Bellefonte, Pa., July 13, 1928.
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THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
(Continued from page 2, Col. 6.)
ister monopolies formed for the pur-
pose of wringing from the necessaries
of life an unrighteous profit. These
combinations are often formed and
conducted in violation of law, encour-
aged, aided and abetted in their ac-
tivities by a Republican administra-
tion, and are driving all small trades
peoples and small industrialists out
of business. Competition is one of
the most sacred, cherished and eco-
nomic rights of the American people.
We demand the strict enforcement of
the anti-trust laws and the enactment
of other laws, if necessary, to control
this great menace to trade and com-
merce, and thus to preserve the right
of the small merchant and manufac-
turer to earn a ligitimate profit from
his business. .
Dishonest business should be treat-
ed without incluence at the National
Capitol. Honest business, no matter
what its size, need have no fears of
a Democratic Administration. The
Democratic party will over oppose il-
legitimate and dishonest business. It
will foster, promote and encourage
all legitimate business enterprises.
CANAL ZONE. :
. ‘We favor the employment of Amer-
jcan citizens in the operation and
maintenance of the Panama Canal in
all positions above the grade of mes-
senger, and favor as liberal wages
and conditions of employment as pre-
ailed under previous Democratic ad-
ministrations.
. ALASKA-HAWAIL
We favor the development of Alas-
ka and Hawaii in the traditional
American way, through self-govern-
ment, We favor the appointments of
only bonafide residents to office in the
territories. We favor the extension
and improvement of the mail, air
mail, telegraph and radio, agricultur-
. experimenting, highway construc-
tion and other necessary Federal ac-
tivities in the territories.
Ce PHILIPPINES.
The Filipino. people have succeeded
in: maintaining a stable government
and have thus fulfilled the only con-
dition laid down by the Congress as
a prerequisite to the granting of in-
dependence. We declare that it is
now our liberty and our duty to keep
our promise to these people by grant-
ing them immediately the independ-
ence which they so honorably covet.
PORTO RICO.
‘We favor granting to Porto Rico
such territorial form of government
as would meet the present economic
conditions of the island, and provide
for the aspirations of her people, with
the view to ultimate statehood, ac-
corded to all territories of the United
States since the beginning of our
Government, and we believe any of-
ficials appointed to administer the
government of such territories should
be qualified by previous bonafide resi-
dence therein.
PUBLIC HEALTH.
The Democratic Party recognizes
that not only the productive wealth
of the nation, but its contentment
and happiness, depends upon the
health of its citizens. It therefore
pledges itself to enlarge the existing
Bureau of Public Health and to do
all things possible to stamp out com-
municable and contagious diseases
and to ascertain preventable means
and remedies for those diseases, such
as cancel, infantile paralysis and
others, which heretofore have large-
ly defied the skill of physicians.
We pledge our: party to spare no
means to lift the apprehension of
diseases from the minds of our peo-
i and to appropriate all moneys
necessary thereto to carry out this
pledge.
FLOOD CONTROL.
- Being deeply impressed by the
terrible disasters from floods in the
Mississippi Valley during 1927, we
heartily endorse the Flood Control
Act of last May, which recognizes
that the flood waters of the Mississip-
pi River and its tributaries constitute
a national problem of the gravest
character, and makes provision for
some speedy and effective control,
This measure is a continuation and
expansion of the policy established
by a Democratic Congress in 1917,
in the act of that year for controlling
floods on the Mississippi and Sacra-
mento rivers. It is a great piece of
constructive legislation, and we
pledge our party to its vigorous and
early enforcement.
Wash Your Fruits.
Only the scientists on the outer
picket line, the farmers and garden-
ers in the front trenches know the
severity of the warfare that the
human race is waging against the
insects that threaten the health and
wealth of man and also his food
supply, declares Ernest S. Clowes
in “Hygeia.” :
This fight against the insect
world is carried on by chemical war-
fare, poisonous solids, liquids, and
gases in huge quantities being used,
so that there is some danger of the
consumers being damaged in health
if not killed outright by the very
weéapons intended to protect them
from their enemies.
