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Show THE The EXCURSIONS IN CORRESPONDENCE AMFJKSN LEGION Letters are notices in the dally THERE! this morning of Donald Department SupplUd by tlM (Copy for Tht Amrfoa Vmgion Nwi SrTlo.) IMPORTANT STEPS !N CHILD WELFARE "The opening recently of two new American Legion billet for orphans of the World war and the appointment of Miss Emma O. Puschner, formerly agent of (he St Louis board of children's guardians, as field secretary for the child welfare division, mark Important forward steps in the American Legion's national child welfare program," declared Mark T. McKee, national chairman of the Legion's child welfare committee. One cottage was opened" at Otter Lake, Mich., and one at Clarksboro, N. J. The new cottage at Otter Lake Is the fourth to be opened there, three cottages having previously been opened. The fourth cottage was built to preclude all possibility of crowding at the Otter Lake billet. Twenty-sichildren can be accommodated In the new cottage. Twelve children were waiting to go Into it when It was x opened. The funds to build the new cottage were subscribed by the American Legion and Its auxiliary, department of That department also esMichigan. tablished the other cottages at Otter Lake, with the exception of the one built by the national body of the auxiliary from dimes contributed by its members. The Clarksboro home is a colonial mansion surrounded by two acres of beautiful grounds. It was purchased with the proceeds of the annual sales of popples on Memorial day. Legion posts and auxiliary units of the four counties of Camden, Burlington, Gloucester and Salem are responsible for this billet Ownership of the property will be vested in a local board but the administration of the billet will be assumed by the national child welfare committee of the American Legion. "Increasing activity In child welfare work brought home to Legion officials the advisability of securing additional personnel to direct and supervise the work. To that end Miss Puschner was appointed field secretary of the child welfare committee," said Mr. McKee. "She will assist In setting up the Legion's child welfare field service. Miss Puschner has been actively engaged in the work of the board of children's guardians at St. Louis since Its creation In 1912. She has advanced from the position of secretary to the superintendent of the former St. Louis Industrial school to agent of the board, doing the work of executive secretary of the board and director of the placing out department. She has handled several hundred adoptions in the Juvenile court and has been legal representative of the hoard In all courts. She holds the degree of Bachelor of Laws and Is a member of the American Association of Social Workers, of the National Conference, of Social Workers and of various other professional bodies. Miss Puschner Is a member of the auxiliary of Quentln Roosevelt post of the American Legion at St. Louis, Le-jrlo- , Legion Men to Serve in Times of Emergencies Formation of "Alamo Post Patrol of the American Legion," an organisation of picked men trained for service In times of emergency and disaster, was announced by John K. Weber, commander of the American Legion post at San Antonio, Texas. Commander Weber, commenting on the patrol, said : "The public has been educated to expect prompt and efficient service from the American Legion In emergencies. When the call came for aid during the 1021 flood, the Legion was among the first to be called on and first to respond. Our patrol will be fitted and capable of handling the most unusual clrcurastaneea "Posts of the Legion have always done Individual relief work In time of with disaster, or have other agencies in giving aid and relief. The latest Instance of the Legion1! activity In emergencies was their work done for the sufferers In the tornado-swearea of Illinois and Indiana. Thousands of refugees saved their valuables because the Legionnaires patrolled against looters. Thousands of victims were clothed and others were fed through the agency of the Legion." pt N. Y, Poet Commander I Twenty-Tw- o Years Old Bernard K. Whitley, commander of Itetowskl Van Detnnrk post of the American Legion, Waverly, N. Y Is said to be the youngest post In the country. He Is twenty-twyears old. Commander Whitley was only sixteen years old when he enlisted In the nuvy during the World war. One of his comrades In the post said of the "Whitley la the young commander: liveliest commander wo have ever had; he'll keep things moving from now on. We'll raise our quota of the Legion's $5,0110,009 endowment fund for disabled veterans and orphans with plenty to spar when , that kid of ours get working eo It" com-mund- er o com-uind- er Mount's marriage, of John Gaston's election to a very Important public office, and of the death of Gerald Jones' mother. I have known these young fellows well In past years, but they