Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 14, 1921, Page 7

s TR YA GEETE o — 2 THE WIDE-AWAKE CIRCLE Mélly wis sathey sorrewinl 8 fiave nér pdrents v the ngm"l;r" evenklng. 5 bt she s 6lind many things to ke Boys’ and Girls’ Department. - . iner bussTSne got asqusinted with tnd) Eules For Touny Writers. Slase, Thetd ws & (abi 8 the caster [DHEISSTE chlldrel, ORG e pto 1—Trits plainiy on 6ne side ef the|Of the FeSH with only a lamp ipén if: . The Haliowe'en plan was that every sirl was to dfess 8o that she would et be tecognised: They glannéad to dande 4 play games. Each girl was 16 give one dolla# {6 thé girl wearlhg the most | “4per only, and number the pages. !—Use pen and ink, not pehcll —Short and pointed articles will 56 o prefererce. Do not ush ever 230 * used 5—W aratlons began and Mol'y was 2 busy It tle Dbee. When thne arrived Molly énjoyeq Herdels greatly, scarlng evérye one she coitld, helhg dressed up In such & frightful eostimeé, representing & fvifch, that she fhade seéveral supefsti- to your name, agé and sddress | worribie Sostiirie. tlous peopie shifver. WhER Molly ré- viainly at the bottom of the etery. . Whe gifls cafme one LY oné but all [nirned heme. she e gted her xfiotpér — were on tife. oL o the geéGheyoes 6f hér "‘;ii déslating WIDE-AWAKE POETRY, | The @ancifng and Fafnes' were playel. |shs find & “dandy” timé, as o eXpias pe ot g s |1t w/ae thms £o #ive the prisé. The judfed {éd it And I hope that &7 of tiie Widé- e o | abolded ther ome gifl. dressed All | Awa¥es had @ good fmeé on that hapo¥ 2 aunted the lilies and {hé Can- in red with long fed . éard’ a red talt erbury bells 3 i 3 shiges {66 Fér the fairies and the browaes asd “’:fi’;;‘t&“:’le““‘ e | néve pen their dollard. The person Was adted to take off her g€k and show U ot who shé was, S w:;';e:‘l: the stars osula:. “Oh," eaciaied mgu. "I;'é Jen- reste for hundids when | nié Martow's brother! Hhye we got to 4 & > gave our dolidrs fo “No, madim you favdnit, but you can €ivé them to my sigter, ghé let nle comne/ d how thé Bunnied éuld hidden nests, héd thé candy éges for he fmterruptéd. Ouf Be finx’ad ag s ni¢ the very fext diy. ? wowy ove of Christma# damé,|of thé Réady Club's happy halloween to stay awaké v:ax;.;: Liid i Ilsten for (he reindesrs’ gentle our Jttle frieRC, . ¥ A 5 EITA M. WEEKE, P A Fai Of Féorin of Van Déar Unéls Jed: * Th the Fimmer vaces tion ¢n the Féurth of July fny brothér and I went 1o the olty: ;We heard 15t of nétder. THére were Arbworks and lots ot guhs. My brétheér ang I bought 10 of din and firdworlts. Then we went fofne and when w4 got e had 16t | of furi and madé lots ise. t Santa Claus came down | Vérdaliied. chimney fue t hls pack—then Néw té roofs. af néarly éveryintng #ith nded glee, sunshiné in the World wad my t alwayd | tears, e t6 b again that happy e and t i ® and the; . SEd totd 6 SRYFORAE @ rédl t0 Wy Baby |our @imndr. 4 Atier Sanér nmiy fathér and mother ife, my tréadurse, yes, fwent #6 thd eity. My drothéfs ana cis: jewsls, And my books; té5 Had 16t of fan a2nd whan my faths more of ehlidhood I)er aind nothér éams back they drougat iots of firewdrki. ; Mazing, in the Beatiié|. Afier awbhie wo mack o8 ffécrachers. o, DIg brotheér and I went over to o boy’'s Whose fiatis #5 Meérris and had lots of | syrockeéts and lots of \spatklers. Ther | my brother and I went homé ana we had | ts more sparkis fireathckers and | Thén we& ate Am Iron Pog. eet, 4n iran deg rusfad laws; : & shifting fog n the dawn; We had 1613 of fufl ‘{54 fight. FRANK SLEDIRSKY, Age-11 eman Eaglev not s now, o#e fFom other yards they come end go. My Little Incidént With & Witen N Déar Uncie Jéd: Onme pight when 1 Thout ihé D486 | oy coming Home I Aaw ! kP objéct !