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The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-08-10
THE FARMER AND
The AUTOMOBILE
(By 4, f. Peck, Commissioner Of
Agriculture.)

(By 4, f. Peck, Commissioner of
Agriculture.)
Some farmers are complaining that
they are not making money as they
could Is or 20 years ago. But few Of
them viii admit the real reason for
it. 1t is costing many of them So
now to meet their living expenses to
where it cost 81 before. Corn, wheat,
hay, oats, cotton, hogs, sheep and cat
tie are bringing better prices, but
you will find automobiles on the ma
jOrify Of farms, and they are expen-
sive Injuries, not only on account of
fuel, oil and tires, but in time taken
from work that should be done on the
farm.
/ heard a stock trader talking
few days ago about finding men on
their farms at work now. He said
that 10 years ago it was no trouble
to find a farmer at home unless it
was court day, but that now when he
goes to see a farmer to buy stock
often he finds that the latter has
gone in his car to one Of the half
dozen towns in 20 miles of his home.
One trouble with many farmers is
that they have Stacked up on work,
giving too much of their time to
unproductive effort. Some of them
are trying to secure legislation that
will help solve their problems and
make agriculture productive. Some
Legislation necessary for the farmer
has been neglected; some is being and
has been enacted that will be help
full, but the important thing for the
farmer to do, and which will in
crease his edrning capacity, is to
look after and improve the fertility
Of his soil, the cultivation of crops
for which there is market demand,
and to merchandise his products on
an orderly market instead of dump
ing them on glutted market.
Farmers may find object lessons
of progressive communities that
have successfully worked out some of
these problems. We hear complaints
that they can not get ready money to
finance their farm operations, and
yet they can find means to buy and
keep up an automobile. It is all right
for the farmer or any one else to
buy an automobile if they can afford
it without Gripping their business
from which they get living. But it
is not good business policy for the
farmer, merchant, manufacturer OF
professional man to invest in an auto
mobile and it's upkeep when the
money is needed in their business.
We have thousands Of acres Of
grazing land in Tennessee that would
keep and fatten 10 head of livestock
where it has one-land that is idle
and unproductive because the live
stock is not provided to eat the grass,
while ample money to buy livestock
is invested in automobiles and upkeep,
The profits from such an investment
would in two years provide and auto
mobile.
Too many of us are buying things
we could wait for and are thereby
cutting down our productive capacity
Too many of us are easing up onl
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-08-10
INVENTOR OF TELEPHONE
DIES AT ADVANCED AGE

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
Of the telephone and one of the coun-
try's most distinguished scientists,
died in Baddeck, N. S., Thursday at
the age Of rs years.
Alexander Graham Bell was born
in Scotland in 1849. He graduated
from several European universities
and came to Canada in 1870, leaving
there and settling in Boston one year
later.
He concentrated on his work on the
telephone while professor of vocal
physiology at the Boston University
and received a patent for the tele-
phone in 1886. Bell also invented a
monograph in conjunction with c. A.,
Bell and Sumner Taintor. The inven-
ton of the photophone, induction ball
ance and telephone probe for the de-
lection of bullets in the human body
are also accredited to the scientist.
Bell was well known for his efforts
to aid the deaf. He was the founder
of the American Association for the
Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. and
contributed a Quarter of million
dollars of his fortune to the cause.
He contributed portions Of the vast
sums he received on royalties to sew
eral scientific endowments.
The scientist was the recipient Of
many honors from universities all
over the world. The governments of
France, England and Belgium deco
rated him in recognition of his
achievements. In 1914 he was hon
ored with the Edison scientific medal.
Bell was frequent contributor to
scientific publications.
The cause of DIR. Bells death was
said to have been progressive anaemia.
Find it with a classified.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-08-10
Farmers and Business Men Hold
Picnic.

