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800 acre man freedom from debt at one
bound, new house in place Of the sod
shack or tar paper shanty, motor ear,
a trip perhaps to California Failure
means debt, narrowing debt and winter
worries. Perhaps the banks will carry
him. Perhaps they won't.
And the best crop ever grown by the
best farmer walking the earth cannot be
absolutely safe till it has passed the early
August frosts. 1t may be said this does
not apply to the wheat fields south of the
Missouri River. True, but of the billion
bushels of wheat which the world expects
from America this year, 100000, 900
bushels will come from the region between
the Missouri and the Saskatchewan.
One single State like Minnesota, or
province like Saskatchewan, in a single
year produces as much gold in wheat as
half the gold mines of all the world.
Put the wheat of all America In an up
right pile on one side and the gold Of
all the world in an upright pile on the
other side Value the wheat at $3.50
bushel; and the wheat gold bar will reach
five times higher in the air than the
mineral gold bar.
Pause over that fact and grasp what
it means to the nation in wealth. Pause
espeeiall: this year and realize what it
means to a starving and impoverished
world looking TO America for bread and
redemption from bankruptcy.
That is why riding through feneeless
fields of wheat, where the heavy yellow
heads reached to my saddle girths, l
have never been able to look on the bill
lowing yellow waves as anything but seas
of veritable gold-Midas gold on which
the wheat gambler risks his fortune and
his life.
But into this very belt of gold there
steals a robber presence in late July and
early August that freezes the very mar
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and break forty acres of prairie in day.
The same tractor ,hauls combination disk
and harrow over the furrowed field.
Then come the drills with four horse
teams; and tractors and teams and drills
stand for equipment that costs anywhere
from $1,000 to $4,000, with scale of
wages for the tractor boss at from Sc to
So day.
Your wheat farmer has spent or bor-
rowed small fortune in machinery and
wages, not counting the cost Of seed
wheat, before May 10. In the old days,
it used TO cost S. an acre to break, har-
row and seed an acre of wheat. To-day
it costs closer to So; though much of the
work is done by tractor gangs, who take
contracts by the hundred acres; as rail
road builders take contracts by the hun
dred miles.
Then come the soul narrowing risks of
a wet, cold spring retarding growth or of
drought in June or of hailstorns in July,
which yearly take toll Of hope and for
tune; but comes midsummer with the
fields standing billowing sea of pure
gold.
If the yield turns out thirty bushels to
the acre, 10000 bushels multiplied by
1920 a bushel will pay the wheat farm
er's equipment mortgage and leave him
on Easy street for the rest of his life.
Harvesting, threshing, hauling and ele
vator charges will absorb another 81 an
acre; but even so, profits will leave the
1000 acre wheat farmer with as big re-
turns for his labor as the bank president
draws for his or the railroad president for
his.
And this is as it ought to be and places
the farmer of the West on the plane
where he belongs. But don't figure the
average wheat farmer as 1000 acre man.
Three hundred acres is nearer the average.
A good crop safely sold means to the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-28
BY AGNES C.. LAUT.

