Curtis Champion fife and drum corps of the NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Chairman Legge Makes Plain to Senators His Farm Board Policy. By EDWARD WwW. PICKARD LEXANDER LEGGE, chairman of the federal farm board, intends that the money put at the disposal of the board shall be handled “with a reasonable measure of safety,” and he doesn't wish his appointment to be confirmed under the mistaken lmpres- sion that any other policy will be fol- lowed. If the senate does not approve of this policy, Mr. Legge is perfectly willing to give up his office and return to his home in Chicago and his private business, So much, and a lot more to the same purpose, the chairman told the senate committee on agriculture which was considering his appointment. Democratic and radical Republican members of the committee questioned Mr. Legge sharply for many hours and made plain their displeasure be- cause the board in the two months of its existence had not more rapidly organized stabilization corporations and placed at their disposal large funds with which to enhance the prices of farm products Senators Brookhart of Iowa and Wheeler of Montana were especially vexed by the fallure of the farm board to take steps assuring the stabilization of wheat prices during the present crop season. Senator Wheeler said that if the board had announced that a stabilization corporation would be pre- pared to operate the farmers would have held their wheat. Senator Frazier of North Dakota sald the farmers of his state had lost from 25 to 40 cents a bushel on wheat because of the fail ure of the board to take action. Mr. Legge explained that stabiliza- tion corporations would be organized as rapidly as it is possible to deter- mine that they can operate with a reasonable prospect of success. It is intended, he sald, that the grain marketing corporation, which was organized at Chicago conferences, shall act as a stabilization corpora- tion. He explained that steps toward the formation of this corporation were taken within nine days after the board organized, Wheeler intimated that the board's loan to the Sun Maid Ralsin Growers’ association was made for the benefit of a Wall street house that floated the bonds of the Sun Mald Raisin corpora. tion, but Mr. Legge effectively scotched that idea by explaining that the loan prevented the financiers from fore closing on the company's property. He also took the wind out of the salls of those who sought to attack him per- sonally in the matter of his connec tion with the International Harvester company by a detailed statement of earnings and market values of that The interest in it. HIPBUILDING company officials for whom Willlam B. Shearer at- tended the Geneva arms limitation conference in 1027 all virtually dis owned him in thelr testimony before the senate Investigating committee, agreeing in stating that they attached small importance to his reports and none at all to his claims of Influence there. In his final report to his em- ployers Shearer asserted his work In Geneva resulted in the collapse of the conference. He sald: “This advance campaign and the accuracy and an thentic data released by me automat- feally made me leader of the unofli cial fight to the extent that the Amer- ican officials referred the press to me, as they were bound to secrecy, with the result that the attempt to deliver the United States wax defeated by a complete expose, which Is now ac knowledged,” ENATOR HOWELL of Nebraska stirred up a hornet's nest when in the senate he declared the liquor laws could be enforced In Washing. ton if the President desired it, since he Is “all powerful In the capital” and could oust the district commis sloners if they neglected their duty. Mr. Hoover responded promptly with a statement that Mr. Howell had im- pugned the Integrity of the district officials, and called on the senator for “definite facts” supporting his charges of prohibition violations In the dis- trict, Reiterating his charges Tuesday, Senator Howell admitted he was un- able to give the time and of violations but sald it was “unfair to expect a senator so to do.” Senator Jrookhart then came to his rescue by telling of a convivial party he said was given In Washington by 8 New York stock broker in honor of newly elected senators and others some time He there was a of liquor for each guest, and lat said he would gladly face 3 place ago, declared he er ag d jury and tell all about the party, giving names of those present—which caused considerable alarm. There this function might be in. vestigated by those was cation that are probing ¥ 8 £4 fie » for, according the doings of lobbyists, to cussion tion, Mr. Howell, In acks, charged as one insta failure local Carlton club, one of the most exciu sive night clubs In the capital, has never been raided or closed up, al though four dry agents reported wit- nessing Volstead violations at numer ous tables. Later he said he would seek to have Gen, Smedley D. But. Brookhart, there ¥ dis. of pending r at- nce of