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Fulton H. Sears, member of the 

 Fulton H. Executive Committee of the Na- 



Sears May tional Federation of Water Users' 

 Go to Associations and a farmer on the 



Congress Truckee-Carson project, is a candi- 



date at the primaries for the Demo- 

 cratic nomination for Congressman from Nevada. 

 There are few men in the United States with a bet- 

 ter knowledge of irrigation affairs as they concern 

 the settlers on federal projects than is Mr. Sears, 

 and if nominated and elected, he will be an exceed- 

 ingly valuable man, not only to his own state, but 

 to all the West and to the nation. 



Mr. Sears is a man well equipped also to rep- 

 resent the various other interests of Nevada as well 

 as its farmers. He is a lawyer and his practice 

 has been of a kind to acquaint him with the human 

 as well as the business side of life. He has de- 

 veloped one of the best homestead eighties on the 

 Truckee project, and has proven himself a business 

 farmer. 



Although Mr. Sears spent many years of his 

 life in the east before taking up his homestead, he 

 is of "Nevada blood." His father was a pioneer 

 in Nevada and staked out Carson City. 



As a worker in the interests of the Federal 

 Water Users. Mr. Sears has been tireless. This 

 work has taken him to Washington frequently and 

 he is no stranger to the ways of Congress, in which 

 he hopes to sit. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE wishes Mr. Sears success 

 in his venture. Nevada could not choose a better 

 man. 



The International Harvester Com- 

 A Good pany is a perfectly good trust, but 



"Trust" but it wasn't born twelve years ago in 

 Born accordance with the prescribed rules 



Wrong of old Doctor Sherman Law. There- 



fore it must be dissolved, says the 

 United States district court. Two out of the three 

 judges, who heard the case, reached the verdict. 



The decision does not sustain any of the 

 government's charges so often and so recently 

 repeated in political discussion of (a) monopoliza- 

 tion and coercion of local dealers ; or (b) local 

 price-cutting to destroy competitors ; or (c) exces- 

 sive prices; or (d) oppressive trade practices; or 

 (e) destruction of freedom of competition in the 

 manufacture and sale of harvesting machines. 



Although the government's complaint was 

 based almost entirely upon the charges that the 

 International company was monopolizing trade in 

 1912, when the suit was filed, the court ignores that 

 charge and bases its decision upon the size and 

 proportion of trade acquired by the company at its 



birth. This is declared to be an entirely new con- 

 struction of the Sherman law. In other words, under 

 this decision the company is not allowed any credit 

 for having "reformed," even though all its acts 

 since its birth have been fair and just. And on 

 the latter point, the judges seem to have agreed, for 

 in concurring in the majority opinion, Judge Hook 

 says : 



"It is but just, however, to say and to make it 

 plain that in the main the business conduct of the 

 company toward its competitors and the public has 

 been honorable, clean and fair. Some petty dis- 

 honesties were tracked in at the start, mostly from 

 subordinates, who had been in the service of the 

 old companies, but they were soon gotten rid of. 

 In this connection, it should also be said that 

 specific charges of misconduct were made in the 

 government's petition which found no warrant 

 whatever in the proof. They were of such a char- 

 acter and there was so much of them apparently 

 without foundation that the case is exceptional in 

 that particular." 



It looks to the man on the outside that the 

 only sufferers under this decision are the thou- 

 sands of stockholders, many of whom became such 

 long after the birth of the company. 



Well, there are some other sufferers the po- 

 litical prattlers, who delighted in denouncing the 

 "Great Harvester Trust." Poor fellows, all their 

 ammunition is gone. The court did not even find 

 that the organizers had any intention of violating 

 the law, when the company was organized. 



The crops of Europe are being 

 European harvested by women. Upon them 



Women also may devolve the duty of plant- 



Ready for ing such crops as may be grown 

 Farm Duties next year in the war-torn nations. 



The task is a big one, but ac- 

 cording to a report of the International Institute of 

 Agriculture at Rome, the European women are well 

 prepared to handle it. This report, prepared before 

 the war began, is almost uncanny in the picture it 

 presents of the preparations made by the women 

 themselves for just such a gigantic emergency as 

 now has arisen. Leadership in the "back to the 

 land" movement had fallen almost entirely into the 

 hands of the women, according to the report. They 

 were being encouraged by monarchy and republic 

 alike, when war was declared, and they were called 

 upon to put their training into actual practice. 



The women had taken up the movement with 

 greater appreciation of its economical, social and 

 moral importance. They had obtained the enact- 

 ment of many laws favoring their position. 



In its report, the institute declares that the most 



