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Evening star., 1922-11-03

Flaming jets of prominence have
been observed arising from the sun
to a height equal to eight times the
diameter of the earth.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-02-03

Farming and it's Future says. Il have
said again and again during the last
several months to my family that
envied with all my heart the farmer
in these times who had but so acres
of land" have no doubt that many
land owners in the Palouse and in
other sections of Washington who
own much larger farms than they
can handle with their own labor.
have felt the same way. Instead OF
larger acreages where farms already
are much larger than the average
they should be smaller and that
means an increase in the number OF
people on the land, At the same
time, we must remember that many
farms are too small for efficient use
of machines, labor and management
and whore this is the case they should
be larger The two man farm or
family farm is the economic unit to-
wards which agriculture in older sec
lions grayitates and it would seem
that this is the best unit from prac-
tically every standpoint.
During the period Of improvement
and progress in machinery and in
the efficiency per man there has also
been, contrary to many beliefs an
increase in production per acre This
was we'll brought out in the 1919
report of the secretary Of the L. S.
department Of agriculture 1t is here
shown that for the ten year period
from 1908 to 1918 as compared with
the ten year period from 1880 to
1890 the production Of wheat per
acre in the U. S. had increased from
11.84 to 1887 or % per cent, corn
from 23.43 to 1851 or 10 per cent.
oats from 1892 to 3217 or "a per
cent, potatoes from 1921 to 1854
or 33 per cent, hay from 1,19 to ,43
tons or 20 per cent and all crops
about 10 per cent.
1t is another significant fact that
the increase per acre was greatest in
the Oldest settled communities. In
New England, for insance, for this
period the acre yields OF corn in
creased 38 per cent, wheat so per
cent, oats "a per cent, barley 20 per
cent, potatoes 90 per cent, hay %
per cent, and all field crops IS per
cent. Similarly in many Of the older
European countries considerable in
crease per acre occurred in the ten
year period ending in 1910 as com
pared with the ten year period end
ing in 1900. The wheat yields of
the United Kingdom for instance, in
creased from 301 to 31.9 or per
cent, the Netherlands from 27.7 to
33 or ~ per cent, Germany from
23.6 to 291 or % per cent, France
from 81 to 1875 or s per cent, ROu-
mania from "A to 16,9 or 81 per
cent, and those of India from 81
to l1.3 or ) per cent.
The ability to produce more per
acre today as compared with a de-
cade or decades ago, therefore, is
common not only to the farmers Of
the United States but to the farmers
of Europe and other countries as
well and spells progress in a large
way.
Sometimes it has been claimed
that this progress is greater in Eu-
rope than in the United States be-
cause of the larger yields per acre
obtained there as compared with our
own country. While the United
Kingdom, for instance. averaged 31.9
bushels of wheat before the war.
Germany 29.1. France 1915 and the
Netherlands 80, the United States
averaged only 1887 per acre. This
was the result not so much of the
farmers in Europe being more capa-
BILE than those of the United States
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-02-03