the that the continuing his ’ of enforcers base at Quantico, detailed to Washing- ton for a “clean-up Job" General Butler recently compelled the town au- thorities of Quantico to enforce the prohibition law by the ma- rines not to enter the town until the speakeasies and were driven out, ordering bootleggers SINCLAIR'S appeal to for commutation been denied on recommendation of Attorney General Mitchell, the Imprisoned oil magnate issued a statement calling Mr. Mitchell to make public all the record in his plea. His principal rea. son for asking for freedom, Sinclair declared, was that he had been failed for jury shadowing—which had not before been prohibited by statute or rule of the court. “Observation of a Jury became contempt of court only when I engaged in It,” he declared. ARRY F. the President of sentence having on of ment of the attorney general ean be summed up to mean that I should re. main In jail because I was acquitted of an alleged offense for which he feels 1 should have been convicted” —— OR the first time President Hoover took a hand In the tariff fight when he issued a statement urging the re- tention eof the flexible tariff, which he asserted is “a protection for the sound progress In our economic system and for the future protection of our farm. ers and our industries and consum- ers.” He gave at considerable length his reasons for this assertion, taking direct Issue with the Democrats and radical Republicans who seek the re. peal of the flexible tariff. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippl predicted the President would be defeated on this proposition. VERY American was interested In the wedding of Ma). John Cool- idge, son of former President and Mrs. Coolidge, and Florence Trumbull, daughter of Governor Trumbull of Connecticut. The ceremony took place in the bride's home town, Plainville, Conn., and though the families tried to make it a simple affalr, it was at tended by a number of distinguished persons and the details were réad with avidity throughout the land. The wedding gifts nearly filled one half of the second floor of the Trumbull home and Included a big silver bow! and candlesticks from the foreign enveys in Washington. Mr. Coolidge gave “a substantial check” and Mrs. Coolidge presented a solid mahogany bedroom suite of colonial design and a check for $200, which she received for her poem, “The Open Door,” Inspired by the fifth anniversary of the death of her other gon, Calvin Coolidge, Jr. JACKSON REYNOLDS, president of the First National bank of New York, and Melvin A. Traylor, presi. dent of the First National bank of Chieago, American representatives on the commission that Is to set up the bank for international settlements pro- vided for In the Young reparations plan, have salled for Europe, where they will meet thelr European col- leagues. The effort to put the bank under complete control of the League of Nations falled for the time being in Geneva, but something in that line may come up at later sessions of the Since it Young should be not political nolds and Traylor did not Hoover before league assembly. by the bank ) inl and Me Rey confer with was speci. that by sion ated fled comimi the don STS, President departing. prime , occupy- liner United Presi uperial suite on sailed for the his conference ver. He is bringing with him be } English, the techni posed plan for ¢ tion settled and experts he told the of the § naval nts power al- that Is agreement. In conversations with Mr. Hoover, ides the naval conference, other rs entering Into Anglo-American will be dis of being certain changes liquor treaty negotiated conference have ready been all needed the bes is a diplomatic matte rel 1s cussed, one n possibly the ship in 1023. AST week It was Russia's turn to Issue an ultimatum, so the Soviet government warned the Na- nalist government that any further se attacks on the Russian popu. along the Manchurian border result in Immediate and decisive by the Red army. Chang Fak-wel, of the “Iron- sides” division, who was dismissed by the Nanking government, led his troops a rebellion that for some days looked very serious, jut toward the end of the week the Nationalist authorities announced the revolt was broken and Chang's soldiers surround- ed at Lichow. Letters from missionaries tell of the massacre, late in August, of 3.000 rebellious Moslems In the remote Kansu province. The victims were gathered at Taochow under a pretext and all males between the ages of fit teen and fifty were slaughtered, Chinese reactionary Cantonese fo wil OLITICAL quarrels In Austria, which for some weeks have been threatening civil war, were further complicated by the resignation of Chancellor Streeruwitz and his Chris. tian Socialist cabinet because certain elements in their party could no long. er be restrained. Johan Schober, head of the Vienna police, was made chan- cellor and he selected as minister of war Gen. Karl Vaugoin, who has made the army a powerful conservative force, of the Socialists, last February also