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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-06-18
Farm Prices, Retail Prices Compared

~ OP in farm products prices far more than in
commodities purchased, charts prepared by the
Department of Agriculture show, covering the
period between 1918 and 1881. While the prices on
merchandise that the farmer buys has declined, not
nearly so much what he receives for his products
Retail prices on commodities purchased by the
farmer dropped from 200 per cent to $50 per cent in
1921 and have continued along that level for the last
ten years with small decline during the past year.
Farm product prices dropped from 200 per 125
percent in the year and continued up and down
along this line until the last two years. and then it
declined to 80 per cent
This lack of the farmers purchasing power is a
blow to industry. Industry has maintained generally
high prices on it's products. Why? To pay it's big
executives magnificent salaries as in the Heigh-ho
days. rolling up into and the hundred thousand
dollar mark.
In 1890 there was depression, and times were hard
throughout the country, said John Arends, chairman
of the board of county commissioners, of Redwood
county. Wheat was around forty cent bushel But
binder could be bought for ninety dollars Today it
takes two hundred dollars to buy standard
make grain binder And this is just example.
AS long as industry vainy tries to uphold its
standards of inflated prosperity PERIOD while the
farmer is struggling along in the depths of the depres
sion receiving next nothing for his products there's
going to be hard times. Either farm market prices
must be boosted industry will have to do business
a lower level.
The distance between them is too great at the
present time. 1t does not make much difference at
what level they become stabilized Come it must,
whether it is at high low level, if the farmer is
to regain his purchasing power, and the factory man
is to sell his products.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-06-18

those with electric stoves who win
continue with the four cent rate, was
made in Sleepy Eye by a new ordin-
ance. For patrons not using more
than 20 kilowats for lighting pur-
poses in homes there viii be no re-
duction.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-06-18

violin, while at the same time you
may be running perfectly good
mechanic or architect, or second
baseman."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-06-18

Reduction Of 10 per cent or more
for all users Of electricity, except
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-06-18
Faith, Courage and Vision


TT is encouraging to local individuals go ahead
with building and construction work at time when
capital can be used to such good advantages More
than fifty men put to work at various building
enterprises this month.
Contrary to public sentiment, evidenced by the
special election outcome there local with faith
in the present and the future They foresee poss
Utilities and they realize that the present decidedly
favorable for general construction and improvements
If banks throughout the country would have had
greater faith in local investments giving long time
credit Of character and business capacity
instead of boarding currency investing it in stocks
and bonds, or played the market, wouldn't times be
better? Would there be many banks closing
Would there be as many financial institutions affected
by declining securities?
American people were flushed with money after
the war; and had nothing to do but speculate, says
Melvin A. Taylor, prominent Chicagoan, outspoken
president of the First National Bank there. Unused
to being creditor nation United States with mount
ing capital surplus found outlet except stock market
plunging Faulty distributed profits, yielding too
large a proportion of its plethora to individuals too
rich to spend their part Not enough going into real
wages and consumer savings. That's the trouble
After this period there will be survival OF the
fttest it is hoped. Getting back to fundamentals is
one of orr problems in readjustment. Hard work is
It is encouraging therefore that there are
orIe With courage faith and foresight to provide
L FOR idle dollars Investment opposed to specu-
lat;on Is the need for stability And when local capital
Is nut into local enterprises, we can confidently await
normality. =.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07


nothing green except an occasional
patch of weeds and most of the small
err creeks were just like Cold Creek,
dry. When l came home, told the
folks that we were living in Eden COM
pared to the other places we saw.
81 just want to say in closing that
too much can not be said in praise of
the White Bluffs schools as founda-
tion for higher education. New teachers
are always asking the girls, Where did
you go to high school?'
"They are all up among the highest
in their classes and Elizabeth finished
10 hours of a, last semester and will
do about the same this semester. She
gives great deal of the credit to her
high school teachers and to the Eng
lish, French and Latin courses she tool.
at the White Bl.ffs higt, school"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07
STRAWBERRY WEEvIL CON-
troll