iolothing and fuel needed for the year
In the next fifty years the efti-
cheney of the average man working
on the land was very much increased.
There were many improvements in
farm implements The steel pillow
replaced the wooden pillow and the
productivity of labor in agriculture
became greater AS result, only
So per cent of the male workers was
engaged in agriculture in 1850. The
other 20 per cent was found in the
towns and cities engaged in the pro-
fessions in transportation manufac-
lures, commerce and trade. In other
words, specialization had begun. The
farm family no longer found it nee
essary to make all of its own clothes
or all the tools with which to work
and could devote more time to the
production of food. Three families
now produced enough TO support
themselves and almost two other fam
lilies and these other families living
in towns and cities were engaged
largely in making and doing those
things which the farmer previously
found it necessary to make or do for
himself The farm family of 1850,
therefore, was much more efficient
than the farm family OF 1900
Between 1850 and 1900 there was
another very rapid increase in the
efficiency of the farmer and farm
labor produced more than twice as
much per man as the same labor in
1850. AS a result only IS per cent
of the productive labor was now en-
gagged in farming What had hap
pened? The farmer had learned
more about crops, methods of tillage
and better farm management than
he had ever known before. He had
dozens Of new implements with which
to work Think Of the difference of
a days work Of one man with six
horses and the 2S to 80 inch gang
plow as compared with one man and
two horses and the II to IA inch
plow in the years gone by Think Of
the difference in work accomplished
by one man with four horses and the
modern two row cultivator as com
pared with the old two shoveled walk
ing, one horse cultivator handling
half row at time. Think of the
difference between one man with four
horses and the eight foot binder as
compared with the old reaper three
to four horses and four to eight men
a South Dakota farmer puts it as
follows: When | first worked out
it took five binders to follow ma
chine, one man to rake off and one
to carry the bundles together. Now
the hired girl frequently drives
machine that does the whole bust
ness, H. w. Quaintance tell US that
it formerly required / hours Of man
labor to cut and cure a ton of hay
while now it requires p hours. Bet
ter varieties, improved methods of
tillase and modern machinery have
made it possible for one farm family
to produce enough for itself and two
other families otherwise engaged.
From 1900 to 1920 fully as rapid
progress was made on the farms in
improved tillage, in the use of better
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The New York herald., 1922-03-19

are rather well cone: figures of con-
siderable solidity and life. But all
the women ARE mere nightmares.
The whole thing is a nightmarish
performance. Where it is frankly
so the erratic diction becomes gem
uinely effective. For example
Fanny is having a very bad dream:
The skies caught Dance, like fire,
The stars moved very finely; they
did not swing far from their orbits;
rather they tremored, they shone in
vibrance, they sang like high notes
very fast. In the clothes of
the dancing Subway throng there
were bugs; they danced. In the
roofs of the street there were stars:
they danced. Fanny saw the bugs
dancing and the dancing stars
Perhaps that is as good place as
any to leave it; the dancing bugs
appear adequately symbolic of the
whole.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

MR.. PIN. BY \. \. Milne. George
III. Doran Company.
" HE process of making a novel
out of a play is only shade
less hazardous than the re-
verse transformation 1t By no
means follows that even a very sue
cessful comedy that holds the stage
without effort viii make a good story
in expanded form The more direct.
mimetic element of the play is apt
to be lost. with small compensating
values in the written word. In short.
a good play generally needs the liv-
ing voice and personality of the actor
to make il effective. If much is lost
in transferring it TO the moving pic
ture screen. still more often evapo-
rates in making a novel out of it.
AS a general thing the novelized
drama is poor affair.
-NeNOh theieSo IL Sah oc uoHc' anu
this book is a good example of a
very fair measure of success in doing
il. 1t is not meant in disparagement
of the result when we add that those
who saw the play on the boards viii
continue to prefer it to the novel.
For others the book remains a lively.
entertaining. light comedy story. Mr..
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

ELLA KEEPS HOUSE. BY Jessie
Champion. Dodd. Mead 6 Co.
rEsSIE CHAMPION has written
i story of present day Eng
- land which shows how the o,d
order chaageth. giving place to new.
Apart from its merits as story it
is a picture of present day turmoil.
in England. The heroine, Ella
Danesford, is distinctly product of
this generation. Her adventures
could occur at no other epoch. The
author is also very much in accord
with modern fashions of thought.
Her book is blend OF the feminism
of W. l.. George. and the psyche
analytical tendencies of the newer
writer's. She has absorbed a great
quantity of temporary material and
digested it well.
People who are not abreast q
their own time are always rather
pathetic. and Jessie Champion intro
duces us to Mrs. Ddnesford, a Vic
torian lady of the old school. and
shows how much awry the world
seems to her. She was the widow
of a physician who left her in re-
duced circumstances. She rather re-
scented her daughters working in an
automobile factory during the war.
She would have preferred a less
profitable but more genteel life.
Ella saw her mother dropping under
the blow of living in an unaccus-
toned manner. She determined to
spend all her earnings and Aunt
Emily's legacy in giving her mother
year of life in the style TO which
she had been accustomed.
Ella secured n vicarage at Mid
lington. by the sea. and then her
troubles began. Local gossip had
credited her with being an heiress.
She was welcomed into society. but
found no young people to associate
with. At first her life was muci.
too dull. Suddenly she realized that
her experience was costing her more
than she had anticipated She re-
fused TO borrow money or to curta.l
her mother : pleasures. and so she
took two paying guests. Miss Avel-
ing WAS mildly insane. and Miss
Minchln was abnormaily self-cen-
tered Ella found them very trying.
but the reader Is not bored By them.
The author uses the long arm OF
coincidence TO make them necessary
for her plot
Jessie Champion has been very
successful in her minor characters
One of the best is Mrs. Goosey. the
wife of profiteer. Her husband
grew wealthy with no special
shrewdness on his part. and she was
as embarrassed by sudden wealth as
the simple souled Mr.. Kipps of II. c..
Wells. Her struggles with grammar
and etiquette are amusing, with n
4, l..
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

