Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 44

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 6, 1909 en Who Have Brought the Great Corn Show to Its Splendid Success G. W. WATTLES. ITHOUT the right sort of men | this national exposition could his powers he has thrown into this corn show. He not only has looked after execu- tive matters, but the minutest detalls as well, even down to the humble service of golng out and getting the money. During Intersening months he traveled extensively over the country, securing concessions for the exposition and spreading its good will and fame. Big Everett Buckingham. Everett Buckingham is a big man in more ways than one. He will tip the scales #t over 200, but his powers of mind and heart are even bigger than that proportion- ately. Mr. Buckingham is generad manager of the Unlon Stock Yards company o South Omaha, but for many years he was one of the executive officials of the Union Pacific and later of the Oregon Short Line, What of this? Nothing, save that it has been one of the best resources at the com- mand of the National Corn exposition. A man with such experience knows best how to negotiate business relations with rafl- roz All the acumen of his spiendid rail- road mind Mr. Buckingham has freely placed at the disposal of this exposition He hus gone back and for(h personally to and fram Chicago and othei’ cities when necessaty to make direct solititations for raflrond patronage and concesslons. He has been indispensible % Jnmes J. HilL James J. Hill is preeminently the friend and counsellor of the farmer. He belleves that before the country can enjoy Subs stantial and permanent prosperity its farms and farmers must be prosperous. And he believes that more of the best young me of the day should go back to the soil. Mr. by building and developing his great 1s, has opened up to high grade set- and cultivation 314,000,000 acres of a od land as there is on the northerh 1)nm1~|‘.‘r‘1. This land holds within it min- eral and vegetable wealth of inestimable moasure. It took years of patient struggle on Mr. Hill's part to place this empire at | the disposal of the common people. He KENYON L. B ling of these farms on the sam» basis as a | great manufacturing enterprise. Suppose UTTERFIELD, quisite in a member of the president's ad: visory couneil. never have become the success | the land is worth $160 an acre. The Funks of the country’s prosperity. The personnel of the promoters of the National Corn exposition has been one of its soundest | and most valuable assets. The country has hed its attention arrested, first, be- cause men of such serious minds have given their best efforts to the Institu- tion. | Presidént Wattl | The president of the National Comn ex- | position, Gurdon W. Wattles, 1s also presi- | dent of the Omaha and Councll Bluffs Street Rallway company and he has a | habit of being president, possessing ex- ecutive abllities to such a marked degree. Mr. Wattles has had little to do, but his | influence, which is large, has been with the enterprise and his means have not been stintingly given. He is one of the men of large financial interests back of the exposition and he has been needed more than once. Moreover, when he has been needed he has come to the front with the counsel or coin that was called for. Vice President Belden. C. C. Belden has from the first been one of the livellest hustlers who has had any- thing to do with the Natlonal Corn ex- position. He and Tom Sturgess falrly haunted the business men of this city Iast year when the enterprise was new to Omaha in their vigilent pursult of the elusive dollar. Did they get it? Well, take | & gllmpse of Mr. Belden's make-up and @ecide. A member of the Thompson-Belden | company, one of the largest retall firms of of $200 per acre. In other words, by intelli- gent work the Funks have pushed the more. its president. Not only does this organiza- tion urge more id better corn, but con- ductg a campaign, to popularize corn as a human food. When corn is moreé generally used for human food, its price will be—like wheat—more fixed and always higher Thus the farmer is benefited, and Eugene Funk has had an influence in getting corn used not only in this country but abroad. The National Corn exposition is sup- ported by the National corn assoclation, and