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The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
ANTICIPATE PROS
Porous new YEAR
MERCHANTS BREATHE SIGH OF
RELIEF WITH EXPIRATION OF
OLD BUSINESS YEAR.
Period of Abnormal Profits Is Said
to Have Ended, and OId-Fashioned
Standards of Service and Prices
Must Have Recognition.

New York. - Many merchants
of the year 1920. 1t was a twelve
month of trying experience to most
of those concerned in mercantile af-
fairs. 1t witnessed the peak of prices
In number of commodities and also
the greatest declines in values in the
shortest space of time within the mem
DRY of those active in business. The
disturbances, both in the domestic and
foreign trade brought much embar-
raSsment to traders as well as to pro-
ducers. The only thing that has been
established has been that the days
of abnormal profits are gone, and that
success in the future must be depend
ent on the old-fashioned standards of
merit and service. 1t took little cap
ital and no skill to make money up
to few months ago. For long pc
Rod almost any listed stock could be
gambled in with the certainty of profit
and the same held true with about
every kind of commodity from wheat
to wool or from silk to sugar.
knowledge was not required while
the prices of everything were rising.
The fall in values has swept most of
the spectators into the ash bin of
failure and has left the way clear for
the real merchants again. This is no
tnconsiderable gain to legitimate bust
neS. In the primary markets the open
ing of the new year is marked by a
feeling of more confidence than has
been apparent for some time. It is
felt that the time is ripe for the re-
sumption of more active buying. In
quite a number of lines prices have
been cut to a point that should prove
attractive, especially as it is known
that stocks in the hands of jobbers and
retailers are very low and need re-
plenishing. During the past week
quite number of buyers have been
in this city to place orders. Most of
them represented the larger retail
stores which have felt the need of fill
ing the gaps made in stocks by the
holiday trading as well as that of pro-
viding for the reduction and other
and next more of the wholesalers and
jobbers will be in this city and their
visits will be for the purpose of buy |
ing. The extraordinary number of res
ervatfons in the hotels is the first evil |
dence of the coming invasion.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
Bandits Victim To Die,

Culver, In Russell Saline, Culver
merchant, who was shot when in a
running fight, following the robbery of
the Culver Exchange Bank by five
men, can not recover, it was said at
the hospital. Four of the bandits have
been captured and approximately all
of the $4,000 stolen has been recover
ed. Earl Willis, of La Porte County,
alleged to be the fifth member of the
bandit gang, has not been apprehend-
ed. He is said to have fired the shot
which struck Saline.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
MANY STATES PLAN
FOR TAX REFORM
ALSO SEEK NEW MEANS OF
OBTAINING INCREASED
REVENUE.
Retrenchment Budget Plans an Aboli-
ton of Needless Departments, Sub
ject OF Consideration in Various Leg
isIatures That Meet This Month.

New York.--TaX reform and new
means of obtaining revenues will take
place for discussion in at least ID
state Legislatures now about to con-
vene, judged by reports from press
correspondents forwarded here from
many state capitals.
Retrenchment, budget plans and
| abolition of needless departments will
| be next in importance in u or more
Legislatures, with questions of public
| improvements, utility corporations and
public welfare ranging in order close
| behind.
Dry law enforcement acts are con
templated in not less than five states
California, Connecticut, New York,
Ohio and South Dakota-While anti
blue laws will be fought pro and con
on the floors of the Legislatures of
New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota and Vermont. Division of
state constitutions will be undertaken
in the Pennsylvania Assembly. and in
the Colorado and New Hampshire Leg
isFature. Soldier bonus bills come up
for discussion or action in Connecticut,
Delaware, Iowa, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota and Montana. Labor legisla-
ton, including in at least one in
stance the question of Industrial
Courts, will be pushed in California,
Connecticut and Iowa.
Public welfare bills have strong
sponsors in Arkansas, Connecticut,
Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada,
North Carolina, Texas, Vermont, West
Virginia, North Dakota and Okla
hOma. These include a $75O,0O0,000
irrigation project and 5,5OO-mile pub
lie highway.
Programs of economy, involving the
consolidation or abolition of state de-
partments and budget systems, will be
considered, notably in Arkansas, Colo
RADIO, Delaware, Indiana, Kansas,
Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada,
New Mexico, Ohio and Oklahoma.
Legislators of Wisconsin and Texas
will Wrestle with radical taxation
measures, In Wisconsin the State
Division of Marketing has proposed a
tax on unused land, in effect a single |
tax. The State Tax Commission also
has recommended repeal of the per-
sonal property effect to the income !
tax as a means to obtain all needed |
funds. The Texas Legislature, which |
meets January II. will consider the
of natural resources in
with taxation reform.
Other states that are to take up the
question of tax reform are Indiana,
Iowa, Maine, Missouri, New Hamp-
shire, Nevada, New York, New Mexico,
Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, Montana
and Oklahoma 49,
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
Says Unity Is Required,

