I fRlDAY, DECEMBER 4*19
m torch
4 department conducted for
I The Warren County
Memorial Library
By MABEL DAVIS
The Librarian
Appreciated Contribution^
I mo books of special interest to
I children, "Just So Stones," Kipling,
and "Tlie Fairy Land of Opera,"
I f canton, a book that will un_
donbtedly hold the attention of
I jdidts-v\'b:ch entities it to nigh
place among children's books?
I j,AVe bee" added o the children's
section during the week, the gift 0f
I us. c H Fcfte' 1716 library is
I jjc'o indebteto Dr. Ja n s E lalI
uade. Salt Lake City, Utah, for a
B copy d tlie book of Morm?n; to
I little Miss Nancy Reters Peete for
- .. ,hP desk, and to Mr. J.
$i leu at ? "- -I
William Limer for a check for $2.50.
I A New Note In Fiction
I A hdy who reads wisely and
I we'll said in the library recently
I that she had noticed evidences of
I a change hi the trend f fiction.
I Taken as a whole, she said, the
fall novels seem to reveal a dif
ferent and more wholesome atmos
phere. That will be good news to
I these who have wearied of sex
I problems. She did not mention
I just what books she had in mind
I but, I think, Willa Cather's
I -shadow on the Rock"?which will
I piobably take first rank among
I fall novels?may be taken as an iL
I lustration of the clarified atmosI
phere she has noted. The reader is
I taken back to old Quebec, a
I French Catholic colony, founded
I when America was ycung and reI
ltgion the dominant passion in the
lives of those sturdy Huguenot im
n.igrants. One experiences a sort
.I mental exaltation in the pres.
ence of these devout people and
finds himself wondering if the gain
in the three intervening centuries
^ has really balanced the loss. My
limitPfi but
own reaamg uas ??? ?
I cannot retrain from mentioning
in tins connection Crichton Alston
I Thome's beautiful short story,
I "Chimney City," which has been
accorded high rank among the
I year's best short stories.
Fitting Tributes
Net infrequently a book or a
I bank note is sent to the library as
I a tribute to the memory of a loved
I one long dead. A year ago Mrs.
I Falkener, a friend of Mr. Taster
I P-.\lk's, remembering that it was
I the anniversary of his birth, sent
I the library a check for five dollars,
I a little appreciation of their friend
ship, she said. Another check for
I the same amount came from Mrs.
I C. H. Peete on the anniversary of
I her mother's birth. On the same
date, Nov. 29th, this year, two
I very attractive books for children
I were presented by Mrs. Peete in
I memory of Mrs. Nancy Peters
Jones, her mother. Combining
service for the living with one's
sentiment seems a very fitting and
beautiful expression of appreciation.
A Time of Reckoning
A slip bearing the startling aninuncement,
"Your subscription
expires with this number," falls
from every magazine one opens
during December. We shall have
to renew our magazines very soon
or lose the January numbers. There
seems no alternative, but the
librarian is a little timid about
fpproaching the treasurer in reSard
to the matter. Rumor has
come to us that the American
Legion Auxiliary, which so generously
provided funds for the order
iast year, has the matter under
consideration. Assistance would be
most gratefully received at this
time. With a little help from The
fines we can renew &11 magazines
ar'd periodicals for about thirty
collars. The list as approved by
the book committee follows:
Time, Literary Digest, Rieader's
utgest, Ha 1PTC CnriVinnro
- vj, ?jviiwnviO) v,vv
I Housekeeping, The American, The
I Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's
I Home Companion, House Beautiful,
I House and Garden, Better Homes
I 2nd Gardens, The American Home,
D Hygeia, The Boy's World, Child
I Life, Popular Mechanics, The News
aid Observer, The New York Times
I 'Suhday edition).
I Curtis Seeks to Break
I Republican Tradition
I WASHINGTON, *Nov. 30.?Vice
^resident Charles Curtis in stand
for renomination is almost defy
Republican tradition.
I 0r one reason or another the He
Q ueans have n.ot renominated a
I j!Ce President rrince 1912, when
I S' Sherman, of New York,
gL a^a'n with President Taft.
5,nnan died beiore the election.
I 5011:16 yeaTs before that
I V;ce rjhe ^Publicans put up a
resident tor a second term.
Vic, ?15.11' Marshall, of Indiana,
I son i ,esi<3e'ftt with Woodrow WilI
.S lhe C(hly man to have served
I ^nt ^ecuLive terms as Vice Presi.