Farmers of Knox county and bust
ness men of Knoxville, over 1000
strong, held a picnic and barbecue
at the University of Tennessee Farm
August /. The object of the event
was to bring the farmers and business
men of the section into closer touch
with each other, to stimulate CO.
operation and to give each better
understanding Of the problems that
confront each with the idea that such
will result in a further upbuilding of
both farm and the business interests
of the section.
The picnic, which was sponsored
by the Knoxville Board of Com
merce, in cooperation with the Di-
vision of Extension of the University
Of Tennessee, is expected to develop
into an annual event.
The day was crowded with enter
tainment, and both farmer and bust
ness man seemed to thoroughly enjoy
every feature. Instructors, members
Of the Board of Commerce and others
We'd with each other in seeing that
everyone was made to feel welcome
and was properly entertained. The
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-08-10
ROAD GRADING COSTS
REACHES STABLE BASIS

The cost Of grading for highway
construction apparently has reached
stable condition, according to sta
tistics Of the Bureau Of Public Roads
of the United States Department Of
Agriculture. The average cost per
cubic yard for grading on federal
aid roads rose from 3S cents in 1917
to a peak price of 66 cents in 1920,
and has since gradually declined.
On federal-aid work contracted for
in the last three months the average
price per cubic yard for the whole
United states was 33 cents in April.
so cents in May and "a cents in June.
The cost of other items entering
into road work also shows a general
tendency toward sterilization, al
though in many cases not as marked
as that for earth work.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-08-10

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Things to Do on the Farm in August.
Specialists of the Extension Ser
vice, University Of Tennessee, offer
the following timely suggestions of
things to do on the farm in August:
Livestock Sheep: Early lamb
market always best; get in on it; turn
ram with ewes at night; use only
purebred rams. Hogs: Let hogs
make use of early corn and beans;
supply tankage in selffeeder if using
clover or beans alone for fattening
hogs; supplement with 100 pounds of
corn to 10 or IL pounds of tankage
in self-feeder. Cattle: If pastures
are short and gains slow. supplement
with three parts corn and one part
cotton seed meal; 6 to 8 pounds Of
this to steer per day. Feed; Time
to take inventory Of livestock and de-
termine the number to carry through
the winter on the amount of rough
age you will have.
Poultry-Cull the moulting hens.
They will loaf till next spring. The
best layers are still laying and will
not moult until fall. Crimson clover
sown with the turnip seed for table
green's viii make good winter greens
for the poultry.
Dairying- cows to keep off
flies and feed literally if pasture gets
short. Fix up the barn and milk
house, putting the buildings in good
shape for the convenient handling of
the cows next winter. Build a ma
nure shed if you haven't one. Ask
your county agents for plans for
these buildings, or write to the dairy
specialists, Division of Extension, for
help
Marketing Watch the livestock
market closely and be prepared to
ship cattle and hogs that are ready.
The market usually begins to decline
the latter part of September Pur-
chase fertilizer comparatively for
wheat and other fall-sown crops.
Rural Engineering the corn
and silo cutter ready for fall work
and repair silo. Build chicken house
and spring house. Terrace your
washing lands.
Club Work-This is month for
camps and rallies. If the entire coun-
ty does not have camp, rally or pic
mic, local clubs should get together
for a day of fishing, swimming and
dinner.
Lime-The Tennessee farmer can
not go on producing Is bushels of
corn, 10 bushels of wheat and one
ton Of grass (and weeds) per acre
as an average and expect to make Il
decent living. Very little above av-
erage yields can be expected until
lands are lined. One ton of burnt
lime or two tons or crushed limestone
per acre applied once in six or eight
years is the most economical amount,
though a few hundred pounds of
either is beneficial. Large amounts
under alfalfa and permanent pastures
are profitable. Burnt and finely
crushed lime for the same or like
rock are Of equal value when used
in the ratio of 1862. The finer the
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-08-10
Crimson olover IS Cover Cor.

