The Neosho Times from Neosho, Missouri • Page 2

TWO THE NEOSHO. TIMES, JUNE 26. MUDDLED CONGRESS ENDS. 1 now that we've got the thing, we arc not able to handle it." Bv Wallace Washinpton D. Juno 2.1.—It was fitting that the Republican such it could be a Congress which was commplctely muddled from the very beginning by that leadership, should wind up the work of the session with several signal exhibitions of wretched management.

This wretched climax of the blunders of the session was not discovered until most of the Members had departed for their homes. The oldest inhabitant cannot recall a case parallel to this, in which one of the largest appropriation bills was pr completely lost sight of that it was signed in neither Senate nor House by the presiding officers. At least a dozen of the highest Republican officials of each house has an intimate duty to perform in connection with each great appropriation bill, yet everyone of them seems to have been wool gathering at the most important stage of the session. In addition, the Public Printer and his WPTC pqunlly- nff the jub i The Fair Tariff League of Madison, Wisconsin, an organization com! posed mainly of Republican business men and manufacturers who are be lievcrs in the tariff, have organizec I a powerful protest against the ri I diculous and oppressive excesses i the Fordney Tai-iff Law. They are 'publishing and distributing showing the tremendous effect these tariff rates on the cost of liv ing, particularly in increasing cost of all manufactured articles while doing nothing at all towarc increasing the price of the thing fanners produce.

The League show that the farmer is purchasing ir a highly taxed market, but selling his surplus products in a world, free trade market. One of the tricky iniquities contained in th Fordney Law is the provision as tc farming impliments; these are placec on the free list, but everything tha enters into their manufacture is highly taxed! The result is tha the farmer gets stung just the same The Public Printer, by the way, is alleged to be holding his place contrary to the letter of the law, which declares that he must be a practical printer, skilled in bookbinding. Mr. Carter is neither. The printed copy of the bill did not come back from the printing ofice until after the session had ended, hence it could not be signed in the presence of the houses, as the law provides, The bill carried nearly 200 millions for deficiencies and affects the salaries of thousands of employees.

The President is now hurriedly consulting Treasury officials to see if there is any possible way to get pay these salaries and provide for the soldiers' bonus without calling the Congress in extra sesssion. After the exhibition of Republican conduct of the last session, the country will fervently pray that some means may be found to prevent another hideous legislative nightmare, such as has endured here for more than six long months. It is all remindful of the words of Uncle Joe Cannon to William A. Oldfield oTArkansas. "Bill," said Uncle Joe, "In we didn't need to tell a single darned lie or single darned dollar to win the election, but we told a million iies: and spent a million dollars, and tnr has to suffer the indignity feeling that the tariff makers thought they were hoodwinking him In investigating the question as to whether the higher tarif brought any greater benefit to wage earners the League found many instances like the following, which, in fact, is typical of how the tariff works; In the manufacture of cheap cotton socks a capable young woman has charge of the operation of a battery of thirty knitting she has to step lively, too.

These machines knit 1,800 pairs of socks in a day, for which the young woman received before the great increase in the tarrif on socks provided in the Fordney law, three dollars per day, at the rate of one-sixth of a cent oer pair! Under the Underwood law the socks sold for ten cents per pair; under the Fordney law, with its 'ariff rates so high as to cut off the mportation of cotton socks, the socks for twenty cents per pair, but the g-irl still gets the same wage uid turns out 1,800 pairs per lay. No one gets any benefit except manufacturer, while the consumer's cost of living as regards to socks, is doubled. What is true for is true in greater or less legrce, of everything else. When the VenikwrotnuJ-Iripfaresfo CjEO. W.

HAOENRUCH, Div. Passenger Walnut Kansas City, Missouri I I 1 To Loan on Improved Farms Prompt Service Liberal Terms Long Time The Shartel Mortgage Co. FARM LOANS Neosho, Missouri VELVET PENCILS At all Dealers No. GS7 Supreme iu their As Smooth as Velvet. for trial simple mou Fordney law was in the making, the largo suits of rooms of the Ways and Means Committee of the of the Republican members of which are millionaires and some of them manufacturers) were filled with representatives of greed, each with his schedule oftariff rates already made out for insertion in the bill, and skillfully arranged to increase the profits of each industry and factory represented.

