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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11
SENATOR AND SOLDIER
A Present-Dsy Episode Of Historic
Valley Forse-The Vast Work OF
Rebuilding Our Forests--strlkes
and Their Costs In the State
BY GEORGE NOx MCCAIN
FORGE was the background

'NALBEY FORGE was the background.
Automobiles were parked along the drive
way leading to the residence of former
Secretary of State.
A distinguished company was waiting to
visit a neighboring residence.
One Of the number, an officer wearing the
star of a general, attached to the encourage
of great official, approached distinguished
senior Senator with the query:
Senator, have you any objection to my
riding over to Mr.. KS in your autoT'
Not in the least" was the reply.
The autos began moving off, the senior
Senator clambered aboard and, turning to
the hesitant star wearer, cried, ignoring
rank and punctlio:
Come on, Doc we're ready W
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. Poland was formerly parttioned between
Austria. Russia and Prussia.
.. The giant steamship Titanic struck an
iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage
in 1912.
3. Kansas has established a Special Court
of Industrial Relations.
4. Daniel Defoe wrote The History Of Mol
Flanders"
8. Cinnabar is red mercurial sulphide; yer.
million.
6. The Pacific Ocean was sometimes known
as the South Sea during the early days
of discovery.
Z. The first name of Rodn, the famous
French sculptor, was Augustc.
3. a gobemouche Is credulous news
monger. The word is from the French
''gobe-mouches," meaning fy-catcher.
Q. The Secretary of State receives $l2, 900
year
10. A wombat Is an Australian animal, a
marsupial, and about the size Of a
badger
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

The owner Of Playfelow, younger
brother Of Man o War has refused an offer
Of 100000 for him. The strain of refusing
an offer of that kind would give most of us
nervous prostratiOn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

Ever and anon as the world continues
to scrap. remarked DCmosthencs McGinnis
thoughtful men see cause for cOngratulati0n
in the fact that China is peaceful as well
as big.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

"ThCrc is no difficulty in raising
money" remarked Senator Penrose. Boy,
page the Republican National Committee
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

The presumption is that some Of the
mirrors that 'retlect the Presidents views
have flaws in them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

Chicago physician says salt causes can
cor Take it with grain Of salt, say some
of his Confrercs.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11
What Do You Kno,v?
QUIZ

l. Who was Drago and what was the doc.
trine which he enunciated?
.. What Is tarragon?
3. What Is a testatrix?
4. Who was the first of the six wives Of
King Henry VIII of England?
8. Name two novels by Thomas Hardy.
s. What is the basis of oil cloth?
7. What is the freezing point Of sea water?
8. What kind of an animal is a kiwi?
9. What Is the capital of Maine?
10. Who was Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

One wonders how big club he holds
when Brickcr back seems 80 confident that
big men will back BriCkcr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

The trouble with L. G.. Us British
thermal unit appears to be that it has not
yet received its naturalization papers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

Rotary having indorsed the one niece
bathing suit, the rest of the world may be
expected to come round.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

Any tax assessor can give cxncrt in
formation on how values shrink
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

One good thing that will come out of
the Dempsey Carpenter fight is the war tax
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

One gathers that Carpenter would have
little show in the big fight If the cartoonists
were referees
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

We'll, remarked the Average Man as he
read the bridge report, if the engineers are
satisfied ] am.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

Public abuses of park privileges sug.
gest new field of endcavor for Boy and
Girl Scouts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

The Tobacco Store Indians appear to be
on the warpath in Utah.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

he fearsome cry,
Cheer Up; the Worst Tobacco Next" is
Is Yet to Come always accompanied
by the disclaimer,
There S nothing to it, But Utah has now
IN anti cigarette law. and it was in just
such a way that John Barleycorn got his
first bump. And it is an awful thing to
realize that prohibition of tobacco would be
much more easily enforced than prohibition
of alcohol Tobacco cant be grown in a
cellar. And yiolators could not avoid show
ing their smoke.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

