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I ■ CHICAGO—The same laws pro-
I jMttttg public decency ought to be
I poplied to jazz music as are ap
(Wed to works of art depicting the
I Inman form, declared A. G. Gul
■ jrsasen. piano manufacturer, hi
I u address here. Mr. Gnlbransen
I leak issue with Otto H. Kahn,
I chairman of the Metropolitan
I Oners Company of New York on
l &hmncy of jazz by the New York
I musical leader*.
1 Esfc 1> unfortunate that Mr.
Bfltoha has given so much encour-
I Btl- —- to jazs without suggest
-1 ld| the restraints that should be
i placed on tt,” said Mr. Gnlbransen.
R9nr. Kahn is looked np to by the
I pure musical world. His an-
KHtifleineDt Is tairnn hr the ex
| of the vulgarity of jazz to
the door wide open.
: the message only reached
■■ppM of culture and musical
Hat Smasher Fined $lO and
I ■b V a “It Was Worth It.”
Sept. IT.—John Finn
on- a street corner to
he was busily demolishing
tom* bats he had forcibly seized
I men passengers on street cars
conscience it would be very weiL
but it will be taken as complete
endorsement by people who are In
capable of understanding a single
idea that passes through Mr.
Kahn’s mind.
“Music, painting and sculpture
are sister arts. The Venus of
Milo, the art treasure of the agw.
is e eiaaaio example of how free
art may be when the right spirit
animates it. But at the same time
we protect public morals by rigid
laws which prevent indecencies
from being publicly exhibited.
No such laws restrain the Indecen
cies of jazz. If jazz were sur
rounded with each safeguards, 1
would be willing to have it toow
what ideas it could mimes nwh.
proper restraint*. At present, 1
am afraid the fascination of Jane
is to its frank bestiality, a bestial
ity these to no tow to check."
that stopped at the corner. He
would put hie list through the
crowns and hang the wrecks on a
convenient <past. He had demolished
25 out-of-seaeon huts before a police
mam arrived. He was fined $lO, paid
it and said: “It was worth it.”
Annual Farmers’ Field Day
Williard. X. <\, Sept. 18.—<*>>— 1
'‘Diversification —wise and well-plan- I
lied," is the farmer’s surest weapon :
against unforseen calamities, such as <
droughts and fioods, William A. (Ira- ]
ham, commissioner of Agriculture. I
told his hearers at the annual farm
ers' field day and picnic at the Coastal
Plain Test farm of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture ■ here Thursday.
“The one thing the South needs today ;
in order to give it control over the
market for its products." he declar
ed. "is diversification. The one thing
tlie South needs today to insure a
home-grown supply of food for man
and feed for stock is diversification.
The one thing the South needs today
to secure a continuous and year-round
influx of money into the home treas
ury is diversification.”
Continuing and hammering home
this point, the commissioner declared
that “the one thing the South needs
today to combat these droughts in
the west and floods in the east is di
versification.”
O. Max Gardner, of Shelby, mem
ber of the State Board of Agriculture
from the Xintli district, urged his
hearers not to be satisfied with the
things “Pa’’ was satisfied with. He
declared that farming should be car
ried on in a bold, aggressive manner,
if North Carolina is to cash in on its
best resources.
Congressman Charles L. Abemethy,
of New Bern, Secretary Louis T.
Moore, of the Wilmington Chamber
of Commerce, and Mrs. Estelle Smith,
of Goldsboro, district home demonstra
tion agent, each brought messages of
advice and optimism.
‘‘lt is the experience of all men
whose knowledge of North Carolina
is state-widt that the weather man
frequently makes an unequal distribu
tion of tire moisture conditions of the
state,” said Commissioner Graham.
“When you have an ideal season in
the east, we have a drought in the
middle and western parts of the state;
and when we have enough rain in the
west, you have your crops drowned
out in the east.
“I have just returned from an ex
tended tour of the western part of the
State where everything is so dry that,
one hardly dares drop a burning
match to the ground for fear of start
ing a forest fire—where the usually
green hills and verdant mountains,
covered with succulent grass and fat
cattle, have given place to parched,
desert-like wastes with never a herd
in sight and never a smile on the face
of the owner .
“The drought in the western part
of the State this year,” continued the
commissioner, describing conditions
there, “is so bad that most of the
small streams have already dried up
and water in the larger streams is
1 lower than the oldest citizens can re
• member ever to seen before,
i The farmers, and, in some cases, the
1 townspeople, do not dare use enough
. water to wash their clothes, for fear
1 they will not have enough to drink.
