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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS |
Florida, Porto Rico, Swept
by a Terrific Hurricane—
News of the Campaign.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
O N THE second anniversary of the
great Miami hurricane the trop-
ical storm that already had devastates
Porto the Virgin and
some islands of the Lesser Antilles
struck the east coast of Florida in the
Palm Beach region and swept through
the center of the state, turning i
to the and
along
Rico, islands
again
T thon snide
northeast contin
destructive course
“33 tf Your a] simriinne hranel
coast, Re ports coming thi
i lines of communicat showed
of the
100
worst
The total
reach
this hurricane was one
recent years
may
re 1}
ousands ar homeless
aumber of deaths <
and many tl
and without food and clothing
fm:
reasonabl
estimate
losses
to make a
tremend¢
ossible
now
of the us property
In Porto Rico late reports place the
dead at 175 in Guadele
f French 700
killed ;
pumber at least 700 and may be many
more. The city of West Palm Beach
was practically wrecked, and the fa.
many and the destruc
the Lake
was inundated
severely,
or more;
island, nearly
known dead in Florida
yupe,
were
y
the
talities were
tion great in
area which Palm
Beach, many
fine residences and business bulldings
being Florida National
Guardsmen called out promptly
to prevent looting and to aid the suf
ferers.
Okeechobee
too, suffered
destroyed.
were
The American Red Cross responded
immediately to the calls for help from
Porto Rico and Florida and supplies
and physicians and nurses were hur-
ried to the stricken regions. Gener
ous citizens appeals
monetary ald large subscrip-
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., head
list in New York with £25,000
Bakes of Red
to Porto Rico
of restoration
answered for
with
tions,
ing the
Relief
ross
Director the
went at once to
take charge of the task
on the devastated island.
As the hurricane moved up the sea-
board the winds and tremendous seas
wrought vast damage. Many vessels
were sunk or driven ashore, and sea-
gide communities were driven from
their homes by the waters.
ERBERT HOOVER and Governor
Smith both started their personal
speaking campaigns, The Republican
eandidate spent two days in New Jer
sey, and the apparent results of the
trip highly encouraging to his
manager. His chief address was de
livered in Newark and was directed
especially to labor. He declared him
gelf specifically in favor of high wages,
free collective bargaining, restrictions
on the use of injunctions In labor dis
putes, tariff schedules protective of
American labor, continuance of Im
migration restriction, further expan
gion of our foreign export trade, and
governmental assistance to the de
pressed textile and bituminous coal
industries,
Democratic Chairman Raskob's re-
tort was that Hoover's speech was the
beginning of a Republican campaign
to misrepresent the Democratic atti
tude on the tariff and on immigration,
Hoover's plans at present contem-
plate only a speech at Elizabethtown,
Tenn. on October 8, and addresses in
New York and Boston, before return.
ing to California to vote However
considerable pressure is being brought
on him to speak also In Chicago and
fn Texas on his trip across the con-
tinent.
Al Smith on his Invasion of the
Middle West was greeted everywhere
by huge and enthusiastic throngs of
supporters and alse by thousands of
ngriculturists and thelr wives who
were eager to know what he proposed
in the way of farm relief legisiation
His first address was in Omaha and
was mainly devoted to a discussion of
the farm problem, He again declared
himself in favor of the essence of the
were
McNory-Haugen bill but neither up
y
held specifically
equalization fee,
defining his stand:
nor repudiated the
Here are his words
“Aa I read the McNary-Haugen bill,
ts fundamental purpose is to estab.
lish an effective control of the sale
of exportable surplus with the cost
imposed upon the commodity benefit-
ed. For that principle the
cratic platform squarely stands,
for that principle I stand. Mr.