IRON the middle of July to the middle
Il of August is the season of the year
when the farmers of the great Wheat Belt
sweat with an agony of anxiety that can
only be compared to The fever of gambler.
For though theorists may preach their
heads off about diversified EARNINGS being
safer than an all wheat crop, as long as
men can win fortune by single lucky
stroke they will yield to the lure of
golden chance, whether it is offered by
a mine or the following wheat fields that
are as truly gold to the farmer as the
richest nugget that ever came out of
Klondike.
Consider a thousand acre wheat field
such as You see in Montana, or the Dako-
tas, or Alberta, or Saskatchewan. BY
dint of work early and late-and the sun
rises at 3 in the Far North and does not
set till after 9-by dint of work, that
hasn't been work at all but fast and
furious frenzied drive to beat the
weather, the wheat has been seeded in
before May 10. Wheat that isn't in be-
fore May 10 can hardly be expected to
mature in time to escape the early August
froAs; so whether the wheat farmer
works all day and half the night, the
wheat must be in by early May.
Now you cant manage thousand acre
wheat field with a single horse walking
plough and leisurely ploughman who
works on an eight-hour schedule. The
wheat farmers spring hours are twenty
four day with an interval for sleep and
q few stolen moments for meals and
even at that mad pace he must depend
more on machines than man power for
speed.
He uses tractors and ploughs that turn
from eight to sixteen burrows In a row,
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essential, if only they were able financially
to do so. Combine with our American
genius for invention and discovery the
spirit Of scientific research, and bring our
industries and our scientific institutions in
closer touch, and finally provide means
whereby our boys with limited financial
resources can 90 ahead and have the neees-
sary education, and We can construct IN
this country an organization devoted to
the chemical industry which will bring
forth an industrial development that will
be national credit to all the institutions
concerned.
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Fate of World Rests on Wheat Crop
Now Passing Its Most Trying Time

row of the wheat gamblers bones. Il
is the early frost; and up to the present
the only thing science has been able to
do to beat the robber is develop early
maturing varieties of wheat-Hayes's
Minnesota, Saundcrs's Red Fife, the
Saskatchewan Marquis-and the only
thing the farmer has been able to do to
beat that invisible presence is beat the
weather by getting his crop seeded early.
Why the frost comes or where it
comes from, or whether it comes in cycles,
science does not vet know. There are
theories as to the frost, but facts there
are none One field will be taken and
another left. One section will escape
scot free, and another be left blaekened,
burned, ruined.
Perhaps for two or three years in sue
cession not a touch of frost will come
near the wheat belt. Then in an errstic
year patches of frost will touch fields
from Bismarck in Dakota to Regina in
Canada. The wheat field win be standing
with the heavy head yet soft and in tho
milk. The self binders are all ready
with extra knife bars, some of the bind
ers cutting, and threshing as they cut,
forty acres day; and the eloudless prai-
ne sun will be ripening the heads with
all speed. But you must not cut the
wheat while the berry is soft or it will
shrink and grade low; and you must not
cut a week too late or the wheat will
shell out and you will lose, and while
you wait comes the frost.
In the great crises of the past America
has travelled almost on fools luck regard
ing wheat crops. After the civil war
amid the financial crashes and depressions
of the 70s it was big wheat crop which
pulled the country out of the slough
Of despond. In the Dos, when the 6nan-
cial panic drove railroads and banks to
the wall il was q big wheat crop again
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equipped educational plants in the world,
and what we greatly need to-day is
better utilization of these resources.
"Our small number of American chem
lists, and the practical engineers associated
with them, have developedour new chemi-
cal industry from the bottom, in the face
Of assertions that it could not be done.
The result is these industries to-day are
entrenehed in a very secure financial posi-
ton.
"We have large number Of men in our
colleges to-day who are competent to go
ahead and undertake the training which is
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fabricate has been going down the sewers
in the form of silk gum. And so on. The
possibilities in waste by-products make too
long a story to tell, but the conservation
is the chemists business"
The memorandum:
"Forty- four months ago industrial
chemistry existed merely as germ IN the
United States. To-day in spite of the
conditions created by the war we have
developed in this country, for example,
dyestuff industry producing in 1917, we
arc told, $106, 942 ,91S worth of dyestuffs.
Not only have we had enough for our own
purposes but we have exported $4,000
600 worth"
As to drugs, "You know and the Ger
mans knew" Prof. johnson remarked,
shat we used to depend on Germany for
virtually all the organic drugs We had.
Our big Wholesale drug concerns COM
pounded them, but what they compounded
had been made in Germany. We have
all the sources right here at home and
we are now by way of stocking the list
of the pharmacopGia with home made
products"
The memorandum:
''No industry is great before it is small.
What is needed to make this industrial
achievement success after the war is a
hearty and strong support of capital and
the cooperation Of our large universities
and professional training schools and our
manufacturers. Big Industrial develop
ments are going to take place in Mexico
and in the South American countries, in
Japan, China and Australia, and we shall
have in this country golden opportunities
which we should be quick to realize.
"The section in which we may expect
to see developed the greatest activity in
the chemical industry in the United States
will very probably comprise the Eastern
States, where to-day so large proper
ton of our war industries is located.
Here we have available the coal and oil,
also easy access to the Atlantic coast,
where we must develop large export and
import trade Our new mercantile marine
now in process Of construction will be a
great asset.
"But there is q tremendous amount of
educational work to be done before we
can hope for success. Some tell US that
to make successful our chemical indus
trial pursuits it will be necessary to i'm
port the French or English chemist. l
do not believe this to be true if our edu-
cational institutions are properly sup
ported by the interests which are DEEPEN
dent on the employment of men who have
received good technical training.
"We have in our own country the best
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'In 1896 Henry f. Armstrong of Eng
land delivered the Hoffman, memorial lee
ture; this lecture is published in the
Joarpol of the Chemical Society Of Lon
don, 1896, page 731. In it he refers to .
statement by a writer of that period,
which has appealed to me very much since
& the year that tins war started:
- "1t is fair to hold that the country that
has the best chemists will in the long run
be the most prosperous and most power
full. L, will have at the lowest cost the
best food, the best manufactured mate
rails, the fewest wastes and unutilized
forms of matter, the best guns, the strong
est explosives and the most resistant
armor. Its inhabitants will make the best
use of their country's resources; they will
be the most healthy and most free from
disease; they will oppose the least resist
ance to favorable evolution; they will be
the most thrifty and the least dependent
on other nations.
"'The education of its people in chem
istry, pure and applied, and the physical
sciences is the most paying investment
that a country can make. Competitions
between nations is essentially a eompeti-
ton in the science and application Of
chemistry
''It is interesting to note how true were
these predictions made twenty-five years
ago."
"Just what are we doing here at Shelf
feld?' said Prof. johnson. 1--WE are
cooperating with the Government and the
manufacturers in every feasible way to
help in the winning of the war. That
includes experimenting on explosives and
the organization of a field laboratory in
the gas warfare section Of the War De-
partment. We cooperate with the expert
ment station at American University in
Washington.
"We're also making special investiga-
tions of the utilization of wastage in
manufacture.
"Of course 1 can't say anything about
our gas warfare results. But
He indicated two sealed lengths of glass
tube that were lying on a table across the
room. They contained almost coloriess
liquid. He smiled not altogether mirth-
fully.
81 wish you could know about those"
he observed They're going with me to
Washington right away. The German
started this war and he started this gas
deviltry. Before they're finished the
United States is likely to teach him what
gas warfare really is-or rather to teach
him better than ever to spring such .
thing again.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-09-12
THE COUNTY FAIRS

