The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-11
THEYNEVER DREAMED
OF BILLION-DOLLAR
CROP INCREASES
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

By HERBERT KAUFMAN.
TN 1912 Messrs. Chambers, of Edinburgh, predicted
/ that "as those splendid projects in which the
Americans fond of induIgng approach
realization the quantities of lands will be daily
growing less the rapidty with which capital now &C
cumuates will be diminished in the same proportion
and the nation becomes greater and more powerful
in the degree will the resources its population
be lessened:
"These fancies expressing the rapid increase Of
population, and the filling of the whole American
continent with nation of unparalleled power are
mere playthngs of imagination"
AT that particular moment, the entire United States
debt $21 900.
Today we carry unpaid foreign loans exceeding SILL
100000, 900 and without financial limp.
The "exorbitant annual wages of American labor
three times those of European craftsmen and often as
high as $3.50 annually regarded impossible Of
Now cloth spongers aren't even satisfied with $50
week. and threaten to strike unless their pay is irnedi
ately increased at least % per cent.
The entire cost of running both State and Federal
Governments was less than 100000 900 in 1887.
Benefactions of single citizen like Mr. Rockefeller are
frequently more in twelve months.
One private enterprise, the United States Steel Cor
poration expands its assets billion dollars worth every
decade And Henry Ford, playing lone hand won't sell
the business he has built from nothing and in less than
tao decades, for thousand million dollars
The Stanton Bank and Trust Company of Great Falls
Mont closed because of ndscreet for the Dempsey
Gibbons bout shows resources of S1774 900 and Great
Falls doesn't begin to be punctuation point in national
development.
Other PLGythings of Imagination.
A MONG other playthings of imagination" direct
~ attention to bion-dollar gain in crop values for
1923-an advance in agricultural earning power of
$4,000, 900 900 in two years.
Planters about to pick 114oooOO bales of cotton
foryeght States and local tobacco plantations alone
will harvest 1,425oOO,oOO pounds of leaf President
Van Buren, could have paid all the overheads of his adj
mnistraton with the income from present peanut
yield.
J. P. Morgan used to say that anybody who sold
America short would finally go broke. The Chambers
Brothers not his favorite authors.
The Rather Changes Skins.
EOsTER, RUTHENBERG, MANLEY & co. four old
victed emssary of Moscow -weI-known manufac-
turers of to throw in political works
for use in the coming Presidential election which they
expect to market widely under the prated of The
Like German silver which neither is silver nor made
IN Germany, The Federated Farm-Labor Party is an
altogether different organization from the Farn-Labor
Party or the American Federation of Labor, both of
which repudiate its principles and purposes
1RS Vmnous oGf simply nashHp OF Reds
radical trust, dominated by seconfessed anarchists
and avowed opponents of every principle Of
Don't be deceived by their protective coloring
Ratters are never poisonous as when they change
"LOrd, They KnOw Not What They Do"
WHILE Lieut. Wesley Hague, U. S. N. is absent on
w duty, the Rev. George Lyman Payne entertains
W his eght-weeks' bride They go auto riding
and pausing to admire rural landscape he pets the
lady: Mr.. Payne acknowledges one fathery kiss
nOtn1ng more.
When last seen, the reverend gentleman masked
in wet towels and redolent of arnica.
"The little wisp of nineteen years. didn't understand
that ministerial OSCILLATION is mark of benignity.
Hard-fisted young husbands are also apt to misin-
terpret such kindly gestures
Traditions of the Cloth nobly upheld by
DR.. John H. Kerr. This frai, venerable Brooklyn
clergyman discovers gang of burglars in his home
and battles with the ruffians until of them cracks
his skull with an
Lying at deaths door, he broadcass message of for
gveness to his probable murderers and bids them
return and receive his assistance Lord they know not
what they do"
Justice Still Rules.
THE California Supreme Court uphods Judgment
of 100000 for alienation of affections against Mrs.