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Show THE TRAINING PUPILS FOR CITIZENSHIP When the citizenship classes by the American Legion Aux-llar- y unit at Pittsburg, Kan., open for the eleventh time this fall to prepare foreign-bor- n to pass their examinations for citizenship, there will be ninety-nin- e enrolled. Pittsburg Is In the heart of the Kansas coal district, and the auxiliary found a fertile field for its efforts. Among the pupils this fall will be Included several American-borgirls who married foreigners and lost their American citizenship as a result. These girls are helped by the classes and appreciate the work jusf as much as do the aliens themselves, according to letters of appreciation received by the auxiliary from former pupils. For-thryears now the Pittsburg unit has been conducting these classes. Three times a year, befor each session of court for the examination of aliens seeking citizenship, these women have held their schools. In November, February and May, the applicants are examined, and for ten Saturday afternoons and evenings before the tests, the classes meet. It all came about very naturally. A few years ago the Auxiliary, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, united to hold a special ceremony of one hour on the day of the examinations to make the conferring of citizenship more Impressive. While serving on this committee, the Auxiliary women learned of the needs of the petitioners for a school devoted to elementary civics and American history, appreciation of the American system of government and an Intensive study of the plan of government, national, state and local. They saw how these men floundered about In their attempts to answer the questions put to them and how woefully Ignorant many of them really were of the government from which they sought citizenship. The ceremonies are still continued. The service consists of prayer, patriotic songs and a short address on the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. Committees from the societies In charge remain throughout the day and present to each of the successful applicants a copy of the Constitution, a small silk flag and a copy of the flag laws of Kansas. The school was started. At first, the classes were composed of those who were virtually sentenced to attend and whose cases were continued by the Judge only on condition that they would come to the school. The' work has received the hearty support of the Judges and of the bureau of naturalization, and has received official commendation from heads of the bureau at Washington. Because of the limited time available for the Instruction, a course of study covering ten lessons has been worked out. The work has been experimental from first to last, as It is said to differ from Americanization work of other organizations. It Is purely educational without any welfare or religious, phases. It Is a class for busy men and women who already have a fair knowledge of the English language. No English Is taught. Those who need instruction In English are sent to the night schools., These classes do not take the place of the night schools and do not attempt to do the work done In them. The American Legion and the Auxiliary took, the lead In creating an council education Americanization which secured the establishment of night schools in Pittsburg. They made a survey of the city. They 'secured 'the pupils. They petitioned the school board for the schools. Thev made them popular by entertaining. The citizenship classes aim to be a bureau of specific information on the points which come up In the citizenship examinations. How the laws are made, who makes them, how many members sit in congress, what district the petitioner lives In, who represents the district In the senate and In the house, similar questions on the state government, how taxes sre raised, what part goes to what department, what the county, township and city governments are, how elections are held, what primaries are for, what the electoral college Is, what the bill of rights Is thee are some of the matters discussed In a very definite way Besides the ten lessons, oral Instruction Is given and It is supplemented by home reading covering the questions of each lesson. In this way applicants for citizens have been prepared very effectively and splendid work for real Americanism has beea done by the Pittsburg unit. The committee In charge of the Is composed of Mrs. John work Tracey, chairman ; Mrs. Ella Dingman and Mrs. Amos Bennett. They have been assisted by Mrs. H. B. Munson, an attorney. In technical Instruction, and by Mrs. I E. Curfman and Mrs. con-duct- ed AMERICAN LEGION Copy for ThU Department Supplied by tkm merloaa Lclon News Bervlo.) NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- WTIOS WD ivWODTD ' FLORIDA CHOOSES n MORRIS COMMANDER James Ward Morris, Jr., la the new commander of the Florida department of the American Legion. Florida Is regarded as one of the outstanding departments in the Legion, as a result of its membership activities and of its program of civic endeavor. To Florida went the honor of leading the Legion In the parade at the recent national convention in St. Paul. This honor Is awarded to the department attaining t highest percentage of Its membership of the preceding year. Entering the first officers' training camp at Fort McPherson, Ga., on May If fa James Ward Morris, Jr. 117, Mr. Morris won a first lieutenant's commission. He was with the InThree Hundred and Twenty-sixtdivision at fantry of the Eighty-seconCamp Gordon, Ga., from the organization of the division. He went overseas with that unit In April, 1918. Promoted to captain, he was assigned as regimental adjutant of the InThree Hundred and Twenty-sixtfantry. He was In the Toul and Mar-bac- h sectors. He took part In the St. e offensives. Mlhlel and He was captain of his company and then operations officer of his regiment until its demobilization. After his discharge, he received a certificate of citation from General Pershing for meritorious service. After training at Staunton Military academy and Horner Military school, Mr. Morris graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1912. H completed his law course In 1913 and began the practice at Tampa in June of that year. He was born at Smith-fielN. a, on November 14, 1890. 