Fhe . bE LTh gli Pa + HIE 2—Portes NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Congress Meets and Hears the President's Message— Hoover's Progress. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ONGRESS assembled Monday for the short session and both houses adjourned almost immediately in re spect for members who had died. Next day they got down to business and received the President's message. {n this, which was by way of being his valedictory, Mr. Coolidge reviewed the progress of tlle nation during the five and one-half years that he has been Chief Executive, and painted an entrancing picture the present prosperous condition of the American people. But he put forth a warning that while we are enjoying unprece- dented peace and “t Is too .easy under their for a pation to selfish degen- erate.” Of his recommendations to congress these are the more important: A system of farm relief consisting of a federal farm board and stabiliza- tion corporations to handle crop sur- pluses, financed In the beginning by a government revolving fund. Passage of the bill providing for fifteen additional cruisers and one airplane carrier, but without the re- quirement for laying them down In three years. Ratification tateral treaty war as an fastrument of national policy. A more effective law to promote the consolidation of the railroads into a few great systems, On Wednesday President Coolidge sent in his annual budget message, and in it he asked that all proposals for new expenditures. of a substantial character be rejected in order that a threatened deficit in both the current and the next fiscal years may be avoided. The budget for the fiscal year 1030 ealls for expenditures of £3.750.710.647, leaving thes treasury with an estimated surplus of £80.576.- 182. The President said that while this surplus would be small, neverthe- fess it was satisfactory inasmuch as it points to a balanced budget. He said there are no immediate prospects of further reduction in tax rates, President Coolidge referred to the fact that bonds French gov. ernment mare than 400 millions, given in payment of surplus American war supplies, will mature in the latter part of 1929. In case the French government fails to ratify the war debt funding agreement which merges the war supplies debt with its other obligations to the United States, the President suggested that the amount due should be applied to the retirement of our war debts in- stead of being available for current expenditures. - oF prosperity, influence become and of the for the Kellogg multi renunciation of of the ECRETARY of the Treasury Mel. lon In his annual report set forth the prosperous conditions in In- dustry and finance. Figures of In- dustrial production show a decrease of 3 per cent for the fiscal sear ow- ing to a decline In activity during the latter part of the calendar yeur 1027, but a recovery took place In the early part of the calendar year 1028 and has continued. In Attorney General Sargent's year: ly report the most interesting portion wns that concerning prohibition en. forcement, prepared by Mra. Wille brandt. This admitted frankly that the government's efforts to check the smuggling of liquor across the Cana- dian border have been of little avall and that the traffic Is increasing. I XCEPT for the necessary supply bills, congress Is not expected to 98 much legislation of major im- jortance at this session. But mem- bers of both houses were quick to get their pet schemes to the front In the senate the Boulder dam bill was unfinished business and Senator Johnson of California was permitted to get It In a favorable parliamentary position, the original senate bill being substitnted for everything In the bill pussed by the house last session after ¢ the enacting clause. It was believed the debate on the measure und nu- merous pending amendments would take two weeks. In his message the President indicated his tion with this legislation and mated he might, veto It unless it made comply with tions dissatisfac- intl were to certain condi Senator McNary of Oregon intro- duced a new farm relief Lill which In general follows the lines of the much vetoed McNary-Haugen bill, but omits the equalization fee, It includes a tion such as was recommended by Mr, Hoover. While McNary and some oth- er senators hope to get action on this bLIIl during the present the general opinion in nothing in that line will plished until the special Mr. Hoover promised to call be gession accom which EPRESENTATIVE BRITTEN'S at tempt bring parliamentary 3ritish on naval limitation the approval of the house naval af of which nd action In ister Baldwin directly stead through the Department of State Baldwin's reply, which w to Ambassador Sir Esme which to ghout an conference with committee, he is after his nided Min he energetically addressing rime Mr. ns sent first Howard Kellogg declined to receive, was later transmitted to Mr, Britten. In it the prime minister sald that the congressman's suggestion was interesting but that he could say or do nothing more about it United been consulted snd Secretary because the States