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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-01-08

REACHING THE LIMIT

Copper lead and zinc, which make up the bulk
OF the great western metal industry have been strug
Cling for their existence for two with time
wages and overhead expense and peace time prices.
European buyers who were formerly heavy
sumers have been unable to purchase due to
change conditions. The mines have made a heroic
effort to keep up operations and maintain wages and
ms last resort copper producers attempting to
stimulate consumption by introducing copper. the
erlasting metal, into general in home uten-
sils, roofoing window frames and sash. automobile
trimmings and for many other commercial purposes
where permanency is desirable.
n n n frI SiSa,
81 HOLDS UP BUILDING PROGRESS
The president of the New York Building Trades
Council is under indictment for extorting $1,000 a
floor from contractors by threatening to call strikes
On $4,000 900 OF contracts vestigation shows
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
THE LEAvENWORTH ECHO

the lowered rates Of transportation
via the Panama Canal gives reader
access to all markets than ever be-
fore. Furthermore, there is probably
no section of the United States so
favored by climate and soil for grow
ing wheat as the great wheat regions
of the Pacific Northwest.
The wheat growers of the Palouse
and Big Bend regions who can hold
on and stick to raising wheat for The
next five years should be much better
off financially, than their brothers of
the Central States growing corn AMI
live stock.
81. S. D. A. Bulletin 900, just off
the press, a copy Of which may be
obtained by writing the College al
Pullman.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
NEARLY $4,000 MILES OF
GOOD ROADS BUILT IN 1921

Road building has recovered from
the setback received during the war,
end prospects are bright for the flu
ture. approximately $4,000 miles Of
road have been constructed during the
present season by the states in con-
junction with Federal aid, according
to the Bureau of Public Roads, Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture,
and probably an equal amount indie
pendent of Federal aid. More miles
of improved road have been built than
during any other year
Costs of road grading and construc-
ton with local materials is down prac-
tically to the 1914 level. Some reduc-
tons, also, have been made in freight
rates on road materials The import
ance of this item is shown by the fact
that in some cases it has been esti-
mated that increased freight rates
have added 10 per cent to the cost of
road. Prices of manufactured road
materials tenl downward; the present
level is materially lower than that Of
a year ago.
With the new appreciation by Con-
gress Of $75,00,000, added impetus
will be given new road construction
Many of the states are considering
enlarged amounts of state aid, and
the rev law will have a tendency to
encourage this policy 1t will also Sc
cure the construction of system Of
interstate and irtercounty highways,
rather than haphazard selection Of
roads as in some cases in the past.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
Collection Drive Planned.

The Department of Labor and In
dustries will conduct collection
drive" during tie first week in De-
cember. Every available employe
will be used TO enforce payment of
overdue fees for the insurance and
medical aid divisions of the depart
ment.
When Director Clifford completed a
check of the departments he inherit
ed under the administrative code, he
found hundreds of delinquent &C
counts, many running back to the
first organization of the Industrial
Insurance Commission. These I'M
paid accounts not only obliged indus
tries which paid their fees promptly
to carry the insurance burdens of tn :
dclinquents, but Mr.. Clifford figured
they also represented a class of en-
ployers who defed the state laws for
protection of employees and payment
for injuries. A big percentage of out
standing accounts has been collected
but by Jan Director Clifford insists
the books must be balanced with all
delinquencies wiped out Thereafter
by better cooperation among employ
ers. employees and the Department OF
Labor and Industries it is hoped to
reduce insurance and medical aid
costs materially.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
STATE ADMINISTRATION NOTES

