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Ras Stroigth, Energy Of 20 Years Ago OVERPRODUCTION IS SERIOUS MENACE TO MEN ON FARMS Federal Farm Board^s Hardest Task Is Keeping Crops Down To Demand. Some Prices Are Threatened for 1930. Wheat, Tobacco and Cotton Acreage Must Be Reduced If (growers Are To Make Profits. IDQCFOik* JOIN JOSEPH WltESMa Written for The Chronicle By Caleb j frrow one kind of crop and nothinff Johnson, Throu^ Autocaster Service, j else ? There isn’t anythinjf for him to Throuprh al farm bo Kcr of activities of the feder-; do but try .^methinjf else. In an ex- the war^niiiK of the dan-1 tremcly interesting and imjportant se- •rproduction is being car-! ries of radio talks recently Mr. Sam- ritKl f(^’ih!y and continuously to the farm/rs of the United .States. e farm board is only nine months this April, but its contacts with the fanners of the United .States are already more direct and widespread than those of any other governmental agency. This is natural, since the farm hoard’s contact is through that most uel R. McKelvie, *a member of the federal farm board, illustrated this point. He said: “There are available actual figures of the cost of production of various agricultural crops in different states and regions. If these facts were con solidated into one picture I, as a wheat farmer in eastern Nebraska, ^OBT. ^ STRATE “I suffered ten years with as bad a case of stomach trouble as any man ever had. I was iinp(«sible for me to ever enjoy a meal without suffering. I was terribly run-down. . “Five bottles of .Sargon made me feel like a n**w man, I have gained sixteen pounds and have as much strength and vitality as I had wtenty years ago. “I have never found anything to 'equal Siirgon Soft Mass Pills. They regulate ine perfectly.” Robt. A. titrate, .homa City. The demand for Sargon and .Sargon Soft Mhtjs Pills has probably broken all world's records for the length of tmie they have been on the market. , Sadler-Qwent Pharmacy, Agents.— Adv. sensitive part of the human make-up,! observing what it costs to produce the “pocket nerve.”. I wheat in Dakota,'western Niebjraska, The farm board’s purpose is to help! Kansas, Montana and other regions, the farmer to get more money for' might conclude that I had an awful his products, if not by increasing the | handicap because of the price of my cost to the consumer, at least by in-1 land and my smaller operating unit, suring that the grower shall get all I Then I would begin to see what else of the price which has heretofore he.cn ' I could do -to get out of competition •* likely te show much 42r» We*r"24th Street, Okla- SHOPPERS SAVINGS BOOKS Are On Sale Al The Casino Theatre. The Men’s Shoi> Sadler•()wens Pharmacy. Kellers Dru^ Store Sanitary Barber Shop Edwards Auto Service Smith’s Pharmacy wasted between grower and consum er, by unnece-ssary middlemen’s tolls and the operations of speculators. .Somehow, as human nature is con stituted, we pay more attention to the man or thq, organization which prom ises to make more money for us than we do to the institution which merely tries to teach us how to run our busi ness better. The manufacturer of any \VitK that wheat-gmwing farmer out $63.31 In Trade Tickets for only $1.95 TVathf witif your liome tntrehant. Clinton Independent Advertising Service more interest in the reports of his salesmen as to what sort of goods the trade demands than he is to the en gineer who merely shows him how to improve his product. And the federal farm board—or, pather the natural cooperative selling agencies set up under its direction—is in the position of the farmer’s salesman. In the CPU file (^f time, and perhaps a shorter time'than some of the critics of the system now believe, an overwhelming majority of all farm products grown in the United Sta.te8 will be handled from grov/er to consumer through these agencies. And when these cooperative selling agencies tell their members that they are producing too much of this or not enough of that, and prove it to them by the prices which they get for the commodities designated, there is cer tain to be attention from the growers. So far only eleven commodities have been' designated by the farm board as requiring special national selling agencies to handle them ex clusively. They ar,e cotton, dairy pro ducts, wheat, rice, livestock, wool and mohair, tobacco, poultry and eggs iee<ls, potatoes and coarse grains West. “I saw a statement by Mr. Henry Ford recently in which he said that he did not fire a man until he had to. If he found an employee was not adapted to one task he put him at something else and then at something else, until he found a niche in which that man fitted. So it is with us farm- . . i • . • xi. , x- ers. We must adspt ourselves td the' vf thing w. can do beat.” "^Woaaing of mankmd. I know of There is no subject so important to day and for a long time to come, to every farmer and every business man in communities which depend princi pally upop farmers for their trade than the program of the federal farm board and the way in which that pro gram is being put into effect. The hoard has just issued an eight-page pamphlet in which the whole system is set forth in the form of easily un derstood questions and answers. No American can regard hmiself as ade quately informed about fundamental conditions in this fundamental indus try, fanning, without knowing the answers to every question which can he asked about the federal farm l)oard. A copy of this pamphlet will be sent, I am infforme<l, to anyone who will take-the trouble to write for it. A MIND OVER .MATTER One of the most potent causes of disease in the digestive tract is mental unrest. The average medical practi tioner, I believe, will agree with me when I assert that nerve-conditions are more frequently the