They even put a high tariff on cotton blankets, though America can manufacture them so cheaply that none were coming from abroad, just to allow the three American concerns which make them to further fatten their enormous profits off the winter misery of the poor. In 1920 the Beacon Company charged off from its inventories an amount equal to their entire capital stock. They charged off a million from their liauid assets, then showed net quick assets 50 per cent larger than their entire capital stock. In 1905 the company was organized with $800,000 of stock. After heavy annual dividends the insurable value of the plant in 1921 was fully $6,000.000 and the net quick assets equal to about $900 for each $100 share of stock.

They made all of that under a 10 per cent duty, but the Fordney law raised it to 45 per cent, equal to a 386 per cent increase. These and many other iniquities worked against the people are shown in a lenghty publication in the Congressional Record this week. TO STRAWBERRY GROWERS. Increase Production By Planting New Beds. Jebel Mountain of tho Law.

THE LAND OF THE STRAWBERRY. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch makes following comments on the strawberry industry of this section: "A relieving change from the po- itical convention news is the straw- jerry news of Missouri. How many Missourians realize that from the beginning of the season of May 18 up to last Sunday night, $1,132,000 had received by producers for strawberries at two shipping points, Monett and Neosho, in Southwest Missouri? How many had known that 50 to 60 car loads of strawber- a day are run from those points t. Louis, and Kansas-City, where he fruit is consumed or transhipped "The world goodnaturedly enough, las chosen to identify Missouri with he homelier, if more substantial, n-oducts of corn, hogs nad mules! With our strawberry record, this is a too It nay attract plain, practical, hard- vorking people, as our population estifies, but strawberries could sur- lass the California rose, horticultural moviecultural, as a.

lure to all the vorld. Regardless of the tariff and he foreign markets some producers ire netting $300 to the acre. "Many farmers in Missouri may doing as badly as elsewhere, but here is some consolation in being if one may br Hfctlooal Bo elety. Washington, D. Of all the deserts of the earth the one most read about undoubtedly Is the desert of the Hebrew Exodus, the Slnal peninsula that lies between Egypt and Palestine; but its modern aspect It little known.

As the crow files, the distance frotrrthe north enoT of the Red sea, where the Children of Israel are supposed to have crossed, to JePOSalem, Is only 200 miles; but the narrative of the wanderings In the wilderness Indicates that paths were doubled many times and that the wan derers passed far beyond their objective before turning south again. The most crooked route that has been suggested measures perhaps 1,200 miles. It seems almost absurd, If one has read Biblical story casually, that the wan- dererg could have consumed 40 years average of 30 miles a this Journey. But a closer reading of the narrative discloses that the actual travel was accomplished In about two years and that 88 years were spent In camps near Mount Hor and Kndesh. The Bible record Is complete as to the route of the Exodus, but many fall to realize this because the history of Journey through six he fresh fruits of the soil and the strawberries, oney, cream and a goose ham or a suckling pig.

What is Tioney to the Monarch' of such a able? REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. May Loomis to John Bilke, und. -5 hf sw 5-26-34 $1.00. Bessie Button et al to Chas. Set- erstrom, lots 12, 13, 14, 15 blk 5 R.

L. Hayes Add. to Seneca $1.00. E. Setlurstrom to Chas.

Set- erstrom, lots 22 and 23 bl klO and Lane Add. to Seneca $1.00. May Lynch Betts to A. C. Allen hf se se; pt hf se se 36-27-33 1.00.

W. I. Peck to M. Snedeker, se sw 3-25-32 $3,000. H.

Winn to J. R. Paul, pt ne 25-25-32, $2,500. Emma Ball to T. B.

Duemler lot 18 Ik f) Sturgis and Lane Add to Senca $2,100. E. Deeding to J. E. Warden, lot blk 2 McElhnny Add Neo.sho $135.

of the Old Testament books, the rec ord changing back and forth from one place to another nearly 100 times. In general It may be said that the first section of the route-, from Raamses to Slnal Is known perfectly and the recovery of most of the ancient names simply a matter of time. The fourth and last section of the route from Elath, on the Gulf of Akabah, to Jericho Is also well known, and It Is of enchanting Interest to note that on this section all the most prominent towns mentioned In the books of Exodus and Numbers retain their ancient names till this time. Loop Section Little Known. The loop section of the route from Ezlon-geber Into the Wilderness of the Wandering and back to Elath Is the least well-explored portion.