Most of the punch of a crisis is in its
advance notice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

As THE big car rolled away the army
N official who is slender and a trifle un-
dersized, turned n pair of merry, bespecta- :
cled eyes upward to the big man at his side
and said:
Senator, you didn't know you were sit
ting beside a soldier, did you?"
Huh " was the monosyllabic reply.
It was warm outside but very chilly in
the auto about that time.
Then, for the purposes of conversation,
the general. who knows nothing Of Pennsyl-
vania politics and its intricate convolutions,
spoke up.
II suppose you're acquainted with Secre-
tary Mellon?"
Huh Known him for thirty years
And then deep silence ensued to the end
of the brief journey.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

TNHE stubbornness-or perhaps it might be
i. termed reuctance-to consider terms of
settlement is shown in Mr. Tracey's state
ment that of the 555 strikes declared, the
Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration of
which he is the head, cndcavored without
success to settle 43G of them.
Only eighty of this total were officially
called off by the union. the remainder grad
ualy dying out or being lost or still pending
In only twenty nine of them were condi-
tions Of employment the cause of the strike
The greatest number of these industrial
disturbances arose over the matter of wages
Ten per cent were called directly over
the issue Of the union or non union.
Men involved in these strikes lost total
of 3, ,12S,201 hours. and women 81 100
1t is an appalling showing that Mr.. Tracey
makes.
1t is tremendous argument for advancing
the dawn of day of industrial peace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

Why does the bark
Add Edison of q sea dog mean
QUESTIONABLE stormy weather? Whv
should the language
of rear admiral affront? How much lati-
tude is permitted Jack ashore?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

Nov and then the more intimate and in
~ teresting things in our new forestry
system get to the surface
1t takes 1900 young trees, seedlings, to
reforest single devastated acre in the waste
lands of Pennsylvania
There are something like 10000 acres Of
this desonte terrain TO be rcforcsted. 1t
will require 15,000,00 trees for the pur-
pose.
White pine, black locust. hemlock, oak,
black walnut. ash and mane will be used.
tion. tells Of hundreds of bushels of these
seeds, acorns and nuts that have been col
lected for this purpose.
OF pine. spruce and arch seed alone about
700 pounds have been available.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

w the State Bureau of Mediation and Ar
bitration. says that last year saw the great
est number of strikes in the history of the
Commonwealth.
There was total of 5jj strikes. although
this is not within 100 of what there would
have been had they not been averted.
1t IS unfortunate for Philadelphia. bur
nearly one half of all the strikes in the State
took place right here in Philadelphia.
There were 275 of them.
The loss in wages to the city amounted to
S4.S77,2S1
Not all the loss is shown in the above
dismal array Of figures.
Suffering, loss of home comforts. the in
evitable assaults and legal difficulties are
things that cannot be estimated by any
standard Of arithmetic
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

TOLONEL FRED REYNOLDS, of Belle
~ font, is the boss matchmaker of Penn
sylvania.
Not the matrimonial brand, however. al
though he buys and handles enough sulphur
to supply, | fancy. the mismated misery Of
all the divorce courts of the sixty seven
counties.
He is the head of one Of the States big
gest match corporations. The kind the
English call "lucifcrs'
Just to indicate how extensive this match
business is, Pennsylvania alone manufac-
tured enough of them last year to light
10 ,041 ,000, 900 cigars and cigarettes.
There are just 275 workmen and women
engaged in this industry, and these people
made, each one of them. "a, 100000 apiece.
Capital invested in the manufacture of
matches in this State is slightly in excess of
$1,000, 900, and the production last year
was valued at approximately 81 100000
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11

institution set upon hill. Those interested
IN the physical care and upbringing of chill
dren, whether in private homes or institu-
IONS, and those who are engaged in educa-
tloh' nave right to expect some suggestions
from an institution so fortunately circum-
stanCCd as is Girnrd Collece
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01
RUSK COUNTY PLAN
is misunderstood

