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The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-25
Harvester. .ThreSber
''Colnbine" Practical

TO a large extent on the Pacific
coast and in some localities of
the Plains region wheat is har-
vested by means of the combin-
ed header and thresher, which is
almost universally called by far.
mers the combine" Until re-
Gently these machines were quite
large, requiring 26 to 80 horses
to draw them, or an engine with
equivalent power. For the most
part, they have been drawn by
horses for two reasons: First,
an engine in ripe grain field
gives rise to danger from fire.
second, on much of the bt st
wheat land, especially in Oregon
Washington, and Idano, the top.
ography is so rough as to render
it impracticable to use a tractor
in harvesting wheat.
Recently a number of smaller
combines have been Lut on the
market and interest in them is
becoming more general. The
object of this article is to set
forth the conditions which rem
der the use of a combine prac-
ticable. and thus save costly ex-
periments in regions where their
use is impracticable.
In all parts of the United Stat
es west of the Rocky Mountains
the rainfall is confined mostly to
the winter months, the summers
being very dry. A severe rain
storm in August is almost an
unheard of thing throughout the
wheat growing regions of the
Pacific coast. Because of the
dryness of the harvest season it
is permissible to let the grain
stand after it is ripe until it has
become dry enough to thresh.
The combines usually begin work
about three weeks after the usual
time of cutting if the binder had
been used, and in most parts OF
the Pacific coast may continue
throughout a month or moreIWith-
out serious loss to the standing
grain.
While in the Plains region
most of the small amount OF rain
fall renders it practicable, in
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-25

If all the end of this continuous striving
Were simply to attain,
How poor would seem the planning and contrivng,
The endless urging and hurried driving
Of body heart and brain
But ever in the wake of true achieving
There shines this glowing trail
Scme other soul will be spurred on conceivny
New strength and hope, in its own power believing
Because thou didst not fail
Not thine alone tye glory nor the sorrow,
If thou dost miss the goal
Undreamed of lives in many far tomorrow
From their weakness or their force shall borrow
On, on. ambtios soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-25
Alfalfa Article
Pleases Many

The article that the Herald ran
on its front page Of two weeks
ago has brought much fayorable
comment and several of our sub
scribers and others who were
recipients Of copies of that issue
nave written the editor compli-
menting him upon the big boost.
ing that he is doing.
We reprint herewith two of
the letters which we have receiv-
ed. Needless to say. we have
forwarded the cuts that were
used to he National Alfalfa
Journal.
Sioux Falls. So. Dakota.
August 10Th, 1915.
The Lennon Herald.
Lennon. So. Dakota.
Dear Sir:
| have Just received your issue
of August llth. sent me by the
Perkins County Better Farming
Association.
] was very much pleased. in
deed. with the way ycu have
written up the alfalfa growing
IN your part of the country and
| am wondering if you would
be willing for me 10 reprint this
article in the National Alfalfa
Journal. If you would. will you
kindly send me the cuts which
were used in illustrating the
article?
If there is ever any way that
| can cooperate with you in
boosting alfalfa IN your section
or IN doug anything else that
would be TO your advantage, |
will be glad to have you let me
know.
Very truly yours.
NATIONAL ALFALFA JOuRNALC Go.
JOHN Y beatty,
Editor.
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1915-08-25
Chicago. Illinois.
August 9th, 1915.
70 The Lennon Herald.

To The IemmOn Herald.
Dear Sirs:
Enclosed please find money
order for So 90 which pays one
year back and one year in ad-
vance for the Lennon Herald.
We would not think Of stop
ping that paper; We read every
column with interest and are
glad to hear Of the good crops
raised in that country this wear.
Sincerely &ours.
NJ f BURTON.
l19 S La4vr' st Chicago, III.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
The Conquerors.

