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THE KINSLEY GRAPHIC, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1923 TPMn Splendid display of New Spring Suits and Cravenetted Whip Cord Coats Keep a-goin! If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin' If it hails or if it Keep a-goin I Taint no use to sit an whine When the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook and keep on tryin Keep a-goin'! When the weather kills your crop, Keep a-goin' I When you tumble from the top, Keep a-goin' S'pose you're out of every clime? Gittin broke ain't any crime; Tell the world you're feelin prime r- Keep a-goin 1 When it looks like all is up, Keep a-goin I Drain the sweetness from the Keep a-goin'! See the wild birds on the wingf Hear the bells that sweetly When you feel like sighin' singt Keep a-goin! Frank L. Stanton. The Star Yesterday I looked out Of the back window Hellberg of Blair Hellberg, real estate men of EI Paso, and Mr. C. A.

Myers of St- Louis Mr. Myers, a wealthy hardwood lumber and flooring manufacturer, purchased a tract of 160 acres of land one mile northeast of Dayton near the Hawkins well, with an eight-room house, paying $75 cash an acre for it Friday morning. Mr. Hellberg has purchased about 1100 acres around the well and also some town lots in Artesia. The well was formerly an artesian well on the farm of Wallace Merchant of Artesia.

Miley Hawkins, practical oil man from Kansas, Game along last fall and became convinced that there was an oil pool below the artesian stratum. He proposed to the owner to develop the well, on a 50-50 basis. The owner of the land consented. The hole was cemented below the artesian, flow and drilled about 500 feet deeper, where the oil was struck. The artesian writer still flows from the original casing, and the oil comes through the smaller tube inside of it.

The well is 1,100 feet deep, but the oil comes from a three separate strata of sand from a depth of 970 to 1,035 feet. The total thickness of the three sands being 65 feet. A mild shot was given each stratum of sand. After each day's pumping at the rate of 20 to 24 barrels each, the oil is not perceptibly lowered. With the pump working the oil stands 560 feet in the rn.

16.50 party which Wall Street regards as dangerous. Indeed, Harding is'tjoing things now which Roosevelt in his maddest moments did not threaten. These farmer credit and marketing bills for instance, go far into populism, and Harding and all his administration are backing these bills. So while Wall Street does not protest perhaps trusting to the supreme court for annulment of the measures, still Wall Street would" not put up a fight for Harding. Just now these elder stand-pat statemsen feel that "Harding must go.

They probably will change their minds. But now the fates are playing with the names of Hoover, Borah and Johnson. These three may be considered at the next Republican convention. Washington gossip rather minimizes the chances of McAdoo- Phrases influence Washington the heir apparent, the Prince of Wales, the cup bearer names of course, but not arguments. And anyway, Washington has the Ford phobia.

Ford is the worst Washington can imagine and Washington is in a mood to see the worst Still it might be Cox! And there are those who fondly' hope that the Ku KIux prosecution of Catholics will wax strong and successful until collapse and reaction make a hero out of Gov. Al Smith, the Roman Catholic governor of New York. He has the elements of a strong candidate force, intelligence candor, courage and a kindly consideration for the other man's viewpoint. He could carry the East. The South, in spite of the Ku KIux would vote for Smith on the Democratic ticket but the West? No one knows.

McAdoo, Cox and Smith and that's all, absolutely all. "We Are Literate But Not Educated" Nathaniel Peffer in the Century Magazine: Where has there ever been universal education, or even education for the majority, or for more than an infinitesimal minority? I do not mean literacy. I am not confusing the two. There is no more fatuous and common fallacy in our thinking than that illiteracy and ignorance are synonymous and that a man who cannot read and write necessarily cannot have more of wisdom, a surer perception of the relation of fundamentals, and a keener discrimination between truth and error than one who can read anil write. No man could know peasant Russia or peasant Italy or China or Japan or India and suffer that delusion.

Given a human situation, 1 should as soon trust a group of illiterate Chinese rustics to find a decent and intelligent solution as a group of Colorado high school graduate business men. Or Harvard alumni, for that matter. I mean educa Snappy Showing of The Ace Shirts, plaifi shades and delicate stripes and checks. Made by Phillips-Jones Corp. Manufacturers of Van Heusen collars.

Edwards, (Q) to 35.00 One Price to All" most instances just as available to farmers' associations as to grainf speculators. By federating local associations the marketing of a sufficient volume of grain is controlled so that by withholding marketing at times when a few extra cars would depress the price we shall be able to stablize the market. Besides, the increased profits due to mixing and blending grades and due to cleaning and drying and otherwise refining the grain, will go to the producers instead of to merchants. Such control of the marketing of grain as this plan contemplates is in no sense the setting up by th farmer of a monopoly or the assumption by him of undue control over the price of these basic foods. It is merely the creating of a system of selling through which the producer is assured for his product its full value as determined.

