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Tbs RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Things To Think About 
The object of this department is to give readers a chance to express themselves on farm 
matters. Not long articles can be used—just short, pointed opinions or suggestions. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER does not always endorse what is printed here. You might 
call this a mental safety valve. 
Help for the Starving 
I set the Manchester Guardian and see 
much about the Russian famine. Also 
the Friends are telling of the needs and 
of the good and bad points of the Rus¬ 
sians. Dr. F. Nansen was always one 
of my heroes. He seems to have a big 
heart. He asks for Russian help. I en¬ 
close an advertisement for the Friends 
Russian work and $10. 
You will see 1 ask some other sub¬ 
scriber to continue the advertisement. 
T'se it all in one insertion. I want to 
introduce you to two good friends—the 
Friends and The R. N.-Y., though T know 
you are aware of each other. 
EUNICE AM) JOHN BUCHANAN. 
Berwick, N. S. 
This letter came to us with $10. The 
R. N.-Y. wants a hand in all good enter¬ 
prises. This money would not pay for 
much space in our columns, so we decided 
to send the $10 direct to the American 
Friends’ Service Committee, and also 
print the notice which came from the 
Buchanans. Here it is : 
‘‘Christmas comes in Russia. 
‘Tn the famine area the children will 
be gone if you do not send food. _ r l he 
Friends would help all. but the children 
come first, and there is not yet enough for 
the children. 
"In the name of love—give. 
“In the name of Christ—give. 
“In the name of humanity—give. 
“For the children—give. give. give. 
"Won’t another subscriber pay to con¬ 
tinue this adverMsement from Nova Sco¬ 
tians?” 
"American Friends’ Service Committee 
for Russia. Send to 20 South 12th 
street. Philadelphia. Pa.” 
Instead of paying for the advertise¬ 
ment. we suggest that those who care to 
help send their contributions direct to the 
Friends at the above address Whatever 
we may think of the people now in con¬ 
trol of Russia, let us remember that the 
children over there are not responsible. 
They are suffering. They need food. 
Many of us may feel that we have no 
abundance, and that there are already 
many calls upon us. The trouble in Rus¬ 
sia is greater than anything we have here. 
If you care to help, this is your opportu¬ 
nity. 
Cures by Transplanting Animal Glands 
I have 'been reading some remarkable 
accounts of cures made by a Kansas phy¬ 
sician upon persons mentally afflicted. 
This doctor. I am told, is now either in 
Connecticut or Massachusetts. According 
to a neighbor, an account of these cures 
has already been printed in some of the 
New York newspapers. The cures are 
made by transferring the thyroid gland of 
a goat or kid to the patient. I would 
be very grateful to you for any informa¬ 
tion you could give me of the genuineness 
of this method of healing. n. n. 
Pennsylvania. 
You may safely put down the newspa¬ 
per accounts of remarkable cures through 
the transplantation of animal glands to 
the human body as the work of either 
imaginative space writers or of physicians 
of little repute in search of notoriety. The 
use of products from various animal 
glands in medicine is comparatively re¬ 
cent, but much of value has been accom¬ 
plished, and there is a large field ahead 
for this kind of therapy as fast as it can 
be placed upon a rational basis through 
study and experimentation. The actual 
results of gland medication will 1 , not be 
found reported in the daily lit papers. 
They are not sufficiently astounding for 
this purpose. For a reliable discussion 
of such topics you will have to consult the 
medical journals that do not depend upon 
sensationalism for their support. If you 
were to trace down some of these news¬ 
paper reports of remarkable cures, you 
would find them either wholly faked or 
silly exaggerations of well-established 
practice. It isn’t worth your while to 
try to find this Kansas physician. If he 
exists, he hasn’t brought about any won¬ 
derful cures by transplanting the thyroid 
gland. m..b. D. 
Kitchen Sink and Hound Dog 
The Missouri Agricultural College 
prints the following story to s’ - that 
the cost of a good outfit of running water 
and sink in a farmhouse is about the same 
as that of a hound dog. Such a water 
supply, including indo, pump, kitchen 
sink and ordinary drain is about $45. 
“One farm home was found where the 
man of th- house had bought a kitchen 
sink and all the necessary fittings seven 
years ago, but had ever since felt too 
poor to make the installation. Ry an 
odd coincidence, however, on the very 
day that Lehmann and his demonstration 
truck visited this man’s home, a hound 
dog also arrived in a crate from an Iowa 
dog fancier. Moreover, the fact came to 
light that the owner of the long unused 
sink had paid $40 for the hound, with 
$”».70 additional for express charges.” 
The Railroad Man’s Wages 
As I was reading The R. N.-Y. today 
I saw your figures on wages of a railroad 
employe. As I am one I would like to 
give you a few illustrations of the wages 
we were paid from 1013 to the present 
year of 1921: 
1913, we received $3.70 per day, or 
$25.90 per week. 
1914, we received $3.70 per day, or 
$25.90 per week. 
1915, we received $3.70 per day, or 
$25.90 per week. 