Vice ^ Daniel D. Tompkins, the
to? ?.sl dent with President Mon.
,itcin 1817 to 1826.
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31 Warrentc
THINKS FARMER
IS BETTER OFF
Says Editor Of Eastern Carolina
Paper After Touring
Hundreds of Farms
FARMER IS DEPRESSED
By A. H. ULM
"While I believe they are better
off than they think they are, farmers
around here are in a terribly
depressed state of mind," said an
editor of a newspaper in the eastern
section of North Carolina. Statements
like that had been made to
me almost everywhere and most
emphatically, as to the depressed
state of mind part, by farmers
themselves. This editor's locality was
a good background for a query I
often had wanted to prepound.
"I've seen a good deal of farming
in this and a little in other coun
tries," said I. "But I never have
viewed a farming community that
appeared to the eye better off than
yours seems to be right now. Your
farmers have made record crcps this
year; their storehouses are bulging
with food and feedstuffs as never
before. They undoubtedly have more
of everything, except perhaps money
than they ever before possessed.
Why, this depressed state of mind?"
"Money madness," the editor replied.
Continuing, he said. "In the
war days of rising prices, farmers
arcund here made greater profits
than they ever had dreamed possible.
Land values rose but not disastrously.
But most of the farmers
turned plungers. They operated as
if high prices and big profits would
continue indefinitely. Then came
the period of falling prices and the
plungers got caught. Most of those
in real difficulty are burdened with
debts incurred in the hope of making
lots of money. Money madness
is the main trouble."
What he said reminded me that
not one of the several hundred
farmers I had talked with in all
parts of the Carolinas had evinced
the least fear of distress for lack
of means to meet ceature needs.
Everyone that talked dolefully,?as
did even mcst of those who were
getting along all right,?spoke of
distress in terms of money only. "I
won't make any money this year."
"I have lost money now for two
years." "When are we going to make
money again?" Such are samples
of their expressions. The most doleful
wails I heard were on the score
of money that had been made in >
farming and lost in spheres other
than farming.
Supplies for Creature Needs
There is no ignoring the fact that
farmers, like everybody else, must
have money and that many of them,
like millions of others, are having
a hard time getting the money they
need. But I haven't heard of any
campaigns like ones carried on in
the cities, for funds to relieve creature
distress in farming communities
in the Carolinas. In every farming
community where I thought 1o
make inquiry about it, I was told
that there were adequate local supmm
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piles to carry every creature in the
community through the winter.
"I was chairman of the Red Cross
Relief Committee for this count]
last winter," said a prominent mar
in one of the worst "hit" farming
communities in the Carolinas
"There was practically nothing foi
me to do. There were a few cases
of creature distress, but they were
taken care of by neighbors of the
persons. I'll have less to do if I air.
relief chairman this winter, because
there are mere food and feedstuffs
on the farms."
The fact that economic depression
does not necessarily portend creature
distress in farming communities,
as it does in cities, gives inverse
illustration of the out-of-placeness
of "money madness" among farmers.
Of course money madness is not
indigenous to farming circles, which
after all, probably have been less
affected by it than urban communities
have been. But being more out
of place there, it may be productive
of lasting harm in farming than
in other circles.
Farmers are not especially blamed
for becoming infected with the
"money making" fever, which, however,
has put upon farming a load
of burdens that probably constitute
the most difficult obstacle to complete
recovery of American agriculture.
A good deal of the actual fever
still prevails. I ran into symptoms
of it everywhere I went. Many socalled
farm relief proposals and
measures tend to stimulate it.
Eliminate the burdens that were
Incurred out of money madness that
was made epidemic by the skyrocketing
of prices during the war period
with all the remaining fever for
mere "money making," and farming
in most of the South, and particularly
in the Carolinas, will be cn a
good footing,? especially so in com.
parison with farming in other big
areas of staple crops and, now, with
urban business and industry in general.
Captures Live Duck
In A Unique Mannei
ORILLA, Ont.?It's an old Indian
custom, a vagabond here said after
he returned from a swim with a
wild duck as his prize.
"I was hungry and the duck wa?
all alone," he explained. "I stripped,
waded quietly through the water
with a head covering of weeds. When
I was about five feet from the bird,
I sank beneath the water, came up
under the bird and grasped its legs.
"Try it some day. It's an old Indian
custom."