To obtain this price is clearly the farmer's right. The third step in orderly marketing, and a most important one, is that of so controlling the sale of the fractional part of the crop which is exported as to prevent it fixing the price of the whole crop. It involves the marketing of the exportable surplus in some way that will prevent the price of bread grain? in Liverpool from fixing the price of the bread grains in this country. Liverpool prices are established by producers whq are using cheap land or who work for low wages and maintain low standards of living. American grain is produced on high priced land under a high wage scale and high standards of living.

The farmer is at present the only industrial worker in America who is obliged, unprotected and unaided, to meet the competition of cheap production in foreign countries The way to protect the farmers against this unfair competition is not clear and the problem it presents is a most difficult one to solve. But if we fail to solve it we shall ultimately break the farmer or reduce him to the same status as those with whom he competes. There is no subject in Phone 129 3 011 L. on 12 20 all It the an we Stetson and Keith Mais New Spring shades and Styles $3.00 to 16.50 Supercraft Caps $1 to $2.50 which the farmer has so vital an interest as that of the marketing of his products. Make A Water Well Produce Petroleum Dodge City Globe: How two Dodge City boys, R.

D. Hawkins and Miley Hawkins, drilled a 600-foot artesian well five hundred feet further into the earth and discovered is told in an article written by H. Jones in the ElPaso (Texas) Times and appearing in a recent issue of that newspaper, a copy of which has been received by friends here. The story of Mr. Jones, in part, follows: A shallow oil well has been brought into production 220 miles northeast of ElPaso by automobile road, or IgO in air line, in the Artesia district, Eddy county, N.

within the last month, which bids fair to be important as the Somerest shallow field near San Antonio, Texas. The discovery well is known as the Hawkins well. It is section 10, township 19, south, range 26 east, N. M. P.

and is known as the Hawkins well. It is within 500 feet east of the Pacos Valley railroad, a branch of the Santa Fe, and also the same distance from graded country highway between Carlsbad and Artesia- It is about four miles north of Lakewood, miles south of Artesia, and 22 miles north of Carlsbad, the county seat of Eddy county. It is in the middle portion of the rich farming valley of the Pecos river. The Hawkins well is between and 1,100 feet deep. The oil stands in the pipe steadily at about 660 feet below the surface, and steady pumping daily ai the rate of to 24 barrels a day does not lower the oil.

In addition to the oil, gas is flowing through a pipe some 40 or 50 feet long, which is kept burning with a strong ilaze like a campfire. The oil is of para-fine base and 38 gravity, its gasoline and kerosene content being-equal to any oil in Oklahoma. It sells at Artesia at $2.50 per barrel and commands a ready local market. The Hawkins well has already attracted the attention of oil men from parts of the country, and daily visitors congregate at the "little wonder well," which is really the first real commercial producer ever brought in in the entire Pecos valley. proves beyond doubt the exist-enc of a shallow high grade oil field close to railroad transportation and markets of the world, and means active campaign of drilling many other wells in the same field.

Already leases are being bought by prospective operators in the vicinity of the well. Friday morning we journeyed north from Carlsbad over a splendid r6ad to the Hawkins well, a distance of about 22 miles. There met a number of visitors, who had just arrived, including Louis Of a third story flat. The sky was' blue dark bluev It was lit up, here and there With the last, lingering, Roseate hues of Day. The evening Star began to twinkle.

And, as it twinkled there In that background of blue and red, It reminded me of something, What, I hardly knew at first. A gold star, with a background Of blue and red! Then I knew! put away from the sight Of eyes that would never understand. There is a tiny flag A gold star, on a background Of red and blue! The Evening Star, twinkling on, Flashed me this message, "He only sleeps he is not Last night there was peace in my heart. Lun Dee The Kansas Wheat Growers Association Wichita, Kansas, Feb. 28, 1923.

(Special). The Kansas Wheat Growers Association loaded out bushels of export wheat Saturday from the Wichita Terminal Elevator. The wheat will go to a foreign miller via Galveston. Final disposition of the cargo will be made by Heatley and Company of London, the Wheat Growers foreign representative. The grain was loaded out of the terminal at the rate of a car every seven minutes This is the last of the export grade now on hand belonging to the membership.

