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A  Good  Time  to  Buy  Tires 
The  whole  story  of  Goodyear  value  is  plainly 
shown  in  the  above  simple  chart. 
Over  the  last  ten  years,  while  prices  of  all  com¬ 
modities  were  soaring,  Goodyear  Tire  prices 
have  been  kept  consistently  low. 
Today,  Goodyear  prices  are  37%  below  those 
of  1920,  and  30%  below  those  even  of  1914. 
This  is  remarkable  in  itself,  but  more  remark¬ 
able  is  the  fact  that  year  after  year  Goodyear 
Tires  have  been  steadily  improved — in  design, 
materials  and  construction. 
Now  is  a  good  time  to  buy  Goodyear  Tires. 
Prices  are  low,  and  the  tires  are  the  finest  and 
most  serviceable  Goodyear  has  ever  built. 
Made  in  all  sizes  for 
Passenger  Cars  and  Trucks 
Don’t  Wait  for  Cold  Weather! 
Plan  now  to  make  money  next  year  on  a  farm  near  the 
Nation's  Capital.  Five  to  500  acres  of  fine  farmland, 
within  an  hour’s  ride  of  Washington,  on  very  reasonable 
terms.  Maryland  farmers  are  making  money  on  all  kinds 
of  farming.  No  crop  failures.  Ideal  farming  climate. 
Avoid  high  transportation  costs,  with  big  cities  at  your 
doorstep.  Send  today  for  the  whole  story. 
SOUTHERN  MARYLAND  IMMIGRATION  COMMISSION 
College  Park,  Md. 
VINELAND  POULTRY  FARMS  Jersey.  Poultry, 
fruit,  ideal  locations;  State  highways,  electric,  gas, 
modern  improvements.  Write  for  information! 
OKORUK  III.OOH t  NSTEIN,  tits  . . St.,  Vineland,  New  Jersey 
Farm  Profit  Leaks 
may  be  stopped  by  practical 
co-operation.  The  new  book: 
“Organized 
Co-operation” 
by  John  J.  Dillon  tells  how. 
Price,  One  Dollar,  For  sale  by 
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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederick 
Buehler  of  Richmond  Hill,  L.  I.,  N.  Y., 
and  Miss  Elsie  Praeger  of  Brooklyn,  N. 
Y.,  perished  August  16  in  the  explosion 
of  the  gasoline  tank  of  the  launch  in 
which  they,  with  eight  others,  were  boat¬ 
ing  on  Lake  Bomoseen,  Yt.  The  others 
were  saved.  The  launch  was  blown  to 
bits  and  all  the  occupants  were  thrown 
into  the  water. 
Increases  of  10  per  cent  in  -the  pay  of 
all  State  employes  for  the  fiscal  year  be¬ 
ginning  next  July  will  not  be  approved 
by  Gov.  Silzer  of  New  Jersey.  lie  advises 
a  reduction  in  the  number  of  employes 
with  a  better  salaries  where  merited. 
This,  he  believes,  would  increase  efficiency. 
The  Governor  made  his  position  known 
in  a  letter  written  to  the  Civil  Service 
Commission  August  10.  In  his  capacity 
as  State  Budget  Director,  he  will  make 
recommendations  to  the  incoming  Legis¬ 
lature  as  to  salary  increases.  The  pro¬ 
posal  to  add  10  per  cent  would  increase 
the  annual  State  payroll  from  $850,000 
to  $1,000,000. 
The  first  heavy  frost  of  the  season  hit 
the  Adirondacks  August  16.  In  some  lo¬ 
calities  the  mercury  dropped  to  30  de¬ 
grees.  Farm  and  garden  crops  were 
severely  damaged. 
“Hair  tonic”  to  the  extent  of  20,376 
pints,  in  2,448  cases,  alleged  to  contain 
93  per  cent  of  alcohol  and  to  be  intended 
for  internal  application,  was  seized  Au¬ 
gust  16  by  Chief  Deputy  United  States 
Marshal  Howard  at  three  Chicago  ware¬ 
houses.  The  liquid,  it  is  charged,  has 
little  resemblance  to  the  formula  for  the 
tonic  in  question  on  file  in  Washington. 