cause of con stipation, liver disorders and sour stomachs—far oftener than “germs.” and here I may say parenthetically— that germs have been considerably ovei>rorked as a “cause” of many of the ills that the flesh is heir to; in other words, I have arrived at the stage in medical practice when I look for the nerve situation in my patient before I go running for the “bugs.” Of course, if the malady is one of known germ-origin, and its pathology is thoroughly established, that is dif ferent. I believe thousands of people have told me that they become constipated only when they travel a day or two on railroad trains. Certainly no germs here; the nerve-currents have simply been diverted from their usual chan nels; suppose they are continually be ing detoured ? Anxiety, business cares, grief, apprehension, any of the legion forms of mental unrest will do the same thing. If continually indulged, they will set up very uncomfortable chronic conditions, and may lead to in validism itself. . ■ H. D. HBNHT H. D. Henry & Company INSURANCE STOCKS BONDS REAL ESTATE LOANS NEGOTIATED no condition that pertains more to long life and happiness; yet men and wo men are toiling, moiling, day by day, year by year, for everything else but that! Tte pearl of great price slips away from them because they do not strive to attain it . . which they might lay hold of, if they would. The man who expects to cure his constipation with medicine is only heaping future trouble for himself. I have seen aK^roper frame of mind, a carefully selected diet, and strictly regular attention to bodily routine cure the most obstinate cases—but it takes good generalship and an obedi ent soldier to win such a battle. ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED BY UCENSED PHARMACISTS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PROMPTLY SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY “At Union Station” Phones 377 and 490 Phones 377 and 400 V post card will do. Addresl^the Federal Farm Board, 1300 E street, Washing ton, I). C., and ask for circular num ber one. "h. Men’s and Boys’ IT S We are closing out our entire line of M^n’s. and Boys’ Suits at— ACTUAL COST The Bee Hive When Your Head Aches Take AP Headache^ Powders FOR PAIN. DOES NOT EFFECT THE HEART Said by all l.eading Druggists. There are, of^course, dozens of other ugriculturar products whlcfr wTir be i: Middle Suff^ing "Thrsb years ago. 'a, as in had health,” says Mrs. J. B. Bean, of Kirb3rville, Texas. was going through a critical time, and I auffer* ed a lot ’hly back hurt almoat all the time, and my lega and ankles ached. My head hurt me until aometimea I ssoold be almoat paat going. *Aa I had used Cardui be* iM«, and knew how much I ksd improved after taking Ik 1 got a botde and started IridnfH. 1 continued touae nioreeveral months. After saddle I regained my health, ■sAlAal that I oould nsvar throQ^ that time without CsrdnL** CARDUI flSdlpc IFeMi ft ffisltl organized either singly or in groups. An entirely new kihd of administra tive machinery cannot be expected to get into full swing instantly. It is go ing to take three of four growing sea sons, in all probability, before all of the farmers of the United States fully understand how the new system oper ates and how to take advantage of it. Control of production, in the inter est of more stable prices for growers, is a definite function of the farm hoard under the law which created it. And already the board has found the situation in some commodities, espec ially wheat, tobacco and cotton, to be such as to point definitely to lower prices becau.se of overproduction. Ten per cent decrease in wheat 1S acreage is being advocateil today by IS the board, which points to a surplus ' ss of 100,000,000 bushels in 1029, above ^ the total demand of the w’orld’s mtTr- i^E kets, in proof of its statement that S too much wheat is being grown. Farm- ers could make more money out. of j S 6.’»0,000,000 bushels than they are i si making out of 850,000,000 bushels.jS .And when the entire wheat market is SE in the control of the farmers them- iSS selves — and that is .what the cooper- S ative marketing program is headed-S for—it will not W so difficult to con vince growers that low prices are not always the result of manipulation by 'speculative intereStsr They wHll recog- nize, as many of them do now, that the remedy i.s in their hands. ;S The tobacco .situation in the hurley IS districts is so .serious that the farm ~ himrd the other day sent a long tele-, SEE I gram to state agricultural extension (directors in Tennessee and Kentucky I warning them that planting reports j for 1930 indicate a 15 per cent in- [ crease over 1929, which would give 17.*),0()0,000 pounds more tobacco than I last year, and that last year’s crop j was 50,000,000 pounds more than the ! market for hurley would absorb. Cotton is much in the same situa tion, with everything pointing to an other large crop which, added to the carry-over from last year, will force prices down to 1926 levels* or even lower. So long as each individual grower is a law unto himself, there^is no prac tical way to prevent overproduction, but when the only market, or the best market, available to the grower, is through the cooperatives, and the in dividual grower who disregards the warning against planting too large |in acreage finds himself unable to fi nance his operations through the chan nel! which are open to his neighbors .who do play the game of cooperation, there ia ho^ for every farmer. What is the grower of any conuno- dity going to do when he is all set to Porch bhd GfircfeTi Froclcs^= Crisp, new, colorful and smart arc these charm* ing PRINTS. x8 attractive styles, featunn(’ higher waistlines, princess lines, hems below knees. 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