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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Nomination of Hoover by
Republicans Outstanding
Event of the Week.
HE Republican national convention
focused the attention of the coun-
try for at least five days of the week.
The nomination of Herbert C. Hoover
as the Republican candidate for the
Presidency, a foregone conclusion be-
fore the doors of the convention hall
were opened to the delegates, left the
largely a8 matter of rou
for the battle over the
proceedings
t.ne, except
platform.
The out
seen in retrospect,
standing feature of the con
was Lhe
control of the proceedings, It
was supreme, but it was a mg
h stuff. Op
vention,
tioover
inneriy,
control. No roug
Hoover majority were
courteously given opportunity
to present thelr side of the questions
at issue and po restraint was put
upon the delegates when their enthus
jasm burst Into long and noisy dem-
onstrations, as it did particularly
when the nominations were made.
The agricultural plank of the plat-
form, as expected, launched the big
fight of the convention. A determined
fight on the plank presented by the
majority of the committee was made
by the western farm leaders
This plunk, formulated after two
days und nights of labor In the com-
mittee, ignored any mention of the
controverted equalization fee of the
McNary-Haugen bill, but pledged ev-
ery assistance in the reorganization of
the farmers’ marketing machinery. It
proposed the creation of a farm board
with power to set up farmer owned
and controlled corporations to pre
vent and control surpluses through
orderly distribution.
Facing an admittedly losing fight
the farm lenders battied on earnestly
and at great léngth, submitting only
when the majority of the delegates
voted approval of the cominitiee re
port.
A no less earnest but less time con-
suming battle, and also a losing one,
waged on the prohibition plank
which advocated ohservance and vig-
orcas enforcement of the Eighteenth
swmendment.
For the first time the radio made
the proceedings of a national political
convention available to people in all
parts of the country. Other conven-
tions have been broadcast, but never
before wad there a hook-up of broad
casting stations so distributed that
anyone with a receiving set anywhere
in the country could hear the entire
procecdings,
orderly
ponents of the
teed
ampie
was
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE on Monday
night gave his semiannual report
on the business of government as it
has heen handled during the last few
years and outlined his policies for
the next six months before a gather.
ing of the department heads in Memo-
rial hall, Washington.
“It has been my endeavor,” he sald,
“so to manage the national finances
as to secure the greatest benefit to the
people. 1 have rejoiced In keeping
down the annual budget, In reducing
faxes, and paying off the national debt,
because the influence of such action
is felt in every home in the land”
The people, he sald, must furnish
thelr own prosperity. It cannot be
handed down to them by the govern.
ment. And when they have it they
must rise above It in spiritual out.
look.
“Prosperity,” he sald, “is only an
instrument fo be used, not a deity
to be worshiped.”
Reviewing the condition of Industry
and trade since 1021, he sald:
“Stabilization and a feeling of se
curity have been the primary factors
in the great upward swing of Ameri
can Industry and commerce since
1021."
The tax question, he declared, has
been approached from the angle of re-
quiring no more from the people than
necessary to operate the government
efficiently.
“The revenue acts of 1021, 1024,
2026 and 1028,” he sald, “when fuily
operative ‘will reduce taxes by approx-
imately two billions of dollars a year
as compared with what would have
been collected if the act of 1918 had
remained In force,
“It is ifconceivable that In such a
short space of time the government
could cut its tax rates to such an
extent. Yet that has been done, Mil
lions of individuals in the lower brack-
ets have been entirely stricken from
the tax rolls. Personal exemption for
individuals and heads of families have
been greatly increased.
“Preferential treatment
given to earned income.
and nulsance taxes have been re
pealed. Business has been freed of
many hampering and uneconomic re-
strictions. The prosperity of today
can be attributed In a large measure
to the lessening of the burden of fed
eral taxes,
"he reduction which has been made
in the national debt since July 1, 1921,
has contributed much to the ability
of the government to taxes.
That reduction at the end of this fiscal
year will amount to approximately
£6.327.000,000, The total debt wi
be £17,050,000.000, It is one-third paid.
