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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-26
SCHOOL SURVEY
REPORT
FINISHED HERE
Will Serve as Foundation for
Educational Work Dur
ing the Year.

The biennial survey, which serves
as a basis for the biennial report to the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton and which has occupied Miss Jane
Keeney, county superintendent of
schools, and her office force for the
last month is nearing completion and
will be ready for submission within the
next few days. it was said by Miss
Keeney Tuesday. According to law, the
report must be finished within a 30-day
period after the closing of the school
term.
Financial and statistical reports.
which are also being compiled by Miss
Keeney, are annual and are also near
ing completion.
The biennial survey is exhaustive
and covers every phase OF school con-
ditions and is the foundation for many
of the new movements which are insti-
tuted annually in the state educational
program. Among the matters consid-
cred are the relation Of salaries to
teachers. and the relation of salaries
therefore to education. The grading of
all pupils is considered and from this.
action in regard TO children of varying
intelligences is often planned.
Transportation. enrollments and at
tendance all in their relationship TO
each other and to the school system
as a whole are among the statistics
TO be found in the report. which. upon
its completion, will be sent TO Miss
May Trumper. state superintendent of
public instruction.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-26
Board Will Meet
to Prepare Budget
for Rural Schools

The budgets for the maintenance Of
| rural schools will be made up this week
by the county board of schOol. trustees
for rural districts. which will meet
Thursday morning at the office Of
Miss Jane keeney. county superin-
tendent of schools.
The board will sit for several days
and expects to work 70 a conclusion
on all budgets that are submitted by
the a sub districts of the county.
All of these budgets. which contain
an estimate of the cost of operating
the schools for the ensuing year. must
be compiled into one budget for sub
mission to the board Of county commits
sioners before the first Monday in
August, when the levy for raising the
necessary funds for the support Of
the schools is levied.
Appointments will then be made
according TO the respective budgets By
the county board. which will convene
for this purpose in December.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-26
G. N. Wants to Know
About Shortage of
Labor on Ranches

Information has been requested
from General Agent J. s. Book of the
Great Northern here concerning a pos
sible farm labor shortage in Montana
Monday by f. G. Leeds. general agri-
cultural agent for tho Great Northern
system. The information was request
ed in order that he could furnish il to
employment bureaus in ST. Paul and
Minneapolis. Mr.. Leeds said.
Demand for harvest hands has not
yet become acute in Cascade county
although the harvest season is well
under way, according to County Agent
F. r. MacSpadden. Many Of the farm
ers have gon in together to do their
cutting and stacking. but when the
thrcshing season begins many men will
BE- needed. he said.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-26
RETURNS TO LEWlSToWN

Albert Lebing. cashier of a Lewis
town bank and delegate from the
American Legion post of that city,
passed through Great Falls Tuesday on
his gay home.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-26
HIGHWAY DIRECTOR HERE

DIR. s. F. Way of Clyde Park. Mon
tana director of the National Park-to.
Park highway. was a business visitor il
Great Falls Monday.
The New York herald., 1922-12-24

he was drafted into service and made by
Kolchak the head Of his bureau of intelli-
gence. Then came the debacle of the ad-
ministration, followed by the withdrawal
Of Ossendowski and his wife to Kras-
noyarsk, a little village on the banks of
the Yenesei. Here it was that in February.
1920 a detachment of Red soldiers sur
rounded his home, demanding his surren-
der and the opening chapter of Beasts.
Men and Gods" was written.
Il often used to wonder" Ossendowski
has said. "as I sat IN the office of my
Petrograd newspaper. why this great hulk
of a body was given to me-" He is an
enormous man physically, finely proper
toned and possessed Of an erectness Of
carriage which sets off to the best advan-
tage his apparent strength. The answer
to his question came to him in the great
forests of Siberia. No ordinary man could
have withstood the terrors of those. trying
and lonely days. No ordinary physical
The New York herald., 1922-12-24