Finds Huge Bucks
With Locked Horns
BAY CITY, Mich., Nov. 30.?Their
horns locked in a death grip, two
huge bucks were found dead in the
woods northwest of Bentley. The
brush near the bodies gave evidence
of a terrific struggle before exhaustion
and death halted it. The bucks
weighed about 200 pounds each.
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the warren mutual .f
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! A few farmers in this county have!8
! realized the need of a marketing or\ ^
1 ganization. They plan to carry on 1
! this marketing and buying of farm
' commodities with as little expense j
as possible. You cannot operate a
1 business on a strictly non profit
basis. Some less will be incurred in
spite of all plans.
' The chief commodity this crgani'
zation plans to handle at the pre'
sent time is eggs. I am sure that ^
the price of eggs can be stabilized
1 in this section through an organiza. v
tion of this kind. And a better serv- 1
! ice rendered to all concerned.
The plan that is being put intol'
1 force in connection with the egg
marketing is recogize at least three F
grades of eggs: Eggs weighing from s
twenty to twenty two ounces per ?
' dozen. Eggs weighing from twenty
1 four to twenty six ounces per dozen.
Of course a different price will r
be charged per dozen. All eggs must .
be graded and clean, as well las 1]
fresh. On the carton is stamped the 1
' producers number and the grade.
The producer not the retailer or
the purchaser is responsible for all J
i bad eggs. The retailer is given a ?
certain percent to handle the eggs.
All eggs sold under the label of the
organization must be in dczen cartons.
i As soon as the volume of the ?
trade will justify the collecting and r
delivering of the eggs, routes will be a
planned and a truck driven by some
responsible person will call for the v
eggs and deliver feed. The cost of
- this work will be very little. i(
The organization does not desire f
to solicit too many members at the
1 present time but would like to have i;
persons in the exchange that will y
put up quality products. v
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sary for the producer to deliver his J t
or her eggs to the person designated I
in Warrenton. This person delivers I
L the eggs and collects for the previ- I
. ous delivery. I
will be. glad to go into the mat
ter with anyone desiring to do so j
i and explain the objectives of the :
, organization to them.
I am sure that this exchahge will 1f
, grow and that in the future it will!
, not be neccessary for the person
i producing a few dozen eggs to ped- I
die them out over town and accept j
any price the buyer wishes to offer, j
Through a standard product is the :
only way we will ever demand a I
price for our commodities. To ac- |
complish this feat it is necessary 5
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To Explore Floor of se
Ocean for Lost City h
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Nov. 30? &
iunken cities?possibly even the Q]
lost continent" of Atlantis?may be m
isited by a snubnosed submarine ~
under construction here.
The 22-foot craft, equipped with
wheels so that it may crawl across
he floor of the sea, is to be used
irimarily in an endeavor to obtain
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ubmerged vessels at depths hitherto
teyond reach.
But Simon Lake, of Milford, subnarine
pioneer who is building it,
aoks beyond commercial possibilities
nto the realm c-f scientific exploraion.
"We know that cities in the West
ndies, in the Black Sea, and near
'apan have been submerged by
arthquakes, tidal waves or other
orces," Lake said.
"Some undoubtedly lie on the botom
of the Mediterranean.
"There is no reason why this subnarine,
if its tests are satisfactory,!
annot be used to lcok for these 1
uins, photograph them and bring
.rticles from them to the surface."
Lake hopes that the submarine
rill descend 250 or 300 feet.
Large enough to hold four men, j
t will be operated by electric power j
rom a surface ship.
It will contain powerful searchights,
and a compartment from
,'hich divers may have the craft to
falk on the ocean bottom.
"There is one place I should like
o explore particularly," Lake said.
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into the sea.
"Sixty miles away is an island on
rhich a road of similar stones also
:ads into the sea.
"If this submarine were to travrse
the ocean floor between these
ivo points, it would seem that ruins
f ancient cities might be discoveri."
Lake has been collecting scientific
ata en submerged cities. He also
as been reading tales of Atlantis,
hich some writers maintain was an
ntire continent that sank into the
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He had formed no conclusion,
owever, as to whether such a land
ctually existed.
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Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Farmer Swears Off
Sitting Up At Barn
TARBORO. Dec. 2.?A farmer sold
his tobacco at a low price is quoted
as saying: "If my wife gets sick I
will sit up with her, if my children
get sick I will sit up with them, if
my horse gets sick I will sit up with
him, but I'll be damned if I ever sit
up again with a tobacco barn."
A machine which produces mo.
t'ons similar to those of an earthquake
has been invented in Japan
to test different types of construction.
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