ver stands squarely opposed
principle by which the farmer could
get the benefit of the tariff. What
remains of the McNary-Haugen bill is
a mere matter of and I
not limit myself to the exact mechan-
ies and method embodied In that bill"
Demo-
and
Hoo-
to this
method, do
Smith's personal t
the workers he
coln, Oklahoma City
Middle West, please
While
Indians mad
populari among
Lin
in
im
met mas
and elsewhere
the
mensely. in On
Smith's tour
Lr IN Wisconsin, where the poll
leal situation has been
50 puz
Republican
for
Follette crowd
zling, the conservative
forces, led by Kohler, nominee
1
( le
governor, bested the las
in the
control
state convention by gaining
of the resolutions committee
and having the convention indorse
Hoover and
platform.
the
Curtis and the national
The radicals, however,
wan
chairmanship central
committee, the place going to Herman
I. Ekern, a devoted follower of
Follette.
Leaders of both parties were satis
fled with the results of the primaries
in Massachusetts, Jenjamin Loring
Young, former speaker of the Massa-
chusetts house of representatives and
the choice of Herbert Hoover's advis
ers, was returned a victor over Eben
S. Draper, former state senator and
choice of the Republican wet faction,
of the state
La
as the Republican nominee for United
States senator. He will
tor David 1. Walsh In November
the Democratic side, Gen. Charles HH.
one of the Smith-for
President men, wop an overwhelming
victory ever John ] Cummings in the
contest for the gubernatorial nomina-
tion,
ose Sena-
On
op
Cole, original
Y J HILE various religious and pro-
hibition organizations were taking
wallops at Al Smith for his attitude
on the liquor question, the wet Repub-
licans of the East, who are rather
numerous, halled with delight a let.
ter from Otto Kahn, New York bank-
er, to Vice President Dawes, in which
the writer said:
“Knowing Mr. Hoover as both able
and courageous, I have no doubt that,
if elected, his experience in the actual
administration of the Volstead act
will lead him to recommend to con-
gress suitable changes in its pro
visions. And | am convinced that
such changes will be—and to be effec.
tive must be-—not in the direction of
increased stringency, but of increased
liberality.”
EVERAL notable events in aero
nautics marked the week. Juan
de la Clerva, Spanish inventor, gave
his novel “autogyro” its first severe
test by flying across the English chan-
nel, and then demonstrated it again in
flights at Paris. The machine rises
and descends almost vertically by
means of a windmill propeller and the
wings are nearly negligible, being used
only to keep the plane horizontal. It
was sald the British air force had or-
dered several of the machines and
that France might buy one.
In Detroit the Packard Motor com-
pany announced successful completion
of test flights with an airplane pow-
ered by an oll-burning motor, the first
Diesel type aircraft engine ever built.
The motor is of a radial air-cooled
type and develops 200 horse power.
With the use of the Diesel principle
of oll for fuel the engine does away
with gasoline, ignition systems, spark
plugs, and other trouble “bugs” Elim.
ination of those parts, officials said,
results from the firing from compres
glon in the cylinders, the Diesel action
that has been applied up to this time
In only extremely heavy engines for
power plants and In boats.
new the
Graf Zeppelin, was tested in flights
from Friedrichshafen and seemed to
be entirely satisfactory. It is intend-
ed to send this air vessel on a trip to
the United States in the near future,
Germany's huge dirigible,
The big Bellanca plane Roma was
waiting at Old Orchard, Maine, for
suitable conditions for the jump-off
on its flight to Rome, and indeed 4d
make one start but had to return be-
cause of a alr intake on the
carburetor,
broken
LLINOIS
scale ar the
ratified the
nt
minority
the res
tha
ikes of con-
m y
Officials of the
miners new
mines
large a
are opposed
in
several “wildcat” st:
once
opened, 80
the men to ulting
reduction their wages there
ie mom
Vorkers sieved the
nounce
the wag
Western raliroads
and
its efforts,
condue
aban
abandoned
the President to create
commission if he deems ivisable.
The m
officials sa
in if
for a strike
id the unions would take no
en have voted but
October 1.
silk
antil «ft
until after
definite act!