Although war time has placed difficult
ties in the way of running the usual coun-
lty fairs of the autumn season, few peo-
pie have wished to see them given up.
But it will take good deal of commun-
ity spirit to run these fairs this year. The
labor costs and feed for live stock will be
expensive. The people should realize that
these fairs are held as an exhibit of COM
munity resources. Most Of the work
ought to be contributed without pay,
since everyone gets the benefit of the adj
vertising. IA 44tsA
theoretically these fairs should be ed
vocational. But life in the rural districts
is toilsone, with few diversions. When
the farmers family stop the Regular
grind for day, it is very natural for
them to look for all the fun that is going.
They can talk corn and pigs and cattle
any old day.
But only once year do they get
chance at any kind of sporting life.
Hence the agricultural college professor
with his exhibit may be disappointed be-
cause his tent is more or less empty,
while Uncle Reuben and all his relatives
are cheering the fast steppers on the race
track. IL
But the farm crowd sees about all
there is going. If there is good exhibit
showing what scientific agriculture does
most of them will find out about it.
Meanwhile anyone who has attended the
county fairs for period of years must
be impressed with the change in the ap-
pearance of the rural throng. No longer
is it crowd marked by rusticity OF dress
and manner.
1t appearance it will compare favorbly
with the crowd on most city streets.
There is genuineness about their faces
that tells of lives of serious purpose. The
abundance of automobiles and the ex-
hibits of handsome and costly live stock
are signs of material prosperity. Country
life rs fast coming up.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-09-12
BACKING UP THE SCHOOLS

