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Show 1,000,000 Farmers "Going Into Business" WASHINGTON. Over 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 farmers have "gone into huslness," via the co-operative marketing route, and to the tune of $2,000,000,000 or more dur!ng 1923, according to latest figures fig-ures at the Department of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, where a survey of the co-operative associations Is being made. This exact statement, coupled with B. F. Yoakum's project for an Interstate Inter-state farm marketing association, heading up at Washington, as described de-scribed to President Coolldge, and the plan? of the National Council of Cooperative Co-operative Marketing Associations for their new headquarters to transfer from Chicago to Washington, gives promise that the "farm co-op" will soon become as well known about the capitol as the "farm bloc." The "co-op" Is a slang phrase which has been used for many years to designate the loosely knit associations associa-tions of farmers who make butter and cheese co-operatively, or bargain co-operatively for the sale of farm products. Hut In the last three years the Introduction of the Callfornln-eontraet Callfornln-eontraet plan, which guarantees the delivery of the farmers' entire crop to the association selling agents, has worked a remarkable evolution In the marketing of most farm products and the 1,000,000 co-operatives have nearly all been signed up within the last three years. I Erstwhile farmers, recently turned huslness men, attended in large numbers num-bers the second annual convention of the National Council of Farmers' Cooperative Co-operative Marketing Associations, recently re-cently held here. Almost every co-operative who spoke described huslness operations running well up Into the millions and showed how thousands of producing farmers tire Joining the movement each month, In the expectation that "co-operation" will stabilize market prices, nml eliminate most of the waste and losses that come from Individual In-dividual shipments to a Btrange market, mar-ket, where the farmer has little or no representation In the dealing. "Co-operntlve marketing," said former for-mer Governor Lowdon of Illinois, "Is our new national business policy. Thirty states and the federal government govern-ment have passed laws establishing it The Supreme court has approved these as constitutional. The Department Depart-ment of Agriculture, the war trade hoard and the farm loan board and the federal reserve board are all behind be-hind the movement, which was so badly bad-ly needed to prevent farmers generally from 'going to the wall.'" But Congress Will Not Buy the Land ! ORGANIZATION of a committee commit-tee of five public-spirited citizens to conduct a thorough thor-ough study of the Southern Appalachian mountain range for the purpose of selecting the most typically scenic area as a national park has been begun by secretary of the Interior In-terior Work. Invitations were sent to Congressman Henry W. Temple, ol Pennsylvania; Major W. A. Welch, general mannger of the Palisades Interstate In-terstate park commission of New York, and Colonel Glenn Smith, of the geological survey, asking them to serve on the committee. The Council on National Parks, Forest, and Wild Life, with headquarters In New York, through Its secretary, Harrington Moore, was requested to name two other members. In those communications communica-tions Secretary Work said: , "As you know, there has been awakened a widespread Interest In the F.ast in the creation of additional national na-tional parks and several bills have been Introduced In the Sixty-eighth congress proposing the establishment of areas In several of the southern states as national parks. "Our national park system Is the finest In the world and In making any additions to If, sites should be chosen that will be In every respect up to the standard, dignity, and pres tige of the existing national parks, I feel, therefore, that there should be a thorough study of the southern Appalachian Ap-palachian range made for the purpose of selecting an area that will be typical of the scenery, plant, and animal life of this range for a national na-tional park. I am confident that when such selection is made the various vari-ous interests urging the creation of national parks can be centered In having hav-ing the selected area acquired. As there are no government-owned lands In the East, excepting those acquired under the Weeks act for the protection protec-tion of the headwaters of navigable streams and which are designated as j national forest reservations, any area that might be selected probubly would be privately owned, but little doubt exists, however, that when a suitable area is selected It will be found that the owners, through patriotic motives, will donnte at least part of the land for national park purposes to remain as a memorial to their generosity and Interest In public affairs. In any event i selection should be made and the property purchased when the ground Is cheap. "I have In mind asking a committee of five public-spirited persons to undertake un-dertake such a study nnd If you can devote the time this summer I would like to have you serve as a member.' No More Immigrants Till After June 30 NO MOItE Immigrants, barring a few scattered handfuls, will be admitted to the United States during the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, next, according to information made public by the Department of Labor. All Europe, except for Scandinavia and France, with a sprinkling of a few score or hundreds of Immigrants elsewhere, else-where, has exhausted Its quota for the current year. It will be the first time In the history his-tory of the country'. It Is believed, rhat the human tides will have ceased to roll against the shores of America. Under the present Immigration law, which expires June 30, next, the number num-ber of admlsslbles Is restricted to 3 per cent of the nationals of any country coun-try In the United States at the time the census of 1010 was taken. The total which may be admitted In any one year has been figured out by the Department of Labor at 3o7,803. That total Is apportioned among the various European and other nations affected by the law (South America Is not affected), In quotas fixing the limit of Immigration from each country. coun-try. The highest Is the quota of Great Britain and Ireland. 77.342 per sons; the next, Germany, with 07,-587, 07,-587, while Italy, with an annual quota of 42,0.r)7; Poland, with 30,077; Russia, with 24,405; Sweden, with 20,042; Czechoslovakia, with 14,3.".7, and Norway, Nor-way, with 12,202, follow In the order named. Each of the remaining 3fl nations affected has an annual quota of less than 10,)t0 ; seventeen have quotas of less than 1,000. Under the Labor department's rulings rul-ings not more than one-fifth of a nation's na-tion's annual quota may be admit ted In any one month. Even with thi check the annual race among steamers to reach New York In the early morn Ing hours of July 1 each year ! participated in by from ten to twentj vessels, each laden with Immigrants Before July the present law will he extended or a new law enacted. Proposals Pro-posals looking to a new law contain restrictions which would reduce still further the number of adinlssibles to 2 per cent of the nationals numbered In the 1S0O census. How effectually the bars will then be up Is shown by the estimate that less than 200,000 persons would he admissible under such a law, as com pared with ri."7.0oo this year, .".OO0 In 1921 and l,21S,0xi In 1014. Is Cooking for Her Fourth President MIlS. MARTHA MCLVKY was cook In the household of the late J. P. Morgan, Sr., in New York, says the Kansas City Star, and was fully satisfied there when Mrs. William Howard Taft, knowing President Tuft's love for good food, prepared properly, brought her to the White House nnd said: "There you are! You are monarch of all you survey." She stayed there during both the Wilson terms, then became be-came Mrs. Harding's most important under officer and now Is serving In a similar capacity for Mrs. Coolldge. Mrs. Mulvey was born In Sweden something more than fifty years ago. She bus been cooking ever since she can remember, but she Is extremely modest about It all. She realizes to the fullest extent the dignity of her position and has Invested It with a sort of siinctity that Is entirely pardonable par-donable when you consider the personages, per-sonages, American, foreign, w hom she baa sorved. Her proudest uiomtjnU I come when some world-known celebrity celeb-rity Insists on making his way below stairs to tell her personally how good her food tasted. Mrs. Mulvey Is main figure In a romance ro-mance of the White House, too. She was working hard on her Joh there when she met James Mulvey, n special policeman, who had been guarding presidents for 2.1 years. This was during the Taft administration. "You can't leave me,'" Mrs. Taft pleaded In considerable apprehension when she heard the news. Accordingly Mrs. Mulvey fixed It up with James so she would keep her White House position, and now tl6 Mulvey family Is a completely happy one. Mr. nnd Mrs. Mulvey own their own little home far over In the northeast north-east section of Washington, several miles from the White House, ami Mrs. Mulvey rises at some unheavenly hour each morning and starts by trolley for the scene of her day's activities nd enJo; s IU |