have lately drifted away from my Immediate acquaintance. I owe them no particular obligations; we are not Is any sense close friends, and yet these announcements of marriage and death and political preferment give me a chance, If I wish, to do a gracious and a courteous thing. I know It would please Mount If I should write him a letter of congratulation and It would encourage Jones, who has been working bard for some time for public favor, and it would comfort Gaston to get from me a letter of sympathy, for I knew his mother very well and can realize what her loss will mean to him. But if I do these things I must not delay. One cannot with propriety write a Christmas letter In July or a birthday congratulation when the year is half gone. Unless such a letter Is written on time It were better usually not to write It at all. I should have acknowledged the book that was sent me by Lois Simpson's publishers, for I knew very well at the time that It was by her direction that It was done, but I did not, and now that the time is past and she herself, perhaps, forgotten the whole Incident, I may better forget it myself. Mrs. KIrkpatrick's solo In church this morning was beautifully sung; I can say so to her or not as I choose, but If I writs her at all it must be today. It would seem a Joke to do it a week or a month later. I had a letter from Charles Boyd last week a most unexpected letter. I haven't seen him or heard from him since we were boys, more than thirty years ago. We went to school together; we paid attention to the same girls, and took them to dunces and singing school and revival meetings. We were inseparable for a time, and then I went one way and he another, and the girls married neither of us. He's a thousand miles away now and more, but he had seen my picture or something about me in a metropolitan paper that came to his hand, and he had decided to write me. It was like going back to my youth again to get his message. He recounted many of the escapades of which we had been a part; he asked questions about the old friends with whom we used to scour the prairies, and he told me briefly atjout his family and what he had been doing during the years that had Intervened since we were together. It was a gracious thing for him to do to write me the more so because writing letters Is rather out of his line of business and I appreciated it very much. It gives me pleasure still to reread his letter and to live over again In doing so the events of long ngo. At Christmas time Nancy and I get a bushel basket full of letters and cards from people we know and have known. They come to us from all over the world where the young men and the young women whom we have known are making a name and a home for themselves. We like them all and read their messages with Interest and pleasure. Most of them we could anticipate, for the writers have been sending us pleasant messages for years. It Is the unexpected ones that please us most, those which come from people who, we had supposed, had forgotten us years ago or who had no obligation to write us at all. I was thinking about Williams a few weeks ago. I do not know why he came Into my mind telepathy possibly might explain It. I knew he was out In an unknown part of the world to him engaged In a new business. I'd been in Just such a position myself thirty years ago, and I could recall Just how discouraged I used to get and how much I felt like throwing up the sponge and going home. Perhaps he was discouraged, too, at this time; he Is young and Inexperienced. 1 hunted tip his address and wrote him a cheerful, newsy letter. I told him little of my own experience and metaphorically before years lapped him on the hack and told him to go ahead and win out as I was sure he would. He wrote me later that he was just on the point of quitting when my letter came, but It was Just the Impetus that he needed to stir him on. He was going at It, he said, and he was. sure he would make a go of It. It was the timely and the unexpected letter that had saved Mm. O im, br Western Newapsper Union) Interesting Facts Old headstones In a cemetery In Vermont are bing coated with cement to preserve them. The latest business or profession to be opened to women in France is that ef public auctioneer. Minnesota has nine flsh refuges either closed to Ashing at all times or during specified seasons. An dor hns been added to the natural gas used at Little Rock, Ark., to render gss escape readily detectable. Ten American states have among them more telephones than all foreign countries combined. These ten states re New Tork, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, Indiana, Ohio, Mlchl-fan- , Iowa, Missouri and California. lEPIII, S UTAH Wood Ashes Really Horse Breeding Worth Their Weight on the Increase romit&'peaple By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. Timely and Unexpected TIMES-NEW- SIT. Chiefly Valuable as Fertiliz- Industry