the influence of the organization is more potent than is generally supposed. to Omaha s a member of the organization, while those who arrange the state exhibits are the vice presidents of the organiza- tion. Thus Eugene Funk has put’ his influence and that of the organization which he heads behind the National Corn exposl- tion, belleving .the $10,000,000 spent annually by the government and the states in build- ing up the sclence and practice of agri- culture can give a greater benefit to the farmers if they can attend a great exposi- tlon and see what Is being done. The result of the corn show, to Eugene Funk, means value of their “farm stock” up i points or 0 ald in getting other farmers to put their farming on & business basls, Eugene Funk becanfe instrumental in organizing | the National Corn association and is now Every exhibitor who sends samples of grain % b “ 3 & | oy s e : i 2 3 ¥ b PO T d m: { | In Tama county, Towa, Secretary \®ilson ) ¥ it le. But it has had the right| v sald: "It must be made to pay us divi- | has a great farm of 1,200 acres, ‘v\h\rh‘ sort of men from the first. | B dends on this valuation;mo difference | bears evidence of his practichl skill and | of peculiar ability and| what the crops are, it must earn, say, 8 per | scientifie attalnments in agriculture and forceful characters were selected and they ) cent net.” stock relsing. TORING: have worked out wonders for the institu- It took some time to get farming on . BUCKINGHAM. i tion. Bome of these men have national and | ) - this basis, but in the last few vears the ‘ fnternational names and some are pillars | farms have pald dividends on & valuation |buy corn in the west, but in smaller quan \ o, That President Butterfield appreciates the National Corn exposition and realizes its worth to the farmer, is shown by the | fact that New England is naw to have such an exposition. RACE TO SAVE BABY'S LIFE Surgeons Cut a Hole in Its Throat for Air and Remove a Peanut. Mary, the baby daughter of Mrs. Bertha Fingerhut of 342 East Twenty-first street, New York, was saved froth death by chok- ing through the quick work of two sur- geons in performing an operation of trach- eotomy. The mother was breaking peanuts into fine pieces with her own teeth and feeding them to the baby, when the latter, unob- served, seized a whole kernel and tried to swallow it. She began to choke, and when slapped on the back failed to dislodge the peanut. Mrs, Fingerhut hurried with the chtld to & drug store at the corner of First avenue. The druggist sald he could do nothing and urged her to hurry the baby to Bellevue hospital. Mre. Fingerhut was almost frantio and commenced to run up First avenue in the middle of the strest, crying loudly. Behind them was a Board of Health am- bulance driven by Albert McNell. He turned to Dr. Earl H. Welcome, a United States army surgeon attached to the Wi itm.u each year | | the city, Mr. Belden's personal position such as to give tremendous welght and prestige to the exposition, and it as for this purpose that he was selected as one | of the directors and prime movers of the | exposition and made vice president. No URGE While James Wilson, secreta man has done more persistent pounding for | culture and president of the American the success of the institution. of his time to the work of promoting the |had to bufld 7.000 miles of railroad for|Breeders' assoclation, will not be in Omeha Charles C. Rosewater. | exposition and has made extensive trips|one thing and he bullt those 7,00 miles of | during the Natlonal Corn exposition be-| Charles C. Rosewater, general manager |&!l over the country. He has given adve road without asking or recelving a cent of | cause of the opening of caongress, there of Jhe Bee Publishing company, was one |t space in The Bee and.the Twentieth | government subsidy or land grant. Mr. |are few§men connec with the exposition of the prime movers in the National Corn | Century Farmer without stint, realizing | yyjll is a severely practical man. He be- [ whose influence has been more potent to exposition. After the first show of the|that the exposition meant a great deal|jjgyes in knowing every detail of his own{make the latest of western enterprises a Natlonal Corn association had been held [MOre than simply bringing a few thousand | p,uiness and so when he