A price above $1.00 per bushel net, io the Association, is practically assured. The Association has sold during the past week, a number of cars of wheat direcUy to the mills. V. V. assistant sales manager, said: "I hae letters from more than one hundred mills located all over Kansas, Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma, asking for samples And prices.

elieve the mills would take our entire line at once were we dispos-il to sell now." Tax on Bathing Increased by Ford-ney Tariff Manufacturers of men's bathing suits wljijfh are covered by big specific and ad valorem duties in the Fordney-McCumber profiteers tariff bill are making these articles much dearer, though no better, for next summer. The advances have already amounted to $2.50 a dozen for suits of cotton mixtures. The increase for worsteds 'is somewhat greater. By the time these bathing suits are sold by the retailer these increases will be 75c and $1 each. Sorry I did not give you a better game.

The fact is, I had rather a bad headache. I have never yet beat a man who was in perfect health. "Do you believe that Bacon wrote Shakespeare?" "I wouldn't like to say," answered Senator Sorghum. I'd like to sound out the. views of my constituents before I venture an opinion even on that subject." And poor Harry was killed by a revolving crane.

My word! What fierce birds you have in America. "Bobby, I hope you didn't tell your daddy that you saw me kissing your sister Ethel last night." "I didn't have to. Ethel woke us all up after you'd gone and told us herself." "What about that estate?" "ike heirs got together and settled it up, so that the lawyers got little cr naihing." Funny, they're all gone. Did you post that notice to the employees, "You have work to do here, so be at it?" Yes, sir; but I must have left out the space between "be" and "at." Is this color fast and really genuine? As genuine as the roses on your cheeks, madam. H'm! Er show me something else.

It's quite noticeable how Joe is getting to look more and more like you every day. Before long he'll be a perfect imitation of his father. Hm! Is that so? What mischief has he been up to now? "Going to the lecture tonight?" "Yep." "Better not; it's going to be an awful bore." "Guess I can't get out of it, Tin lhe lecturer." ing- When the pump is not working tne oil raises to the top. Mr. Hawkins and partner have organized themselves as the New Mexico Kansas Oil company.

The gas flow is strong and has been piped some 50 feet from the well and is kept burning with a steady, strong flame, reaching a heighth of five feet. The gas pressure is said to be over 400 feet. There is sufficient gas to furnish fuel for drilling another well. This well site is located about 500 feet north of the No. 1 well.

Mr. Hawkins has gone to purchase a new drilling outfit for the No. 2 well and will begin operation when it arrives. The first well was drilled with a portable well rig, the motive power being furnished by an oil traction engine, which is row used for pumping. Back of the well is a small pond into which flows the artesian water.

Slight rainbow colors were observed in the surface of the water. Around the pond is a circle of trees, visible from the road- What impressed the visitors most were the crudeness and cheapness of the. entire plant. Beyond question this is one of the cheapest oil wells ever drilled west of the Mississippi river. Mr.

Hawkins and associates, who formed a comnanv to hold the Haw kins well under the name of the New Mexico, Kansas and Texas Oil company, have reincorporated under the name of the Eureka Oil company with a capital stock of $325,000. Miley Hawkins being president and R. D. Hawkins Secretary and treasurer. The company is incorporated under the laws of New Mexico.

Miley Hawkins formerly lived at Belpre and at one time owned the G. G. Wright ranch, northeast of this city. Double Spacing Corn, Summer Fallowed Wheat Pays Farmers. Manhattan, Feb.

28. Double spacing of corn and sorghum rows and summer fallow for wheat paid Morton County farmers in 1922, according to a report of E. B. Wells, extension agronomist, which has just been published by the Santa Fe Railway company. Mr.

Wells made a trip last fall to Morton county, in the extreme southwestern corner of Kansas, where he made a survey in cooperation with the agricultural development department of the Santa Fe and the Kansas public utilities com mission Statements of farmers showed that wheat grown on summer fallow ground yielded from 40 to 60 jer cent more than that grown on land which had been in wheat continuously. Mr. Wells' observations on corn and milo maize were that, where these crops were planted in rows 84 inches apart, the indications were for a crop of from 15 to 20 bushels of corn and from 40 to 50 bushels of maize per acre, while there was no marketable corn on the fields in which the rows were 42 inches apart which would mall? more than 25 bushels per acre. The observations were only for one year and are only indicative of the best practices, according to the report. William Allen White in a recent article in the New York Tribune says: For instance, Ford for president.

Washington thinks seriously of Ford Washington feels that he may be the Democratic nominee; that his pacifism and know-nothingism, his standardized ignorance of human affairs, may appeal to something in the country, particularly in the cracker part of the south. So the Republicans are laying out thcr problems with Ford in the equation. This surprises one who comes into Washington fresh from the grass roots. The grass roots are not moved by Ford. Nor by anyone else just now.