It the well-known MRS. KATE S. MORROW (MRS. AL MORROW) Warrensburg, Mo. DEMOCRATIC; CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY OF STATE names Kadesh Barnea and Mount Hor, where Aaron died and was burled.

Thirty- eight years of the Journey were spent about Kadesh, and It Is here, If anywhere, the actual remains of the Exodus will some day be found. The site of Kadesh Barnea has been made the subject of dispute; but It Is almost certain that the modern Aln Kadis, with Its copious spring, several wells and Is really the ancient Kadesh. An equally vigorous dispute still continues concerning the identification of Mount Hor. The Peninsula of Slnal, within which lies the first two sections of the route, Is thaT" triangular region between the two arms of the northern end of the Red sea. A line drawn from Suez to Akabnh, a little town at the head of the gulf of that name, a distance of 1BO miles through the desert, forms the northern side of the triangle.

The other two sides are bounded by the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Akabah. The Gulf of Suez, tho-longer arm, sweeping toward the southeast for a distance of about 200 miles, lies in the troughllke depression which separates Africa from Asia, and together with the Suez canal forms one of tho greatest waterways of earth. The other aria, the Gulf of Akabah, extends north by west 'for 140 miles, being a continuation of the most remarkable rift upon our planet, that of the Dead sea and the Jordan valley. The area of this triangle, the peninsula proper, Is a little less than 10,000 square miles. It Is one vast desert relieved by a few oases along the seacoast and deep among the networK of rocky valleys.

In the north and along both seacoasts are vast stretches of sand which forever shift before the" winds from land nnd sea. Further Inward are stony plateaus nnd great wastes of sand glistening with salt. Sinai Range Is Impressive. But just soiith of the center of the peninsula, like a great lighthouse between the continents, rises the huge granite range of Slnal to a height of over 8,500 feet. The triple peaks of Serbul foet).

Musa (7,303 feet), and Catharine (8,530 feet-) nil lie within a circle whose diameter Is not more than 125 miles. Geologically this mass of primoviil fou'IsM find gninitu, or In more precise of colorlosn flesh-coloi-iul feldspar, green horni'blc mU', and blncU slate, la most Improswlvo sight. Slnco remotest these crystalline IUNBHCH have 'undergone no Kwlogieal changes, but reared their summits above the ocean, unaffected by the transitions that have so completely changed the face of the planet elsewhere. Only at their bases do these mountains show any traces of alteration, where the waves and the winds of the -ages-have crushed-and ground-thelr fadeless elements Into the colored sands which filled the geological gulfs and bays of the Jordan rift and made Now is the time to decide. It will soon be too late for this season and your income will be delayed another year.

I do not want to take the space and trouble at this time to- argue the value of strawberries as a cash crop, for matter has already been demonstrated to the entire satisfaction of every body in the Ozark country. What we want is- larger acreage, and a larger volume of business, so that the handling- charges will be lighter on each grower. Cars will not have to be held so long at this point of loading and will insure a fresher and better berry getting to Get Busy Now; Set new beds now while the season is favorable and 'there is plenty of moisture in the soil. thrifty plants should be not old plants, but runner plants of the last season's growth. Of course strawberries should in the early spring, but in a rainy season when there is plenty of moisture in the soil they may, with care, be planted all through the growing season with good success.

The first consideration is. athoroagh tion of the soil. It unusual for the inexperienced to do a good job of setting without some special instruc- the encircling setting of desert and sea, the whole mass Is cleft and shattered Into a fascinating tangle of sublime valleys, towering cliffs, awful precipices, and magnificent peaks which roll like billows far up into the crystalline blue of the heavens. From Suez to Slnal. The route from Suez to Slnal IB a nine days' Journey on camels.

elers usually make a short half day to the Wells of Moses, the first oasis too deep or too shallow and either system is fatal to good results. Care should be taken to cover all the roots and care should also be taken not to cover the bud of the plant. Renovate Old Beds. Old beds may be cleaned out and cultivated during the growing season: and made to bear a good crop another year. This requires a little more work than planting a new bed.

four hours beyond Suez. Then follows tat you belikelv to a waterftss trnrt of rf Ut bellkel to get a good crop of fruit sooner than waiting for a new bed to come into The plan most commonly used in the berry growing sections of the country a waterfess tract of three days' Journey to Ellm, with Us wells of water and Its palm trees. Two days beyoad Ellm are the famous turquoise mines of Meghara, 4 4UCAC IKIt (If VrVJ Ull VX where the Egyptians mined-as early is as follows: Take a as the Fourth Dynasty (2500 B. I plow and throw the soil away from more than 4,500 years ago, and left a each side of the place in the old bed value In their bearing upon Egyptian a hoe and chop out the lants to the chronology. Two days beyond the mines lies the onsls of Firan, rightly designated required distance apart in the taking pains to leave the younger and more vigorous plants, being: The Pearl of Slnal," the most fertile careful not to cover the growing part tract nnd one of the most Interesting of the plants.