The strawberry root weevil has be-
come rather serious in several fields of
strawberries, at least in the Kenne-
wick territory, during the past year, to
the point that the fields are spotted
with many dead plants showing at this
time. The root weevil feeds upon the
smaller fiborous roots Of the plant re-
ducing these to such a small number
or to such short lengths that the plant
dies. The weevil larvae can usually be
found at that time just underneath the
plant and 10 approximately 3-l6 Of an
inch long, white or nearly so, with a
pink head: Fields showing dead areas
Of plants should be examined carefully
by the farmer to determine the exact
cause Of the trouble.
Several bats have been worked out
as a means of control for the straw
berry root weevil, The commercial bait
go West" we believe is the only one
available in the northwest at this time.
Both the Washington Station and the
Oregon Station have found that home
prepared bats made of dried apple
chop, carrying not more than 20%o
moisture and mixed with percent OF
an active poison has given as good or
better results than the GO West. The
Washington Station has recommended
the use of magnesium Arsenate, while
the Oregon Station has recommended
calcium arsenate. Apparently either one
of these would be good if one wishes
to prepare the bait. Since both of these
bulletins were published, one in 1926
and the other in 1927, it is probable
that manufacturers of the go West"
have improved their bait.
If one wishes to make the home pre-
pared bait one could probably secure
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07
APPENDICITIS DEATHS
INCREASE

DR.. Frederick L. Hoffman of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
reports as follows Estates the Public
Health League of Washington):
Appendicitis deaths continue to in
crease during 1929 and the corrected
death rate based on the 1880 census re-
turns shows an increase in the rate for
sixty American cities with an aggre-
gate population in 1929 of 27,500,00
from 1873 per 100000 in 1910 to 1870
in 1929. This is the highest rate yet re-
corded for this country, and as l know
the highest rate for any country in the
world"
All of this constitutes an acute medi-
cal problem. The part for the Individual
to play in this problem is to give care
full consideration to those symptoms
that may indicate Appendicitis. An
acute pain in the abdomen, especially
with tenderness in the lower quarter
should arouse enough suspicion to con-
suit pay 5ician. Perhaps the practice
t!7at contributes most to the fatalities
IN these cases is the prorniscuous TAX
ing of purgatives when Appendicitis is
present.
The symptoms of this disease are
fairly definite and usually severe
enough at the onset to indicate there
is real trouble in the abdomen. 1t is
wise to consult doctor early in such
cases. Self dragging has killed more
lives than it has saved. This is especi-
ally true in Appendicitis.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07

there were about so applicants for the
position, but it went through anyway,
for which am very thankful The De-
partment will save around $1,000 year
and we carriers will get enough more
to pay for the extra time put in on the
longer route. will have about 200 box
es and 225 families on my route.
1--WE have had an almost ideal spring
since the drouth broke up in March
We have not had as much warm
weather as last spring but no killing
frosts. The gardens are not so good
as at this date last year but the fruit
is looking good and wheat and alfalfa
are looking fine. Barley is just coming
into head. Strawberries will probably
be the poorest crop as the vines were
stunted by the drouth.
II expect you are wondering how the
drought affected us here. Well, this
immediate community and for about 20
miles each way from here was not so
badly hit. The corn crop was almost a
failure, but outside of that people could
not complain. The wheat and oat crops
were good; there was better than half
a crop of alfalfa and the cash crops
Strawberries and tobacco-were good
and the average price for them was
good. There has been no hunger or SUI
fering here more than usual; no one
had to be assisted by the Red Cross,
and no government loans. know that
doesn't seem possible, after all you have
read about the Kentucky drouth, but
it is true.
II took my vacation the latter part of
July and the first part of August last
year and drove through the bluegrass
region up into Ohio; was over con-
siderable portion Of eastern and south
ern Ohio and over into West Virginia,
and saw nothing to compare with our
valley here. We were not an hours
drive from home when we noticed the
difference, and it got worse as we APP
preached the Ohio river. The bluegrass
was all burned yellow and the country
looked as dry as the foot hills above the
sage brush line out there. There was
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07
OF Interest to Farmers
by County Agent E. c. Durde

