had never been to school much, and hnd to depend upon others to lead him through the labyrinth Harry Fox. that shut off help. One agency after In was lost the maze. Then tiess. He went out to show the resl another of the gang thnt It was Just a fluke. some one steered John onto .the naHe made up his mind to beat that rec- tional rehabilitation committee of the American Legion. Things looked betord 'wny yonder. Did he? Well, 285 in the first four ter frem then on. The Legion committee got the months of 1924 rather looks like It And the year's not nearly over yet. names of his comrades In the service, affirming How does he do It? It's really very secured their affidavits John's accident at camp; obtained the simple. He meets a prospect. He explains name and affidavit of the medical ofthe work of the Legion earnestly to ficer who treated John at camp, and blm. He tells him ubout Its service finally got together the historical data to the Individual and the community necessary to establish the fact that at large. He gets that prospect In the boy was hurt In the manner, on place. Just as he said. the frame of mind where he Just natu- theButdate,thisat the was not enough. There a to wants Join rally big organization was no mention of a bayonet stab anywhich does things. In John's official papers In the Mr. Veteran may not Join right then. where War department. Therefore, John It takes a little time with some of could not have been stabbed. He was them. But he goes away with a look till "out of luck" In so fur as connecton his face thut shows lie's got somehis disability with service was coning uhout. to think thing now been hosDoes Hurry quit then? Not on your cerned. John had by for four years pitalized continuously life! The fun's Just really getting end a half. He was ragged. He dewell started. not The only time Harry sits down Is spaired butand the legion. Outside surgeons were called when he Is driving the. delivery wagon physlclnns In. The government doctors wore Inor the establishments of terviewed personally nnd finally, with vhlch he Is part owner. bit of evidence that could be The next time lie sees his man lie every from' all comes right buck at the old proposl-tlon- . secured before thesources, the case wos director of the vetplaced bureau nt a special conference "You would nut have boon outside erans' with Legion representatives. iliiring the wnr, would you?" Within a few days John received a That's the way he greets him. for several thousand dollars And Mr. Fox follows that query up check from the United States veterans' buwith another, equally to the point. he "Then why lie on the outside now?" reau, covering the compensation had gone without for so many yen r. Harry never say quit until Mr. Veteran bus gt his name down on that It May Glitter little card, with a fare beaming with a look of Midas was crowing over the gift satisfaction thnt tells he's mighty glad he's that enabled him to turn everything done If, too. he touched Into gold. He Is married. He has spent most "Hut think of me." grumbled Mrs. of Ms life In Kloux Fails. He served M., "having to keep all this stuff polw Ith the Eighth division, the I'nthflnd-rs- , ished !"- - The American Legion Weekat Camp Freeman. California. ly. j LEGOM . j 5 - y Jp-- red-tap- e -- Heart' Variations The heart has often been compared to the needle of the compass for Its constancy; has It ever been so for If variations? Yet were any man to keep minutes of his fueling from youth to age, what a table of variations would dithny present how Inumerous, how Hare. verse, how strange Warm Weather in Alaska Fourth of July climate In Fort Tukon, Alaska, la sometimes hotter than In Miami, FUu Wanted to Be Sure "How tlnre you, with your scandalous past, propose to me? It wouldn't lake much fir me to throw you down stairs and turn the dogs on you!" "Am I to take that as a refusal, then T SzcsutcL (Lemherg). Britain' $ Honey Imports English people are so fond of honey conserve for breakfast and tea as time Iliat Oreat Ilrltaln Is the world's largest Importer of the product of American hives. TIMES-NEW- S, fflt NEPIII, UTAH -- Mem Vauclain, the "Apostle of Prosperity" Samuel M. Vauclain, ' president of the Baldwtn Locomotive works, and who Is now on a tour of the country, is considered one of the nation's foremost captains of Industry. As an economist he has won the title among business associates of "Apostle' of Prosperity." ' ' In 1020 he was considered as a Presidential was and possibility backed by many who had been close observers of his work as a member of the national council of defense. He has gained considerable distinction in connection with railroads. When the Chilean government decided