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around into the henyard and counted
his chickens. He counted exactly the
same number as he had had the day
before. He stracthed his head. Il couldn't
have counted right" said he. For
week now I've lost two or three chickens
every night. It can't be that I didn't
lose any last night. I'll count them
again."
So Farmer Browns Boy counted the
chickens again with the same result.
Then he counted them third time.
You see. under the circumstances. 1t was
very hard to believe that all of them
could be there Finally he had to admit
to himself that all were there. Jimmy
hadn't taken a chicken the night before;
Probably Jimmy wasn't hungry.
come out today and get caught IN tnat
trap he'll surely catch a chicken or two
tonight"
Jimmy didn't come out, so OF course
he didn't get caught. Farmer Browns
Boy visited the trap the last thing be-
fore he went to bed. Then the next
morning he was up bright and early and
out at that trap. There was the trap
Just as he had left 1t. There was no
Jimmy Skunk in it and no one else, for
that natter Then Farmer Browns Boy
hurried into the chicken yard once more
to S.,unt his chickens. He took the
greatest care to make sure that he
didn't count a chicken twice. When
he had finished counting them, there
was a queer look on his face.
Now what do you know about that?''
said he. II didn't lose chicken last
night I don't understand this at all.
I'm sure I didn't make mistake in
my count, but to make doubly sure III
count them again"
So he counted them again and third
time. Each time he got the same re-
suit. 1t would seem that his chickens
had stopped disappearing. He didn't
know what to make Of this at all.
"It must be that Jimmy is fasting,
said Farmer Browns Boy, as he re-
turned to the house. II haven't been
able to find any way for him to come
out from under that henhouse. so he
must still be there. But, If he is there.
why hasn't he taken some chickens?"
For the next two or three days the
results were the same. Farmer Browns
Boy didn't catch Jimmy Skunk, nor did
he lose any chickens. Beyond all doubt
they had stopped disappearing. It was
very mysterious.
(Copyrisht, 1929
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Copyright, 1922

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Chickens Stop Disappearing.
Even when you really try
IT'S hard to make suspicion die.
Earnsa~ EY0TN'g RA'

Farmer Browns Boy finally made up
his mind that he would have to trap
Jimmy Skunk In a box-trap and take
him away. So that afternoon he took
the trap out and set it at the hole under
the fenhouse. He had no doubt that
he would catch Jimmy He knew that
Jimmy was too independent to be sus-
picious and was one of the easiest Of all
animals to trap.
IT don't like to do it," sighed Farmer
Browns Boy. IT don't like to do it, be-
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cause like to have Jimmy around. But
I cannot afford to lose any more chick
ems. Jimmy has never bothered my
chickens before and don't see why he
couldn't have left them alone this time.
guess I'll have him in the morning all
right"
The first thing the next morning
Farmer Browns Boy went to look at the
trap. Jimmy Skunk. wasn't In it. NO
one was in it. It hadn't been sprung.
"Huh!" said Farmer Browns Boy. IT
suppose Jimmy ate so many chickens
that he didn't feel like coming out"
Then Farmer Browns Boy went
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-22
COOLIDGE IS SILENT
ON NEW YORK TRIP
Former President Fails to
Reveal Purpose of Visit
to Gotham.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 22.-Calvin Cool
idge has arrived In New York, apparent
ly determined that as private citizen
he shall continue his custom Of using
words sparingly.
To reporters who accompanied him
from the train at the Grand Central
Terminal and rode with him in an ele-
vator to a suite at the Commodore
Hotel he gave no Indignation as to the
purpose of his trip to the metropolis.
The only response their questions
brought was a family noticeable tight
ening of Mr.. Coolidge's lips. Hotel off,
Gals said he was in New York on a
matter of business"
Mr.. Coolidge was accompanied by
Lucius S. StorrS, former vice president
of the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad and managing director
of the American Electric Railway Asso-
citation since 1925. Mr.. Storrs boarded
the train at Springfield, Mass.
Only a handful of people saw the
former President arrive in the Grand
Central Station. AS he stepped from
his train. Mr.. Coolidge paused for mo-
ment while cameramen's flashlights
doomed and then walked slowly through
the station to the Commodore. with Mr..
Storrs on his right and half dozen
New York City policemen at his left
and In the rear.
He carried small black bag and wore
blue business suit, dark overcoat and
dark felt hat, which he lifted as a rip
pie of applause came from the on
lockers.
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FISH BREAKS HOOK,
BUT LASS0ES ITSELF
one-Pound Jack Is Landed by
North Carolinian by Novel
Method,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KINSTON, N. c., March 22.-They're
roping fish in Kinston now. A one
pound jack hooked In the Trent River
by Arthur Ramsey, whose reputation for
veracity is unbesmirched, broke the hook
in half but failed to get away. The fish
had twisted the line into a perfect moose
around its neck in its efforts to escape.
The harder the fish pulled the tighter
became the moose which landed it.
Veteran anglers who witnessed the
capture swear to 1t.
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Brookline, Mass, population 10000,
with four main arteries running
through the town, did not have q traf-
&c fatality in .192a.
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are Of sturdy tweeds
and cheviots - whose
quality will delight
mothers. and whose
cape backs, scarf
throws and other
style features will thrill
their youthful wearers.
Sizes ! to IA years.
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Tots Wolfe DR..
Of Lovely DUAL

