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American Agriculturist, August 30, 1% 
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VOL. 114 August 30, 1924 No. 9 
Prosperity Will Follow Peace 
AFTER six years of chaos, it begins to look as 
JTjL if peace in Europe was coming. Following 
several weeks of discussion, representatives of 
the great powers, meeting in England, have at 
last practically reached an agreement on the 
fundamental questions that have not been settled 
since the war. This includes the acceptance of 
the Dawes plan for working out their financial 
and other problems. The amount of reparations 
which Germany shall pay and how they shall be 
paid have been set, and Germany has agreed to 
them. It seems that at last she realizes the situa¬ 
tion and that her only salvation is in accepting 
the results of her defeat, and in getting down to 
work to pay off her debts. France has agreed to 
evacuate the German Ruhr, and has already with¬ 
drawn some of her troops. No citizen of any 
country of the world, not even excepting Germany, 
can fail to be benefited by this agreement among 
the great nations to settle their differences and to 
get down to the business of peace. 
The settlement will bring prosperity again to 
both Europe and America. Not the least of its 
effects upon us is that our country will be paid 
vast sums owed her by the other nations. 
Some of the pessimists have suggested that 
increased prosperity in Europe will reduce ours 
in this country because the European countries 
will buy less of our exports and sell to us more 
imports. On this point, the Brookmire Fore¬ 
caster says: “No country permanently runs a 
heavy export trade without having also a heavy 
import trade, and the reverse is also true! In 
other words, if Europe increases her prosperity 
so that her exports increase, she will have larger 
imports, many of which she will buy from America. 
Putting it from another angle, humanity, 
particularly in these times when the world is 
constantly growing smaller, is more or less inter¬ 
dependent. If there is great misery in the world 
such as prevailed in Europe for years, then all of 
us will feel the effects of it to a greater or lesser 
extent; and conversely, if Europe becomes pros¬ 
perous again, America is bound to share in that 
prosperity. 
Look Us Up 
F OR weeks the staff of the American Agri¬ 
culturist has been planning and working 
to make our tent and exhibit at the New York 
State Fair at Syracuse, September 8th to 13th, 
a real surprise to readers and farmer friends who 
visit it. 
You might almost say that in addition to 
publishing American Agriculturist on paper, 
we will publish it in visible form in our exhibit. 
Instead of writing articles and advertisements, we 
are going to show concrete examples of material 
advertised in our columns, and the men who write 
the articles and make up the paper will be on hand 
with charts and pictures to demonstrate how a 
farm paper is made, and especially to get ac¬ 
quainted with the folks who read it. 
Nothing in the tent will be offered for sale, but 
we really think you will miss something, and we 
certainly will be disappointed, if we do not get 
the opportunity of greeting you and of showing 
you in this unique exhibit what we are trying to 
accomplish with the “OLD RELIABLE.” 
Give a Thought to the Teacher’s 
Health 
E hear so much about guarding the health 
of our school children—keeping them well 
rather than curing them when they get sick—that 
we sometimes forget one person who does a great 
deal to maintain the health of the youngsters, 
yet is not always so careful of her own—the 
school teacher. 
A conscientious, devoted school teacher is apt 
to be one of the hardest working people in the 
community. She has both a mental and a physical 
strain to contend with. She feels her responsi¬ 
bility keenly and hard as her day in the school¬ 
room is sure to be, it is not always over when the 
door of the little building shuts behind her. She 
takes her responsibilities with her and though she 
knows how much depends on her keeping well, 
she often cannot avoid the extra work and worry 
which are a drain on her health. 
Conditions are far, far better than they used to 
be in some places in “ the good old days ” when the 
task of boarding the teacher was shifted from one 
family to another and she often fared pretty badly 
in the essentials of room and food. We recognize 
now the poor economy of a method which served 
to drive the good teachers from us. 
Still, the work remains arduous and the strain 
considerable. The teacher needs recreation, needs 
fun, companionship and carefree play just as 
much as anyone else. The teacher who can play 
outside school is the one who brings to your 
children the inspiration and enthusiasm for health 
which will last through their lives. Good living 
quarters, wholesome food, help in the school and 
out ofjit from the families behind the children, and 
a frequent chance to forget the school duties and 
be human are the right of every teacher. Start 
the new school year right by seeing that yours 
has them. 