OF the 1879 veterans of the worl |
war whose applications for bonus have
been held up by the Supreme Coult
decision in the Macmillan case that
those who were in service prior to
April 6, 1917, cannot be paid, only
112 were members of the Second
Washington, which was called out on
March 27, 1917, and afterward went
overseas as the 16lst Twenty-one
other National Guardsmen, residing
in Washington, but called back to
their former homes to serve with old
regiments and one Guardsman whose
regiment is not clearly determined,
also have their claims pending. The
q served as follows: Idaho, II;
Montana, 5; Wisconsin, Oregon, .
each; South Dakota, l.
Others whose claims are held up b.
the decision served as follows: U. S.
Army: regulars 465, retired 7, reserve
9; L. S. Navy: regulars 1856, fleet re-
serve 9, retired 9; L. S. Coast Guard
55; U. S. Marine Corps: active o., re-
tired 3; Canadian army, IA; Italian
/; French I; Army Nurse Corps 4;
L. S. Naval reserve 3.
When the Maximilian case is re-
argued Dec. 9, a special plea will be
made to have the Court modify its de-
cision so as to avoid CHASING National
Guardsmen and Coast Guardsmen a.
professional soldiers because they en-
tered the ervice prior to April 6, when
war was declared. Attorney General
l.. L. Thompson and the lawyers as
ISOLATED with him will try to have
tho Court withdraw its first ruling al
together, but in the event that fails
the next legislature will be asked to
pay the bonuses held up.
There are still approximately A.
600 unpaid claims for bonuses pend
ing in Auditor C.. ". Clausen's office
because these claimants will not re-
ply to letters SCI, out by Chief
Clerk Paul r. Ha gelbarger asking
them to supply information nissng
in their first oppli>ations American
Legion posts an the public generally
is asked to urge those having claims
pending to writ, TO the department at
once.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
Expediting Federal Aid.

Greater expedition in handling
Washington's requests for approval of
federal aid road projects will be asked
of Thomas II. Macdonald director of
the L. S. Bureau of Roads, when
Highway Supervisor James Allen and
members of the state highway com
mittee confer with him in Omaha this
week. Mr.. Allen took with him copies
of the new highway map showing
Washington's roads that will be listed
by the Bureau of Roads as primary
or interstate, and Secondary" or in
ter-county. With this map approved;
Mr. Allen will urge that F. c. Purcell,
L. s. Bureau of Roads district engi-
neer at Portland be allowed to ap-
prove applications for federal aid and
let work proceed instead of waiting
for applications to run the gauntlet Of
red tape at Washington where the
district engineers accommodations
are approved anyway.
This state also wants to know who
will handle the money to be spent by
the federal government on highways
adjacent to forest reserves. This
fund does not have to be matched by
either state or county moneys and will
amount to S719.S70 before the end Of
the present biennium. The state MAJ
urally desires to have the money
spent where il will best further the
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
THE FUTURE PRICE OF WHEAT.

Crops. Wash. State ColIerel.

Crops, Wash. State College,.
DR.. G. f. Warren, head of the de.
partment of Agricultural Economics
and Farm Management at Cornell
University, has recently written Il
seventy-two page bulletin on "Prices
of Farm Products in the United
States" in which he makes the state
ment; "Until Russia again becomes
an exporting nation the outlook for
the export Of wheat and rye is APP
parently more favorable than for most
other farm products" He also shows
that wheat at the present time is
much below the average index whole
sale price of all commodities.
These two statements should give
the wheat producer of the northwest
a ray of hope for the future, and en-
courage him to raise wheat if he is
going to stay in the farming game.
With a favorable foreign market a
surplus is not likely to accumulate in
this country, and for that reason
wheat should maintain a somewhat
higher price level than other farm
products
DR.. Warren shows that the price 70
the producer of practically all farm
products is now correspondingly 50
per cent lower than the average
wholesale price of the things he has
to buy. It is therefore inevitable thai
either the things the farmer has to
sell will bring a better price. or the
things he has to buy will cost less in
the near future.
Another reason for optimism on the
part of the wheat growers of the
northwest, in particular, is the sell
ing power of the wheat growers as
sociation. This association controls
enough wheat to be able to fill the
huge orders from the orient, and can
often get higher price than loctl
quotations. The cost of handling in
large quantities is somewhat less an |
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
Hart Aids War on Dope Pcddlers.

