The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21

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 Washington, D. c. ~ ECRETARY WILSON is the might lest of all slaves of Uncle Sam, the o modern Aladin. Our patriarchal uncle rubs the lamp and MT Wilson moves the world to do his bidding. He waves his hand over the desert and 10 blades of grass spring up where none has grown before. He puts on his for tunous' cap and flies to the Atlas mountains, bringing back macaroni wheat which add billions oloaves to our national bread basket He SCOUTS the earth for new nuts and fruits, and from China and Japan brings rice which yields a thousand fold on the low lands of Louisiana and Texas. He shakes his magic rod and the nitrogen of the air Is harnessed to bacteria, which make Mother Earth produce as she has never produced before. He shows the farm CTS how to double their corn and plan ters how to add millions to the value of their cotton. He Is the friend of the helpful hen and the little red ap- pie, and, in short, the mightiest genii of all those in the employ of our na- tionar ruler. Uncle Sam, Patriarch.
 Eighty Thousand Million Dollars
 I first met Secretary Wilson when he had just taken his seat as one of the members of President McKinley's cab inet. That was IA years ago and he has been working wonders ever since. He Is a plain Scotch farmer. but deals in sums that would stagger a Morgan or Guggenheim During the past 10 years the proceeds of our farms have been more than eighty billion dollars.
 Eighty thousand millionsl It means enough to give four thousand dollars to every family or eight hundred dollars oh whole United States. That sum has come out of the farms in the last 10 years and yearly the product increases. When the present secretary took charge of the department of agriculture 1t an nually amounted to about four billions of dollars. In 1910 1t was almost nine billions and when the present schemes of farm improvement and new crops have been generally adopted we shall be rich enough to buy Mexico and Can ada and to inaugurate peace movements throughout the world
 Eighty thousand million dollars!
 The sum is beyond human conception. It is ten millions more than all the wealth of Great Britain and Ireland.
 It is more than twice the value of all Russia owns, four times the total wealth of Austria Hungary, and over fifteen times that of Holland or Spain.
 One Years Farm Crop
 Coming down to the crops of single year Secretary Wilson tells me that during 1910 our farmers almost yanked nine billion dollars out of Mother Earth's pockets. That sum would come within 10 per cent of the government revenues of every country on earth, and it would pay nine-tenths of all the salaries of those governments, includ- ing their armies and navies and. every other employe, from the kings who sit on the thrones to the women who scrub the palaces and public offices.
 Nine thousand millions of money a year means just about thirty millions for every working day. It means more than a million dollars for every minu te and over S333 for every second, Take out your watch and look at its face. follow the second hand as 1t measures the minutes. Every time it goes aroppd it's little dial our farmers ares addin g s20,ObO to our national wealth. Now put it to your ear and listen to the ticking Every tick means more than $500. and that three hundred is added with every tick, day and night,s week in and week out, all the year through.
 It is the man who has had much to do /sph making this wealth, that you ta, Y with today. I am merely the phonIgra ph, and through me the Secre- ta,iy of Agriculture is speaking toayou. We are sitting In MT. Wilson's office a. q the Secretary Is talking of Uncle Sam, Patriarch. ...s4 .,, ,4.s,
 Ten Years With the Farmer
 Says he: ,4t "a. ss. e--.si94 2 Tt is the duty. of the government to take care of the citizen and 1t, should study his comfort in every possible way It should show him how to husband his wealth, and to develop his property for himself and the nation. These are some of the things we are trying to- do, and might also say some of these we are doing" rdsna, eH sss~r
 Gan you give me an idea of your work for the farmers?'
 we are not working for the farmers alone" was the reply. This depart ment is for all the people. It affects every man, woman and child in the country and its sphere is increasing g each year. We are now spending about $15,000,000 per annum, and the whole of this is used for investigations and operations which tend to the increase of our national and individual wealth We have more than 12,000 employees and we have trebled our force within the past ten years"
 ..Can you tell me some of the things you are doing, MT. Secretary"
 ''I could mention hundred, and the work of each would give you the mate- rial for very good letter. You will have to visit the bureaus. and I will see that everything Is thrown open to you This is great experiment station consisting of an army of practical sci entists who are working along all sorts of lines. If you want to know about aerial navigation I will turn you over to Prof. Moore and he will tell you the result of the latest investigations of the upper air. If you would know abou, our forests I can send you to the chiet of that service. He has 5000 men under him, and he takes care of 1so,00o,000 acres of woods.
 Would you know about cooking , We have chemists who are studying foods and who will put you in glass case and feed you there. telling you just how much of each bite goes to make muscle and how much Is pure waste.
 T have recently tested the matter of cheese. have always had the idea that green cheese is not good for the stomach and that old and sharp cheese is better We fed man upon the different kinds