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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-24
SOUTH SUFFERS HEAVY
LOSSFROM FOREST FIRES

Forest fires burned over 22,0OO,-
600 acres of forest land in nine
Southern States in 1925 and lnthct-
ed loss of $1S,000,000 according to
the Forest Service, United States De-
partment of Agriculture, following
an analysis by the Southern Forest
Experiment Station at New Orleans
of estimates collected by the State
foresters. Approximately "a per cent
of the total loss from forest fires IN
the United States is represented III
this figure.
Although the area burned over
constitutes "a per cent of the total
area swept by fire in the United
States, forest officers point to a de-
crease of 35 per cent over the 1924
loss. This advantage is due partly
to more favorable fire weather, and
partly to more efficient fire fighting
organizations of private landowners
and state forestry departments.
Of the total loss of SIS, ,OOO.O00. o9
per cent represents the estimated
damage to forest tree growth. The
difference in methods used in the va
rious southern states of estimating
fire damage made it impracticable to
distinguish between the loss to mer.
chantable timber and to immature
trees. Nor was it possible to esti'
mate the proportion of fire-killed tim
Der which may have been salvaged
following the 46,382 fires that swept
the south in 1925.
E. L. Demmon of the Southern
Forest Experiment Station, who an
alyzed the estimate, points to the eff
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-24
COMPLETELY CRIPPLED
TH|RTY-F|VE DAYS
Tried simple home treatment
now walks easily without cane

How the agonizing pain of an acute
attack of rheumatism was eased, and
recovery hastened is told in letter
from John Smith of Shock, KY.
"I was taken with pain in my left
leg, and for thirty-fve days could
not sit up" he writes. 81 got no
better until began using Sloan's Lini-
ment. Before 1 had used one bottle /
could sit up, and now can walk with
out a cane"
And it is amazing the quick, gen.
uine comfort that Sloan's gives. 1t
doesn't just deaden the pain. 1t stirs
UP the body to throw off the cause.
No need to rub even. A little Sloan's
patted on lightly-and healing tide
of fresh, germ-destroying blood begins
tingling through the aching place. Be
fore you can believe it, the pain, swell
ing and stiffness are relieved. Get
bottle today. All druggists-35 cents.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-24
OUR WEEKLY WASHINGTON LETTER

crate. The problem of relieving th'
world of its numerous boils OF racla
distrust is one of the peoples not OF
Governments. Probably there mas
been no greater exemplification OF
this fact than the remarkable friend
ship of the people of Armenia toward
America.
Greatest of Musical instruments
The arrival of the new violin star
in the musical armament is always
an event of the highest Importance IN
the universe of art, and if Mr.. San
Malo, the South American violinlst,
proves to be all that is claimed for
him by those who have heard him,
his American debut recitals during the
next few weeks in New York, Chica-
go. Boston, and other cities will
be recorded as the great
event of the musical year.
For nearly three centuries the vio-
in and its larger brethren have held
he leading position among musical
For them have been
written some of the most inspired
works of the great composers Fa-
nous composers like Tatini, Corelli, !
,pohr and Viotti have been great vio-
Inists, and by their compositions as
1uch as by their talent as perform
RS, have largely developed the capa- i,
ity of the violin as vehicle Of pro-
ound musical expression. To the
steiner the violin speaks with an in
,nsity, a sympathy, and evokes
lrill of the senses such as no other
can produce. For play
: like Mr.. San Malo, it seems to re-
,ond to every pulse of his emotions.
This talented South American
,mes equipped with three violins
hich are famous wherever music is !
lown. His Stradivarius, valued at
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-24

feet of the loss on the general pub
lie.
"The huge money value of the tim
ber burned each year by forest fires
in the South should make clear the
Importance of fire prevention" de-
clares Mr.. Demmon. "Private tim
ber land owners suffer the greater
losses but ultimately it is paid for by
the general public. The fact that the
loss in the South in 1925 was twice
as great as that of all the remaining
states combined, warrants the consld-
GRAFTON Of all who are interested in
the conservation of one of the South's
greatest assets"
The Southern Forest Experiment
Station is making extensive studies
of the actual loss of timber growth
which occurs when fires burn over
forested areas periodically.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-24