The 'Rusk County Plan" means the
finished acre" eventually, and those
who say it does not, have not been
rightly informed,
Stamping is as important as Brush
ing. logging, burning, leveling and
seeding and it has its place at the end
Of the plan where It belongs.
Others say that the plan is not suit
ed foT the average conditions, but is
only adaptable to easily cleared land
where the stumps have no tap roots or
deep-growing roots, and are only a
few to the acre. We are sorry to be
so badly misquOted. not by farmers
who are actually clearing land, as
many Of them agree with us, but by
men who are in other occupations, and
have their own ideas about how the
other fellows should clear land.
One man told us that farmers in
other counties were told that the Rusll
County Plan advocated farming among
stumpS. If anyone can bring us 4
clipping from any paper we have writ
ten for. which says we ever advocated
farming among stumps we would like
to see it. We did say to grow grass
among the stumps, and take them ont
later when the cream checks would
pay for the dynamite required to blow
them OUT, or if one preferred to use a
stump puller or other method. 1t made
no difference to uS-We consider blast
ing does the ground good, but we will
not blast any stllmps that we can burn
out so that the roots can be pulled
with a team.
We have often said that the condi-
tons on all farms were different, yet
they are a good deal alike, and a
farmer should follow the plan as far
as practical for his farm.
Another man said that to brush
$4,000 acres or 1917 acres to the farm
in RuSk county was too much and that
the brush would grow up again Ev-
cry farmer will not brush that much
and some will let the brush grow up
again. This cannot be helped as there
are shiftless men i'll ali walks of life.
When done on the Rusk County Plan
the land is brushed, logged leveled and
seeded and the hay is moved in the
haying season and all new growth Of
brush is cut out with the hay. Is ten
or fifteen acres of this kind Of hay
more than you can cut and care for?
If it is. then brush less-but it's bet
ter to do it. as you need the hay
All brush and trees that the settler
cuts should be cut close to the ground,
so they can be moved over. The
hardwood will rot in a few years when
they can easily be taken out. Pine
stumps are slow to rot and if they
cannot be burned out pr0fitably it is
better to blast them as soon as you
can do it.
The Rusk County Plan has been in
use for twenty-five years by old set
tiers who have succeeded
NJ O. EMMONS,
ADV. Mgr. Rusk County
Land Development Ass0-
citation.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01
TUBERCULOSIS
FARMERS LOSS
Largely An Economic Matter
Which Farmer Should
Consider

The public health can be protected
through the pasteurization of milk, but
the only way to protect the breeder
from heavy losses is through the elm
ination of tuberculOus herd of cattle,
for he is the one who SustainS the loss.
He SuStainS it in the extra feed he
must give to animals suffering from
this disease to keep them in first class
condition; he SuStains it in the loss
of animals upon his own farm; he
sustains it in the cattle sent to the
tanker unfit for human food; he sus-
tains it in the loss of hogs sent to the
tanker The packing interests do not
sustain this loss, but the farmer who
sells his cattle and hogs to them is the
loser. tuberculosis, to large extent.
is an economic question and the soon
er breeders and dairy farmers apprc-
ciate this, the sooner will they desire
to eliminate this loss.
There is no opportunity for tuber-
culin to convey tubercular germs to
animals. Tuberculin, or rather tuber-
cular bacteria from which it is pre-
pared is heated to temperature
which destroys all tubercular germs.
1t is then filtered and preserved in
carOolic acid in which no germ could
possibly live. There is no possible
infect an animal. If the animal is not
infected with tuberculosis. the tuber-
culin can cause no harm.
Herds May Be Kept Free
The tuberculin test is not 100 per
cent accurate 1t is not infalllble.
However we know from our own eX-
perience that through the careful APP
plicatiOn of the tuberculin test herd
NAV be kept free from tuberculosis.
For twenty years Hoard's Dairyman
herd was tested without a reactor. y
wear ago we found One which was
promptly eliminated. The herd was
tested again six months later ana
found to be clean We know that
tlberculin does not in any way injure
cattle that are free from disease. We
know also that we have saved our nerd
because we located through tuberculln.
a COW with tuberculosis
The question of tuberculosis be-
comes very largely an economic one.
The dairy farmer and the breeder VINO
keep tuberculous herds of cattle are
the ones to suffer the most, ana IL IS
to their advantage. both financially
and from the standpoint of health,
that their herds be clean from this
disease. The application of the tuber-
culin test and the handling OF the herd
requires a knowledge of tuberculosis
or else serious and costly mistakes
will be made-Hoard's Dairyman.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01
DIRECTIONS FOR WAR.
RING ON POTATO BUGS