CONGRESS did sensible and popular
thing when il provided for the promotion
of the army and navy officers who super
vised the building Of the Panama canal
The country has long expected the gov
ernnent TO honor those who bore the bur
den of that great enterprise. 1t was the
biggest task ever set for engineering ana
administrative skill, and the complete
srccese of the work entities those who
had charge of it to the fullest official rec
ognition.
Colonel (now Major GeneraD Goethals
doomed largest among the canal builders
He was the soul of the conquerlng attack
on the isthmian barrier. He has written
his name beside that of de LessepS. But
he had the assistance of worthy asSocI-
ates. William c. Gorgas conquered the
pestilence- breeding conditions surround
ing labor on the isthmus. He extirpated
yellow fever and malaria and the low
morale produced by fear of them. lie
made the isthmus safe and habitable, and
thereby lghtened UNNECESSARILY the task
of the other canal makers. Colonel
Hodges, Lieutenant Colonel Sibert and
Commander Rousseau all contributed to
the high efficiency Of the canal organiza-
ton. and all deserved the thanks Of the
country formally conveyed to them by
Congress.
We properly honor these public ser
wants now. But their greater reward
will be the gratitude Of succeeding gen
erations. better able than we are to
measure the benefits to the world of the
great work of civilization just completed
at Panama.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
Extravasance Rampant.

In his admonitiOns to Congress at the
beginning of the last session President
Wilson devoted few kind words to econ
omv. "The duty of economy is not de-
batable." he said; at is manifest and I'M
perative." Having relieved himself of
that admirable sentiment he went his
way. Congress also went it's way. The
result is a total of appropriations for the
short session of $1,128,000,000, an in
crease of S12.OOO,OOO over the total for
the long session.
The total for the two years is S2.244,-
100000, with many stray items still UNI
included. That is an increase of about
S125, 100000 over the total for the sd
Congress and of nearly S2O0000,000 over
the total of the 61st Congress, which was
controlled by the Republicans.
There is no justification for the ex-
traordinary enlargement of public ex-
penditure which has occurred since the
House of Representatives became Demo,
cratic in 1911. An intelligent effort to
economic would have held expenditure
down to an annual average of between
Stops, 100000 and S1,050, 100000. No
such effort was made. The Wilson ad-
ministration has put no check on waste.
1t was too anxious to get destructive leg
islation through Congress to give any
time or thought to a nationally con-
structed federal budget. The Congress
sional spenders had their opportunity
and made the most of it.. In an effort to
cover over their extravaganza they even
imposed new internal revenue taxes
amounting to $lOO,OOO,OOO a year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
Radclife's Victory.

Some time before the war started,
when England was still struggling with
mlitants, there appeared in London
paper dissertation against cO-educatiOn
in which it was argued that the feminine
mind, in maturing so much more quick
ly than the masculine, put at a decided
disadvantage the boys in a co-educational
classroom. The discrepancy Inundated
them, it was solemnly contended, and in
clined them to feminine dictation for the
rest of their lives. Hence all the absurd
and pusillanimous American chivalry,
etc, etc.
Harvard has just had the temerity to
come to grips with Radcliffe in a play
writing competition. All three prizes. as
might have been expected, have gone to
the Radcliffe young ladies. One Harvard
entrant received honorable mention"
But surely this should have gone to all of
them for the courage they displayed in
thus risking intellectual thraldom. Fort
unately for the masculine self-contidence
Of her graduates it is only on occasion
that Harvard's students match their
scholastic wits with the other sex of Rad
cliffe. Perhaps for this very reason the
two institutions remain separate. Rad
cliffe, see that you keep your distance!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
Aggression or Peace

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Says the nine times out Of ten level
headed Tribune i'm to-day's editorial, This
war has exploded the idea that modern forts
are inyunerable." and cites the tortrcsses
Of Belgium and the Dardaneles eX-
amples OF the failure of the most strongly
defended forts 20 withstand the fire of mod
ern guns.
And then, in the same breath, it urges
the necessity OF Strengthening our own coast
dcfcnces. A. Il offers no plan whereby the
defences may be made superior, IN POINT
Of imprcguability. TO the recently destroyed
forts Of Europe, it would apparently urge
upon us a scheme involving the expenditure
Of millions Of dollars to secure some hing
which Will be rendered wort. less at the first
trial.
Is not this attitude characteristic Of the
entire movement which seeks TO cOmpro-
mise between aggressive mllItarlsm and a
policy of pacific constructive advance? Inc
ADEQUATE defence" for which earnest plea
j. made can be adequate only If carried far
beyond any aggressive or defensive anna
ment now perfected. policy which secures
something only "as good as the best no
more Insures safety than our present out
classed defensive armament Before we are
prepared TO enter or the expenditure Of
millions, so garagly needed IN the cause
Of fighting poverty. disease, ignorance and
crime. let W. look the issue sGuarcly 10 the
fee there is 10 adequate defensive
POLICY. Il Is aggression or peace.
CLARA NJ LISA BERG
New York, March ., 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
A New Doctrine OF Responsibility