welcomed by the the best official So
ciety and President Coolidge and Sec
retary Jardine headed the list of those
who gave them a hearty welcome.
Mr.. j. C. Wright director of the fed
eral board of vocational education,
told the prize winners and a large
group of guests at the dinner given
them by the Chilean Nitrate of Soda
Educational Bureau, that successful
farming in the United States could
only be accomplished by the applica-
ton of the principle of making two
blades grow where only one grew
before, and he said it didn't make any
difference whether the crop was
grass, corn or cotton.
In the last five or six years, ac-
cording to Director Wright, the adult
farmers have been going to night
school to learn more about farming,
with the result that 10000 to 10000
farmers are now attending these
schools in different parts of the coun'
try. They have become quite a fea-
ture in certain sections, and the move
ment is spreading throughout the ma
ton. Mr.. Wright told how these
schools are successfully supplement-
ing the work and experience of farm
ers, particularly the boy farmers ano
the girl farmers. In his address he
declared that satisfactory production
was a certainty whenever the lano
was properly prepared by the use OF
nitrates and other fertilizers, and ne
said that in the night schools they
made it a point to demonstrate the
absolute necessity Of keeping up the
soil.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-24
HOILOMAN DECLARES ATTITUDE OF BANKS PART
CAUSE OF The SOUTH'S AGRICULTURAL TROUBLES

ton and potatoes, and fruits and cane
and peanuts, ETC., can thus be turned
into clear, clean surplusses. The
farmer need not be worried so mucf
about the price of ra wcotton II his
cotton is a surplus. If he must apply
the proceeds of cotton to debts made
at the supply store for hay and corr
and meat he is not only worried, but
actually distressed. Particularly sc
if he owes the same cotton to the
bank that loaned him money on the
condition that he should put his acre
age chiefly in cotton.
"The credit agencies can do more
to relieve farm depression than all
of the legislation that can possibly
be enacted. You can't legislate pros
perity into a mans economical sta
tus any more than you can legislate
religion into his heart. Sometimes
an attempt causes rebellion, and does
more harm than good. There is more
in the man than in the land, and more
in the influences that control the man
than in legislation.
II have hearty sympathy with the
general principles of the McNary-
Haugen bill, but unalterably oppose
the equalization fee which imposes a
direct tax upon the farmer against
every bale of cotton he produces, de- ,
spite his marketing arrangements, or
his status as to landlord and tenantry. |
In that respect the bill is faulty. The
Curtis-C Crisp bill proposes to set up
he same kind of federal stabilizing |
without such tax upon |
production, and for that
'eason I infinitely prefer the latter
,ill. There should be federal stab
lization Of agriculture, and federal
ontrol of surplusses, but without rad
cal, paternalistic or direct taxation
features.
again, Mr.. Chairman, let ne urge
he banks to encourage the farmer to
'irst of all live at home balance his
work hard, economize,
tay away from the idler's corner
IN the courthouse square. fertilize
literally and make much of his own
fertilizer as possible, prepare good
seed beds, use only good seed, culti-
7ate intensively, stay out of debt as
much as humanity possible, and make
he money crops-whether cotton or
what not-clear surplusses. Then
will agriculture in Georgian the
South-come into the fullness of a
new day."
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-24

In a recent address before the
Railroad Development Association OF
the Southeast, James A. Holloman
associate editor of the Atlanta Con
stitution, said:
zone of the outstanding troubles
with agriculture in the South today
is the attitude of the credit agencies.
And this applies not only to the
mortgage loan companies, but partlc-
ularly to the banks. 1t even applies
to the federal farm loan and inter-
mediate banks. They-to an alarm
ing extent-predicate farm loans on
cotton production. That is to say
the rural banks especially-require
farmer to plant so many acres to
cotton as a security against so much
money advanced as loan. The un-
made cotton is thus pledged for debt
and however earnest and sincere may
be farmers wish and plan to bal
ance his production, and to raise food
and feed in plenty for years home
requirements, and to raise other than
cotton money crops he is thus un-
willingly forced into cotton produc-
ton. Too often he is forced to plant
entirely too much cotton, not enough
grains, pasturage and general DIVER
sified production. There are too
MANY notable exceptions. Some
banks with far-seeing vision, en-
courage balancing of the crops.
But as rule they do not and sur
plus of cotton, and a low price for
cotton, are the consequences.
eve should get away from this.
We should not only encourage but ]
demand Of the farmers that they pro-
yide in their years program first OF
I'll everything that is needed to feed {
he family and the stock from harvest
eason to harvest season. Every far ]
ner should have at least 2 snnHll herd
# pure bred dairy cows ~ @"eam |
inds a staple, standardized market. !
'he cream checks come in weekly
throughout the year. These provide
money when money is needed most.
The skinned milk should be utilized
n raising pigs. Thus the smoke house
an be kept filled, and the necessity
or buying meat will be eliminated.
Every farmers yard should be fill
ID with purebred chickens. In this
manner farm wastes can not only be
Utilized but turned into profits. Time
IAN be conserved. The usual idle
seasons can be dispensed with. Cot }
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-24