undertaok the | success. RRra 60:a rhte ikt mindsi tha Rk R saser in Chicago the officers were dissatisfied |People to Omaha, but rather looked at the | ¢, of building one of his great railroads, | «To James Wilson Omaha owes the fact stare, and decided that It would be better to|broader side of the exposition in the great | . ."Groat Northern, he walked every foot|that the exhibit of the government at{ Dr. Welcome rushed Into the ' reception hold the exposition in & city more centrally | §00d it would do to the west in teaching | oo o4y 10 get the lay of the land and | Seattle 18 coming to the “‘corn show.” By | For six years Mr. Wilson served in con-[half of Amerlcan country life. room of Bellevue, where he was met m(’ a large net Increase in the value of pro- lard Parker hospital, who was also on the ducts per acre and per worker, for Funk ambulance, and suggested that the baby is a business man above all else. might have been run over. Seeretary James Wilson. . Dr. Welcome jumped from the ambulance A and asked Mrs. Fingerhut what the mat- ter was. She was so excited that she could say nothing but that the child must be hurried to the hospital Dr. Welcome snatched the baby from her, jumped to the seat beside McNeil and told him to drive with all speed_possible The ambulance reached Twenty-sixth street in quick time and went into the hospital C. C. ROSEWATER. located in the corn belt. After studying the :;"" _"“‘"_"' s how to fncrease he yield ”r‘l»;un\\' for himself its possibilities, and the |his direction four special baggage cars | ¥7es® and was a member of the commit-| The New England peoplo, atter looking| Dr. Hooker. map and conditions they decided Omaha | their farms. | ea on | topography of the country in which he was | were loaded at Seattle during the last week | "Kflvullurn also speaker of the|over the plans of the VNauu{ml Corn expo-| “The baby Is choking,” said Dr. Wel- was the best. They came to Omaha and Gemeral Manager Sturgess. 145 omond sl iona v gk Dopn wrmpd g Aol house. During his service In congress Mr. | sition, decided that New England should |come. first called upon Mr. Rosewater, who called | "mlomas W, Sturgess Is the general man R e Mr, Wison entered the cabinet under | 'V '!S0n was instrumental in getting many |give & corn show, and next year a big| The other physician looked at the ch iate consultation T. F. Sturgess, editor of | ager of the National Corn exposition, and ARG . & KR President Willlam McKinley, and at that | easures through which were beneficial {show will be held in the states on the 0 was unconscious, and sald: “I'm the Twentleth Century Farmer, published | (hat's one of 0| Belleving that Americans should pro- e et an At s b sald: “It may we ' 88riculture and assisted In planning the |north Atlantic and the prize winncrs |8frald ‘you're too late, doctor; the baby's By The Beo Publishing company noving on to such a splendid success. Mr, | 3U¢C @l those needed agricultural products | F I 10%e BB AR FECE T | work of the department of which he Has | brought to the National Corn exposition. |desd.” $hese gentlemen then decided to put the | Sturgess only assumed the title of the of. | 10 Which the soll and climate are adapted, | been the head for many years. This is a Butterfleld idea. He has been| “NO, she lsn't” sald Dr. Welcome. “Her proposition before the business men of | fice after the show, of last year had been - : - . aware for some time that New England [PUSe Is fluttering. Get your instruments.’ Omaha, and several of the lcading mer- | cleared up and plans for the one this year | h0uld at the same time be made to “pay | person so many admirable qualifications debn, ¥, Worst, ¥ fooa | They hurried the child into another room | chiants and jobbers were Invited to @ lunch- | set on foot. but his activity last veas n |1Vidends” just the same as a rallroad or [for the position of secretary of agricul-| John 1. Worst, president of the North “r‘:":‘u::‘:‘;’:m"'l":’:”v“::: _:fi;’ "‘1'1“‘1‘(;’: weat |1n scarcely a longer time than it takes to ecn, where the proposition was put be- | helping to bring the show to Omaha and |Manufacturing enterprise pays on its cap- | ture.” |Dakota Callegs of Agrloulture at Fargo, | Producis f7om the wes -« Cils whicr, | tell 1t one of the surgeons had made an fuse them. They explained the scope of | conducting it placed him under the burden |ital stock, Tiugene Funk of Shirley, 1il,| Mr. Wilson has the tact and shrewd com- | Might be called the author or inventor of 1‘{‘; it 5" . “m‘“ . ‘.