————— —— eT _— —-———. CITY MEN BADLY | NEEDED ON FARMS —— Shortage of Hired Labor Threat- ens to Curtail Production of Food. MEREDITH MAKES AN APPEAL increase of Wages From 15 to 25 Per cent Falls to Relieve Situation Total Acreage Undoubtedly Will Be Reduced. Washington—With a shortage of hired farin labor, as acute as in 1918, threatening to curtail food production on American farms, E. T. Meredith, gecretary of agriculture, has issued an appeal to city men, college students and others to spend their vacations | working on farms, particularly as | helpers in harvest fields. Reports secured partment from its practically every state in the Union| show that the supply of hired form labor in this country Is only about 72 per cent of the normal supply, com-| pared with ap prasintately 54 per cent| of a normal supply a year ago. This year's shortage ie almost exactly the same as that of two years ago when large numbers of men were in military service. —————————" May Cut Production. The present shortage has arisen in spite of the fact that farm wages are 15 to 25 per cent higher than last year. The situation, unremedied, can- not fail to have nafavorable effect on production, according to the United States department of agriculture, will tend to prevent any reduction In the prices of farm Whil le the total acreage nu: reduced as & resu ation, i§ will tion as the reduction ply. the amilies exe overe by the federal de- representatives in | {yy The U. 8S. lowa, of the late a Wb” Evans, powerful wireless apparatus [nvented ebout thirty years old und is appeal it is outset at le as experienced excellent results secu when city the leave no doubt as to the success of the present drive if men willy respond. Plan to Help Farmers, United States departn hy recogni’ { . ust, such labor Is not tut rm {nbor, the reel In men In large ninnhers ded farmers, and ent of The gricult products. ydoubt edly of the present situ- wns ure "oat t nat i represented he meeting of the Nation held in Kan office of fara Hobs "arm Lal «as City recently nference and the not be in as larg nog 1 J or in the | because are Ie utmost to Cultiva tensive he 1 farmers tion this than will be More nd such otl en and summer h fness m students 11.%¢ . sly idays hel; pre emt xl bat Discovers Way to Balk Idiocy Surgeon Perfects New Method of Treating Tumor of the Hu- man Brain. SAVES SCORES OF PERSONS uation Discovery Is Result of Long Series of Animals—Locates bstructions Experiments on and Every T 1 col Tumors rit s ii 1 is i Trials 8c Far Successful. was discover ill effects ¢ to described Doctor mtient was operated oa half es for a tumor of the 1 rain Doctor yas . 4 CHR without success 150d the resu {i a long ries of experi- | yig process and located the tumor ments on wedd from Fluid That Feeds the Brain, In each he brain there is a large ventricle or chamber wiing with an elaborate «vstem of channels filled with a fluid pro- duce-l apparently by one of the glands and delivered to brain through the spine. This fluld passes slowly to fis rem not considered by diangnosticians A photograph of the patient prior to the ation showed a face with sag- ging lines and the vacant’ stare of Im beeility,. A photograph a few months after the operation showed a man ap- parently in full possession of his senses, point ians hemisphere of ape i CONN 1 the |B THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. KNUT'S GOLDEN ROAD NCE upon a time there lived a 0 princess whose father ruled over na very wild and strange country, for the people knew nothing of which Jiave In {ne cloth, but had {| men had never learned to tan | 80 all, even royal family, | about Of i der feet | ter made But these | walked, ut | miles | herd { He tiful castle dressed They shoes, we use, no the went barefooted. course, the of the her clogs stones hurt the ten- princess, or heavy wooden were so she in the about awny mountains wis Knut, who d young for ried skins for sorts of them boy, dyed the wool all colors and sold a very k of a huge fall, its movements directed hy Hays Hammond. fowa Is a fighting