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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
President Hints at Veto if
Moderation Isn’t Shown
in Tax Reduction.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
AODERATION in tax reduction is
M still insisted on by President
Coolidge, and unless the revenue bill
passed by the house is so amended
that the total cut shall be not far from
the $225,000,000 recommended by the
administration it may be vetoed. That
was the construction placed on the
President's remarks at the semi-an-
nual budget meeting of government
officials. In part he said:
“I have expressed myself in favor
of further moderate tax reduction. I
have indicated the maximum reduction
we can now afford. There was no
partisan thought in that recommenda-
tion. 1 hope there will be none in its
final consideration by the congress.
“We should not depart from the
wise policy established, and thus far
rigidly followed, of keeping our ex:
penses within our receipts. That 1 had
in mind in making my recommenda-
tion. It has made a rich contribution
to the splendid financial status of the
country. It has enabled us to hire
money at a lower rate than any other
business in the world. It has been
effective in the maintenance of pros-
perity. It has the hearty indorsement
of the taxpayers,
“That policy of a balanced budget
—expenditures within receipts—must
not be molested. It must not be en-
dungered.”
Fontan closely the recom
mendations of the President, the
army appropriation bill was reported
favorably by the house appropriations
committee, The measure carries a
total of nearly $400,000,000, the largest
gince the war-time expansion period,
and is more liberal than last year's
bill in providing funds for the pur
chase and testing of new weapons and
for motorized equipment. It does not,
however, provide much for the build-
ing up of the depleted ammunition re
serves, The alr corps gets $4,432.068,
the National Guard $1,720,144, and the
organized reserves and R. O. T. C.
about £000,000,
OVERNMENT ownership and op-
eration of the merchant marine
will be continued if the senate has its
way. That body, by a vote of 53 to
81, passed the Jones bill despite the
opposition of the President. Nineteen
Republicans Joined with Democrats
and the Farmer-Labor Senator in sup-
port of the measure, while 24 Repub-
licans and eight Democrats voted
against it. The Republicans favoring
the bill included not only the radicals
but a number of senators ordinarily
classed as regulars, such as Jones,
Willis, Robinson, Gooding and Schall
The feature of the bill which is re
garded as the most objectionable to
I'resident Coolidge is a clause which
prohibits the sale of ships except by
# unanimous vote of the shipping
board. Another provision which goes
counter to the Coolidge policies rec-
ognizes the necessity for the replace-
ment of present vessels and the con-
struction of additional up-to-date car-
gv, combination cargo and passenger,
and passenger ships and authorizes
the shipping board to submit estimates
to congress for this purpose. The
President is against the expenditure
ef any government funds in the con.
struction of any new ships,
Though the bill will have strong
support in the house, its passage there
is regarded us doubtful. Should it get
through in its present form it Is like
ly to be vetoed by the resident,
am
WO projected loans to Soviet Rus
sin, totaling $70,000,000, were hurd
hit by the State department when this
stutenent was Issued :
“The depurtinent objects to finan
celal arrangements involving the feta:
tion of un loan in the United States or
of the empolyment of credit for the
purpose of making an advance to the
Soviet regime. The department does
not approve in any the sale of
Soviet bonds here.”
Percival Farquhar already had nego
tiated a six-year credit of $40,000,000
for the construction and equipment of
immense steel works; and the Chase
National bank of New York and the
Amalgamated bank of Chicago had
planned tor act as agents for payments
of interest and retirement charges on
a bond issue of $30,000,000 which was
to be disposed of by the Soviet govern:
ment by private sale to Americans,
way
Vy La G. McADOO projected
himself into the political situa
tion again with a rousing attack on
the Présidential eandidacy of Gov. Al
Smith—or, indeed, of any wet. Ad
dressing a law enforcement ineeting
in Richmond, Va., Smith's old rival for
the Democratic nomination flatly con
tradicted some of the governor's re
cent statements, declared the
interests” had captured political pow-
er both in New York and in Maryland,
and argued that to expect prohibition
enforcement from a President hostile
to prohibition was “upon its face an
absurdity.” He said the issue was one
that must be fought “to a conclusion™
in the campaign of 1028.
The speaker suggested, among other
things, that the federal government
give financial aid to the states in pro
hibition enforcement, somewhat after
the manner of the federal ald system
by which states now are assisted in
road building.
Senator Jim Reed's headquartere in
Washington and New York are becom
ing very busy places, and the senator
is to make a speaking tour of the
South and West. The Smith boosters
hope Reed will gather in a lot of
delegates, for they expect all his votes
will be turned over to Al before the
contest is decided In the convention.
