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POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, NORTH CAROLINA d Soli FOUtID LIISSItJG II MIXED WHOLESALE AND RETAIL . MARKETS HEIR" It JAIL Long Search of United States Naval Authorities Comes to an End. r- TO SOLVE PROBLEM OF COST OF LIVING Asset Liabilii SL.'-vC WAS HELD AS FORGER 4 5s 5u " Efghteen-Year-Ord . Youth 'Boasts of Shrewd Trick Which, as He Said, "Fooled Them All for Awhile." " - y. V - 5"-J t . - l ,T- . a . x- tuitt ' . & If il It II' i f f ' f air I of ' 1 """ Green Bay. Wis. Tn fh Rtafo1 formatory a pasty-faced, hollow cheeked lad of eighteen paces back and forth In his cell. He Is ashamed to look his countrymen In the face be cause he Is a deserter ft om the Unit ed States navy. His name is Adoipti Gerds, alias Daniel H. Tolman. He is the boy who tricked the au thorities at the Great Lakes Naval Training station Into believing he was the missing heir, to the. $4,000,000 es tate of the late Daniel H. Tolman of Philadelphia. The whereabout? of this youth, who had played tag with military and po lice officials throughout , the United States for, seven . months, did not be come known until a short time airo. Then it was his tongue that told his whereabouts to the world. Confides in Cellmates. "Yep, I'm the bird you read about m the papers," he had told his cell- 1- Q .vlv.".. ...-. .V A' A ..N..I".y . V ...-.V.-.V.V. Ullj u 'i l :s. ' v V 4 5 v?,iB?i -"fc(:-lP east j ---j-.y.. Vv,-.vww'sj?'S'C-.'-''-'-y-'-'-v- - S1 Farmers' Public Markets Shaped by Local Wedi. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) In attacking the cost of llvinir Droh- lem through local public markets, com- mates. "I almost had them believing munities mlghV weU ate of SSTltrL fn0' Undert Principles that are in Phfi-f', 000-IeftJ a1loan sh;rk -mown: to apply to such marketing in In Philadelphia named Tolman. . But stittirtnn-i n-i-.,. jL" - k Hct. tfie flow nf "vx TT tii i ...... . . . . - . . I jLrr win ppr rnr nis nvmn -w M , im i xi .... am mea or salvaging ma- f ha 1ta r " " taese- quaiities-will have little trouble terial Is old. For yeanr iYl"v' Tr montn. in consulting with the government ad- m. ii i i i'iiiiii iunia t i y-kW- w v a. a. A the wideawake mannfac- t; Tf r:;" . r , uu mou,ni vlsers WIth whm he discusses the turer has realized the Im- " IZ uoaru win mane training he desires. ut- me umerence. his denendents. If TO Vm --M4-i ma But his mates couldn't let the story coun' -T SiSS. rct Th . i j ., 1 "id uie " ,"''ru m me msunctlon between "1106' retail SLh.?JT.a n!!ss on- ?CD r market" ana -farmers' wholesale , ia" wh -- et- 'Is not drawn, bnt both be the Great Labes Naval Training station. Naval and civil in telligence, officers were sent to the in stitution. Then the identity was established. Prisoner's Story. caned a "farmers' murk-" nni tured as one and the same In tijeir operaition and function. 7 ' -Some communities have tried to change farmers wholesale markets portance of utilizing u W oc-ruiiuK waste products, I and thereby has added miilions of dollars to the value of his output, has developed many new products, and, in consequence, lowered the cost of many others. But the idea of salvaging human ma terial Is new. Of all the factors, that go to make up industry the wastage of labor has in the past been the least He told the officers th fmww f1.18' wnere tne nouse- 7 s we ooma mi ner market basket with purchases made direct from farmers of it at the finish, but you story : "i aamit that I niade a botch ieb rr 7 ,.a- hh nom ov o Boviug. luese attempts mil nave to ho--a nctiofin - - thnt Went ttlnn. .V II v. I . iTIr "l"!" no8P"al. making preliminary investi . 