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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Hoover's Extensive Program
for Waterways—Golden
Jubilee of Light.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
prusibEs? HOOVER has definitely
taken his position as champion of
the development of our inland water-
ways and set forth the policy of his
administration in that connection. In
an address at Louisville, made during
his trip down the Ohlo in the celebra-
tion of that river's canalization, the
Chief Executive proposed a program
that would call for the expenditure
in the next ten years of approximately
one billion dollars for the Inland wa-
terways projects, He would complete
the canalization of the Mississippi sys-
tem of 9,000 miles within five years
at an annual outlay of $10,000,000 over
the present appropriation, and would
be ready to spend as much more on
the St. Lawrence project.
The chief points of the President's
program are thus summarized :
Establishment of a nine-foot depth
in the trunk systems and six or seven
feet in the tributaries of the 9,000
miles of navigable rivers of the coun-
try.
The federal government should not
ouly retire from the operation of
ocean shipping, but from the operation
of barges and craft on these rivers
after the period of pioneering.
Completion of the entire Mississippl
basin system of waterway Ian five
years.
The 740 miles of Intercoastal canals
should be lengthened by 1.000 miles
during the next ten years,
The great lakes channels should be
further improved and the lake levels
stabilized,
This Mississippl flood control project
to be expedited and finished in ten
years,
Harbors and thelr littoral water-
ways to be maintained and deepened
to accommodate the expanding foreign
commerce,
When it came to the matter of pro-
viding the needed funds, Mr. Hoover
adopted the Idea of beating our swords
into ploughshares. He expressed the
hope that the great Increase in ex-
penditures involved would be bal.
anced by reduction in the expend!
tures for the instruments of war as
the result of the present international
negotiations for naval limitation,
Mr. Hoover's first participation in
the Ohlo river celebration was at
Cincinnat! where, in Eden park he
helped dedicate a monument to the
men who staried the canalization work
B84 years ago and, as an engineer, gave
high praise to the wuy in which the
project had been carried out. He
and his party then took a stormy ride
to Loulsville on the old lighthouse
tender Green Brier, stopping briefly
at Madison, Ind. Patrol boats, yachts
and other passenger Loats carrying
members of the Ohlo Valley Improve.
ment association and officials from
several states trailed in the wake of
the Green Brier, making a flotilla of
16 vessels,
As the President's train was re-
turning to Washington some persons
discovered near Albany, Ind, an
automobile placed across the ralls
It was supposed an attempt had been
made to wreck the train, and indeed
that might have been the result; but
two negroes who were arrested sald
they had put the car on the track
in hope of collecting damages for its
destruction,
——
J ours golden jubllee, the fiftieth
anniversary of the creation of the
fneandescent electric lamp by Thomas
A. Edison, was celebrated more or
less.anll over the world but centered
in the transplanted early American
village, Greenfield, built near Detroit
by Henry Ford. There were gathered
President and Mrs, Hoover, Secretary
of War 3ood and other government
notables, Mme, Curie of France, co-
discoverer of radium, and a host of
other Important people to do honor
to the “Wizard” and his achievements,
Bowed by his elghty-two years and
almost overcome by emotion, Mr. Edi-
son, in his rebulit old original labora-
tory, repeated his final test of the
first successful Incandescent light, and
then at a banquet heard what his
fellow citizens and the world generally
thinks of him and his inventions, Con-
gratulatory messages from the prince
of Wales, President Hindenburg of
Germany and others were read; Owen
D. Young as toastmaster was eloquent,
and President Hoover revealed a de-
lightful vein of humor as well as a
deep appreciation of what Mr. Edi
son has done for humanity. Espe-
cially did he give the Inventor credit
for the wily he has demonstrated the
value of the modern method and sys-
tem of invention by bighly equipped,
definitely organized laboratory re
search. Henry Ford and his son Ed.
sel, the hosts of the occasion, de-
clined to speak. Mr. Edison himself,
in broken tones, thanled the Ameri
can people for the tribute paid him
and gave credit for a full measure of
his successes to his fellow workers
and the great thinkers of the past,
The celebration at Greenfield was
supplemented by the dedication of the
Edison Institute of Technology which
Mr. Ford has created as his concrete
tribute to his friend, the “Wizard of
Menlo Park.”
EPRESENTATIVES of twenty
nine co-operative live stock sales
agencies, meeting in Chicago at the
call of Chairman Legge of the farm
board, made satisfactory progress with
the organization of a central sales
agency. It will have subsidiary cor-
porations owned by ite member agen-
cles and financed to extend activities
toward stabilization of the live stock
industry,
Addressing the sixth conference of
major Industries in Chicago, Mr.
Legge warmly advocated an economic
parity between Industry and agricul-
ture as the only way to check the in-
crease of radicalism In America.
