•P* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC—Lieut. Reeves of Sun 
Diego was instantly killed and Clarenee 
William Green. Ids mechanician, died 
from injuries received when their army 
airplane was caught in an air pocket 
while Hying at Elsinore, near Riverside. 
Cal., August 24, and plunged into Lake 
Elsinore in a nose dive. 
Robbers who cut their way through a 
4 in. tile wall from an adjoining store 
stole furs valued approximately at $25,- 
000 from the Engle & Eetzer Fur Com¬ 
pany, on Huron road, Cleveland, * >.. Au¬ 
gust -4, Among the furs were 110 coats. 
August 24 a violent storm did great 
damage in the vicinity of Ithaca, Geneva 
and Rochester, N. Y. Roads and bridges 
were washed out, railway traffic inter¬ 
rupted, and loss to farm crops is serious. 
The south wing of the publishing plant 
of Doubleday, Page & Co. at Garden 
City. L. L, caught tire August 28. Of¬ 
ficials of the Garden City Fire Depart¬ 
ment said that indications were that the 
damage, would be at least $50,000. The 
fire is believed to have started from de¬ 
fective electric light wiring. 
A,ino rescue crews worked without avail 
in the Argonaut gold mine, near Jackson. 
Cal,, in which 47 men were entombed 
August 27 by a fire. The men were 
thought to be between the 4,500 and 
4,800-foot levels, while the main body ot 
the file was more than 1.000 feet above 
them. Employes of the mine were sent 
into the Kennedy mine, which connects 
with the Argonaut mine through a tun¬ 
nel. but which is closed by a concrete 
bulkhead, with instructions to break down 
the bulkhead and enter ihe Argonaut, 
but rescue was impossible. 
A special grand jury, made up chiefly 
of farmers, began consideration at Marion. 
Ill., August 28, of the notorious Herrin 
massacre of June 22. when 10 unarmed 
men, who had surrendered under a (lag 
of truce, were marched to the woods by 
5,000 union miners and slaughtered. The 
court made it plain that there are two 
sets of killings to be investigated. The 
first is the shooting of three union miners 
by the strike guards at the Southern 
Illinois Coal Company plant ou June 21. 
The coroner’s jury put lh«* blame for this 
on coal company officials. It is quite 
possible for this jury to return indict¬ 
ments against company officials as well 
as against union miners for the slaughter 
of the 10 strikebreakers rhat occurred 
ou June 22. 
The entire business section of Mount 
Vernon, Me., was destroyed by fire Au¬ 
gust 26. with an estimated h'.ss of $40 000 
to $50000. The town is without tire- 
fighting apparatus of any kind, and a 
bucket brigade was reinforced by help 
from Augusta. Monmouth, Livermore and 
Farmington. The flames are believed to 
have started in a defective chimney. 
The New York Legislature voted unani¬ 
mously August 29 to enact Gov Miller’s 
recommendation creating u fuel dictator 
and a $10,000,000 revolving fund to 
finance the buying and selling of coal. 
By the. terms of the law. the Governor is 
authorized through the coal administrator 
whom he will name to take complete 
charge of the fuel suotdy in this State 
and apportion it. down to the last ounce 
for the public need. The bill setting up 
all the machinery in this elaborate system 
was sent immediately to the Governor's 
desk, and he signed it within an hour of 
the adjournment of the Legislature 
Full confessions of four of tie* live 
strikers formally charged with murder in 
connection with the wrecking of the Mich¬ 
igan Central Million Dollar express 
special near Gary. 1ml.. a week before, 
and the dentil of the engineer and fireman, 
were in the hands of County Prosecutor 
Dwight Kindlcr of Gary. August 29. 
Prosecutor Kindlcr says he will ask the 
death penalty in tlie electric chair for all 
four men. The intimation gathered from 
the story told by one of the men that the 
plot, was fostered by an official of the 
shopmen's union and originated at a meet¬ 
ing the day before the wreck in Armitugc 
Hall, in Chicago, is being investigated. 
The men charged with the wreck are Rus¬ 
sians. 
WASHINGTON— Secretary of the 
Treasury Mellon announced Augu-t 21 
that the deficit for the current fiscal year 
is going to be Consider a bl,\ greater than 
the original estimates of fiscal experts 
of the Government. The deficit for the 
current fiscal year, the secretary >a ; d. 
would probably run into $5lXMMMM)00. 
'file largest deficit hitherto estimated was 
only $400,000,000, so that there L in 
sight now a shortage of $11)0,000,000 move 
than Secretary Mellon expected when he 
warned Congress from time to time of 
the crime of running into new expendi¬ 
tures. 
Government ownership of post office 
buildings in every city and town has been 
proposed to Congress by Postmaster Gen¬ 
eral Work, with the approval of President 
Harding. The President's approval. Ad¬ 
ministration officials said August 27, was 
based upon reports showing that the plan 
would mean a saving to the Government 
of approximately $500,000,000 within the 
next 10 years. Administration leaders in 
Congress, regarding the undertaking as 
an important business reform, and de¬ 
signed to check profiteering in rentals, 
were prepared, it was said. t<> urge im¬ 
mediate enactment of legislation provid¬ 
ing for a nationwide postal building pro¬ 
gram. 