lures which have extended in the twenty
odd years of his activity over a field so
vast as to excite the admiration of any
minded to wonder not only that man of
fortyfive might have found time to en-
gage in the many activities which have
formed his spheres of interest but that
he had the leisure to record them.
But his scientific Investigations have
been but the springs from which his ac-
tivities have launched themselves into
wider spheres. His recognized position as
the authority on carboniferous deposits
from Bering Straits to Bailkal brought
him the office of Fuel Administrator under
Kuropatkin in the Russo-Japanese war
and his political career was begun. His
remarkable intellect and keen understand
ing of Russian problems carried him stead
lily forward till he became member of the
Council of the Ministry of Finance and the
Ministry of Agriculture for the Imperial
Government. Later. early in the war, he
The New York herald., 1922-12-24

giant could have lived through them.
Something further was required and real
lied in the calm determination and resist
less will to live" which alone made possi-
BILE this survival of a life in which the pol
ished aristocrat of the city and court was
forced suddenly to forego the heritage of
generations in a reversion to the instincts
and life of the cave man.
In speaking of his exploits DIR. Ossen-
dowsk has expressed his entire satisfac-
tion in their occurrence, because, he claims,
'he had always wondered if civilization
were forcing man out of contact with ma
ture-making it impossible for him to
cope with the outdoors without the beni-
sons and equipment of modern science and
adventure" But the generality would
hardly follow the particularization. Other
men would have broken under the terrible
strain of months spent in solitude. Few
could have withstood the strain to which
he was subjected when he attempted to
lead his band of tattered and fugitive
counter revolutionaries across Mongolia
on the futile dash toward India which so
nearly resulted in the annihilation OF the
The New York herald., 1922-12-24
Fleeing From the Blosheviki.

1t is interesting to note that these politi-
perial Government were the eventual fac
tors in forcing the flight responsible for his
remarkable narrative In 1918, with the
rise of the Bolsheviki following the over
throw of the Kerensky Government. Dr.
Ossendowsh was forced to flee from Petro-
grad. where he was editing the Evening
Nelcs, and take refuge in Siberia He took
up his residence in Omsk the seat of the
counter revolutionary government of Ad-
miral Kolchak, and accepted chair in the
College OF Agriculture and Industry But
The New York herald., 1922-12-24
Exploring Two Continents.

BY profession he is a scientist-primaril
a chemist. but also a Observation-Disclosures
travels have led him to the most intimate
acquaintance with the entire sweep of
norther Asia, from Corea to the Bering
Sea. He has lived the life of gold miner
in Siberia and is doubtless one of the few
outsiders who have survived to tell of the
Government of Jeltouea. that strange re-
public of brigands formed among the
miners in the Siberian gold fields, who
knew no law but their own and refused to
brook the interference of Russian govern
mental officers. He has journeyed through
the Crmea and has studied the conditions
in the platinum mines of the Urals At the
outset of the Russo-Japanese war he was
Preceding himself, to some extent, along
the trails of his book, he journeyed practi-
cally the length and breadth of that dam
gerous land, studying especially the clans
of the northern districts His report was
startling in the light which it cast upon
the inner workings of the minds of Jenghiz
Khan's sons and the depths of mysticism
with which the centuries old empiricism
and religion o. the land had surrounded
them.
The scientific reports of his Investigations
read more like fiction than valuable con-
tributions to the metallurgical and eco
nomic literature of the world Doubtless
the preparation of these works marked the
important beginnings of his literary ven-
The New York herald., 1922-12-24

entire party at the hands of the Tibetan
brigands
With Ossendowsk it was n different
matter. The conditions, horrible as they
We're. must be faced. and his own philosophy
and training expressed themselves forcibly
in his actions. Continually harassed by wan
dering tribes of Bolsheviki, Tartars, Mon
gols, Tibetans and others, he found time
nevertheless. TO take the most minute notes
upon the flora and fauna which he OBJ
served Somewhere in his travels he
secured water colors. and with these, to-
ge her with some brushes picked up, one
wonders how in the midst of such condi-,
tions he supplemented his scientific notes
pictorially. He found not only the time
but, more remarkable still. had the interest
to make a number of studies of rare or
unknown roots and flowers which he came
across in Mongolia He used his talent.
too, for his own amusement, and several
sketches of famous personages encoun-
tered during his adventures he retains as
souvenirs of his exploits.
He kept no diary of the months spent
in wandering through Mongolia and made
no notes save those of a purely scientific
character with the single exception of his
nine days stay in Urga. There, engaged
in continuous strenuous activity, he still
found opportunity for full detailing Of
his conversations with Baron Ungern.
The New York herald., 1922-12-24