Managers of Lowden and Hoover,
still the leading possibilities for the
Republican nomination, are displaying
immense activity in the states that
have no favorite sons, Senator Curtis
is developing considerable strength
and it seems likely he will have quite
a block of votes when the Kansas City
convention opens.
—
EPRESENTATWE J. B. ASWELL
of Louisiana, ranking Democratic
member of the house committee on
agriculture, may have solved the
troubles of congress in the matter of
farm relief legisiation, for the surplus
control bill he introduced recently Is
looked on with favor as a compromise
that might be agreed upon by the ad-
ministration leaders and the support-
ers of the McNary-Haugen bill. Of
course In that case it would be re-
drafted and introduced by some Re
publican. While it accepts the struc.
ture and general machinery of the
MeNary-Haugen bill, the Aswell plan
eliminates the equalization fee, held
by the administration to be unconsti-
tutional.
“In lieu of this federal tax on the
producers,” the author explains, “we
provide for the payment from the
treasury through a revolving fund of
losses, costs and charges arising Wn
der marketing agreements; the re
volving fund to receive the profits from
the sale of commodities. A total ap-
propriation of $400,000000 is author.
ized for the revolving fund, but only
$250,000,000 of this sum Is made avail.
able for such payments. The remain-
ing $150,000,000 is for loans to co-op-
erative marketing associations, where-
as in the McNary-Haugen bill the en-
tire $400,000,000 is available for loans
and the producers are liable to assess
ments for handling their crops.”
The only other material variation
in the Aswell bill gives the proposed
farth hoard power to control produc.
tion by refusing .to commences” mar:
keting period or by terminating any
existing period for a commodity that
has been substantially increased
nguinst the advice and program of the
board or "above the Immediately pre
ceding fiveyenr average,
N FEBRUARY 6, the sesquicen-
tenniul anniversary of the firet
treaty between the United States and
Frunce, the new treaty of arbitration
wis signed by those nations. It is a
substitute for the Root arbitration
trenty, und it8% preamble contains a
decluration agninst war us an instru
ment of national policy. Under the
pact, should a controversy arise be:
tween France and the United States
“liquor
that fails of diplomatic treatment, the
arbitration formula must be subject
to the approval of the American sen-
ate. In addition, the agreement bars
from arbitration any disputes concern-
ing purely domestic affairs, those in-
volving the interests of a third party,
or the Monroe doctrine.
JOREIGN MINISTER STRESE-
MANN of Germany, whose recent
iliness led to predictions of his retire-
two rousing speeches before the reich
stag. In the first he set forth all that
Germany has done for the solution
of the security problem, declaring no
other state has done more or as much,
and branded the French fears as
hypocrisy. He sald the German army
was too small even to defend the coun
try's own borders and demanded the
evacuation of the
its military occupation
greatest obstacles to a real Franco
German rapprochement.” Next day
Herr Stresemann, replying to National
ist critics, reasserted his resolve to
adhere to the Locarno policy, and then
again appealed to France to “ralse
the iron curtain in the Rhineland” in
order that Germany and France may
work together for world peace.
Foreign Minister Briand of France
replied by saying that If Germany
wished to hurry up the evacuation she
must pay the reparations more
swiftly.
5kAR UNDERWOOD, member of
the United States delegation In
the Pan-American conference in Ha-
vana, says the doings of that confer
ence will greatly improve the relations
of this country with Latin America.
One of Its chief achievements, he
thinks, will be the adoption of the
Pan-American aviation treaty.
The committee on Pan-American
union affairs adopted the Mexican
plan permitting each nation to name
anyone it wished as Its representative
on the governing board, but decisively
rejected Mexico's suggestion that the
chairmanship of that board be given
each republic in turn.
—
LYING about 750 miles, much of
the time over unexplored mountain
and jungle country, Colonel Lindbergh
in the Spirit of St. Louls made the
trip from Bogota to Maracay field,
near Caracas, in a little more than
ten hours and was warmly welcomed
by President Gomez of Venezuela and
a great crowd. The ambassador of
good will was delayed by losing his
way in a fog, but as always he arrived
safely. In Caracas the customary
honors were heaped on the young man
and then, on Wednesday he hopped off
again for a thousand-mile Right to the
Virgin islands. He followed the great
curve of the Antilles, passing over
those beautiful islands one after an-
other, and in 10 hours and 15 minutes
made a beautiful landing on Lindbergh
field, St. Thomas. Capt. Waldo Evans,
governor of the islands, met him and
they led a great procession through®
the city of Charlotte Amalie, the en-
tire population taking part. Thursday
Colonel Lindbergh flew to Porto Rico.