Unfortunately the insect does not
eat all the poison that is sprayed
on the fruit or vegetable. If the
remainder is removed before the
product is eaten there is no danger
to man. Of course it takes so much
more poison to kill a man than an
insect that the small amount con-
sumed in eating one apple or tomato
is negligible. However, if the dose is
repeated daily for years, it may be
another story. This is epecially true
because the poison most used, arsenic
and lead, are poisons which the body
cannot get rid of.
The remedy lies in washing care-
fully fruits and vegetables, since the
use of these poisons cannot be elim-
inated.
FARM NOTES.
Roosts or perches should be placed
in the brooder houses by the time
the birds are four weeks old. Pullets
that are not crowded and are roost-
ing early thrive better and will make’
better growth.
The farmer who applies timely and
thorough sprays consistently through-
out the season is the one who har-
vests a profitable crop. Quality pro-
ducts pay the best.
New fields of alfalfa should not be
pastured. If the alfalfa has been
seeded alone and the weeds become
numerous, the field can be cut high
when the alfalfa plants are just com-
ing into bloom. Do not cut the alfalfa
if there are only a few weeds.
If high production is to be main-
tained during the summer months the
flock must consume large quantities
of laying mash and be culled regular-
ly every two weeks, Penn State poul-
try specialists say.
If you have good prospects for a
ton litter and have not placed the lit-
ter in nomination get in touch with
the county agent at once. June 30
is the final date for enrolling your
porkers this year. Help keep: Penn-
sylvania first in ton litters by grow-
ing one ycurself this year.
Small patches of quack grass can
be kilied by covering with roofing pa-
per or by hoeing every time green
spears of the grass appear. If pa-
per is used weight it down with
stones or other heavy objects to pre-
vent the wind blowing it off. ;
Birds in general are useful as well
as beautiful. Without birds to keep
the insect pests in check it would be
more difficult to grow food. They al-
so eat many weed seeds and so give
a better chance for the planted seeds.
The biological survey finds, however,
that some birds are not beneficial and
this branch of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture studies the
birds in order to be able to inform
farmers and legislators as to their
comparative merits.
As a general rule, the birds that
eat largely of insect foods—for ex-
ample, the wren and the nighthawk—
are particularly valuable. On the oth-
er hand, the gray gorsheak and the
briliantly colored painted bunting are
valuable because they depend for a
great part of their food on trouble-
some weeds, such as the foxtail and
pigeon grass seeds.
The barn owl, like other owls, com-
monly is shot on sight, but ought not
to be, for it is one of the most serv-
iceable birds in destroying small ro-
dents, particularly the pocket gophers
in the West. For its size, the house
wren is one of the most effective bird
enemies of the insects. Wrens usual-
ly rear two broods of young each year
and the parents keep busy from
morning to night bringing food for
the hungry young. The wren’s diet
is almost exclusively animal, and a
pair of wrens will account for an
enormous number of insects in a sea-
son.
The boat-tailed grackle is one of
the few birds that do more damage
than good. It is fond of corn in al:
stages, from the first ears to the rip-
ened grain, destroys much rice, and
gets most of its animal food from the
small marine animals along the sea
shore.
America’s great holiday bird is get-
ting ready to strut again in the Mid-
dle West just as his proud ancestor
did years ago, The wild gobbler was ,
once monarch of the feathered family :
in the woods that stretched up and
down the Mississippi valley. As he
disappeared from the timber, turkeys
were brought into the barnyard and
an attempt was made to tame them
so they could be handled as chickens |
are today. :
But disease drove them out. Then
came the apparently erroneous theory
that turkeys were delicate and could
not be raised successfully unless they
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Growth of Children Can’t Compare
With That of the Lower Animals.
Mothers. who are appalled at the
bean-stalk speed with which children
i seem to grow out of their clothes can
{be thankful that little boys do not
sprout up as fast as rabbits, cows
and guinea pigs.