“The public can rest assured,” Mr.
Legge said, “that the American farm-
er will never be reduced to peasantry,
but unless he gets help, and geta it
quickly, drastic results may be ex-
pected. You can’t blame the farmers
for backing radical blocs. Those
blocs represent distress at home, If
we remove the distress we remove
the radicalism, If we don't we'll
see radicalism In the future that is
going to be worse than that we've had
in the past.”
EMOCRATS and radical Repub.
licans of the senate, striving at
least ostensibly to make the tariff bill
more favorable to the farmer, began
their fight against the schedules of
rates, Their succesa was variable,
and the hottest parts of the battle are
yet to come. The debates were so
long drawn out that there were re.
newed fears that the measure would
fail of enactment in the special ses-
sion,
Herbert C. Lakin of New York,
president of the Cuba company, was
an interesting witness before the sen-
ate committee Investigating lobbying.
He said that American interests with
Cuban sugar investments had thus
far spent $75,000 in lobbying against
an increased duty on sugar, and that
propaganda headquarters have been
maintained In Washington at a cost
of $24000 to date. Mr. Lakin in-
sisted that he and those he represents
do not desire to injure the domestie
beet sugar Industry and have tried
to work out a scheme that would be
equitable to all groups. Replying to
Senator Caraway’s questions, the sugar
man sald he belleved his Interests
would have been unsafe If he hadn't
employed persons to represent him in
Washington,
Aes BRIAND, premier of
France, and his cabinet stepped
out of office last week because the
chamber of deputies, by a vote of 288
to 277, refused its confidence in
Briand’s foreign policy. Briand, who
has been premier 13 times and is in
poor health, announced positively that
he would not accept the task of form
Ing another government. When par.
lament opened Briand demanded that
poned until after he had conferred
with allled governments, until the con.
ference at The Hague had been re.
sumed for final action on the interna
tional bank, and until after final re-
partition of German reparations. This
Dislike of the Young reparations plan
Rhineland was strongly evinced by the
right wing, which
the fall of the government. The left
wing leaders sald they really were
and the evacuation program. Eduard
Daladier, Radical Socialist, was
picked to form a new cabinet
ECAUSE
executed in Pola, Italy, there were
violent anti-Italian riots In
and other cities of Yugo-Slavia, and
the Itclian representatives in
country were threatened and insuited
Consequently Mussolinl, through Min
ister Carlo Galll, made indignant re
monstrance, demanding lmmediate in
vestigation and the cessation of the
press campaign against the Mussolind
policies.
ROWN PRINCE HUMBERT of
Italy arrived in Brussels to ask
officially for the hand of Princess
Marie-Jose of Belgium, and when the
The consent of the king and queen of
Italy was published at the same time,
Prince Humbert next day went to
Fernando di Rose,
unharmed, stood quietly until the tu
with the ceremony.
comes that Bacha Sakao, the deposed
surrendered to Nadir Khan, the new
ruler, stipulating only that thelr lives
be spared. Amanuliah, the former king
Nadir,
fire, of the Hollywood
ries of the Consolidatad Film Industries
possible for some time,
used by about 75 per cent of the mo-
the losses
films of new screen productions.
conscious and died.
that he landed somewhere In Green
land,
Dox, the huge German Dornler sea.
plane, made a successful flight over
Lake Constance carrying 100 persons:
these Included 150 passengers, nine
stowaways and ten members of the
crew, The big ship rose rapidly and
for nearly an hour flew at an average
speed of 100 miles an hour, though It
is capable of 138 miles. Italy, Japan
and Spain Immediately put in orders
for planes of the same type.
EVEN of the Communist labor lead.
ers who were tried in Charlotte,
N. C, for the killing of Police Chief
Aderholt of Gastonia during the strike
troubles, were found gulity of second.
degree murder and sentenced to prison
for terms ranging from five to twenty
years, Several of the convicted men
were from New York; others were na-
tive products,
TIERCE ralds by the bears brought
on the wildest scenes the New
York stock exchange has ever known,
and prices of stocks crashed down to
such low levels that billions of paper
profits were wiped out, Trading was
utterly demoralized as the brokers
fought to execute thelr orders, and the
ticker was nearly two hours behind
with the quotations, The excitement
was repeated only in lesser degree In
the curb market and in Chicago and
other exchanges, No explanation of
the great crash was satisfactory, at
least to the losers. The bulls strug
gled hard to keep their footing, with
some success later,
(@, 1929, Western Newspaper Unlon.)
Soy Bean Crop to
| Justify Combine
Advisable Only in Case
Where Job Totals 100
Acres of Crop.
(Prepared by the United States Depariment
of Agriculture.)