Seattle-Gov. Louis +. Hart, in q
formal statement opening the confer
ence of law enforcement officers in
Seattle Saturday which met to plan
a united campaign against "dope"
peddlers, asked that public sentiment
be aroused to aid officials in protect
ing the people against further sprea |
of this insidious traffic. He said:
"My interest in this matter tran
scends any mere personal feeling and
rests primarily on the desire of a
public official to protect society from
the deadly effects of growing vice
which debauches the victim, body and
soul, undermines the moral fibre and
destroys economic efficiency. | have
called this conference of public oiTic-
ials in the hope that by cooperation
and the co-ordinating of all prescott
ing agencies, perhaps aided by an
aroused public sentiment, something
might be done to lessen the evil.
Good people in general, prone t.
all the weaknesses of human kind, vet
living honest, decent, moral lives, ig.
norant of the growth of this evil anil
unconscious of its proximity, enjoy
ing a false security, reluctantly be
leve it necessary to discuss the que =
ton at all. But the prosecuting of
ficers of our cities and towns, the po-
lice, the civil authorities, national,
state and local, and the associations
and agencies for the promotion of
public know only too well that the
menace in the United States of habit
forming drugs has gone beyond all
question of doubt and has become an
ascertained fact, on the basis of
which we must seek the means of
protecting our people against this in
sidious vice"
Thomas p. Revelle, newly appoint
ed U. S. District Attorney for West
ern Washington, who presided, declar-
ed the slogan of law enforcement of
ficers must be: "the dope pcddler
must GO" The meeting brought pub
lie officials closer together in the
fight and resulted in resolutions ask
ing for further restrictive LEGISLATION
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
SEED LOANS TO FARMERS IN
NORTHWEST BEING REPAID.

In face of another unfavorable
crop year the farmers of the North
west are gradually repaying the
Government the loans for seed aJ-
vanced them early this year as an
emergency measure made necessary
by three years Of total or partial crop
failure in drought-strick areas.
Total collections up to November -
amounted to $2S6,000, according to re-
turns reported by representatives Of
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture, who are handling the work
at the temporary field office estab-
lished for the purpose at Grand
Forks, n. Oak
About $4,000 farmers received
Government aid in the form of loans
from the S2,000000 made available by
Congress for their relief. As result
of three success sive bad crop years f.
Eancial conditions among the farmers
in the stricken regions have been very
serious; many of them had exhausted
their credit and were unable to pur-
chase seed for planting crops this
year. The Federal Government came
to their relief with a credit of 50,
100000 to be applied by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Within 20 days after the passage
of the act the department had per
fected an organization and began to
make loans to the farmers. In return
the farmers gave promissory note
on crops to be grown from the seed
payable November l. Early in o.
tober, repayments began coming in
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09

interests of the highway system as
approved by the legislature.
Discrimination against Washington
grades and curves has been explained
The state road policy is against heav-
Ter than 3 per cent grades of worse
than ,000-foot radius on curves. Bur
other states have not been held to
these rules and if an emergency
arises the Washington highway com
mittee wishes to know whether it, too.
can stretch point.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09

Heretofore reports of the employ
ment Of each new apprentice were re
quired. In the future Mrs. Delphne
johnson, supervise Of women in in
dustry will have complete control Of
working conditions and salary schei-
ules. She will require sworn state
ments at stated intervals showing
the number of apprentices employed
and salaries paid win enforce new
apprenticeship wage schedule base
on the class of work done but all de
signed to lead within a short time to
qualifying the women fer the 1920
minimum.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09

and the work of collecting the loans
has gone steadily forward since, in
spite of the fact that the farmers are
in but little better position now than
they were last year. The crops have
been only fair this year, with partial
failures in many places, and as re-
suit the borrowers are in financial
straits again.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
Spruce Road to he Sold.

Secretary of War ]. w. Weeks has
informed State Treasurer C. L. Bah
cock that, following an unsuccessful
effort to sell the spruce road built
during the war from Joyce, around
Lake Crescent to Lake Pleasant in
Clallam county, at auction efforts are
being made to dispose of it at private
sale at a minimum price of Sl,0O0,OO0
for the road and $4,000 for the saw
mill. The states request that the
road be made a common carrier vii
be insisted upon, Mr.. Weeks says.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09

The meeting of the Association o
State Highway Officials to be held IN
Omaha, Nebr., December to ~, will
be devoted largely to the discussion of
ways and means of complying with
the new law and getting construction
under way.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
AVOIDING USELESS REPORTS.