Government tax receipts for July fell 
oil more than $ I<5,000.000. as 'compared 
with the same month Iasi year, according 
to the statement of classified collections 
issued August 28 by the International 
Revenue Bureau. For the month tax col¬ 
lections totaled $100,880,779. as against 
$152.242.217 during July. 1921. Income 
and profits taxes amounting to $29,749,000 
during the month showed a decrease of 
$9,848,000, compared with July a year 
ago. while estate taxes aggregating 
$4,071,000 declined 810.275.000. Taxes 
on distilled spirits aggregating $2,084,000 
for the month declined $2,811,000, against 
July. 1921. Miscellaneous taxes, such as 
transportation and amusements, amount¬ 
ing to $4:1.442.000. fell off $27,177,000, 
while tobacco taxes aggregating $20,080,- 
(XX), reflected an increase of $.‘>,772,000, 
as against the. same month last year. 
Inspection of railroad locomotives by 
Federal agents lias disclosed that a rela¬ 
tively large number of those examined 
have defects of a more or less serious 
character, the Interstate Commerce Com¬ 
mission August 29 reported to the Senate 
in response to u resolution of inquiry 
growing out of the strike. The commis¬ 
sion sa’id that, at 717 different points in 
the I'nited States its agents inspected 
4.085 locomotives, and 2,450 disclosed de¬ 
fects of a varied character. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Sept. 7-8—Northern Nut Growers’ As¬ 
sociation. thirteenth annual convention. 
Rochester. N. Y, 
Sept. 17-22 — Eastern State Exposi¬ 
tion. Springfield. Mass. 
Nov. 15-17—American Bornological So¬ 
ciety, Council Bluffs. Ia. 
Nov. 21-22 — Annual meeting. New 
York State Federation of Farm Bureau 
Associations, Onondaga Hotel. Syracuse, 
N. Y. 
State Fair Dates 
Connecticut—Hartford, Sept. 4-8. 
Indiana — Indianapolis, Sept. 4-9. 
Michigan—Detroit. Sept. 1-10. 
Minnesota—Ilnmlino, Sept. 2-9. 
New England—Worcester, Sept. 2-6. 
West Virginia—Wheeling. Sept. 4-9. 
Kentucky Louisville. Sept. 11-16. 
New York—Syracuse, Sept. 11-16. 
\ ermoiit—White River Junction. Sept. 
12-15. 
Illinois—Springfield, Sept. 16-23. 
New Jersey—Trenton. Sept. 25-20. 
Kansas Hutchinson, Sept. 16-22. 
Ohio—Columbus, Aug. 28-Sept. 1-2. 
Virginia — Richmond. Oct. 2-10. 
The Monmouth Co. (N. J.) Potato 
Situation 
The outlook for the potato growers of 
Monmouth County, N. J.. this season is 
not a happy one. Two poor years in 
succession are now apparently to have a 
companion third, and the poorest of them 
all. Prices, received su far have been 
about half the cost of growing. For every 
dollar paid out, hut half a dollar comes 
back. No business can stand a drain of 
this sort for long—least of all. a farmer 
who rarely has a surplus to tide him over 
a lean year, much less a series of years. 
It seems to me. therefore, a good time 
to suggest as a possible future remedy for 
the situation a national organization of 
potato growers on an acreage basis. I 
mean by this that we take for a startiug 
basis the acreage planted iti that year 
when potato growers generally made 
money. -Let us then find out what part 
of this acreage each and every potato- 
growing section of the country had that 
year. Find out from each of these sec¬ 
tions whether the yield then was 
"bumper." "normal” or “short.” If 
‘‘bumper.” the acreage for our next plant¬ 
ing could probably stand a certain in¬ 
crease; if •'normal.'* the acreage should 
Is* held at that total; if "short,” the acre¬ 
age could be reduced. Have a director 
in every district—a man chosen by the 
farmers themselves—each director to 
work on a salary, arrange for the allot¬ 
ments of acreage in his district, and sec 
that these allotments were not exceeded. 
He could also. I presume, attend to the 
readjustments of acreage from season t<> 
season. There would also have to be a 
central office or something of the sort to 
supervise the work in a more or less gen¬ 
eral way. 
This is the germ of my suggestion. Its 
great weaknesses lie in the fact that potato 
crops have a way of varying from a to •/., 
and that close co-operation amongst a 
great number of farmers is well-nigh 
Utopian in its idealism. On the other 
hand, farmers must approximate the 
findings of the law of "supply and de¬ 
mand.” or always remain at the mercy of 
chance—a very fickle mistress, indeed. 
Further, in such a plan there are no 
great overhead expenses to meet. I should 
judge that a tux of. at the highest. 25c 
an acre would pay all expenses; but this 
is merely a guess. However, it seems to 
me that no other plan has yet been ad¬ 
vanced which, if offering similar possi¬ 
bilities, did not far outweigh the fore¬ 
going in expense of operation. 
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