Shows Brighter Prospects Than It Has for Several Years. S Lady Aberdeen Heads Women of World (Prepared Here Is a portrait of Lady Aberdeen taken during the recent seventh quinquennial convention of the InCouncil ternational of Women In ... presWashington. She was ident no small honor, Inasmuch as the convention contained more than 200 delegates from 42 countries representing a total membership of 86,000,-00- 0 women. Lady Aberdeen was the Hon. Ishbel Maria Marjoribanka, daughter of Baron Tweedmouth and Is Lord Aberdeen John Campbell Gordon, first marquis of Aberdeen and Tematr, who was lord lieutenant of has been lord lieuIreland, 1805-1tenant of Aberdeenshire since 1880 and was governor general of Canada, 1883-9Lady Aberdeen Is famous for her work In establishing health and recreation centers in Ireland. On the disarmament resolution passed, the American women did not vota It was in part, as follows : "The I. C. W., while recognizing that simultaneous disarmament is the ideal to be aimed at, considers that it might be preceded by a gradual general disarmament under effective control to be agreed upon by the respective governments and the League of Nations. They recognize that nations will not agree to disarm until they feel some sense of security." .. jSM 5; 8. ejr er Furnishing Potash. It is throwing away money to throw away wood ashes, for It is throwing away fertilizer that can be replaced only at considerable expense. Wood ashes vary in effective fertilizing material, hardwood ashes being richest and soft wood least rich. Ashes of vegetable refuse are valuable also, being a good fertilizer, although not of the .strength of the hardwood ashes. When you burn leaves or old vegetable vines or flower stems, spread the ashes over the garden. Wood ashes are chiefly valuable as a fertilizer which furnishes potash, a necessary element In ripening of fruit and In forming roots. It Is ordinarily furnished by chemical salts such as sulphate or muriate of potash or by a mlueral fertilizer known as kainit Our chief supply of potash fertilizers came from Germany before the war and there was a potash famine when they were out of commerce and potash fertilizers went sky high In price. Now they are again within reason. Wood ashes are an old standby and more appreciated now than at any previous time, so much so that they are sold commercially by seed houses. Wood ashes are now known to be a e Where forfertilizer. merly they were used merely for their potash content, now they are known to be an effective means of furnishing lime to the soil and an aid in sweetening the ground and liberating other fertilizing elements. These ashes contain from 50 to 70 per cent of lime. So when you spread wood ashes on the garden you are both liming the soli and helping to correct any acidity or sourness that may exist and furnishing potash fertilizer as well. The lime is as essential as other fertilizers to keep the soil up to the requisite growing quality although Its application is not needed as frequentWithout lime ly as other fertilizers. the efficiency of fertilizers is greatly lessened. It Is needed in the soil to liberate other plant food elements. Save all wood ashes or ashes from bonfires. Spread them on the garden. the United 8tetee Department ef Agriculture.) That the breeding of horses and mules is on the Increase and that the Industry allows brighter prospects than it has for several years, is reflected In the reports received by the United of Agriculture States Department from tbe sources of authority In the production areas. The number of horses and mules on farms at present is less than It has been at any time for several years. The present price situation, however, shows a decided improvement. On February 15, 1925, the estimated farm prices for horses was $77.63, which, compared with the $73.78 valuation of February 15, 1924, Is an Increase of $3.85 per head. Paramount Need. g The paramount need of the Industry today, says the department, is replacement stock. A survey of the horse situation in Wayne county, Ind., which is probably Indicative of the general situation, shows that production is far behind replacement needs. Of the total horses in the county, but 1.6 per cent were yearlings Instead of the 6.7 per cent necessary to maintain the present supof the horse stock of ply. One-hathe county was over ten years old over fifteen years of age. and Market demands at the present time are greatest for high-clas- s draft geldings and mules, while saddle stock of merit is generally readily disposed of at good prices. It is important now. Bays the department, that only the best available mares be bred to good horses stallions In producing high-clas- s for a discriminating market. Breeders Discriminate. That horse breeders are using discrimination in their breeding operations is disclosed In the increased perstallions among centage of pure-bre- d all stallions standing