In its report to the House on its years
investigation of the Colorado coal strikes
a subcommittee Of the Committee on
Mines and Mining has set new stand
ard of responsibility for trustees or
directors Of great corporations. Dis
cussing young Mr.. Rockefeler's lack of
knowledge of local conditions and his
ten-year absence from the state, it said:
absentee owners or directors by their
absence from the scene of such disturb
ances cannot escape their moral respon-
siblity for conditions in and about prop
critics in which they are interested"
That seems obvious enough, yet 1T is
not so obvious as to have penetrated
TO many directorates. The dummy
director" is not as popular as he once
was in corporation manGuvring, thanks
to Investigations, lawsuits and kindred
evidences of dispieasure with that method
Of doing business. Yet the absentee
owner and director who never visit
their property, even though the working
conditions, the happiness, the very lives,
of thousands of employees rest on their
decisions, persist.
The testimony of employers recently
given before the federal Commission on
Industrial Relations indicated that the
man of large affairs, TIE corporation
head, who did give personal attention to
such matters was a member of a minor
ity, Of a small minority. The dummy
directors possibilities Of evil usually ex-
tended only to the finances of the con-
Germ. The absentee owner and director
can exercise blighting influence ex-
tending far beyond mere questions of
money. In Colorado the mine operators
we're almost in the position of feudal
barons.
Fortunately, that condition Of affairs
does not exist generally, yet the in.
Auence OF directors of eye.. the most en-
lightened corporations on the lives Of
their workers is weighty enough. Their
acts meac goo' times or bad, prosperity
or debt. safe and sanitary working con-
ditions or danger and disease, They are
their brothers keepers.
Luckily for this country, the most in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
Advises Governor as to Labor.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: have mailed the following letter to
the Hon. Charles ). Whitman. Governor OF
tho State Of Now York. at Albany:
"Hon. Governor Whitman.
Dear Sir Alloy me to sug est an excel
lent idea. Have your LegIsla lure pass an
'aci at once, and sign ii. allowing all city
subway contractors to import duty free,
shiploads of Hindus from India, the cheap
est human labor in all the world. Then
let the state Of New York build large. COM
Portable barracks for them in Central Park.
Battery Park and Riverside Park, and
charge them no rent; also build COOK camps
for them. Imported Italian labor is very
expensive for the unfortunate contractors,
who arc steadily losing money.
As to the ldle 1000 or 100000 native
horn Americans. direct them az soon as
the supplies Of The New York bread lines
a., exhausted 20 go over into New Jersey
and add themselves to the 100000 native
born Americans already idle there The
fact that there are in greater New York
and Northern New Jersey at least 100000
idle men formerly at work in the building
trades is Of 70 moment when the super
profits Of favored contractors are TO be
looked after Go ahead"
CHARLES II. JOHNSON.
New York. March /, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
An Open Forum
AS DAY TO NIGHT
Tenemcnts Now and Before Tenement
House Department