ened with an extremely unpleasant.
upheavai in his family affairs, is es-
pecially well presented in the book.
To George and his wife, Olivia, en-
ters the eccentric Mr.. PIN. the ami
ably absent minded trouble maker
from whom they learn that Olivia's
first husband. supposed dead, is still
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

Milne has made extremely good
use of the situations and the central
idea in the book.
George Marden, the conventional.
conservative, not overbrilliant Eng
lishman who hates anything irregu-
lar-anything that isn't done, you
know"-and who is suddenly threat
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

living. 1t would be unkind to those
who haven't seen the play to betray
how the resultant problem is solved.
Perhaps the eccentric quality of old
PIN is not altogether satisfying in
the book. He has little too much
Continued on Page Ten.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

world that is, in part, also por-
ton, of the open. upper world, but
the blend is not at all an impos-
sibility and can be treated effectively.
It know broker" says a movie
editor who is a minor character
in the story, who lives his social
life among yeggs. He beWails
his love for the company of crooks.
He says there is no variety in his
life! The yeggs are so like stock
brokers' We are told that the
public hangout" of the modern
crock lis in the great crowd on
Broadway" and that writers of
fiction killed the old underworld"
educating it up 10 the "Raffies"
standard.
There is q mysterious flaming red
flower. originally from South Amer
things in the way of crime and mys-
terry, that makes no end of trouble
Mr.. Prosper is fully up 10 date in
his use of modern science-inciuding
some of the science Of tomorrow
or the day after. but doing it with
out any inherent impossibility. 1t
does not jar the readers sense of
fitness. He has. one might almost
say. something Of Wells's trick in
making use of scientific possibilities.
His character drawing is also dis
tinctly above the usual level of
such stories. His people are some
thing more than mere automata
going through the necessary mo-
tions, though they are given with
out any attempt at snbtlety and do
not pretend TO lie more than
sketches. But they are pretty good
sketches
He is generous with his murders,
which is in accordance with modern
styles. No thriller writer nowadays
need be content with merely one
corpse. A wholesale supply is the
thing. including a liberal slaughter
at the finish. The end of this story
is spectacular enough without being
oyerdone. The book may be con-
fidently recommended to devotees of
this form of literary dissipation.
The New York herald., 1922-03-19