eMANAAlko AtH Ihcu
Crimson Clover as Cover Crop.
Thousands Of Tennessee farmers
have found that it pays to grow Grim
son clover as a winter cover crop. 1t
furnishes a great deal of pasture
during the fall and early spring and
then can be turned under and in
crease the corn or other crops very
materially, add humus and nitrogen
and increase the water-carrying ca
pacity of the soil.
For pasturage for sheep, hogs,
cows and calves it has proven to be
the best of all winter crops. If sown
early with liberal seeding it viii
furnish a good sod so that it may be
Dastured six to eight weeks after be-
ing seeded.
Dairymen say that it increases the
flow of milk and saves commercial
feeds. When mixed with rye or bar
ley it makes an excellent pasture and
also makes a greater amount of green
manure to turn under in the spring l
If crimson clover is turned under
one acre is worth 20 loads Of barn
yard manure. It adds about 80
pounds of nitrogen per acre, and
nitrogen is the most costly CONNER
cial fertilizer on the market. 1t will
grow without lime on the average
soils and it is not apt to freeze out in
winter and is good crop to sow with
red clover as nurse crop.
Crimson clover keeps the soil from
washing during the winter. 1t stores
more nitrogen in the soil. It makes
very good hay when cut at the
proper time. 1t makes the very best
green manure crop that Tennessee
farmers can grow. Your corn crop
following crimson clover will be in
creased from 10 to Is bushels per
acre. The plant completes its growth
in May in time to be plowed under
for crop of corn and soy beans.
1t will pay you to sow several acres.
but by no means should you let the
year pass without seeding as much
as one or two acres for trial plat.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-08-10

The first pin-making machine was
made by an American living in Eng
land in 1924.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-08-10

Ceylon has always been the chief
locality for pearl fishing.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-08-10

you win be saving this democracy
for great and war-torn world.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-08-10

material the better when moderate
amounts are used
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

will wear them. The outstanding style
element, however, is not altered.
Consider the long skirt for in
stance. Paris decreed that the long
skirt should supplant the short knee
length which formerly prevailed. The
change was so radical. as submitted.
that 1t had to be modified in order to
save the American woman from APP
pearing freakish. But the tendency
is reflected in the type OF garments
in the ball room Why. even in the
style centers in Paris-at the races,
the opera, etc, the American woman
far outshines the French woman in
the matter of dress. 1t is decidedly
noticeable. English costumers who
have been accustomed to visit Paris
only, for the purpose of obtaining
their styles, have visited this country
in recent months to purchase strictly
American models. English women
have commented SO freely upon the
fact that our women are the best
dressed women who visit the English
cities that their leading retailers have
come to New York for strictly Amer
lean models to compete with the
French merchandise.
Better Tailoring Here.
ain this connection it is worthy of
note that among the outstanding COM
ment of foreign and domestic buyers
is the fact that our merchandise is
made in manner far exceeding the
French merchandise. The tailoring
is better, the general construction is
better, and the fit is decidedly better.
This alone speaks for the generally
natty appearance of the American
woman as compared with the women
of any other country.
During the war our dependence
upon France for style ideas was con-
siderably lessened. We had to utilize
every resource at home. And our de-
signers did themselves proud. No one
can gainsay the fact that the Ameri-
can women continued to dress well
even tho Paris origination was lack
ing.
when M. Poiret says that the
American women do not follow the
style he may have in mind instances
wherein our women refused to accept
certain outlandish changes, uncom-
Portable and impracticable. They can't
foist anything like that on the gen.
eral public here, altho they may be
able to induce some of the extremist
type of flapper or demi monde to do
anything, just because it bears the
Paris Endorsement. This brings to
mind the shop girl who turned to her
sister worker behind the counter one
day and remarked in a tone of dis
gust: Mamie, you sinp, why don't
you bob your hair like all the other
girls, and show some signs Of orig
inality."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