to electrify the state railways In that country, Mr. Vauclain went to Chill as representative of the Westlnghouse corporation and the Baldwin works. The task of electrifying the Chilean state railways was considered the biggest undertak ing of its kind at that time. When business depression gripped the country, a little over a year ago, Mr. Vauclain shipped the largest string of steam locomotives ever assembled across the country under their own power. Everywhere this unique train, called the "Prosperity Special," passed through It was a triumphal procession, and foremost business authorities of the nation at that time held this demonstration had much influence in stabilizing business and restoring confidence to the Industry of the country. fV in, Presents Her Countrywomen at Court Frank B. Kellogg, wife of ambassador at the Court of St. James, made a charming picture when she presented 23 of her countrywomen to their majesties at Buckingham palace at the last two courts held there this season. This emphasizes again the many and various tasks which demand the 4 time and tax the ingenuity of the woman who represents the United L States government In the kingdom of Great Britain. And, It can be pointed out, Mrs. Kellogg performs her duties to perfection. Mrs. Kellogg before her marriage was Clara M. Cook of Rochester, Minn., and it was there she met Frank Billings Kellogg, a rising youug attorney, then In the employ of the city. And, she probably would tell you, she never dreamed then that some day she would be called upon co present to the king and queen of England 23 American women of the highest social stratum. Ambassador Kellogg acted in the capacity of unofficial advisor at the recent London conference on the Dawes plan. He also has his social duties, and at the banquet given recently at the Pilgrims' club he found himself seated next to the prince of Wales and Secretary of Stute Hughes. The dinner was described as being attended by one of the most distinguished gatherings of men In the public life of England and America. Mrs. the American V4 Insists His "Beam of Death" Is a Terror H. Grindell Matthews, the British wireless telephone expert, known as the Inventor of what he says has been miscalled "the death ray," declared on his arrival In New York recently that his "electrical beam," when properly developed, would he able to wipe out whole armies or the beam could be regulated to stun troops long enough to permit of their capture. "With the small apparatus I have already developed I have been able to stop a motor engine at a distlnce of 65 feet, I have also killed a rat and a mouse and lighted an electiic lamp at the same distance. In these experiments I used a beam," Matthews said. He asaurted that the purpose of his visit was cot to make money, and that he would sell his Invention only to Great Britain. American scientists, however, have declared that what Matthews clulms to be able to do is Impossible, and that exhaustive research Into the properties of every known ray has proved them Impotent to deliver through the air any force powerful enough to be of practical value In war time. Matthews refused absolutely to reveal anything concerning the nature of his Invention. He said that be had not patented it for feHr of disclosing the secret. Only two persons share the knowledge with him, he said, and in case anything happens to him they will be able to carry on the experiments. six-Inc- h Sl fly Late Potato Blight Tuberculosis Is Is Serious Menace Traced by Marks "Tattoo" Instrument Devised to Expedite Eradication of Dread Disease. (Prprd by th Statu Department of ) The marking Agrloultur. of hogs with a "tattoo" Instrument which has been devised In the United States Department of Agriculture, for use in tuberculosis eradication Investigations, has In some Instances Incriminated the "old hen" on the farm as one of the accomplices In the spread of the Infection to swine. The tattoo marks placed op the hogs shipped from an area where tuberculosis Is prevalent among cattle and poultry maintains the Identity of the hogs even after they have gone through the scalding and scraping processes in the packing plants and makes It possible to trace any Infection to its source. Infection Suppressed. During the period November 6, 1923, to April 2, 1924, a total of 13,264 hogs were shipped from Hillsdale county, Mich., an area in which the Infection among cattle had been suppressed to f less than of 1 per cent, qualifying the county as a "modified accredited area." Of this number about showed slight evidence of The lesions were so tuberculosis. slight, however, that is was necessary to condemn only one enreuss entirely; five others, however, were