RAHAB. BY Waldo Frank. Boni &
Liveright.
A STERN warning is given re-
~ viewers that this novel will
be attacked by the critical
descendants of those who attacked
and reviled Walt Whitman, and by
those who heard nothing
but dissonances in Wagner" To aid
the reader TO judge for himself, here
is descriptive passage. chosen at
random, to sample the style of the
book.
'She spoke. He peered into the
form of her words. His eyes took the
gloss of the subtle table. it was one
with her words accent. Futile
words grammatical, well or
dered. A subtle table and beyond a
virulent huge sideboard. A faint
quaint accent in her pointless words
curling like heat OF hidden flame
above the table, against the siieboard:
whispers in how she spoke. like these
glowing poems in wood of a day
distant from his New York where
there had been leisure and when
from the dung of human misery
America grew flowers. \ quiet pain
in the table and her words il.
a distant pain
We are asked to compare that To
Whitman. Its direct literary ances-
tor seems rather to be Gertrude Stein
of the Tender Buttons" 1t is pos
sible to create diSsonances that are
not at all Wagnerian. The language
OF much of this book is not English.
1t may be the latest thing in neo-
Hebraic-American. but it has only a
remote resemblance to the tongue of
Shakespeare or Stevenson. Mark
Twain or Whitman.
IL the comparison lis to be the sub
ject matter of the book it may be
noted that Whitman was quite sane
and clean. whereas this is purely
pathological material, of more in
terest to he alienist and student of
the psychology of the abnormal than
to the general reader. AS to that.
it makes far too hard reading" to
hold any general attention.
Translated into English the story
merely as a story. is commonplace
enough: A temperamental young
woman marries a young degenerate
who takes TO drink and abandons
her; during his absence she has a
curious affair" with a wandering
Jew-to whom she remarks: II kiss
your feet You are holy Why are
YOU holy?" (There is no answer to
that conundrum.) Her vicious hus-
band gets religion" and becomes a
missionary TO college students! He
returns to her. learns of the holy
Jew and casts her off. taking her
child away from her She goes to
New York and enters upon a hectic
career of assorted desradations
which, we are led 10 infer. ends in
some sort of mystic salvation" but
which win remain inscrutable to
most readers.
Oddly enough, the men portrayed
The New York herald., 1922-03-19

Continued on Page Ten.
Evening star., 1922-05-21
Louisville Results

First race. e-year-olds and up; six fur
longs-Green Gold. 1l3: Pool. 80. 30. s3n
So 3.40. won; Colbs ker, 1l3; Smith. $40. 81
second; Honorman. los; Br1ennr $50
Ben Valet. Courtship and BE Sure also ran
Second race, two-year-olds; four and one
half furiongs-Belzoni. lis; Pool. s2o.69
$50. $3.50. won: Metric. ll5; Connolly
Howard 81 20. third. Time, o.5i 81. Kent Ia
Gay Deceiver. La Orb. Right On Time, DR.
Macarthur. First Ward, King Solomons Sea
and Caladium also ran.
Third race. four-year-olds and up: one an
one-quarter miles Honolulu Boy. 1o9: Johi
son. Sc 20. s37o. go. won; WEXFORD. 80
Owens. S1O.Go. s. 80, second; Lady Lillian
los: Schefel. $40. third. Time. 2o5 10
Plato, Nordeck and Merchant also ran.
Fourth race, three=yesr-olds am and .o up; 81, 81
$3.50. won: Archie Alexander. loI; studeI
third. Time. 1.l3 4-5, Arravan. Hazel w,
William oIdt. Quick View. Grayson. Doric
Fifth race. one and one-eight miles: thref
year Folds and up-Exterminstor. lss: Johnsot
So 20, So So $3.50 won: Lady Madcsp, III
Howard. s19.1o. sG.l0. second: Roulesu. lol
Z Pool $3.50 third. Time. l-S. Sands I'd
Pleasure. Marjorie Hynes, Firebrand. Gang
way. Blarney Stone and Advocate also ran:
Sixth race. six furlougs; three old
and up-Clintonville, 40: kederis, x5.o9
81 90, 50 ca. won: Flags, ll3: Barnes. =. 30
81 30 second; Hadrian, ll3; johnson, $500
Skeerfsce, Trooper, Isoseceles and Ruby aist
ran.
Seventh race. one and one sixteenth miles
three-year -olds and up-Megan, ITO; Cray,
IS 20, 81 40 50 SO. won: Dorius. 1o5: Owens
IS 80, $4 90, second; Casey, 105; BruenninG
So 30, third Time. Ia. Billy Starr, Oru
lent. Gentleman Jouett, Boiul and Buck
ingham also ran.
Evening star., 1922-05-21
LIST RACING EVENTS
FOR ROCKVILLE FAIR