The total saving In interest over all
that period will amount approximately
to $050,000000. The reductions in the
debt required by law for the same per
fod total $3,206,000.000,
“By the end of this fiscal year we
will actually have applied to debt re.
duction $3,031,000000 more thun re-
quired by law. That represents what
was saved from national revenue.
These, together with refunding opera
tions which converted securities bear
ing high rates of Interest into secur
ties having lower rates, represent a
perpetonl saving In interest of $274.
000,000 a year.
For the current fiscal year, which
closes In a few weeks, the President
sald there would be a surplus in excess
of four hundred million. Estimates
are being prepared for 1920 and 1934,
On this he sald:
“Taking into consideration the log:
islation enacted during the last ses
sion of congress, we find that for 1020
our receipts will be about $3,707,000.
000 and our estimated expenditures
£3.801,000000), These estimates might
seem to forecast a deficit, We most
not have a deficit.
“The cost of government In the
United States, federal, state and mu-
nicipal, in 1921 was $£0.500,000000. In
1925 It had increased to $11,124,000.
000. During that period the national
government had reduced its expendi
ture by two billions.
“The necessity of keeping expendi:
tures within receipts, the importance
of continuing our pay-as-we-go policy,
cannot be overemphasized. This pri-
mary limitation on estimates is the
first step toward the continuation of
that policy In i834 It means that
there will be no latitude for expan-
sion where expansion Is not made
compulsory by new law or by condi.
tions that leave no choice, In pre.
paring your preliminary estimates for
1930, which you will submit to the
budget bilrean by July 15 next, you
must keep this in mind.”
has been
War taxes
lessen
1 ther
6 ELL, he ought not to be so
hard to beat,” was the only
comment of Gov. Al. Smith when in-
formed of Hoover's nomination as the
Republican candidate for President.
EARL KLINCK, former right-hand
man of the klan dragon, D. C,
Stephenson, was convicted by a Jury
in the criminal court at Indianapolis
of being accessory in attesting a false
affidavit. Conviction garries a one to
three-year prison term. Klinck ap
penled.
Kiinck, once & policeman at Evans
ville, was Stephenson's personal body-
guard. His present predicament fob
lowed an attempt to have indictments
returned against Tom Adame, crusad-
ing anti-klan publisher at Vincennes,
and Doyd Gurley, Pulitzer prize edi
tor of Indianapolis, following presen.
tation of a forged affidavit to the fed
eral grand: Jury at. Indianapolis last
fall,
{JED States District = Judge
Thomas B. Thatcher of New York
dismissed the federal sult In equity
against the Standard Aircraft cor
poration to recover £2.304,438.48, which
ft alleged had been illegally pald In
settlement of war alr contracts, A
counter clalm of the defendant for an
additional payment of $142,000 also
was dismissed,
The case included testimony from
former War department officials and
officers of the airplane company,
which during the war had held con-
tracts for aircraft for the government
totaling about $11,000,000,
HE elimination of President Cool:
self caused a tremendous crash on
the New York stock market Monday.
Prices broke from 2 to 25 points. Not
since the hectic record-breaking. ses
sion of March, 19268, has the exchange
experienced such wild selling. Marked
recovery In prices was shown later
in the week,
PRESIDENT AND MRS. COOLIDGE
have settled down for the season
at the summer White House on the
Brule river in Wisconsin. After a two
days’ delay in vacation de parture, due
to the Hiness of Mrs idge, the
Presidential party left Washington
Wednesday night. Mrs. Coolidge had
Loproved greatly, was cheerful and
anxious to get started on the journey.
The offices of the White House staff
have been established at Superior and
the President Is expected to motor to
that city when business requires his
attention.
The President le being guarded by
regular troops from Fort Snelling,
Minn, who are camped about a quar-
ter of a mile from the lodge.
Cool
HE price of edocating a public
bied In the last 15 years, It Is shown
by figures compiled by the federal
bureau of education. In 1913 the cost
was $8831, and the present figure Is
$102.50.
