Decorah public opinion., March 08, 1922, Image 1

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FARM BUREAU
BUY MOTION
PICTURE OUTFIT
•County Agent Authorized to Pur
chase the Necessary Equipment
Carried by Unanimous
Motion.
GIVES SOME FACTS
ON LOCAL TAXES
Madison Twp. Taken as Typical
Township and Levies for Past
Fifteen Years Are
Shown.
Minutes of meeting of Winneshiek
County Board of Directors on March
2nd, 1922. Meeting called to order
by President Win. Headi ngton at
11;30 A. M. Officers and directors
present: Wm. Headington, ’A. W.
Oxley, H. T. Ramlo, J. C. Beard, S.
K. Pierce, Fred Tekippe, John Rol
lins, Ben Rovang, J. C. Gaffney,
Olaus Berge, Fred Darrington, Ward
Curtis, Elmer Rosa, A. C. Smithling.
Motion made by A. W. Oxley of
the auditing committee that the com- [
inittee recommended bills be allow- 1
ed as presented. Motion carried.
Considerable discussion from J
each of the directors present followed j
in regard to the purchase of a mo- '
tion picture outfit. It was moved by 1
Olaus Berge and seconded by Tek- j
ippe that County Agent be authoriz- j
ed to purchase the necessary equip
ment. Motion carried unanimously, j
Motion made by A. W. Oxley, sec
onded by Ben Rovang that the
County Agent make arrangement to
have L. S. Fisher or some other
Federation speaker in the county to
assist in holding meetings during the
month of June. Motion carried.
A letter was at hand from F. G.
Churchill, Extension Professor of
Farm Crops and Soils. This letter
stated that the diplodra epidemic,
which is a mold affecting coni and
the state Tal*” fall * causing corn
to mold and much of it to fall down, 1
might prove to be serious unless a
state wide survey was made to locate
the territory where this mold was
present. Mr. Oxley stated that this
disease had been discussed in detail
at the short course and that in order i
to determine where this mold was
present it was necessary to germ in- '
ate the corn at a temperature of 80
degrees. The mold does not develop
early in the spring when the seed is 1
first planted, but waits until the
mid summer heat when it affects the
growing crop. In view of this fact
the Extension Department has plan
ned to make a state wide survey get
ting five samples of seed corn such
as the farmer intends to plant and
germinating it under conditions fav
orable to the growth of the mold.
Arrangements were made for sam- <
pies to be taken from Orleans, Wash- 1
ington, Frankville, Bloomfield and
Hesper townships. These samples
will be sent in to the college before
March 13th and reports will be made
on March 27th. We are hoping that
no affeoted seed will be found from
Winneshiek county. We are a lit- 1
tie doubtful, however, in view of the
fact that many pieces of corn were
blown down so easily and in dam
aged condition last fall. This, how
ever, may have been due to the grub, l
as last year was grub year for Win- 1
neshiek county, these grubs come at
intervals of three years each.
In view of the fact that the
Equity Society had held their meet
ing and proposed a radical curtail- 1
ment of expenditures of all kinds, 1
eliminating county agents, county j
nurses, county engineers and de
manding that salaries of all county
officials be cut to the minimum, it
was thought wise to really look in- j
to the expenditures made for main
taining our local government. The
county agent had been asked by Dr. 1
Brindley, who is a member of the
legislative committee on taxation, fo! i
copies of the 1921 levies in Winne
shiek county. Copies of these levies |
were secured back as far as 1906. |
A study of these levies proved to
be interesting. They show that no
increase in the county levy was
made from 1907 to 1915.. the same
being true of practically all other
levies. The following table shows
exactly when and where increased
levies were made. Madison township
is taken as a typical township in the
county and for this reason its levies
are showji.