4W.ruiunui gallons of men about to he di8rhrirrM kee.v I didn't have n dima in mv n-,ut to his child. wife and $10 to each minor Sometimes It "The whole thing started in Mllwau e.v I didn't have a dims in my pocket proves comparatively anoV my clothes were almost in rags. Z hal :r,C! PA 11 Representatives of the federal board me credit tot fooling them for a TJZVf a tK ; "7'4 '"J "ttll"imia are busy In the great reconstruction while. v" "ninepuDucine larmers ana omciais because, accord ing to city marketing 'men of the bureau - of markets, United States department of agriculture, the farmers' wholesale market Is a very different vantage of such opportunities as the nc- - federal hn-rd nffor- o i -u.uic eii,eaU -jU- us great taSK wwuui uwy.Mer-Bwns. ' oSte so simnfe W ? J V 1 Is t0 8eek out e men who he to "One day a . fellow st6pped me on quite so simple. If a man is In a hos- h nuHnMr , . tha etQf T -I-It.,- SS" Z he tad the opportunity to secure an edu- lSng heir to a fortune. He said the It might seem: offhand, th-it nn mn 1111111 m a Eoa JDJ .ywr U1U mouier' wno llves at id --o .Ir,:.""," isn t always needed. The board Pg: street, "was Just about living. "- iu nu- i acts Aft O TV nmnlAnm a I Arm ron.lfnPJWl It homimn Mfha. 1- p.ed fact that a dlsaWed man shouM !J.??S D Vantage of this looted upon as fit only for the seran 7 . : . " "c cnance. hean -mri tht -in.fAOt k.- promises, oi love and care and -asset to himself and the nation he heir's name was Tolman. We talked it Wholesale Market. A farmers' wholesale market draws to it producers who specialize in truck crops and fruits, and who count on No attempt has been made so far to place disabled men In special schools for cripples or to segregate them In any way for training or other pur poses. Experience has shown that such rest and comfort ; If he Is pretty tired f 11 111 . was a liability; that he should become -II" j, . v.t "inf8S an.a n' a charm nnnn fv,a U xtuCUieuW ne aoesn i ieei much line .... . T-r m . . . x . . . .. I u uiai 9UUI Aimough the world was waklnir to 7ne ffl8y ieei mai.it isnt necessary, segregation is harmful and thnt U . I TT. 1 J.1 . . ..,1 ue unsoundness of this view before av u.uuw uiat ne can get a job. more a disabled man Is thrown with the war began, it remained for the at weher wages than he ever got be- his fellow men who are strong and awakened consciousness of men that fore without takinS any training at healthy, the quicker will be his re name with the war to look at this a " ' covery and the more readily will he fact in a more human as well as a There ,s an answer and a good one absorb training. For this reason use more economic way, particularly when t0 every one of .tnese . arguments Is being made of existing educational t came to the reclaiming of wound- aSamsti vocational training for men and trade schools throughout the euBoiaiers. PerhaDS the verv nnmhpr U1BUU1VU 1U Jvurv country. oi tnose disabled forced the nations n Isn 1 ood for a man who might More than 100,000 disabled men have engaged In the war to look about for be abe to take care of himself, if he already sought the assistance of th .wyraon of the problem of the maae an eiIori' 10 tnat Job over federal board of vocational education ""uuiieu men, bur with interest once I lo uuJroue eise, u uianer now cioseiy aroused in the subject it has become they are related to him. It saps, his apparent that It will rt -t-n rifh self-respect . HV M-.V' VTA tk JLA ne soldier and that eventually the He can-go home for a little while: njured worker In any line of Indus- he can have a furlough, before he ot commerce will tnton n starts his training. Often he can .M . VUt V- I t - waiter oi ract. manv or tno K"i ma uaimug ou uuse iu ma uuwe ia&e iraimug jusi as OUICKIV as nnsu rrnt. i , . . . . - . " r w maustnes already have dis- that he can live at home. And even sible after they leave the army. When wrered new fields for disabled men. if the training does Involve a separa- it Is considered that more than 50,000 umates of th tion. how about the wav, he'll fel disabled men left- arm v Tincntfaio - k" l ' - wT IU1D 5nw that about 200,000 men who fIve ten, fifteen years from now? fore they could be told about the served In the I What does a few months of absence board, the firurea7of thnso xxrhrt kt - v i..ivcu uiO"J I " " uaic BU"uies of surh a -hn.aflt. - mean comDared with' the comfort, rhp shown their intere--f la. . 7 -"""- . ..... 