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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1921
Page
4
The text critiques unemployment, noting a former friend sought corn huskers but found none. It recounts idle men near a railroad who refused work, urging less spending on armaments. It questions public effort to support bread lines and stresses broader reform in employment policy. It reflects local sentiment on war expenditure and social welfare.
President Harding calls a major International conference in Washington to discuss reducing armament. Despite disagreements on other topics, there is broad public support for cutting military expense as a key national burden. The gathering is expected to draw global attention as talks proceed.
The origins of Alabama trace to De Soto in 1540 with later French Fort St. Louis on Mobile Bay and Mobile founded in 1709. The area shifted among France England and Spain, becoming part of the United States in 1819 as the twenty second state. The meaning of Alabama is disputed though linked to a local Indian tribe and the phrase Here we rest. The state is also called the Plantation State and spans about 51 998 square miles.
The Railway Brotherhoods call for a general strike around October 30. Public opinion expresses little sympathy for the move, noting the burden on people and the railroads. The piece argues for settlement and a joint approach to avoid harm to rail transportation and to encourage alternative transport.
The Plain Truth About Iowa reports that in 1920 Iowa produced one fifteenth of the nation’s farm product value, totaling 1 258 201 000 dollars, topping a list that includes Texas Missouri Kansas New York Ohio Pennsylvania Wisconsin Indiana Nebraska and California. Iowa averaged 5 809 dollars per farm across 213 312 farms, a level surpassed only by Nevada and Wyoming in livestock rich states.
At the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation executive meeting in Des Moines on October 11-12 the cost-of-production and cost-accounting project begun in 1920 was unanimously approved for continuation. It is among the federation’s costliest programs but judged worth the expense due to valuable results. Town federation officials reporting to Washington before interstate commerce hearings carried two years of figures, presenting accurate data that was said to be a first for the records of that body.
An Iowa effort to unite churches from small crossroads to big cathedrals on October 30th as Not Over Sunday. Special speakers and college volunteers will deliver anti liquor messages. over 800 churches report participation as World Prohibition Sunday runs concurrently.
Walter Breen writes from Glenwood Iowa urging the Mills County Board of Education and Board of Supervisors to cut county and school expenses to halve 1922 taxes. He cites large farm real estate indebtedness over 5 million and notes bank deposits and loans figures from 1919 era, warning that high taxes threaten land values and loan capacity. He offers to supply mortgage lists over 500 dollars from July 1919.
President Pearson of Iowa State College argues a full recovery requires addressing farmers alongside industry. He notes farmers supply 40 percent of national buying power, currently paralyzed by low farm prices, leading to reduced purchasing and plant closures, worsening unemployment and business malaise.
Des Moines Iowa October 13 the first Iowa corn gift for the Near East Relief Christmas Ship to Armenia is a carload of No 2 white corn donated by Montgomery county farmers and turned in to Claus Anderson county chairman. The corn is at Stanton awaiting mill transfer and must be received before November 1 to reach the ship. The ship will land at Batum on the Black Sea.
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