Charts comparing the growth of
i children with that of animals have
been worked out by Dr. Samuel Brody
| of the Missouri agricultural experi-
ment station. Reporting his resuits
in Science Magazine, Doctor Brody
were given an open range where they ¢hows that a child between four and
could get plently of exercise and catch
grasshoppers and bugs. That theory
has been disproved.
It is now known that turkeys can
be successfully raised in close con-
fourteen years of age grows at the
rate of only 10 per cent a year. Re-
| duced to days, this means that in less
| than four days the young animal
gains as much as the child gains in a
finement. This may clinge the entire ' vo...
system so that in the future the lay- |
ing, brooding and marketing season
can be greatly lengthened. Turkeys
may eventually be produced almost
the year around an8l be brought in
fresh from the farm every month in
the year. Instead of turkey raisers
marketing practically all of their sur-
plus birds at Thanksgiving and
at Christmas holiday seasons, as they
do at the present time, they will be
able to furnish fresh ones winter and
summer.
The production of squab turkeys,
weighing from eight to ten pounds,
on a year around basis may be de-
veloped in the future. It is at least
made possible through the use of ar-
tificial incubators and brooders and
the development of the confinement
method of handling the birds. Breed-
ers will have to change the laying
habits of the turkey hen just as the
poultrymen did with the chicken hen.
. Farm machinery will deteriorate if
it is left in the “great out-of-doors.”
If it is properly housed, however, its
life will be practically doubled.
An implement shed either 16 or 24
feet wide will give proper protection
to the farm machinery. The narrower
width will accomodate one row of ma-
chines; the wider one will provide
space for two rows.
If a pitched roof is placed over the
shed, space directly under it can be
utilized for storing light instruments
if a board floor is first laid over the
cross beams.
By placing a six-inch concrete floor
under the shed, the farmer can elimi-
nate much of the difficulty of moving
heavy machinery, such as tractors,
hay loaders, or binders.
The shed can be made practically
fireproof by the use of concrete ma-
sonry walls, and cement-asbestos for
roofing.
Permanent pastures produce profits
and prosperity.
Best results are obtained from lime
that is applied in the fall.
Trapping rats is effective, and both
poisoning and trapping methods
should be used.
The juvenile period in man spreads
| over an enormously long period of
time compared with that in domestic
animals Doctor Brody states.
Children who have not grown fast
between four and twelve years often
shoot up rapidly between twelve and
fifteen. This appears to be in the na-
ture of compensatory growth for an
earlier deficiency, Dector Brody con-
cludes. Children who have grown
not seem to have this acceleration in
their teens.
As It is in China.
The China Christian Advocate re-
ports this incident from the recent
session of the Eastern Asia Central
Conference at Shanghai:
A very audible “smile” went
through one corner of the room, fol-
lowing the passage of a resolution
that “when the time comes, the bish-
ops from America shall be gradually
eliminated.” A delegate suggested
that “withdrawn” would be a word
sounding better and meaning the
same thing. It was substituted. A
question arose as to the Chinese
phrase used. This proved to be a
close translation of “eliminated.” A
Chinese scholar suggested another
phrase and then one delegate laughed
aloud. When asked the reason he re-
plied, “In place of ‘eliminated’ they
are going to subsitute ‘annihilated.’ ”
No More 3% Tax on Autos.
Through the concerted efforts at
the National Headquarters in Wash-
ington, D. C., the American Automo-
bile Association has finally won its
battle against the 3% excise tax on
all pleasure cars. This means 3% less
on the rice of your car right now,
or a refund if the car was in stock,
in transit, or in process of sale when
the act was repealed May 29, 1928.
The buying public will be saved
$1,100,000,000 by the repeal of this
act, which included tax on tires, parts,
accessories, and new cars.
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6—Gentle; suave
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10—A pace
12—Clouded with dust
14—Pocketbook
16—An American humorist
18—Wagon for moving goods
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26—Neuter possessive pronoun
26—Astonish
28—Fill with joy
29—Where cakes are baked
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