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KANSAS AND FRANCE
The Difference
On either side of the Santa Fe ex
press, in which this is written, the
com fields and farmhouses of Kan
sas fly past. It is a country unlike
that through which the writer
drove a few weeks ago in France on
the way from Paris to see Clemen
oeau in his little cottage on the At
lantic at Lejard, not far from
Bordeaux.
The trip through France, made in
an automobile, was as rapid as this
trip by train. In France you drive
your automobile as fast as you like,
hut TAKE CARE YOU HURT
NOBODY.
French roads are wide and straight,
the car used by this writer came from
Nice to Paris, 900 kilometers, 540
miles, in one day and did easily the
400 miles from Paris to Lejard be
tween breakfast and dinner.
French drivers go rapidly, but care
fully; if they hit anybody the law
hits them. A member of the Cham-:
ber of Deputies went to jail for a
year, all the influence of his friends
could not save him. He struck a
child. B. Forman, of Rochester, |
N. Y., can tell you of a French
chauffeur accused of intoxication, i
*ent to jail for ten years. He killed J
a child. Mr. Forman saw the thing
happen.
Here in Kansas you see great trac
tors providing power, machinery cut- i
ting and binding corn, great engines
binding, threshing wheat, and tying
the grain in sacks, all in one oper
ation.
In France occasionally you would
•ee a peasant and his wife cutting
their grain with sickles in small fields
•f irregular shape. Fields were har
vested with scythes. Here and there
teams of horses drew mowing ma- I
ihines. Power driven agricultural j
Kchinery was not seen between
ris and Lejard.
Where mowers had passed you
might see old grandmother and her
little grandchild bending over, pick
ng up wisps of grain with the right
wind, putting them in aprons held by ,
the left hand.
A hundred such gleaners were seen
in a day’s drive. T hey were less
fortunate than Ruth, their gleanings :
neagre. There was no Boaz to com- j
mand his young men, saying, “Let her ,
glean even among the sheaves and
reproach her not; and let fall also
some of the handfuls on purpose for
her and leave them that she may j
glean them, but rebuke her not.’’
With hand rakes the old grand- j
mother and the little girl could have i
gathered all the gleanings in a short j
time, but that evidently was not al- j
lowed. Gleaning must be done by
hand, the old body must stoop, am!
stoop all day long to pick up stray
straws. When the grain had gone
from the field an old shepherd would
bring his little band of sheep. "1 hese
would walk through the stubble eat
ing the over-ripe grain that had fallen
from the ears. Other bands of sheep
led by an old man or woman with
dogs "to help, ate the grass along the
highway edge. No sheep ever strayed
onto the road before the automobiles.
Dogs prevented that, and the sheep
seemed trained. Beautiful animals, 1
admirably kept, they waste nothing in i
France,
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Here in rich America you ride
.miles through unending fields of corn
or grain, pass great herds of heavy
steers, deep in grass and tens of
thousands of acres not used.
In France they use every foot of
ground, waste nothing, not food or
human labor, men and women work
long hours, work hard with patience.
The peasants’ houses are beautiful 1
and old, their animals well cared for. ,
Along the coast of Brittany and the
Vendee, men and women and chil
dren work side by side. Men repair,
at low tide, their fish nets colored
light blue. The fishermen say “fish
like color.” On the flat lands you
see little mounds of salt taken from
the ocean by imprisoning waters in
shallow pools for evaporation.
Once “La Gabelle,” a heavy tax
on salt, dressed the mistresses of 1
French kings and made life easy for
three lucky classes, royalty, clergy
and nobility. It was death to the
peasant to escape “La Gabelle” by
taking his salt from the ocean.
Conditions are better now. The
Icings are sleeping in St. Denis, the
few whose bones were not scattered
during the Revolution. There are
more schools than chateaux, more
public libraries than gallows. The
peasant is no longer forbidden to kill
animals that ate his crops because
lords and ladies wanted the pleasure
of riding over those crops to kill the
animals themselves.