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial entitled "The Tene-
ment House Department Must Be Retained
met with the hearty approval Of all right
thinking people. and thanks are due you
for your fearless 'utterances on the matter.
certainly agree with you that it would
be a mistake to abolish a department the
sole aim of which has been to safeguard
the health and comfort of the public and
which in the thirteen years of its existence
has wrought Il wonderful change in the
housing conditions of this vast, overcrowded
metropolis One who is entirely unpreju-
diced cannot help udorsng the above state
ments facts speak for themselves and the
facts are that the difference between the
tenemcnts Of to-day and those OF thirteen
years back are as day TO night.
If you stand for truth and Righteousness,
for fair play to the oppressed and down
trodden, take up the cudgels against the un-
scrupulous landlords and real estate dealers
whose chief aim in urging the Lockwood
Eilcnbogcn bill is to satisfy their rapacty.
A for the ostcrsiblc "rdison detre' OIL
the bill itself, the economy and reduction"
plea. that is ridiculous on the face ~ ~
ore pays highly Only for mistakes, and the
abolition o. the Tenement House Depart
ment would certainly be one grand mistake.
A TENEMENT HOUSE DIV ELLER
\ct. York March -. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
The Arbiters Of Punishment.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: | Witnessed an incident the other
night on one of the elevated stations that
demonstrated wi h great force the danger
confronting the citizens Of the commu ity
by the withdrawal of the restrictions that
the late Mayor GaynOr placed on the police
in the matter of ind.scr.mlnate clubbing.
A large crowd compile ely surrounded two
young men who, it appears. had been caught
picking the pockets Of passengers. Five or
six patrolmen distributed themselves along
the platform so as 10 intercept any one who
might attempt to escape. In short while
one of the men managed to extricate HIM
self from the crowd and made for the stair
way. As he dashed by each policeman took
healthy swing at the fugitive, and the en-
tire performance psrtook of the nature Of
an Indian gauntlet. The other man. who
likewise soon contrived to break away from
his captors, miraculously escaped without
any broken bones.
No attempt was made TO apprehend the
men. Instead, the officers took it upon
themselves TO determine both the kind and
amount of the punishment 70 be meted out.
HARRY SHAPIRO.
New York. March ,. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
From The Cheyenne State Leader, Feb. 27.I
NOTED WRITER HERE
FOR A BRIEF STAY

Franklin P. Adams. noted humorist and writer OF
The New York Tribune, arrived here yesterday,
accompanied by Mrs. Adams formerly Of Cheyenne
The tour that Adams is making, the first trip
that he has taken of the Mississippi River is
probably the most unique on record. lie announced
Yesterday that it was not for the purpose Of getting
acquainted with topography, but with men and
issues.
~ am not even going to see the sights at the Cal
ifornia Exposition" said Adams, in the course o.
the brief walk from the Union Pacific station to
the Plains Hotel yesterday afternoon. 81 am out
here 70 sample some of the live .ssues and to meet
with live people
Adams is young, tall and dark, and has the happy
faculty of being able to impress one with the fac,
that he is really enjoying the conversation At the
same time. he has the newspaper probe out al.
Of the time quick to see and grasp any point 'ha,
he can work into the daily batch of copy" that lie
sending back to The New York Tribune. He is
lust an intensely human young man with wondertu.
gifts of expression, which fortunately he Is no.
accustomed 10 use violently.
He is democratically unconscious of the fact that
he writes the widest read and most qdoted cO!uWh
in any newspaper in the country
There were really two contlngents that met the
Adamses at the afternoon train from Denver yes
terday-one was a coterie of women, who instantly
claimed and secured the sttentlon OF Mrs, Adams
who was naturally glad to get back 70 her former
home, where she lived in the days before she mar
red a celebrity Miss Mnna Schwartz was her
name then.
Adams was annexed by couple of newspaper
men and c. A. Semrad, who, a representative o.
the Industrial Club. lent dignity TO tie occasion.
81 want to prowl around your Offices "A Bit SAID
Adams to the newspaper men. Later he courteously
accepted the Industrial Club invitation TO auto
mobile tour, which will be taken this morning, ana
this afternoon Mr.. and Mrs. Adams will leave tor
Salt Lake City.
Being the wife of a humorist does not seem 10
bear heavily upon Mrs. Adams, and she expressed
herself last night thoroughly enjoying every
minute of her stay, largely occupied with receiving
former friends and acquaintance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
TJJJ1 PEOPI F'S COLUMN For Public Debate