“ ke coming along draggl sométhing. is fidrcs and toid; | W8S atfdld, 86 I hia id {he Pushes whiik ORGE it pased. T was ure lt woulln't see mé 126 1 wad in goine tall bushes: . Tnis dark iobia.cn passed Dby, but soonr it stépped 1 d egan walking. wak fri, fFigntén g on mMé. teh earmé fast- er, 80 I eronched do&n fa until 1 fiearly réuched i threw mygelz on tue up. €6 1 my hand &own and i " are negi of a Uroomstick. Just thén a large | | cat jumped on tay back, and meow- " waye ¢ Mk my ears | y a4 bat fiew by gt il s Wik 1 my 3 Ueh fritéed én 1 fas about to get nd go hofie I saw the Wileh coming The witén twad 1d6king farther than at mé. I ti 500 Q tckén another siep vé (Fipptd oA me, and she =hg fell on atouse the Kindhess ex- roned over and thé witehr Wépr on ng f6f 4 14tle w As 360t as shé was off of me I ran homéd, and thougit fysel Hdlbw'en nignt and Age 12 at Ouy Basketban, | for it 8o | Dess Unels Jeda: 1t o very lon# A hils sihes I havé wriltén to tHe Widé- fend and | o So I thought 1 ¥ and clgiith grades, bought the Dballl for $8.50. THeére wéré fen boys in all| and each Soy pald 85 ménts: Now taall & boys o %086 gradés krs now out ! ook Ol ieachér tdld us we could | o & small Puneh and pay 25 centd | T ¢iass could twh téams and 26 Wa couid intef i e to g0 home ¥l ahd 1o oné 2long counity o2l wh déaly sa% 2 boat Belng carrié swift current Gown Willew Créek. nt 58 Fah d6wi fo the ler's sdge ang saw to hie enrprise that was 2 chlid in the:boat. ognizeéd her as litfle 1t He ree- lies Meyers who néar him.. THeté was o waterfall a7 cown thé créel and 1 he dfd not e the ¢ It reaghed the waterfaii—Ralph dresdsd w, and Mary o8 deparféd tnls remmal “eding ganéralion to ad 6 thinie of *s of Teinz . Lind 16 [the conceqtieticer. maie Siipylhg oft his sheés, stockings and coat, Ralph dove {h and an gvim- mifg towa the boat. ¥t was nol dasy for fhé curfent w24 agalfist him. t 1ast heé peached the , bomt and = | clumbefed aboard. Téllleg Alles not to WiNNERS OF P B¢ afrald he gazed oredind And pondercd S e e ot Bow to feach Shore. At lagt he thought 2 18 Uard 8¢ = p'an, Abotit a quartér of o mile down ine dirdam thers Wad a pehfisuls eovéréd twith Waods, . There was one oar i the boat (the ather éné Allte had g8 0f North Franks of Bozrahvilie— hifi the Worst DOY— |y W ghot iots of bullels off. My 55oth- | supir I thén f6§ Eométhing | -vergni. P Yéirs cérély, . LILLIAN ANDERSON. Brockiyn. 7 My Idea of Plannlag o City. Déar Uncle Jéd: I thought you would licé o hédr my fdea 6f plamiing a eity. planning a clty wé rhust considér {hrée important things: are o Yealth, bequty and convenlefices, a1 of thésé for tié bénét of the péople. First of all & &ity wust have health: This fe tmportdnt bédause some cities h Wwere not plafined Ravé né Jerks or play- graundu tor ihe peopié to émjoy, thess belig not ofly 1or pleasdré, but for tis fealth of thé city. Anethey importast fl‘?la g (& eonvéniences. THiE 18 also im- ortéi Bécduse Wé cou'd not carry om 2 g:dx'xé-i With othér péovie i We did nét htvé fmednd. By which we 86uld do so. We would net have s Sity WRISH peopie wéuld earé to sée or visit it we did not ni¥é Bedtity WIth Léaltn and &omvens gnced. Wo fitist havé beéauty f6 make Deoplé iAteredted fn our city. W should have parks, playgrounds or even fiower: eniént place afid trées slaé of sidewa ine Gomstruction of ihg 6f strééts, and thé #: C_TE § onily & few 6f thé huns that aré t6 Bé éonsla- dréds of things SARAH AMELIA STACIARINY Céluinbid. e A& Piéile th the Wesds. Déas Uscle Jed: It was Tuesday and iis {6achéf asxed ug {f We Would riot lixé fo miké Friday cléean-up day ail satd ®& Would. e dfd so weil day ihat ERé Rald wé e6ud taks our lunehés and éat thém In thé Wwoods the négt Toésday. Bt we faund out t 76t going fo BE sehool €6 W went ofi Wedhésday lfisidad. OF wé slartci rifht after aismissal. Weé soofi f3und a pides to éat our iumches. After eating Wk went for 4 walk through the Wouds in which %& sa8® pretty col6féd idaves znd férns Whith Wwé picked. Ws aldo ES fidld glmost ‘as as a plafn. a3 véry handsomnd. Somé 6f us said it Would gamee. maké 2 goodt Place for racds and v nit up 4 steep Whes