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...Alexandre Dumas Fils, "La Dame aux Camelias" is not only an excellent moving picture, but it affords American audiences an opportunity of seeing the lovely Yvonne Printempts in her native element. It may be the last such opportunity, for Miss Printemps is soon to walk among the alien corn of Hollywood, and what sort of screen vehicles her mentors there will give her, none can tell...
...hands, brown faces and shaved necks climbed down from the Pullmans, filed into the Department to wait for Secretary Wallace, the Great White Father of Agriculture, to come to work. Soon the capital was swarming with cotton planters from Texas, wheat growers from Kansas, North Carolina tobacco men, Iowa corn-hoggers. For with their benefit checks in jeopardy, the farmers had rallied to Cliff Day's convention with a will...
...planning" and a South Carolinian had pledged "we have come to praise and not to condemn" when the nation's No. 1 Farmer stood up to address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore Roosevelt." Recovering the fumble, the Secretary of Agriculture blushingly explained that "in 1912 I was a Bull Mooser myself." Any forensic slip the Secretary might have made was forgotten when he began assailing "the big boys who want to take away...
Jerusalem Artichokes are sunflowers which have a starchy, tuberous root. They flourish in semi-arid regions. Like yams in Southern States, corn in Prairie States, barley in Northern States, potatoes in Idaho and Maine, sugar beets in the West, sorghum in the South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can be turned into alcohol. If produced on a large scale such alcohol could be produced for from 7 to 10? a gallon, figured Dr. Leo Martin Christensen of Iowa State College. At that price it is cheap enough to mix with gasoline as a motor fuel, especially if any need...
...CRIME IN CORN WEATHER-Mary M. Atwater-Hought on Mifflin ($2). When old man Breen was killed no one mourned, many had cause to be glad. The little Iowa town's biggest excitement in years made a countywide field-day, but defeated its purpose. A beautifully subtle description of townsfolk, of why murder was done and why neither police nor press knew...