PAGE SIX FRESH 1000 MI1.ES OF AIR FOB BARV I abled men over the period of their UNCLE SAM AND THE convalescence from war injuries* It DISABLED SOLDl&R must be considered in the light of the transformation of a large and influential By C. A. Zuppman, District Vocational Iii body of men who, had they Officer, Federal Boaril for been neglected, might have become Vocational Education. disheartened because of what they new c^uld have rightfully regarded as a At this moment the Federal Board nation's ingratitude a transformation for Vocational Education is actually package into a coherent group of enthusiastic giving, under the Soldier's Rehabilitation Americans, filled with American Act thorough and practical ideals, grateful to Uncle Sam, and draining to approximately 4,500 men evincing by their own ability the in the Tenth district, which comprises sound training in productive industry Minnesota, North and South Dakota and profession which they have secured. and Montana, and if Congress broadens LUCKY out the acjt as has been recommended, it is estimated that at least WHICH WILL LAST LONGER 12,000 men will eventually be accepted SPLIT OR ROUND FENCE POSTS for training. In degree of disability those eligible Some people believe split fence posts for the law's view point range from STRIKE last longer than do round ones. Probably the violinist whose finger amputation as large a number hold the opposite ruined his desijred career, to the unfortunate view. The Forest Products youth with hands and~-eyes Laboratory of the United. States Department blown away. In capacity the students of Agriculture says that one include everybody ffrom the •James I*. \\atkins, Jr., was left motherless"shortlv aftor tile Krrfi* will last about as long as the other eleven months ago, and then pneumonia developed. His daddy derided common laborer, totally illiterate, it was fresh air the l.ttle tot needed, so started a tour of California^ w'shing if the percentage of heartwood and 10 cigarettes for 10 cts even in his native- tongue, to the the baoy in a perambulator. Thjs picture shows the two in sapwood are the same in both. If the highly educated man. The places of Handy and convenient try Angeles at tiu end of a 1,000-mile walk, baby's health restored.# fully percentage of sapwood is increased kins, without lupds, worked his way throughout the- tQur. training include approximately 95 them. Dealers now carry by splitting, the split post will be less schools and colleges, and 1015 industrial both sizes: 10 for 10 cts durable, while if the percentage of and commercial aijd agricultural 20 for 20 cts. heartwood is increased it will be more in at the same time as grain is sown. establishments, while several hundred tions and save money for producers It's Toasted durable than the round one. Exceptions About 15 pounds of seed were used men still in hospitals are *re-ceiving by working out economical shipping to this should be made if the to the acre on irrigated land, but it such education as has b,een routes and arranging for shipments posts are of spruce, hemlock, or any was stated that if sunflowers are to provided by the establishment of in large quantities. Lack of means Oaaronlep^fcy of the true firs, whose heartwood and be raised under dry land conditions Hospital Training Centers. to command the best prices through c^oxncetr^^. sapwood are about equally durable. the seed should be put in rows 30 to uniform grades, quantity shipment Never before was there built up If the posts are to be treated with 36 inches apart. and advertising, and to effect freight in such a comparatively short time a creosote or some other preservative, On the project under observation rate savings, cost Minnesota farmers training institution of such tremendous his shoulder. He was to fake the the round post is preferable to the it was intended to let the sunflowers $10,000,000 last year, members of the size. Never before, in the history track of the Traylors next day and split, because of the comparative ease get fairly well matured, about the dairy council estimate. begin his journey to the shores of of any educational institution A Man for with which the sapwood can be same as corn, before putting them in the Sangamon. have the directors been called upon, treated. Experiments at the laboratory the silo, but as a storm broke them MM They got into a bad swale that not only to provide training but also er# «r# er# ei*« eiW# «V »V »V demonstrate that the heartwood down it was necessary to put them in 15 afternqon and Samson had to cut to enlist their trainees, to examine the Ages PROFESSIONAL CARDS faces on split posts do not, as a rule, the silo earlier. The yield was from some corduroy to make a footing for them medically and vocationally, and *5 team and wagon and do much prying absorb the preservative as well as 30 to 40 tons per acre. Cows fed on MM »MM O V# er# to give each one of them thorough with the end of a heavy pole under does the sapwood. sunflower silage kept up the usual and effective vocational advice. the front axle. By and by the horses flow of milk as well as those which JOHN H. BROWN Never before has it been necessary pulled them out. were fed on the grain silage. Some SUNFLOWERS A GOOD SILAGE Attorney at Law to create for each trainee a real job "When ol' Colonel bends his