government had not M® AND MES. HOOVER A party made their American stop at Guayaquil, Ecu To reach the port they were trans ferred to the cruiser Cleveland and sailed for seven hours up the Guayas river. President Ayora and other of. ficials met them at the pler and the army and school children paraded through the gaily decorated and thronged streets, At a banquet the President and Mr. Hoover made ap propriate speeches, and next Gay the party, laden with gifts from the Ecua- doreans, wns on its way to Peru, escorted by a Peruvian cruiser. As Mr. Hoover stepper ashore In Calino Wednesday nine airplanes swooped above the harbor and thousands of citizens joined the officials in greeting him. Troops escorted Him along the concrete road to Lima, where he called formally on President Leguia, visited the famous eathedral In which is the tomb of Pizarro, and was en- tertained at a feast. In his address Mr. Hoover said that commercial air plane service between North and South America Is the key fo new un. derstanding and friendship and he predicted that such a service will be vealized within another twelve months, On the way from Pern southward the Maryland made a brief stop at Anio- fogasta, Chile, where an official party from landlocked Bolivia was on hand to meet the President-Elect. Valpa- raiso was the next port reached There and at Santiago the Chileans extended themselves in their welcome to their distinguished guests, Snismin, OUTHERN Chile experienced a ter- S rifle earthquake that killed more than two hundred persons and wrecked the town of Talea and Its port, Constitucion. The temblor broke a big dame at Barahona and forty were drowned in the rush of re. leased waters. Fifty more were killed in a copper mine. The govern ment was quick to send adequate re- lef forces and guards to the scene of the disaster. and thelr fogs South dor. Sam § KILLA physicians and his own brave spirit enabled King George of England about to hold his own against the attack of inflammation of the lungs, but his heart was rather weak and the doctors did not conceal the fact that he was still In danger. Tuesday the king signed an order cre ating a royal commission to perform his duties during his (liness, He pamed Queen Mary as its head, the other members being the prince of Wales, the duke of York, the arch. bishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancel: lor Hallsham and Prime Minister Baldwin, This is not a regency but a council of state with limited powers to exercise some functions of royalty, chiefly the signing of documents, com missions and acts of parliament. The prince of Wales was conveyed by the fast cruiser Enterprise from Dar-es Salanm and reached Suez Friday night. He planned to land at Brindisi and the Italian government offered a special train to carry him from there to Calals hy the shortest route. The duke of Gloucester went from Bula- wayo to Capetown and sailed there on the steamship Balmoral Castle Friday. ~IELD MARSHAL SII WILLIAM E ROBERTSON took a nasty slap at the United States when addressing a of the League of Nations conference in London “Dis and still and § meeting trust {ealousy prevall 4 from the experience of ten years ago,” “1 still War ever he the bringing France and Italy f naintenance of he sald. fall to see how can means of 1 pence still consider the large Russia tary aver armies a national necessity continues to keep formidable mil forces, {serm is fretting iders | Any ts defenseless post nflgenced by imperial apparently means, tinue increas y, and official rances on lance to ustemed to previous to ation bear cls + claims we were acs in Germany of 1014-18." day Ambassador Hough- the annual dinner of the Pil. society in London, assured Great Britain and Europe that Ameri cans and other peoples of the west hemisphe really lovers of and he pointed out that the infortified and un san-Canadlan frontier afficient to the world that side not made 3 LL he tragedy The ton, nt same grims re are ples ean live side by armed against each other NE of the frequent peasant up- O risings against the Soviet govern ment of Russia has just been sup pressed in the Minsk district by the cheka punitive detachments and sbety of the insurgents had been executed at accounts, lefore they were routed the rebels had Interrupted ralirond communications with Poland, burned Soviet model farms, murdered Communist village officials and am- bushed the tax collectors. The Rus- sian grain collections for November are sald to have been only a third of the anticipated amounts and the gov ernment Is alarmed by the decrease in Siberia, the Urals and Caucasus, last padian distilleries were indicted by a federal grand jury in Buffalo, N. Y.. as an step in fresh efforts to stop the liquor smuggling across the bor- der. Thirty true bills were returned charging conspiracy to smuggle whisky and other intoxicants Into the United States. In Detroit the government is uncovering a $2.000000 river liquor bribery of customs border patrol in- spectors and guards by the booze run- ners. Already twenty or more of the inspectors have been arrested and startling confessions