Dainty as can bean
voile wears! White, .
embroidered. Sizes / to
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consist Of unlined
tweed coats with short
sleeved frockS whose
tops are of silky
printed rayOn, and
whose pleated skirts
are Of tweed to match
the coats.
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G. II. MOTTINGER
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ROADS AND FARM AID

WITH $44,703 to spend on roads,
w Benton county's master
plan. should make the markets
easily accessible to farm products
Coordinated with the state high
WAYS now under the new farm-to-
market system, and supported by
the gasoline tax, the building and
Improvement of these transporta-
tion arteries will cut down the dus-
ty, rutty distances that discourage
q farmer with a bumper crop ready
to sell.
It is aid of this kind, altering
the underlying conditions, that the
farmer needs. No farm relief can
be permanent that does not relieve
the cause of the trouble. An OPP
portunity that does not come often
lies in the hands of the Benton
county officials who make the mas
ter plan. If they fail to make the
most of that opportunity, they fail
in their duty to the farming com
munity which has placed them in
their position Of responsibility.
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- :.lo,rrondouf
Sooner or later gne lnue rrohIa,,,
farmer may race me SANE e+p;1er 10
that the independent =
facing. h.fo~e IN +h;e col
nave WIlteen .:s;Ie devoIonment
umn OF the po0o 80
of chain systems OF lalms lo.low-
ing the idea OF the cnsain syssellS
of stores.
Today wan! 70 spsaH ;n ss -
ly of the principles HlxolvSp IL
corporation farming "i inrra ~" fac+n n
doubtediy become e .@t 1880.
in the future OF aGrlc; - no+ ;,.t
Corporation farming = nv ~
large-scale Iarmng' 4L :. -.
It may bite OH NOR ne t snaj III; = 1 for
chew; its unit may p- o evU I III
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Dear Editor.