The war is on. The bugs were on
the job waiting for the potatoes to
come up out Of the ground and the
farmer is now on the job spraying ia
kill the bugs. The man who SPRAYS
is the one who gets results this year.
Lead arsenate (hydrogen) sticks
better than any of the other poisons
and therefore, is perhaps the most
economical to use. Zine arsenate is
also very satisfactory. The precau-
ton to take OH the arsenates is to an
ply them early because they act slow
er than paris green. If you use paris
green, add a like amount aof lime or
land plaster to keep from burning.
Two pounds of any one of these is
used with fifty gallons of water. Two
times as much paste is used for its
strength is only half of that of the
powder. 1t will take six pounds to
dust an acre or two pounds and fifty
gallons OF water to spray an acre
Use Bordeaux mixture under pres
sure to spray for blight The proper
tons are four pounds of copper sui
plate or blue vitriol, four pounds of
lime and fifty gallons of water
Bordeaux is made as follows:
Dissolve blue vitriol and dilute the
% gallons (DO not use metal CON
tainer.) Lime is Stacked, diluted to
% gallons and strained. The two are
mixed by letting them run together
in a third barrel The Bordeaux is
constantly stirred while mixing. The
mixing is easiest done by putting the
barrels of blue vitriOl and lime mix
ture on platform and pulling the
plugs, to let them run together into
a third barrel.
LEO /. SCHOEPF.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01

New York, June 29.-Representing
100000 American farm boys and
girls. the Champion live stock judging
team of the United States and Canada
composed of three Texas farm boys
sailed from New York for two
months-tour of Europe and the Brit
ish Isles. The Youngsters, all under
eighteen years of age, last October de-
feated twenty states III the Interna~
ti0nal Stock Judging Contest at the
Southeastern Fair and Exposition at
Atlanta, Ca, winning by 40 points
and with d total score of 3, 40 points.
They are, John Turner, of Hillsboro
Texas; Alya Debnam, of Lamesa,
Texas; and Gilbert Weiting, of Marlin,
Texas.
Rural America will watch the over
seas trip of these boys with interest
as they are outstanding specimens of
the material from which the ranks of
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01
PAINT Up. CLEAN UP

Everyone who can afford it should
paint his home and make any other
necessary improvements.
All citizens should get busy and
cut the grass and weeds along the road
in front of their homes and in their
back yards.
A few hours spent in cleaning up
by each one of us, will do much for
the appearance of our city, and will
give people passing through, pleas
ant impression to take with them.
There is great satisfaction in a clean
yard.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01

| the farmers of the future are being
recruited. The European trip includes
visit to the Royal British Live Stock
Show at London early in July. after
which the Guernsey and Jersey Isles
will be visited by the team. Later the
agricultural and live stock regions of
France, Belgium and Holland will be
toured for purposes of obtaining first
hand essential information about Nu-
ropean farming and stock-raising
methods.
Before leaving the United States the
boys were presented to Presidnt Hard
ing and Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace. They will return early in Aug
ust via Montreal and visit Canadian
live stock and farming regions before
returning home.
The European trip was offered as
a prize to the winning team by the
South Eastern Fair. which defrays
The expenses.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01
fVER BERGSTROM TELLS
HIS PLAN OF CLEARING

