Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1925, Page 3

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Notars AND CARPET AP, Juo wasiisa & STORING THE LUWIN CO., Rear 1414 V St. WHEN YOU THINK OF YOUR BED You should think of BEDELL X. 9160, e have been renovating BEDDING| or 40 vears and are better than ever sauippod WITH A N PLANT AND UP. I'(lIlJ,l' MACHINERY. For our service. phone. BEDELL’S FACTORY IT PAYS— To consult this big printing plant—be- fore you place your order for printing, : :lf'he National Capital Press| PRINTING— that meets your requirements—prompt | HIGH GRADE, BUT NOT HIGH PRICED BYRON S. ADAMS, P THINK IT OVER voue, Tout HERC toan 1o havs 1ppmele NOW IS THE TIME our_expert pof. ) guarante Tinning and Heating ot und gut Adams 1648. 3475 14th N.Wa — 1carry hanics repair ! NORTH POLE FLIGHT WILL BE NON-ST0P Expedition to Start to Spitz- bergen This Week—Jump Off in May. By Cable to The Star and Chi OSLO, Norw make his biggest plunge into the un- known next May, when two airplanes jump off the icepack north of Spitz- bergen for the North Pole. The planes are expected to traverse the 600 miles to the top of the world in a non-stop flight of from seven to eight hours. The expedition, which is under the direction of the Norwegian Aero Club, will leave Tromso, one of the most northern harbors of April 1 an The party to Kings Bay, Spitzber | Norwegian naval transport commereial oil burner. Toward the end of April or the be- nning of May the expedition will | proceed to the Danish Islands | lie off the coast of Spjitzbergen, just | under the S0t | will fy there om: d by from the tr May Hop From Deck of Should open water be found beyond the Danish Islands the tr will the planes as far sible. It is possible that the hop-off will made from the deck of the transport ! from a position above the eighthieth | degree of titude the North Pole, the e will descend and’ re 4 hours to make soundings servations, and then will attempt return flight to the Danish Islands. As the departure the Northland the s near all is This snow- blanketed city, th - to the south of the Arctic, has been the scene of the gathering of the members of the explor- { ing party. From 4 aly, France C Norway Sweden they The ne expedition devoted wealthy £50,000 for the nes. The public is waitin full of the has been to Lincoln sworth, the American_explorer, who raised among his New York friends construction of the two air- flight stamps, gove Ip obtain funds for the ra in Polar Expeditions. the Farm, transport of about 500 tons, and the Hobby, a 1,000-ton oil bur eave Tromso this week there will be ushered in a new era in polar exploration. The struggle to reach the North Pole began nearly 400 years ago, when the Dnglish launched an expedition to attain the | pinnacle of the carth. Since that atte made by reindeer, dog sled balloon.” All these endeavors, the notable exception of Ie 1909, failed Only six persons will actually mak the flying attempt to gain the North Pole—Capt. Amundsen and Mr. } worth, each an observer in o the planes: Hjalmar Rilser-Las and Lief Dietrichson, Norweglan na val licutenants, and two mechanics, Oscar Omdal, a' Norwegian, and Herr Feucht, a German. All other mem- bers of the expedition will remain on the Farm. The T h Islands are about miles from the pole. The planes arc expected to reach their goal in from seven to elght hours of flight. Elaborate sc will be carried to observations both and at the North Pole. The airplanes will be assembled and tr made at King's Bay zber, They will carry a re 2 two pounds of food per day per man for 30 days. It will consist of various concentrated foods, with much choco- late and malted milk tablets. No one connected with the ex tion recognize: nossibili failure. Each belleves that the will be reached and the back at their base within two days after the hop-off. Should one plane become disabled the other could all six men back to the base s the son why two planes are to be used, and why each will start out with three p in its cockpit The airplanes were built especially the North Pole flight at the Dornier plant in P Ita They re all-metal machines constructed of duraluminum, a newly fabricated material claimed to be light _as luminum and as strong as stecl. The planes eeach carry two Rolls-Royc engine h engine with a horse- power of Their span is feet nd length feet. They are quipped Wwith neither wheels nor ice runners. Their bottoms aro fashioned like sleds, enabling them to land on either water or snow-cov When the two ships Norwegian al 1s- juipment the proper the flight edi- y_ of Pole explorers