15, h d h Meuse-Argonn- d, Col. Cephas C. Bateman Becomes Legion Member (Cal.) post of Is proud of the distinction that has recently come to ft In the enrollment as a member of Col. Cephas C. Bateman, chaplain, U. S. A., retired, and the oldest member in point of unbroken service as chaplain In the Vnlted States army. Colonel Bateman was born In Michigan in 1857, came to the Pacific coast In 1871 and was educated and ordained as a clergyman In California. He was appointed chaplain !a the regular army by President Benjamin Harrison In 1S90 wlUi the rank of captain, and was made a delegate to the World's Congress of Religions at the Columbian exposition In 1803. He served with Shaffer at Santiago In 1S9S. He also served twice In the Philippines, more than a diyear with troops In expeditions outrected against the Moron. At the break of the World war. Chaplain Bateman was active In the united war work drive and was later organizer and first director of the chaplain's school of the army now situated at Fort Leavenworth, retiring in 1921 on account of age. After a lifetime of travel In service to his God, country and flag, Colone' Itateman has selected Sa Diego as his borne and the American Legion Is proud of him snd his splendid record. A loyal, active Legionnaire, Colonel Jlatemnn has taken a keen Interest In the work of the local post and finds himself thoroughly In sympathy with the alms and objects of the ex service men. The San Diego the American Legion Will Hold Big Celebration posts of the Americnn legion In Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, will unUe on November 11 In a gigantic celebration of Armistice day. Op the afternoon of Armistice day the Legionnaires of the county will gather at Public Sqnnre park. where they will be addressed by two men prominent In the affairs of the notion, one of whom will be Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landls. The end speaker has Dot been named. Twptity-tw- o . - Kite Morse. Seek Medal for Hero The American Legion post of Sierra Madre, Cal., recently put in an application for a Carnegie hero medal for Val Mlllpr, of Sierra Madre, for bravery displayed recently at Balboa beach In rescuing five men, whe would otherwise have perished with their eight comrades when the launch d In which tliey were sailing was by a swell. Mr. Miller Is a World war veteran aad as a youth In the East received ninny marks of distinction for athletic prowess. Aside from being able to combat the waves, Mll ler displayed a brsnd of courage by the rescue not given to every man. chb-slze- Will Philadelphia Prove Marine Proof? The United States marines have tackled tough Jobs for 150 years all over the world. They Invariably cablo early, "The marines have landed and have the situation well In hand." But Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, who was ! loaned to Philadelphia to clean It up, seems to have found that the City of Brotherly Love doesn't want to be cleaned up and Just will not be cleaned up. So It looks like the and justly famous case of the Irresistible force and the Immovable body over again. Anyway, there are rumors that g the Marine is to quit the job with the passing of 1924. The first task presenting Itself to any man who sets out to renovate the government of Philadelphia Is the separation of the police from the control ling political machine. Butler made his attack on this combination, and if he had been upheld wholeheartedly by the people of the city could have effected a division of the police department from organized politics. But he was an outsider. The bosses retained sufficient hold on popular support to convince a majority of municipal employees, Including the police, that the brigadier general was a temporary figure. well-know- n Much Headway Made Korean Lespedeza Good Forage Crop Against Animal T. B. Work of Eradication Going on Quite Satisfactorily. Earliness of Legume Is Its Chief Value for Pasture in Many Sections. '.Prapand by tb United Statu Department of Agricultural d A new forage crop has been by the United States Department of Agriculture which will serve a useful field In that part of the United States which may be roughly described devel-opene- as a sone lying between southern Pennsylvania and northern Ohio on the north and the southern border of Virginia and Kentucky on the south, extending from the Atlantic coast to Iowa. It has also given promise ln Kansas, on the eastern border of the Great Flalns and to some extent far- ther west. Differs In Earliness. Th:s new forage crop, Korean les pedeza, is a legume and Is a close rel ative of the common or Japanese lesoedeza already widely distributed in the southern states, but differs from It ln size, coarseness, and earliness as well as ln technical characters. It Is described ln Department Circular .317, Just Issued by the department. Its earliness Is believed to be a weakness so fur as Its use In the South Is concerned, and It seems prob able that over the greater part of the area where It will reproduce with cer tainty the common lespedeza will be the more valuable form. The new variety matures so early that, ln the latitude of Washington, D. C, it Is ripe and dead at least a month before a killing frost and so produces no grazing at a time when the common variety Is still green and fit to graze. On the other hand, the. new Korean