ARL DOUGLAS HAIG, Great Brit.
ain's most famous soldier in the
World war, died quite suddenly at his
sister's home in London, and the na-
tion was plunged in mourning for the
mighty warrior who, all his life a
soldier, had risen to be field marshal,
commander in chief of the British
armies in France, Knight of the This
tle and peer of the realm. There was
a state funeral for Sir Douglas in St
Paul's and his body was buried st
Demersy de.
Vicente Blasco Ibanez, the eminent
Spanish ndvelist who died in ®xile in
France, left instructions in his will
that he be not buried in Spain, so he
was interred at Mentone; but earth
brought from Valencia, Spain, was
sprinkled in his coffin and his body
was wrapped in a copy of the banner
carried by El Cid Cimpdador, Spain's
national hero,
LAMES swept through the busi
nees and industrial districts of Fall
ftiver, Mass, Thursday night, and be
fore the conflagration was checked an
area of five blocks had been devas
tated. More than twenty-five balld
Ings were destroyed and the property
loss was estimated as high as $35,
000,000,
| Lice and Mites
Hurt Egg Yield
These Two Poultry Par ig
Require Different Trea
ment to Kill.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Poultry parasites are of many kinds,
Sometimes they multiply until they
kill the fowls on which they prey.
ut in the opinion of entomologists of
the United States Department of Agri
culture parasites do even greater in
Jury to the Industry by the
vitality, stunting the and
checking the egg yield of fowls, Lice
und mites are the most frequent and
widespread groups of eternal para
sites, and these two require entirely
different methods of treatment to rid
the fowls of their attacks, becuuse the
two live under different conditions,
The lice exist on the fowls, and the
mites live In cracks and crevices in
nests and roosts.
Eradicating Lice.
For eradicating lice the
ment of Agriculture recommends
{| plication of sodium fluoride, It kills
| all varieties of lice—body, head, and
| feather. This chemical may be applied
by dusting or by dipping. Either the
“chemically pure” or the “commercial”
grades may be used. but the latter is
cheaper and more easily obtained.
Young chicks require very little, and
reducing
growth,
Depart-
np
Hee on a flock of
{ 100 chickens Dipping the fowls Is
still easier and cheaper, but it Is not
A single treatment of every
by either the dusting or dipping
will completely eradicate all
Destroying Mites.
the procedure is utterly
Mites not live the
but come out and suck
the fowls are
First the poultry house must
cleaned
For mites
do on
thoroughly. Trash, nest
should be taken out
and burned. Then go over the whole
thoroughly with crude petrole
carbolineum, using either a
um or
Petroleum ig cheaper but the
ter and lasts longer. Paint the roosts
The
the
crack
before
work into every
killer should dry
go to roost,
There are other fowl parasites, such
as the scaly leg mites, blue bugs, bed-
and chiggers, each of
which cause much loss; these
pests, are not so generally
distributed as are the lice and mites
This general distribution over the en-
tire United States and the pernicious
attacks of mites and lice make these
two groups | of outstanding Importance
fleas,
may
however,
Roup Usually Starts as
common troubles with
in the fall and winter Ix a
known as roup. UW usually
as a cold with a watery dis
charge from the eyes or nostrils, In
this form, it Is commonly called a
cold. The trouble may be nothing
more than a cold, In which case it will
soon clear up and disappear.
If, however, roup is really present,
the eyes—one or both—will swell and
will be filled with a heavy mucus
which may even be so thick it is
cheesy. The bird will stand hunched
up and will have* no desire to do any-
thing. There will be a foul odor from
the discharge. This Is roup.
Keeping the birds warm Is one of
the best treatments for this trouble,
Take all birds thus affected to a
warm building or room-—If one Is
avaliable with a stove In it, so much
the better. Squeeze as much of the
cheesy material from the eyes ns pos.
sible and treat the eyes with a warm
Ob per cent solution of boric acid or
with a 2 per cent solution of some
good disinfectant, A 20 per cent
argyrol solution is alse good for this
Remove any birds from the pen as
goon as any other cases are
ered.
One of the
poultry
disense
starts
discov.
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Short Farm Notes
No farm building is really complete
until it is painted.
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Man cen live without milk, but not
so well,
. * *
Nitrogen in the air is free but the
only way that a farmer can gather it
is through legumes,
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Gooseberries and currant: produce
fruit from lateral buds on one-vear
wood and en spurs on older wood.
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Eighteen per cent of the portland
cement used in the United States goes
for furm and small town construction.
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Another step toward better profits
is the reduction of the feed bill for
rate, grain weevils, and other such
“varmints.”
ie § . 8s =
The average annual rate of depreci.
ation to allow on a miscellaneous ot
of farm machinery udually is about 10
per cent of its inventory value of the
preceding year.
