Show HELPS H E L ml RURAL LIFE LIF SECRETARY HOUSTONS PLAN id it ROUGING ROUSING INTEREST ALL OVER COUNTRY y FARMERS WIVES ARE AIDING fifty have sent suggestions on improving conditions and an these are ara being doing applied by depart 41 men ment t of agriculture dy by GEORGE CLINTON washington wives wires of the farmers of tho the land to then number of 0 bavo have responded b lottor letter to tho the ro quest of tho the agricultural department that they toll tell of homo home life in tho the country and burko suggestions as to what tho the deparo department ment can do to improve c conditions 0 and to mako make tho the rural life more attractive tor for all the members of tho the household secretary houston Is taking a deep interest in the nu 2 w aers ers which have como come to tho the dopart departments part ments query and ho he has read cores of them personally whilo while tho the 0 others thors havo have been read for study purposes by officials high in tho the department recently the secretary of agriculture let lot it bo be known through the pub lacity bureau that be he wished to mako make his department useful not boniv to ibe farmer but to tho the others of the household tha women were asked to write and they responded quickly and readily and in nearly every case intelligently telli gently it Is the intention of the governments agricultural officials to prepare and send out bulletins of instruction st and information to tho the rural ruml housewives of the country telling them how they can lighten their labors a shorten their hours of work mako make their homes attractive attract Iva save money and make money and after doing it all find that they havo have left time for rost rest reading and bodily recreation exchange of advice already the th farmed fa naera wives wires of the country have received from tho the governments ern ments ment is advisory bureau housekeeping food preparing fruit preserving and other instructions which on the face of things seems to mark secretary houston as a teacher of high standing in tho the domestic arts it Is probable that the secretary of agriculture will be the first ono one to put the credit where it belongs the women have done it advice from alabama today Is being applied to california and advice from california Is being applied in alabama and put any other two states in the places of those named and the samo same thing holds true before long it Is the intention of the department to p prepare aparo plans for the construction and proper arrangement c farm houses they will ry in detail geographically all r the same plans will not servo serve for a florida farmhouse that will servo serve for one in oregon convenience and comfort will bo be consulted with a view to the adaptation of the house to the special nods needs of the family of a farmer Is currency law prize or blank now that the currency bill baa has become a law the natural and perhaps apprehensive question becomes is it to work good or III to the banking and the general business interests of the country docs does ono orto ac eicem cem to put the plane plans of intelli gence low when he says that with the exception of half a dozen bena be natora tors and representatives who have spoken directly to the point no ono one can bo be found in the capital city outside of those who speak enthusiastically simply because they are am Hans willing to give a specific answer to the question concerning the business results of the new now currency law the solemn truth Is that apparently no man understand understands currency to its roots finance Is a question which has been tho the subject of controversy for hundreds yes even thousands of years thero there aro are as many views on the proper way to make a sound bound cur rancy as there are men able to express any view at all of the witnesses aho vho bo appeared before the committees sitting in of the currency measure only one or two were willing to prophesy actual disaster as the result of the passage of the bill and only a few are willing filing to declare as a certainty that specific benefit would come from its enactment during tho the debate on the tariff bill which la Is now tho the law there were plenty of republicans in both houses willing to prophesy disaster to the business interests of the country because of the cut in customs the lariff tariff was a far ilustr subject few even pretend to know during the debates on the currency bill many of the republicans sat fiat speechless others braver spoke their minds but those who thus spoke were few in number why was there reticence on an currency and glibness on the tariff T the reason Is as simple as a primer there are uro not more than ten men in the anu baud ja and senate who understand currency matters and all ear except appt the ten who understand or abo vho think they understand were will ing to keep quiet I epst zt they show their ignorance or predict which might not bo be fuld fulfilled lod an far as iw the cong reea ex of the unit od ed states Is concerned the currency law Is an experimental mo asuro ben adoro