7 f. . . "V ""6e uumner rvf tfiam .in Rtnhtiitv. tn seir-resrtert he win trot v. wjii utrtru optrcifll i " " : "-uauon or trnfnir. lh.l with his tralnine rv j i h 'turn m m And then, suppose he can get a Job LHSpUie AJVZT iflOUntaill at good wages just as he Is? How fcuvernment wants every dis- long can he noia it t sooner or later Tacoma and Seattle, away ud Ail and new cases come into the central office In Washington and to the four teen branch offices at the rate of 500 a day. There are about 6,000 men to take the training, and efforts are being made to get-disabled men to . ... k i. .. . . t On Or trnfnJnfr tr iuLAsfVllnl. m ,n Civil life wherA thov TirWI ha Pn f . J -"uumicaiiy independent. ine abled t-t. un nr i. . i . ... -"nii-,. t rill a a I v- tv-nn urii-k ana crnrkii r ann haaithtr 1 x. i a. ji ii v ' a x 1 i r'2'i-tki uw v botti i 1 1 1 rr J. . n ill l. u iauu . i mil ri l m i runt I nn n -nst In man. to fit himself, by special he will have to face the competition Washington, and other communities 'e to Till at loact aa nBAini nf mpn who are strong and heaifhv. in thot iHMAtun i . 2 , - . no uoci u i i " 1 - j uuv u luut. u.xcvuuu, ni t; Having a important a place as was his be- He can meet them on even terms wordy wrangle over what Is callerf tha ne was disabled. The only way only if he has training. Sentiment, in great mountain that towers to the u uu mat is thrn---rh Mfnin. i tha innc. run. aoesn t count mucn m Tia .7 - I . 7 rnjre t ho rrn,T,. i . i matter' nf omninvmpnr I np an. I t 1 Vidprl 6'cwuucui uaa pro- i"c " oci uuwu ju iuc geugrapuy as AlOUnt and g n add-tIon to insurance clent law of supply ana aemana nasn't Rainier, but the people of Tacoma call mm , satlon Every man who is been repealed yet. it Mount Tacoma, and now there is a " to compensation Is entitled to Experience has shown that in other considerable number of persons in this f $1 ro Af2Tw t n And the federal board for countries where something of the same country who want it named after the SKvhST.S'i? tional Annn. , L u i , -o , . . uniiorm ana forged checks in Buffalo. -nona, education stands ready to plan being-carried out by the federal late Colonel Boose velt-they want It Ito - Wat.he eets It If he wants it board has .been tried, the majority of called Mount Roosevelt. ' flnT nliiTl he, , J?e .rub- wants it; if the men who train get better jobs than The name "Rainier" was given the that they got me for 1 had .hlT 2in take it. and Cleveland. It was In Cleveland those they had before they went into mountain by the Canadians, In honor Milwaukee. -m. --IC nfQ It. f a A . . I . . i TMifAdfliMitlAn hnn I . v. ixf.i. 9 . . . a mnn "ril8 IDe inun- iee s!: TJ11 " .name wbo- vas tried, convicted and here I colj. ecu ne may go to aiso, luai pwxcooxwu0 bhuh bu ameran viessei uuring the j am." . uvtuui vi au aKrituiru- voiuuuuo . uciumuuuai war. i.uturuuy. ThP IllOrrn r. a. . - II t 1 a.1 I . ... .' He a school of medicine, abled man, proviaea ne uas me aouuy name is not especlallj; popular on this ral can . -".v.. ho ,7 mvy ine course, no matter costs u takes or how much it uJLhlChe ?t In a shop WhiiaK , J tu-iearn a trade ana paid is learning. to fill them ana tne grit to prepare siae or tne border. The Indian himself to handle them. The govern- called It 'Tacoma" the tribe Itself ment is anxious to encourage mitia- bore the same name, which means sim- tive and Individuality in every possiDie ply "the mountain." The Tacoma Tn. way, and the disabled man wno snows dians were "the Mountain Indians." Heda Seldom Quiet ount Hecla, or Hekla. la n vnTrano about 5iidn Dear the southwest coast almost ei mgn which has been tion Sin0nstantly In a state of erup Christl ce the nInth century' of the the most 7a 0ver 20 en-Ptlons of Jlace at V ent character have taken toWItai D' 100- 17845 an werf 0phe t00k P-ace; rivr n,.,. Veu P and many rlllaeea ied-or destroyed. Tfce vol cano was In a state of violent eruption from September 2, 1845, to April, 184a Pillars of fire rose to a height of 14, 000 feet and Ice and snow, which had wrapped the mountain for centuries, melted Into prodigious floods, which swept everything before them. Would Thin the fog. Coal scarcity and the uncertainty ot the supply-for the coming winter are combining to turn the attention of . en gineers to some system of smoke con sumption which, while ; saving fuel. will serve to cleanse London's murky atmosphere.' To the present no prac tical system that will come within the purse of the average householder has been devised, but experim&its along that line are being , carried out by a number of corporations. 