The  tonic  was  manufactured  by  a  New 
York  drug  firm.  The  fluid,  it  is  charged, 
was  mislabeled,  unlawfully  possessed  and 
intended  for  use  in  violation  of  the  pro¬ 
hibition  act.  It  was  also  charged  in  the 
bill  that  no  tax  had  been  paid  on  the  con¬ 
tents  of  the  bottles  to  the  Collector  of 
Internal  Revenue. 
Plasterers’  wages  of  $104  and  more  a 
week  in  Chicago  are  causing  ministers 
and  members  of  other  professions  to  take 
up  the  trowel  in  Evanston.  Ill.,  where 
work  on  a  new  hotel  is  in  progress. 
The  half  million  barrel  oil  tank  of  the 
General  Petroleum  Company  at  San 
Pedro,  Cal.,  which  caught  fire  August 
17  from  an  explosion  believed  by  com¬ 
pany  officials  to  have  been  caused  by 
static  ignition,  boiled  over  August  17  and 
transformed  the  emergency  dikes,  hur¬ 
riedly  constructed,  into  lakes  of  liquid 
fire.  The  dikes  were  all  that  held  the 
blazing  fluid  from  hundreds  of  homes  on 
the  hillside  in  which  it  is  located,  as  well 
as  from  a  5,000-barrel  fuel  oil  storage 
tank  and  a  tank  of  distillate.  Damage 
was  estimated  at  $1,000,000. 
Two  persons  were  burned  to  death  and 
scores  of  others  were  imperiled  by  fire 
in  the  Greenway  Terrace  apartment, 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  August  10.  Mrs.  Fred 
Walters  and  her  five-year-old  son,  Frank, 
were  trapped  in  their  rooms  and  perished. 
Property  damage  was  estimated  at  $20,- 
000.. 
Fire  which  started  in  two  tanks  on  the 
Humble  Oil  and  Refining  Company  prop¬ 
erty  at  Webster,  Texas,  after  burning  for 
more  than  24  hours,  burned  itself  out 
August  18.  Approximately  60,000  bar¬ 
rels  of  crude  oil,  with  a  valuation  of 
$120,000,  were  destroyed.  The  two  tanks, 
valued  at  $30,000  were  total  losses. 
Lightning  ignited  the  oil  in  one  of  the 
tanks  August  16. 
Fire,  which  started  with  a  spectacular 
explosion  at  the  plant  of  the  Interstate 
Refining  Company  at  Kansas'  City,  Mo., 
August  18,  was  confined  to  a  single  still. 
Two  workmen  were  severely  burned  and 
were  taken  to  a  hospital.  A  third  man 
was  injured  slightly.  The  force  of  the 
explosion  awakened  all  residents  of  that 
part  of  the  city. 
Eleven  persons  were  burned  to  death  in 
the  Wa\\;a  Hotel,  on  Lake  of  Bays,  Mus- 
koka,  Ontario,  when  flames  swept  the 
building  early  August  10.  Three  others 
were,  reported  missing  and  five  suffered 
injuries  from  which  they  may  die,  while 
20  who  were  being  cared  for  in  hospitals 
were  said  to  be  out  of  danger.  The 
Wawa  was  on  the  south  shore  of  the 
Lake  of  Bays,  about  140  miles  from  To¬ 
ronto.  In  addition  to  the  hotel  building 
there  were  a  number  of  outbuildings  and 
tents. 
Four  men  and  one  woman  were  killed 
instantly  at  Pensacola,  Fla.,  August  10. 
when  a  commercial  seaplane  piloted  by 
Albert  J.  Whitted  of  St.  Petersburg,  Fla., 
crashed  into  Santa  Rosa  Sound  near 
Camp  Walton,  40  miles  from  Pensacola. 