the dried. apples chop from the dryers
up the valley and one should be able to
secure the poison from northwest drug
houses, or possibly through the local
cooperatives
According to the Oregon bulletin the
bait should be applied at time when
approximately three-forths of the larvae
have changed to the adult BEETLE. This
should be rather easy to determine by
carefully checking the patch from day
to day when the changes begin to.pc-
cur and the adult weevil energies. One
should remember that the wesvil ean-
ing. and comparatively early IN the perl
Cd during which the weeviis emerge Il
probably would be well to lay down
band OF bait around the infected field
so that weevils crossing this area would
probably feed enough to be poisoned
before getting into new areas.
According to the Washington bulle-
tin, manufacturers of go West" have
recommended the use Of ESQ pounds
OF this bait per acre, while with the
home mixed in both Oregon and WASH
ington bulletins, seventy pounds as
maximum has been recommended as
sufficient to treat an acre.
Where there are but few compare,
lively small areas badly infected plants
in the patch the use of calcium cyanide
as means of killing the larvae before
they have changed to the adult vice.
VII might be an economical practice.
In this wav there would he ,racf;cafl1.
no danger of spread, at least from these
areas treated. A small teaspoonful of
cyanide put into hole eight inches
deep and fifteen inches apart should
kill most of the larvae in this area.
E. c. DURDLE,
County Extension Agent.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07
HIGH COLLEGE STANDING CREDITED TO
TRAINING IN WHITE BLUFFS SCHOOLS

IT am thinking it is about time I
was dropping you a line and enclosing
a check, or we will be out our weekly
letter from White Bluffs says w. S.
Angle of WOODBURY., Kentucky, in re-
newing his subscription to the Spokes-
man this week. Mr.. Angle was for
years the rural carrier at White Bluffs
and is now engaged in the same work
in Kentucky, having exchanged his
route here with J. M. Pipkin in order
to be near a college for his daughter 5
Continuing. Mr. Angle says:
"We are still at the old grind: with
the young folks it is study, study, study
all the time; with Mrs. Angle it is
breakfast and put up lunches and get
them off to school, the same as it has
been for the last IA years, only earlier
now, as they have to get there for 1880
class; with yours truly it is just carry
mail and work in the garden little
for exercise and some times go fishing.
Of course, any one will tell you that |
have the easiest of all; that a mail car
rier has nothing to do but ride around
lllS SOulllly lOl Oil AiOo- vi oO q NNJ
and draw pay. There are plenty OF
them here that think Just that.
"Well, 1 have lad it pretty nice.
owing to the dry weather of the past
year. I did not have to use horse any
all winter, although the roads were
pretty bad for couple of weeks just
after Christmas. I locked the car and
walked over part of the route five days,
hut outside of that l went all the way
around in the car.
"You may have heard that one Of
the carriers here was killed by train,
December l. Well, his route is being
consolidated with ours, SO there will
be just two routes starting tomorrow,
May /. My route will be 80 miles and
the other SO. During December, Jan
uary and February of each year there
will be an auxiliary carrier and we will
have the three original routes. That
will make it pretty nice. There was lots
of opposition to the consolidation as
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07
Lifetime of Canaries

The average life of the canary is
between IL and Is years, although
some birds have been known to live
ord in which. canary was known to
be at least thirty-four years old when
it died. Usually with advancing years
birds begin to mott irregularly or lose
part of the feathers entirely. Even
their eyesight is impaired. 1t is said
that canaries that have not been
paired live much longer than those
allowed to breed, and that females
are shorter lived.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07
Farm Service by a Bank

A farm service department was
inaugurated a year ago by a bank
in Olympia, Washington, and a
farm advisor appointed. Close CO.
operation has been maintained
with the state college extension
service. Work in dairying is car
ried on in conjunction with the
Dairy Herd Improvement Associa-
ton. Also a pasture contest was
held in cooperation with the four
banks in the county which offered
prizes amounting to 500. Work in
poultry was carried on in coopera-
ton with the Cooperative Poultry
Association and assistance was
given in organizing an economic
conference for the benefit of berry
growers. The farm advisor of the
bank is active in the Agricultural
Council of the county composed
Of farm and other organizations
interested in agricultural develop
ment, and also in the Farmers
Market. Six hundred farm bust
ness analysis blanks were distrib-
uted while farm account books and
poultry record books were also pro-
vided to farmers and have been
helpful In starting many farmers
In keeping business records.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07

nave shown con.
stantly q deep In
terest IN the per.
Torrance Of this
feature Of national
development. Up.
on It rests much
Of our country's
fu tur .. sta hility,
and. any contribu.
ton to !ts ad-
= An e . m Q n I
rebounds to the
advantage Of all.
So banking has
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07