The sorting and handling of tobac-
co by farmers and dealers, according
to the government standards, will in
sure uniforanaackings. From such
packings, ma ifacturers will be e.
abled to make purchases with assur-
ance that the tobacco is of the length
necessary to meet their Requirements.
Specifications of the standard
sizes and description of them have
been printed as United States depart
ment of agriculture miscellaneous
circular No. 83-M, entitled Omitted
Sites Standard Tobacco Sizes" cop
les of which may be obtained, as long
as the supply lasts, on request to the
bureau of agricultural economics,
Washington, D. c.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-24

A Washington woman, who recent
ly returned from Constantinople, wa
asked the other day how she likeo
Turkey. "It's all right" she said
"but there are too many foreigners
over there"
Her attitude, according to DR.
Charles V. Vickrey of the Near East
Relief, is typical of many people who
visit Turkey and the Bible lands
They consider every person who does
not speak English foreigner.
Everyone, then, is foreigner
abroad. The attitude is not confined
to Americans. Every nation in the
Near East considers its immediate
neighbors foreign and unfriendiy.
Bulgarians always speak OF the
Greeks as "rascals," and the Greeks
refer to the Bulgarians as bandits.
American educational and relief
work has been the first influence
which has been able effectively to
break down this barrier, says DR..
Vickrey. In his annual report to
Congress, he declares that this has
been the greatest and most important
international service which has been
attempted in eastern Europe in mod
ern times. He explains sagely:
'If there is to be an end to racial
hatreds and suspicious which have
been in Torment on the earth since
first two men felt desire for the
same cave, it will come not through
the gestures of statesmen and the
marvels of diplomacy, but through
the work of agencies Of practical
friendship between one people and
another. There are many indications s
that universal peace can never be IN I
sured by the efforts Of governments, {
because of the necessarily narrow '
limits in which governments must op- X
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-24
8! Rea u Gifua1
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Ii IS; Flowers
Free !!
- -
ne Cor Mastings' catalog

You can have packets of seeds OF
5 different and very beautiful flowers
free. Hastings 1927 Seed Catalog
tells you all about it.
Hastings Seeds are THE Standard
of the South" They eSve the best re-
suits in our Southern gardens and on
our farms. Hastings new 1927 Cata-
log has 112 pages in all, full OF pic
lures from photographs, handsome
covers in full colors, truthful, accurate
descriptions and valuable culture di-
rections.
We want you to have this catalog in
your home. 1t tells all about Hastings
garden, flower and field seeds, plants
and bulbs-the finest in America
Write for 1t today. A postcard re-
quest brings it to you by return mall
H. G. HASTINGS CO., sEEDsMEN,
ATLANTA, GA.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-24