that causes the contractors to howl. On,
no: it is the idea of paying 81 day Tor
eight hours labor instead OF Sl.5O and Sl.oo
fo- eight, yes, ten, hours work.
Contractors figure on city work at the
rate Of 37i2 cents an hour laborer. Ever
know that, Mr. W. c. c.? Ever know that
politicians letter is great help when
seeking a job on subways, whether as
lahorer or other work, Mr.. W. c. C.? Ever
step to think that if it wasn't for this
man Gill" and "Gompers & Co.." even alien
labor would now be paid 81 TO SIPS day,
MIR. W. c. CO. Mr.. W. c: G.. don't you be- =
lievc citizen labor has a right to decide who
shell work on subways they help pay for?
The contractors applied to private.
agencies for help. Why? Because few OF
the thousands out Of work had 81 or 81 to
paw for lob see the game, Mr.. W. {. C.),
and therefore had to go without. The CITY
employment bureau was not asked for la
b"rnrs because it furnishes laborers free
and there was possibility that enough
men might be furnished to carry on the
work and they would ask 81 day of eight
hours. Pity the poor contractors.
AN AMERICAN LABORER.
Brooklyr, March ,. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
Give the Work to Citizens.

To the Edtor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue OF to-day one W. c.
c. who, By the way. is probably one of our
great subway contractors cries: RE
peal Tho alien labor law"
Does Nr. ". c. c. know tina. 70 better
deed could be done than 20 enforce this
alien law Give the work 20 citizens, to
those whose money IS spent here. 20 those
whose country - mere to those who belong
here. TO those who create the necessity of
subways. Citizens are not working :ere 20
send wages - o.ncr count,1e- 20 be spent.
Do not recognize .gu soyercIgns. owe al
lc@.ancc only 20 Uncle Sam, are the only
ones 20 fight his FIGHTS and then must be
barred from American jobs by Mr. Alien.
who underb'ds hin. spends l,tlc money
where he earns IT, is less desirable neigh
hor and doesn't care rap Tor the country
20 long as he can w.rE here
It is not scarcity Of good American labor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
The Sale of Narcotics.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your columns OF yesterday you
stated that on ard after March ! traffic in
narcotics would stop. In this you are, /
think, in error, as a careful reading of
Article X of the law will show that this
law simply takes the sale of these drugs out
of the hands of druggists and places it in
the hands of any and all physicians, dentists
and veterinary surgeons. According to this
law, If a druggist sells any opium, NOR
phine, etc. it will cost him $4,000 on con-
vction; but any physician, dentist or vet
Urinary can sell, and not even record is
required of him.
This law will not accomplish anything
except, incidentally. the rational government
becomes a partner in the business. for it
accepts 81 as the proper fee to permit one
man to sell an article that it will fine
some one else $4,000 fer selling.
| do not md that the sale of the most
used narcotic of them all, tobacco, has been
in any way restricted.
Why not? d. T. STEVENS.
Danbury. Conn March /. 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
PRAYERS for Public Servants.
or of The Tribune.

% the Editor OF The tribune.
Sir: There is much complaint of dearth
OF spiritual life in the churches the
Church is repro1chcd as not being pray
ing church. The following suggestion Is
hum5ly rendered by one Of the laicty as a
possibly remedial step: In these days Of
anxiety and stress why not devote ten min
utcs fifteen might not be too many ~ the
opening of each mdweek service to sin
ccre, fervent prayer by the pastor and
others for national direction and blessing.
commencing our Chief Magistrate by name
10 the immediate direction and blessing Of
Almighty Cod also each member of the
Cabinet by name and the deliberations OF
Congress? Would il not be well for tn
Young pcopie, whether c. E's. f. Is o.
Y. P. F's 70 use the first ten minutes o.
their services invariably in the same wav
and 70 perscvere in this method Of openin !;
those services thtou-hou the year? Il Is
believed by thoughtful Christians tina. such
systematic. earnest prayer for our rulers.
Individually. adopted and persisted in. would
bring 70 our nation and 70 the prayin {
churches a blessing so great that we could
scarcely contain il. BELIEVER.
New York March ?, 1915.