have been ob tained. NOTHER big bank merger in Chi. engo has First Trust and Savings, are to be merged with, the Union Trust eom- pany. This consolidation will give Chicago two of the largest banks In the United States, Total assets of the First National-Unlon Trust com- bination will approach $600,000,000, total deposits will be nearly $500000,- 000 and capitalization will be about £70,000000. It will be second only to the recently announced Continental Illinois Merchants merger. TRIKING metal workers and their employers of the Ruhr district in Germany agreed, under pressure of the government, to abide by the arbi tration of Minister of the Interior Severing, and the plants have been reopened on the previous wage scale pending his decision. EZRA MEEKER, the last survivor of the Oregon Trail ploneers and an most plcturesque figare, died last week in Seattle at the age of ninety. goven years. He took his wife and fnfant child over the tral In 1852, Certain Legumes Improve Soils | Cowpeas and Soy Beans as Effective Fertilizer as Manure. Anyone haviug a field which be is not golng te use for producing a war ket crop year might tind it a good plun te improve the soll by sow ing cowpeas or soy beans, suggests HH. RB Cox, specialist In farm crops ut the New Jersey State College of Agriculture, New this use ten tons of manure to the acre and they are considered as being prac following year. Soy Beans Cheaper. Soy beans are cheaper than cow peas by about 50 or 75 cents a bushel Soy beans are, therefore, 8 better crop to use for this purpose. case of suy beans it Is thew before. One may buy commer clal lpoculants or he may use the “seed and soll” method. consists In mixing a bushel of slightly taken from a soy beans years, field which has successfully in Drill or Broadcast. Boy beans or drilled, but If a driil Is not available, broadcasting by hand and barrowing will do, Five pecks to the acre is n good rate of seeding. An appl! cation of a complete fertilizer high in i in nitrogen may well be made at the | rate of 300 When the crop Is beginning to mature, { plow it under or disk it In and sow er crop. A surprising improvemem in the fertility of the field will result. | Labor Cost Is Big Item in second iarge herds labor Is usually the wos! important tem in the of milk prodoction. From the ing of cost accounts In many sec cost keen tions of the country the amount of la bor required in caring for a cow has heen found from 100 to 170 hors per sear. Under average condi to range tions the care of a cow for a year may be considered equivalent to about 10 work On general farms where only a few kept no additional hired for their care. formed either by time of day when it does not inter fere with the field operations or the cows are cared for largely by the ehll family before and after Thus the keeping of a rovides employment for un days’ COWS are labor is The work is per lern of the school hours, few cows | paid | WO iabor contributes a considerabl« i wn of the family living and adds to the farm Income, of labor expended depends upon sev | eral factors, among which the size of | the herd, convenience of barn and milk house, distance from market, and { cleanliness of milk produced, are Im portant. Sell Cream to Creamery Before It Is Real Sour Allowing cream to become real sour i before delivering it to the creamery houses lowers the grade of butter | made from | taking of an accurate sample for de termining the butterfat content of the cream more difficult. Cream is not pure butterfat. It con tains moisture even when the test runs high, When the cream Is exposed to | a temperature of 70 degrees Fahren heit or | evaporates above, This lessens cream. It doos not Increase the orig | the container. a larger Income than a similar amount kept nt lower temperatures. | than If it Is cooled after each separa fams, Purdue universi'y. = * Rives) Most whent growers who use com mercial fertilizers commonly dM the fertilizer directly with the wheat, . 0°» Calves are like human bables, Some are so husky no abuse could kill them while others must be handled like soft. shelled eggs. o 9 A good time to lime the sofl that needs it is when preparing for the corn crop. Plow down the clover and before disking sprand the Ilme, . "0 An eight-year-old Holstein cow at a farm near DPetershoro, Ont, estab lished a record by producing 19.660 pounds of milk and 810 pounds of but: terfat in BOG days. . 0» Where alfalfa has ° winter-killed goy beans can be grown as a sub stitute for the year, say authorities at the Minnesota Agricultural Experi ment station. Soy beans Increase but terfat in the milk, leeplessness— Nervousness, Nervous Nervous Headache, Neurasthenia Dyspepsia, Ne i TXT NERVINE Sleeplessness is usually due to a disorder Ww ed condition of the nerves. Dr. Miles’ Ner- vine has been used with success in this and other nervous dis- a orders for nearly fifty years. 