The highly important part played by conveyor systems
in all Ford Motor Company manufacturing and assembly
plants graphically shown in the above three pictures
taken in recently opened Edgewater, N. Jy plant
One Of the pictures shows how parts may be unoaded
from freiqht within the plant only few feet from
the various assembly lines Another picture shows auto
mobile bodies starting their trip conveyor while
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07

third view is of the conveyor system used to bring
wheels to the GLASSES which also moving
veyor. AS indicated in the picture, constant flow Of
wheels which the tires have already been mounted
moves around and the chassis assembly line. As
chassis enters the section workers. in groups Of four
each take wheel from the hooks and fasten It to t
chassis.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-07
FUNDS FOR HOMES
SUPPLIED BY BANKS

By ROME G. STEPHENSON
President american Bankers Association
A LARGE portion of the funds re-
"A quired in home building always
has been furnished by banks. They
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15
Our WaSbinQton

panorama of the busy Georgetown waterfront and
industrial section from point the Naval Hospital
grounds In the distance the of Georgetown
University and the Francis Scott Key Bridge This the
sixty of series Of drawings for The Sunday Star
by Joseph B. Himmelheber Copyright, 1891. j..
The Washington times., 1931-02-05
D, c, DEFICIENCY
BILL VOTED

Although several minor changes
are still to be adjusted, the House
today voted partial agreement on
the conference report on the
urgent deficiency appropriation
bill carrying several local items.
The House accepted the follow
ing amendments written into the
bill by the Senate and approved
by the conference committee:
For the Washington Navy Yard,
$25, 900 for the improvement of its
power plant and $4,000 to i'm
prove its heating plant.
For st. Elizabeth's Hospital,
$4,000 for additions to its tuber-
culosis wing and $4,000 for i'm
provements of other buildings.
For Howard University, 5000, 900
for various extensions of buildings
at the institution for education
Of colored youth. This 100000
item was in compromise of a
$250,000 item added in the Senate
for enlargement of Howard Uni
versity.
The Washington times., 1931-02-05
BAIL FOR PITTS
AGAIN DENIED
BY COURT
Convicted Realty Broker Is
Planning Flight From U. s.,
Federal Officials Assert

G. Bryan Pitts, former chair
man of the board of the F.. H.
Smith Company, prepared today
to carry to the District Court Of
Appeals his fight for release on
bail pending disposition of his
appeal from 14-year prison
sentence for conspiracy to en-
bezzle.
T. Morris Wampler, counsel for
Pitts, noted an appeal from the
recent action of Justice F. L.
Siddons in denying bail to Pitts
on a writ of habeas corpus and
asked the court to fix bail pend
ing disposition of the latter ap-
peal.
Justice Siddons denied the lat
ter application also, when in
formed by Assistant Attorney
General Nugent Dodds and AS
sistant United States Attorney
Neil Burkinshaw that the Govern
ment had been reliably informed
that Pitts would leave the coun-
try if he were released from Gus
tody.
Mr.. Burkinshaw asserted that,
if necessary, he would file an
affidavit that shortly before the
recent trial Pitts purchased,
under an assumed name, a large
number of foreign securities.
The Washington times., 1931-02-05
GIRL s MURDER
To REMAIN
MYSTERY
Grand Jury Ready to Drop
Inquiry; Recommend Change
In Present Hospital Rules