Expenditures for public school bulld-
ings have almost doubled since 1620,
with the peak being reached in 1025
when $4A33.000000 was spent for oew
buildings. In 1026, however, the an
nual expenditure for public school
buildings decreased $22,000,000, Indl
cating, the bureau said, that construc
tion had overtaken the shortage
caused by the World war.
The bureau attributed the Increase
in school expenditures to the de
creased purchasing power of the dol
lar and the general improved school
facilities,
HE Raltic bitterness,
from the unsettled dispute be
as the only danger to European peace,
as the council of the league of Na
tions ended Its fiftieth session atl
Geneva.
Council members made no attempt
to conceal their chagrin that the body
had found itself unable to liquidate
this quarrel,
is the Poligh possession af the city of
Vilna, former capital of Lithuania, and
recently named anew, in the consti
tution of that country, as the ont of
its government,
Members of the cothcliusiparaied
with the feeling that the Baltic situ:
ation will be either better or worse
by September. [If the latter proves to
be the case, the whole controversy Is
general assembly of the league.
emg
OBERT W. STEWART, chairman
of the Standard Oll company of
Indiana, was scquitted hy a jury In
the District of Columbia Supreme
court In Washington on a charge of
refusing to answer questions of the
senate Investigating committee regard
ing Continental Oll company bonds
Stewart specifically was accused: of
violating section 102 of the criminal
code, which makes It mandatory that
witnesses before congressional com:
mittegs answer questions pertinent to
the subject of Inquiry.
® msi.
NE of the most picturesque fig
ures in the woman suffrage move
ment, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, died
in a nursing home in London, England
at the age of sixty-nine. Death came
after a comparatively short lliness,
Mrs, Pankhurst was the first mill
tant suffragist In efforts to obtain the
vote fer women, millions of whom are
now enjoying vilege of casting
their ballots famentary elec
tions ae a result of the work of her
and her supporters. This early work
was often done sat great personal risk.
for the Market
tening on Grass Are Two.
Methods Used.
of Agriculture.)
In “Feeding Cattle for Beef,” which
Bulletin 15040-F, W. H.
Black of the bureau of animal indus.
analysis of practices In
feeding cattle, which have been tested
in the feed lots and pastures, It is
intended primarily a8 an aid to farm-
wide experience
but
it is believed the bulletin will bes no
Knowing Market Trends.
Since pet returns fron cattle
the real basis for
the
the author points out the de-
knowing the market
cattle,
This knowledge, plus an exam-
kinds and qualities of
will
measure determine when to
buy feeders and what sort to buy,
Dry-lot feeding and fattening on
grass are the two methods of finish.
ing cattle for market. It often pays
to feed grain supplements to cattle
on grass to gnin a better finish at an
grades, In re
cent years the demand for smaller
cuts of high quality meat has favored
liberally
selling them as fat yearlings.
cate {ts scope:
“Approximately 75 per cent of the
fertilizing constituents of feeds fed to
is returned in the manure.”
feeders take it as a
course that feeding
successful enter.
live stock
“Most
muiter of
annot be made a
prise without having hogs In the
ior.”
“Such
cattle
cattle
as milo, kafir and bar
ground.”
foods
ley should be
her the grade, ty of
“The high ar:
feeder
or qyatl
the more economic
of feed.”
ite use
] feeds ©
able fat
Finishing on Grass,
“If cattle are to be finished on
and if there is sufficient rough-
uge to carey them through the winter,
the feeders should be purchased in the
fall. Buying feeders in the spring for
gross the following sum-
a
are preferable.”
Tare,
are fairly malure.
“Dry rations are now usually asso
cinted with short feeding periods and
with feeder cattle over S800 pounds in
weight. Silage rations are weed more
er feeders™
The Bulletin includes average ra
tions for various weights of cattle,
simple method of calculating the cost
of protein in feeds, suggestions for bal
ancing rations and for starting cattle
on feed, management systems for
colves, rupplementary feeds for graz
mineral mixtures, equip
Farmers’ Bulletin 1540:F may be
partment of Agriculture, Washington,
DC.