The race committee of the Mont
gomery County Agricultural Society
has decided upon. the race program
for the annual Rockville fair. to be
held August %, %. "a and 2s. The
list is as follows:
Tuesday, August 22-Inter-county
trot or pace, for horses four years
old and under that have never been
raced, owned in the District of CO.
lumbia or Montgomery. Frederick or
Prince Georges counties sixty days
prior TO day of race: purse. $500. go
trot; purse, $500. Half-mile run;
purse, $780, Two pony races.
Wednesday, August 24.-2.15 trot;
nurse. S4OO. 2.1S pace: purse, $500.
Six -furlong run; purse. S125. Half
mile run; purse, 500. Mule race at
half a mile. cive-mil motor cycle
race.
Thursday. August c5-2.25 trot;
purse. s30o. 2.22 pace: purse. $500
Free -for-all trot or pace; purse, $4oo.
Mile run; purse. s125. Six-furlong
run; purse, $125. Mule race<at half
a mile. Five-mile motorcycle race.
Friday, August 26-2.lI trot; purse,
$3AO 230 trot;- purse. $500. Army
officers run, conditions to be an
nounced later, purse, $3.50. Consola.
tion trot or pace. for horses not fin
ishine better than third at meeting;
purse $10O. Consolation run for
horses not finishing better than third
Mt meeting; purse,>$loo.
Evening star., 1922-05-21
ROSE WARD AND DOLLY ANDERSON, Boxing.
JAMAICA RESULTS
RAo1es BY cAez INoN@e.

First race, three -year-olds and up: six fur-
longs-Bernice X. 100 ,Thomasl. 4 to J. TO
2. to 5, won: Victor s. 1ls CTapiinl. = 10 J.:
4 to 8. second: Warnote, l13 q. Fatori. 1
to 3. third Time. liz 40. Swift Grass,
Spugs and Tingaling also ran
Second race, tnree-year -olds and up; one and
one-sixteenth miles-Hephaistos. lU3 u. "a.
tori, even, / to ). out, won; Sedgeheld. 10y
tMarinelI). even. out. second: George loo
lE. KummerD. out. third Time, LAG 80.
Roi Craig also ran.
Third race. two-year-olds; Eve furiongs-
Bud Larner. 116 tSandeI. TO 5. TO 10. 10
8. won; Frank G. 11G tPoncel. @ TO l. 3 to ].
second; Blanc Seing. 116 tMcAteel. D to
third. Time. LOS Is. Penno. Solisa, Lord
Granite and Blue Hawk also ran.
Fourth race. three-year-olds: one and one
eighth miles-Bennings Park. 12l dyke. :
TO 1. to 5. out. won; Mad Halter. l2s
iSandel. cut. oLt. second Audacions. III tt.
Kummer), out. third. Time. 1-5i 3-o. Dam
Fifth race. three-year olds: six furlongs-
Reprisal 1l9 (Morrisl, 8 to ,. even, to D.
won Mustard Seed. Ill .Taplin). TO .. out
second: Muskallonge. lis tKelsayl, 10
third. Time, liz. Thunderclap and Be Frank
also ran.
Sixth race, two-year-olds; FIVE furlongs-
Carman Pantages, I15 IL. Fator). to !, to
8, and out. won: ENHANCEMENT, 115 tsandel,
1 to 6, out. second: Sister Sue. 1l3 tMcAteeD.
even, third. Time. 1.o1 So Dicks Daughter.
Mily Won and Ella also ran.
Evening star., 1922-05-21
JAMAICA ENTRIES