“In the Piedmont counties I aaw
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thousands of acres of cotton not over I
a hand high, and with neither hio?-
som nor boil, hundreds of acres of *
corn with not a green blade from the s
ground to the tassel. No signs of £
hay or forage for wintering livestock— f
the worst drought in the history of 1
Western North Carolina. Here in *
the romantic highland North Caro 1
Una that generally furnishes water to 1
generate hydro-electrio power to run 1
all the cotton mills, all the street tars,
and all the electric lights in the state. )
is now, hardly enough water to wash -
a dirty shirt. i
"Only a few years ago i was ’
through this part of the state and *
saw similar thousands of acres of cot- -
ton not over hand high in fields eov- ;
ered with water from week to week 1
till the crop was in a hopeless condi- •’
tion with no more prospect of a re- '
turn than in the drought-stricken west
of today. ;
“But 1 do not want to portray a ,
distressed condition without suggest
ing a remedy, and the remedy that I
will suggest in both cases is diversjti- .
cation of crops.”
After developing his plea for di- |
versification, Commissioner Oral am
declared :
“It is, of course, impossible to p'a.n
against unforseen calamity—one that
may be expected to come once in 40
or 50 years. But, when each year, or
when nine years out of every ten, :
bring a disastrous drought in the
Piedmont section and the western '
part of the state, we can, if we will,
construct diversification plans that
will bring some measure of relief.
“And you, my friends of Pender,
and the eastern part of the state gen
erally, can do much to help yourselves
when the floods overtake you. We of
♦he west are delighted That our
brethren of the east have bountiful
crops this year. But next year we
may have an abundance i.f rain and
your farms may be turned into frog
ponds—giving you pleuty to drink
but nothing to eat.
“Now it would seem that your prob
lem would be to find some crop that
wi l ' grow on land too wet for cotton
and tobacco in seasons when these
crops give promise of failure. To be
sure, no commercial crop can be
grown in standing water, and fair
drainage conditions are always presup
posed. But with fair drainage condi
tions. we should be able to select a
comb’nation and adopt a rotation of
crops that would assure us of a good
average return each year.
"One of the best wet land crops, I
understand, is the soybean crop. And
the soybean, like the proverbial bam
boo of Japan, can be made serve al
■ most every purpose of the farm and
i household. It is at once grain and
i roughage for your stock, prime feed
for hogs, and can be prepared and
made palatable for man. And this
! crop can be grown on land too wet
i for any other cultivated crop. There
- are certain wet land hay crops that
. can be grown and marketed as money
■ cropa. Some of you will titudt .of oth-
er crops that can be grown in wet t
\ears and in short seasons when you
ate visited with haUstorins as some 1
parts of the state were this year. ]
“If. then, we can si arrange onr i
farming operations as to grow a few i
acres of soybeans, a few acres of hay. I
a few acres of truck, a few a-s-es of (
COtton, a few acres of tobac'o, a few I
acres of corn, we are pretty sure not j <
to he overloaded with iow-iwiced crop ' i
on the one-hand or to be starved into i
tiiertgaging our farms or our crops in i
wet years on the other. 1 (
“The main objects of a branch ex-1'
perlment station are." tli" cominis- '
sjeuer said ,“to study locil agriculture '
al conditions that cannot be studied
or investigated at the central station 1
that is usually located at the State *
Agricultural college; to investigate 1
any broad lines of agrieulutral pro- 1
I'uetion that may be peculiar to the j'
retion where tbe branch is located. 11
For instance, this section was located , *
here in the interests of the trucking 1
and grape-growing industries. The
The station in Washington county \
was established to investigate ways '
and means for utilizing our fertile 1
-wamp lands of the coast counties. 1
The station in Granville county was I
established in the interests of the to- 1
hacco farmers, and the station in I
Buncombe in the interests of both the 1
truck growers and the fruit growers J
"f the mountains.
“In addition to the broad lines and ‘
regional problems that require the '
attention of the experimenter and the 1
investigator, such problems of vital ,
detail as the fertilizer requirements \
of both the plant and the soil; tbe '
adaptation of the crop to the natural 1
responsiveness of the soil, and so oil
are worked out.
“In order to carry out tne work as- ,
signed. to these stations much physi
cal equipment is necessary. When first
purchased they cost but a modest
amount, but today they inventory
quite well into the thousands. When ;
this farm was purchased in 1905, it ,
cost but $4,435, but today it is val
ued at $82,712.84, or nearly $340 an -
acre. The other stations have a aim-1
liar history.”