The fact was brought out that the
entire expense for running our local
government was only 8.2 mills. In
other words, if we would close our
Court House, do away with our coun
ty supervisors, do away with the
sheriff's office and jail, that the far
mer who is now paying SIOO in taxes
would still be paying $91.80. In
view of this fact and the fact that
the county agent and county nurse
have been doing valuable work in
the county, the County Agent’s work
in poultry alone during the three
fall months saving the farmers of
the county more than the expense of
maintaining the office for an entire
year and the fact that the County
Nurse is doing a great work in eli
minating cases of arrested develop
ment due to mal nutrition and dis
ease which many parents fail to
observe, it was thought the heighth
of folly for any organization to pass
resolutions which would ask that
i
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Dccoral) public ©pinion.
NOVEL CONTEST
FOR NAMING TIRE
.Nation*e Contest Now Being
CondtK by the Micheliu
Tire v.°%-ny, Whose
Decorai. ' A'er is
W. S. Hus Aj '
BIG PRIZE OFFERED
FOR SUITABLE NAME
The Contest Closes on March 25, and
Names Sent After That Date
Will Not be Considered.
Mr. W. S. Hustvedt, the local
Michelin Tire dearler, is very
.enthusiastic these days over the na
tion wide contest now being conduct
ed by the Michelin Tire Company
offering SI,OOO in cash and sixty five
other prizes for securing a suitable
name for the interesting tire man
which has been a feature of Michelin
advertising for many years, and
whose antics have amused countless
thousands of people.
It seems this tire man already has
a name, but the Michelin Company
feels the name is not exactly suit
able because it is not a name easily
; understood or remembered, in short
the Michelin Man is known as Biben-
Idum, but while Bibendum is a good
name in some countries, it is hardly
| suitable for American use.
The story about the original nam
-1 ing of th? Michelin Man takes the
| reader back to France where the
j modern pneumatic tire had its birth
place in the Michelin Works at Cler-!
j mont-Ferrand, a city of 70,000 busy
people away up in the mountains in I
the south central part of the great
Republic beyond the seas. The
story goes that the Michelin Man
was developed from a crude idea
suggested by workman in the Miche
lin factory. This workman noticed
;that a pile of tires, carelessly as
sembled, bore a. ftpude resemblance to
a man. He mentioned this *to a
member of the advertising staff, who
later developed the idea, using tires
uf different sizes. The services of 1
the celebrated French cartoonist I
O’Gallot were then called in, and
soon the Michelin Tire Man became
a reality.
About the first public use of the
figure was on a poster where the
Tire Man was shown holding a gob
let conta>ining broken glass, horse
1 shoe nails and other terrors of the
, road, evidently in the act of pro
posing a toast, the wording being
i “Nunc est Bibendum” which is Latin
for our more familiar expression (be
fore prohibition) of “here’s How’*.
From that time forward the Michelin
Man was known abroad as Bibend
um, this name being considered ap
propriate, because Michelin advertis
ing bore the message that Michelin
Tires “<.)ank” or absorbed the shocks;
of the road, and also such obstacles
as bits of iron, broken stones, and!
so on.
| The rules governing the present
contest are very simple. All the con
testant has to do is of course first
find a suitable name for the tire
man and an appropriate slogan or
phrase of not more than ten words!
This sounds simple, but it isn’t. No
wonder the Michelin Company is
willing to pay SI,OOO in cash for a
good nnn.e for the famous tire man.
Nevertheless the company feels that
a good name exists, and is willing
,to pay this considerable sum *to
, secure it. After selecting a name,
and oli rase the contestant simply
mails them to the Michelin factory
‘at Miiltown, New Jersey, sometime
between March Ist and March 25th.
The contest closes cn March 25th
[and names sent in after that date
will not be considered,
j Of course the would-be contestant
should first learn all he can about
Mlbhelin Tires and the Michelin Man I
before he starts cudgeling his brains
i for a name and phrase. To help
him the company has provided Mr.