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Copper-carbonate dust is not effec
tive, when used alope, against ont
smut. A mixture of one part copper:
carbonate and two parts mercuric
shiloride controlled sinut in Ohio tests,
Open 01d Drains and
Plan Some New Ones
Spring Is Time to Clean
Out Ditches,
Spring rains the
the
and freshets make
farmer think of drainage, sa
State College of Agriculture
and there is no better time
tile and ditches
season of the year
Many farmers, says
make it a practice in
every year to start
thelr farms with
i
Ve
drains than at
the
Mareh or April
out and go over
2 shovel their
shoulders, and a handful of sharpened
small stakes. The
ing the outlets of the
stalled, and the
out new ones,
Tile drains
the
in getting on the land in the spring.
If the outlets are stopped up. they do
not take care of the excess water as
they should, and thelr purpose
feated To get real returns
Investment, nothing should be allowed
to keep the drains from discharging
the surface and excess soll water rap
idly.
And
college,
over
shovel is for clean
drains now
for la
in
stakes ure
are an investment
ig de.
on
while this is being
the college, there Ix better time
than early spring to the
spots In the field and see where
should aaturally drain
where the surface water
erally give an idea as to the
ural outlet, and stakes should be
for future reference when the
ean dug
One litle wet spot may
appearance and usefulness of
making it necessary
around in the middle of the
altogether forego the planting of cer-
Drain the
put
hasis,
done,
no
locate
set
be
spoil
a whole
to tu
fat, or
tain crops
the college,
wel spots,
nnd the whole
on the same
Mixture of C ooked Beans
and Corn for Pig Feed
an experiment earried on at the
In
Michigan experiment station cull table
beans were fed in a mixture of cooked
and corn for pigs. and the
showed that they had a
for swine when fed in con
nection with high
feed. It seoms that they could be
with success to cows and
beans
sults
food value
some carbohydr
poultry
to Himh
are high
carries
it would not be advisable
of corn
Cull
as beans
protein beanmenl ap-
|
|
Corn is
however,
cent of fat
feed, but Is,
grain In a ration
for energy and
rather than for
not a protein
an important
The use of corn is
fat for an animal,
the production of
milk and eggs. It would seem that
where cooked cull beans are fed to
cows at the rate of b pounds a day.
an 18 per cent protein ration in ad
dition, fed at the rate of 1 pound of
grain each 3% pounds of milk,
might make a good milk-producing
It is suggested that a grain ra-
tion feed be: 1 part corn meal, 2 parts
bran, 2 parts ground oats, 2 parts
gluten feed, 2
and 1 part of oilmeal,
For poultry the beans shounid re-
place wheat in the scratch feed, and
could take the place of middlings in a
mash. It is safe to say that beans,
like any other feed, in a ration for an
animal should not make up over 25
per cent of the ration,
Jack Rabbits Kill Many
Trees in Shelter Belt
Jack rabbits cause considerable in-
jury to forest trees In many localities
In winter the succulent brancues of
the smaller trees are often girdled,
causing stunted growth and sometimes
killing the trees, writes C. A. Gillett,
in the Dakota Farmer,
Probably the best method of pro-
tecting young shelter-belt trees from
the rodents is fencing the shelter-belt
area with a suitable fence that will
prevent the rabbits from Jumping
over or getting through the mesh,
Operations for the control of jack
rabbits are being directed by the
United States Department of Agricul
ture biological survey. In South Da-
kota the work is to be aided by the
establishment of a number of commer
cial stations for buying Jack rabbits’
skins in’ the westerr half of the state
by agreements duripg the coming win-
ter with produce companies in the
East. The jack rabbit skins are to
be used mostly in the manufacture of
felt hats. The rise in the price of
raw materials for felt-hat making has
made it possible to utilize great num-
bers of rabbit skins that were for.
merly wasted,
Hens Like to Peck at
Commercial Wall Board
When commercial. wall board is
ned to line the inside of poultry
houses the hens have a tendency to
peck at theshoards and tear off and
eat part of the material. This cun be
prevented by covering the wall board
with a paint composed of three parts
cement and one part fine sand mixed
to a plastic state with skim milk, This
paint gives the surface a hard stone.
like finish which i# not easily broken
by the pecking of the hens,
Two eonts of the light-gray cement
paint are necessary, It can be ap
plied with a whitewash hrash, The
second cont ean be applied ahout
threes hours after the first cont, If
the poultryman does not wish to have
the house toe dark, the gray cement
paint ean he used to a point as nigh
ng the hens ean rench from the floor
or the dropping beards.
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