8 generous sample for stam Dr. Miles Medical in Elkbant. Ind, Phe | Possibility of the Moon’s Return to the Parent Body Not Alarming By SIR OLIVER LODGE, British Scientist. Forces working in the moon will eventually make it return to the | earth, its parent body. J have been asked if there would not be a sear where the moon broke away from the earth if the moon formerly was a part of the earth. One view is that it might have broken away in the region of the Pacific ocean, causing that great depression, now water. Another theory is that a protuberance and not a scar would be left | on the face of the earth. That might account for the Himalayas. I can say with certainty that the action which broke the moon away from the { earth would tend to push it farther and farther away for a time, but that the solar tides gradually would pull it back toward the earth. By CHARLES W, NASH, Manufacturer, Kenosha, Wis. OR the last generation the young American, especially in Wiscon- sin, has grown up listening to new political and industrial the- ories; he is educted in colleges where many of the professors, probably disappointed in their own failures to find success in our organization, expound theories that come devilishly close to Bol- shevism. He hears politicians declaim against the order of things that | have a proven vaiue. ta} social When be is ready to enter commercial and industrial life, the young American has been led to the crossroads. lis contacts at that time, when he is so susceptible to suggestions, determine to a great extent whether he will take the road leading to the red or pink camp or whether he will 1. 3 . take the genuine route to true The throws a heavier obligation upon his emp Progress, a characteristics of this educated young American lover. distinctive As compared to the European artisan and the American tradesman of twenty years ago, this new generation is temperamentally an artist. With thoughtful manage- ment, giving consideration to his demand for respect and for opportuni- ties, the American college boy goes far in the industrial world. Without | this consideration, he succumbs to the agitation of red propagandists. The obligation is on the shoulders of the employer to give his young men the proper guidance. ~~ This high-strung young American cannot be handled like the more | stolid worker in the better class of immigrants, nor like the American | artisan of a generation ago. The American tradesman, like most of the He did not ing manhood. Both of these types have their advantages to an employer, and if an | employer does not get along with both types it is generally his own’ fault, I make stockholders of my men, give them a true understanding | of the importance of their work, help them organize social clubs, and aid | them in buying homes. | Europeans of today, faced the cold facts of life early. Carry illusions and visionary philosophies into bu Pillars on Which Christendom Rests Threatened by New Licentious Theories By DR. HENSLEY HENSON, Bishop of Durham (England). What reason is there for being eonfident that the Christianity of England in 1928 is more firmly fixed in the national acceptance than | that of France and Russia on the eve of their revolutions? However the existing situation may be viewed, one feature is equally incontestable and disquieting—the general and increasing ignorance of the Christian faith and morals which mark our population. As a nation we appear to be living on an inherited capital of Chris- tian morality which is steadily wasting. A nation of churches and ecreed- less Christianity now seems to commend itself to large numbers of Eng- lish folk. The record of revolution suggests that the two points on which the attack on Christianity is soonest made are sex morality and education. The two pillars on which sex morality in Christendom has hitherto rest- ed have been the conception of the marriage union as permanent, by divine law, and the claim of children as the normal product of the mar- riage union. Both these have been removed by the licentious theories now largely accepted in Europe. Hence the chaos into which sexual morality has fallen throughout western civilization. { ance of the Lord’s Day By MONSIGNOR MICHAEL J. LAVELLE. By the observance of Sunday as a holy day a nation is aided in its | progress in civilization. It is not the mere bringing of people to church that is so important. It is the planting and bringing forth of the spiritu- ality within them, In a certain sense the United States would seem to be one of the greatest mations in the observance of the Lord’s day. Who would say that it has not aided ir bringing us to our present position in the world today? We know what a tyrant fashion is, or rather that we are slaves to fashion. Why should we not have fashions for things that are good? It is evident that the combined prayers of all the people have greater force in bringing spiritual blessings than the prayer of the individual, I make a plea for attending mass, giving a reasonable part of your time for the sanctification of your soul and listening to sermons of rea- sonable length, Pray earnestly that this love may grow more strongly | in your hearts and, spreading over the country, lift us to a higher spirita- | ality. . «i a
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