HOW GEORGE ADE WILL VOTE N the morning of November 2 I shall hasten out to vote for Harding. I shall be one of the unnumbered host simply ching for a chance to register a final proest against the peevish autocracy from which we are about to escape. The present Administration is going to be overwhelmngly rebuked because: It failed to prepare for war after a state of war actually existed. It beguiled the voters with promises of beace long after self-respecting peace had become an impossibility. It advised the two great democracies of Europe to accept "peace without victory," And, a few weeks later, determined that he war had to be carried through to a finsh in order to "make the world safe for lemocracy." It humiliated and shackled men of giant trength who wanted to serve their country nd gave the preference to peewees who lad to be carried through the war as excess Haggage. It tried to influence the voters in 1918 y a cheap partisan appeal, and after a rushing defeat still professed to carry to Europe a special "mandate" from the American people. It made a circus of the peace prelimiaries and curdled the peace negotiations with the vagaries of one headstrong man. It brought the United States into disepute with the recent Allies by making ain promises and delivering messages which never had been sent. It has prolonged a technical state of war by refusing to accept a compromise which Vould have been acceptable to the present nrolled members of the League of Nations. It has been sour and intolerant and ackadaisical and generally unreliable. There are other. counts, but these are nough to make it a real pleasure to vote his fall. GEORGE ADE. October 12, 1920. CHANCELLOR DAY ON THE POST OFFICE He Tore Up the Blueprints THE HE chief engineer of a $5,000,000 plant in one of St. Louis' new industrial districts prepared plans and specifications for an $800,000 generating station to supply electric current. Inquiry developed that St. Louis has a dual supply of cheap hydro-electric current and steam-generated energy in plentiful quantity to serve all industries that locate in St. Louis. The company found that St. Louis is girdled with an interlocking transmission systém between the two sources of supply, giving interconnection through eight substations strategically placed throughout the city. The company was convinced. The engineer tore up his blueprints. The plan to build an $800,000 generating station was abandoned. The company found that it could buy its power current in St. Louis cheaper than it could generate its own supply. St. Louis Has Abundant Electric Power One of the essential factors in industrial development these days is an ample supply of reliable electric energy sold at rates which enable manufacturers to use it in large blocks economically.. St. Louis is in a remarkably advantageous position in this respect. It has a large capacity of electric current from the Keokuk Dam and a local steam generating plant located directly on the Mississippi River. St. Louis can furnish ample electric power for any of the following sixteen industries for which there is need and a profitable market in St. Louis trade territory: raight and is as tough as its name would dicate." Most log cabins, according to Mr. Mclure, are built square, as they were in the ays of our grandfathers, with the excepon of the bungalows which are now being nstructed by those who can afford them or summer homes and shooting lodges.. The old log cabin was built square," said "because the average settler found at a compact cabin of this shape built ther on the side of a hill or in the forest as warmer and more serviceable." It had tendency to make the strain equal on all e timbers used. The main differences in e construction of a log cabin to-day and the pioneer days is to be found in the ofs, the methods of filling chinks, the use nails, the building of chimneys, the subitution of glass for windows in place of ickskin, and the modern plumbing conniences which can be installed. The marity of cabins nowadays have gable-end ofs, whereas in the old days the flat surce covering was usually employed. The B LED ze of the pioneer or settler's. cabin was enerally twenty feet square. Speaking of the time necessary to build log house to-day, Mr. McClure expressed e opinion that one could be erected by odern methods in three weeks." This is uch different," he added, "from the days. our forefathers, when the work was early all done by the settler himself and ok from two and a half to three months." The big difference in building a log ouse to-day and in the days of our grandthers is to be found largely in the price Ef materials and the cost of labor. If a an were building a log house to reside in ot too far from civilization or for vacation urposes, as many well-to-do men in the Tnited States and Canada are doing at the resent time, he would probably retain the d rough style of exterior in some manner f artistic design, but would sheet all the Pterior with either beaver-board or sevenighths pine sheeting. This could be stained ny color that appealed to his or his wife's ancy. The mere erecting of the building self, without any fixtures or modern imrovements, would come to a comparaively high figure. Logs in the vicinity of ny city would cost enormously at present rices, and with shingles at $10 and comon lumber increasing in four years from 38 and $40 a thousand to $65 and $85, the man who wanted a log cabin would ave to pay considerable for a house of his style. Of course the settler, if he happens to Se a skilled carpenter and lives close to eavy timber, is still able to erect a warm and comfortable log cottage at the main outlay of his own time and effort. For his rouble he gains one of the warmest and most comfortable houses that a man can provide himself with. The reason for this is, according to McClure and other authorities, that wood is a far better insulator in either warm or cold weather than brick or stone. Two facts should always be borne in mind: the windows in a log house must always be small and high-in fact, close to the roof-so that the main frame of the building may not be weakened, and the logs must always balance in such a way as to lie evenly on their mortar bed. Only recently a St. Louis business man built a bungalow summer home in the Canadian town of Cobourg, and the writer is informed that the actual construction, without fixtures of any kind, amounted to URHAM -UPLEX A Real Razor-made Safe You "hop to it" with a smile, and finish up the same way, when the Durham-Duplex is on the job. Good-bye to scraping and "pulling." Goodbye to face-burning and skin irritation. The famous two-edged, detachable Durham-Duplex Blades are the longest, strongest, keenest blades on earth, oil-tempered, hollow-ground and scientifically stropped to an edge of surpassing sharpness and guarded to prevent cutting. It's the greatest blade ever. 