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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-21
Pennsylvania
LANCASTER, PA, Jan. 6. 1921

| LANCASTER, IA, ian. b, 1871
| A. M. Slade in the Leaf sizes I'D the
situation in the following manner:
| Already growers are being advised to
prepare to do their own packing if they
cannot get their price for their crop,
but SO far the growers Go not exhibit
any enthusiasm on the grower-packer
proposition. The grower, no less than
the packer, knows that crop grown
in wet weather is very likely to be a
risky one to. handle. 1t may turn out
all right and it may not, with the
chances nine in ten that it will show
considerable damage. The average
grower prefers to get his crop off his
hands and let the packer take the risk.
The holidays BEND ended the time set
for buying the crop is at hand, but it is
still question as to when buying will
start. If it rests with the local dealers
who will buy for themselves, buying
will not begin soon. As most of the
big outside firms, that take SO much of
this county's tobacco annually. have
representatives here. they may begin
buying soon. 1t is the price question
that is now of such absorbing interest.
and as nobody can get a line on the in
tention of the big concerns. packers
and growers are still as much in the
dark as they were when the crop was
harvested The trade has promised
that the price would be gauged by the
value of the tobacco to the buyers, and
no more need be expected Nor will
any attempt be made to get the crop at
less than its value.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-21
Wisconsin Tobacco Market
EDGERToN, WIS.,. Jan. q, 1921.

EDGERToN, Wis. Jan. q, 1921.
Will the stemmers come out and
show their hand before the end of the
month? Before February l5th?> Will
they make any move at all to get the
unsold 1920? These are questions on
the lips of hundreds of Wisconsin to-
bacco growers. A 20 per cent remnant
of the crop in the northern section is
just as anxious for an answer as is the
so per cent unsold in the southern part
of the state Several farmers who
were seen this week said they were
making ready to size, others limited
that they would pack loose in cases,
still others are waiting for the first of
next month to let the farmers ware
houses do the handling of the crop.
The crop must be gotten out of the
way and placed where it is in condi-
tion of safety before the end of March.
A little buying is done right along up
north, and crop is sold now and then
elsewhere in the tobacco sections of
the state; the prices are paid on the
basis of the binder percentage expect
ed to be realized out of the purchase.
No one is gambling on any other stand
ard of leaf so far. This is becoming
pretty clear to everybody. There are
no buyers in the field looking FOR tobac-
co because it has lot of sound BIS in
it. The bought portion of the 1920
may prove to have enough of that
grade of leaf to more than satisfy the
demand There is no use making
guesses and holding out hopes of a sud
den activity in the market for the un-
sold Wisconsin, however much one
! might wish conditions were different.
at is up to the grower to take whatever
steps he may consider safest, and tc
mis- best interest. The local buyers are
as much victims of the present condi-
ton. as the growers are. The assort
| ing of the delivered tobacco is pro
crossing normally at all points.
Our correspondent at Westby says
A movement seems to be on to take
! whatever is desirable of the 1920 in thi:
section. Considerable sold the pas
lweek! Prices around Csc; a few at q
and Csc: filters out at 5 and SC,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-21

SE'EENGFnRLD, Mass, Jan. 4, /!

SE'EGNGFnRLD, Mass, Jan. 4, 1921.
That there wall be any increase in the
New England tabaecc acreage this year
is osat of the question in the opinion of
those comgersant with the situation
This &pplSes with equal force to both
Shadegro&n and Sungrown tobacco
There was a large Sncrease in the
Shadegwowss acreage last year and, as
is weli kn0wn, the results were not
uniformly satisfactory. Some pieces
were disappointing, white others yield
ed high grade tobacco. The shortage
of the longer lengths Of wrappers,
which will soon be apparent, is the best
measure of how far the 1921 Shade
grown crop mas fallen short of the
hopes of the trade. The cost of rails
sng Shadegrowr tobacco this year will
rstil be very high There is feeling
on the part of producers of born Shade
grown and Sungrown tobacco that in
view of the fall in commodity prices in
general it may be we'll to put on the
brakes this year merely as precau-
tionary measure, says E. w F. in the
Leaf
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-21

The Connecticut ''roundtip" leaf, a
new variety developed at the New
Haven experiment station and grown in
the Connecticut Valley, is hailed as a
new money producer for tobacco grow
erS
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-21