for public service. While there has been a decline In the total number of stallions in service as compared to that of last year, the decline has been greatest among the grades, scrubs, and mon- Control Tomato Blight grels. At present, 82 per cent of the With Bordeaux Spraying stallions standing for public service are pure bred, as compared to 79.26 To control tomato blight, the borper cent last year. The percentage of deaux spray should be applied to pure breds among the Jacks Is about plants three or four times during the the same as last year, or 64 per cent. season, beginning as soon as the spots !The grades, scrubs, and mongrels are appear In the hot beds. The gradually being eliminated from public formula is recommended by the Kanservice because of their lack of busi- sas State Agricultural college. ness. The application of bordeaux mixture delays maturity of the fruit but the entire crop Is frequently lost If the Breaking Up Broody Hen Some growers Is not sprayed. Often Is a Big Problem crop practice spraying half their crop and When hens that are not needed for leaving the other half unsprayed. Wilt, another serious tomato dissetting become broody the producer has a problem on his hands of Induc- ease, is quite different from blight, aling them to start laying again with as though the two are often confused. ittle loss of time as possible. The fav-bri- Wilt attacks the plants through the method of many people is to put root and stem and causes the plant to the broody hens In a pen and give collapse. A part or all of the plant them treatment which corresponds to may be affected. The leaves become treatment some- limp, wither, and die almost as though the times given to certain individuals of the plant had been cut with a sickle. the human race. Splitting the stem open lengthwise The part of this treatment which shows a black streak on each side. puts the broody hen In a slatted pen which offers no opportunity for nestGarden Soils If the hens are Improving ing is satisfactory. well fed and cared for it will shorten by Applying Fertilizer the time which the hens will be idle If barnyurd manure is applied to the from laying. The best results come garden every year, an unbalanced confrom continuing the same ration which dition of fertility results. This may be has been fed previously. Starvation corrected by applying seven to ten and mistreatment are not only inhu- pounds of acid phosphate to each man but are a losing practice from square rod of space. Work it well Into the standpoint of production. the surface In preparing the seedbed. Whn poultry manure Is used, It should be applied after plowing and Item Important ' The most important item In poultry worked Into the surface soil. When raising Is to keep the flock healthy. garden soil Is stiff, sifted coal ashes Numerous diseases cut down profits may be utilized to Improve the physwhere they are allowed to get started. ical condition. It rarely pays to doctor a sick hen unless she Is a very valuable bird the best cure being prevention. Eternal vigilance is necessary to keep poultry well and thriving, and the best preventive measures are perfect Weeds are killed easiest before they Old yards become foul sanitation. with disease germs and should 4e are sown. e e changed. Sweet clover can be pastured after it is five or six Inches high. e horse-breedin- dual-purpos- lf one-fift- h Hindenburg, New President of Germany Here's an portrait te of President Paul von Hindenburg of the German republic. Yes ; this is the same old field marshal whose name Is on the list of "war criminals" whom the allies wished to bring to Judgment. In his manifesto to the German people. President von Hindenburg said: "True to the oath, I will devote all my energies to guarding the constitution and laws. Let us strive through honest, peaceful work to gain the recognition of other nations to ,ei&V which we are entitled, and to free the German name from the unjust stain which still lies on It today." Probably President Hindenburg la not as fierce as he looks. And he hasn't much power. Nominally he Is the head of the army, but he cannot V? add one soldier to the military estabWithout his consent the lishment. military cannot be called out to aid the civil power, but he cannot himself call It out except under definitely specified conditions. Officially he has little or no voice in government decisions. Neither his intellectual characteristics nor his advanced age give reason to anticipate any sinister political activities. , "Wild Bill" Donovan a Bit Hard-Boile- d For obvious reasons the Department of Justice Is attracting public IK. attention these days. Incidentally, Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent Is a new sort of figure In cabinet circles. And certainly his chief assistant, Col. William J. Donovan Is no less individual. He was commander of a cavalry troop In Buffalo, N. saw the "signs In the sky" and