variety starts earlier ln the spring and grows more rapidly, thus furnish James Rockwell Sheffield has been Ing grazing before the common or Japappointed ambassador to Mexico to anese has attained sufficient size to be succeed Charles B. Warren, resigned. pastured. Its earliness is Its chief His name is not nationally known ; his valie for that part of the United f Intimates say he Is one of the many States outlined above. ft . js-" approximately 100 per cent efficient Considered With Favor. Americans who shun publicity. He Is Included in the bulletin are several n Van, Vn,l, lanvai rt rvmt nanoA In from various experiment staI f i.s. inwsrjJ'Ju A"" jf leal circles, and here's his career to reports tions where the new crop has been fi I date ln a nutshe11 which you will not tested and It is considered with much K4 f una in wno s v. no : favor. It has done exceedingly well Born August 13, 18C4, In Dubuque, In Iowa. A copy of the circular may Hotch-kiss Iowa, son of Frederick William be had upon request, as long as the and Sarah (Kellogg) Sheffield; supply lasts, from the United States educated at Tale, class of '87, and Har- Department of Agriculture, Washing vard law school ; private secretary for ton, D. C. a time to United States Senator William B. Allison ; elected to New York Lambs state assembly, 1803, from Eleventh Raising of Early Manhattan district; appointed fire Recommended by Experts commissioner. New York city, 1S95; The raising of enrly Iambs rather married Miss Edith Tod of Cleveland; than late ones Is recommended by one son, Frederick, Yale, "24 ; president husbandry men at the Kansas National Republican and Union League sheep State Agriculture college, who say club; delegate Republican national convention, 1916, 1920, 1924; summer that breeding for early lambs should horn at Upper Saranac laice; member University, Yale and Lawyers' clubs start early in the fall. and Bar association; trustee and member executive committee Carnegie EnIt is true that early lamb raising dowment for International Peace. takes more equipment and that the Ambassador Sheffield is an American of many generations and from his lambs and ewes must be partly barnchildhood has been thrown into association with the famous and the great, fed. But those who raise early lambs ever since the day he ate breakfast with James A. Garfield the morning of find that their returns are more than his inauguration. His son pulled No. 2 In the victorious Yale crew at the enough to cover the cost of extra feed Olympic games and his father watched him from the ban. and care at a time when other farm work Is not urgent, the live stock ex perts point out. Early lambs are those which are dropped from the middle of February to March 7. They usually can be sent to market before midsummer without e thirty-onTarker Seymour Gilbert, any trouble. Thus lambs avoid poor years old, former undersecretary of the summer pasture and danger of worm United States treasury, has accepted Infestation. the post of permanent agent general Early breeding can be accomplished of reparations payments. Immediately flushing ewes ten days ln advance by after receiving his cablegram, the repof breeding season. Oats are recom arations commission met and confirmed mended for this purpose. Flushing at the appointment. Mr. Gilbert hesitime makes a marked Influ breeding tated a fortnight before he finally acence on the number of Iambs. cepted the post, which was described at the London conference as the "most Avoid Damage From Bugs AlImportant position In Europe." though he had the backing of Secreby Cleaning Out Bins tary of the Treasury Mellon and other If farmers are to avoid damage from Influential statesmen, Mr. Gilbert's apthe grain beetles, they should clean pointment at one time seemed doubtout their grain blrft and remove any ful because of his youth. old grain that may be left In the cor In practice the agent general for .1 ners and nooks of the bin, according to reparations payments will be the dicDr. C. J. Drake, entomologist, Iowa tator of the whole problem, and the State college. premiers of the European powers will In case the new grain must he stored no recourse from his decisions have with the old. Inspect the old grain be"turnupon the Dawes plan being put into dfc..jaa..iia'JiJ . fore using the bin. If It In Infested effect. Mr. Gilbert will receive a with the weevil, treat with carbon bl "handsome yearly remuneration" for the post, but neither the exact sura nor sulphide at the rate of one pound of the currency In which It will be paid have been decided. chemical to 100 bushels of grain. If Owen D. Young, American member with Charles O. Dawes of the first the grain Is less than fonr feet deep, expert committee, Rufus C. Dawes and Henry M. Robinson, member of the put the chemical In shallow pans on second expert committee, nre ln Berlin at this writing. top of the grain ; otherwise, pour It "I will remain In Berlin as long as this transition period ln the Dawes down through the grain In pipes. About plan continues," Mr. Young said. "The period extends until the time the 24 hours' fumigation In a tightly closed reparations commission declares the laws are being executed and the Dawes bin Is sufficient to kill the unwelcome boarder. plan is really In operation." flre-eatln- New Ambassador to Mexico Sheffield, - "Most Important Position in Europe" X Duchess of Westminster Asks Divorce The duchess of Westminster Is "ln our midst," Just visiting, she says. Reference to the sensation created In London when the duke refused her permission to use his town residence for the Italian hospital ball brought noncommittal replies from the duchess upon her arrival. Guests were to have Included the king and queen of Italy, the prince of Wales and the duke and duchess of York. Later It became public that the I duchess has petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage, the papers having been served on the duke. In stntlng the facts on vihlrh the duchess based her application for a divorce, her attorney said that after her marriage on November 26, 1920, the duke treated her with great cruelty. The attorney also declared that the duke's relations with other women were such that the duchess remonstrated with him at Cannes In January of this year, telling him he must alter his ibode ef life or she would le moeble to live with bine. j short-shortl- r n - IN Ground Feeds for Hens A good mash, containing only 17 per cent of meatscrap, for breeding and laying hens of genersl purpose breeds, has been developed by the United States Department of Agriculture. The remainder of the protein In the mash In contained In vegetnble form and the 33 per cent of ground oats snd bran The mash gives the desired bulk. leemn to be particularly good In mining the batrhahlllty snd fertility of eggn. The more stimulating rations seem to cause an overfat condition. Handle Moist Corn Carefully Corn which contains much moisture must be handled very carefully. It shonld not be put In piles or stored In such a manner that the earn touch each other. Hang the earn separately In a loft that Is well ventilated aad where the temperature will not reach freezing. Even If not of the best, using early selected seed of a strain known to be good will be safer than having to buy seed of unknown adaptation and productiveness. ! (Praptnd bjr the Unlt.d Statu Department of Asrlcultura.) The work of eradicating tubercu losis from the cattle herds of the country has been going forward so satisfactorily in recent years that It is predicted by those ln charge of the work of the United States Department of Agriculture that within eight years It is probable that as many as 30 states may be free of the plague. This will permit of the consolidation of the veterinary forces so that work may be carried on more rapidly in the remaining states where the extent of infection Is greater. The systematic plan of eradication has been go ing on In earnest since 1917. According to figures compiled from reports received by the department from field forces ln the various states, about 34 per cent of the cattle In the country are tuberculous. In many of the stutes, of course, the infection Is much more extensive. The progress made ln the work dur ing the fiscal year terminating June 30, 1924, was greater than ln anv Dre- vlous year. The accredited herds Increased from 28,526 to 48,273. A better Indication of progress, however, was the extension of the plan whereby areas, such as counties, have been cleuned up In one whirlwind cam paign. In the past year the number of counties adopting this plan In creased from 198 to 317. During the fiscal year 1924 more than 5,000,000 cattle were tested. The prospectare, from present indica tions. tin" this record will be exceed ed by more than a million during the current fiscal year. . Improvement in Quality Assists Value of Lambs Most of the sheep in South Carolina show a decided lack of breeding and care, which means that In order to put s a product on the market some improvements mutt be made. These Improvements require very little expense and labor, advises E. G. God-beassociate animal husbandman, ln making suggestions along this line. The use of pure bred rams will make more Improvement ln the appearance of the flocks than any other one thing. These rams can be put on the farm at from $30 to $50 per head. At the present time, a great number of scrub rams run with the ewes for the entire year. These rams have very poor mutton conformation and a light wool covering, and in many cases they are closely related to gome of the ewes. This haphazard method of breeding has resulted in sheep that are and narrow and shallow bodied. Their wool Is also short, coarse and open, which makes a poor quality product for the market. One cross with a pure bred ram will make's marked change ln the appearance and weight of the lambs. Save the ewe lambs and breed them after they are' a year old. Buy a new ram or trade-wit' a neighbor." first-clan- y, . long-legge- Plain System of Poultry Accounts Is Important A definite record of expenditures and receipts is one of the greatest needs of many poultry keepers. Without it, the pouttryman Is hardly able to determine the extent of success or failure of his work. In Farmers' Bulletin 1427, Just issued, the United States Department of Agriculture gives a simple system of poultry accounts by which the necessary records can be easily kept. This system may be used either by the poultry keeper who has a small flock or by the commercial poultryman. A study of his records kept according to this system will enable the poultry-ma- n to determine which parts of the operation of the farm are profitable and where the costs are too much. The actual equipment necessary and the amount of feed required for the operation of a commercial poultry farm are also given. Copies of Farmers' Bulletin 1427. Poultry Accounts, may be had free of charge upon application to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, V. C. i uiii sun m i iii"-'"- " Continue to cull your poultry flock. Only good good Income. farm land can produce Clean up and burn' all dead and caying plants. de- Keep all vegetables gathered to courage fruiting. en- Farming without legumes In tike writing checks without making deposits. Pick out the live stock which Is to he shown at the fair and give It plenty of attention. ' Farm surveys show that onr farm life In still too largely one of drudgery for men and women. Our future lack of timber will not be due to lack of timber land, but to the lack of timber sense. In spite of the slur, "as dirty as a need and like sanitary quarters and pay good dividends on the cost of such quarters. pig," |