Topeka's youngest professional box
ers, are Aubrey Bill" Busey, age 10,
and Claude Junior Busey, age IL
They are the sons of c. C. Busey, S29
Adams street
For the last five years the. brothers
have boxed at public and private en-
tertainments. They are saving all of
the money earned at the exhibitions
to pay for a college education. Bill is
now in the Junior high school at Lin
coin school and Junior is in the fifth
grade. When they have completed
their elementary school. educations
they plan to attend a military school.
Aubrey and Bill both receive physi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

opportunity to pay their tribute. Miss
HempePs plans for last year had long
been made and this season is the first
opportunity she will have to keep the
promises then made.
Jenny Lind stands alone in the
world of song. She was not only the
greatest singer of her time, but a fine,
noble-he hearted woman, whose heart
went out to the helpless and needy in
quick and practical sympathy. Fame,
far beyond her fondest dreams, came
to her at the beginning of her career.
but still she worked increasingly that
she might always give of her best. In
later years she founded music scholar
ships, and perhaps the students bene-
fitting by them today, most clearly un-
derstand how high and noble she held
her art. She earned vast sums of
money for those days; kings and
queens did her honor; the people wor-
shipped her-yet somehow thru it all
shone her beautiful simplicity of soul,
and she kept her sense of values true.
It is a curious fact that after her
American tour she never again sang
Observation-Disclosures she gave many
concerts for charity.
Miss HempePs recent debut in
Copenhagen wildly recalled the debut
of the Swedish singer in America
Hempel as The Jenny Lind of To-
day" Miss Hempel was invited to
visit Sweden during her summer
abroad and every opportunity was
given her to go thru the Lind records
and to visit the places which were a
familiar part of Jenny Lind's life.
There is no record of Jenny Lind S
voice-no black disc to perpetuate it
for coming generations. But the jour-
nails of her time; the few living per-
sons who heard her, and those to
whom the memory has been handed
down, all tell the same story: at was
UODderfIll' -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

Frieda Hempel is given a series of
Jenny Lind concerts this season in
honor of her famous predecessor-th
Swedish Nightingale. Miss HempeI
will wear an exact copy of one OF
Jenny Linds gowns, which was made
for her in Paris last summer; her as
sisting artists will be CARRIED as be-
fitted that time, and in setting and
song the atmosphere of the olden days
viii be preserved. The world famous
prima donna of today is turning the
clock back to 1850. the year that P. T.
Barnum r.sked his own fortune and
all he could borrow on a singer he
had never heard nor even seen. But
Jenny Lind was then the most talked
of person in Europe and the great
Snowman used his own picturesque
methods to make her the talk of
American. Then Jenny Lind came
and by her art, her heart and her
personality left a trail of wonderful,
beautiful memories that seem to take
on a deeper, warmer glow as time
passes by.
The idea of the Jenny Lind concerts
was brought about by the Historical
Centennial concert with which New
York on October 6, 1920, celebrated
the one hundredth anniversary of the
birth OF the Swedish singer. Frieda
Hempel was then chosen to imperso-
nate Jenny Lind because of all sing
ers, according to history and tradition.
her voice, her art and her personality,
the most strikingly resemble those
rare endowments of the Earlier Queen
of Song.
The celebration was a wonderful
event with all the atmosphere and
charm of the olden time "a
night o rare music" night
to be forever cherished in the mem
ory." The news went all over the
country and from every section came
letters and kilograms from neODIe
urging that they, too, might have an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16
GOSPEL IN RECENT BOOKS
Special Series of Autumn Sermons Ar
ranged by DIR. Estey.

Special Series of Autumn Sermons Ar
ranged by DIR. Estey.
A unique series of five sermons 10
being presented at the First Presby-
terrain church during the autumn by
DR.. S. s. Estey. pastor OF the churchs
The series is based upon The Gospef
in Recent Books" and opened Septern-
Der 10. It will end Sunday, octos
Der 8.
The first sermon of the series. Sep
TENDER 10, was based upon the novel.
Homeland" by Margaret Hill Nc
Carter, and was accompanied by a
special song service, in which songs
of home and patriotism were featured
On Sunday, September II. the ser
mon will be 1.-The Making of q Wo-
manly Woman" based upon . review
of Lytton Strachy's Life OF Queen
Victoria" The following Sundays
September "a, the sermon will be on
Does Prayer Get Things?" and will
be based upon a review of Getting
Things from God" by Charles A.
Blanchard, president of Wheaton col
lege, Illinois. rssu
On Sunday. October 1. the sermon
will be rs the White Race Doomed2 ~
and the book from which its substance
will be taken is The Rising Tide OF
Color" by Lothrop Stoddard. ~
The final sermon of the series, Can
a Man Have a Second Chance, viii
be taken from John Masefield's poem
THE Everlasting Mercy" ~
All of the sermons will be given at
1880 o'clock in the evening. sl
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a.Newiyweds'' Married 81 years.