liver Bergstr0m. of Glen Flora, was
in this city Monday and as he has al
ways been enthusiastic about land
trick and he gave us the following,
which very closely resembles the
"Rusk County Plan
He says he learned land clearing in
Rusk county from his father who has
been at it for the last % years. Twelve
years ago Mr.. Bergstrom, ST., after
much clearing on the old farm. start
ed clearing Oh a new forty, This land
was covered with green hardwood and
hemlock s'lch as Is general through
the Glen Flora territory.
First. he cut the under brush and
piled it to burn Then he cut out the
yaluabel timber and bolts and piled
the tops to burn. Then he cut the
cordwood and piled the tops and
burned them. Pine stumps he blasted
as soon as he could do it. He then
spring toothed any land that was open
enough to work and often seeded ruta-
hagas and followed by seeding to clio
yer and timothy.
He did this over the whole forty and
left the stumps he could not work out
and grew hay between them. He now
blasts the remaining stumps, using 50
to 100 pounds of dynamite on five
acres, plows the land up for crop and
after a crop or two seeds it down
again. The forty is cleared and has
only a few stumps left.
Mr.. Bergstrom had $40 in cash when
he landed here % years ago and is now
independent. We believe his plan is
a good one for the average new settler
to follow on green timber land.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01
IADYSMITH BECOMING
A CITY BEAUTIFUL

l.. c. Streater has just finished
painting his house. Mr.. Streater says
that more homes are being painted III
Ladysmith this summer than ever De
fore. Gradually. we are making our
city beautiful.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01
HOT IN IOWA

Mrs Vance Middleton and son.
Richard, arrived from Des Moines, Ia.
last week, Wednesday, and will spend
the summer with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. S. d. Speidel, and her brother,
Harry Speidel.
in Des Moines and reports that the
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01

weather has been so hot that they
were compelled to sit up and fan the
baby several nights until 4 o'clock in
the morning. The heat in the main
part of the city has been terrific
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01

More than $4,000 were earned last
year by the athletic department of the
university of Wisconsin-to be spent
on improving Camp Randall field and
stadium.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-07-01

An ad in the News-Budgt pays.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-03-11

The Africa and Orient Review,
South African newspaper, has started
beauty contest for dusky bellies and
already 300 entries have been received
for the competition. The editor, Mr..
Mohamed Ali, thus describes the ne
gress face: THE eyes," he said,
SHOULD have the African expression,
a soft, appealing look-an intangible
dreaminess, never seen in European
eyes. The nose should be semi-aqui-
line, slightly squat at the bridge, and
the lips somewhat thicker than those
of the average European, a charac-
teristic which l think gives solidity
to the expression. The hair should,
of course, be curly" Photographs of
the competitors will be reproduced
each month, and the readers of the
journal will be asked to vote for the
photograph they consider the most
beautiful, the lady receiving the great
est number of votes to be given $500.
The second prize is $3.50 and the third
q watch bracelet.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-03-11
JUNGLE MONARCH big GAME"
Tiger Can Always Be Relied On to
Furnish Sport for the Most Ad-
Venturous Hunter.

The tiger is one variety of game
which is in no danger of extermina-
ton. Tigers have been hunted for
centuries. They furnished sport to
the ancient Romans, both in the arena
where they faced the gladiators and
in the open field Before that, they
were the game of great Egyptian mon
archs. 1t is doubtful whether prim-
tive man was able to kill the tiger at
all.
Today tigers are comparatively easy
game for the wealthy sportsmen who
hunt them with the great double-bar-
relied English rifles carrying express
bullets. A great crowd of beaters US
ually assists at the sport, and drives
the tiger into the open, though occa-
sionally he is killed by watching at the
carcass of an animal he has killed. Oc-
casionally a tiger kills a hunter, but
not often. In India and also in Korea
many unarmed and half-naked natives
are killed by tigers ever year. In the
war between men and tigers it is hard
to say which is winning.
Tigers are found in almost all parts
of the continent of Asia, from the trop-
ical jungles of India to the almost arc
tic heights of the mountains in ST.
IBERIA and northern China.