Charles G. Eagle, New York
who commited
in
approxin
manufacturer,
recently, provided
trust fund of
000 to purchase hotels and apartments
worthy working girls live
and to ald them In thelr careers
in
which
ERBERT
brought
HOOVER'S name was
the federal trade
of public utility
prepaganda methods, when it was dis-
that the National Electric
association purchased 48.500
of an address made by the
secretary commerce In 1025
of
of Railroad and
into
commission's probe
closed
Light
copies
then
before
of
the annual convention the
National Association
Jtilities Commissions,
Among other vouchers produced be-
fore the commission was one indicat.
ing that Willlam Allen White, nation-
ally known editor, recently in con-
trovePsy with Smith, the
Democratic Presidential nominee, over
the latter's legisiative record. was
paid $500 for an address he made be-
fore the Electric Light association's
convention In 1926.
Governor
NEARLY two thousand men who
A fought for the Union in the Civil
war took part in the parade that
marked the opening of the sixty-sec-
ond encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, in Denver. To the
music of the drum and fife they
marched almost a mile, and few were
forced to drop out of line Com-
mander Elbridge Hawk of Sacramen-
to, Calif., reviewed the parade and
opened the formal sessions of the en-
campment,
—
R. J. LOUDEN, president of the
disarmament commission of the
League of Nations, creatéd something
of a sensation in Geneva by announc-
ing to the league that he intended to
call what would amount to a confer
ence of the five great maritime pow-
ers, the United States, Great Britain,
France, Italy and Japan, for the pur-
pose of agreeing on some plan for de-
creasing their naval armaments. Lord
Cushendun, British delegate, iImmedia-
ately declared he was sure the pro-
posal would not please his govern-
ment, and the reaction to it in Wash.
ington wag decidedly unfavorable.
Japan alone openly favored the
scheme
The powers are still stewing over
that mysterious Franco-British com-
promise agreement for limiting aux-
ililary naval craft, In Washington es.
pecially It Is the subject of serious
consideration by the President and his
advisers, who have not made up their
minds whether to disapprove of it offi.
cially or disregard it for the time be-
ing In the hope that it will be
dropped. Neither the British nor the
French foreign office has submitted
more than a summary of the naval
section of the agreement,
FARMER'S ONLY HOPE
IS SMiTH VICTORY
Republican Promises.
tesponse In agricultural sections of
the country to Senator Robinson's
speech accepting the Democratic Vice
Presidentinl nomination has been just
as favorable as that following the ae
ceptance speech of Governor Smith,
Attention has been directed to the
fact that Benator Robinson placed
which occupled in
his speech,
Senator Robinson's treatment of the
problems follows along
the main lines Iald down by Governor
Smith, recognizing and defining the
difficulties of the farmer and then ad
vocating specific and constructive
mensures of remedy.
Both
President
primary position
for
have ns
candidates
and Vice President
serted thelr ehamplonship of the prin-
of
for which
tending In
years.
Democratlie
ciple surplus control legislation
the
congress for
been con
past five
farmers have
the
Farm leaders have been particularly
enthusiastic about Governor Smith's
that the gross injustice of
tariff system should
that the farmer can get
benefits from protection ns
industry now enjoys. The Democratic
! self to find
soundest
statement
present he
corrected, so
the same
candidate ale
the
chinery
! tpg fry
pledges hin
most effoctive and ma
for bringing this about,
t
princi
party platform that
stat.
the essential
the
contained
of
ple
COsL8
nll be assessed
of
market,
unit the bene
ht to
Robinson reviews
arren fallure
role t ut
roneral
general
broug
Senator
of
the ree
ord
Republican
I on
hooks any laws
of this 1
gurnl
tion
us
Hoover's expressions
and expos
fon of
economie
1 if of
that
an
i the
Industry
could not
n
Curtis Has Forgotten,
but Voters Will Not
The voters of the country who are
with Senator Curtis’ habit
flipflops and his
linesx to take either side
question,
uch I
of
apparent
turnis
itienl
on any are not
inreased
going he
his rather
ie Democrats In
tn
very no by
wenk
Was!
nttncks upon “4h
irnneton ™
ington
11 be remembered that the sen.
the ardent who,
ed. de
Larsxsdsd
Hepublican
'
Hoover was nomina
sre -
Reput party
Herbert Hoover for its standard bear
or,
American
tion day.”