That but The Best Built All_Steel Construction Phone Us*; BUNGALOWS Continental Trust Co. 8-Day Trip to HOLLYWOOD $250 trip for ‘110 Including all Stopovers to ST. AUGUSTINE DAYTONA PALM BEACH MIAMI EASTER SPECIAL TOUR| Saturday, April 11th AN _EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND A BEAUTIFUL SHORT EASTER VACATION AT A GREAT SAVING. HYMAN N. LEVY, Mer. ‘Washington Office Room 209, 1311 G St. ] Phone Franklin 863 HOLLYWOOD By the Sea | FLORIDA which | pedition’s | with | in! continuous | ngers | in its tot | jaw | produces | cotton, | would prevent it. Todax the farmer|l¥ regulated | parently he thought he could do bet- | refusal to look their balance sheets | nearly THE What’s Ahead for Business? No. 2—Agriculture as Seen by Frank O. Lowden. By John F. Sinclair. Author of “Can Europe Hold Together?” and “Can Your Taxes Be Cut?” EVENING Frank Lowden is a former Governor | of Illinois. At the Republican na- | tional convention'in 1924 he was put | in nomination for Vice President, but he declined the nomination. Ap- ter work outside of active politics. Mr. Lowden {is interested in the farmer himself. He is a farmer himself. He has one of the finest farms in Illi- nois near the little town of Oregon. “The true situation of the Amer- ican farmer has not been clearly stated for years” the ex-governor told me. - He rose, looked out of his Chicago hotel window for a few moments upon Lake Michigan, then turned his determined face and his blue eyes in| my direction. He is stocky but well bullt; his prominent nose would in-| dicate social qualities and his square features determination—an ex cellent ‘combination’ for a public man. | Biinduess Delays Recovery. Most Americans living in the great | citles,” he continued, “do not know | even yet that there Is a farm problem. Many of the great financlal leaders | did not, up to , recogni; the probiem. That W unfortunate. It was bad for business. For such blindness—refusing to face facts—al- ways delays recovery. More-business men have gone broke because of thelr | 1 FRANK LOWDEN. like a of bu than in 1923 thing nore result there was hundred million pounds {ter produccd in 1924 This is about 5 per cent of the total nnual production of butter in the lted States. Domestic consump- tion of butter had increased In thix (ime about 50,000,000 pounds. So t was in reality a surplus of butter of compared with the in the face soni ause. Now, the big leaders, than from any oth knowing th a million wheat farmers ha become insolvent during the past four ars, have for the moment given them attention. But wheat farming | is only about 7 per cent of the farm problem of America. A world short- | i A age of 300,000,000 bushels of wheat DUt 50,000,000 as compu ¥ in 1924 has caused prices to advance Year before, or about 2ig per cent of early 100 per cent in a few months. | the annual consumptlon. ~What ‘ & ‘result inany hankers ‘and busl-fPened: ‘The price of butter desreased n think the wheat farmer ls| {rom 20 per cent to 25 per cent. And his difficulties. jlotheridaizy;, produats SeKE Comn well, for the price of butter largely High Price Valueless. controls the prices of all other dairy “But must American wheat farmers | products depend upon an international wheat| “What does catastrophe for a living? Take corn.|and cents? Prices are satisfactory to any corn| «The total value of dairy produc farmer who has corn to sell, but out- | from the farm in 1923 was about side of Kansas the corn crop was|§2,500,000,000. So this decre in very poor. What good is a high price [ market prices resuited in T for corn when the corn farmers have | the deiry farmers of America of abou none to sell? half a billion dollars in 1924 “The Increased pri “Well, what's the answer primarily to the partial faflure of the | nor? Ias it not always corn crop in half of the corn belt In | way the Unlted States. If the success of American agriculture depends upon | S e the failure of crops either at home| “Suppose the or abroad, then surely agriculture in | milk produc America hangs by a very slender|organized duri thread.” | velieve this You do not think farm problem | come about? No. The co has been solved by the present high |organized, would hav prices for farm product I asked |supply to the actual demand before the him. price beeame demoralized. For the sup- ommodity which affects the Real Prol s {ply of ommodity which affects t ot ammea fnesinen | market p) not the entir _ “No, T do not,” he insisted. “There|ine commodity in ex is a real problem here waiting for so- | put v that portic lution. more important than any other | grered for sale domestic problem we have. Some say | «If the dairy farmers of the U the American farmer is inefficient. | States had jointly purchased this\21 But the United States, with less than | per surplus and held it off the 4 per cent of the farmers of the world, | they would have nearly 70 per cent of the|$500,000,000 more than they corn, 60 per cent of the world's | “What would you suggest 50 per cent of the world's to- | be done with this surplus? bacco, 25 per cent of the world's oats| “This question of surplus and hay, 20 per cent of the world’s | mostly in the minds of those whos whéat and flaxseed, 13 per cent of the | intarest it is to depress prices. Take world's barley and 7 per cent of the |cotton-the 1924 crop was 13.000.000 world’s potatoes. The average pro-|bales. In 1923 it was.1 000 bal duction of cereals per person engaged and yet the 10,000,000 were in agriculture in the United States is|about $85,000,000 more than the 12 tons, while for the rest of the|000,000. No one has suggested world it is 1.4 tons. This is largely |the world I a surplus of due to commercialized agriculturs, | There is prol ¥ a shortage. which has made possible the pi “Make stake. mpor: nom industrial growth of prosperity ain grain prod country. il not solve the farm But how about returning to a sim- | There is a farm problem, and it will pler form of farming, as of fifty years | continue to grow in importance until ago?" I asked. el |the adjustment between prody "It can’t be done. High taxes alone |@nd consumption becomes intell} The problem marketing. stion have hap ov, as this mean in doilars a loss gove th, e for corn is due Needed. corn-growers and the had been complete & these condition could T adjuste have rs, is - time of ch cent rket, did.” world's should exist 13 that pays In taxes upon his lands as much | Product But as the tenant paid in rent half a cen Wi aug tury ago. The average taxes exc (-m}l one-third of the net rental value of | the land and they must be paid in | cash. . commerciallzed agriculture | has come to stay. Says Co-operation Ts A “Large s e co-operation market- ing associations for every agricul- tural product with the object of ul tmately establishing an intelligent : |adjustment between production and Agriculture to exist must conform | consumption.” to the economic laws and limitations “You would which control the other portions of | prices?” the structure. As I see it, and pr: “No, tically all the farm leaders in America | agree, tllr-]“'m‘:(n of agriculture is| which prices are made—through mo- al failur adjust agricyl- | nopolistic control or by an indis : duction to effective df;;,m“,J.H'rlminmr throwing upon the mark as the economists say |as at present, at whatever price I asked for an illustration | oftered by the well organized buyers “Take 1924. The corn crop was 20| There is a third method per cent smaller in 1924 than in 1923, I do not deny the law of supply yet in total value exceeded 1923 by |and demand and its influence upon almost $200,000,000. A smaller corn|farm prices, but I do deny that it i crop of inferior corn in 1924 was |Self-operating so as to preserve n worth hundreds of milllons of dol-|l¥ a perfect balance between sup- lars more in the market than the|Ply and demand. It does determine larger and better crop of the year [the sq-called normal pric Capital before. = will not indefinitely remain in any 3 industry which does not pay returns o Vhere the Dairymen Failed. proportionate to those in other indus What caused the ! tries, 50 the normal price can only be crop of 19247 Wet weather. 'Poor e determined after a series of years for corn, excellent for meadows and or X The farmer in the meantime is ruined pastures—for dairy production. As a What Mr. Farmer is interested in is Sees Farmer's Weakness. arbitrarily try to fi You assume in that question that there are only two ways tural pro inferior corn An Easter Referendum Now in Progress QUESTION: Do you favor the support of our city- wide, non-sectarian ASSOCIATED YES X CHARITIES for the restorative care ———|———| and relief of families in real need, NO with special regard to the welfare of theit children? 