While D. B. Duke Wasdnot re-electe8
AS director of the Montgomery Ward &.
Go. mail order house, the limited Retail
Stores conti0Aae TO own the block Of
stock secured byat year ago.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
HOU to Walk on COuntTy
Roads at Night
By BILL PRICE

Referring to editorial in this column on "Garing
Headlights and Road Hogs the of many fatal
cidens to pedestrians at night, WILLIAM ULLMAN, editor
of american Motorist," offers excellent advice which
should be followed by every pedestrian.
1t is to avoid the right hand side of the road and walk
the efthand facing oncomng traffic. In this wsy pc
destrans much better able to look out for themselves
In few instances sidewalks available, and too often
careless pedestrians fail to them when they The
middle of the road still calls to the average pedestrian
country highways.
Walking the right side of the road the pedestrian
with the traffic and unable observe vehicles
ing from the The binding headlgh of approaching
makes it practically impossible for the driver going in
the direction the pedestrian to see, and life ID
taken in danger.
There wedefned rule of the road for pedestrians
and night time the safest least would be to keep
to the left sde facing the oncomng vehicle The best ou
ton would be the construction of side paths much used
roads, but this is long off In the daylight hours the
pedestrian need not be careful although then he i'd
wisest who keeps his eyes and open.
But let law officers begin to make it exceedingly hot for
road hogs with glaring headgh Dmmed" headlights
frequently dangerous enough
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
Once-OVerS

Last year you probably made a resolution that
by the same time another year you would not
be in a bad a financial condition as you found
yourself--and here you are againl
For n few weeks you carried on your savings
systematically.
Then came week when you failed to de-
OF trying to make II up the next week you fell
considerably shorter the next week. and on
the next and the next week after
Before long you realized how far short you
had dropped and you gave up entirely-having
missed a few weeks, II might as well be more.
You said to yourself that would spend tho small
surplus Just to how II seemed to buy few
things you really wanted, and later you would
get right down to brass tacks and put the
money away whether
Did you make up the deficiency
Indeed you did not. for here you again
n your old condition
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
uUM ANISMS
William Atherton Du Puy-

II the United States decides to pay honor to
the remains OF an unknown soldier. Capt George
X. Shuler. of the marines. says he knows Just
where to find the man who particularly deserves
the distinction. And Captain Shuler is entitled
to be listened to. for he fought in every engage
ment from Belleau Woods to the Argonne and
got all the decorations that anybody could think
Of
This unknown lad, he believes, tho first
killed in the first all-American drive that
at San Michel. Day was breaking. the alert had
been sounded and all was ready for going over
the top. Right in front of Captain Shuler's out
fit a red-headed engineer private was seen wrig-
CLING his way through No Mans Land. He stop
ped behind a shell mound grinned and waved a
rollicking hand to those behind. He reached the
German wire, went to work on II with his Pine
ers, exposing himself recklessy, cutting a gap
for the charge As he reached up for final
clip a bullet caught him in the chest He hang
fell.
Clipping that wire set off a mine. geysor
Of dirt rose just beyond him. came down upon
s him. When Captain Shuler led his men through
the gap few minutes later he looked for the
engineer, but tons of fresh dirt covered the spot
where he had fallen. Shuler has a detailed map
of that sector and on 1t is marked the spot where
this man fell. He says ne could go and get him.
Ernest Thompson Seton the naturalist, tho
man who suggested the Boy Scout idea to Baden
Powell, who developed it, has been string up
much controversy lately by agitating the aues-
ton, "Why wear clothesT
He enjoys the controversy and was chuckltng
it not long ago as he helped his wife out OF
a particularly snug and heavy fur coat before
sitting down to dinner in a restaurant
The coat, he said, was the best part OF the
story. The trouble started with the writing of
article for a magazine under that title, why
Wear Clothes?" 1t with the money from
that article that he purchased this coat for Mrs.
Seton.
"The Negro" says Representative T. II. Cara
way Of Arkansas, sis the most humorous individ-
ual in the world He is an unconscious humor-
ist His reactions are excruciatingly funny to you
me, but not to him. He does not mean them
to be humorous. He gets no pleasure out of his
own humor that of his fellows.
"I once heard two Negroes talking earnestly
"Do you reckon one of them was saying. that
the Lord knows how the white folks get all
cotton and we don't have nothin' left?
"Yes," was the solemn response. "God knows,
but He don't care"
There is no laugh Negro humor unless a
white man hears it.
Copyright, 1921. by Public Ledger Coz
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
FACTS ABOUT COLLARS.

