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Show ' ,__ ____ , " THE JORDAN JOURNAL, MIDV tLE, UTAH • • tft: -' ~~~~T~ ,. • "Iron Man" Is Still Going Strong .... For Har d Wo rker s and e Hard Walkers Eve~here- US KI DE SO LE S The Wonder Sole for WeaNone other than "Iron Joe" MeG I n n I t y, wno donnec! a base· ball uniform at the clo!'le of the . ' last century and, practical ly speakIng, has not taken it orr since. The great pitche1·, who is tlfty-fou r years old, claims his arm is as good as ever. He Is now manager , part owner and pitcher of the Dubuque (Iowa) Mississip pi Valley league team. We•r• fwioe aalong aa beef le.,her t -and for a Better Heel uv.s.•• SPRING- STEP Heele United States Rubber Company ~ ··.· Pitcher Walte r Johnson Is "Slave" to Ice Cream American Farm On the Junk Heap By FRANK 0. LOWDE N Farm UR agricultu re Is decaying . Inhave bankrup tcies in recent years creased more than 600 per cent. According to the Departm ent of Agriculture, the average farmer could have obtained a larger income since 1020 if he had hired himself out as a farmhan d. In consider able portions of the agri eultural area farms cannot be sold for the value of the ImproveFarm Improve ment ment,; alone. everywh ere has practical ly ceased. And though the attendan ce In other courses in our universit ies and colleges has largely increase d since the war, the number of students In agricultural courses has decrease d about a third. Abandoned farms, which in the l'iew England states excited so much eommen t a few years ago, are now foun<1 in consider able and Increasin g number In every state ,of the Gnion. And yet despite these facts, which are gathered from the records, there has been a persisten t effort during all these years of farm distress to minimize the s~>rloullness of the agricultu ral situation. Interview s from promine nt financier s, art!· des in magazin es-one going so far, I recall, as to characte rize the agricultu ral de[Jressi on a mythhave appeared with astonish ing regularit y during a:I this time, denying that there has been a serious situation upon the farm, or announc ing confiden tly that the farmer's troubles were over and that the future was assured. Whateve r may be the popular opinion In the rttles upon the subject, the ablest farm economi sts generally agree that the !arm situation Is desperate. This they think grows out of the great disparity between the prices of the things the farmer has to sell and the prices of the things he hus to buy. They can see no permane nt relief until this disparity Is removed . They think that It may takP from fifteen to twenty years to effect this adjustm ent if nothing is consciou sly done to help the situation . They e..xpect this to be brought about by the natural Increase In our populatio n and by the running down of the great farm plant of America . At the end of that time they tell us there will be another J~.aladjustment of prices, hut this time In favor of the farmer, with a great and unwholesome inrreuse In the cost of II ving to the so-called consumi ng (')as:-;es, with its attendan t distress. A. few montlls ago the Departm ent of Agriculture Issued Its statemen t of the estimate d value o:f farm crops for the last yenr. This was heralded as another proof that agricultu re had come Into Its own. For It found that the total value of the farm crops for the year was three-qu arters of a billion dollars In excess of the value of the crops of the year before. This, of course, was welcome news. The report, however , disclosed some very perplexIng facts. To Ulustrate , th~ corn crop was about 20 per c~>nt smaller than the crop of the precedin g year. 'fhe total value, however , exceeded that of the precedin g crop by almost $200,000,000. And every on'l knows that the quality of this year's crop was far below the quality of the precedin g crop. And yet, under a marketin g system which It Is claimed is one of the most notewort hy achieveme-nts of this commere lal age, the smaller crop of lnfer!Qr corn was \vorth more In the market than the large nn<1 superior crop of the year before. The cau;;e of this lesser and Inferior crop was a cold, wet ~ummer. It was a summer disastrou s tor corn, l>ut very favorabl e to the growth of grasges in meadow and pasture. There was, In the producti on of mllk, therefore , bumper corn crop or W23 was sol<1 at a price which