Hustvedt, the local Michelin dealer, |
1 with circulars telling all about the
House of Michelin.
i Mr. Hustvedt, also has printed
postcard forms for use in sending
these offices be eliminated. As a
matter of fact in Winneshiek County
the County Nurse does not receive
any of her compensation from the
TAX LEVIES IN WINNESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA
Year
Winnesheik
County
lowa
General County
and State
Madison Township
Winneshiek County
Madison Township
School
Madison Twp. Roat
and Dragging
1906 1. 3. 18. 25.4 3.9 3.5
1907 4. 3.4 20.2 38.3 14.6* 3.5
1908 4. 3.5 20.3 / 28.5 4.6 3.5
1909 4. 3.4 • 20. 28.2 4.4 3.5
1910 4. 3.3 21. 29.3 4.8 3.5
1911 4. 3.3 22. 32.5 4. 4.5
1912 4, 3.4 22. 31.8 3.3 4.5
1913 4. 2.9 25. 44.9 15.4* 4.5
1914 4. 2.9 25. 45.4 15.9* 4.5
1916 6. 4.33 25. 37.5 .8.5 4.
1916 6. 4.33 25. 35.9 6.4 4.5
1917 6. 7.25 30. 40.1 5.6 4.5
1918 6. 6.25 29. 89.4 5.4 5.
1919 6. 7.35 -32. 48. 11. 5.
1920 6. 7.85 32. 60.5 22.* 6.5
1921 6 8.75 34. 65. 23.* 8.
♦lncreased by school house levy.
65 per cent townships now 8.
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DECORAH, WINNESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8,1922
CAR TOOLS ARRIVE
IN DECORAH
Drills, Cables, Etc. for Decorah Oil
and Gas Co. Arrived From
Texas Tuesday Night.
DRILLING CREW
Drillers Will Start Rigging Up Last
of Week on Bakke No. I,
Three Miles S. E. Decorah.
When the Rock Island freight ar
rived in Decorah last night it
brought in an important car load of
material from Texas for the Decorah
Oil & Gas Co. The car contains
about 40 loads of heavy drills, cables,
etc., and this stuff is being moved
rapidly out to where the derrick is
up on Bakke No. 1, about three miles
Southeast of Decorah. The car load
f material was switched to the
spurr at Trout Run and will be un
loaded there.
Several cars of casing are expected
here in a few days. The last of
this week the drillers will start rig
ging up the derrick. The crew is on
the way from Texas now, and within
the next week actual drilling oper
ations is expected to start.
Quite a number of inquiries are
coming in from outside the state
and considerable stock is being sold
to outside parties. Everything is
progressing smoothly and the hum
of the drills will soon be heard. As
the weather moderates and the roads
get better, big crowds will be rolling
out to Bakke No. 1 to see,the drills
in operation.
The above is a likeness of Mr.
John Sextpn one of Winneshiek’s
well known pioneers who passed
away Feb. 21, particulars of whose
death was printed in these columns
last week. He located on a farm in
Bluffton in 1870, and was one of the
sturdy and progressive citizens of
Winneshiek all these years.
A stubborn man soon gets on our
nerves—unless he happens to be on
our side of the argument.
names; and while it is not necessary j
to secure either the circulars or the |
contest cards, both will help the con- j
| testant in his efforts to annex; the
thousand dollars offered for the best i
name and slogan.
The Michelin contest is being ad-,
vertised all over the country in l
newspapers and such important pub
lications as the Saturday Evening
j Post, The Literary Digest, Life, and
so on. The Michelin Company be
lieves in the power of advertising!
through printer’s ink, as most ev
eryone knows.
county tax payers and the amount
that each tax payer pays toward the
support of the County Agent is so
small as to be insignificent.
ON WAY HERE
MR. JOHN SEXTON
DECORIANS PICNIC
IN CALIFORNIA
A. E. Kcuvon Writes Interesting
Letter and Sends Names ->t
W inneshiekers at Big
lowa-Calit'ornia
Picnic.
SAYS ORANGE AND
LEMON GROVES RUINED
Los Angeles Has Experienced the
Coldest Weather This Winter
in the Last Ten Years.
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 27, 1922.