3,301 Washingtonians, Men and women, have voted. “YES” on this question up to noon today by sending a contributing membership to the ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. If you have not voted, you are earnestly requested to do so today by cutting out, signing and mailing the form printed below with check representing the membership class you de- sire. 10,000 Members Our Goal! ASSOCIATED CHARITIES (Including Citizens' Relief Association) Ord Preston, Treasurer, Joint Finance Committee, 1022 Eleventh Street N.W. Inclosed find §. Memberships: Associate Active Special Supporting . ustaining i 100.00 TAR, WASHINGTON do you | if | the | ited | received | worth cotton. | problem. | MARCH 31, 1925. FLOODS SUBMERCE " CANADA PROVIGE | Residents of Regina Collect | | Boats and Rafts in Prepa- | Asanitag 0 ot ration for Flight. | ucts have highly | The farmers have not kept | I up with this procession. They worl By ¢ at a tremendous dis: Inal R - vast majority of take |Residents of several districts of this whatever the buy 5 province today had collected boats i and rafts in preparation for deserting e A TR Onnc ke their homes if the flood waters con- “Organization, then, is magic 'l\uuvd to rise. Washouts, crippled word. “The farmers of Denmark know | telephone lines and disruption of train 5 o o \d | service have been reported as a result it. So do the farmers of Holland an .1.’"f e O Ireland and other ~ conntey Lt O e where they have been forced to meet| Railway traffic has been stopped at e dny d trade in a new |Mazenod, and washouts are reported e R e o oty lu e hrcela. analCoriing s | The main street at Tantallon is under Elsix inches of water. Ilood waters des. A150 have been pouring through Lums- %" 'den, a few miles north of Regina eBUIe|where the Qu'Appelee River h U lcwollen to.one foot from flood level. B ms were feared at Hazeleliffe D. €., TUESDAY |the market price—the prige which | rules from day to day. “Somebody must name that price Somebody must say what he thinks a bushel of wheat is worth today. The producer should name the price in the first instance. He is the most interested party.” “That is to s the farmer follow business “Exactly. In all producer formulates the price of his product. The industry of farming stabilized in no other way market price a period will i ned near normal pric foree would have lines of big you the other lines the 1 the rm or- INA, Saskatchewan, March 31 they a ver rmers’ associations ing Some have failed, but they tined some day to occupy the fleld, for there is no other way 1 th . 1 think, everything produced from the to be sent to the et will b keted by the marketing prog are co-operative are ma n forcsee u.ru_!Famili?: in River Districts Dl‘ivenl at this 1s agriculture alone. | Out by Floods. use there | QUEBEC, March Ity unless | jjieg Jiving in the industries which g0{geguce County have commercial world | homes as the flood w with ANOMNET. | pige. Many farms alrcady {dated, and the foundations the houses undermined. he flood at St. Georges continues to rise, with the lower section of the| town already covered by three or H f water. Residents are 2| boac i going and from | homes. es8 men should see t not the problem of It is the problem of can be no endurtr | all the principal to make up the ceeping in step shall march abreast “This is my day for agr opyright reat Hic Alliance —Numerous far ver districts in abandoned their aters continue to fnun- h of Iture e Tomorrow: George % rican Banking Reynolds, ox to Experience is cher, but it truant from her COAL Reduced Special prices are now in effect. Reductions ap- proximately One Dol per ton. the best| Mrs Woodbury has been difficult to | serving cart over a route {in Lond 50 years, hav- ing beg ren ‘a child, Highest quality coals at lowest prices. May we quote you? John P. Agnew & Co. 728 14th St. Main 3068 We don't wanto fi ./” Persons have come to realize that ALL PHONOGRAPHS are | The audience showed emphatic ap- ) k7 SCHLEGEL SCORES HIT. | HEADS DIETETIC BODY. Carl Schlegel, baritone, of the Metropolitan Opera Co., was assisted effectively last evening in a concert at the First Congregational Church by Dorsey Whittington, planist, and Charles King, Mrs. Genevieve F. Reed Hospital of the District at ‘its | terday afternoon at the White cock Tea Room. Other officers ¢ j follow: Miss Rowena Roberts, | Hospital, vice presidc { Hunter, Walter Reed H¢ | tary, nd Miss Huckins husi- | beth’s Hospital, tre r num.| The rext mecting of Rormmn | tidn whi be hela ain- | ¥ Zar and Throut by Mr. |16 at 30 pm, Dr. opened | reau of Chemistry ! pal speaker Long of Walter was elected president Dietetic jon of the annual meeting yee- pianist-accompanist proval of the program ing encores, Mr. Whittington stic applause with rs by Chopin, Peterkin, Deb ger. Two no selections Whittington and Mr. King and completed the program. % E by demana- evoked his piano Imgren, v and Percy APARTMENT HOMES into home ownership. 8712% now owned and occupied. 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