diu not cover the cost of prodl•ctl on. It corn growers had bt>en orgnni7.ed and found that the market would not receive their corn at what It cost them to produce It they would not have dumped the larger part of the crop upon the market In a few brief months. They would have sold sparingly . They would ha vc storc•d the, remainde r, knowing full well that seasons of bountifu l production are always followed by seasons of low pro· ductlon, and that at no distnnt day they would receive a profitabl e price for their corn. As It was, only a few of the corn fnrnH.'rs were able to hold their corn for the higher prices which they had rightly anticipat ed and which were later received. Of course, even If organize d, they could not have experted to receive as much per hushel for a B,OOO,OOO,OOO-bushel crop as for 11 2,400,000,000bushel crop. They would doubtles s have asked 11 somewha t smaqer price, but they certainly would have asked 11 prlce-nn rl have received it-which would have ma-de the 3,000,000,000 hus!{e!s of corn worth more to them than the very next year 2,400,000,000 bushels of poor corn actually brought In the market. In other words, the corn farmerR. If or:ranl7.ed, would have adjusted the supply to the actual demand. And they woulcl hnve made this arljustment before the price became <1emoralf7.ed. In fact, the adjustme nt was made later, ·lmt only after the great bulk of the crop han left the farmers' hands. It cannot too often be stated that the supply of any commod ity which nf'fects the price Is not the entire stock of the commod ity In· existence, but only that portion of It which ls offered for sale nt a given price. And so, If the dairy farmers had !'Orne way by which they could have taken last :v~>ar the Incubus of 50,000,000, or at the outside 100,000,000, pounds of butter ofT the market. It Is almost certain, tn the opinion of experts, that thl~ depressio n In the great dairy industry would not have occurred . 11', In other words, tll'ls added 50,000,o 6o-or, If you please, 1~,000.000---pounds of butter had been purchase d at a cost, say, of $50,000,000 and stored by the farmers themselv es, awaiting a sell'!lon of less lusclouR graSS!JS, the dairy farmers of America would have received as a return upon their large Investme nt and their labors many million dollars more than they actually did receive. And so I say this report from the Departm ent of A~riculture discloses very perplexi ng facts. Now, I produce both corn and milk upon my farm. I feed tlle larger part of my com in the form of slla.,ge to my cows. I sell It, therefore , In the form of milk. I receive cons!cler ably less for It than I did a year ago. And so thl"se glowing fig11res of the Increase d value of the com crop over which the financial writers of the great metropo litan dallfes gloat do not comfort me much. I am Indeed puzzled to know what to do. I have been taught that to produce 60 bushels of corn to the acre Is a finer achlevE'm ent than to produce 45. I l!ke to l'We the mflk pall hrlmmln g full with sweet pure milk. But when I see 45 bushels of cor~ worth more than 60 bushels ot' corn, and when I ~;;ee the milk pall but two-third s full worth more than the brimmin g pall ot' another year, I become confused and hardly know what to do. La!;;t summer the cotton crop, particula rly In the Southwe st, was Rufferlng sevt'rely for lack of rnin. And then one day the hea,·ens opened nnd the rains descende d. As a result, the governm ent, which before had estimate d the crop at 12,400,000 hnles. Increased the estimate to l:l,OOO,OOO bales. This was an ln<'rease of less than 5 per cent In the yield. and yet, hecause of this estimate d Increase, the price d£>cllned In th£> market 20 per cent. This meant that th£> total crop of the lnrgoer £>stlmate was worth less in the market by $1100,000,000 than the crop by the lesser estimate . And yet at that very time the world needed cotton as It had not nPeded it before since the Civil war. And this pararlox was the result of a timely rain. sweeter to my ears than Now, there 1!! no upon the roof hreaklng a time, and yet, to save my that rnln Is a sweet and benefit- or bankrupt cy. When. scorch the fields, I do not Y for rnln or to thank the Aten drought. with our method'! of mar""'"'"•"' money value of a larger Is smaller than the value . are untold thousand s of ch!ldren who need more cotIs produced !n the world "'"''rP. that 12,400,000 bales of than 13,000,000 bales Is to marketin g which so mens- Indians Sign Tech Star Brazil' • Food Factor ie• 1 Protluciu g foorlst uffs o~cupies the I b'Teatest numter of factories In Brazil, while clothing i:; next, ce1·amir•s, woodworl[lng, furniture an<! textile;; fol· lowing in order. They :;.ay thut Walter .Johnson !R wearing a rubber sweat shirt to reduce. Not that "Barney '' is muc!J over weight, but jnst ns a sort of pf'nonce to punl:~h himself for his one "di:>sipation. " The Senators ' great piteher, now In his nineteen th major league season, hus never been a heavy eater, but still he deems the dinuer table his enemy. , This !s because he has a Johnson great love for desserts. could make a meal just on the fancy dishes at the end of the menu card. 1I Is main "dissipat ion" is Ice cream. He cannot take his Ice cream or leave It alone. He has to take It all the tlfDe. Frequen tly a thin sandwich or a dainty salad topped by several brimming tureens of lee cream is Johnson's dinner. He fears this constant addiction to Ice cream Is "getting him" and putting an extra Inch or two on his belt line. Hence the rubber shirt. Our agricultu ral colle~es and our Departm ent ot Agricult ure have constant ly urged larger production. They have assumed , a'hd naturally I think, t11at the more wheat and corn we raise the fewer hungry mouths there will be and that the more cotton we produce the fewer people wlll be obliged to go naked or but halt clothed. F r whateve r economi sts !lJay say as to surplus we know that there really has never been too much of food or too murh of clothing for a needy world. And of .Joe Palmisan o, star backstop of course It follows that the larger the producti on But be. product the will cheaper Tech, has been signed by the the Georgia unit, per down prices drive to used Is on producti d Clevelan America n League baseball when large rt Daube Jake of Son than e profitabl less on producti team following the report of. a scout. so as to make large connot wlll on proliuct! large n, '!mall produrtlo tinue, 11nrl the world wfll therefore have to pay Golfer Should. Turn His more for the neces~aries of llfe. This therefore ls the rommme r's probl~>m as well as the producer 's. Head After Making Shot It has been shown again and ag~ln that compe"Theorie s differ as to how long a tition, when It goes to the extent of forcing prlcell golfer should stare at the ground after below the cost of producti on, In the end is as disthe ball has been started on its ride," astrous to the consume r as to the producer himsays George Duncan, famous British self. The demorali zation of an Industry which !nprofessio nal. evltnbly follows results in an Increase d cost ot "It has always seemed to me that producti on which the <'Onsumers finally must meet. It is time wasted when a player stands Organiza tion Is a most powerfu l factor in hulooking at the ground after the shot man progress . The economi st as long ago as Adam has been made. Not only that, but Smith found In organiza tion the key to Industria l the head down tends to hold keeping growth. Org-aniz ation means the difl'erenr e hes in such a way that it shoulder the tween the mob an(] a highly organize d progress ive spoils a long follow through, society. "Of course, the head must not be In the modern world, the farmer alone has been too fast. That. will complete ly lifted the last to realize the value of organiza tion for Its shot, he<'llUSe raising the henrl the l'Uin own sake. And therefor e It happens that when the ly invariab means that the arm~ will be farmers In any commun ity organl7.e for any purlifted, which will result in topping the [lose, the-y soon find that there are other benefits l>all. derived In addition to the one that was their spe"That, of cour~e. Is to be avoided. cial aim. A finer commun ity life, a widening of But there Is no nece~sity for keeping sympath ies with their neighbor s and as!'ac!ate s, a the head down as long as some players broadeni ng of their outlook upon the world, a new do. It takes the club heacl a mere sense of the dignity and worth of their calling, an travel two feet G€or·ge Jacob Daubert of Schuylki ll fraction of a second to elevation of the nhlest and worthies t among them hit and the been has ball the after to places of leadersh ip, are among the by-prod- Haven, Pa., son of