The purchase of a combine harvestee
for harvesting soy beans is advisable
only In the case where the job of
threshing per season is at least 100
acres of soy beans or 100 acres of soy
beans and small grain, says the bu-
reau of agricultural economies, United
total per-acre charge, Including Inter.
est and depreciation, will be less for
a ten-foot combine than for an eight
foot binder and custom threshing.
Cutting Loss Average.
“The experiments have shown that
in straight combining the cutting loss
averages about 8 per cent and the
threshing loss about 2 per cent, and
that when the crop Is barvested with
a binder and threshed with a
3 per cent,” says the bureau. “The
relatively Iarge harvesting loss for
both binders and combines is due
missed by the cutter bar, which cane
not he adjusted to cut lower than four
finches above the ground.
ing and picking-up with a combine Is
not uniform.
“Analysis of combined soy beans has
per cent, and on beans threshed
moisture
2%
from the shock the
ran about 15 per cent.
beans are generally below the allow.
able moistare content of 15 and 16 per
Nos. 1 and 2, but beans which
bound and threshed usually
amounts. To offset this lower
moisture content in combined beans it
from
for
these
is necessary to delay combining
three to ten days after the time
cutting with a binder,
Harvesting Charges.
indicate that combine
twelve acres
“Reports
operators harvest about
in a six-hour day and binder opera.
tors ten acres in about seven hours
foot combine Is about $1.10 per acre
This
deprecintion,
about £3,
interest and
threshing,
include
Orchard Renovation Is
Many growers are confronted from
ovating an orchard. Unless the
be a very profitable operation.
It is hard to choose a starting point
in such an operation. Probably the
place to start is in the early fall
to do is to give the
Dead
Then
best
and the first thing
orchard a good pruning.
should be taken out first.
light conditions of the tree
should be improved by taken out good
sized limbs here and there where they
will do the most good. After this the
other bearing wood should be thinned
out slightly.
After pruning, =a
spray is next in line.
up any scale which may
whole
good dormant
be finding a
trees,
chard is pruned.
spring
bringing about a good set of fruit.
Farm Notes
Fall is the time for fixing lawns,
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Study the home grounds now for
changes you may want to make for
next year,
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Select seed corn for next year
Save only healthy. early-matured ears
from vigorous and disease-free stalks
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Trash, litter, and dead grass and
weeds that may form a harbor for the
meadow mouse should be Kept away
from the tree trunks.
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Rince peach leaf curl is a disease
spasmodic in appearence, it pays to
play safe and spray, though no sign of
the disease is apparent.
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Damp weather and poor seed favor
most of the losses from plant disease,
The weather eannot be controlled,
but disease-free seed is a help.
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Trees that are given a moderate
amount of pruning at regular inter
vals will usually produce more profits
able crops than those that are pruned
heavily and then neglected.
- - .
Rod orchards generally suffer worse
from mouse Injury than cultivated
ones because more mice are likely to
be present and better nesting places
are generally found near the (ree
tranks,
LE .
Contrary to general belief, alfe/fa
hay lg a good feed for horses, and has
no bad effects If it is not fed ‘a
large quantities, About a pound a
day for each 100 pounds live wight
of the animal is not too much,
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Lane; it
Psychology in automobile driving
will make the world safer for motor-
ists and pedestrians. That is the ad.
of peychology at Johms Hopkins uni
Standardization and simplicity, two
names for driving psychology. Is urged
by Doctor Dunlap us a panacea for
traflic problems and accident preven
tion,
For instance, the monotonous run of
“dangerous curve” signs on
curves tends to make the driver of an
cautious when ap
Stand
ardization of these signs would serve
on the
He could relax
gentle
automobile less
alert for bad curves,
ARE GREAT NEED
Four Traffic Lanes Would
Soon Pay for Themselves.
(By E. E
townrd a
center on a sunny
when
bound for
pertinent
The first thing that is
pressed upon
against the heavy traffic
two lane roads are
wide enough—usunily by two Innes
Slow trucks, crawling hulks of
cars, hyper-cautious drivers hold back
traffic until a jam of cars a quarter
mile or so long results,
Human Element Enters.
Drivers driven to distraction by de.
lays then suddenly dart out from their
prescribed lanes of travel when on
coming traffic permits of a passing.
Here, well-known human element
enters in, for if a driver misjudges
the spaces a collision may re
sult. A four-hour
wave of
several
be recounted without a
pressure.
In addition to the dar
in forging ahead on the two-lane road,
the inability to get speed in
with the temper of modern
cars, most of which travel some fifty
miles an hour without
bration. Fifty miles an
a dangerous speed, yet it
attained on the
row road when cars are thick.