Colorado Has Outlawed
Common Barberry Plant
The common harberry and its ro
ated horticultural varieties is out
awed in Colorado because of its abil
harbor black-stem rost, a dis
causing great losses In wheat
clares the plant a pest and orders It
destroyed wherever found.
The order makes It a misdemeanor
Such shipments made contrary to the
order will be immediately sent out of
The order Is a reissue of a similar
measure in force before the last gen.
ntomolagist act.
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TTT TTTTTTY ral Notes §
Agricultural Notes
ah AES ASA a fi aps
The baled hay Is easier handled and
requires much less storage splice.
. & 0
It weeds get ahend of the alfalfa,
clip them off with a mowe. not iater
than September 15,
. 8» »
If there is land on the farm that {s
too poor er rough to cultivate, one
may establish a woodlot,
* 8 »
Extra fine quality alfalfa hay thay
contain one-fourth more protein than
wheat bran, while poor quality alfalfa
may have a fourth less,
*. & »
The curing of hay ls largely de
slinge crops can be put into the silo
when wet and will cure regardless of
wenther,
ese
The quality of hay
largely on the methods
tng and handling it, hence
gity for using the best
wachines avallable,
8 quite
in cur
neces
and
at Roadside Stands |
of Good Quality.
To «make a successful
roadside marketing one must
sufficient Interest, the right
good location, and
be exacting and pay
to details, stated Prof. Paul Work ol
Corpell university, speaking at the
New York State College of Agriculture,
on roadside markets for vegetables.
One must decide whether to make a
business of roadeide marketing or to
merely use it to increase the family
income,
The
cloge attention
produce sold should be home-
growu or ralsed in the vicinity, and
never obtained from ¢Ry markets,
Speaking with special reference to
vegetables, he said, a fairly full line
should be curried with certain prod-
ucts as a specialty, The vegetables
should be graded with separate prices
and separate arrangements for dis-
playing different grades. Neatness and
mnss arrangement in display of the
goods, with flowers as a side line, in-
crease the stands selling power.
The site of stand should be
chosen so it may be seen readily frow
a distance and should have ample
parking space around it. The stand
should be distinctive, attractive and
serviceable, Bigns ought to be peal
and simple. But they are not as im
portant as a catchy farm name, since
permanent and not tourist trade 1s
the more desirable,
The salesman is important In bulld-
ing good will and a large trade. He
must present a good appearance, must
never contradict, be patient, and pot
too talkative. Most important of all
he must never misrepresent a8 prod-
uct. To be busines:-like, a salesmaa
ought always to be nt the stand
Wrapping and packing are important
in giving the customer satisfaction.
Advertising, after the beginning. Is
not necessary if the products are good.
.
the
Causes of Failures to
Secure Alfalfa Stand
stands of alfalfa
2 be doe to several
interested in new
; Young
irm, moist bed
arefully prepared as
according to Alvin
Kezer, on ist of the Colorado ex-
perin For that reason the
crop often is started more readily on
land that has been previously in a
cultivated crop that has left the soll
in a good physical condition. Some
failures to secure stands of alfalfa
may be due to the lack of organic
matter in the roll which Is sometimes
evident on heavy soils that “run to
gether.”
Alfalfa makes the best growth when
planted fairly early in the season and
not over one inch deep on heavy solls.
The seed must come in contact with
moisture before it will germinate,
which sometimes makes It necessary
to furrow and irrigate the newly seed.
ed ground. A nurse crop is partien-
larly valuable where the soil tends
either to crust or blow, Professor
Kezer points out. From one-half to
two-thirds of a stand of the nurse
crop is sufficient. Barley has proved
the best nuree crop all over Colorado
particularly the variety known as
Colsesk. Kanotla, a short-stemmed oat,
has proved satisfactory In the
Arkansas valley. After the ground
has been planted the alfolfa, rather
than the nurse crop, should be favored
in the matter of irrigation. The small
grain will usually take care of itself
a® long as the young aifdifa is in good
condition. The alfalfa should be irri
gated ag soon after the nurse crop is
harvested as possible,
y FeCUre
Hi : soe 4d
that has been a
for sugar beets
gronon
ent station.