i offer the following for publ
cation:
In last weeks issue it told how
Mr.. Lape, the proprietor of the
Kennewick market. slipped me
$23s.6S for two steers. Now that
sounds good and big all right, but
lest some Of your rural readers
might consider pulling up their
trees, etc. and putting it into
steers, would like to say that
slipped that check into the bank
as part payment of $500 worth of
hay that ] slipped out on the snow
last winter along with four acres
of good corn to keep said steers
and a few of their relatives from
starving to death.
But of any should go into steers
regardless, / would advise them to
buy their hay from a dealer. For
if they do and find ton or two of
spoiled hay has been slipped into
the car of good hay, the dealer
will make it right with you.
Yours truly,
G. II. MOTTINGER
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the great lark of padding up and
down Main street in canoes and In
washtubs. It would be a nice re-
lief from the unusual dust and the
ibumpy asphalt. g.,
Kennewick has her own 1000
nroblem with no lighter moments
since the water never gets deep
enough to go merrily a-boating. 1t
s;rnnlv meanders along about two
inches deep over the street cross
inps. too wide to jump, to deep to
cross by lettering on your heels.
I AVN irrigation is a worthy actlv-
~ as long as it is lawn irrigation.
R,,t when the ardent lovers of the
Green grass allow the life-giving
fluid to wander off the green onto
the public highway, things have
gone too far.
All kidding aside, there have
been numerous complaints about
the impassibility of the sidewalks
due to streams of water. A little
care in banking up the edges of the
lawn, stopping leaks and setting
the hose will do much to silence
these complaints. Let's use little
flood control on our own hook.
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be used, not carried as surplus
| in the city's account.
Using does not mean abusing.
New methods of budgeting and OF
bonding have put into the hands OF
civic directors the means OF gam
mo returns whose value to the
community is in high proportion to
the money spent. With this oppor-
tunity before them, city councils
should be quick to consider any
propositions for genuine commun-
ity advancement. Consideration
need not lead to acceptance, but It
should at least give the PROPOSE
ton an optimistic reception and a
fair hearing.
1t was spoken of ]. P. Morgan
in high praise that he Thought IN
ten-year periods" We live in the
present, but deal in the future. Our
living today would be immeasure-
ably better if past generations had
taken more interest in their future,
which is our present. An ability to
take thought for the days ahead
marks a people as civilized. It is
one of the things that sets them
apart from savages who live liter
ally from hand to mouth. Applica-
ton Of the rules of true economy
will not only create a brighter fu-.
ture for others, but for ourselves,
for the future starts tomorrow.
Take good care of your pennies,
of course. But that does not mean
claiming them up, or holding them
so close before your eyes that you
are blind to bigger things beyond.
A community well provided for is
worth more than idle money.
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for improvement. This is not be-
cause we lack knowledge or in
clination, rather it is because, indi-
vidually, we can not stand the
strain.
Second, greater savings thru
cooperative buying" No one can
dare dispute the accuracy of this
as we have already demonstrated
its efficiency in fruit packages and
other small items. Equally great
savings are possible in other lines
lin seeds and feeds and fertili-
zers. The latter item, while small
now, is destined to play a large
part in our program of Improve
ment.
"Third, greater profits through
cooperative selling" This is becom-
ing accepted practice. In a decade
or less individual selling will be
impossible and impractical. And
in a few more years the old hard
shells, who are now blocking pro-
gress will either all be dead or SO
ostracized that they will be forced
to submit.
Fourth, reader access to out
side capital" We need no more
evidence of the failure of individ-
ual financing than our present con-
dition. The great Federal Land
Bank has lost interest in us and
farmers must have gilt edge secur-
| ity to obtain small loans at a cost
that precludes all opportunity of
his profiting from the venture. 1t
would take less than S250O0.00 to
change all this.
It is not alone the farmers prob
lem, Ralph. Kennewick is interest
ed to the extent of her daily bread
and can and must help us to real
lie the full potentialities of "Ken-
newick Valley, Inc" Down on the
Northern Pacific right-of-way
stands a dual institution, incor-
porated to do everything that will
ever be necessary. Owned by farm
ers, differed and directed by the
farmers of vision and reasonable
intelligence, small enought to be
flexible, large enough to be effic-
iently workable, just waiting the
call of destiny.
In the near future I shall pre-
sent some specific methods by
which this new type of coopera-
ton can be of immense benefit to
our valley. Human nature is slow
to change, slow to adopt new meth
DDS and scrap the old. But, mark
my words, new era. is coming for
agriculture. An era where the in
dividual will be helpless before
either "Big Business Farming" or
organized community farming. The
latter impresses me as the final
solution of our agricultural prob
lem. Admitting that farming has
never hads an equal chance with
other organized business, it will
never be possible to kiss away all
the agricultural ills, real and fan
cied, by way of legislation. 1t
would be better to study the trend |
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ECONOMICS OF SPENDING.

