Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-23

considerable proportions in that it has
as its object no less a thing than an
Improvement of the conditions under
which dwell all those people of the
farms who furnish the food supply
Tor themselves and the 80 per cent
who dwell in the cities as we'll
This new activity in the department
of agriculture is known as the rural
organization service. 1t has as it's d.
rectors DR.. T. N. Carver, professor of
economics at Harvard. DR.. Carver is
the nations recognized best authority
upon the subject of rural economics.
lie has written a number of books
upon this subject which are regarded
as standard. He takes up his present
work upon an indefinite leave of abb
sence from Harvard
The rural organization service is
largely financed through the national
education board. endowed by John d.
Rockefeller. The department of ag
riculture has co-operated with this
board for number of years in farm
demonstration work in the south and
is highly pleased with the practical re-
suits obtained.
Uncle Sans Real Estate Office.
This is a new commissioner of the
general land office, who is a man who
has $4,000, 900 acres of land for sale.
Sales of land are now running on pref
ty smoothly and amount to about $10,-
100000 year. There have been bet
ter years and there have been worse.
There was the banner year of the
sales through this Office away back in
1886, when the land-hungry Anglo
Saxons had reached that choice tier of
states including Michigan, Illinois, In
diana, Mississippi and Alabama. and
were buying fast
] But today there are good lands for
sale throughout the west. There are
gold lands and coal lands and oil lands
and farming lands. Alaska has a
wealth of valuable real estate, but
even Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri
Michigan and Florida, in the east, still
have federal lands for sale, and they
are selling
charge Of this monster real estate
business is Clay Tallman. a young
lawyer from Nevada, in the far west
where the chief activity of the people
is land-booming. In this Office there
are 500 employees in Washington
There are 1875 branch Offices in as
many localities. and these and the fielt
force are responsible for an additional
1000 men
Mr.. Tallman is not yet forty years
of age. He grew up in Michigan. wai
educated at the state university anC
went to Nevada when he was ready
for practice. A term in the state sen
ate. an unsuccessful but closely con
tested candidacy for representative t.
congress. and other political stepping
stones, led to his appointment to on
OF the big posts in the federal execu
tive service.
An Executive Hero.
Rear Admiral Victor Blue, under az
pointment by the new secretary of tn
: navy, sits at the head of the premie
branch of the navy Departmental
bureau of navigation. Some month
ago this young naval officer held tn
rank of commander and was in servic
on the Pacific, being chief Of staff O
, the Pacific fleet. Then he was Gale
to Washington for service on the ger
eral board, and before long he foun
himself the head Of that bureau whic
has Offices Immediately adjoining tn
secretary with the rank of rear admit
I al and authority to officiate as actin
secretary when Mr.. Daniels and Nj
: Roosevelt are out of Washington.
The bureau of navigation has notl
3 ing to do with navigation but ever,
thing to do with the personnel Of tn
navy. 1t is, again. the human branc
4 at the given service. Every lad VIII
: is recruited into the service enlist
a through this bureau. All the trainin
I schools that work toward making hil