The celluloid collar, OF which
PHILIP EBERT speaks, did not A.
pear until long after tho stiff linen
collars Like tho Ford car, thsy
would go anywhere except in COED
society.
Before either the ce1luloid Or linen
were thought of, except homemade
linen, the fashionable young man
wore stiff paper collars of much the
Same style as the linen collars of to-
day. They cost 15c per box of one
dozen Bring back those wonderful
days. AUNTY BELLE HUM
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
Stars and Stripes

stir themselves, yet does not have to bestir
itself to meet those who are in haste.
A lost temper advertises itself
Flattery is an alloy-half mockery, half
"jolly."
Character is the collateral on which other
men lend you their confidence
The birthday Of child is but the ami
versary Of a mothers sacrifice.
II is better to be blind with love that
leads along a Aowery path than to be blind
with hate and stumble
The man who boasts Of always being
frank is often candid in small matters In
order that he may be cunning in greater
ones. va
The Washington times., 1921-02-28

Empty promises ring the loudest.
Character assassns never "pull' any
daylight "jobs."
There is no greater poverty than want
Of courage and want Of faith.
The double standard" man is one who
dodges his half of the burden.
A flood Of words oft bespeaks a drought
of thought
In our search for wisdom, we are always
closer to II when we pause than when we
pursue.
TAIlrs hastens to those that do not be-
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
WHO -LIZzIE- WAS.

Ny grille said; "Punkie, now list;
We've danced, an we've hugged, an WV
kissed:
We've done many things
That didn't require wings,
but one thing. my Cave Man. I've missed
For Lizzie, my pal. don't you see,
Is crazy TO come to see me,
And I think it's not right
To refuse her each night
And spoil all our sweet harmony
So I listened with tears in my eyes;
I fought back my curses and sifhs
She sent me home late,
And I swore I'd walk straight
WhiIe she and her "Lizzle" baked plea
THAT night I was lonesome. O mel
1 strolled on the streets v and q;
There honked by me-whizl-
NV grille aud Liz, -.
Bpt Lizzie" wears trousers. zoe -
The Washington times., 1921-02-28

Here are two deep questions
for the fans:
(D II a man is worth $780,
100000 and owns q valuable pet
dog. how much Is his PET
WORTH?
(2) II his pet dog Is worth
$40. 900, how much Is his KENIL~
WORTH R H ID.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28

Some married folks put their
money in a home. Others put it in
lawyers home. Before marriage
the man hates to go home. After
marriage, also. LEFTY.
I'd love to watch the baby dolls
with dresses near their knee
Go marching by my window
o, what q treat 'twoud bel
But like II as I really would.
I'm sure this Joy can't be
For wifey Is SO quick and slick
She spois IL all for me.
PHILIP EBERT.
II they'd cross Fords with ferries
what would be the result-fying
machines or seaplanes
HARPERS FERRY.
A DIFFERENT ANIMAL.
Miss B-I overheard that young
man telling you 1 danced like a
zephyr.
Miss R-Zephyr7 He said ''heifcr.~ y
I thank you?
SOUTHERN SLIM.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
Mr.. 3. Baer
THE INAUGURAL PARADE.

u
On plans and specifica-
tions condemned by the
Democrats, Mr.. Harding's
one-man inaugural parade
will leave the Senate next
Friday, escape up Penn
sylvania avenue and arrive
safely at the White House.
The parade seems to be
bothering the Democrats
almost as much as the peo-
pie who are interested In
it. Mr.. Harding desires no
pomp or grandeur. All he
desires is to be left alone.
Especially by the House
and Senate.
He will wear a frock
coat. But there will be n
simple heart beating be-
meath one of the buttons
on that noble garment. He
will wear patent leather
shoes. But there will be
simple corns throbbing be-
meath the resplendent gilt
ter of those plutocratic
shoes. He will be forced to
wear a high silk hat, but
there will be n simple mind
pulsing beneath the polish
ed gloss on that Presiden-
tial kelly.
The plans for the permit
march call for the Vice
President to swallow the
oath of office indoors. The
President takes his oath on
the steps. 1t is but a tenn
porary victory. For the
next four years Harding
will be indoors and Cool
idge will be out on the
steps.
Mr.. Harding Is not op-
posed to inaugural parades.
He has but postponed the
1921 boulevard pageant for
four short years and states
that he Is willing again
to take a leading part in
the 1925 avenue marathon.
which he guarantees to
make fancy dress frolic.
He indicates that the 1925
inaugural will be complete
in all its gorgeous details
and hopes that nothing will
be missing from the minor
details except Democrats.
Washington Is excited
with monotony, frenzied
with ennui and hearts are
futtering like a two-ton
anchor sunk in East river
mud. This will be the most
delirious inaugural ever
held. and people are pour
ing into Union Station lik p
dried glue in an abandoned
office paste jar.
Accommodations are diff
ficult to secure, as all the
bars have been closed. Fool
is high, but not necessary.
Unless Congress passes the
soldiers bonus bill. there
IL an earthquake, or some
farmer sees the first robin
redbreRst, It looks as IL
there will be nothing IN
Washington next Friday
except n small but select
Presidential Inauguration
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
AMATEUR NIGHTS.