neck A Story of the Builders of the big Holstein cows ate as much CROP IN SOME LOCALITIES Office over O. M. Carr & Co. things have to move, even if he is objective which after his training of Democracy as 90 pounds per) day. No unfavorable up to his belly in the mud," said International Falls, Minnesota is completed will insure employment results could be noticed in the Sunflowers are likely to become Samson. with a steady and reasonable wage. flavor of the milk. While this experiment As the day waned they came to a good for silage material for farmers A E In this connection it is necessary to By Irving Bacheller has not gone far enough to river in the deep woods! It was an on irrigated land in the Northwest, bring about real co-operation with all Lawyer exquisite bit of forest with the bells reach definite conclusions, it indicates according to reports received by the existing social agencies, and also to International State Bank Bldg. of a hermit thrush ringing in one that sunflowers may be considered a United States Department of Agriculture provide medical attention, to supervise of its towers. Their call and the International Falls, Minnesota goodf crop for silage in some localities. from Montana. The Mammoth Copyright, Irving B*eb.ll*r the cases of students needing it low song of the river were the only Russian is in much favor, although sounds in the silence. The glow of and to make certain that every man experiments have been tried N O E N I N N E S O A the setting sun which lighted the (Continued From Page 2) of the thousands in training receives DAIRYMEN PUT OWN western windows of the forest had a with some of the smaller varieties. O S I A his bi-monthly training pay. skirmish around for bread and give color like that of the music—golden. The sunflowers are drilled in rows MANAGER IN FIELD Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and This gigantic undertaking is the ye as good a dinner as ye ever had Long shafts of it fell through the 20 inches apart and irrigated. They The Minnesota Dairy council has Surgeon in Charge in yer life." practical way in which the government tree columns upon the road here were put in about the middle of May, employed Fred Warber, a former Office Phone 30 Hospital Phone 79 Henry took the horses to his barn ,yis striving to miake some adequate and there. Our weary travelers stopped but from their frost-resistant qualities Minnesotan, as field manager in an Office Int'l State Bank Building and watered and fed them. Then he compensation to those who on the rude plank bridge that it is believed they could ,be put brought two pails of water from the effort to improve marketing condi­ International Falls, Minnesota sacrificed everything and gave, without crossed the river. Odors of balsam spring. Meanwhile Samson started a and pine and tamarack came in a question, their personal services fire in a grove of small poplars by light, cool breeze up the river valley. to the stupendous conflict with tlje the roadside and began broiling venir "I gGess we'll stop at this tavern Central powers. So great were the son, and Sarah got out the bread till tomorrow," said Samson. board and the flour and the rolling-pin immediate problems of organizing Joe was asleep and tfiey laid him and the teapot. As she waited for the fighting forces that not until we on the blankets until supper was Down Goes the Prices on the water she called the three strange had been in the World War fourteen ready. •children to her side. The oldest was months was it possible to devise legislation Soon after supper Samson shot a HAY AND FEED a girl of ten, with a face uncommonly to provide stimulating rehabilitation deer which had waded into the rapids. refined and attractive. In spite of Fortunately, it made the opposite rather than mere deadening her threadbare clothes, she had a shore before it fell. All hands spent pensions for the disabled ex-service neat and cleanly look and gentle man^ that evening dressing the deer and The youngest was a boy of men. jerking the best of the meat. This four. They were a pathetic trio. In every case there must be established they did by cutting the meat into "Where's your mother?" Sarah four essential points of evidence strips about the size of a man's hand 'asked of the ten-year-old girl. necessary before granting and saving and laying it on a rack, "Dead. Died when iny little brother training (1) honorable discharge, (2) some two feet above a slow fire, and •was born/' covering it with green boughs. The injury received in or as a consequence "Who takes care of you?" heat and smoke dried the meat in of military or naval service "Father and—God. Father says the course of two or three hours and 'God does most of it." (3) need of training in order to overcome gave it a fine flavor. Delicious beyond "Oh dear!" Sarah exclaimed, with a vocational handicap and (4) =UNTIL FURTHER N0TICE= any kind of meat is venison look of pity. feasibility of training. It is often exceedingly If kept dry, They had a good dinner of fresh Seated in this manner. difficult to obtain information it will retain its flavor and its sweetness 'biscuits and honey and venison and which will prove that the' disability foya month or more. eggs and tea. While they were eating is connected with service They set out rather late next morning. Samson