S5O. 900. is one of only 25 genuine
instruments by this maker. He also
possesses an equally rare Amati and
third instrument of old Italian man.
ufacture whose exact workmanship is
matter of controversy. The highest
compliment that can be paid to Mr..
San Malo is to say that his musician
ship is worthy Of his violins..
Tin on the Increase
There is a notable increase in the
consumption of tin in the United
States Official statements indicate
that canned soup and beans and 9TH
er foods are largely responsible for
this prosperity in tin.
Chemical Industry
Ivory was brought from Parshish
by Solomon's ships. Homer made
songs about it, and Phidias chiseled
it into statues and plated it with gold.
In the the crude processes of. manu-
featuring as it existed half century
, ago, bones of animals were substi-
tuted for ivory. The whale supplied
great strips of bone and thereby be-
came powerful factor in taking up
the shortage in ivory, to say nothing
about the stiffening furnished by him
for antiques" that included women's
corsets. Steel, iron and different |
forms of plaster and cement came
along next, and just when industry !
appeared in the center of the picture
was counting it's triumphs the chemist
and began to make everything over
anew. Today the barrels of fountain
pens are made from a chemical sub
stance called pyralin; shoe horns and
shoe trees made of the same material
are created in jade, lavender, pink ]
and other bright colors to look like (
marble. New effects in wall switch
electric light plates are showing up in '
pyralin, and these with wall fixtures {
can now be procured in colors to Y
match the woodwork of a room, or to 2
harmonic with the decorative +
scheme. And when milady goes out s
into the bright sunshine or the drip n
ping rain she doesn't have to carry O
flippity-floppity bone or steel handle f
umbrella because chemical industry 7
low supplies everything but the top +
If it in pyralin. Chemists added to n
his and make the job complete by 7
putting on roof Of rayon. The same i
ady wears spectacles with extremely r
light weight frames, fashioned from f
ustrous demi-shell colored pyralin
md thereby adds to the attractiveness
If her appearance. If they fall from
he perch on her nose the chances are
he lens will not break, as precautions
n behalf of safety-first show that
:hemically-framed spectacles prevent
,wo-thirds of the breakage that for
nerly occurred. '
The "Seven Wonders of the World"
we're chronicled to suit the ancients,
and afterwards what was known as
Others Wonders of the World" were
added to the list. Which should be
a reminder that all previous lists
could be effectively revised by seeing
America and its chemists first.
Night Schools for Farmers
When the champion cotton growers
from the South, and the corn king of
who comes from Ohio, were
in Washington recently, they were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-01
SANITY OF JACKSON
WILL Be EXAMINED
Execution, Set for Today,
Stayed When Counsel
Files AffidavitS.

Philip Jackson, colored. who had
been sentenced to die in the electric
chair at the District Jail today for a
criminal assault in the Capital grounds
on Mrs. Daisy yelling, yesterday was
granted a stay of execution for 80 days
bv Justice Hoehling in Criminal Divi-
sion j, for the purpose Of allowing
time for an examination into the san
ity of the prisoner. Justice Hoenhns
gave Attorney Wilson, counsel Tor
jackson, until July IL to present to
the court a prima facie showing Of
insanity, to substantiate the affidavits
which were filed yesterday in the sue
aeaRful effort to secure a stay. Argu-
rnents on this phase of the case Will
be heard the following day.
Assistant United States District At
torney Collins strongly opposed the
granting of the stay. pointing out that
the people whose affidavits were pre-
scented Yesterday could have been
brought into court at the time of the
trial, but they were held back until
the last minute. But Attorney Wilson
said that the witnesses on INSANITY
could not have been heard in the orig
inal case because the prisoners plea
was an alibi and not one of insanity
and therefore the evidence would nave
been Inadmissible at that time.
- He assured the court that be had
tust received the information on
which the affidavit could be based
He admitted that he had heard ru.
rnors Of it, but it had required until
day before yesterday to find some one
who could really swear to the facts on
which the stay was being asked.
One affidavit was that Of Charles +
Swami, now a metropolitan policeman
who worked with the condemned man
at Indian Head, Md, in 1918, and who
said that the prisoner was irresponsi
BILE for what he said and did. Another
bore the statement that the prisoner
was the son of family iEtermarrage
and another was from a local physi
clan giving a statement that an issue
of such parentage might be a moral
degenerate. Attorney Wilson said the
time would be needed to get evidence
Of these facts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-01
WATCHMAN HURT
BY SPEEDING AUTO
Police Arrest Isaac H. Hor'
ton After Exciting Chase.
Other Accidents Reported.