A  Sunday  outing  in  a  flat  bottom  boat 
on  Long  Island  Sound  by  five  persons 
who  could  not  swim  resulted  August  19 
in  the  death  of  three  of  the  party  when 
the  little  craft  suddenly  sank  200  feet 
off  the  Fort  Schuyler  bathing  pavilion 
at  the  foot  of  Phillips  avenue,  Throggs 
Neck,  the  Bronx.  The  skiff  had  an  out¬ 
board  motor,  and  it  is  believed  that  the 
vibration  of  the  engine  opened  the  seams. 
The  dead  are  Joseph  Anderson,  aged  35. 
an  automobile  mechanic  of  308  East  52d 
street ;  his  wife.  Margaret,  and  Salvatore 
Pascheri,  aged  30,  a  laborer  of  258  Hud¬ 
son  street. 
America’s  newest  and  largest  lighter 
than  air  craft,  the  Zeppelin  ZR-1,  was 
successfully  launched  from  its  gigantic 
cradle  inside  the  hangar  at  the  Navnl 
Air  Station,  Lakehurst,  N.  J.,  August  20. 
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September  1,  1923 
The  ZR-1  is  680  feet'  long  and  78  feet 
through.  Her  sister  ship,  the  ZR-4,  is 
now  under  construction  in  Germany.  A 
German  and  American  crew  will  fly  it 
across  the  Atlantic  to  this  country  in 
November,  if  present  plans  are  carried 
out.  The  ZR-4  will  take  the  place  of 
the  ZR-2  which  exploded  in  the  air  over 
Hull,  England,  last  year,  during  a  test 
flight  in  which  seven  fliers  lost  their 
lives.  Both  the  ZR-1  and  the  ZR-4  will 
be  placed  in  the  Lakehurst  hangar.  Both 
ships  carry  52  gasoline  tanks  and  hold  a 
total  of  6.000  gallons  of  gasoline,  giving 
a  cruising  radius  of  3.000  miles. 
Secret  service  agents  August  21  ar¬ 
rested  five  persons  who  are  said  to  have 
camouflaged  a  wholesale  bootlegging  in¬ 
dustry  at  114  Lexington  avenue,  New 
i  ork,  by  posing  as  publishers  of  a  matri¬ 
monial  newspaper.  The  prisoners  are 
charged  with  conterfeiting  and  with  con¬ 
spiracy  to  sell  revenue  stamps.  They  are 
Joseph  B.  Robinson,  also  known  as 
George  Gilbert  of  201  East  102d  street; 
Herman  Friedlander  of  16  East  105th 
street ;  Allen  Snow  of  3514  Mermaid  ave¬ 
nue,  Coney  'Island;  Joseph  Serpico  of 
Madison,  N.  J.,  and  Dr.  Adolph  Lappner 
and  his  wife,  Rose,  of  201  East  102d 
street.  For  some  time  secret  service 
agents  have  been  watching  the  Lexington 
avenue  offices  and  the  movements  of  the 
men  and  women  engaged  there.  Quan¬ 
tities  of  circulars  were  found  giving  de¬ 
scriptions  and  price  lists  of  all  the  known 
and  popular  makes  of  whisky,  gin  and 
cordials,  which  were  being  distributed  to 
all  parts  of  the  United  States  and  Can¬ 
ada.  Physicians’  prescription  blanks, 
labels,  government  revenue  stamps  and 
case  stamps  also  were  found  in  quantity. 
These  were  confiscated,  together  with  a 
number  of  complete  stills,  a  dozen  cases 
of  whisky,  about  100  gallons  of  alcohol, 
thousands  of  circulars  advertising  the 
wares,  fake  mail  order  schemes  and  thou¬ 
sands  of  strips  of  counterfeit  stamps  in 
hook  form,  case  stamps  and  doctors’  pre¬ 
scriptions. 