A Commendable Job 
N November, 1922, the Bureau of Nutrition, 
under the direction of Laura A. Cauble, 
organized a two-year demonstration program to 
show the value of feeding milk to school children 
in New York City. The work was started in 
School No. 17, which has approximately 2000 
pupils. The children were weighed and measured 
and their physical appearance carefully noted. 
An opportunity was offered each child to buy 
a half-pint bottle of milk at least once a day. 
Many children bought two bottles a day. The 
milk was furnished through the cooperation of 
the Dairymen’s League at about 4c a half pint. 
In most cases the children brought the money 
from home to pay for it.^ They drank it through 
straws during the forenoon session. Each month 
the children were weighed and measured, and 
with the milk feeding they were taught the story 
of growth, the value of fresh air, of sleeping with 
open windows, and of a proper diet. 
At the beginning of the demonstration, fifty- 
nine out of every hundred pupils were found to be 
under weight. A larger proportion showed signs 
of undernourishment, such as paleness, dryness of 
hair, bad posture and peevishness. Careful 
records were kept, and in June, 1923, only 22 per 
cent, of the children in this school were under- 
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nourished, and at the end of the year 1923 this 
had been reduced to 17 per cent. As a result of 
this remarkable demonstration, requests f roi)1 
other schools throughout the city were rapidly 
made to Miss Cauble, so that in May, 1924, a 
total of sixty schools were being served with 
26,000 half pints of milk daily, and the work j s 
still growing as rapidly as Miss Cauble can direct 
and take care of it. 
Similar demonstrations are being conducted in 
schools in several up-State cities. Studies made 
by Miss Cauble in ten counties of New York 
State show that one-quarter of the elementary 
school children are using no milk, but take coffee 
or tea instead. This brings the problem of more 
milk consumption pretty close home to the 
farmer’s own family. 
We know of no educational or advertising effort 
being done anywhere that is more commendable 
or is doirig more lasting benefit than this work of 
Miss Cauble. Not only are the children them¬ 
selves being taught to use more milk, but they 
carry the good doctrine home with the result that 
the parents themselves are often converted to the 
knowledge that milk is the best and cheapest food 
in the world. When once a child has a principle 
thoroughly learned he never forgets it. Children 
taught the value of milk in the schools will be 
large milk consumers all their lives. 
Not the least result of this work is that it 
confers benefit on the whole dairy industry, and is 
real advertising at comparatively small cost. 
Speaking of Hats 
VERY interesting report which the Depar 
ment of Agriculture has just issued tells in 
brief about the progress of home demonstration 
work during 1922. It teems with figures that are 
impressive and stimulating, and tells of things 
accomplished both by States and local com¬ 
munities that make one very proud of the Ameri¬ 
can farm woman, i 
But there was a certain statistic (if that wort 
may be used in the singular) that particularly 
appealed to at least one reader. It is this; 
57,221 hats were reported made with the help of 
home demonstration agents! Think of 57,221 hats 
lined up on as many heads, and each one different, 
individual and becoming, because it was made by 
the woman for herself, the way she liked it and 
the way it suited her! That, we believe, is some¬ 
thing to boast about and is by itself a pretty good 
justification of Home Bureau work. 
We feel sure there were more hats made in 1923, 
We hope there will be 100,000 in 1924. Not all 
■will be successful, of course; not all will rival Paris 
bonnets or even the good “boughten” ones. But 
every woman’s first home-made hat is just the 
starting point—she immediately wants to go 
ahead and show how much better she can do 
it next time. And all the women who took to 
millinery work learned, by the good old-fashioned 
method of doing, the important principles of 
selection, simple construction, renovation and 
good taste. 
We like the thought of the 57,221 hats and take 
off our individual one to the women who made 
them' 
Eastman’s Chestnuts 
O UR household editor has given me very 
emphatic orders that the chestnut this time 
must be of particular interest to women. All 
right, here goes. 
“My friend,” remarked the physician, “you 
are suffering from a chronic complaint.” 
“I know it, doc,” cautioned the patient, “but 
please lower your voice, SHE’S IN THE NEXT 
ROOM!” 
Quotations Worthwhile 
A lie on the throne is a lie, and truth in a 
dungeon is the truth; and the lie on the throne 
is on its way to defeat, and truth in a dungeon is 
on its way to victory.—T homas B. Reed. 
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“He who has not a good memory should never 
take up the trade of lying.”— Montaigne. j 