the late Jake vau- he-ad ulready should begin to turn, albert, who at the time of his death "as ucts of farm erR' or;;an!za tlons. lowing the llhoulder:s some freedom Agricult ure has emerged from Its prlmltlv e captain und first baseman of the ('In- and permittin g a follow through. " state. It must therefor e conform to those prac- ( cinnatl Heds, Is attempti ng to follow tlces which have been .found necessar y to the 1 In the footsteps of his famous dad. He Elect McMillan Captain success ·of other great !ndustrie s. In all other Is a member of the Penn State rre~h IR a too, he, and squad, baseball man open and free ted, unrestric e, commerr of fields Hugh H. McMillan ot Kansas City, that his dad com~,:etltlon In the marketin g of products has been first baseman , showing for two years a forward on the Uniprobably instructe d him. graduall y disappea ring. versity of Missouri hasket·b all team, Agricult ure, therefore , finds Itself with Its milwas elected captain of the 1026 Tiger lions of members freely competin g among themat a dinner given in honor of the five Rein'S whlle It Is obliged to sell Its products In a ::Uis~ourl varsity and freshman cagers. highly organl7.ed !ndustrla l and commerc ial world. McMlllan succeeds Frank Wheat, Now, !f the farmers are to put themselv es upon also of Kansas City, who is the only terms of equality with the great Industrie s of the member of the :\Ilssourl squad to re-I Equipme nt for a business trip (modcountry they, too, must organize . It Is not desirtire through graduati on thi!l year. able that they should Imitate the great Industrie s. ern s6·Ie) : Fountain pen and mashie. • adopt the corporat e form of organiza tion and opent. Helen Hurley of Ponce, Neb., Is the erate their farms through corporat e man!\.gem Jim Torpe Is Brilliant It e only woman In the Unite(] States who It \~ould w~>aken our whole social structur our millions of farmers were to surrende r their In- owns, trains nnd drives her own trotdividuali sm in this way. Nor Is It necessar y. . While ter::~. • murh Improved efficiency In producti on Is still posconmaking are o years, outand made twenty-tw have Harris, farmers Dave the ~;;!ble, , which Braves, Is a problems The Boston the respect. with this In fielder stant progre,:s press hardest upon him today are concerne d with deputy Sh~>riff of Guilford com1ty, the marketin g of his products at a price which North Carolina . will enable him to live and to go on producin g. He must find some way to restore the proper relationMore than ~00 tennis tournam ents ship b~ween the prices he re<'elves for his. prod- will be played this season under the ucts and the prlces he pays for other commodi - supenlsi on of the United Stutes Lawn Tennis associati on. ties. 'l'hose who oppose the principle seem to think • • that ln some sort of way the co-opera tive assodatennis tournam ents 300 than More t!one are seeking to avoid the operatio n of the law will be played this s~>ason under the of Sllpply and demand. Quite the reverse Is true. supervisi on of the United States Lawn Those who advocate this form of marketin g are Tennis associati on. F.eeklng only to create condition s by which that • • Jaw will operate fully as between the seller nnd A great many devotef'S of sport will the buyer of farm products . At present It does re~~;ard uuy Hall nf Fame us sadly remiss if it dot>" not Include a conspicu not. Fnrmers ' co-opera tive marketin g assorlatl ons, ous memoria l of ,John L. Sullivan. • • • however , are makln~ real progre~s. Some have Soccer, or associati on football, is a failed. Doubtl~>ss others l'ltlll wlll fall. The mortality among them, however , hal!l been no greuter major sport In Great Britain, Gerthan among new business organiza tions of any many, France, Italy, Xorway, Sweden, other kind of which I know. We have hee.n gat)l. Belgium, Denmark , Argentin a and erlng a large fund of experien ce which wflJ enable Hra:!al. • • • not only those already organl7:ed, but new on~>s vet ('ouch Harry Gill of the Universi ty to bP, to avoid largely the. errors of the past. They are destined one day to occupy the entire field, for 1 of Illinois has Introduc ed a new style there Is no other way out. Just when that hrtppy 1 removab le Rplke shoe for use of nthday shall come no man can tell. It depends large- letes. 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