“:,L. incision in the baby's throat and inserted the show with the result that §1000 was |of the institution. His training as editor |WAS one of the first men to demonstrate |mon sense of his Scotch ancestry, a high & svstem (o avold. “agricultural bank-| VIl BROSHen S04 T8 COME ey can CONSUMe | o tubo for her to breathe through, whils subscribed for putting on the exposition. |of the Twentleth Century Farmer gave |that farming can be reduced to the same | conception of his department, a remark- :]“P‘_»\‘L ’fl"‘l "d“"_m”.\ _he is one of the o '.e . ob d" l'“f’“_“ ']‘:’ o | the other thrust a forceps down her throat That these citizens themselves did not | him a good insight into the details of |basis as any other business able appreclation of the manner in which | ‘l'r“‘ it 9:;"‘1}‘:"‘ orn Show |"‘ ”"l-’l" “"‘:;,‘:“‘ and cold solls. ‘{::s‘nnd withdrew the peenut. They then sewed gomprehend the great scope of the ex-| muech (hat was necessary to make a| Take tho great Funk farms in Illinois, | theoretical and scientific work can be ap-‘pu“rl‘n"r": m'm‘"""_""“’ Siifiers: have besn1in ROK M“( BOOLGLE £04. shatures. ) dy up the incision and bandaged it. The baby poaition s seen by this small suarantec. | Natlonal Corn exposition. Mr. Sturgess is |owned by Mr. Funk and his brothers. They | plied directly to farm improvement and | Polro® ' tntll Bhe movement Is called a)can we not grow corn in New England, | was revived with stimulants, and when her But it was & beginning. | nothing 1f not a student, and next he is a |have 23,000 acres and have put the hand- [plenty of the political sagacity that s re- |second coming of ploneers. To get these|says Butterfleld, and he has put his work- [ mother arrived Mary was in condition te . : ew seltlers started on clalms, to show |ers on the task. New England will still |be taken home~New York Presa M. Rosewator has devoled & large part [ worker, & persistent, patient worker, All |them how to make a living the first year | jon & wild tract of land, is one of the problems which President Worst has con- fronted. The problem has been solved to a large measure. Flax s one of the crops planted the first yegr, and the new set- tler makes a profit. Many of them come from states where flax is not known as a farm crop. The college In North Dakota has been of great assistance io the new | comers | Then President Worst realizes the neces- sity of getting crops for the farmers to use |in rotation. North Dakota is advertised as & wheat state. Farmers go into it to grow wheat and they keen growing it as long as the land will produce & wheat straw. Retaining the fertility of the soll is a far-sighted policy of John H. Worst, He insists on crop rotation—on the plant- ing of a crop now and then which will put back In the soll elements of plant food taken from it by continuous wheat crop- ping. Something of the way in which this man has been called to labor among new set- tiers may be realized from the fact that in the office of W. C. Gilbreath, commis- sioner of agriculture for North Dakota, 6,200 mailing cards of the Postoffice ggpart- ment may be seen on file.. These® cards give notice to the commissioner of changes of address. He has been sending bulletins to farmers all over the United States. In four years 6,200 have changed thelr ad- dress from other statas-to North Dakota John H. Worst has work to do, but he is coming to Omaha to deliver an address at the National Corn exposition Kenyon L. Butterfiel Kenyon L. Bgtterfield, president of the Massachusetts College of Agriculture, is one of the big men Interested in the Na- tional Corn exposition at Omaha and his interest has made good exhibits possible from the New England states. Precident Butterfield was a member of the Roosevelt Country Life commission and visited the exposition in Omaha last year. This commission may yet become & permanent organization—a congressional commission rather than a president’s com- mission—and thus come to do much in be- the big reasons why i and that a farm of given tract of land |the United States who united in his own ©. ¥. CURTIS JOHN H. WORST. EUGENE D, PUNK.