The season for the opening of the
schools is a good time to remind the peo-
pie that the success of our education de-
ponds on public sentiment. Costly facil-
tiles help somewhat, but they can do lit
tie if the pupils are Indifferent. Good
teachers are more essential than any co.
uipment, but there must be the willing
spirit and enthusiasm on the part of the
children. - III ~
, If the teacher feels it necessary to find
fault with pupil, the teacher is usually
right and is doing it for the child's sake.
If child is corrected, some parents
will take the part Of the child, will en-
courage him to think he was right, and
support him in his INSTRUMENTATION.
There is little chance Of getting good dis
cipline where, the parents take this atti-
tude. ~A~mwx NMU
If a child is failing to make good in
any line; parents may well consult with
the teacher and try to find what the
trouble is. Teachers have so many pupils
to handle that individual needs are some
times overlooked. A conscientious teach
err has the welfare of every pupil at heart
and is glad to talk with the parents about
the progress the child is making. If there
is failure to advance, all that is wanted
is often sharp home reminder to the
child that he must do better work.
It is very easy to start neighborhood
row over school matters by injudicious
fault finding. Teachers frequently find
their work hampered by conflicts with
parents who think they have a griev-
ance. Such difficulties work on the
nerves of the teacher, and aggravate
trouble in the school. But where home
sentiment is such that teacher feels
she is backed up, she is able to throw her
whole enthusiasm into the work and sh-
gets results.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-09-12
TEACHING HATE

Orr people have no conception OF the
wav in which ideas of hate have been
systematically instilled into the German
people. It begins in early childhood.
Here is a copy of a song sung daily
in the German schools:
cover there in the cowardly trenches
lies the enemy. We attack him, and on
" dog will say that pardon should be
given today. Strike dead everything
which prays for mercy. Shoot every
thing down like dogs. More enemies,
more enemies be your prayer in TINS
hour of retribution."
T. What can you expect of a nation
taught from infancy to feel these pas
sions of animosity?
The German government for many
years propagated the idea that other
nations were Jealous or Germany and
likely to attack her any time. The Ger
man mind before the war was obsessed
with this monomania. So when the
longed for day of attack came, the Ger
man people had reached the point where
they easily swallowed the lie that they
were attacked.
Thus the German government has
filled up it's people with an insane delu-
sion. Today they believe that the other
nations set upon them, or at least were
just about ready to spring on them, when
they forestalled attack by invading Bel
gium, France and Russia.
German clergymen, college professors,
teachers and editors have had to help
spread these crazy ideas, or they could
never attain any promotion. All sonrc-
es Of information are controlled. While
contrary opinions are not always sup
pressed, yet it is so dangerous to express
them that few people dare. to do it. New
er before in the history of the world has
there been such system for spreading
lies and disseminating the worst pas
sions.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-09-12
Portland Man
Gains "a Pounds

when I started taking Tanlac I
was so weak I could hardly do any
thing at all, and It has not only al
most made new man of me, but I
have gained twenty-four pounds be-
Sides" said Charles E. Shaffer. an
employe Of the Grant Smith Porter
Ship Building company. living at
sos West Charleston street, Port
land, Ore, the other day.
"a little over q year ago." he
continued, II suffered from a bad
case Of la grippe that pulled me
down till I was hardly ut for a
thing. I lost my appetite and what
little managed to force down
soured on my. stomach and felt as
hard a. slump Of lead in me, and
= m Risrs6is nlskt and day. Then
RsvsrA weeks ago ! had an awful
attack Of tonsilitis that had me SO
bad couldn't swallow a bit Of
nourishment for ten days. and 1t
came near putting me out Of bust
ness. felt tired and wornout all
the time and lost every spark Of en-
ergy ever had. When l. went to
bed would roll and toss 80 much
that never got good nights sleep
in fact I haven't been able to sleep
much in the last three Of four years
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-09-12
Be Ready for Bigger Job.