Your contributor who sug-
gests that local theaters begin
"amateur nights for local anna
teurs causes me to say that the
York Theater, on Georgia avenue.
stages an amateur night nearly
every Friday night and the neigh
borhood greatly enjoys the par
ticipation OF its local talent
l. b.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
ELECTRIC CAR PROBLEM.

ELECTRIC CAR PROBLEM.
(a) II an electric car starts
from rest to accelerate at IL
miles per hour per second, what
speed will 1t reach in 13 seconds?
(b) II the car referred to in (a)
was travelling 4 miles per hour
when the period of uniform ac-
celeration began, what was its
average speed during the 13 sec
onds? (c) What speed will 1t
reach In 13 seconds?
H. d. BILLINGS.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
II BUT NOT 8.

Buffalo, N. Y. Feb. %.
On the menu of a Greek restaurant
on Eagle street lamped this one::
"BOUL OF SOWP, &C."
We have pigeon English" and "dog
Latin but what kind of Greek Is
that? FRED CONKLIN.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
n EPLYING to a question in the
. Chamber of Deputies a while
~ ago, the French premier said:

sells have been given clear ana concise
instructions. We do not wish France to
which abuses its strength. Propaganda
Is going on, especially in the United
States, to picture France as militarist
and imperialist power. Against such
propaganda France must reply by assum-
ing clear and conciliating attitude"
The French premier is mistaken.
The only propaganda carried on in
the United States relating to France
has been the constant and extensive
pro- French propaganda.
The newspapers and magazines OF
the United States have been filled
for the past six years with nothing
but laudations of the French govern
ment, the French policies and the
French military leaders.
The average American has been
led to believe that France is an un-
selfish, altruistic, patient, long-suf-
fering, military nation, constant
ly menaced by vicious neighbors,
and only anxious to maintain the
peace and work out its own destiny
on it's own soil.
This newspaper is as friendly to
France as it is to any nation on the
face of the earth other than our own
country, but we must state as
matter of plain fact that Europe
would have settled down to a fairly
normal condition by this time if the
French government, with the as
sistance of the British government
and of the gentleman who is about
to make his very desirable exit from
the White House, had not stirred up
war upon Russia. had not financed
and munitioned the two Polish in
vasions of Russian territory, had not
excited and financed and assisted
civil war in Hungary, had not main
tanned by force of arms tyrannical
and hated government in, Greece,
had not kept military missions in
Bulgaria, Serbia, Rumania and
Czechoslovakia, with the object OF
melting these small nations to form
| a combination with whose assistance
tthe French government apparently
planned to make further invasion
, of Germany and a subsequent free
booting expedition into Russia.
In the furtherance of the mill
taristic and imperialistic designs of
the present French government,
which seems to be absolutely under
, the thumb of Foch and his military
comrades, no means have been too
jaggressive, too offensive, to be en-
>ployed.
One of the reasons given by
France as we'll as Great Britain for
depriving the Germans of their
colonies in Africa was that the Ger
man militarists would use those
colonies as training grounds for
black soldiers to be employed in
future wars against white peoples in
Europe. And yet the French gov
ernment has been training negro
troops in Africa for more than a
quarter of century and had at its
disposal above ten millions of these
savages subject to conscription and
service in the French armies. Not
only that, they actually brought
these savages to Europe to fight
white people. And they added to
that the indefensible act of quarter
ing these savages upon a defeated
white people, with consequences
which have been officially related
but cannot be printed here.
That it may not be thought that
we speak too severely, let us hear
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
THOSE ODD BILLIONS.