O. Max Gardner declared in his
uddress that the principal need of!
North Carolina agriculture today is
good farming. “This statement,” he
said, “is trite and commonplace, but'
absolutely true. Good farming is
nothing but good business. We have
made more progress in every other
science, business, occupation, and
profession than we have in agricul
ture. To be sure, there are many
farmers in every community, in
North Carolina who have lifted agri
culture from the bondage of the one
horn* plow, the poverty of the unfer
tilized fields, and the slavery of one
crop depodence, but far too many of
our North Carolina farmers are stand
patters.
“The physician of today ministers!
: to human ills with treatment entirely >
different from that of a generation
i ago. Yet the average farmer of today,
. cultivates, fertilises, houses and mar
kets his crops in the same indifferent
manner as did his agricultural ances
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tors.
“ "Pa <lid it this way, and I am no
hotter than Pa' is too universal in
North Carolina agriculture. 'Pa' was
a good man, but ‘Pa’ never saw an
automobile. He never dreamed of a
tractor. He never operated a riding
cultivator. Pa's civilization wanted
little, and Pa got it. His lot was that
of isolation, remoteness, aloofness. His
social consciousness was highly unde
veloped. He may have loved his
neighbors as himself, but his life was
devoted to raw individualism. His
vision, social and economic, was
largely limited by the metes and
bounds of the farm he cultivated.
“We must continue to realize the'
possibilities of agriculture in North
Carolina, to light the fires of ambition
and stimulate the machinery of com
munity pride. This can never be ful
ly accomplished until farming offers a
profit. And it can never offer a uni
form profit until into furming are di
rected sound business principles com
bined with fair prices for commodi
ties for which the farmer and his fam
ily labor. He can never receive a fair
profit for his crops unless, as a first
condition, he treats his land with
generous care and cordial co-operation.
One of the tragedies in America has
been our barbarous and shameful
abuse o ffarm and forest. We think
too much in terms of ‘new ground.’
We soon bankrupt the new ground,
and the result is that the new ground
I of today is the abandoned old field of
i tomorrow.
“We boast that America is greatest
I in everything, when as a matter of
I fact we utilize only one-half of the
arable lands.”
At this point Mr. Gardner compar
ed America with Europe in this re
ed America with Europe‘in ibis re
gard.
Concluding, he declared:
“The gratifying prospect for the
future of farming in North Carolina
is found in the pride, efficiency, intelli
gence reflected in the boys’ and girls’
club work. I hope to see the day
when every rural high school in North
Carolina will be equipped with labor
j atories for the study of soil analysis,
I the food value of the growing plant,
; and the essential elements of nitro
, gen, phosphorus, and potash.’’
The teachers at a certain school try
' to make the papers as up-to-date and
interesting as possible. During a re
cent examination one of the ques
tions read thus: "If one horse can
mn a mile in a minute and a half and
another w able to do the same dis
tance in two minutes, bod far ahead
would the first horse be if the two
ran a race of two miles at these
respective speeds?”
One pupil returned hie paper with
the query unanswered, except that
he bad written on the sheet: “I re
fuse to have anything to do with horse
I racing.”
' By closely watching the officials
weather forecasts a firm of archi
tects succeeded In constructing a
large public building last winter in
Groan Bay. Wis., a vary unusual per
formance fee that climate.
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FUTURIST KIMONO DESIGNED
BY MLSS SWANSON FOR FILM
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are thttf no woman In
w the entire world exercises such
■ Influence upon what other wom
en wear, and how they Wear it, as
loes Gloria Swanson.
Mias Swansor. who, In addition
to being thr reigning star of tho
(notion picture, firmament, enjoys
the additional distinctions of being
a Marquise, a member 1 of the
french Academy and one of the ten
most iHarmwaad women in the world,
posseasaa that rethailcable sixth
sense—aktthes instinct—which all
aomem envy. She has the uncanny
kamck of taking the simplest crea-
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tion and giving It seme original
twist which produces an affect WO
distinctive and smart that shortly
after Miss Swanson displays it on
the screen thousands of women ara
wearing it.
It Is well known that Miss Swan
son designs, or suggests, Ideas for
i virtually all of the clothes she
wears before the camera or In her
i private life. In malting “The Coast
of Folly,” her latest Paramount
, starring photoplay, Miss Swanson
. created an unusually striking ki
-1 mono. It waa futuristic In design
and color, and was most striking
■ with Miss Swanson’s type.