Philadelphia, PA treaty of peace
between the Allied and Associated
Powers and Germany was possible only
through the fundamental agreement
of Great Britain, France and the Uni
ted States, and it can be maintained
ers, which is an essential basis for
the worlds peace. This declaration
was made here before the Philadel-
phia Public Ledger's forum on the
peace conference by Charles H. Has
kins, chief Of the Division of Western
Europe, American Commission to Ne
gotiate Peace.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
Barracks Are Planned.

Washington. A tifty-milliOn-dollar
item for army post construction sub
mitted by the War Department and
refused by the House Appropriation
Committee in reporting out the sundry
civil supply bill, was the initial step
in a new army housing project con-
templating estimated expenditures of
more than $3O0,OO00OO over "A period
of 10 or II years. Details of the
scheme formulated by the general staff
were revealed in testimony taken by
the committee, just made public
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
Mail Sacks Looted.

New York.-Mail sacks containing
100000 in cash consigned to a firm
in Havana were ransa cked in the post
office of that city few weeks ago and
as yet the money has not been re-
covered, it was learned here. Speyer
g. Co., New York brokers, who cashed
the check of the Havana firm here and
sent the money to Cuba, said the loss
was neither theirs nor that of the
Cuban firm, but of an insurance
company. The money was sent to
Cuba by registered mail.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
mEriendIx Strikes" urued.

Boston, Mass.-Charges that repre-
sentatives of the clothing manufacture
ers in New York City had approached
Sidney Hillman, president of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers. of Amer
lea, few months ago with proposal
for combinations in that industry SINH
lar to those disclosed in the building
trust inquiry in New York, were made
by Mr.. Hillman in addressing $500
members of the organization here.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21

ngtOn.-Congress will start its
new years work with formidable
program for the 80 working days re-
naming before sine die adjournment
March 8.
Congestion, as usual, is on the Sen
ate side, House activity being concen-
trated on completion of the annual
appropriation bills, with the sundry
civil budget under debate and the
postotfice bill on the waiting list
Tariff revision is to be an important
matter before both Senate and House.
Senator Boies Penrose, of Pennsyl-
vania, Chairman of the Senate HI
nance Committee, plans to return to
the Senate after a years absence,
and, with members of his committee,
begin consideration of the emergency
tariff bill passed recently by the
House.
Hearings on general tariff revision,
planned during the extra session after
March 4, will be begun Thursday be-
fore the House Ways and Means Com
mittee, and continue indefinitely.
The Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee will conduct a special session
to consider international disarmament.
1t will take up the resolution of Sen
ator William e. Borah, Idaho, Repub-
lican, proposing request upon the
President to initiate negotiations with
Great Britain and Japan toward ali
agreement for a 80 per cent cut in
naval building for a term of years.
The committee also will consider a
resolution by Senator L. J. Walsh,
Montana, Democrat. proposing that
the President be asked to appoint an
American representative to meet with
the Disarmament Committee of the
League of Nations.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
INILl:!DN
|hs BANNER 81
W. LYE I'M

No other I've Is packed safely and con-,
veniently, or is SO economical-not bit
wasted.
No other I've or soap cleans and disinfects
so easily and thoroughly Banner Lye. It
is not old-style I've. Odorless and colorless;
the greatest cleanser and disinfectant the
world has ever known. Use it for cleaning
your kitchen, cellar sinks, dairy. milk-pa
and bottles, for softening water and the
labor of washing and cleaning will be cut in
half MAKES PURE SOAP
and saves money besides A can of Banner
Lye, ~ pounds of kitchen grease, ten min
utes' easy work (no boiling or large kettles),
and you have 10 pounds of best hard soap
or 20 gallons Of soft soap.
Banner Lye is sold by your grocer or
druggists Write to us for free booklet
sTses Of Banner I've"
The Penn Chemical Works Philadelphia UHA
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
SUGAR Profit is $50. ooo.o 900.