Dear Friend:
I am going to write you a few
lines to tell you about the big lowa
picnic held here, and to let you know
that we are all well and hope these
few lines will find all of the De
corah folks well. The weather is
just fine now, as it has cleared up
again. For the last ten days it has
been raining and it sure can rain
| here, let me tell you. But it has
been a grand winter for the people
who come here to get rid of the
chilly blasts of lowa and Minnesota,
although they tell me that this *vin
;ter has been the coldest in ten years.
The orange and lemon crops are not
worth much. In some places they
are ruined and you people back their
will pay big prices for them. I
wish you were here to take a drive
through the groves.
Well, Jack I am sending you the
names of the Winneshiek
people my wife and I met at the
lowa Picnic. How I wish you might
have been there to see for yourself.
It doesn’t seem as though it could
be possible to see so many people in
one body, and that they wouldn’t be
missed from lowa at all. Just how
many wes''“there 1 don’t know, b'rt
you will see W> f «r.
The following Decorah and Win
neshiek county people were present
at the picnic:
Edward Ulen, Decorah
Mrs. Ida Grindeland, Decorah
Dan McKay, Frankville
Mrs. Emma Peck, He.-per
Nina Powers, Hesper
Emily Orn, Hesper
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kenyon. De
corah.
Rev. T. H. Hendricks, Ridgeway.
L. O. Eastman, Decorah.
Henry Ella Hegg, Decortih.^
Bertha Hogan, Decorah
Dr. Freguson, Calmar
Arthur F. Hull, Decorah
Mrs. Dan McKay, Frankville
Mrs. Margaret Rooney, Decorah
H. T. Hart, Ossian
Mr. ami Mrs. H. M. Kout, Ossian
Mary A. Cramer, Ossian
Francis Huber, Ossian
Ella Dorn, Ridgeway
Frank Christopher, Decorah
W. C. Bullard, Ossian
Edith B. Cde, Ossian
S. C. Brace, Burr Oak
Fred Patta, Burr Oak
Wm. F. GrufTe, Ossian
W. L. Bush, Castalia
N. E. Perry, Castalia
R. E. Oliver, Decorah
E. W. Hoyt, Decorah
Flora T. Strayer, Castalia
Mrs. W. W. Strayer, Postville
A. C. Baker, Decorah
Mrs. W. D. Hartsrugh, Decorah
F. E. Owen, Caistalia
Mr. and Mrs. John Seekatz, De
corah
Jennie W. Smith, Castalia.
Winnifred Reed Helgeson, Decorah
Lawrence W. Helgeson, Decorah
A. M. Ringheim, Decorah
Mr. and Mrs. A. Leytze, Decorah
Nellie Hazelton Wulif, Postville
Mr. and Mrs. G. It. Baker, Ridge
way
Mrs. May D. Dahl, Decorah
Anna E. Winger, Calmar
Mrs. C. J. Mills, Ossian
Mabel Milks, Ossian
Earl C. Mills, Ossian
Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Green, De
corah
Mrs. Guy Johnson, Decorah
Mrs. Kitty Haislet-Mapson, De
co rah
Mrs. Alma Kloster, Decorah
Mrs. Paul Egeland, Decorah
Palma Egeland, Decorah
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Schuck, De
corah
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mever. Ossian
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Waxier, Cas
talia
F. Ingvoldstad, Decorah
T. Cassey, Frankville
Lida Goddanl Kirschman, Jackson
Junction.
Clarence and wife an<l baby and
myself and wife went to the Great
Races of the World, to see ">O,OOO
people there, and the rain spoiled it,
so they had to call it off. We were
there Thanksgiving day, also. It
was sure a sight to see. It was a
250 mile race. Jack Dempsey show
ed here a week. I also went to see
him anti saw him box four rounds. |
I go to the ball games real often,
but it is too fast a city for me and
too large let me tell you, and too
much going on to suit me.
We live fourteen miles from the
(Continued on page seven)
A. S. OF EQUITY
PASS RESOLUTIONS
Big Mass Meeting of Farmers Held
at Court House. Pass Many
Resolutions in Meeting
on Feb. 25.