golng homs wé Theéré Wé daw a little free foad. We tren sEW 4 g Ine freds and ant hilid. We tng flowers and hédrd & partridgé among the bush We then afrived at fchool, Anding it o ten tninutés riaet oma. FRIEDA F. Pasker, : ALSH, Age 18 Our Neighbor of thé North. Dear Urile Jéd: T have been studying In school sbout Canads, ofir neignbof of " When e read how the Ca- 2t Chateau- about thy We learn that they are a splen- aid people and th 3. iz a wondérful country. When thé Ameticans went o ver to heip Thé Star Spang e h Banneér. In return Amertean ac Maple Leal. th Unlted BY HELEN ‘M. JOHNSON Fraficld W. Parfer 8chosl Remémbet the titne the téacher call< ed on you afil yéu “Aunked fat” You'd studied that lessort hard foo but it didn’t sfick. Well probably the rea- sori vout didd't know it was that yéu had fiot made an otitlirie of it. Aq outliné wor't always rémember the lesson for you but it will help like everything. If you have a framework with pégs on it on which you ean hahg the fnain fasts of your lesson, vou are liablé at irast to know what the téacher is talking about when hé asks vou a guéstion. The first thirigs ¢ get in an outling are the main facté 67 faost important fopics, in the lésson. Let's take that history lessoi you had about the éarly Fremich explerers. There weré twe of them 19 the léssen you remember, Champlain and Caftier, Sefipose we fake them a8 the two ‘gyxcs {rom which to build our outline. { € will 1abel Cartier 1 aad Champlain 11, otk Roman numérals. Then gut dewn ufider each the main things they did #nd fabel tham A, B, C, éte. (in cap- itals). Fo: A tnder Champlain you m!’ght say, “Foundéd Quédee.” Theé chances ar® you wiil have some more informgtion you wiil want t6 put down abbut Québec. Well put it down under your ctatement about Quebec ibst) and Paiph deelded fo try ahd pad- ala ore. X N Az they heared thé poffit Raiph begsh 45 paddls hard 1o réach dfidte. Would they miss fi? Relph Noped fot but it certainly foolied so. All a‘ &ncé the boat ihe Front Line ra inteh and turfisg Jowasd shore. : < * choutsd RADH, but the wer of Packre—With the | wardé were hatdly ént of his mouth ho boat strict and the¥ both tum- b4t on Gnote. By CATHERINE GEARY, 2ge 14, Putnam, Brownie Sledjesky of I Scouts’ Vietory, Azl tville— inners of prize bodks living I Nor- can obtain thi&m by calling at The alin busineas office after 10 o'clocl A Walléwe'en Viilk ay. Sbriing Desr Unele Jea: For gorhe time T have S net WHtten to yeéu and {fhdbsfore thRink ETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT 1t lg timé Y SHBHIA Writé Endther stor: Wiltrid Cote o A thanks | Thls t eha e be 1t s interest. | 10 the country, & oW En: i . o g IMer schsol ¥as having a. vaeation, of Packer—1 thank | .ug Melly wished viry sfuch to visit 2ar book you gave ,, ints. "Bunday mérning Met fatRar ahd meth- ¢ sasdmpAnied ner to thEls laege: arm. T the meantime Grandme 404 Grandpa Déane recelved télegrae . bntorming 2 thém taat they Wers to . havé guests, 4 - : A large dfnner x“?‘“dm, dna!n. . " g of chicken, ed and Hiany dell. sfrERs WRITTEN By wibe. | UK. Shpen. B was, it lh the sla- AWAKES fheNioned dining rodm, and all was neat The Besdy Club's Hallewe'sn ahd tidy \Grandma desldd 16 let grand. pa g6 to chureh eat's, 4Rd When return. {hg, 8165 at the At} to AWalt the are #1¥a] of thelr dearly belovéd chlidren, f6¢ such they termed them. After ev. efjthing was in readiness, zfandma sat do%n by the window to Waich ahd listen ¢ Utdie Jed: 1t was drawing clese lowe'en 2nd the Ready Ciub girls a godd time la kifts of the vere clanning 6 have th ub houss o1 of thelr's had and fabel it 1, 2, &c. For instance, you might say 1. “Was firet success- ful Freach Csleny”. Then if you haye anything to sky absut the faet of ?