resigned. Parlin. ment was dissolved and new elections were called for October 27. —— JA CCORDING to reports from Cal. cutta, Amir Habibullah, otherwise Bacha Sakao, the water carrier and bandit who made himself king of Af. ghanistan, was assassinated. Recen* advices from Peshawar stated unrest was Increasing in Afghanistan, owing to Habibullab's Inability 4 threatened, w— OLONEL LINDBERGH'S latest fent was a flight from Miami to Cuba, Trinidad, British Guiana and Dutch Guiana for the purpose of open- ing a new aerial route, Ile was ace compunied by Mrs. Lindbergh and sev- eral others and the trip was without undue incident. Coming back from Paramaribo to Port of Spain, the col- onel turned his plane westward for flight to Maracay, Venezuela. From there his homeward course included Curacao, Maracaibo, Barranquilla, the Canal Zone and again Cuba, Ans PROMINENT among those whom death claimed were Cardinal Du. bois, urchbishop of Paris; Gen, Harry F. Hodges, bullder of the Panama canal locks, and Miller Huggins, mane ager of the New York Yankees of the American league, {WHY WE BEHAVE i '{ LIKE HUMAN BEINGS | By GEORGE DORSEY, Ph. D., LL. D, ks fd | Smiling a Human Trait NjosT of us have about 310 muscles { on each side of our body. They | are subject to such variation that Tes- tut, a noted French anptomist, re- | quired 900 pages to describe them, | One-fourth of all our muscles are in | our neck and face, The human face | can Hight up or cloud over because iis | muscles are attuned for complex ac- tion—keyed to the human pitch, Facial muscles In mammals below ! man are more simple. We look for | Intelligence in the eyes of a horse, not In the expression of iis face... When it | needs to flick a fly from its face or | shoulder, it moves a muscle buried In | the skin. | animals like a blanket. We all have bits of this skin mus- | on the chest and back. Usually we can- not twitch it; we send a the fly. We have traces of it scalp: a few have enough to the whole scalp. ! kle our forehead-—and do, | plexed, pleasure and to frighten enemies, all have in our when Ve some can even wriggle them. So, the skin muscle of our while the deeper facial muscles show variation. They our most recent acquisitions, tain the muscle by which shows its canine tooth: we snarl, But the which smile is not so regularly present; man of gloom may have no ris Yariations In les nose and mouth, are usually forward-looking : they give the . ft. en they reveal what the mind Is trying to hide Only as we grow ence can we make our face a mask gressive are the can all muscle by we mus about the + necessary for speech, “speaking likeness” to n ir sx rer] in ex is inder the ¢ they na- r brain we when ween, not ra, Of » wear mile id our eves to free; hat they were once l« arms are they have <2 variations were 118 in the Ancestors wlies examined, ind in Ou four-handed, the arm muscles: were But when baby gets on the floor, it polls and pushes with its hind just crawled out of water on to dry land Paln pad at the outer edge of our palm—or know that immediate we are two-footed, with its fore Hmbs: fis We once up ists rarely read the foot ; both protect deep-lying muscles from injury In walking. The palm pad has its own palmar muscle in one it of every ten. It helped to the pads which protected the tendons beneath, aan ot work muscles and it 1s as atavi gave up walking 2.000000 years fate marriage, and the “girdle of Venus,” they can all be “read” in the hands and feet of monkeys, and to a certain extent In a baby's foot, or in ! the and feet. is as dead as phrenology. Anyone who can read “character” or “mental pacity” from head bumps or palm ines is a wizard stic as the pad itself; we on our hands about ago. As for “lines™ of and ot fetal hands Ci of variation, on which 1 have barely touched? There they are, by the thousands, by unnumbered thousands. Shall we say that they lie, that our levator coccygis never lifted a tail, that our curvator coccygis nev. er curved one, and that our attollens auriculam never lifted an ear? shall we say that we are walking mu- seums of comparative anatomy and try to find out whence wo came and ing range tain: perfect, or biologically ideal human quite alike. Each one of us reeks | with evidence that our ancestors were | tures we are now: that they had no | talking muscles: that they could not | countenance; and that they could not | balance their heads on their spines | enffs, they no i ble, mote past. They are prone to dis. | ense: we should be better off without them. | sisters of our body, functioning in a | half-hearted way: we could do with. out them-—many of us do. Some are progressive, a little bit more than hu man; they point to further change In man's physical structure. Taken together, they bridge every gap, and make a complete story. They prove that, while our eyes look for ward, our body has not forgotten its humble origin-—and carries some dead wood we were well rid of, such as ap- pendix, tail, snarling muscle. Our proneness to hernia and