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American Agriculturist, October 20,1923 
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VOL. 112 
October 20, 1923 
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growers would make this small effort it 
would insure the success of the purpose of 
the show to increase the consumption of 
eastern-grown fruit. 
Milk in the Text Books 
T HE National Dairy Council announces 
that that excellent organization has been 
able to incorporate some milk information 
in the form of reading lessons in one of the 
school readers used extensively, in many of 
the public schools. This is something that 
we have advocated for years. 
For more than a generation the new 
physiologies textbooks used in all the schools 
have had much to say about the evil effects 
of alcohol in the human body. The law com¬ 
pels the teaching of the effects of alcohol to 
every child. Whether you believe prohibi¬ 
tion is a good thing or not, all must admit 
that no other single influence has been as 
great in eliminating the saloon as the con¬ 
stant teaching in the schools year after year 
of the evil effects of alcohol. “Train up the 
child in the way he should go, and when he 
is old he will not depart from it.” All health 
and food authorities agree that milk is the 
most wonderful food in the world. If this 
be true, then the constant teaching and re¬ 
iteration of this fact in the daily lives of the 
young will surely lead to increased consump¬ 
tion, benefitting both him who uses this great 
food and him who produces it. 
Invite Your City Friends 
W HAT will be the largest and best Fruit 
Show ever held begins in Grand Central 
Palace in New York City on November 3 
and lasts for a week. The purpose of this 
show is to convince the consumer of the value 
of fruit in the diet from both a health and 
food standpoint. 
Several of the floors in this largest exposi¬ 
tion building in the world will be a fairyland 
of apples and other fruits and all the ma¬ 
chinery used in the production and transpor¬ 
tation of horticultural products. Apples and 
other fruits of every kind and description, 
but all of high quality will be on exhibit in 
large quantities; there will be an old- 
fashioned farm kitchen with farm women 
actually making the pies like “Ma used to 
make.” The Domestic Science Departments 
of the different colleges will have exhibits 
and actual demonstrations, showing all the 
good things that can be made from fruit. 
There will be. apple-cider mills in operation 
with all the sweet cider'you can drink, and 
it will be possible for everyone who attends 
to obtain apples to eat free of charge. The 
city newspapers will carry news notes and 
advertising about the fruit and thousands of 
children in the New York City schools will 
write compositions about apples and apple 
growing. 
Space, is too limited here to tell of all the 
many things that are planned to bring to 
the attention of consumers the value of fruit 
in general and of eastern fruit in particular. 
There is no reason why city people should 
not increase their consumption of fruit to 
their own advantage at least twenty-five per 
cent, and efforts such as this Eastern States 
Apple Exposition and Fruit Show will do 
much to bring about such increased consump¬ 
tion. 
The great need is to get many thousands 
of city dwellers to attend the show and one 
of the ways that you can help is to sit right 
down now and write as many letters as you 
can to people whom you know in the city, 
even if they are only casual acquaintances, 
telling them about this show and urging 
them to be sure to attend. If 20,000 fruit 
“No Other Way As Good” 
I AST night we heard Sousa, that greatest 
J of music composers and masters, and his 
band of over two hundred and fifty musical 
artists play in Madison Square Garden. This 
is without doubt one of the best musical or¬ 
ganizations in the world. Sousa’s is essen¬ 
tially a patriotic band for all of its programs 
and much of the music, especially that which 
the leader has composed himself, is martial 
and American in spirit. Near the close of 
the program, Sousa’s organization was sup¬ 
ported by the band of the Seventh Regiment 
and the Mecca Shrine Temple Band, making 
a grand total under the leadership of the 
great master of over three hundred men. 
It is beyond the power of mere words to 
describe the wonderful contrast of the tre¬ 
mendous volume of melodious sound softened 
in the next second to the faintest vibrations 
of beautiful harmony. At the wave of the 
hand, literally hundreds of brass instru¬ 
ments supported by dozens of drums of every 
description remind you of marching men 
and of roaring battlefields, to be followed in¬ 
stantly by the flutes and clarinets whisper¬ 
ing of sunshine on smiling landscapes, of 
love and of peace. 