7, - London uses soft coal, in preference to anthracite and within an hour aftei 6 o'clock in the morning, when Lon don servants arise, the air is filler" with long spirals of smoke from'count less chimney pots. The sky soon U entirely obscured. over, schemed and planned and before hauling corn, potatoes, tomatoes, ap- the end of the week I had made my de- pIes' strawberries or other crops In large quantities. They desire quick sales in large lots after they reach the market so they can return to their farma and , the. work of production. Time to such growers is more valuable than the difference between what they get in wholesale quantities ;f Or their products and what they might realize by lingering long enough to retail their load in small lots at higher than wholesale prices. Retail Market , Retail farmers' markets, on the other hand, attract a group of producers who raise a small amount of fruit or vege tables as a. si.de line, and whose other crops do no V demand as close atten tion as those of the truck raiser. Often a farmer who raises only a few vege tables can, send them to a retail farm ers' market in mixed lots, by a member of his I family, who is able to remain away from the farm long enough to dispose! of these products to house wives carrying market baskets. Mixed Markets. The retail farmers' market depends as much for Its success upon location as on any other factor." It must be con venient for the housewife, while a wholesale farmers' market need not be as centrally located, because dealers have wagons or trucks with which to gather their supplies. Farmers' whole sale markets are an early morning in stitutlon, starting business at ' day break or even before, while a farmers' retail market starts later and runs for a longer time. This, of . course, may make possible a mixed retail and wholesale farmers' market; but In or ganizing such a market it Is likely that it will appeal to different groups of farmers, and that it will, be necessary to regulate the hours so there will be no conflict between wholesale and re tail business among the wagons, or sheds. i Too Much Expected. Although retail farmers' markets have been urged In many communities as a means of reducing the cost of living, too. much Is often expected of them, according to men who have studied , the problem, and who point out that all locally raised produce, especially the more staple crops, such as potatoes, cabbage, onions And ap ples, represent but a small amount of the total of such products consumed by city dwellers, the bulk of which is shipped In from more distant sec tions. Retail farmers' markets do serve as an outlet for a certain amount of local produce, varying with locali ties, that might otherwise be left on the farm, or , not produced by the farmer who 4 depended upon other sources of income than fruits and veg etables. " 7 -;77r i-:'fN' . ; Any commnnity ' contemplating the establishment of a farmers retail mar should first make sure that there "Yep, I'm the Bird You Read About" clsion. I had a good story cooked up and upon the advice of this newly made acquaintance I decided . to Join the navy. r . ( Says Station Was ''Easy." "At Great Lakes they fell for my story. They gave me a ten-day fur lough so I could go' to Philadelphia and claim the. fortune. "At the end of my furlough I came back and got an extension. ; Then I cashed a bogus check at tie statinn Two Kinds of Markets. 