HIVIC economy is not entirely de
~ pendent upon the ability of
town government to keep from
spending money.
Hard usage has twisted the
meaning of the word economy I'M
til it has come to be applied only
to the saving side of money af-
fairs. The truer and more valuable
meaning is preserved in "eco-
nomics." Originally the word came
from two Greek word stems: oikos,
house, plus nemein, to manage or
distribute. Economy, then, right
fully includes distribution as well
as boarding.
Penny wise and pound foolish is
terrible Indictment of any mans
business foresight and understand
ing. Money is means, not an end.
It is wha. the money buys that is
important. For this reason. spend
ing is as true economy as saving.
Economy includes competent
management. The aim of manage
ment is to make the money go
farther, and to do this, one must
sometimes be generous with the
pennies. In school we learned that
100 pennies make a dollar. In bus
mess we learn that 100 well-spent
pennies make two dollars.
How does all this apply to civic
affairs?
A government is in essence all
intermediary between the individ-
nal and his fellow beings, between
the public and its environment. The
people pay, in the form of taxes,
and in return they expect that
those taxes shall be laid out so as
to bring the greatest dividends in
happiness, justice and comfort to
the payers. Taxes are collected to
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and be prepared to embrace the
new day" when it arrives. Presi-
dent Frank has sounded a warning
and a clarian call to action. To be
forewarned is to be forearmed. Will
we, the farmers and business men
of Kennewick valley, heed the call?
GEO. E. SELLICK.
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Reeds
Ranblin's

Quite a thriving little metropolis,
ours. Two Yakima fruit men
drove into Kennewick last week
and couldn't find a place to park.
They came up to George ID. Pc
tiers and asked: ''Say, do you
have to have a new car to be al
lowed to park on the main drag
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in this town." Pretty D:,,,
d & &

.N|
in this town." Pretty n:..,
& & 3 nearl
THERE'S NOTHING nv.
Gus ABOUT A WIDOW MGR
SHE BECOMES A WIFE a vSlL
q & q VAIN.
Bill Muldrow has A -.
Jokes skilfully aimed !, e i&
who'll appreciate them. n someone
into our shop the Otb,, :. ! snPpa
sprang this one. Wy aa
Printers deviI-say. ~.
Is a tramp outside who ha,s,, ne, !,
a thing to eat for six da,s ''n' ID
Editor-BriEg him Il 70,
find out how he does i, v y "a
able to get the paper oS, . .sIl, b
week! '"' anolAe
q d q
He wanted
to work at a
candy counter, So
they put him behind =.
BARS! N We
60
kennewick's famous how .,,..
has disappeared. wuxtry,' v o,,.la
Yeah, Gene Spaulding Ia, 49, O.aill
his twenty-first birthday Last p S..a
&&&
CREMATIUS BIPSNonnrr
SIX FEET SEVEN AND I M WAS a.
ED TO MoURNFULNEsSS'' '''''
WHEN FOLKS ASKED wu,,
WAS THE MATTER. ER "1 !,
WAYS ANSWERED. 'qvF f ~
ED TOO LoNGp
&&&
Some peoples minds wo,t /.
the strangest ways, Co.,
glione, and old Italian FAM. ,''
argued that since an ill.,.,'
erned monarchy was the wan ~,
~
type Of state, weII-baI.D.,
monarchy simply must Be- a
best type.
&&&
Marie took a walk with her s.l.
1t rained. They had one umbr.b
1t started to thunder,
So they Struggled up under
Sh! Here's Marie's ma. Don't vm
tella!
sGE
MOST MERRY GROUNDS lRt
ON THE SQUARE
Banish Fear
To fear the Zoe, since fear a
presseth strength, gives N yoe
weakness strength INTO your iss-
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FLOOD CONTROL

TN our lighter moments, we've
= rather envied the inhabitants Of
flooded towns who could indulge in
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RS OF THE PE0PL'


CORPORATION FARMING
By GLENN FRANK, President of
University Of Wisconsin and
Famous Editor
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Banish Faar

Banish Fear
To fear the Zoe, since fear q
presseth strength, gives IN yOs
weakness strength INTO your ids-
Shakespeare.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-03-08
SOME OF THE THINGS BEHIND
THE CRUISER BILL

