American Agntunuiwi, iviarcn j, 
An Opportunity of a 
Generation 
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sentiment can be made use of as an ex¬ 
cuse for not passing the bill. 
It is said that this fact was recog¬ 
nized months ago and that politicians 
who understand how to manage such 
matters enlisted help for leading this 
sentiment. The opposition is so obvi¬ 
ously a manufactured product, fed on 
misleading and false statements and 
false interpretations of a bill that is 
open and understandable by any one who 
can read English, and these arguments 
founded so palpably on error are quoted 
so frequently and widely by our Republi¬ 
can legislators, that to any fair-minded 
observer this would seem the one and 
only true explanation of the present 
situation. 
Surely there is one simple and final test 
of all the contradictory statements afloat 
in any paper one may pick up or in any 
group one may meet about consolidation, 
taxes, and other debated features of the 
bill. THAT TEST IS THE BILL IT¬ 
SELF. The Legislature is not going to 
pass on what any ill-informed opponent 
says of the bill. It will pass on the bill 
itself. And it will probably react to the 
demands of those people who write to 
them in greatest numbers, not on the 
amount of noise each individual makes. 
A crisis is fast approaching. Peti¬ 
tions are needed in great numbers, 
with as many names as possible. Let¬ 
ters from individuals are even better, 
but strange to say, harder to get. It is 
easy to attach your name to a petition, 
if some one else will get that petition 
ready and circulate it. 
Let us get one thing firmly fixed in our 
minds, and that is, that $12,000,000 to 54 
rural counties is going to mean a great 
relief from taxes for the great majority 
of farmers. This money will release an 
equal amount of a farmers’ money in each 
county to be used in the various channels 
of trade. It behooves every Chamber of 
Commerce and every business man up- 
State to get behind this rural bill and to 
let his legislators know that he wants it. 
It surely behooves every farmer to work 
for it and at once. 
Last year, as the bill was amended, 
there were about 300 wealthy districts in 
this State who never have stood their 
share of the tax burden as others less 
fortunate have, who stood to lose some¬ 
thing by the bill. The residents of some 
of these districts have joined the opposi¬ 
tion. It is easy to see why. Of the four 
men who at the Albany hearing last year 
who were the only ones to oppose the bill, 
one confessed to a group, of which the 
writer was a member, that he was fighting 
the bill because he lived in a district 
where there was a lot of railroad property 
and it meant more taxes for him! Yet 
in his public speech this was carefully 
concealed. 
Nothing offers such definite proof of 
fact as real figures. Let us consider 
these figures on Tompkins County 
schools and remember that Assemblyman 
Witter finds THAT IT WILL BRING 
AN AVERAGE OF $800 EXTRA 
MONEY PER DISTRICT TO THE 
124 SCHOOLS OF HIS COUNTY. Let 
us work out figures in our own localities, 
•f that is necessary to convince our neigh¬ 
bors. And then let us put in a few days’ 
W'ork with petitions. The results in 
money saved in better opportunity for 
our children and for our grandchildren 
will later reward us most satisfac¬ 
torily. 
Up to the present most friends of the 
bill have been hopeful of the final out¬ 
come and have trusted that truth and 
right will in the end win on their own 
merits. They have been non-aggressive, 
chicken-hearted” as the real leader of 
the opposition designates it. If the ru¬ 
mored explanation of the situation as 
given above is true, THIS QUIET 
HOPEFULNESS IS A MISTAKE. All 
that has been done or planned to meet 
such tactics which are at present 
out-Hearsting Hearst" m any of his 
political campaigns, is futile, even 
Puerile. 
211 
No Chance for Human 
Carelessness in Making, 
Each ingredient in Larro is 
continuously and accurately 
weighed as it Hows through 
these poidometers to the 
mixer. All poidometers 
are driven by a single shaft. 
It one stops, they all stop 
Every pound of finished 
Larro passes over this big 
electto-maghet. It keeps 
Larro free from nails, wire 
and “tramp iron.” 
Warehouse and tank stand¬ 
ardizing of each separate 
ingredient are exclusive fea¬ 
tures. This diagram of one 
of 14 blending tanks shows 
how it combines many dif¬ 
ferent carloads of the same 
ingredient into one uniform 
blend of unvarying quality. 
arro 
The Safe Ration for Dairy Cows 
Human mistakes in making dairy feed are paid 
for, dearly, by the man who feeds cows. 
Right there is where Larro offers you a tremend¬ 
ous saving. For Larro is made where they take 
no chance on human carelessness. 
After being inspected, analyzed and approved by 
the chemists, each ingredient is standardized by 
blending to insure an absolute uniformity. These 
standardized ingredients flow continuously to the 
mixer through super-human machines called “poid- 
ometers ,, which weigh (not measure) the propor¬ 
tions with a most uncanny accuracy. 
From the mixer the feed goes to the Jumbo Electric 
Magnet which removes all nails, tacks and wire 
from the finished Larro. 
The Larro Mill is a great machine that never 
tires or forgets. If something goes wrong the mill 
automatically stops until that thing is made right. 
It can’t work at all unless it works the right way. 
The Larro Mill at Toledo, Ohio, is open to visitors 
all day every working day—no permits or letters of 
introduction necessary. 
Feed Larro for the biggest profit, for safety, for 
healthy cows—and keep for yourself the money you 
may now be paying for some one else’s carelessness. 
The Larrowe Milling Company 
19 Larrowe Bldg. Detroit, Mich. 
We need to investigate, to brand this 
opposition for what it is, a deliberate 
betrayal to enemy interests. The rem¬ 
edy? Organization. The method? Pe¬ 
titions and letters, and more petitions 
and letters. 
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