The Grand Jury will return no
indictments in the Limerick MUIR
der mystery, in which four men
are held as suspects, it was re-
ported today.
After two weeks of investigation
of the battling case, in which
scores of witnesses have been sum-
moned, the jury is preparing to re-
turn a report which will not indict
but will recommend changes in
hospital regulations of the Dis
trict.
Evidence Is Lacking
Four men have been held for
more than a month in the case
They are Policeman Robert F..
Langdon, Vernon Limerick,
brother of the slain girl, who lived
with her at the little house at
18 Nineteenth st. S. E.; Richard
Reed, who posed as the girls hus-
band, and William Paddy, who
brought the girl home from a
dance the night of December 81,
shortly before she was murdered.
Members of the Grand Jury
stated that unless police offer
new evidence tending to show
that one of these men had some
definite connection with the
crime they will be unable to re-
turn an indictment.
Change is Suggested
At the same time they will
recommend that in the future
when a doctor reaches the scene
OF a death he should remain
there until the arrival cf the
coroner.
This recommendation erlses out
of the testimony of DR.. Lyman
Green, of Casualty Hospital, that
when he arrived and pronounced
the girl dead she apepa1ed to
have been prepared and there
was clean linen on the beG. The
family denies this, and when po-
lice arrived there was no linen
on the blood-stained day bed
where she was shot.
The Washington times., 1931-02-05
BUILDER SEEKS
RHEEM FUNDS
Times Staff Photo

The tangled affairs of the de-
funct investment banking house
of Swartzell, Rheen and Hensey
became further involved today
when Frank Tomlinson, builder
and architect of 1913 K st. N. w.
filed suit in Equity Court against
the receivers and 209 note-holders,
to compel them to pay over the
balance on a 100000 loan he
had previously negotiated with
the banking house.
Asks Building Receiver
Mr.. Tomlinson also asked the
court to appoint receivers for a
seven story brick apartment house
at 1417 N st. N. w., which was
constructing through the 100000
loan, and seeks to restrain the 200
holders of the notes from selling
or disposing of the notes until a
final determination of his suit is
made.
The law firm of Douglas, Obear
and Douglas filed the bill on be-
half of Mr.. Tomlinson. The nego-
tiationS were entered into for the
loan of 100000 to be secured by
a first trust on the proposed
building last fall.
Notes Are Sold
The banking house sold the 209
noteholders promissory notes in
increments ranging from $3.50 to
$1,000 to obtain the money for
the first trust loan. Tomlinson
claims he has only received $70,-
311.94 of the amount. He in
forms the court that work on the
building has been stopped until
the loan can be Strengthened out.
The Washington times., 1931-02-05
Crdn1tOnS to Dine
At ShOrehdn1 Fete

Representative Louis C. Cram
ton, chairman of the House sub
committee on appropriations, and
Mrs. Cramton, will be guests of
honor at a dinner to be given
by members of Congress from
public land States at the Shore
ham Hotel at 7 p. m, February
20.
Invitations have been sent to
Speaker and Mrs. Longworth,
delegates from the Western
States, the Secretary of the In
terror and Mrs. Wilbur, the men,
bers of the Michigan delegation
and members of the committees
on Appropriations, Public Lands,
Irrigation and Reclamation.
The Washington times., 1931-02-05
SCHOOLS GAIN
1000 PUPILS

Approximately 1000 additional
students enrolled during the first
two days of registration at the
Washington public schools than
for the same period of the first
semester, it was revealed today in
. report prepared by George D.
Strayer, statistician of the public
schools.
With an enrolment of 1850,
the schools topped the 1880 figure
by 6,657. In each division, includ-
ing the teachers colleges and the
vocational schools, the registration
figures showed a marked increase.
Central High School still retains
its position as the largest high
school, the report reveals, with
its enrolment of 2,676. Mckinley
High School runs a close second
with 2.635.
The Washington times., 1931-02-05
OLD OFFENDER
GETS 80 DAYS

His twentyfourth arraignment
in Traffic Court, today, cost Al
fred w. Beall, 1922 w st. S. E.,
$50 days in Jail, so to be relieved
by payment of a fine of $l00. He
was charged with driving on re-
voked permit and reckless driv-
ing.
James v. Taylor. 2132 I st.
N. w., alleged that Beau crashed
into his car at Tenth and K
Streets Northwest and sped away.
Taylor gave chase and claims
that when he caught Beall the
latter struck him and injured
him so that he had to spend a
night in a hospital.
Besides the % previous traffic
charges, Beall has faced, 26 more
serious charges in other police
courts. He has served three
terms of As days each on previous
revoked permit charges.