Beside establishing the new mini
mum of $13.20 per week for expert
enced women workers in industrial
plants the Department of Labor and
Industries has evolved a plan that will
do away with irksome detail work
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-12-09
Republicans in Office.

Seattle.-With Luther Weedin sue
ceeding Henry NJ. White as commits.
soner of immigration last week and
f. B. Benn succeeding John NJ. BOYLE
as U. S. Marsahl for Western Was
ington Dec. !, the more important
federal offices in this state are file
by Republicans. That the new Of.
ficials came in facing a rush of inn
poltant duties is indicated by the fact
that Mr.. Weedin is directed to inves-
tigate charges of Chinese smuggling;
Burns Poe, new collector of internal
revenue, will have to enforce the new
revenu bill just approval by President
Warren G. Harding; l.. C. Jesseph
who is in charge of the work of tho
Veterans Bureau for this state, is un-
tangling the mess into which various
forms of veterans relief had fallen;
NJ. T. Harrison, collector of customs,
and Roy c. Lyle, prohibition director,
arc strengthening the guard along
teh international boundry against
liquor and drug smuggling and when
T. p. Revelle, L. S. District Attorney
for Western Washington, came into
office he found 300 criminal and 100
civil cases had been left him to handle
and grand jury awaiting his leader
ship.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-09-08
"The LOcusts of Egypt"

Z "No, 1 do not share the view of
some of our farmers that we are in
fcI two or more years of trouble un-
der boil weevil conditions" remark
ed Mr.. r. S. Moore Of Fork. "On the
other hand 1 believe>we are entering
upon the greatest era of prosperity
the south has ever known. For the
past fifty years we have been work
ing our children and raising more
cotton than the world could consume.
We made more cotton than we could
gather and lots of it was unspinable
and helped to drive the price down.
We held cotton meetings and it was
pointed out and proven to us that we
were planting more cotton than the
world needed but the advice we got
was like pouring water on a duck s
back Now providence has intervened
and shown us the error of our ways.
Heavy rains, excessive temperatures
and the boil weevil have forced us to
do something we should have done
long ago and now the certainty of a
short crop has run the price of cotton
up to living price. The whole sit
uation was summed up by a Baptist
preacher who was at my home a few
days ago. WELL enquired the preach
ell, have you got many boil weevils?'
1 told him I had my share. Don't
worry advised the preacher; "the
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-09-08

boil weevil is going to do for the
south what the locust did for Egypt
lift it out of bondage was i'm
pressed by what the preacher said,
and l verify believe that the coming
of the boil weevil is going to prove
to be one OF the greatest blessings
we have ever had. We can plant four
or five acres of cotton to the plow
and make a good crop by keeping the
weevils off the cotton and put the
balance of our lands in foodstuffs we
have been buying in the west. The
saving in fertilizers alone will amount
to a big sum and what cotton we
make will be of good grade. No, 1
am not losing any sleep over the COM
ing Of the boil weevil. 1t will yet
make the south one of the greatest
countries on the face of the earth"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-09-08
Rained Down Boil Weevils.

In reply to the enquiry, "Are the
boil weevils doing you much harm?"
Mr.. r. Mcdaniel of the Hamer sec
tion answered in his characteristic
manner: Doing me any harm, did
you ask? They have cleaned up my
top crop and there is no telling how
much further they will go. They are
the greediest things ever saw. 1t
takes them no time to eat all the bios
SONS on stalk. The weevils didn't
raise in my section. They came from
somewhere else. Two weeks ago you
could not have found a weevil any
where in my community, but along
about 2 o'clock one evening a big
thunder cloud came up from toward
Latta and it rained down boil Wee
wills. After that rain I went out in
my field and the cotton was full Of
them-great big full grown fellows
and they were eating like they had
had long journey in the clouds and
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-09-08
Joke May Prove Serious.