was made a member of the Council Of the
Navy and in his official capacity, in COM
pany with one of his colleagues, undertook
to win over the Tsar to a policy which
would have done much toward changing
Russia's initial offensive in the war. The
success of his hours of pleading was
thwarted later that afternoon when the
Car true to his established custom,
changed his mind and the advantage
gained was lost
The New York herald., 1922-12-24
Ossendowski's Enormous Energy.

The manner in which the book was writ
ten is characteristic of the enormous
energy of the man. When once he had
decided upon his course he lost little time
Like many men of science. he has learned
the secret of working upon slight moiety
of sleep and it was his practice to write
until two or three o'clock in the morning,
rising at seven, and after his breakfast
meeting Mr.. Palen at eight thirty for the
work of translation. In this way the en-
tire volume was prepared in the incredible
space of six weeks!
The Ossendowsh who was in Washing
ton last spring was quite different per
son from the battered, torn and careworn
The New York herald., 1922-12-24
By STEWART T. BEACH.

~ ELDoM from the frame of history
there steps down into modern life
among us one to whom the glamour
of Polo. a Robinson Crusoe or a knight
of the Middle Ages is so readily accorded
as is the general tribute to this amazing
personality. In February, 1920, Ferdinand
Ossendowski. to save himself from the
Bolsheviki who had surrounded his home
and demanded his surrender, fled into the
great forests of Siberia. Fifteen months
later. with the polish of aristocracy eff
faced and with nothing in the battered,
bearded mujik who emerged at Hailar on
the Manchurian railway recognizable as
the quiet, cultured scientist who a little
over a year and a half before had been
chief of the bureau of intelligence in the
administration of Admiral Kolchak, he
took train for Pekin, subsequently to sail
for America
In August last appeared Beasts. Men
and Gods" an account of the most thrill
ing adventures recorded since Marco Polo.
the north. had given to a startled world
the results of his own Mongolian travels
in His Booke." Many travellers since the
great Venetian and his followers struggled
against the demons who ride the winds
OF Mongolia have recorded their own ad-
ventures in that land of mysterious
glamour, but until DR.. Ossendowski. under
the pressure of circumstances was con-
strained to write his narrative, no man
has had the coolness and detachment to
record frankly what happens there.
1t is little wonder, then, that his book
has attracted such universal interest. For
its style is unique. Rejecting continually
character which marks its author as no
ordinary reconteur the book fails to give
any hint of his real identity. There is
no suggestion that he is the same Ferdi-
nand Ossendowski, known as the authority
on carboniferous deposits from Bering
Straits to Baikal there is nothing which
would lead the reader to suppose that in
1905, after the upheaval following the Rus
sian revolution Of that year, he was Presi-
dent for sixty days of the short lived Gov
ernment Of the Far East in Siberia or
that during the Russo-Japanese war he
acted as Kuropatkin's Fuel Commissioner.
There is not even a trace of the writer
who has been editor of the Vetchernoye
Vremyd and several mining and technical
journals in Petrograd, as we'll as the
author of some fifty novels scientific
works and books of travel Yet his ex
traordinary perspicacity and intimate in
-.
Men and Gods reflect to some extent all
of these. But the mirrored image gives
only the slightest suggestion of the many
sided and enormously full life enioyed bv
this man of amazement"
The New York herald., 1922-12-24
The Story of His Translator.