rather seriously affected. The packers paid the premium of ten cents per hundredweight on these hogs. Marks Show Origin. The tattoo murks on the infected carcasses showed them to have come from 89 farms In Hillsdale county. On 22 of the farms no Infection was found among the cattle. On 15 farms bovine infection had not appeared since 1921. On the remaining farms no cattle were kept. Going still further Into the Investigation, tuberculin tests were applied to 15 lots of chickens containing 75 head. Twelve of the 15 lots contained reactors. Tests were also applied to ttie swine on those farms with the result that 17 and a fraction per cent of swine Infection was indiThis figure checked rather cated. closely to th'e percentage, 16.8 per cent, as reported through Inspection by the Inspector at the packing plant. In the absence of bovine tuberculosis on the farms where the hogs originated, the tests Incriminated tuberculous fowls as the probable source of Infection. The department cautions live stock owners against needless exposure of swine to tuberculous cattle and poultry and urges the eradication of infection In poultry by disposing of the older fowls especially and cleaning and premises. United one-hal- one-sixt- h Splits Brazil President Artur dn Slfva of Brazil, and a majority in congress ore arrayed with the Liberals In the latest clash of the forces of reaction with the forces of liberalThe reactionism In aries, composed of an aggrieved military clique and supported by a group of wealthy coffee planters, are seekthe feudalist ic Braing to zil Of 100 years ago. President Bernardes program of ' reform Is said by many to be the main "tro cause of the present strife. In an effort to cut expenses he radically reHe duced the army appropriation. Introduced an Income tax. something hitherto unheard of In Brazil, and gained the ill will of the coffee planters. F.nrly This year the cost of living soared, and Bernardes lstied a decree fixing the prices of food. This was loudly denounced by the reactionary newspapers. For all this. Bernnrdea Is not considered a radical. When he entered office he promised certain reforms, many of which would be regarded na conservative In America. In labor disputes he showed no partiality and at times was denounced by the workers aa a reactionary. His drastic economies have made him many powerful enemies, for he hnf abolished many lucrative offices, particularly In the army. His only extravagance if It may be called that was his appropriations for educatlo. aimed to wipe out Iintil'a reputation for Illiteracy. Ber-nnrd- Latin-Americ- f ' Late blight of potatoes Is probably one of the most destructive of all potato diseases and Is particularly dangerous in a wet season such as this, warns William H. Martin, plant pathologist at the New Jersey agricultural experiment station. Fortunately, potato growers now have a means of defense against this trouble. Spraying experiments conducted by the experiment station have demonstrated conclusively that late blight can be controlled by spraying with bordeaux mixture. These tests have shown also that even In the absence of late blight, spraying will re- urn a profit. Best results have followed the use of home-mad- e bordeaux mixture of the formula ; that Is 5 pounds of copper sulphate and 5 pounds of lime (n 50 gallons of water. This material should be applied Immediately at ap-intervals. In orproximately ten-dader to Insure success, the vines should be thoroughly covered with a protective film of the Rpray mixture. In 1920 the losses from late blight In New York amounted to approximately $5,000,000. In 1918 the disease was severe In New Jersey In Monmouth, Mercer, and Middlesex counties. In 1919 It was present, but not severe, and in 1920 and 1922 it was again very severe in central New Jersey. In 1923, due to the very dry season, lute blight was not present. Under wet conditions an entire field may be killed In a few days unless measures are taken to prevent the spread of the trouble. It Is Important that the potato growers be prepared to prevent the losses that are certain to result if this diuease does become epidemic. I i y : i Look for Lice and Mites During the Hot Weather The lice aijd mites problem Is a great one during the hot summer, and their control will depend upon the methods of handling them. There Is only one way to handle lice and mites, and that is to get rid of them as soon as they are found on poultry. You cannot wait until next week and to control lice and mites on your hens. The day they are discovered Is the day to begin to rid the flock of them. Lice and mites. If left to themselves, will rob the hen of her vitality and then you will learn