Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-10

| Two schools OF thOught are laDOf-
ing very hard in Washington to set
tie the agricultural question for the
Nation. The plans from school num-
Der one, which is political school
of thought, are found in measures be-
| fore Congress, some of which have
partial approval of the President and
administrative heads of the govern
ment. Usually they provide ways and
means by which the United States
Treasury and the Federal Reserve
Farm Loan Act, or directly TO bank
ing houses, to increase the volume
Of loans on farm property. Bills like
that bearing Congressman Haugen's
name, go still farther, bat the gener-
al direction uses Hhe same government
financial terminals
School of Thought number two Is
concerned with agricultural econom-
les that conserves the soil. The
United States has been blessed with
such an abundance of farm land that
it has been mining" its soil for gen.
erations. AS result the statisti-
clans show what the yield per acre
is less in the United States than in
most of the civilized countries of the
world. Everyone has learned to keep
oil in their automobiles to prevent
the burning out of the bearings, but
thousands of farmers neglect to fer
tilize their land when they know they
are burning out the crop-bearing pos
sibilities of 1t.
Washington is hearing a good deal
nowadays about crop-growing con-
tests in different parts of the coun-
trv. The prize-winners are showing
up regularly in Washington and their
stories are so convincing and clear
that one does not even need to be
farmer to understand what is hap
nening. They all prove the same
point, i. e.: that besides winning the
nrizes held up to them as an induce
ment they have conserved the soil,
maid for their fertilizers and made
h;o money out of their crops. Wheth-
er they raise corn, cotton, grain or
vegetables the results are always the
same. Which indicates that econom-
ics in farming is sound sense. The
nolitical methods are not so easily, or
satisfactorily, summarized.
Aluminium
There has been an increase OF l1'o
per cent in aluminium manufactures,
according to census report Tor 1879.
To the Law mind the use of aluminium
is concerned mainly with the manu-
facture of cooking utensils, bat that
use is only one of the vast and con-
stantly increasing number in which
this VERSATILE modern metal is en-
ployed. Aluminium finds place IN
feed wires for electrical trolley sys-
TENS in which copper alone was Tor
merly used. Aluminium is utilized IN
long distance transmission lines, and
it finds its way into the manufacture
of paint now being extensively used
for metallic objects, such as weighing
machines, mail boxes, steam and not
water radiators, and other familiar
objects. 1t is also used in the man.
ufacture of steel, and President At
terburg of the Pennsylvania railroad
and Henry Ford, in explaining their
respective offers for Muscle Shoals,
said that they wanted cheap power
in order to procure cheap aluminium.
Among the great varieties Of other
users of aluminium are found soap
manufacturers, who use it in manu-
facture of stearin Packers OF food
products of every kind, and notably
those dealing with vegetables, fruits
and fruit juices, use aluminium ket-
ties, piping, and other equipment.
The great automobile industry de-
pends upon, and is one of the great
est consumers of this modern metal.
1t also goes into airplane construc-
ton, and into all the arts and indus
tries where results sought in superior
qualities of metal are found in alum
mum. In 1855 the price of alumi-
nun was 500 a pound; today it is
| about 81 cents pound.
Morgenthau ON the New
Turkey
Constantinople, historic portal be-
tween the east and west, has lost its