1916, we received $3.70 per day, or 
$25.90 per week. 
1917, from Jan. 1 to June, $3.70 per 
day. or $25.90 per week. 
1917, June 1. to 1918. $4.77 per day, 
or $33.30 per week. 
1919. to May 1, $5 per day, or $35 
per week. 
1920. to Aug. 1. $6.48 per day, or 
$45.36 per week. 
1921. to July 1. $6.48 per day, or 
$45.36 per week. 
From July 1, 1921. to present date, 
$5.84 per day, or $40.88 per week. 
I don’t know why we are always 
knocked about our wages. If some of 
the people who are always crying about 
our wages would come and take our 
places when the weather is the way it 
has been for the last three days, rain 
and slush and ice, they would not stay 
10 minutes on the job. You also claim 
that the farmers’ income has slumped. 
Why? Because the farmer sells his pro¬ 
duce to the wholesale houses, and we pay 
double what the farmer gets for his pro¬ 
duce. My wages for a year, if I work 
every day, are $2,131.60, or $5.84 per 
day. 
On the railroad that I am working for, 
one year ago they were drawing for one 
train 35 cars. 1.750 tens, with six men. 
Today they are taking, one train. 55 cars, 
2.900 ton’s, with the same number of 
men, and the rate of pay for train em¬ 
ployes was the same. 
New York. edward j. bruneixe. 
A Japanese on Eastern Culture 
As my name explains. I am a foreigner, 
born in Japan ; have been in this country 
15 years, and during that time came 
across quite a number of the American 
periodicals, but found almost none free 
from either class hatred or catering to the 
privileged class, clandestine policies, with 
the exception of your Rural New 
Yorker. If I have learned nothing in 
this country. I am thankful to have be¬ 
come an unseen friend of your principle. 
As such may I call your attention re¬ 
garding the following passages in your 
recent Hope Farm Notes? “If the great 
nations of the East acquire the knowledge 
and material power which go with Chris¬ 
tianity without its moral discipline they 
will certainly rip up the world as we 
have it traced on the map.” 
If I do not fail to understand their cor¬ 
rect meaning, they seem to imply moral 
discipline the monopoly of the Christian 
relin-ion and suggest that the Oriental 
civilization minus Christian influences 
will be a brute force ready to devour the 
Western world—a belief accepted sin¬ 
cerely by the majority of the American 
people. 
My childhood days have been spent 
more in fishing, shrub hunting than in 
scholastic attainment, but received in 
classroom an outline of the world history, 
an introduction to the ancient Chinese 
philosophy, a glimpse of Buddhism, and 
I am compelled to say that 1 would ri-ther 
prefer the Eastern culture of art and 
philosophy to the Western science and 
industrialism if I were to choose between 
the two. Does not th- Western science 
owe its introduction to the Crusaders who 
transplanted it from Asia? Is it not a 
fact that in Asia they had a high type of 
civilization when the ancestors of the 
present Western nations hardly emerged 
from stone age? Excepting Hingis 
Khan (?) Timur, has Asia produced such 
well-organized, merciless exploiters of the 
weak and ignorant as France, Holland, 
Portugal. Spain. England. Belgium, Ger¬ 
many and numberless others in China, 
India, Java, the Philippines. Africa. 
South and North America, with the sole 
exception of Japan, who defied alien brute 
force with matching brute force, and who 
today is following the example set by the 
West, in Korea and China, her historic 
benefactor, kinsman and neighbors. What 
do you say abofct the dark intrigues con¬ 
ducted today in Haiti, San Domingo, 
Mexico, by the American financial power? 
There seems to be something vital lacking 
in the Western civilization. 
This is not an indictment of your civ¬ 
ilization, but this may serve as a sugges¬ 
tion that the Western civil’ i 0 n needs a 
little more of the Eastern culture of art, 
philosophy, mercy, to soften its rough 
texture. To mo our goal is not self, but 
a harmonious development of mankind. 
jimzo Kisui. 
We st clox 
—that's Big Bens family name 
Making ends meet 
T RYING to cut the cost of run¬ 
ning the farm to fit the revised 
prices on grain and live stock 
usually means added chores all 
around. 
An extra hour morning and even¬ 
ing will get a lot of work out of the 
way. As one good hour deserves 
another, there’s a tendency to put 
in some overtime on the sleeping 
schedule. You can’t work any 
hour double. 
There are only twenty-fourhours 
a day, and every Westclox works 
them all. 
America is the most economical 
timekeeper for the farm. All day 
long it tells time anywhere you need 
it. At night it ticks off the minutes 
till the time you set it to call you. 
Promptly on the dot it rings you 
up. It calls steadily, surely, punc¬ 
tually. You’d think it had an in¬ 
terest in the farm, it works so 
conscientiously. 
That’s a regular Westclox trait 
—to take their jobs seriously. They 
are measuring time, the stuff life is 
made of, and Westclox count it 
carefully. That’s wh> vVestclox on 
the dial is a good mark to look for 
in choosing one-day clocks. 
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