PerhapS, however, the true character OF
the man is best revealed through the story
told by Lewis Stanton Palen, his collab-
orator and translator, of the events sur
rounding the writing of Beasts Men and
Gods" The two had secured quarters in
the same hotel in Washington, where both
were occupied with the armament con-
ference, Ossendowski as an adviser to the
Polish Government and Palen as a special
ist on Chinese and ManchurIan affairs.
doing some work in the State Department
One evening in Washington Dr. Ossen-
dowski came to him bearing the manu-
script of an article he had prepared upon
the flora and fauna of northern Mongolia
asking that his friend assist him in turning
the matter from his Russian into fluent
English and aid him in getting it into a
magazine that he might secure money for
his wife's rescue from Bolshevist Russia
Palen expressed his readiness to comply.
but suggested that the price which the
manuscript might be expected to bring
would hardly defray the expenses of the
stenographer. The Pole was exasperated
at the suggestion and inquired almost
petulantly how many times a man must
be compelled to risk his life and how much
privation he must undergo in order to
insure the interest of the American reading
public in material gained at such terrible
cost. "It is significant of the mans char
acter," says Mr.. Palen, that after weeks
of intimacy and daily contact he had never
told me more of his adventures than what
was contained in mere references to the
plight of his wife and the hard time he
had experienced in getting out I began
to question him about his adventures, and
listened to the unfolding of his tale far
into the night / was constantly incredu-
lous, but he gave the most spirited answers
to my frequent questions and expressions
of doubt as to the possibility of his having
lived through such horrors When he had
finished I said to him, Write that story
and market for it may be guaranteed
But again the character of the man ap-
peared. No, indeed he promptly replied
L am not going to capitalize my own per-
son and experiences
The New York herald., 1922-12-24

Continued on Page TtoelUe.
The New York herald., 1922-12-24

~ ELDOM from the frame of history
among us one to whom the glamour
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-05-05
S8,000,000 INVESTED IN FOX
FARMING IN UNITED
STATES

More fur farmers are engaged IN
raising foxes than any otacr Yur-bear.
Ing animal. Observations male IN tile
field by Representatives OF the Survey
indicate that ut least 900 ranchers are
raising silver foxes, and that there are
between 10000 and 5000 foxes In cap
tivity. II Is estimated that about 49,
100000 Ia invested In mis- industry.
Tho industry of breeding fur-bearinR
animals has grown because of the rap
ID development of the modern fur srade
In the last % years. The United states
Is the largest fur market and fur con-
suming country In the world.
Many inquiries concerning fns farm.
Ing are sent TO the Biological Survey.
The problems met by fox and other fur
farmers require, 40 m the ense 0f other
live stock, u knowledge Of species. tenn
permanent, sanitation, diseases and par
aaItes. In addition, fur farmers are
handling wild animals In captivity and
not domestic stock. A knowledge Of
pelts, particularly OF values and mar.
kct requirements, IN essential to sue
cess from the business standpoint, and
this ordinarily means TO visit person.
ally warehouses, manufacturing fui1f-
ers can not always do this, Representa-
tlyes of the Biological Survey are con
stantly bringing before them all pos.
sible information relating to the fur In
dustry In all lts phases.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-05-05
PLANS BEING MADE FOR FARM.
Frs DAY

Representative Sydney Anderson,
chairman Of the joint commission Of
Congess ON agricultural inquiry, will
be the speaker at the University Of
Maryland on Farmers Day, May 9th,
It was announced today by DR.. II. J.
Patterson, chairman of the committee
on arrangements
Economy In the production and mar
keting of farm products will feature
the Farmers Day Program this year.
Demonstrations Of farm methods,
which will be numerous, are being
planned to meet the present needs 0f
the farmers, according TO DR.. Patter-
son, and will show practices that are
profitable under the present depressed
condition of the farmers marriott. Ey-
hibits and demonstrations will cover
practically every phase Of farm opera
ti0n.
Livestock will be given particular
emphasis on the program and the
demonstrations In this subject explains
Dr. Patterson, will be designed TO
bring out the facts that livestock and
livestock products have proved Iuip0r-
tant factors during the period ~ sir;n-
gency and offer most profitable
means Of marketing agricultural crops.
At least two State farm orenniza-
tons, the Maryland state Beekeapefa
Association and the State Hol3sein
Breeders Association, will hold lset-
ings at College Park In connection with
Farmers Day. Others have been In
vitcd. An additional attraction viii be
held on the new University athletic
field May 9th.
Exhibits and conferences for poui-
trynien, tobacco growers, hof.icIitlr-
lists and other groups Of farmers are
being planned. A free lunch will be
! served by the University
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-05-05
LATER CUTTING OF ALFALFA
FOUND TO BE BETTER
PRACTICE