‘ it being the first French colony, put down and label it (a), (b), ete. Thus the first part of your outline i o § R .mg.iu spleted wenld ?onolullmc is ¢ g for thelr comilng. BHe Aid not walt long for very soon she hAARY the tramp of . p hétdes' feet and tha WAEON wheels. A g ol ol i chlidish step wa® EAFR OA the plazma valk was a row of green - |and roon o Ittle éhild was fohdly em. s 1ttle one dodr clib ho bfdesd In prandma’s srms. ftor the ace and bestde 1t was a littls cup- L hastds greetings \rets 6¥8r, atid they had TWE r the one door was ranbiet rose oard whers the girls kept their utensild chettrdl ori varfolis sub; ®, théy nros o cooking. There were thes cAIFS ARd |csedsd 1o the dbwidg. table, ON, now « Btoel thit was placed before tie 18- haINS &8 X laitt, A. Founded Quebes 1. Was the first suecessiol French colorfy ; becaise z (sm%n Indians wers friendly. (b) 1t tapped the fut ttading region. Be siee your statéments belmgrwhre ::k put ei‘; in. ‘g\u outghe. m mnake complete clatémen 230h nRg d&eunm oie befere it win the war the Canadians so glad |, #hs( tnéy tanghi their achool children fo shig Amétich, Pe€, Whité and Bive, ana | l 1 i of any a | Here’s butter with the real country flavor! It's Wedgwood Creamery Butter, just about as deli- cious and rich a butter as you can put on your table. It is churned from fuil cream milk. Wedgwood Creamery Butter is economical because it holds its flavor and freshness longer than other butter. And with each pound is packed a coupon that will help you get a chest of Oneida Community Par Plate Silver of a beautiful set of Parisian China Dishes.. Use Parksdale Farm Eggs. They’re thoroughbreds. If your grocer hasn't Wedgwood Creamery Butter or Parksdale Farm Eggs let us know. P. BERRY & SONS, Inc., Hartford, Conn. Sote New * ibuters for land States 1 handsome bossed with a gold band, only 30 free coupons and $6.00. For 30 more coupons and 36.00 you can get 36 piéces more. A third set of 34 pieces for 30 cou- pons and $6.00 completes this magnificent dinner Save money on new ishes etting 42 pieces of Parisian, Chisiay - or Think of of 12 pieces. hat they for more th dred years have needed n da as a very neteieut. Here th baeco, peaches and an can raise In New D) The best farming fn the weste Albérta and erop s land of Canai t Canadian far ing farther and of Forest and Field Mole Is Biggest Litile Fighter, Digger, Eater BY J. H. MILLAR 1f he were as big 4s a bear, the mole would be the most terrible of all ani- mals. ; He i3 6nly. 2 meek-looking, gray little ligger biit ke has the most voracious ap- setite and works hardest to satisfy it al you ever heard of. Mr. L. E. Adams caught a mole and fed it a third of a pint_of worms 2t 8:00 o'clock in the evening. Early the ‘hext mérning he went cround to th 8| fust in time to see the mele give 4 fittls kick and die. It had starved to death. P : Imagine yourse:. with a pair of no- 0od eyes, no bigger than pin heads, dowh ini the eafth where you couldn't méve except by forcing away the dirt by fain strength, with an apoetite so big that yoit had to eat your weight in wotnis in a few hours and sfarve to death if yott you went without food a half day. Itis a mole’s life. 'he little mounds you see in the lawn, garden, of meadow, mark the path of the molé a3 he seeks for worms under- und. He is a mighty fast digger. & has been known to dig 75 vards un- deg gretind in one nig it : He has a pait of lands about 34-inch & with palmk turned outward. ese he motes like a boy swimming undet water, bringing them together in front and then afound to the side, thtowing the dift back and fnrsini him- u(g forward at the séame time. And if he gets tired—he stafves to death. He ne;fr has a off. £ e i5 a vicious fighter especially when he is ehoosing a wife. A nature 3 L somme Two, a he fighting and we f' him. He took out his d them. For seven min- utes they scratched and wrestled. Then were they never wateh and so busy one turned the other on his back and ciit his throat 48 cleanly as if he had had a knifa s dnciiy i It you imagine this s & cold unsym. pathetlc world, tell people you have vatyza and listen to their suzsestions map | Quebec to Portland, Me., and is ake beyond the sixtieth paralle] that the Canadians do not The wheat i8 shinped on and then loaded on e€hips In winter when t frozen over it goes f: Lawrence rom Por! s tates is protd of ifs' zood nelghbor may well be I hope the good peo- always Drosper. CHAPMAN BRIGGS, Age 11 I am going to write cnie. The teacher said couid have a school plenie for go0d joh on the school- < and grounds. 