w.as ready for hard fighting when the United States went in. Ho came back : with the Congressional Medal. And it was shocking, the way his men used , to talk about him. "He is the tough' est so and so," they said, "that ever lived. Why, blink blank him, he don't care no more for a man's life, the blinking so and so, than he does for u And when met talk that cracker." way about an officer well, you know what I mean. He was then lieutenant colonel of the One Hundred and Sixty-fift- h division Infantry, Forty-secon- d the Rainbow. Incidentally he deposited the medal with the New York chap-"Thmedal was truly won by our ter of Rainbow division veterans, saying entire command." Maybe this is why his friends call him "Wild BUI." But in Buffalo he was also a bit strenuous as United States district attorney along certain lines; his friends fared Just exactly us did strangers. Anyway, now he Is the executive head of the attorney general's department at Washington. And he Is entitled to the privileges of the floor of the senate and the bouse of representatives and to the salute from a major general. V: iff -- it ls Butler Will "Swing Around tbe Circle" Senator William M. Butler of Massachusetts, chairman ef the Republican national committee, will make the most extensive political observation tour next fall ever attempted by any leader of a dominant political party. Instead of going to Chicago for a few weeks as he planned to do originally, he vIII visit the principal cities of the East Informaand West, getting first-hantion regarding political conditions la the 83 states In which senatorial contests will be waged next year. The Indications are that he wIM make stops In New York, Chicago, Denver, r-- i - ' Portland, Ore., San Francisco and St. Louis, conferring with party leaders and making several public addresses. This will be the first Mmc that a national chairman hns marie "a swing around the circle" In an "off year." The chairman's intention originally was to go only to Chicago and to talk with party leaders of states within a night s ride of that city. Since announcing his Intention he has been deluged by requests to go farther west, it Is his desire to get all the Information available regarding the congressional as well as the senatorial campaigns to be waged next year and to render as mnch assistance as possible toward a Republican victory that will give President Coolldge control of the bouse and senate. Senator Butler will find It necessary to spend only a few days In New York city, as he Is Intimately acquainted with political conditions In the Ease. The principal contests In the Hunt will be waged in New York and New Hampshire. From New York Mr. Butler will ge to Chicago, where he will confer wlta UUju!s, Indiana, Kansas and Wisconsin leaderc -- .") d If- - te bread-and-wat- Prepare Ground Properly If the orchard land Is not broken when your fruit trees arrive, do not be misled by the thought that It is necessary to set the trees at once and neglect to prepare the ground properly. Simply bury the roots of the trees soil until you deeply In have everything in readiness for planting. With this treatment, trees will keep In perfect condition for severul weeks or more. well-draine- d e Soy beans are adapted to practically the same soil and climatic conditions as corn. e Noxious weeds are spreading rapidly, reducing the crop yield 25 per cent In some cases. e e e Failure to eradicate the common barberry bush, the carrier of wheat rust, is a blow at the nation's bread basket. Value of Beet Tops Beet tops have considerable value as feed. Tliey are of most value when fed fresh from the field. If they cannot be fed to advantage during the early fall, they may be put In the silo, Much better silage Is made If ont f half beet tops and dry cornstalks are used. Add enough water so the mass will pack well. Beet tops dried or frozen lose much of their feeding value. One doesn't recognize how shabby some of these old buildings are until point Is applied to their next neighbors. Then, a revelation I e Sweet clover Is no longer considered a weed. It furnishes a large amount of protein pasture or hay per acre," which Is relished by all classes of stock. e In places whpre tomatoes are grown on a fairly large scale for a cannery or for ready cash sale. It Is doubtful Importance ofIs Garden an Important If staking and pruning can be made to The farm garden , source of Income to the farmer. It pay very high rpturns. e e e should be planned carefully so that It will provide garden products for Keep the clover leaves "alive" until the table throughout the season. This the plant Juices are thrown off through will make It possible to avoid rash them. Too rapid curing or sun hakln for groceries, thereby of the new mown clover resulu In dryexpenditure Increasing the funds available for ing up the leaves before they enn transmit the leaf Juices U the air. ether purposes. one-hal- I |