The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-04

- ouA iSN2S" VI oloIC lSOCi otAo2i
finances on Tuesday the sentence
reading: Fountain county is accred-
tied with the payments of $948 each.
should have read two payments of
$948 EACH. AS a matter Of fact Foun-
tain county paid $1,s96 in dues to the
state federation In March, as shown
by the trial balance quoted from.
A sensible young farmer arose from
his seat near the door to say: Seems
to me the matter of clamping the lid
on the speculation in grain at Chica-
go is one for the national government
to handle, and not the state of Illi-
nois.'
We'll, friend" replied the speaker
Of the evening, lit does look that way,
but you know Washington also has
this under consideration. Two or three
bills to that end have been prepared
Besides the Chicago board of trade is
an Illinois corporation and subject to
the laws OF that state under it's char
ter"
After the Chicago Board
Should 1t happen that the Lantz bill
really becomes law this action would
: be in line with that already taken by
Minnesota and Missouri against grain
gambling, and effective next July. c.
V. Gregory, one of the committee OF
seventeen, in his speech before the
Illinois legislature said that board of
trade representatives claim that the
elimination Of trading in futures would
eliminate the board ITSELF. In which
case the exchanges at Kansas City, St.
Louis. Duluth and Minneapolis are in
! the same boat. But it is not to be ex-
pected that any of these institutions
will close up shop and go fishing with.
out a tryout in the courts.
Professor Of HamoIoey
A certain man having written to the
Chicago Tribune relative to the cost
! Of hogs and that of delicatessen cook.
ed ham. placing the hog at cents to
the farmer and the ham at IS cents
per pound to the consumer A deli.
catessen man next steps into the
breach as follows:
, What kind of a professor Is A. C.?
He says farmer gets s cents a pound
for 400 pound hog, or S32. and the
delicatessen proprietor sells a pound
Of boiled ham for IS cents, or $500 for
the hog. Who ever heard of live
hog that was all boiled ham? He must
be a professor of skyrockets."
Farm Bureau Notes
| H. III" al u, y L. anu "
! B. Schilling, directors of the U. S
Grain Growers. Inc. have gone to the
northwest. as a special committee EN-
powered to consolidate the Northwest
Wheat Growers association with the
Gain Growers organization if both
agree.
At the last Saturday morning ses
sion of the boys and girls of the va
rious clubs of the Montgomery coun
ty, Ohio farm bureau, IS girls and s.
boys were present. and the Dayton
papers state that it is expected that
about 400 will enroll in club work
this season
Two Alabama counties have com
pleted farm bureau organizations. The
organization of Montana is set fol
June with SIS memberships; three
counties have been organized in New
Mexico and a drive to "organize ev
cry county in Arkansas by January
L. is projected
Are Cheerful Givers
Illinois county farm bureaus have
pledged $4,000 toward the estab lsh
ment of national headquarters for tn.
q. S. Grain Growers, Inc. at Chicago
: With a membership, as claimed o
10000 at SIS per year, Illinois coul,
easily spare that amount from its gen
eral fund, but this $4,000 is to be
donation from the counties, as sub
scribed. The farmers of Illinois pa,
about s1655.O0O in annual dues, one
third of which is paid into state head
quarters at Chicago to meet the pay
roll, rent and other expenses Incl
dental to the transaction of the farm
, er's business.
, Eighteen States in Wool Pools
, Eighteen states have formula te,
} plans for pooling the 1921 wool clir