WashingtOn.--The Federal Sugar
Equalization Board, in the process of
liquidation, has turned $30,000,000 into
the Treasury George A. Zabriski, it's
Chairman, wrote to Senator Charles G.
McNary, of Oregon, who was Chairman
of a Senate Committee which investi-
gated the sugar situation at the last
session of Congress.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
Crime Activity Greatest In History

Washington.-Cri activity at
this time is the greatest in the history
of the secret service, according to tes-
timony of William H, Moran, chief of
the bureau, before the House of Ap-
preparations Committee. There were
more arrests last year than in any
year since 1897, he said. "At the rate
we are going this promises to be a
banner year in this respect" Mr.. Mo-
ran declared.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
CONGESTION IS
seen IN SENATE
CONGRESS PREPARES TO LAUNCH
A FIFTY TWO DAY
DRIVE,

Tariff Revision and Disarmament Two
Important Questions Up For Consid-
eration-May Initiate Negotiations
With Great Britain and Japan To-
ward Agreement on Naval Building.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
Canada's Immigration,

Montreal. = Canada received over
10000 immigrants during 1920. Of
these about $4,000 were from the Brit
ish Isles, $4,000 from the United States
and $4,000 from other countries. 1t
was the biggest years immigration
since the outbreak of war
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-01-21
Price of Standard Pipe Cut.

Youngstown, O.-Repuhlic Iron and
Steel Company announces a reduction
in price of standard pipe of 81 a ton,
to the Steel Corporation level. Aside
from pipe business, few new steel or
ders are coming into the valley, and
prospects of additional suspensions
and curtailments are likely.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-11-24

should be encouraged to put away a
much feed as possible during the da,
so that their bodies will have pIent,
to work on for all of the "a hours
A good handful of scratch grain TO
1t is not desirable that the hens b,
made to work very hrd for this feed
Be sure that the hens go to roos
with a full crop.
In making up the rationS it is ne
cessary to adhere to standards within
certain limits, but some feeds may be
substituted for others, as barley
wheat, and oats for corn. However
meat scrap and other animal-proteir
feeds a not be replaced by high.
vegetable-protein feeds. All changes
should be made gradually, as sudden
changes may decrease the egg pro-
duetion.
A great many poultrymen and live
stock feeders now believe that if the
animal has a free choice it Will select
the government farm at BelsvilIe.
Md, the following mash was made up
by keeping account of the amounts
of the different feeds a laying flock
consumed:
Samples OF Balanced Rations
Mash-16 pounds corn meal, 6b
pounds meat scrap, l pound bran, L
pound middlings.
Scratch mixture pound cracked
corn, l pound wheat, 1 pound oats.
Here is a simple ration that has
given very good results with Leg
horns, but proved too fattening for
Rocks and Wyandottes. Meat scrap,
it will be seen, makes UP over 25 per
cent of the mash:
Mash-3 pounds corn meal, and /
pound meat scrap.
Scratch MIXTURE pounds crack
ed corn, l pound oats.
For birds that are made too fat
by the preceding ration, the follow
ing, containing only Is per cent of
meat scrap but having considerable
protein in other feeds, has been
found a good one:
NASH pound corn meal, 1 pound
bran, 3-4 pound meat scrap, 1 pound
1 pound ground oats.
Scratch MIXTURE pounds crack
corn, 1 pound wheat, 1 pound
pats, l pound barley.
Poultrymen resort to every pos
'ible ean to get their hens to eat a
great deal of feed, especially in the
when the days are short. One
way is to cut the morning scratch
'eed to about half. The hungry bird
hen goes to the mash trough and
,orges on the dry mash. Then to in
.rease the consumption of mash some
II it is fed wet at noon and the hens
yill eat it when they would take no
more of it dry.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-11-24
UNITED STATES is NOW
GREATEST FUR PRODUCER