WOULD ABOLISH
MANY OFFICES
Farm Bloc Endorsed by Them. But
Many Other Offices Come
Under the Ban.
The mass meeting called for Feb.
25, 1922, by the Winn. Co. union of
! the A. S. of E. was very well at
tended as the large courtroom was
practically filled by wide awake men.
The meeting was tailed to order by
Phii Carolan, Pres, of the Winne
shiek Co. union of the A. S. of E.
The secretary was then requested to
read the call of the meeting which
read in part as follows.
In calling this meeting the board
of directors do not wish to give the
impression that we have anything to
dictate or any cut and dried formula
which we must all follow, but rather
for the purpose of hearing your
opinions expressed, that we may
know what line of work you would
think best to take up during this
year. Various subjects come up for
discussions at our several board
meetings. These I have endeavored
I to summarize, as a foundation for
our work here today. First, last, and
all the time we have of course the
subject of our ever increasing taxes
and if there might by any chance
be brought out any feasible plan by
means of which they may be re
duced we should feel that our ga
thering here today had not been in
vain.
We note that meetings of this
kind are being called all over the
state. This is as it should be. We
often hear the remark, that it won’t
cost us so much the state pays and
we may as well get our share. This
is all well and good, but if an each
cciuity of the state some reduction
!is made, be it ever so small, then
the sum total would certainly help
to materially reduce the taxes of
that same state, and after all, you
and I are the state.
Then there is the problem of roads
ami roadbuilding. We all know
what we are up against in roads
here in lowa. I believe you are all
agreed that some drastic measures
be taken, that the very annoying
state of our roads may be remedied.
At present it seems our state of
ficials are trying to work out a
system of roads and we feel
that we should be very careful
That they are not hampered in this
work by unjust criticism, let us bear
in mind that whatever criticism, is <
offered should at least be just and
fair, and above all, be constructive
rather than destructive. W'ith this
subject in mind we have requester!
that the chairman of the board of,
supervisors be present to verify or
correct any statement marie during
our discussions here today. Among
the farmers co-operative enterprises
we have first the farmers co-operat
ive creameries. This enterprise we
fee! is run in such a manner as to
i produce an almost unlimited amount
of rivalry and dissatisfaction and
we beneve it will continue to do so
while run under -he present system.
We propose that we immediately get
ui.ier j system whereby all the i
creameries of Winneshiek Co. can be i
consolidated under one head. We be
lieve that by this means thousands'
of dollars would be saved annually to
* the fanners of Winneshiek to say ;
I nothing of putting away the ever- (
' present cause of rivalary and dis
content. And while on the subject of
creameries and dairy products, Win-'
I neshiek Co. is unusually well fitted
for dairying purposes but we cer
tainly are not making the most of
our apportunities in this respect.
Few men can afford, for instance
the first cost of obtaining a full
blooded herd of animals or really
good cow’s. We would like to see a
centrally located co-operative pure
bred stock farm, where the best that
money could buy or careful select- 1
1 ion could produce, could be used
! whether it be a dairy or a beef type
that we wanted. One more co-oper
ative business which we have had
! called to our attention which >we
'might improve by getting together
1 and that is the various telephone
i lines w’ithin the country.
We do not flatter ourselves that we
can accomplish or even do more
than touch these numerous things, I
but start thinking about them, talk
them over in your local meetings.
If you haven’t any local meetings,
get together and have some anyway
and then please each one of you
*on’t you appoint yourself a com
mittee of one to see that you are an
A. No. I Co-operator every day of
this year.
Legislation is going to be mighty
slow at best at helping us. In fact
we feel pretty sure that we will
never arrive unless we go right ahead
and help ourselves each one of our
little committies working together for
our own advancement.
| We your committee on resolutious
beg leave to report.
These resolutions cover the more
important points of the discussions
|of the afternoon.
