Evening star., 1923-09-12

| hundred French girls for college
courses, the government of France
paying their expenses Of travel and
board; while the American colleges
to tningle French and American ideals
and thereby knit the two nations
more closely together. Results may
De intangible, but who can question
their existence?
Gov Pinchot makes the Suggestion
to President Coolidge and to the gov
ernors of all. anthraeite-consumlng
states. that measures be taken to pre-
vent gouglng I'm the price OF anthra-
cite, He contends that even, the 60
cents per ton extra conceded to the
miners should not be taken at the
expense of the consumers, but should
be shaved out of cost of transpor-
tation and the profits of the oper-
ators and dealers. Just how this Is to
be safeguarded, the governor does
not undertake TO show.
How would fact-finding commits
sion with very strong publicity bu-
reau effect the end? There is some
thing like an acid test OF all prices
to be found in "pitiless publicity" s
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Henry Ford announces that he in
tends to show farmers how to breed
dairy and beef cattle in one animal.
The idea is about as old as agricul-
turei Some farmers will ask the great
breeder of flivvers whether It is well
to emulate the cobbler in going be-
yond his last
1T is just as difficult to develop a
COW that can convert her feed into
both flesh and milk as to "eat your
cake and have II too The quest for
a dual purpose COW" is like the in
vention of perpetual motion, in which
imam never is, but always to be,
blest." Why should not Mr.. Ford first
do something easier--as, for example.
creating combinatio Ford liSnou-
sine and Edison tractor,
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SecRetary Work OF the Department
OF the Interior makes significant ex-
posure of the governments irrigation
enterprises He says the government
has expended $134o00,o00 on irriga-
tion and has produced returns of only
$14, 100000. How about the other SI2e,-
oo0. 600?
There are other statesmen who still
ects for ''reclaiming'' more of the
great American desert.
To what end? That more millions
may be spent, in order that more agri-
cultural acres may be put upon the
market in competition with the pres
ent recognized surplus of farm land
The present farmers are doing un-
limited complaining that farming Is
not now profitable. Would added com
petition make. il more profitable?
Secretary Work has appointed seven
wise men TO gather facts on the sub
ject. Four. of the seven are citizens of
the states that are being irrigated.
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vitamines, without them. no food
will save from starvation. For years
the chemists have told us that eys-
tiers contained little nutriment. Now
they announce that nothing except
lemons contains so many vitamines as
oysters. With raw oysters, Favored
I with lemons. then, the dish must be
+ At for king or a prizefghter. And
September is one of the months con-
tanning an r I'm the name. vitamine e
month!
The story-is going the rounds again
-yet-that q college student answer
ed his professor that he knew what
electricity is, but could not at the
moment remember how. 70 explain II.
Same might be said about vitalnines.
Scientists know no more about one
than the other, but would dispense
with neither.
3. Copyright. 1928. By p. V. Coilins.)