very
Rotary Hoe Useful for
Breaking Crust on Soil
Among the many uses of the rotary
hoe, one of the most important Is that
of breaking up a crust after a hard
rain, Such a crust is a troublesome
thing at any stage of the corn crop,
but ie especially serious if it occurs
just about the time the corn or beans
are coining through the surface, as at
such a time it will turn the tender
shoot back upon itself, often prevent.
ing lig getting through.
hoe are for preparing fall plowed
ground, cultivating corn and beans
before they are largé enough to plow.
renovating alfalfa and clover. Those |
who have tried out this comparatively |
new tool are quite enthusiastic as to
its value, and If promises soon to be
come one of our mest popular farm
implements,
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Mountains as Protection
The bureau says a town
surrounded by pearby mountaing is
not so winds
ring did
very
18,
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val-
the
oo
went her
ag 11 would be
not exist,
te r
girong in
if these moun
Winds often are
lain pusses or &
moyn
but severe sierms do not particu
alleys, except where the
the genernl
take if there were
leye there,
favor
legs lie in
storm
direction
wauld
hills or val
Traveling Book
better than
poetry in which
Om
brief
self-
Few
a good
traveling-books are
anthology of
page ains something
and perfe«
resplies fron
every cont
plete
¥
immolated tourist
not be more
heart
» Koad”
Man's 5 : Prope: Outlook
frge ant
tleness withe
&Q fond
offended wit
suaded tha
then
often think of our
h others let us be per-
and
let u
Infirmiti ties,
t nothing Is due to us,
pothing =ill disturb us
OWN
and we shall hecome Ing
those of
Mothe
others. —
Fenelon,
ft was an sncien’ king
claimed he had no garrison
than the affections of his people. So
with a} men in positions of leader.
ship. They cannot command real loy-
alty through fear. They cannot com.
mand respect by force. he only loy-
alty that has value Is the lopaity in.
spired by affection. —Exchange.
She Knew It
miss of four years was sit.
when saddens
stronger
A little
ting on her sunt’s lap,
ty the aunt leaned down and gave
her a big hug saying: “My, but you're
sweet 1” The little miss complacently
raised her big blue eves to her auntie’s
fice and replied: “That's what they
all think.”
A New World! !
“When 1 walk out of my house into
my garden,” wrote Alexander Smith,
“1 walk out of my habitual self, my
every-day thoughts Its gate
gives entrance to another kingdom,
with its dwn interests and snnals and
incidents. It i= a place of escape and
peace.”
In a Quandary
Absent -Mindad Naturalist— Now, {et
me think—have | been so foolish as
to bring these clubs insiead of my
collecting equipment, or have [ been
idiotic enough to come here instead
of going to the golf links?
Wrong Idea of Sin
should be written about the
pleasures of virtue. The old theology
gave the impression that sin is de-
lightfal and that these who forego
it give up what Is most thrilling in
life. American Magazine,
The Moon Debunked
Ar good proof as any that the moon
is not made of green cheese is offered
She says
it cannot be true because God made
the moon two dave hefore he made
More
Odors From Weeds Are |
Quite Difficult to Avoid |
If odars come from weeds or girlie |
in the pasture they are difficult te |
avoid, but they may be controlled hy
pasturing the cdws In the forenvon.
stabling them in the afternoon and |
feeding some “dry feed. As soon as |
they are milked in the evening they’
may be turned on pasture again for |
a fow hours If desired. When ie
Wh have to depend wholly on weedy |
pasture, the best. plan is to keep |
them up #t night, save the morning
milk separate from the evening milk,
and keep the cream from eache in
separate Jars, This method will pro
duce two different qualities of butter.
both of which may be disposed of on
thelr individual merits
Publicity Can Do a Lot
After all nahlisity without some
thing back of it never accomplished a
grent deal in this world, At the same
time It can do a lot for a worth
while proposition Atchison Globe,
Up to Dad
Another advantage to having father
play with the children ls that it
comes father's duty to explain
{the new skillet was being used
home plate In the baseball game,
-