prolapse of the uterus is only one of the many proofs that our body Is not yet per fectly adapted to an upright gait. : (® by George A. Dorsey.) . Well Equipped fhe small daughter of a motor ear tire salesman was playing on the lawn of thelr home when her atten. tion was attracted, for the first time, by triplets, She ran excitedly into the house crying, “Mother, mother, I've just seen twins and » spare” summer Angeles In enrolled In the have reached Los Coeds N. CC. neces r to eamping and classroom. geolog of Catan ha colleg tour across Unite .' library and eversthi their the al emphasis on courses in of their university. lege on ————————— and Dust Before Reach- ing Carburetor. Something New. i the storekeor i Year the eng ' the storek from wha go very CCeSRATY gine. 1 ean remember overhaul the et ly routine” So being on my ing plenty of time, about this int velop “The a small carbure ment LOT. It before it res work ¢ this removes sches the carbu does its age from Howey permitted form on the cylinder walls and becom. ing mixed wilh the lubricating gerions wear would result, Two Kinds of Cleaners. “Two kinds of air cleaners are used on automobiles, the centrifugal type In the former, dirt and dust are separated from the air by means of centrifugal force, the principle being exactly the same as used In the well known cream The latter type i= a cir cular can filled with thin copper wire mesh, which Is wetted with oil. The dust in the Incoming air adheres to the olly surface and is thus pre. vented from entering the engine. “Recently engineers Inspected an er, if the te o enter the engine, it would ‘oll wetted. miles. No valves had been replaced or ground, no new rings or pistons had been put in, not an engine bearing had been taken up. None of these wns necessary: no bearing In fact the engine was just The air cleaner, to- factory. nicely run in. possible.” RRR RH RENN RRR RR RLRERNAR AUTOMOBILE NOTES Automobile drivers may look around the corner with a periscope recently placed on the market in Berlin, » * » The Netherlands East Indies has be- come autemobile struck and last year 8820 American‘made cars were shipped there, *. + » To take care of the many automo- biles at the Winged Foot tourney, many trees were cut down to provide parking space. en Automobiles shipped by rall brought a revenue of $108,7098080 to railroads fn 1028, according to the National Au. tomoblle Chamber of Commerce, *« » The East North Central states have 25 per cent of the motor vehicle regle. trations, while the Middle Atlantic states rank nest wih 22 per cont, - The Idea of some car owners that it ts all right to drive on a flat tire to the nearest service station in cost. 1y. Tt Is not a chance worth taking in this day of balloon tires cade of cars BECP PPE PIR IR EEE @ - Sick Car Diagnosis When “@ a car lacks Its inl ARE ee PLLPEPIPIPLIIIN *, pede de ddd a Prafede dod oe al of wed . “@ Ed GGG pep Gp tein de Go le Bo Ge Le Bp lp lp Ge Gp Bp ip in Concealed Ignition Wire Foils Automobile Thief gnition lock shown In the wrted not TO IGNITION CIRCUIT | oat DIsS® UNDER FUSE PLUG Concealed Battery Wire Foils Auto. mobile Thieves. break in the socket is other dinary some wiring. An screwed in inconspicuous position, as indi cated, and Is connected In the storage battery circuit. Of course, the wires leading to the socket must be well concealed. —Popular Mechanics Magazine. or. cleat “Dark Car” Menace Very Dangerous to Motorists There is a serious menace confront. ing every driver that could easily be avoided if car owners would use a fittle bit of thoughtfulness in the late evening, says the National Automobile club, This ig the menace of the “dark ear” whose owner has falled to turn on his lights as soon as darkness ap- proaches, Twilight becomes a definite menace when many drivers are negligent of one of the simplest precautionary measures in the decalogue of motor. ing. “Turn on your light” has become one of the most frequent signals to be seen on the roads of late. It is not only an eerie thing. but a dangerous thing as well to suddenly see looming out of the ohscurity ahead one of these “dark cars” whose driver seemingly is “cat eved” and therefore does not require the assistance of his own lights or the lights of approach. ing cars, Must Have Auto Under Control at Crossings The Supreme court of Nebraska has ruled that It is the duty of the driver of an automobile to have it under such control that when he reaches a point to sce and hear an approaching trals he can stop his car and Avold a col. lision at the crossing. The court held that failure to do so Is negiipence more than slight and will defeat re. covery of damages on the part of the automobilist, This is a rule the rail. road companies have been asking for, in view of the large number of auto. mobile accidents at grade crossings, a large percentage of which eonld have been averted through the exer. cise of even ordinary care on the part of the driver of the car
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