They are cold in "the winter of their discontent," cold toward Ford, toward McAdoo, bitter cold tovard the Republican party and politics generally Co not warm up the average citizen in the country. Curiously just now certain regular Republicans are in a mood to abandon Harding. They seem to feel that he should not run again- They do not think he is unpopular, but they hold that he is just impossible. Harding can, of course, renominate himself, in spite of them. Any president can.

But Harding is not a fighter. Nor has he about him the fighters of the great financial interests as Taft had-Wall Street would let Harding go down the stream without a lifeline. In the first place and chiefly because he is not opposed just now. as was Taft, by an element in the IE Farm Marketing II. J.

Waters in the Weekly Kansas City Star: The conventions were held in Kansas City last week, a meeting of the Co-operative Farmers' Elevator Association and the annual motor show. A casual glance at the crowds attending these conventions gave one the impression that more farmers were visiting the motor show, presumably to get up to the minute on the prevailing types and colors of car bodies, the newest thing in headlights and shock absorbers, than were present at the meeting called to' discuss better ways marketing grain. No one will deny the farm family more than any other family needs a nfotor car, and every true friend of the farmer wants to see him in position to have a good car and to keep his equipage up to date- But unless the farmer gives as much attention to the sale of his products as he does to the buying of a pleasure; car the time will soon come when, he cannot afford a car. Local grain shipping associations, such as were represented by their managers and patrons here last week, while saving but one profit, that of the first buyer, are neyer-the less the foundation stone upon which all centralized selling rests. Until this foundation is well laid we shall have little success in organizing selling associations at the terminal markets, of controlling the export of the surplus and of maintaining an orderly flow of grain that will prevent the loss now sustained through violent fluctuations and sharp declines in values.

We, have too often made the mistake of attempting to build farmers co-operative marketing associations from the top down instead of from the bottom up. Once farmers have their local sales agencies well established, the second step, that of setting up sales agencies at the terminal markets, will be easy. necessary elevator space is already there and in tion, then, not literacy. This that passes in America for education is only literacy. There is no education yet.

Neither a science nor. a philosophy of education has been worked out. One finds reading. writing, ciphering, the mechanical stuffing of a vast mass of facts unrelated to one another, and a rigid body of dogma forever indurating the mind against new ideas'or a new outlook. Judged not by the com plexity of its process and the number of units it handles, but by the quality of its product, it is as the laboring of mountains.

It has borne better bond salesmen, advertising writers, and organizers. I am only saying that there is no education and there are no educated men excepting always the minority that there is everywhere. I am only saying that literacy is not worth the price. To produce a generation educated in the manner of the Americans or the English of the present generation is small return for so heavy a social outlay. And whatever may be the truth for our own people, who have no choice but to ahead and make literacy a foundation for education, certainly I should say that for China and similar countries to adopt an educational program such as ours and produce a generation such as ours would be a monstrous calamity.

Better, far better, the Chinese or Hindu or Turk peasant who nowj holds a newspaper wrong side up. Far better that than to take the same peasant and at a tremendous social cost teach him to read Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Anatole France, the Apostle Paul, and Aristotle, and absolutely misunderstand them; or, if you like, to read the yellow journal and the success magazine and propaganda and also misunderstand them, though in an opposite direction. Think of the children of 400 millions in China and 300 millions in India doomed generation on generation through all time to recite the footnotes on Venus sprung from Jupiter's brow, "Phoebus 'gins arise," and "Haste thee, nvmph. an? bring with thee!" Think of fastening on them forever and ever the pompus jargon of political wwoiiiy! Wilson Legislation. Is Chief Aid to Farmers Now.

Legislation passed under the Wilson administration and still operative has served to mitigate to some extent the effects of the incompetence and indifference of the present Republican regime. The Federal Reserve act and the Farm Loan act are two measures which have been of value to agriculture in spite of the failure of Republican officials to administer them fairly and efficiently- Some 74,000 loans, aggregating 3224,301,400, were made by the 12 Federal farm loan banks in 1922. Almost a billion dollars have been lent to farmers by these banks since their inauguration. "Dear me, that was terrible. A man fell overboard the other day and wras never seen acain" p-rrlnimprt Drowned, I suppose? "Oh, no," replied Jones.

"Sprained his ankle, probably." Order your Spring Suit TODAY is not too soon to be measured. S. E. Somerville Sanitary Cleaning and Pressing Kinsley, Kansas.