Show by what's In you that you IRE
In a place too small for your talents
and the way will open for your nd.
vance, says the Pennsylvania Grit. It
doesn't pay to keep ten dollar man
doing three dollar Job. But you must
make the boss see that you are worth
trusting with more important things
before he dare take risk with YOU.
Besides the fellow that's always look
Ing around can't give the proper at
tention to the task he's ut. II he gets
real busy with his present job he will
be more likely to see opportunity
when It comes and he Is certainly bet.
ter cited to grasp 1t by the forelock.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-09-12

and I always got up In the mornings
feeling just a. bad as when went
to bed. lost considerable In weight
and got so weak and rundown that
at last I just had to quit working
altogether.
II read so much about the good
Taslac was doing others that I de-
cided to try bottle. I began to
pick up right smartly from the very
first, and in little while had my
appetite back and was eating and
enjoying my meals, and everything
now agrees with me. get as hum
cry as abear in three hours after
eating a hearty breakfast and my
food is building me ep something
wonderful. sleep ike log all
night and get up In the mornings
~. .t3't $50 a
feeling Just fine and dandy. am
fast getting back my old time en-
ergy and have already got num-
Der Of my friends started ON Tanlac
and expect to keep on boosting IT,"
Tanlac Is sold IN logan BY
the City Drug Co.: in wellsville. BY
wellsville Drug Co.: IN smithfield BY
Ritter Bros. Drug Co.; in Hyrum By
Hyrum Drug Co.: IN Richmond By
A. A. Thomas. and in Lewiston By
Lewiston Drug Co. Advt.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-09-12
WAR PROBLEMS EDUCATING THE
SOLDIERS

One of the big problems of the war was
opened up for public discussion with the
announcement that the government will
undertake to give some further educa-
ton to young men who will be called to
army service under the now man power
bill. Young men who had expected to go
go to school or college this fall are told
by the War department to do so, and
their education until they are called to
the camps will be paid for at government
expense.
1t is manifest that if all the young men
IL to II years of age should set out that
they were going to college this fall at
government expense, the colleges would
not have teachers enough to instruct
them or buildings enough for them to
live in.
This may not be a practical question
this fall. Only those who have been pre-
pairing for college would be able to pass
college examinations. But if the war
should continue few years great num-
Der of boys, on being promised one or
two years of college education at govern
expense, would take college preparatory
courses, so that they would completely
swamp the facilities of these colleges.
Yet it the government cleans the young
men out of the colleges and puts them
into the training camps, the country will
suffer for years from the lack of trained
men. Something must be done at least
to get scientifically trained experts who
can handle production and military pro-
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blemS.
1t would be fine and generous ideal
if the government could enlarge its pub
lie school system so as to supply the
higher technical and literary training.
But the cost would be so enormous that
it is not likely to be done during this gen.
Grafton. But it will be strange if this
experiment does not result in some
scheme to make scientific and technical
education more easily accessible to boys
who are not able to afford it.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-09-12
Strongest Wood.

Lakewood Is said to be the strong.
est wood known; its tensile strength
per square inch is $4,000 pounds THAT
Is to say, that weight Is reQuired to
tear asunder riece Of It one inch
square.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-09-12
oreksrlt.

oreksrit. =.
orckerit is natural mining wax.
found originally oozlng In small guam
titles from rocks of the coal forma.
ton. It has been discovered in Mol
davia and Galicia. and Is used chiefly
In candle-making. resl