The United States in the past few
years has become the greatest fur
producing country in the world, doing
a business in furs running from $780,
100000 to 800, 900 a year and
far outstripping northern Canada,
Alaska and Siberia, long considered
supreme as fur producing centers.
Fur bearing animals abound in the
great farming districts of this coun-
try and thousands are captured each
year by trappers. While skunk and
muskrat are the most important and
most numerous of these animals
found, there are plenty of mink, rae
coon and other small members of the
furry tribe which the willy trapper
may take in the open season at a
good profit.
The season now open promises to
be the best in many years in point
of the number of animals taken and
the prices paid for raw furs. Very
little trapping was done last season.
The drop in values which came dur
ing the previous summer hit the fur
market hard, leaving an immense col
lection of high-priced furs in the
hands of the buyers.
In order to save the market from
complete ruin, this great aecumula-
ton had to be disposed of before a
large new supply reached the market,
SO buyers urged trappers to lay off
for a season until the market became
stabilized. Trappers generally heed
ed the request and the fact that furs
were not wanted and values were low
did much to further the inactivity.
The result has been a genuine scar
city of furs. The great accumula-
ton has been worked off and the
market is in a receptive condition for
large amounts of raw furs. Inter
views with leading buyers reveal that
the coming quotations on raw furs
will be very high-in fact the high
ever offered compared with con-
values in other commodi-
ties.
In the years preceding the world
war, trappers received from 20 to so
cents each for muskrat pelts and
n dollar to three dollars for
skunk pelts. Living costs then were
40 per cent lower than they are to-
day and wages show about the same
difference. BY comparing these con-
ditions with prices prevailing today it
is shown that muskrats are worth
three times as much as they were
then. while other furs are proportion
higher.
The high prices of today and the
abundance of ~fur-bearing animals
offer an opportunity to the trapper
which has seldom been equaled.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-11-24
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
STARTING THE LAYERS ON
THE WINTER EGG CAMPAIGN

Hens that devote too much atten
ton early in the season to the fal
styles in feathers are not the kline
that please the flock owner. 1t costs
too much to support them and the.
demand too long a vacation period
But the hen that wears her ole
clothes until autumn has almost pass
ed is the best of the flock, for she
has kept on laying since the previous
fall or winter. SO now when you see
a bird that looks shabbier than the
others, do not conclude that she is oil
the n%o-account kind and that her
smartly dressed sisters are the ones
to keep.
OF course some of the hens that
moulted earlier, say in August and
September, are profitable enough to
keep, but the cream of the flock is
made up of the hens that do not
change their feathers until October
or November. Their melting will re-
quire only a few weeks and they will
probably be laying again b. the 1st
of January. The poor ones, the early
melting loafers, will not begin until
about this time, W. though they
have been resting since the middle of
the summer. 1t takes one about two
months and the other twice that long
to get back into production.
The poultry keeper who has an eye
for business will not neglect this
worn-looking late layer, for she is
the best profit-maker he has. She
needs a highly nutritious ration If
she is to be in the best of condition
to start on another year of high pro-
duction. When she quits laying and
to mott she has as much need
for a ration strong in protein as she
has when she is Smelling out the eggs,
as feathers are highly heterogeneous in
their makeup. They use the mater
supplied by beef scrap, gluten
feed, and oil meal. The oil meal is
very effective in keeping the feath-
ers in a healthy, glossy condition
Hens that lay eggs late in the fall
and in the winter are really produe-
ing an out-of-season crop, for it is
normal for the hen to lay for a time
in the spring and early summer and
then rest for the remainder of the
year. Profitable hens are really
hose that have the capacity to force
heir egg-making machinery, but
hey must have the right sort of food
With which to do it. That means
well balanced rations design
I'd for the particular class, and some
lines for a particular breed. A bal
need ration is a combination of
which furnish just the neces-
AIRY amount of nutrients to produce
he highest and most economical
'gg yields. The amount of feed
needed to produce a dozen eggs var
es with the kind of birds. Accord
ng to experiments conducted by the
States department of agrieul-
ure general-purpose pullets produced
dozen eggs from 81 pounds of feed
nd LeghOrn pullets laid the same
from AS pounds.
Simple mixtures are usually the
lost desirable. AS the fall advances
nd the days grow shorter the birds
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-11-24
FERTILIZER
is BEING WASTED
BY-PRODUCT FROM MONTANA
COAL NOT BEING SAVED;
SOIL is LOSER
Day May Come When Chemical SUI
premacy VIII Make Possible the
Development of Fertilizer Indus
try in This State; Montana Import
ing Fertilizer.

