Evening star., 1923-08-03

ring-tsiled monkeys. This is human |
interest story, for the research ex-
perts of the prohibition enforcement
bureau and the anthropological de- ,
pdrtment OF the Smithsonian Institu-
ton. The Department of Justice can
not RUE on the question as to wheth-
er prohibition applies TO monkeys or
only men until the evolution problem,
is definitely decided. If it does not
apply TO monkeys. how many men
VIII make monkeys OF themselves.
Ihe campaign TO raise funds to pur-
chase Monticello, the home of Thomas
Jenerson' has been so successful that
the chairman OF the committee. Sena-
tor Copeland OF New York. has gone
TO Monticello with 500. 1000 with
which TO make the purchase The
place Is to be donated to the govern
ment and provision will then be made
Tor Its maintenance as national
shrine. similar in purpose to Mount
Vernon, the home of Washington.
Such historic landmarks become
more sacred to patriotism as the
years go by. The more familiar that
one becomes with the foresight and
acts of Thomas jefferson, the great
democrat.~the more one must realize
the influence he had in making this
nation what it is today. Writer of
the Declaration of Independence
founder of the democratic PARTY and
interpreter of pure democracy pur-
chaser of the great midwest and the
Mississippi river. no man has left a
deeper imprint of his vision and intel
he
dent.
During the last year. $4,000 city
people migrated to farms according
to the statistics of the Department of
Agriculture But $4,000 will be-
come homesick for the great white
way the city diversions. and espe-
cially city wages, and eventually will
return TO city life At the same time
100000 farmers have left the coun-
try for the city. where they will in
crease and multiply and replenish
their larders with city wages Only
their grandchildren. on picnics, will
ever seek the country again
Thus the trend of population con-
tlnues to seek level in the city. and
the country will gradually find itself
peopled by an independent race which
loves its independence. All that modi-
mes that independence now is the boil
weevil, the drought or food. the rust
and the potato bug. the chinch bug
the taxes and the high cost of help
Otherwise, when the neighbors are
|, handy, Nature is just grand.
Farmers in the winter wheat belt
are holding their wheat, rather than
to sell at present S0-cent prices. Up
to July "A the primary markets had
received only 100000 bushels, as
compared with 42,OOO.O0O bushels at
the same date in 1921. The spring
wheat of Minnesota and the Dakotas
had not yet been harvested: harvest
is now at its height in those states
The Federal Farm-Loan Board an
nounces that it will accept wheat re-
| ceipts. based on storage in approved
elevators, but that does not help the
generally are the property of the
| commission merchants and elevator
| companies. who are midd!emen against
whom the farmers are always com
, planning The Federal Farm Loan
| relief. therefore. relieves the wheat
dealer, but not the wheat raiser. The
dealer advances the money to the
farmer only after the wheat is put in
! the dealers elevator, or is en- route.
shipped to the dealer. 1t does not
enable the farmer to wait for a favor
/ able market, without expense for
storage, in a public elevator.
y * X
| Is there not a law prohibiting lot
| owners from permitting vacant lots
to be overrun with ragweed and
other noxious weeds and objection
able grasses? Hay fever season is at
our portals. and acres of ragweeds
are fiourishing along streets and al
leys. In Michigan town. last week,
all the citizenry turned out to destroy
weeds Then the task of keeping
4, them down was turned over to the
F, Boy Scouts That town is a summer
resort for hay fever sufferers. Per-
haps the farm bloc will lead us into
a weedless Arcadia. thereby proving
that 1t is made of real dirt farmers
copyright, 1873. by r. Y. Collins,