1ing it did not look as ¥f it nice er, but the r lunches, By noon clear and we started g into he pines right came to a clear place, so down and ate our lunches. started walking. The led down ve came in b; We started sch The First Thanksgiving. Dear Uncle Jed: One 'day as Governor This was in Noveériber. so the ok their guns and went hunt- men took their fishing tackle hing. The litfle boys and wn to the seashoré and dug » children aiso gathérgd nuts, en returned they had bea: E d wild turkeys. Soon th fishérmen ived wi plenty of fish. ‘While they were hunting the women were in ples and cooking other s to eat. While the wémen were husy cooking meéat and fish, the men made benches and tablés. When ail was ready th called the Indlans to the feast. The Indians brought fresh deer meat and popcorn for the feast. When the fégst was over the Indians ghowed the Pilgrithe how to pop the corn. By shaking the corn ovér the fire the Other heat turned the keriiéfs Intc fluffy whitg | ceed 1,000,000,000 pousMs in the balls. The Pllgrims weré véry much sur- prised, for they had hever popped corn before. Sineé that Thanksgiving has | been a legal holiday all ovéer the United | States. H FRANCIS SULLIVAN, Age 11. Bozrahville. Smmre Péat. Dear Unele Jed: I wonder #f amy of the Wide akes have evgr heard of peat. Tt is a sponigy vegetable matter which is found in ireland. Semetimes it is soft and sometimeés It i§ hard. In some swamps it i§ thick and in other swamps | it is thin. . Many of the pedt landd are beinig drained beécause the soil is 8o rich | under them. After the peat has been cut the bogs make splendid farms, Pedat is the chief fue) of Many women earry it home on their backs. Thé men cut the soft wet stur into Bricks and put them in thé sun to dry. Later they take them té the cities and sell them. Peat inakes a very Yot fire, but it does not blazs up like wood. Logs are found in some peat. Thesé are used for can- dies because they burn so brightiy. LOUISE GUEST, Ageé 13. South Coventry, —_— When My Cat Caught a Rabbit. Dear Unels Jed: I have not written to you for quite a while, and fiow I am going to tell you abowt my cal. The other morning I started to combd my hair and I just happened té look out anc guess what I saw! Well, I don't think you canvgues, so I will tell you. I saw my yellow cat fun by the step with sométhing brown and whité in his mouth. 1 let nmiy hair go and ran ot to see what hé had. 1 found the cat in back of the wash tub and then [ saw what he had. It wag a little rabbit and it was alive, so I took it away from him and gave him a piece of meat instead. My father pat the fabbit in & barrel and when I went to see him the next morning he was dead, ahd 1 was very sorry. SARAN GILL, Age 10, the Itish. Jewstt City. nnum.m. Dear Uncle Jed: One wmorning we Willlam Bradford ooking at the well | id: “We ought to or the good cropy which he started to the fair. It was 9 o'clock | I left out of the armory. 