4i 41 41 4 Different types of farmers' markets attract different groups of farmers. The truck grower likes to haul full loads and make quick sales In large lots his time Is more valuable on his farm than In acting as his own salesman In disposing of his load in small quantities to the consumer. : ' ' Retail farmers markets r ap- peal to farmers who' raise fruit and vegetables only as a side line they, or members of their families.' often can -mm--. h- i time it takes to sell small lots ii uirect to tne housewife. It The location of the ' farmers- il retail market Is important ' It must be in a place easily reached 2 by large numbers of consumers, it wiiuicaaiw auu retail if markets may prove unsatisfac-l il lOrV. UnlPRiSt hnnra ry anlUm IP ' " " " v oviuug CU S3 regulated so that there will be no Conflict and dlfroronf w - -wu v 54VUyV M k of nrodnrftrsi -c-rin ha to come In at different times'ac 3 cording to whether thev nail tn At large or small lots. 4 4r PREFERS DEATH TO PARTING Facing Separation, Ohio Woman Kills Seven. Children and Herself. Nelsonville, O. Several hours be fore authorities were to remove them to the, Athens county home seven children, ranging in age from six weeks 'to ten years, were found with their mother, Mrs. , Tony Stavisar, burned, to death er asphyxiated in their home at Klmberly, a small min ing town near here. .. . . V The children were tied to their beds and coal oil had 1 been sprinkled oyer the room. ' -7 - ; It is, supposed that worry ever the" separation caused tho mother to de stroy herself and the children. are in that community enough farmers who are willing to haul their produce to market and dispose of It In small quantities direct to the consumer. Co-operative Shipping Clubs. Simplicity of organization and the fact that no capital , is . required make the co-operative shipping of live stock peculiarly adapted to communities . la which more complex forms of co operation would be impracticable. Al though not necessarily feasible In all sections, especially those In which live stock generally Is marketed in carload lots, , or where there is Insufllcient stock suitable for shipment to market, or where the central markets are not readily accessible, nevertheless there are many communities in various parts of the country which would be greatly; benefited by such associations. Wherever these associations hare been, formed an appreciable saving te the farmer has resulted. The profit that formerly wen.t to the local ship per now goes to the farmer, and he has the satisfaction of knowing that he will receive for his stock the actual market price, less the cost of market ing. Moreover, the activities of a coia petent manager and the influence of a successful association make for, a, general Improvement in,, methods of marketing live stock , and a better knowledge of market prices, and con ditions by farmers In the entire com muhjty. The beneficial influence thus exerted is of no less importance thaa the. actual saving , to members on the shipments , handled by the association, Helter-Skelter Marketing. 1 In many cases animals . 'are killed : and offered for sale regardless of mar ket conditions. 'Frequently advantage is taken of cool weather to kin ani dispose of hogs, with the result that the dressed carcasses must be sold oa a glutted market and being a Der- Ishable product must be disposed of at any price obtainable. An example, which is only one of many, was ob served at a small town in IiOixisi&na during the'winter of 1915-18, where each time the weather became cooler eight or ten dressed hogs were offered for sale when there was a demand for one or two. Such a method is, of course, most unprofitable to the farri er. A number of Instances have otv curred in southern cities where dressed . beef, ordinarily valued at 7 to 8 cents a pound, was sold by farmers for 2 t 4 cents, and dressed hogs, valued ua- aer ordinary conditions at 8 to 19 cents a; pound, sold for 2 to 3 Wjl because of a temporary ovenmnniv fresh meats in these towns. The farm ers could have avoided these losses by . flnding a market for their meat before' slaughtering, by delaying slauehterte-i until market conditions were Improved. : or by selling the animals alive ens-' goodmarkeL