Show I I II Thousands of gallons of water have been pumped from the well welt at the corner of the Calvert Waugh and company store to prevent damage toI to goods in the basement It would seem this can be remedied if the Fifth street drain ditch were deep enough to tap with ditch from store This would allow water to drain from the four corners and perhaps a larger territory t t-t-t FARM PAR LAND VALUES Farm land values are increasing almost by leaps and bounds Figures made public last week by bythe bythe the department of agriculture show that values for the United States taken as a whole increased per percent percent percent cent in the past four years and per cent last year The figures figures' are based upon reports from the departments department's departments department's departments department's depart depart- ments ment's field agents The value of farm lands without improvements is at 45 50 60 per acre compared with a year ago two years ago ago 38 10 three years a ago o and 36 23 four years ago Increases have been general with one or two notable exceptions in the northwest The exceptional increases es of- of last year are attributed in part to the reaction in In the south following last years year's temporary depression and anil- to the stimulus of war prices particularly particularly of grain t t-t- MEN J Great Britain has troops actually in all fields at i the present moment She has others under training at home By I June the army will reach a total of In In July the grand offensive offen- offen lIen offen offensive sive will wUl begin 1 Professor John Duxbury of Owen Owen university Manchester England made this statement r. r r Frederick Walcott jis d-jis LJ European representative 01 of th the war relief committee of th the 1 Rockefeller I foundation I All the private charity In the I world could not relieve the distress distress' of non-combatants non In Poland he I I said It will need the operation co-operation of organized government to b be of any I avail Huge loans to the people will 1 be necessary to help them l i tate themselves I am convinced that It Is the non-combatants non of the civil in Pol Poland In in population Belgium I 1 Servia and In northern France who i iare are being most seriously punished The prospects of an early peace do donot donot donot not appear hopeful and what will happen In the meantime to the innocent inno- inno j inno-j I cent suffers I do not know I nt I |