Offered
“It the Hean choose
we shall have to apologize
him gontil
to the
people for elo
the nomination for Vice
Curtis conveniently forgot
previous stand. And
unaware of incon
gistency of his perfervid praise of the
for he predicted the ne
of apologizing.
Nor will the farmers of the coun.
try forget the repudiation of bis
previous vote to sustain the Presi-
dent's veto on the McNary-Haugen
bill,
President
his he seems
now entirely the
mnn whom
conalty
Country will Rebuke
Appeals to Big=*ry
That Republican leaders are willing
to let their disabled craft drift to any
port in the political storm they have
blundered Into Is indleated by thelr
failure to repudiate the appeal that
intolerance in their behalf,
Senator Robinson has forcefully at.
tacked the hissing “political serpents”
All intel.
ligent voters will agree with his state
ment that a candidate for President
“proves himself unworthy if he know.
ingly accepts advantage from false.
hood, even though not uttered or In-
spired by himeelf.," An even more
attack upon the sinister
campaign” has been
Protestant clergyman and writ.
er, who declares it would be a “ecalum.
ity for our country” if Governor
Smith were defeated,
Robinson Makes Friends
In his speech of acceptance Sen.
ator Robinson has revealed the same
tralts which have characterized him
as Democratic leader In the senate.
He has shown himself to be a man
of strong convictions but at the same
time liberal-minded toward those who
do not share his views, When he
shows Intolerance it is only for fanat.
felem, That trait has won him the
undying enmity of Senator Heflin, and
It will also commend him te a multl
tude of voters.—New York World,
fan -
Cleaning Up to
Increase Yields
Diseases of Wheat and Corn
Are Causing Big | osses
to Farmers.
(Prepared by the United Ftates Department
of Agriculture.)
Wheat scab and corn-ear rots are
eausing large annual losses in the
Central states by reducing acre yields
and lowering the quality of the corn
and wheat crops, according to the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture.
Losses from wheat gcab huve aver-
aged about 12,000,000 Lushels of wheat
annually for the last nine years. Corn-
ear rots, some of which are produced
by the organism, have
caused a miutely 100,
000,000 bu annually for
the
wheat-gcab
1088 ol
licls of
last five years.
Cause of Scab and Rots.
fungous paras
moet of the
over winter on dead
wheut stubble
approxi
corn
ites causing
8CUD and coru<«ur
rots ii
Blaiks,
er
these
spring and snmmer
from the
wheat
wheat
Much
Ve corn
straw, oth
by
late
and
crop refuse, BEpores produced
Lhe
blown
io
I
orgunisms ripe in
and
old stalks snd straw
iy
ol
ure
the
scab and corn-car rots.
this damage eould
veuted by by
of cornstall and stubble,
¥
ii ng, says
of be pre
cieani-up
rotation,
sug
by thoroug
ment. Removing or plowing under all
crop refuse, if
yeutls velopinen
EpOres, if done
yeuts
the depart
done
de
and
ef Ro
’
ts.
© of
is thoroughi
is are nbhle to grow deeper
ure a Ia part of their food
the subsoil, A well-drained soll
nkes conditions right for the growth
the millions
an essential part in prepar-
its. When a soll
the air is
passing into It where it
for the respiration of
Wet zolls are too
growth plants
decomposition
the
of micro-organisins
at play
-—
ne fond
g fo
i for crop plan
—-
”
waterlogged prevented
is need.
these
*vy
or.
for
pre
La BR
cold
and
of org
t of hun
his keeps such a soll in a poor physi
il condition,
of
atter i form
Soy Bean in Demand for
Great Variety of Uses
The soy bean is now in demand for
ue ag hay and a green manure to
Kev.
salads; soy bean meal is
is made from the bean; it is used to
manufaciore a rubber substitute, the
sprouts are used as green salads, and
there nre a variety of other uses to
which the oriental visitor may be put.