told Brimstead of the land of As usual, Joe stood by the head hundreds of disabled ex-service men, plenty. of Colonel while the latter lapped After dinner, while Brimstead was in their desire to get home, gave brown sugar from the timid palm of bringing the team, one of his ehll'•dren, sworn statements that they were not the boy. Then the horse was wont to the blonde, pale, tattered little disabled, statements which the Federad girl of six, climbed into the wagon touch the face of Joe with his big, board must now disprove and hairy lips as a tribute to his generosity. seat and sat holding a small rag doll, in a great many instances it necessitates "which Sarah had .given her. When Colonel had seemed to acquire the greatest amount of skill they were ready to go she stubbornly a singular attachment for the boy -refused to get down. and the dog, while Pete distrusted and patience to ascertain on the one $1.40 both of them. He had never a moment's hand, the degree of physical unfitness "I'm goin' away," she said. "I'm OATS—80 pound sack... leisure, anyhow, being always goin' aw-a-ay off to find my mother. and' on the other the adaptability for $1.50 busy with his work or the files. A I don't like this place. There ain't training. few breaks in the pack basket had »no Santa Claus here. I'm goin' away." From the very beginning, the board BRAN—per 100 pounds been repaired with green withes. It She clung to the wagon seat and has been doing the utmost that the $1.50 creaked with its load of jerked venison cried loudly when her father took law permits for the disabled men when put aboard. "her down. SHORTS—per 100 pounds with the least amount of "red tape" "Ain't that enough to break a man's Farther on the boy got a sore throat. $2.00 in the heartiest spirit of sympathy, 'heart?" he said with av sorrowful look. Sarah bound a slice of .pork around Then Samson turned to Brimstead it and Samson built a camp by the and at the smallest cost consistent GROUND CORN—per 100 pounds.. «nd asked: roadside, in which, after a good fire with good work. $2.00 "Look here, Henry Brimstead, are was started, they gave him a hemlock Were space available, ca^C after you a drinking man? Honor bright sweat. This they did by steeping WHOLE CORN—per 100 pounds... case could be citec^' where the work now." hemlock in pails of hot water and $22.00S# of rehabilitation is building new men, "Never drink a thing but water and while the patient sat in a chair by is carrying opportunity and hope to tea." the fireside, a blanket was spread TIMOTHY HAY—per ton hundreds who had before dreamed "Do you know anybody who'll give about him and pinned close to his $17.00 own ye anything for what you here?" neck. Under the blanket they put in vain of any education, and is tna&% "There's a man in the next town the pails of steaming hemlock tea. ing real Americans out of a group of 1 CAR UPLAND per ton......... who offered me three hundred and After his sweat and a day and night illiterate foreign born. Many stories fifty dollars for my interest" in bed, with a warm fire burning in could be told of the discovery of the 3 CARS NO. 1 TIMOTHY HAY front of the shanty, Joe was able "Come along with us and get the latent talents of laymen, which were money if you can. I'll help ye fit to resume his seat in the wagon. They turned into professional courses of vp and go where ye can earn living." spoke of the Brimsteads and thought special services to the blind, the deaf 'ij it strange that they had not come along. "I'd like to, but my horse is lame and those with multiple wounds. and 1 can't leave the children." On the twenty-ninth day aftor their Few, if any, government agencies "Put 'em right In this wagon and journey began they came in sight of have been so decentralized as has the come mi. If there's a lirery in the the beautiful green valley of the Mohawk. Federal board, and probably with no "place. I'll send, ye home." As they looked from the hills other has co-opefation with private So the children rode in the wagon they saw the roof of the forest dipping 'W* agencies been carried so far. In this land Samson and Brimstead walked, down to the river shores and way, the board has brought itself .while Sarah drove the team to the stretching far to the east and west The Falls Lumber & Coal Co. Tillage. next There the good woman directly to the disabled man's home, and broken, here and there, by small new bought clothes for the whole clearings. Soon they oould see the has multiplied its services many Brimstead family and Brimstead sold smoke and spires of the thriving village times ,and has carried its work into of Utica. lis interest in the sand plains and !i needed fields. bought a good pair ef horses, with The actiop of. Congress in providing (To be Continued) Phone 81 International Falls, Minn. harness and some doth for a wagon the organization and funds for cover, and had fifty dollars in his vocational rehabilitation of the war pocket and a now look in his face. Typewriter Ribbons Remington, disabled was indeed far-sighted. The iHe put his children on the backs of 4 Underwood, Smith and Oliver, also the horses and led them to his old good results cannot be measured from I feome, with a sack of provisions on Carbon Paper, at the Press office. the mere standpoint of tiding disfei a® IiS f, %m