ans know what tho the banking interests have laid said in favor of tho the bill and against it IL they realure hat thal iho the doctor doctors and if it tho the doctore how can the layman decide president wilsons Wll sone curre currency ner me aa ure will not come into tall full operation for some time in washington its it ra suits are looked upon much as wore were the results ot nt the drawings of old Loul stara lottery jittery it may bo be major prize legisla legislation tinn it may bo too amor in inor prize legislation or it W mua 7 ba blank 6 tion the lose 1 of all jhb energy which ass wr m put into ite its passage plus the loss 1 of business stability wilson seem seems confident so it la Is that the currency measure over tho the passage of which a sigh ol 01 relief wont went up became because it brings witt it cessation of congressional labon labom and a surcease Burco aso of present borrows sorrows will become tho the law of the land and go into operation without any definite knowledge so tar far As a washington of 0 fecla as are concerned ad to whether it 11 Is to do tho the country or to do somo thing for the country president wilson seemingly Is to sure that money will bo be easier that wall street will not got its hogs bogs share in times of distress tit roes that stability underlies the law in every ono one of its classes and yet mr air wilson may be mistaken lie ile admitted before tho the bill was introduced that ho lie did not u understand D der a land the curr currency enry question thoroughly 11 as he lie been cen able to master mariter it in throe three months other mon men stud led money and its ramifications through the avenues of peace for years are arc ready to confess today that they are still groping the law la to to go into operation there will bo be no more surprise in washington at ita its failure to do what a hat it Is to intended to do ann at its success on currency matters the la lawmakers makers have been guessing and now after all the weeks of debating it can still ho be said that perhaps one mand mans guess Is to as an good as an others remarkable work in alaska col wilds P lUchard richardson so no united states army chairman of the board of road commissioner commissioners for alaska has come out of th wilderness to washington to report at headquarters headquarter A colonel richard son and ha fell felloe loi road builders glen edgerton corps of engineers and lieutenant louie louis A kunzig thir cioth united states infantry have su per intended the construction and have attended to the details of tra tion of a government road which runs from valdez near the coast to tho the town oz 0 fairbanks aad d over which in the summer time automobiles find easy passage perhaps when one reads this short abort statement of road construct construction lop the task appears to be nothing phenomenal but it must be remembered that this road which the army officers planned laid out and built rune runs through miles of what Is virtually a wilderness the natural difficult ties which aro are overcome seemingly were enough to dishearten the hardi est and most resourceful of men but the road has been built and it has cost the gov government emment 1000 a mile less than the estimate made by engineers who wout wo ut over the proposed road nine rine years ago this government road which has bu opened up alaska to wagon traffic lj li summer and to the traffic affia of oz nail mall sleighs and other Bl sledding edding vehicles in tho the vi winter luter cost 2500 a mile to build army engineers fixed the prospective amount of expenditure at ae 3 a mile the road today Is as good as tho ordinary country road read and if 11 the government chooses to expend an additional 1000 for each mile of con which the engine engineers engl nebra becom mended it can be made one of the model roads oads i of the country hardest kind of a job there in is a plan at ar present for the government to build railroads in alaska to be owned and possibly tc bo be operated by undo uncle sam it Is said in washington that it if the govern meats railroad shall be constructed af at well and as a economically as the wag ag on road which colonel richardson and his associates have just corn com plated the tax payers of the country and the travelers who use the rail way ay well may be satisfied with go gov Y work road building in alaska Is a hard task all sorts of condit conditions lons must be met landslides torrents glacial action and a variety of assortment of problems to tho the lay man seemingly impossible 0 confront the builders at intervals all along the line of oln for years colonel richardson has been at his work and last fall with his big col leagues ho he made the trip over the new roadway the whole hole distance from fairbanks to valdez in an auto truck lieutenant colonel richardson who has spent so m miny roy years jears in the gov service in alaska Is in a sturdy texan a lie graduated frum the united states military academy in 1884 wonder whether tho the originator of the tango would have recognized the dance as attempted by many |