at is time this. city bestirred itself
to get a part of the work authoriz-
ed" said an editorial in a leading
paper of an eastern seaboard city
the day after the cruiser bill was
signed by the Presidtnt. He must
have been perfectly aware that that
city had been bestirring itself for
some time. And he must have been
in touch with the fact that the rep
resentatives of the city's interests
had been helping to put over one OF
the most effectual pieces of lobbying
ever put through in Washington.
For the cruiser bill is an express
sion of the shipbuilders aspirations
for contarcts. A powerful econom-
ic group has been quite open in its
demand for the building OF steel
ships. This too when the navy it.
self has demonstrated that such
ships are practically obsolete. Yet
the overtaxed citizen must see ST.
600 900 each allotted for five ships
any one of which could be instantly
destroyed by bomb from a passing
airplane.
1t is only the urge of the ship
builders that could have put through
so feverish and unjustified a build
ling program. And the editor neet
not be afraid that his city might lose
part of the spoils. Plans for sucf
division have been long and definite
ly made.
Yet there remain one or two ques
Itions: Is such feverish haste justf
lied by the world situation? Will
la Disarmament Conference at HAND
why place constructs for cruisers
that may. be scrapped? The coun
TRY at large may be slow in asking
Iyet the answer will have to be made
When it is, it will be seen that thu
most powerful thing, behind the bill
was not the matter of national de
tense. but Of private interests.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-03-08
URGES ADAPTED SEED IN
GROWING ALFALFA

While alfalfa is highly valuable
crop in Maryland and its increased
production is recommended particu-
larly in the dairy sections, many
farmers have encountered difficulties
in growing it successfully, one out
standing reason being the use of I'M
adapted seed, it is said by F. w,
Oldenburg, specialist in agronomy
for the University of Maryland Elk
tension Service.
Farmers who are planning to SOW
alfalfa this. spring should make sure
Of getting adapted seed of the right
type, according to Mr.. Oldenburg,
and then If proper cultural methods
are followed the chances of failure
vill be greatly reduced.
There are two general types of al
falfa, Mr.. Oldenburg explains. One
is the variegated, of which the
Grimm and the Ontario variegated
are the most widely grown varieties.
The other type is the common alfal-
"a of which there are many regional
strains.
The common alfalfa has been
found the best type for Maryland
conditions. Knowing the type OF
seed he is purchasing, however, is
not sufficient to assure the Maryland
farmer that he is securing suitable
seed. He must know where the seed
vas grown. Seed of the common
,lfalfa grown in Kansas, Nebraska,
he Dakotas, Montana and possibly
Utah should prove suitable to Mary
land conditions. although Utah. seed
Vas not been sufficiently tried out in
he State to assure its entire salts
faction. Centrally speaking, how
ever, common alfalfa seed from
these sections is known as adapted
seed which means that it is suited to
Maryland conditions.
II the farmer desired to be sure OF
getting adapted seed he should Sc
ure what is known as seed of veri-
fed origin. Such seed has been in
spected by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture and its origin
certified. If farmer purchases
seed of verified origin, he has the
Department of Agriculture's assur-
ance that it was produced in the
State or region designated.
Notification, however, relates only
20 the origin of the seed and is not
an assurance of variety, purity,
termination, quality. grade or other
factors, it is said.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-03-08

The Prince of Wales is practical
in his presentation of questions OF
troubles of Britain of today. In
his speech at the great fair held at
the Mansion house he emphasized
up-to-date salesmanship in British
industry and the urgency, also, for
finding work for the thousands of
unemployed in the country. Earli-
er in the day he had made a special
plea for the miners of whose condi-
ton he had first-hand knowledge.
1t was also announced that Premier
Baldwin had asked the executives of
the Miners Federation to meet him
on March the fifth. The report of
the Prince on the state of affairs in
the miners homes has increased the
subscriptions to the miners relief
fund which now amounts to about
five million dollars-but this is only
temporary relief. The Prince is
practically trying to get behind this
to study and adjustment of those
economic conditions which will en-
able man to depend upon himself
Tor his livelihood and that of those
dependent upon him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-03-08

Miles OF Always operating Janu-
airy /, 1929, number 1888 states
the Domestic Air News, published
by the Aeronautics Division of the
Department Of Commerce. Miles of
mail airways operating was given as
17,470 and additional miles schedul-
ed for early operation 615. 1t also
estimates that $4,000 planes were
produced for civil consumption in
1928. These figures are startling
and interesting in themselves, but
they have far greater significance
than that only of the growth of air
service and increase of air flights.
It is of the closely knit ties of the
earth which are being daily drawn
closer and closer together and the
very fact of this closeness of associa-
tion emphasizes the need for cooper
alton and friendliness in the rela-
tions Of the people of the earth one
to another.