But in every French family there
,ln mourning. Each earnest hard
-faced French woman tells you how
many sons or brothers she had “left”
SHATTER POP
Pure
Carelessness
fly C. M. Payne
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Golfs Into College
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Johnnie Goodman, 16, Omaha,
Neb., orphan, who won the Trans-
Mississippi golf championship this
year, is to have a college educa
tion. Omaha clubmen have pledged
to see him through and next year ;
to enter him in national play They
think he is another Bobby Jones.
Real Anxiety.
Mollie —“l m oe married to- 1
uoitcw and I’m : . h nervous. j
Chollie —“Do you think there’s a
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han.ee of m.t ; cm. ing* awa/i
>fore then ? ”
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Undaunted by the recent tragic
fates of ocean flyers, Frances Wil
son Grayson is on her way in the
plue “Dawn” for what she terrm
a safe and sane air hop to Europe
Heads Federal Reserve
An exclusive Washington picture
>f Roy A. Young of Minneapolis,
he new Governor- of the Federal
| Reserve Board, a recent appoint
j nent by President Coolidge.
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Above, Mrs.^ Maria Remus c
Chicago, aged mother of the n<
| torious “Bootleg King” Geore
Remus (below), now held in Cir.
I cinnati for shooting and killing hi
wife as she went to court to obtau
divorce. The mother still believe*
in her son.
Poor John.
Tom — “I can read your thoughts,
j Uary dear.”
j “Then what makes you sit so
far away?”
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Marathon Guy
She—“ Your kisses are wonder
ful. But don’t you ever get tired?”
He —“Don’t thy say that won
ders never cease.”
Fed Up
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“And are you satisfied with mar
ried life?”
os. I’ve had enough!”
"Almost” Human
“Fellows,” 5 year old Germar
shepherd, owned by Jacob Herber.
of Detroit, faced a psychology te*
of Columbia University professors
proving himself- “almost” human—
“and with a mind, in some respects
ilmost equal that of an 8 year old
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1858-October27-1927
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Marking the * y-ninth annivei
sary of the birth of former pres;
dent Theodore Roosevelt* Octobe
27, —Mount Vernon, N Y., will ur
veil this newest statue of “TR,
which was sculptured by the fam
ous Miserendino of N. Y
Not So Clever
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Fond Mother “Do you detect;
any signs of genius in my son?” j
Art Instructor — “Madam, I am
not a detective.”
Our Practical Patten «.
No. 1226
Fashions fads and fancies may
come and go, but nothing can take
the place of the smartly and semi
tailored dress in the well-dressed
woman’s wardrobe. This particularly
* effective model makes use of any of
he new fall fabrics and colors.
Black satin would be stunning made ,
ip with a white crepe vestee and |
.niffs, with a rhinestone buckle and j
»uttons to set it off. _ The new shade !
>f chestnut brown in faille silk or |
•repe would go well with cream col
red georgette vestee and cuffs,
while for really frosty weather, we
suggest wool crepe jersey.
No dressmaking experience is
leeded to make Desig No. 1226. May
ie obtained in sizes »>6 to 48. Size
10 requires 3 1/3 yards of 40 inch
material and Y yards of material for
res tee.
Patterns will be delivered to am
iddress upon receipt of 25c. in cast
:>r U. S. Postage. Always mention
;ize wanted. Address, Pattern Dept
this newspaper.
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The Chatham Oil and Fertilizer Company announces
that it is prepared to begin immediately supplying fer
tilizer for fall grain planting. Prices are guaranteed to
compare favorably with those of other brands of the
same quality.
GINNERY
Our Ginnery is in first-class condition and will begin
operations as soon as the demand justifies. The gin
| ning price is $4.00 a bale, including Bagging and ties.
COTTON SEED WANTED.
From the very beginning of the season we shall be in
the market for cotton seed and will pay highest cash
price or in exchange for fertilizer.
We invite your patronage, assuring you of honest and
best endeavor to give you satisfaction in every respect.
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