While Montana used commercial.
fertilizer for which it paid $126,232
in 1919, it likewise wasted more than
$~1,17O,0O0 worth of fertilizer during
the mn year.
A considerable portion of the fer
tilizer purchased was imported, be-
ing the product of foreign industry.
The fertilizer wasted was the am
monium sulphate that went up in the
smoke with the 100000 tons of cox
ing coal burned in various ways with
out any attempt being made to re-
cover the by-products. Ammonium
sulphate supplies the soil with nitro
gen, n of the three gases necessary
for crop production.
According to the federal census fig
ures, Montana had 4,511,680 acres
of land under cultivation January 1,
1920. This is an increase from o.
78S,740 in 1909. During that period
the value of Montana's crop increas-
ed from ~s28,886,689 to $~69,975,185,
while its expenditures for CONNER
cial fertilizer ran up from $12,323 to
$126,232.
For many years nitrates for fer
tilizer were obtained from Chile.
Later, modern science evolved a way
of obtaining nitrogen from the air.
The method was first used
cially in Germany during the war,
and that country is now producing
large quantities of atmospheric nit
Some atmospheric nitrogen
is now being produced in this coun-
try, but coal is still our main re-
lance.
Ammonium sulphate is only one
b%y-product of coal, the yield per ton
of coal being approximately rs
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-11-24

Sale of $4,000 0 in Victory and
Liberty bonds purchased by the state
out of the common school fund was
ordered by the state land board. Par
has been reached twice in the last
week by Victory bonds, of which the
state has 100000 worth, and the
third issue Liberties, representing the
remaining 100000, r up to SO.
Sale will be made when each issue
reaches par.
The money from this Ource imme-
diateIy will be ~reinvested in school
district bonds of Montana, which pay
6 per cent. The Victory bonds pay
45I per cent, so the interest saving
in the first year of the changed in
vestment will be $3.50 to the state.
On the Liberty bonds. paying AZ
per cent, the saving will be $4,000
per year on the $780, 900 when in
vested in 6 per cent bonds In addi-
ton, it will return to Montana chan
nels $4,000 in cash.
Since June l the state land board
has bought $1,172,000 worth of
school district bonds with the COM
mon school funds, State Treasurer J..
". Walker reported to the board.
Farm loans to the amount of $780,
600, previously contracted, have been
completed in the same period. There
is now but $4,000 in cash in the
fund, but this is being replenished
at the rate of about 100000 a
month from normal resources, and
then 100000 from the sale OF gov
eminent bonds will enable the board
to meet its pledges for the purchase
of additional school bonds.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-11-24

pounds. The average range of by
products per ton of coal where mod
ern methods are used is:
Metallurgical coke, SO per cent.
Domestic coke, 2 per cent.
Surplus gas, $500 cubic feet.
Gas for heating ovens, $500 cubic
feet.
Tar, 8 gallons.
Ammonium sulphate, .25 pounds.
Benzol, 2.O8 gallons.
Toluol, .56 gallons.
Xylol, .32 gallons.
Crude solvent, 40 gallons.
Part of the metallurgical coke, use
full in the metal industries, can be
screened and crushed to furnish do
nestle fuels.
Although there is a growing need
for nitrogen fertilizers, it has not as
yet become profitable to coke coal
simply for the purpose of obtaining
ammonium sulphate. The saving of
this essential product is dependent
upon the growth of a general coal tar
industry that will utilize all the by
products, furnishing not only the fer
t~ilizers so badly needed in the agri-
cultural regions, but the dyes, drugs
and chemicals necessary in the gem
eral industries.
Chemical supremacy for the United
States, particularly in the dye indus
try, means much more than financial
success for the particular industry
concerned. 1t spells cheap fertilizer,
and a commanding position through
out the world in the matter of ex-
plosiyes. These two things run par
aIlel with the dive industry.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-11-24
SAY II WITH FLOWERS

Our flowers are fresh, as they are
grown in Butte and packed to reach
you in perfect condition. If this ad.
is mentioned you may telegraph your
order at our expense if it amounts to
$500 or more.
BUTTE FLORAL CO., BUTTE.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-11-24
Fur Buyers Wanted

in every county of Montana. to buy
FURS and ship direct to NORTH
AMERICAN FUR SALES CO., II w.
3rd ST., Kansas City, Mo.