1 saw cakes, hone; school papers. Ig . frutt, v, ng, canning and 1 n ice eream c W a toothbrush a There wers My brother Wil- ¢ in the potato race cent won first prize the race for Ii 5. brother Frank won second and I got third prize. The next day T saw oxen pull loads of I saw the sheep. cows, caives. and lots of pretty horses. There was a baseball game, too. There was a rope pull between the freshmen and the sophomores of the college. The sopho- mores pulled the freshmen through the pond. I had a very nice time while I was at the fair. i BROWNIE SLEDJESKY, Age 8. Eagleville. | FOREIGN WORLD DEMANDING WHILE FOODSTUFFS While the world can wear its old clothes for another season and e get along with last year's automobile, it must have food, and as » consejuence, |says the Trade Record of the Nationai Bank our exports of food continue to show increasss in gua ty in all of the more importast 2 Corn exports in the nine months end- ing with S e 105:600,000 tushels agalnst only 11,000,009 in same months of Jast year, 2nl show a bigger total in the calendor yesr 1921 than at any time in t past twenty vears, Wheat export the nine months ending with S ber were rearly 300,270,67) bu. cluding flour in termns of wheat) as against about 200,093 )% in the same ncntie o1 last year, and it 1s quite pparent that the ear’ier yeer i y ¢f our export trade. makes by o far #ts highest record in 1921, the quantity for the nine months ending with September being 456,000, 000 pounds against 294,000,060 in tae same months of last year, and 393,000,- former bigh récord in rice exportation. 009 in the full calendar year 192 Barley exp@:ts are aiso far in excess of those of theé same correspnading month of 1920, though in oats and rye ther well ag vaiue, The demand for meatd Is not as gieat proportiorately as for . The i quantity of bacon i slight decline but shoulders a inarked i shows a tof aga t 33 ce ase, whi of 71,000,000 peunds a 00,000 § and see the same months likely fo ex- calén- | dar year 1921 as agaiust a former hizh {record of slightly less than $00,000,- 1000 in 1919. In fresh béef we are get- ting back to pre-war conditions, and i the quantity exported in the nine moutns cadmg Fith September, 187 is only 9 1-2 liion pounds against a little less than 7,000,000 in the year preceding the r. Jleo oil shows a total of 1060000000 jcinds againat 49,600,900 in the same rionths of l»-t i year, and eoiimsed oti of which ih exportario g are chiel i shows 2 total »f 231 the nine moa-as of i 400,000 in year. 40 (000 pounds in 1 against 113,- «te same months of .iat natisa of the foodstuffs being exported in such large quantities, the largest jever ifi wheat and rice and the larg- jest for twenty years in the case of corn. In the eight months ending with August, the latest period for which full | detalls are available, Europe took 175, | 000,000 bushels of wheat exported, in the form of flour a_considerable pércentage went to the Latin Ameri- can couniries. Of the corn exported Buropé’s share was less thau in the case of wheat, though nearly one balf of the big exports of corn afe now be- ing sent to that continent. BEuiope is also making a favoraile aequaintance With our rice, of which we have on.y become Jarge exporters in very ree | pounds of the rice the latest year for avallable; Greece 35,200,u Reigium 20,000,000; ani ¥Fran 000 pounds e 2 Origin of Forest Fires Of the forest fires that occur In Pennsylvania, 99 per cent are prevente able. Only 2 few are caused Ly light- ning. The others originate through hu- man action and can be stepped.~Ior- ast Leaves. ——— e Manchester—Figures show that the grand list of the Manchester Green schoo! district has jumped from 2700.000 to over a miilion doliars. A tax of five mills on the 1830 grand llst is now being col- lected. the afternoon | is a material deciinc in quantity as| Europe is of course the chief desti-! UNITED STATES RICE when my three brothers and my sister | ExPORTS “SBREAK ALL RECORDS” Rice exports from the United Statés in 1921 wil be far in excess of any eaf- {lier history of our fice exportations, the quantity exported in seven months { ending with Ju.y having been 378 mifi- {lion po . d- azaiast 30 ailliol L ine full calendar vear 1920 which broke | the re 1 in the rice exports of the | United & 3 indications &re that the iz the cdlen dar year 1921 pproximate €50 { pounds against 393 milion in 1920, 168 midion in 1918, 68 mulion in 1915, aftd { 28 milion in the year immediateiy pre- | ceding the war, 1813. Thus, t ports in 1921 wili be abbut much as in the year preceding ibe jwar and approximately 50 per cent |above the former high record yéar | 1920, Even this biz total for 1921 does {not include thc shipments to Forto ico and Hawali, our own islands, which will approximate 15¢ miiion pou nd bring the grand total of American rice passing out of our | ports in 1921 up to Sv0 milion pounds, |or about 4v per cent of the crop of | 1920, ) The value of the 1321 shipments to | foreign courtries and our own isiande will be about 25 miilion dodars not- withstanding the fact that the export prices of rice in July, 1921 were only about 3c per pound against 10c ia the same mionth of last year. This big exportation of rice as coni- pared with former years, is, of course due to enormous increases in our do- mestic production, which advaticed from 10 million bushels In 1903 to 25 ) miilion in 1910 and 52 million fn 1526, Jwhile the farm value increased from 7 miliion doliars in 1400 to 17 milion i 1916 and 110 million in 1919, thé lat- est year for which value figures are available. Meantime, imports have fall- en from 299 million povnds in the year mmediately preceding the war and 354 million in the fiscal year 1918, to 97 1 n pounds in the fiscal year 1921, while the averaze import pfice of rice tro mabroad has [len to one-haif that of a year ago. Of the 393,000 000 pounds exported in 1920, 64 mildem went to Cuba, 8¢ miluon 10 Gerwany, 3 million to Greece, 20 milion to Bet glum,, 20 million to France, 24 mil- lion to Canada, 19 millien to Argen- tina, 17 million to Chile and 31 mil- {lien o the Dutch East Indies. | This big increass in our exgperts and ceresponding reduction in imports, add the Bank's statement, is due to the foct that the Unlied Staés is now toe chief rice ‘producing couniry of toe Occident, though about nine-tentbs of the rice crop of the globe,is still pro~ ! duced in the Oriént. Out product whict | row runs at nearly two bilijon péunds a year (expressed in terme of hull« | ed ‘rice) 1s double that of itaty, Zouy times that of Spain, and ten times that of Brazil, the other rice produc- ,ing coutitries o¢ the Oceidental world, Our in-reas? of 400 per céut in Lice preduction since 1900 has; grows o1t 1of a sysiem peculiar to t§is coun’yy, of produ :ing rice in a manyar i+ waich ordinary fz m machinery can be utlijz- ;ed. Rice can or.y flourish on wet land sc wet that a icw years age it was discoverea inat cutain lanis in Terae Arkansas, Louaislana and elsewhers could be prepared with the usual ag- ricultural macainery, the rics aiso planted by machinery, the lands then flooded from nearby streams or aste- sian wells, and the water drainel off as the rice approached maturity, and ordinary reaping-and threshing mia- chines used in harvesting the erop. This revolutionized rice growing 1a the | United States, and the producing area |was expanded from the Caroiinas and Georgia to the Misslssippi Valley, Ar- kansas, and Texas and receatly to cer- i tain ardas in California. | Even thi¢ big increase in our pro- duction, however, still leaves us faz below certain of the Oriental countries where rice is the chief artizle of fvod for a very dense popuiation. Siam, for example, produces over 5.000,0“:‘.0“ pounds of rice a year against our 2,- 000,600,000 pounds; the Duich BEast lu- ies 7,000,000,000; Japan 17,000,000,000 India 70,080,004,000 pounds, while iina, which has no official figures of er crop probably exceeds India in pro- duction, bring the world's total crop approximately 200,000,000,000 pounds a ", ag great . a quantity ae heat which average dbout 2,53 pounds pér snnum, A correspendent “Wheich fe correct, ‘the banker lends money’ or ‘the banker loans money’?" XNeither, the correct version is, ‘The banker loared money."-Birmingham (Ala) News, A y dishonest thing ebout & we- ber money i - not to have it. sadd