Dodge City, Kan, Sept. ia
honeymoon trip. with rice throwing
and a regular "newlywed" sendoff on
the sixty-second anniversary of their
wedding. was an event to be remem-
bered in the lives of Mr.. and Mrs.
Amos johnson of Great Bend. It is
their first pleasure trip, the aged
couple declared. They were showered
with rice as they left Great Bend and
a celebration was given in their honor
here at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd McGaben, relatives of Mr.. john
son, following which they continued
their journey to Long Beach, Cal
They were accompanied by their two
daughters and a son.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

cal training at the 7. NJ. G. A In
addition to boxing they are interested
in wrestling and swimming.
1.-The boys are both expert wrestlers
and use all of the holds and breaks
that the professionals use. am
afraid to let them wrestle for public
entertainments, tho. for fear that they
will become excited and seriously in
jure each other" their father said.
In giving a public boxing exhibition
the boys usually go three enc and one
half minute rounds. They do not
fight for a decision They will box
this evening at the special athletic
show at the Free fair =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16
PITS Ban on Hazing,

Syracuse, N. Y, Sept. 16.-Hazing
will be tabooed at Syracuse university
by edict of the university administra-
ton when the college opens this
month. Vice-Chancellor William P.
Graham in recent statement an
nounced the hazing ban was intended
"as a protection of the students them
Syracuse class war last year
was marked by one fatality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16
Rehearing Is Granted.

Girard. Kan, Sept. ia rehear-
ing on the United States postoffice
department order which prevented the
Haldemann-Julius Publishing corr
pany here from carrying out its "trip
to Shakespeare's birthplace contest
has been granted. The company
meanwhile was given permission TO
dispose of some 100000 volumes
originally intended for use in the
Shakespearean contest. But the per-
nit specified that the disposal of the
volumes of literature should be with
out the contest feature. 81
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BURGLARS LEFT A NOTE.
Had a Surprise for Merchant Whose
Store They Robbed.

New York. Sept. 16.-When Saul
Liberman, who lives upstairs and runs
stationery store downstairs at No.
976 Prospect avenue, Bronx, went to
open his store recently he found a
note pinned On the front door reading:
you'll be surprised" %
And he was. On opening the door
he found that burglars had looted the
place of $500 worth of his stock.
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son of Judge Banta, the date of Hays
and Wallace's trial was set for Octo-
Der 2. Judge Banta says this date
conflicts with the sittings of the court
in other counties and must be
changed. Hays and Wallace are
charged with being accessories in the
alaying of Banta. At the Nixon trial.
Judge w. C. Harris of Emporia, pre-
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CHANGE DATE OF TRIAL
Alleged Accessories to killing of A. G
Banta, to Court this Month

Great Bend. Kan. Sept. 16.-The
plan of Judge D. A. Banta of the dis
trict court, is to have the trials of
Roy Hays and A. L. Curly" Wallace
held this month, rather than October.
At the conclusion of the trial of DR..
W. A. Nixon, who was convicted and
sentenced to life imprisonment for the
Staying of A. c. Banta. attorney and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

At the close of the Dante ceIebra-
tons at Ravenna. fragments of the
bones of the poet, stolen in 1866 but
later recovered, were reunited to the
skeleton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

Crinping the hair is an old inven-
ton. Even the ancient Romans used
crimping irons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16

It is reported that Robert Merrell
Gage, who this year resigned from the
faculty of the Kansas City Art Insti-
tue, went to New York city on Sep
TENDER Is to become first assistant to
the noted American sculptor. Gutson
Borglum. In speakinf of Mr.. Gage
it is appropriate to say that the Phil
Billiard memorial. which he executed
last year at the order of the Topeka
Rotary club. is included by competent
judges. among the five best works of
sculpture produced in the United
States last year.