The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-08-25

photograph important points in Mex
leo from the sky.
An American pilot viii likely be
used on the flights, it is reported, but
a Mexican army observer is expected
to be in the machine at all times.
The contract will include the photo
graphing of railroad lines, harbors,
highways and UNEMPLOYED timber and
railroad lines. One of the features
Connell expects to photograph will be
the crater of Mount Popocatepetl,
long believed to be an extinct volcano,
but which the young photographer
says is enjoying a smoke"
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Hides Nearly Worthless, but Shoe
Leather Is Priceless
Man is the only animal that can be
skinned more than once. See what
becomes of his hides!
Garland Morris of Virginia sent a
fourteen pound hide to hide and fur
establishment in Richmond, was al
lowed four cents pound for it, total
fifty-six cents. From this amount
forty cents was deducted for express
and the remaining sixteen cents was
forwarded to him in postage stamps.
Sixteen cents for skihning the animal,
packing and shipping the hide.
w. A. Sewright of South Dakota,
shipped a ffty-pound hide to hide
buying firm in Omaha, was paid six
cents pound on thirty-four pounds,
total $2.O4. There was deducted for
freight and carriage the sum Of 81,
leaving him four cents as the net
amount for his hide and labor.
H. NJ. Scott of North Dakota, ship
ped a cowhide to Minot, North Dako-
ia, and after the freight charges were
deducted, he received a net return of
three cents.
]. w. Patton of Missouri, sold a
hide at five cents a pound. The hide
weighed forty-six pounds and brought
$3.50 On the same day Mr. Patton
had his shoes half-soled, the leather
weighing perhaps a pound, and paid
S1.40 for the job.
But C. D. Helms of North Dakota
deserves the prize. He sent a thirty
one pound hide to the WATERFOWL
cents a pounnd for the hide but the
freight charges were $2.O9 and the
hide company sent Mr.. Helms a bill
for eighty-five cents for sending them
the hide And let's see, how much
are shoes now?
In the year 1919 the profits of a
large hide and fur company were 265
higher than those of 1914. The &C
cumulated profits of another large
leather company werek over seven
million dollars in 1914 and in 1919
/ they rose to more than thirty million.
! A large shoe factory in York state
/ made over two million dollars profit
in 1915 while the profits in 1919 rose
/ to more than nine million dollars. And
they say the high cost of shoes and
other wearing apparel is due to high
labor.
There are many other instances
which might be cited where a small
piece of leather like a tractor fan belt
cost more than a whole cowhide, but
what can be done? It's a skin game
and since the farmer is helpless as an
individual it should give him more de-
termination to stand by and back OF
his bona ide farmer organizations
which are trying to alleviate his suf-
ferings-for mental pangs they sure
ly are.-W. L. Letter, Seneca, o. in
Ohio Farmer.
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4 Nikolai Lenine, Russian soviet
premier, predicts a famine in that
country that bids fair to approach
that of 1891 in severity. This pro-
phecy was made in a relief appeal
telegraphed to the Socialist news.
paper Humanite of Paris. Lenine asks
the workers and agriculturists OF
other countries to come to the aid OF
Russia as ready means of aiding the
soviet republic.
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Twenty thousand employees of the
Interborough and Brooklyn Rapid
Transi companies in New York City
have voluntarily accepted wage re
auctions of ten per cent, saving these
systems nearly $5,OOO,OOO in annua
operating expenses.
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Governor Len Small of Illinois wa!