machine, will be inouglits, Folin The the names of inty in thelr respec ut need farm labor. By help mmuni- CNE DRINK JAILS BRIDES ROOM Brookiyn Judge Lets Him Geo to Try to Square Things With His Wife.to.Be, | Bhow curled up y i a AS f floor of aine rai ¥ aie the arked square may or Kios. fusssassnnsisassusussnsnnush King Alfonso Was Fined for Walking on Grass ” ng one y ember lowed] the arid like tie nl The firs LE that at i ASA week one For feela g wi da ta ds parts he four He I hin« soeck. tree, day no v offense was when a guar “Your gtom. * 1 proached and ot's matter, ms 5 of Ro. "A wr} so mooch he Dat guy eem go got. My lectle inst tions eo syxish. heem somating and telia ta filled en druga geevn look and only plece paper weeth somating wot he can read. He tink dat plece paper no haolda ver mooch, =0 he aska da phy- sigh wot he gonna getta filled weeth, Da physish tells scripsh, but he no say ing mean. Anyway, my id the i ti store was mayor of the the the called at palace to the told him acted properly for Ater town and apol- King, but his the guardian and devotion on ogized majesty had be rewarded duty. should heem was fo wot's da writ. ah BA EE A AE AE AAA EEEE ESE SS Ee NEE —— pox of leetle pill and dolla feefaty FP ——————— | cent to boot. He taka dat pill for tree, | but he keepa right on feela tough. He | wot's matter weeth do stom. | fay he go | uy almosta gotta hees goat. | ny frien upaside down and punch een ia back so harda he can, no een da back and dat only plave he gotta trouble ees da stom. chiroprac no care for dat. when ees upaside down. Now 1 no tink ces right for do dat. feof he wanta fight wot for he no tella my frien een da face? 1 feegure any- body wot puncha one een da back ees fraid for fights square, But my frien say nexa time he go sce dat chiroprae he telln heem he gotta da palin een da back, He feegure al [4% heem eon da stom, My frien (“yv eel tan do dat, too. Wot you tink? irgined down And weeks before n from some wood into it had fallen bit of sheepskin, there it had lain undisturbed, picked it up. It ut nll like the fresh skin, He patted and dried and smoothed ving first the with hot water and skin with a and pliant, sand he some and Hg was smooth ha washed off side skin, woolly sweet till It was soft him In the damp print of his foot. “1 will minke a of saw for covering this skin,” have the foot “I will having That Went wool turned first dyed it a keen her feet warm from hurting her in will wear against nd stones.” will rocks 1iitside ek wool a lively his bone The Was on Ax the shoes, ther, a { AGNES AYRES Bb POOOPOOOOP OP ONOPOIOIOPOIOOI OOOO OY Miss Agnes myres, visited one of the big prank more than anything else. accepted an invitation to appear in a scene which was being staged. Later she was made a handsome offer to ap- pear in pictures. She was studying medicine at the time but decided t abandon that for the movies, and to. day, some years che is a star in her own right a Chicago city stu dios iater BEAUTIFYING THE EYES FORM. Tired Eyes Can Be Rested by Massage. uminous glow that an intelligent mind eyes—these are things in making the out steady, when the woman herself can do, herself attractive. A few ———— women, actresses usually, &. pil CROSBY'S KIDS BIAS IMAL AISI 5 THAT NOISE HOW XIN | HEARS THE S7iNG, ND Wal (Copyright) SPECS. need ‘em tv have you it? But an sche would read. to take sour front splece, 1 to cease 3 firet help at ait res when he And tried The small ut Do And sent arged you seven U to the specs man, Travitiven far ou felt & her, and prod ading you couldn't for re first bese ving reconciled to wear * = 0» You Know It! The fountain of perpetual youth can never be found by a man or woman without a tooth. brush as a guide. . * » Where He Was. “Where i& your oldest brother, Wii ‘em “He is away taking his entrance “Oh! “No. He's starting to college?” To the Insane asylum.” mss Pro — ainsi asi — Rh" What the Sphinx Says. By Newton Newkirk. “One thing that money cannot buy, nor money réeplace—a true friend.” -> ( J
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