The greatest mother in the
world'-Great Britain. Pretty
soon we shall all be sitting In
that capacious lap Of hers and
she'll be feeding us our own
pap" +. VETTER-
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
(.'s11EARD, D,n55EfnfsA

Here's the geography Of a single
woman's life:
Cape of Good Hope-Sixteen.
Cape Flattery-Twenty.
Cape Lookout-Twenty-f
Cape Fear-Thirty.
Cape Farewell-Forty.
TOM III.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
AN APPEAL TO FATHER.

Bill Shakespeare may not like this,
but here goes:
The barber shop was crowded,
when a little girl appeared
She timidly said: Dear Father.
Don't let them trim your beard
Don't break mothers heart,
And set our little home in gloom;
Save your beard for dusting chairs
And sweeping out the rooms"
BOSIE
That Georgetown student might at
least give the "gold-diggers" of the
city credit for knowing how to use
those rah-rah boys for fishes. R.
He-Hello. kid; how are you, Marie?
Marie-How dare you speak to me?
/ don't know you from Adam.
He-Well, you ought to. I'm
dressed differently.
EAMON SUILLEABHAIN.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28

T. EDWIN MURTAUGH, for two
years the able publicity director Of
Columbia chapter of the Red Cross
and various other local organizat
tions, concludes his work here
March 1. He writes that H and 8
sis wonderful and unique column
and that although he may not bs
able to contribute TO 1t, IL shall al
ways read it with the same zest a
l do now" Fine praise from q suc-
cessful publicity director.
Az Q rule . man n deaf
When . woman makes . ptsA.
But he certainly II not blind
When . woman shows . kneA
r. ]. SCHWAk
The Washington times., 1921-02-28

"Yes. down home" the Georgian
said. I'VE have pumpkins so large
two people can sit in ono OF them"
That's nothing" said the New
Yorker. up home I've seen three
policemen asleep on one beet"
FRED H
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
TRUTH-A PREACHMENT.

TKUTH-A PREACHMENT.
The truth in speech 10 accuracy:
The truth in trade is honesty:
The truth in conduct In sincerity:
The truth in thinking is the logic;
The truth in morals is purity:
The truth in friendship Is fidelity:
The truth in the heart Is love
Honor Is the very fragrance of an all
pervading truth.
Beauty of character is the spiendor Of al
truth in living and doing. BONITA
Boy-Mother. what makes the oceax
angry?
Mother-Because it has been cross
ed SO many times.
wALL-FLowER.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
A DIFFERENT ANIMAL.
BLANTON may be a statesman
among cowboys in Texas, but
I'll say he's cowboy among
statesmen in Washington.
=. A s.

Teacher-Johnny, stop laughing
this minute.
JOHNNY wasn't laughing, ma'am.
just smiled and the smile busted.
EMCY.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
When you can't laugh at the
Jokes of the age laugh at the
age Of the jokes.
CHEERUPADIST.
RESTING EASY.

Mose-Yes, Use had lots of trouble.s
Buried NAH wife's mother yistiddy.
Sam-De po' ole sole done gone ter
ress, huh?
Mose-I guess she hab-she allus
did LIE easy. JULES BACK.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28

Watch for the man who comes
into your ONCE. April 1 with =
peanut or other nut on his coat
lapel ALETE.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28
We T0WNE TOW, !, !! .!;!!; GOSSIP s;!:'
BY K. G. B.

HAD l been seated.
RIGHT NEXT to a
man.
WHO WAS on his way.
TO A family party.
AT THE White House.
BUT / hadn't the
nerve.
AND / sat there.
AND THE Pullman
conductor.
CAME INTO the car.
AND SAW Mr.. McAdoo.
AND THEY were old
friends.
AND SHOOK hands.
AND THE Pullman
conductor.
SAT ON the arm.
OF MIR. McAdoo's
chair.
AND BEGAN to show
him.
A LOT of rare coins.
AND MIR. McAdoo.
HAD SOME himself.
AND THEY traded
some.
AND FOR an hour.
THEY FUSED
around.
WITH THEIR silly
coins.
AND THE train got in.
AND ] never had a
chance.
TO SAY a word.
I THANK YOU.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28

The woman who has never beer
married usually knows most about
how to manage a husband.
H. E. r.
The Washington times., 1921-02-28

IN LOVE WITH INITIALS.
First thought "L" won my heart!
As time went on 20" claimed q part
l was sure 1t was " from the start
And now I've lost both hand and heart.
DAISY.