Yiscount Mayeda and viscount Aoki
or Tokyo, Japan, both very prominent
members of the house of peers, were
considerably surprised, as were their
friends. when they received elaborate
mourning cards announcing their
death The cards were gotten up In
the asnai formal style employed on
such occasions, chief mourners, among
them Premier Hara, were named, and
everything was In regular shape ex-
cept Tor the fact that the persons
whose deaths were announced were en-
tirely ignorant Of their decease.
The authorities In Japan do not
tnire Joases OF this kind. however, and
after a searching Investigation 1t was
found that the perpetrators Of the
hnAx were members Of a political Or
gAnlzatl0n OF radical young men. The
Wtah was father to the thought. Sew
emf of them have been arrested and
urosecufion will proceed with all the
gravity In the world.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-09-08

the increase In the use OF milk in the
last 80 years is as great as that in the
preceding ESQ years.
The present day consumption of
milk In the United States, they say,
Is equal to about one pint per day.
That is not a great amount when 1t
Is known that 1t includes not only
the milk that is used for drinking,
but also that used in cooking. This
is a small amount compared to the
per capita consumption in some Eu-
ropean counties. IN Sweden and
Switzerland, for example, nearly 70
gallons are used by each person an
nually.
In relating the growth OF the dairy
industry in this country the depart
ment specialists say that in pioneer
days each family kept it's own cow.
The denser the population became the
more important 1t was to have a we'll
regulated and ample supply of milk
Gradually the number of cows increas-
ed. and in time dairy business grew
up in various sections. The develop
ment Of modern methods in the dis
tribution of milk, with economic and
sanitary handling. has been closely
accompanied by the larger use of this
food, they say.
Much of the milk now used in cit
les comes many miles. and recently
improved methods have made it pos
sible to ship it for long distances in
cars. At the National
Dairy Show in Chicago in 1919, milk
shipped from the Pacific Coast took
first prize in the market-milk COM
petition with the highest score ever
given in recent years to milk
= Cities have always used a smaller
of milk in proportion to the
number Of people than general farm
ing communities. There are, however,
many agricultural and non-agricultur-
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-09-08

were hungry. You needen't look sur
prised. Didn't you ever hear of Il
raining down fish? or course you
have Well. not long ago I was sit
ting On my porch during heavy rain.
All at once 1 saw something flutter-
Ing on the ground. went out there
and picked up red-fin pike inches
long. There was no other way for
that pike to get there and he fell out
of the clouds. If the clouds can pick
W red-fin pike 8 inches long and
carry him goodness knows where,
why can't they pick up bolf weevils
and scatter them over the country?
Yes sir; them boil weevils came from
down toward Latta and that big cloud
brought them over"
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-09-08
Official Cotton Figures for Past 8
Years.
Cheraw Chronicle.

Cheraw Chronicle.
1t will be of interest to some to
know the amount of cotton raised in
Chesterfield and Marlboro counties
and also the entire state so we are
giving below the official figures for
the past three years:
Cotton raised in Chesterfield coun-
ty in
191S-32.344 bales.
1919-36,391 bales.
1920-41, SIT bales.
Total for years, 110,312 bales.
Note the increase each year.
Cotton raised in Marlboro county in
1918-70,55O bales.
1919-SO,569 bales.
1920-79,793 bales
Total for years 230,912 bales.
Cotton raised in S. C. in
191S-1,5 ,581,726 bales.
1851 ,462,277 bales.
1920-1.652, ,177 bales.
Total for years 4,696,1S0.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-09-08
Runaway chip Captured.

neIleSaag their ship would fall vic
tixn TO the treacherous quicksands that
iDfest the North Carolina coast from
Hafteras to Cape Lookout, the crew
of the schooner James K. Newsom, con-
sGsting or eight men. took to the life
boats when the vessel struck the
beach.
The schooner, however, refused to
let herself be swallowed up and got
on unassisted. The party In the life
boat. soaring to make an attempt to
reach shore before daybreak, saw the
schooner get Off the shoals and start
10 sea. They set out after her, but
she was too fast A coast guard cut
Ter took part In the chase. After
playing hide and seek with ber pur-
suers for a whole day the Newsom was
captured. Only two sails were dam
aged She was towed into Norfolk.
Va