First race. two-year-oIds; iye furlongsa
Rork, ll2: Nassau, 10I: Scarecrow. lo2:
Reap. 102; Pravus. 1o2; Watchful Waiting.
Second raoe. three,year-olds and up: six
furlongs-Bright Lights. III: Cordelier, IL; II;
Ticklish, 1l2: Endman, ia: Zovian. no: Bill
Block, ll0; simplicity; 1G3: Mama. los; Jos;
Brink. 104 OSarite. 100; Winneconne. 1oi
Joseph Brant. 1lO; Astrolite. 1o3: Daniel A,
lO5: Ace of Aces. 104: Dare, 81: ouesadA-
I10: Eager Eyes 81: Care Free. 1l5.
Third race. three-year-olds and up;- ZIG
miles-Orderiy. 1I5; warnote, 1l9: Lord Her
bert, 115: Loughred. us; Armistice, 115; Tan
IT. lla: Drummond, 115: Searchlight 3rd, 10:
Walkup, l0J: Lucky Girl, LOG: Pansy, 100;
Aillo. 1O5; Lady Zeus. 9S: Buxom. 93: Serv-
ice STAR 10: Cote dor. 110.
mile 40 Hephaistos. 12o: Chesterbrook,
III: Emotion. 115; Rosehill, III: All Over.
Ill: Letterman. 106; Native Land l06.
Fifth race, three -yeRr-Olds and up; six fur
longs-Lord Brighton. 124: Krewer. 1l9;
Gladiator, 122; Routledge. Ill; Billy Watts,
I0s: Elected 2nd. no: Muskallonge; lo5;
Mamma 100: Pride of India. l0i; Billy Nc.
Laughlin. 1O5: Johnny Dundee. 104; Crystal
Ford, 1O2: Stallan, 1O1; Sunnyland. 100;
Sixth race. Ave furlongs: two-year-olds
Certain. Cape Clear, Primus, Pravus, New
Hampshire. Flying Devil. Roseate End,
Sarsparila. Huckleberry Finn. 1l5 each
Evening star., 1922-05-21
LOUISVILLE ENTRIES

First race. three -year-olds; six and hal
furlongs-Montsra. 1O5; Margaret WiBsoi
lG,: Whirl, I05;- Bill and Coo 1gj: Brigh
Leaf. 105: Precious Lulu, los; Aof. lDg
Martha Fallon. 109. Dinahmeur. IiJ
Second race. two-year-olds; four and a hal
furlongs-yictorire, II5; kindred. li5: Prob
able. l15: Bed2zzle. 1l5: B.lphrizonia liz
velma NJ 1i5; FuIurette ll5: ouioul m
RompinS Mary. l15; Bandeau. I15.
Third race, three-yesr-olds and up; one snr
100; Countess. 100; WADE McLemore. i0J
Marcella Boy, l05: Cheer Up. 10J; Hueu. 10
Pictor. l10; Sun God. il0: Bond. llO: Wads
worth's Last, l10; DIR. Rae, ll0: Pit. io5
Plato. 1I0.
Fourth race. three-year-olds and up: seve,
and a half furiongs-f;ranite Ware. l02: Com
mander McMeekin. 102: Bit OF White. llq
Coyne, 1l0: High Cloud. ITO; Mintou I'd. llJ
DR. Clark. 1l6.
Fifth race, two-year-olds. four and hal
furlongs-Poppye. l0i: Anna Tod. i05; Lucidus
l01; jake Hay. 10I: Hughes Graham. l07
Athlete. 10Y; Taylor Hay. 1O1; Full Spoon
1O9: Kent L. 112.
Sixth race, three-year-olds and up; on
mleAspats. 30: Hold Ne. 80: Scotland Yet
l0l: Escarpolette. 10l; Tomahoi. l0i; Charlie
Henry. 1Gs; Wapiti. 1O6; Toney Beau. i0d
Travesty, 106: Dartmoor. 112.
Seventh race, four-year-olds and up; one AM
one-sixieenrh miles-Corila. 10: Uncle yelo
100: Paduz. 1903: Walnut Hall. 1o3: Mava
hona, l03: Tody. 104: Mysterious Girl, lO7
Easterside, 107: kewpie O'Neil. 10I: Gouf
mand. l17; Ciintonville. 109: John S. Reardon
1l2