During  a  fire  in  the  New  Plaza  Hall, 
Williamsburg.  New  York,  August  21,  a 
side  wall  fell,  killing  two  firemen  and 
seriously  injured  47  others.  The  proper¬ 
ty  loss  was  about  $75,000. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.— Operation 
of  the  war-time  Government  Grain  Cor¬ 
poration  during  the  two  and  a  half  years 
of  its  existence  netted  a  profit  of  approx¬ 
imately  $58,000,000,  Secretary  Hoover 
declared  in  a  telegram  made  public  at 
Spokane.  Wash.,  August  IS,  by  Senator 
Borah  of  Idaho,  who  had  inquired  about 
proposals  that  the  funds  remaining  from 
the  grain  corporation  appropriation  be 
used  to  buy  wheat  in  the  present  situa¬ 
tion.  With  a  capital  of  $500,000,000  the 
corporation  handled  a  turn-over  of  ap¬ 
proximately  $8,000,000,000  in  grain  prod¬ 
ucts,  Secretary  Hoover’s  telegram  said. 
Except  for  some  trivial  outstanding 
claims  it  has  today  completely  liqui¬ 
dated  and  to  date  has  returned  to  the 
treasury  $483,000,000  in  cash  of  the 
original  amount  and  has  in  addition  ex¬ 
pended  $19,000,000  under  direction  of 
Congress  on  Russian  relief  as  a  charity,” 
it  continued.  “It  has  likewise  expended 
$36,000,000  in  supplying  foodstuffs  to 
various  European  countries  on  credit.” 
Total  overhead  cost  of  operating  the  cor¬ 
poration  was  estimated  at  $5,000,000. 
t  The  annual  meeting  and  exhibit  of  the 
New  Jersey  State  Horticultural  Society 
will  be  held  in  Haddon  Hall  Hotel,  At¬ 
lantic  City,  December  4,  5  and  6.  The 
secretary  is  H.  H.  Albertson,  Burlington, 
N.  J. 
Armed  with  a  warrant  charging  ma¬ 
licious  mischief,  Detectives  Brindizi  and 
Lane  of  the  East  104th  street  station, 
New  Y’ork  City,  August  21,  arrested  two 
17-year-old  youths,  Daniel  Collins  of  418 
East  80th  street,  and  John  .Sullivan  of 
1198  Park  avenue,  and  took  them  to 
Highland  Falls,  Orange  County.  Alex¬ 
ander  Dali,  a  farmer  of  Highland  Falls, 
who  caused  the  warrant  to  be  issued 
against.  the  boys,  charged  that  they  en¬ 
tered  his  farm  and  shot  five  of  his  cows 
with  a  gun  loaded  with  buckshot.  One 
of  the  cows  died. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
Sept.  10-15. — New  York  State  Fair, 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Sept.  17-20. — Vegetable  Growers’  As¬ 
sociation  of  America,  annual  convention 
Statler  Hotel,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  C  II’ 
Nissler,  secretary,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 
Sept.  .26-28.  Northern  Nut  Growers’ 
Association,  fourteenth  annual  conven¬ 
tion.  Washington,  D.  C. 
Uct.  5-13.— 'National  Dairy  Show  and 
\\  orld  s  Dairy  Congress,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Oct.  10-12.— International  Farm  Con¬ 
gress  of  America,  seventeenth  annual  ses¬ 
sion,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Nov.  27-Dec.  1.— Poultry  Show,  Wash¬ 
ington,  D.  C.  Secretary,  D.  Lincoln  Orr, 
Orr’s  Mills,  N.  Y.  ’ 
Dec.  4-6. — New  Jersey  State  Horticul¬ 
tural  Society,  annual  meeting  and  exhibit, 
Haddon  Hall  Hotel.  Atlantic  City,  N.  J. 
Dec.  13-15.  —  North  Bergen  County 
Poultry  Association,  fifth  annual  show, 
Westwood.  N.  J. 
Jan.  23-27,  1024. — Poultry  Show,  Madi¬ 
son  Square  Garden.  New  York  City, 
Secretary,  D.  Lincoln  Orr,  Orr’s  Mills, 
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“I  like  cheerfulness.  I  admire  anyone 
who  sings  at  his  work.”  “How  ‘  you 
must  love  a  mosquito.” — Boston  Tran¬ 
script. 