Near the close of the program more than 
three hundred officers and enlisted men of 
the navy marched into the great auditorium 
and lined up alongside of the band, the ma¬ 
rines, the “fighting gobs/’ on one side and 
the enlisted sailors on the other. Then came 
the colors, guarded by the marines with 
guns, while the band played the national 
anthem. The sailors stood at salute and the 
audience of more than eleven thousand 
people rose in the mighty tribute of absolute 
silence. 
Such a scene comes as near as it is ever 
possible to portraying the real spirit of 
America. As one listens, he is carried from 
present time and place back to those other 
days when American sailors, soldiers and 
plain citizens through labor, hardship, battle 
and sacrifice welded into the foundations of 
this nation all those principles that the old 
flag represents. At such a time, one recalls 
Americans like that first indomitable fighting- 
captain, John Paul Jones, and his immortal 
words: “We have just begun to fight”; or 
he will remember those other words of Cap¬ 
tain Perry on Lake Erie: “Don’t give up the 
ship,” or Farragut damning the ^torpedoes at 
New Orleans or Dewey and his sailors break¬ 
ing past the forts into Manila Baw- Moved 
out of yourself by the sublime rwiusic you 
think of all those others who hav« made it 
possible to say that American seal fighters 
have never been defeated in open Seattle on 
the high seas. Neither does it tall^e much 
imagination stimulated by playing blpnd and 
saluted flag to recall the unfaltering spirit 
of American soldiers from Lexington to 
Chateau Thierry; or the plain farmler pio¬ 
neers who followed the unblazed trails with 
ox-cart and covered wagon from seat to sea 
and left behind them a smiling farm country 
conquered by that mightiest of all wea^ffi^— 
the plow. 
Yes, to-day in this Republic we may and 
do have selfishness, greed, exploitation and 
abuse of political power, we do have much 
discouragement and disillusion, but still when 
the soldiers and sailors stand in grave salute 
and the band plays the national anthem, 
while the flag goes by we know that while 
“Every charge ever made against Democ¬ 
racy may be true, there is no other way as 
good.” _ 
Eastman’s Chestnuts 
D ID you ever notice that when a group of 
men get to telling stories, most of them 
will stand with a sort of dazed far-away look 
in their eyes while you are telling yours? 
Some of my friends are mean enough to say 
that it is easy enough to explain the dazed 
look when I tell mine, claiming that trying 
-to see the point in some of my stories is 
enough to daze anyone. But this is just base 
insinuation, and I refuse to be discouraged. 
•- The real reason for the absent-minded look 
* is the fact, that an inveterate story-teller 
pays not the slightest attention to the yarn 
which- is being spun. His thoughts are far¬ 
away instead, trying to think up another 
4 one to butt in with as soon as you are 
finished. When you are done, he will laugh 
| half-heartedly and say: “Oh, that reminds 
me. Did you ever hear this one?” And be¬ 
fore you can open your mouth to tell him 
that you probably have heard it six million 
times, he launches forth. 
Well our little joke corner here has evi¬ 
dently reminded a lot of the yarners, for 
eveiy mail brings the chestnuts, some of 
them pretty good, too. The only trouble is 
there is not room to print them all. 
But here’s one sent in by Tom Milliman 
that we have just got to publish right away, 
because we are sure that poor Tom is sitting 
up nights waiting to see it in print. Tom, 
you know, is manager of the Membership 
Service Department of the Dairymen’s 
League Cooperative Association, so you prob¬ 
ably have attended meetings where he has 
spoken and been afflicted by his stories be¬ 
fore. His yarn goes something like this: 
Finishing the circus season and about to 
leave England, P. T. Barnum, the greatest 
of American showmen, was given a testi¬ 
monial dinner. As he was departing, the 
bishop of London said to him: 
“Good-bye, Mr. Barnum. I hope to meet 
you in heaven.” 
And Barnum promptly replied: “You will, 
Mt. Bishop, if you are there!” 
Quotations Worth While 
He who would look upon the farmer’s pur¬ 
suit with contempt is not worthy of the 
name of man. —Henry Ward Beecher. 
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It is less painful to learn in youth than be 
ignorant in age. 
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The world judges by actions, God by 
motives. 
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Rotten wood cannot be carved— CON- 
FUCIOUS. 
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