The demand for it Is growing as man-
ufacturers expand thelr fields.
sp POP PPP PPVGGLPOO OH
. Agricultural Notes
PPP
The majority of chickens that
markeied are entirely too
lanky.
are
lean and
The neighbor with sick hogs is like
ly to carry infection on his shoes or
his clothing to your hog lots If he
is permitted to visit them,
- - -
Don’t crowd the late thin lambs on
the market. Send only the fat ones,
he others can be made to sell higher
by good care and some feed.
» * *
Cod liver oll, to prevent leg weak-
ness and promote growth, can be fed
to growing chicks in the proportion
of one pound to 100 pounds of mash.
. » -
According to results obtained at the
University of Alberta, Canada, 50 per
cent of the lambs weaned by ewes fed
fimothy hay die within four weeks
after birth,
CE
The young cockerels should be sepa.
rated from the pullets hy the time
they are big enough to fatten, or at
the latest by the time they weigh a
eouple of puunds.
Deep Plowing Best
by Special Machines
Kind of Outfit to Use Will
Depend on Needs of Soil
Deep plowing «
machines especially de
n best be done by
si rd for that
purpose, according to the agricultural
engineering department of the New
Jersey State of Agriculture,
Rutgers university,
The kind of outfit to use will depend
on the needs of the
deep
Colle;
soil. In any case,
heavy ex-
sometimes in
Justified when
involves =a
labor, and
and is only
the cost will be amply repaid,
Deep plowing is usua
plished by
plowing
penditure in
equipment,
ally
accom
means
thus bringing the
face, There
practice
are occas
is desirable,
preferable simply
the subs
top. It
creased gradun
one-half inch
of turning
Most
best
up subsoil w
Ous are
their when ti
depth does not greatly ex
of the
reason a wide plow shoul
depths
I
plow 5 des
work
width of the pl
of either
They
the
usu
OTs
gid
8! Pe
'
be washed
tains some
n
powder, Use
bow grease
shonid
be rinsed
plenty
Lim J
Prevent Winter Rodent
Losses During the
Farmers
joss
in every state fac
wr rr PY, Ya ives
running into {
h year throug!
more eomn
number these
mals existing In
each state or to
each in
how much h
is not
1
The feed
but al in buildings d
ness weakened and
exactly
& year
consumed,
CONsUMed
lors only
1m
8D
aged, har general
depredations of these numerous pests.
been
the one
at thes
thus clearing
the cribs are filled
and before the ground has
become frozen. After the cribs are
filled, rats and mice have an ideal
hiding place to which they ean scur-
ry, once the hunt Is on. Boards, boxes
and all other places under which the
rate and mice may hide will soon be
frozen down, making it
for the farmer to exterminate ail of
the pests.
measures have often
at present,
advice is to
the fall,
before
Control
reiterated.
big plece of
pests early
the farm
with
Just
ot
sel
in
corn
impossible
Pruning Small Fruit Is
Desirable in Summer
The question, as far as the desira-
bility of summer pruning is concerned,
has only one answer in the berry
patch, It is highly desirable.
The old canes, which have borne
their crop of fruit, may be removed
from the berry patch as soon as pos-
sible after harvest. This serves to
remove any diseased canes and pre
vent the further spread of disease. [It
allows all the energy of the root sys.
tem to go into the production of new
cane growth, upon which the follow.
ing year's fruit production may be
expected,
In the case of black raspberries, the
new shoots should be pinched off
when they reach a height of aboutwwo
and a half to three feet. The sside
shoots may be similarly pinched back,
as they reach a length of twelve or
fourteen inches,
By following this practice on soll
where the canes grow rapidly and
vigorously, bushy, productive plants
may be expected, and the job will be
found well worth while, simply in the
greater ense of harvesting the follows
ing season.