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In his survey of Eastern farming conditions Mr. Gathany cited the real ords of a farmer which showed that the cost of producing corn was approximately two hundred dollars per acre. This figure pi was considered by many of Mr. Gathany's correspondents to be very excessive. Mr. Gathany, in confirmation of his fig ures, has received a detailed report on the crop in question from the farmer who pro duced it. The farmer is Mr. Charles R. Treat, a member of the Board of Control of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. It should be noted that Mr. Treat's fig ures deal with a crop of seed sweet com and not field corn. It is the personal ex perience of a member of The Outlook's staff that field corn in the East costs at least one hundred dollars an acre to produce at the present time, without any overhead or rent charges. Mr. Treat's letter and his report follow.-THE EDITORS. Orange, Connecticut. Mr. J. Madison Gathany, 1. ΣΤΟ tic to 240 Your letter of the 29th received, and I am inclosing herewith a slip giving detailed cost of producing Evergreen seed sweet corn on my farm in 1919. The figure of $200 per acre in your article is correct, but that figure includes interest on investment and my own labor in rent of land" and "overhead" items. Ofs the cost of $80 for manure, it is customary to charge sixty per cent to crop to which it is applied and forty per cent to crops which fol low, hence deduction of $32 from total of $228.50. I have talked with Western farmers, and they are always surprised at our costs for manure and labor. They use no manure and their fields are so large and free from stone that all work can be done on them at a small percentage of what it costs here. Then this is a specialized seed crop, which requires extra hand labor. Trusting I have answered your inquiry fully, I am Yours truly, CHARLES R. TREAT. COST OF PRODUCING SEED SWEET CORN IN 1919 C $80.00 8.00 9.00 Sary be C THE YOUNGER INDIANS MEET N October 2 a meeting was held in Riverside, California, of the Mission Ndian Co-operative Society. This is a dciety of the younger Indians of southn California, and its organization in June this year marked an epoch in the develment of the Mission Indians. DR The purpose of the society is to work in unit for land allotment, with all the ghts and obligations and privileges of Il American citizenship. Der 20 But this particular meeting in October as called for a specific purpose. In 14 a law was passed making all money heretofore or hereafter" expended in veloping water on the Mission Indian servations reimbursable. This law is reoactive, and so illegal; but can only be ught in the courts at great expense to the idians, who cannot afford it. The water developments were put in as gratuity, the Indians having no voice in e location of the wells put down, the anner of water conservation within the atershed, the materials used in the work, the selection of so-called engineers to of the work. The gross incompetence of Government anagement and the waste of Government Esending is an old, old story. One illustraon here will suffice. The Malki Indian servation has a watershed nearly equal in tent to that of their near neighbors, the eople of Banning, five miles away. The overnment spent in the Malki project an nount of money nearly equivalent to the nount spent by Banning in their water nyon. Yet during this last summer the dians had three small heads of water which ran at intervals when the pump was t broken down, compared to the twenty ads of water that ran continuously all mmer with no intermission for the town Banning. Furthermore, some of the aterials in the Malki project were so or that they will soon have to be reaced, or the system will not work to the xtent it does now. .ust And Congress has said that the Indians for all the money heretofore or pay ereafter expended. In March, 1920, a bill sas passed authorizing the Secretary of The Interior to institute the necessary proedings to collect this money. The date or the first payment was set for Novemer 15, 1920. News of all this percolated slowly among e Indian people. At first they were unilling to believe the Government would tart proceedings so absolutely unjust. But nally they realized that the laws are on he statute-books and must be enforced or hanged. The Indians are hoping that the first ayment of this money can be delayed till Congress is persuaded to cancel the law assed. To get the repeal of this law resoutions and letters of protest have been sent o Congressmen, Senator Johnson, the Secetary of the Interior, and the Indian Rights Association. The meeting in Riveride on October 2 was for the purpose of doing this business. If the money so haphazardly expended as a gratuity is collected from the Mission Indians, it will be a blot against the name of the Democratic party, under whose Administration the law was passed, that it will take long to wipe away.. JAMES WEINLAND. Banning, California. Yet experts in nutrition have made We must face the facts. women. It is not that our children get too little to eat. Children of the well-to-do and of the rich, Dr. Emerson says, show undeniable evidence of malnutrition. The condition, in most cases, is traced rather to lack of food of the right kind, to an insufficient supply of certain food elements. The sixteen elements The body requires six- monly called the bran. 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