that the egg basket will suffer. A hen cannot lay when she is worried all day by having lice running over her body and at night with mites feeding upon her life blood. Spray the houses and keep them cleon. Dust the houses with a good Insect powder. This will mean profit Best Time for Cutting not loss, for it will mean better Sweet Clover for Seed and and more poultry, and that Is what is Sweet clover should be cut when needed In every community. s of the seed pods have turned dark brown to black. At this Grass at time some Rowers and ninny immature Cutting Sudan Most Profitable "Time pods will be found on the plants, but the field will have a brownish cast. The most profitable time to cut The seeds shatter badly when mature, sudan grass is between the time it and for tills reason every precaution begins to head until It Is fully headed must be taken to cut at the proper out. There Is little loss, however, Btage and save as much of the shat- when the grass Is allowed to grow tered seed as possible. Shattering until the seed bus reached the soft will be reduced by cutting when the dough stage, only one cutting being plants are damp from dew or rain. then required to harvest the crop and a cut with The seed crop is usually obtain the maximum yield of forage. self-rakreaper, grain binder, grain When cut earlier more than one cutheader or corn harvester, the two for- ting may be obtained but fhe yield mer being most satisfactory. The crop per will not be so large. There should be stneked unless It Is to be are cutting few grasses that are Injured so or ten fourteen within threshed days. little by standing beyond the proper stage of maturity as sudan grass. This Is due to the numerous tillers, which, Keep a Close Watch for arising from the hose, mature succesin Smut Wheat Stinking sively and provide Immature stalks Ilurlng harvest, and especially at throughout the season. thrashing time, it Is well to keep a close wntcli for stinking smut In wheat. Value of Kafir Stems Seed should be used from fields which Kafir head stems, according to the amount smut. of BadV show the least smutted wheat, however, can be used If results of experiments by the Texas It Is treated before being planted. This experiment station, have a digestibiliIs sometimes more advisable than buyty close to that of ordinary hay. and ing new seed or exchanging seed. The a corresponding value. The digestiIndications to- - date are that there Is ble protein Is low. Mesquite beans were found to have a high digestibililittle stinking smut In South Dakota. ty and a productive value about 50 per cent higher than alfalfa. Bean Ground post-morte- ex.-pe- three-fourth- e Hay Soy His Fight for Economy Disease Can Be Controlled by Bordeaux Spray. Ground hay compares almost Identically with ground alfalfa ns hay, but has only about much protein as oil meal or cottonseed meal (or cuke) meal, while A harness outwears an Is equally lis rich In protein as either one, two to one. oil meal or cottonseed meal. Several feeding experiments show conclusiveThe farm premises can be made ly that soy benn meal or cake, thnt Is, the residue after the oil has been re- brighter and cleaner by tbe liberal us moved, gives equally as good results of some good whitewash as either oil meal or cottonseed meal. Any handy man can make a dumbwaiter. It carries loads up and down Alfalfa After Clover cellar stairs easier than a woman can. Although a good crop of sweet clover It Is often prepares the way for alfalfa What repairs will be needed before hard to get a stand of alfalfa in the fall after the second year's growth has harvest? A list of these made now died down, due to the fact that the will save delay when the field work sweet clover uses up much of the avail- begins. able moisture nnrl food supply. HowDead trees and branches furnish ever, no other crop will provide Inocufor harmful diseases and Insects, lation for alfalfa like the sweet clover t'lean up the dead wood by turning it does. soy-bea- n one-thir- FARM DTE! soy-bea- n well-oile- ret-us- e Into fuel. Millet Sown After Rye Millet Is very often sown after rye. nnd the land nmy be prepared by double disking, followed by a harrowing, after which the millet may be seeded. Millet Is not considered a good hay for horses unless It Is cut fairly early, and then It should make up not over half the roughage. Mature millet hay la dangerous to feed to horse. Experimenters at Columbus find that tomatoes on land treated with acid phosphate withstand frost better than those on untrer.led land. The neglect of growing timothy for hay hs been noticed In the past year more than ever before. By this neglect there baa been a greater acreage of peal and aoy beans |