Cultivation should con- spots in the whole peninsula. tinue the Past Firan the road crosses a watershed at 3,900 feet and makes a slight i A Pant the next season's fruiting-. Small un- descent before the last climb over Nngb el-Huwa to the Plain of er- i Italian, which most scholars have re- Knrded as the camping place of the is strong healthy plants. Israelites while walling for the giving of the law. Here healthy plants will not produce large fruit.

The real secret of good berries the law. Here Is the mountain which, according to the Bible, was enveloped In clouds and lightning re- with that could be touched, while Moses tarried on Its summit and the people waited below. Just to the left of this peak. Jebel Sufsa, Is the valley of the Delr, In which stands the monastery of St. Catharine.

This picturesque monastery standing In a sublime valley of the Slnal group occupies the site of a fort built by Emperor Justinian In 527 A. D. It Is a hoary pile of old buildings, entirely enclosed by a high wall, on one side of which toward the mountain a few old rusty cannon still do sentinel duty. A lower wall en- iloses the adjoining delightful gardens which have been wrung by Incessant toll from the rocky mountain side below. The fortress-monastery has witnessed many a thrilling event In history, has withstood many an attack and siege, nnd bears the marks Inside and out of Its stormy history.

The great shrine Is Jebel Muso itself, the Mountain of the Law, which rises 2,350 feet above and behind the monastery. The pilgrimage steps, said I to be 3,000 In number, are broken at many points, but still form an Impressive ascent to the noble mountain top. There In a shrine 1 to the Virgin Mary and chapel to the Prophet Elijah on the way up. Beyond Slnal, the route of the Fertilizers. All soils will not grow strawberries unless some of fertilizer is used.

Tf the plants peem starved, or leaves turn yelow, the best remedy for this condition is well rotted stable manure or the cleanings from the poultry house. In some berry growing sections of the country, they are using commercial fertilizers. We are not recommending commei'cial fertilizers for wholesale use in this territory If a farmer wants to make a few experiments that may be a good thing: Strawberries require a fertilizer higher in nitrogen content. Therefore, it must be used with good julgment as to generous application may produce a vigorous plant growth at the expense of the fruit. This information is issued by the Agricultural Department of the Missouri and North Arkansas Railway Company.

Further information may jbe had on application to W. L. Flan- Agricultural Arkansas. Agent Harrison. Exodus, tbo peninsula, Is fixed beyond peradventure by the configuration of tho valleys, the one or two well-known locations and the water supply.

Turning out of Wndy eah-Shelkh through side valley one reaches a divide beyond which changes Instantly. A the country wide plateau shows sl.i^ns of vegetation, where graze hundreds of camels and thousands of lambs and she asses. The sheep, whole skyline takes on softer, smoother look, and the sides and bases of the mountains lose the sharp, forbidding aspect of SlnnJ. Portlier on Is the ousts of Aln Hudherah where Aaron and Miriam spoke against Moses because he had married a Cusblte woman. Between Hazeroth and Ezlon-gener lie the still unsolved portions of the problein and route of the lOxodus.

After reaching the shore" of the Red sen, they turned northward, and for 38 years roamed the hootl oj! Kndosh. Into this Wilderness of the WuiiUcriug explorers now penetrating, and few. years- hence we shall have as good maps and details of It as we hnvo of tho other of the route. FAIR PREMIUM LIST READY FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION. Sedalia, Premium List for the twenty-fourth Annual Missouri State Fair, to be held at Sedalia, August 16-23, is now off the press and ready for distribution.

Copies have been sent to all persons, organizations and firms on the mailing list, and a sufficient number of others are ready for free distribution to all who will send their names and addresses to W. D. Smith, Secretary State Fair Grounds, Sedalia, Missouri. The Premium List contains the classifications, regulations, and all information necessary for exhibitors and visitors who plan to attend the annual festival. Premioms and -'es amounting to are chin the 268 page booklet.

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