Another criticism of the rural road,
in remote regions as well as metro
politan areas, is that it usually passes
through the center of every hamlet
One little
in southern Wisconsin, with a
single traffic light on the main bigh.
the chief
is frequently nothing
short of choked with sutomobiles
that have no business there,
Must Be Widened,
Narrow roads must be widened as
fast as communities can make finances
available, for without doubt conges-
tion and accidents are costing as
much or more than wider roads. Two-
lane roads are suitable for traffic only
where week-day travel is light amd
week-end travel moderate. A heavy
volume of traflic demands roads at
least four lanes in width, Accidents
Duffy)
large
Saturday aft.
Motoring
finn
met ropol
wheeled hordes are
the open country,
facts about highways.
the mol orist going
flow i= that
decidedly bot
old
the
open
ride against
brought
cannot
country-bound trafiic
narrow escapes that
rise in blood
there is
CXCessive vie
hour is not
nar
roid builders’ magic all congested
routes were to be widened. That
would mean a distinet lowering of car
insurance rates.
PPPIPPIPPIIIPINPPPPIRPIIPOP
AUTO HINTS
CELEPTPIPETITIPEILPRIIINE
Ah average of 5,500 miles was trav.
eled by each automobile in this coun
try last year.
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Motorists in England were taxed
more than S127.005,000 for the opera.
tion of 1,758,000 motor vehicles in the
past year,
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“Remember away back when a flat
tire drew a sympathetic look from
passing motorists "Des Moines Reg:
ister, No, we are not that old.
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“A hotel for automebiles is the sug
gestion of u prominest New York con:
tractor” -1f you can Imagine a bell
boy rushing a quart of oll up te 700
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Are refugees loging their speed? A
comparative table shows more people
killed on New York streets in 1028
than st the Uret Bgitle of Boll Run
i
when the signs told him things were
comparatively serene ahead.
The simplifying of trafiic signals
would make driving of an auto a me.
chanical process, according to Doctor
Dunlap.
Red, he says, can easily be misun-
derstood in traffic lights, for the rea-
that that cooler does not always
indicate stop. Detour signs are red.
signals are red, Signals set
up to indicate road repairs are red
will never be trained to
point of an automatic. unreflect-
80ND
Danger
“Drivers
the
ing ‘stop’ on the red light so long as
other red In signals are re-
tained.” Doctor Dunlap. “Fatal
accidents nse of
red road obstructions,
uses of
Buys
have
lanterns on
occurred from
co
MOTOR QUIZ
How Many Can You Answer?
Q. What
how ca it
Ans £11 " waa rk
An i Jnily } 8 rk
de becomes
causes preignition
» remedied?
and
plug
red
early
center electro
hot and fires the mixture
causing pinging and a sharp de
crease in the Migine's
Channoine
HNe1ag
power.
to “cooler” spark
plugs will
Q. What
sbi fel
shifting
correct the trouble.
causes the boise in
Ans. Usually the fault
with the driver who is
lies
afraid of
shift and so
making a noisy
® should be
hurrie The
mad almly deliberately
without rushing or hesitating to
avoid noises. Also improper ad
Justment of clutch lever causes
clutch to drag
Q. What should be done with
a punctured spare tire?
Ans. The spare should be re
paired at once,
Q. What is considered a good
rule to be governed by for test.
ing oll level In the crankcase?
Ang. Test the oll every
time the tank is filled with gaso-
line.
shift
and
level
z
in Luggage Compartment
No need to fish around in the dark
find something In the lug-
gage You can easily
arrange an automatic light which will
go on when the trapdoor is lifted, and
when you close it. A socket
of the bayonet type to hold a head
light bulb is attached underneath tho
front edge of the door opening, and a
stoplight switch is attached at a
trying to
compartment.
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STORAGE
DATTERY
STOP LIGHT
SWITCH
Automatic Light for Luggage Com.
partment Goes on When Lid Is Up.
point where it can be connected by
means of a chain to the hinge or te
a serew eye in the door,
The chain should be adjusted with
enough slack so that when the door
is In a fully opened position, the
switeh will be thrown en. Kun a
wire from the ungrounded battery
terminal to one terminal of the socket,
connect the other terminal of the
socket to one terminal of fhe stop
light switch, and groomd the other
terminal of the switch to the nearest
point on the metal frame of the car.
Popular Science Monthly.
Headlight Problem Due
to Owner's Indifference
Many a headlight problem is due to
the car owner's indifference. This is
especially true, service men report,
when the motorist Is taking his annual
tour.
On a trip of this character, which
may involve night driving and the ne
¢ sity for effective headiighting, the
ear owner is prone to forget that high
speeds with thelr possible vibration
and rough roads are likely to affect
both the focus and the aiming of the
headlights. Good illumination Is close:
Iy related to keeping this point in