Pursued by two taxicab driven
after he is alleged to have driven hi
automobile into a Matchbox of thu
Capital Traction Co., on Pennsylvania
avenue near Twenty second street, in
Turing the Waterman within, IsaacH
Horton, so years old, III Gallatil
street, was overtaken at Second and
E streets and arrested on charges ol
reckless driving and leaving the scent
of an accident without making hi
identity known.
James Howdershell. SIS years old
the injured Waterman, was taken II
Emergency Hospital. Howdershen d
employed to watch the traction com
pany's property where improvement
in tracks is in progress. Shortly aftet
u o'clock when he was in the watch
box. a machine, in which there vert
four passengers. crashed into the box
C.r Is Pursued. -
Two taxi divers, Jesse I. Hill and
James o. HiV tits, saw the accident
and pursued the car as it sped cas-
from the scene. They overlook the
machine at Second and E streets
where a policeman appeared and ar
rested Horton. He was taken to the
third precinct police station. He Wal
relea sed on a cash collateral OF $fs00t
for his appearance in Traffic Court
The three other occupants of the ma
chine were recorded as witnesses. =,
Grace 3. Russell, 80 years DID,. Gov
eminent Hotels. was struck by a street
car at Sixth and Pennsylvania ave
nue. yesterday. She received severt
injury to her face. First aid wal
given by surgeons at Emergency Hos
pital.
Edward Hightower, colored, so years
old, 1913 D. street southwest, wat
knocked down at Maryland avenui
and Third street northeast last nigh
by the automobile Of Lawrence Gold
berg, 1915 H street northeast, and hi
head cut and bruised. Surgeons al
Emergency rendered first aid.
Collide on Key Bridge.
A collision on Key Bridge last nigh
between a street car and the automd
bile of Gordon S. Miller, 40 years old
of Ballston, Va, resulted in serious in
jury to the occupant of the automobile
Miller was taken TO Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital. et
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-01
TALL CEDARS INITIATE
20 DURING CEREMONY
Final Rites Of Season Are Held at
Willard Hotel-Vaudevill
Program Presented.

Capitol Forest, Tall Cedars of Lena-
non, initiated % new members at the
final ceremonial this season in the
Willard Hotel last night.
Those officiating We're Grand Tall
Cedar Alvah w. Patterson, senior
Deputy Grand Tall Cedar II. M. Van
dervort, Junior Grand Deputy Tall
Cedar DIR. ]. r. Prendergast: Charles
r. Brill, director of the Tall Cedar
Band; P. Raymond Bosch, captain OF
the degree team; John r. jenkins, Oh
rector of stunts, and John @. Slye'
chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee.
Those initiated were: William p.
Ames, Fl. T. Booth, c. E. Bush, r. A.
Boyd, Don C. Foster, D. II. Foster, Z.
S. Gault, E. p. Harrison. Robert G.
Hudson, Frank del Vecchio. W. {.
Lewis. r. w. Matthews, Clyde j.
Nichols. G. II. Phillips, G. A. Luchner,
r. r.. Rollison. Avon Shockey, II. L.
Snodgrass. w. G. Shelton, c. l..
Schmid, f. s. Schmid. George c.
Shaffer and i. II. Weikel. ~
4 vaudeville program was presented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-01
CARUSl TO PARTICIPATE
IN JULY d CEREMONY
Will Read Declaration of indie
pendence at Civic Celebration
Monday yening.

Charles f. ca , o.. prominent Wash
3ngton attorney and president Of the
Board of Education, will read the Dec
laration of Independence at the July
Fourth celebration to be held Monday
evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Sylvan
Theater. The ceremonies, as arranged
by the citizens committee appointed
by the District Commissioners, Will. IN
clude the pledge of allegiance to the
flag by the entire assemblage ana q
brilliant massing flags by patriotic
societies. Red, white and blue flares
and the firing Of bombs likewise will
be a part of the celebration.
Isaac Cans, chairman Of the COM
mittee OH the celebration, ammo inces
that he has received but $5l6 or the
needed $500 10 make the event sue
cess. The committee solicits dollar do
stations. az well as large amounts, 10
steel the fund to the required amount
~ Saturday a!sht-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-01
FAILURE TO SUPPORT
CHARGED TO ST. JOHN
Film Comedian Is Released on $500
Bail-Five-Year-0ld Daughter
Is Involved.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July AL st.
John. film comedian, today faced a
charge of failure to support his o.
year-old daughter. who has been in
the custody of Mrs. Lillian st. John,
since she obtained a divorce in 1923
on charges of cruelty. She was
awarded $3.50 month alimony.
st. John surrendered to the sheriff 8
office yesterday when he was informed
by telephone that warrant for his
arrest had been issued by San Diego
court.
st. John remarked June Price
Pierce in July, 1926. The warrant was
issued by the San Diego authorities
when it became known that the film
comedian contemplated a trip to
Europe with Roscoe Arbuckle, film
comedian.
II just slipped up on the alimony,''
st. John said. 81 intended to pay 1t
as soon as / could get the money"
Bail was fixed at $500, which he FUR
nished and then was released.