1. Be it resolved. That we mbi
demn and protest-against the S ;
| (Continued on page seven)
TWELVE PAGES
TALK WILL NOT
LOWER THE PRICES
President Pearson, of Ames. Say*
Question is Not tine of Mere
Talk, But Through Busi
ness lake Consider
ation of Taxation
Problems.
PROBLEM IS ONE FOR
COMMUNITIES TO SOLVE
Calls Attention to Fact That 90 Per
( out of Taxes Are Raised and
Expended in Counties
Where Levied.
Ames, low’a—Taxes should be
reduced in lowa, not thru oratory,
but thru the sensible, business-like
consideration of taxation problems
is the way President R. A. Pearson,
of lowa State College, puts the mat
ter in his addresses to fanners in
'many sections of the state.
It is altogether natural that lowa
farmers should be greatly interested
‘in reducing taxation and other fixed
charges against them, President
Pearson points out.
| “Costs of materials and services
I which the fanner must buy,” he
says, “are abnormally high, and
prices received for farm pioducts are
abnormally low. When the farmer
from his reduced income has paid
his taxes ami other fixed charges he
has very littile left for his usual
supplies and other expenses.”
Taxes should be reduced as much
as possible, President Pearson agrees
with those who urge reduction, but
he adds that it should be remember
ed that about 90 per cent of the
taxes are expended within the coun
ty where raised und under local
authority.
Question is Local
“Taxes should not be reduced as
the result of ail oration on the sub
ject” is the way President Pearson
puts it, “but after the whole question
has been carefully considered by rep
resentative and responsible people in
a community who well know how
taxes are collected ami what use is
made of the money. Suich a group is
best qualified to decide what can be
given up and what else can be post
poned. They will not overlook the
fact that in this age we are going
forward rapidly, and some taxes are
forced upon us and some others re
sult in savings and economies far in
excess of the tax cost. But in many
places tax reduction would be justi
fied and should be made.
In this connection sight must not be
lost of the importance of research
and education in the field of agricul
ture,’’ says President Pearson “These
activities are cornerstones on which
the success of agriculture rests. It
is necessary for the best methods .to
be developed in agriculture in the
United States if this country is to
compete with other countries in the
great foreign markets of the world.
And such competition has to be con--
sidered for the protection of about
two billion dollars worth of agri
cultural products being exported.
Strenuous efforts are being made in
other countries to improve methods
of food production in order to re
duce costs and already some coun
tries have tried to invade American
markets with agriculture products.
Agriculture in America will not yield
to such competitidn, for it is within
our ability to discover as many use
ful facts and apply our knowledge as
intelligently as can be done in any
other nation.”
Large Production Lowers Prices
Large production is responsible
to a considerable extent for low
prices for farm products, according
to President Pearson. “The area
planted in cereals in 1921,” he says,
“was about 10 per cent in excess of
the avearage before the war. Much
of the surplus wheat has been ex
ported to the great benefit of suffer
ing people in Europe. The corn
crops for each of the last two years
showed about 10 per cent increase
above normal. If fanners would
store this surplus which they do not
want to feed the situation would
improve rapidly. A way should be
found to help many of those who
are unable to hoid their com. If the
corn offered on the market could be
reduced to normal quantity by the
storage of the surplus we could ex
pect a quick response in market
value. With normal market values on
corn as compared with other articles
the farmers would quickly begin to
buy what they have been going with
out these many months. This in
turn would stimulate business and
soon the whole country would feel
the impulse of prosperity.
"An inducement for storing corn
comes in the fact that we must ex
pect poorer crop growing weather
this year or in the near future. We
can not hope for a continuation of
unusually good crop growing weather
i indefinitely. One year of unfavorable
weather would prove the value of
, having a quantity of corn in stor
age.” t
W’e probably say “the ghost
walks” on payday, because that is
the day our spirits rise.
Any doctor could have a big prac
tice if he would break down and
weep with every patient over the
latJ:er’s ills.
The unexpected has a way of hap
pening when you don’t expect it.
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