Delaying the cutting of alfalfa until
II is nearly In full bloom has been
found better practice than moving
it soon after blooming starts. Trials
made by sthe Department of Agricul-
ture and State experiment stations IN
dicate that the yields are larger over
u period Of years, and that the life Of
the stand is prolonged by delaying
harvesting until the plants are nearly
in full bloom.
Hay made when the plants are near
ly In full bloom Is not quite 10 palat-
able, but this Is offset by the gain In
quantity of hay. The fields that were
cut prior to or Mt the beginning OF
blooming showed q tendency to die out
sooner. Cutting crop late In the fall
so that not enough growth was left
for protection in the winter also had
much to do with thinning stands. Tho
department recommends that alfalfa
be given time to reach height Of to
inches before cold weather shuts OF
the sap flow.
In the past the growing of alfalfn
in rows In dry regions has been reconn-
mended, but experimental evidence
gathered by the department In the last
few years shows that, with the excep-
ton Of few rare varieties the seed Of
which sells for high price, this meth.
cd Is seldom practical. Where the
rainfall Is not sufficient to grow al
falfa In broadcast stands II can not
usually be grown prohtably In rows.
A slightly larger yield may be produce
ed, but not enough 10 pay for the add
cd expense. Also the hay harvested
on this cultivated ground Is apt TO BIO
dirty and II Ia hard to cut and load.
Accommodating experience also haa
exploded some old notions about the
value Of cultivation Of broadcast
stand. II haa been found that harrow
ing field OF alfalfa ordinarily doea
not increase the yield; neither does II
prolong the life of the stand 10 any
noticeable extent. The modified spring
tooth harrow does not injure the plants
but the disk often kills many and re-
duces the stand Some sort of cultl-
walton appears advisable In irrigated
regions where the water carries
great deal Of silt or where the soil has
been compacted by the tramping Of
cattle pastuied on the alfalfa. The
department believes there Is usually
little to be gained by cultivatlng broad
cast fields when the stand Ia good. II
weeds and grass work In and reduce
the stand II IL better to pillow up the
field and put In another crop for o year
or two. II y hard TO thicken thin
atand by cultlvatlng Ii and sowlng
more seed; In fact II In a waste of time
the department believes.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1922-05-05
NOVEL. PLAN USED ny HUTCH.
Frs TO IMPROVE LOCAL
LIVE STOCK

Recognizing that livestock improves
ment Is beneficial to the meat trade III
well ~ to producers OF animals, butchs
era are becoming Interested In the bets
ter-sires idea. a progressive firm Of
butchers In small Ohio City socks to
better the live stock OF that locality BIZ
plan described In the following let
terra:
"While we have never made bust
ness of dealing In purebred live stoek,"
says the writer, I'VE have alwaya en-
couraged their use. We try TO keen d
line on well-bred young bulls In our VT
entity, and whenever we buy an animal
for slaughter we use our beat effc1fa
to have him replaced with something
better. We believe this plan will help
to build up the quality OF cattle In tha
nelghborhood, TO the advantage Of both
ourselves and the farmers.
when we kill an animal that has an
exceptionally good 'dess' we display
the carcass In our window, giving t1a d
card the age, live weight, dressed
weight, and the percentage Of dressed
meat. In this way we advertise To
producers that they get more live
weight and we get more dressed
weight from well-bred- stock than
from inferior stock Of the same age.
We have demonstrated also the super
ioltty OF veal calves from well bred
parents md have shown that they
mean more TO the farmer In dollars
and cents than the other kind"
In commenting on the plan, live
stock specialists In the Bureau OF AMI
NAL Industry point out That small town
butchers are In position to help In
influencing the quality of future gem
crations OF cattle and hogs thnt come
70 their >teuptttlng blocks The plan as
presented by thS ~. Of s4ks;ssass quo-
ted Is In accord with metk0dS oY fivuAr
stock Improvement advised by the do
pnrtment.