Fia. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Wets Give House Committee Opinion of Dry Laws— Hughes Confirmed. By EDWARD WwW, PICKARD V HAT the opponents of the Eighteenth amendment and the Yolstead act really think of those pleces of legislation and their effect on the lives and morals of the Amer- ican people was brought out forcibly last week in a hearing held by the judiciary committee of the house of representatives. That body has be- fore it a number of bills designed to cancel or modify the prohibition laws, and Chairman George 8. Graham of Pennsylvania, himself a wet, decided to give both sides a chance to present their best arguments. The public in Washington liked the idea and flocked to the hearing in numbers that thronged the large house caucus room. Mr. Graham, ings, said: gpening the proceed- “This hearing will not in- terfere with President Hoover's crimé commission, but rather, be in aid thereof.” The Eighteenth amendment, he as- serted, has been tested for ten years without satisfactory results. enforce. ment having left “a train of quences most deplorable and depress- ing to every patriot. “Let us reason gested. “Not with is the foe of dividual COnsSe- together,” he sug- the fanatic, for he well as in- but broad- minded men and women of every faith and belief, and try to relieve country by conceiving one not i violation of religious as liberty, with our a new system-—— he bludgeon and men's conse victions regardin “No can ever be is destructive of liberty. You may guerrilla warfare and its ions, reeking murder, bribery, corruption, Jations, or evasions and disrespect for all law. Every law to be capable of being without such a train of consequences must not be incon sistent with the mind of the people of the country as being right and must not be destructive of Individual lib. erty.” Representative Sabath of Illinois first explained his proposed amend- ment giving the government control over the dispensing of liquor as in Sweden and Canada, and then called as his first witness Walter W. Lig- gett, & magazine writer whose articles on prohibition have brought him be- fore various grand juries. For an hour Mr. Liggett told of the crime, debauchery, corruption and hypocrisy he said he had found existing In Wash. ington, Poston, Michigan, Kansas, Minnesota and North. Dakota, Sum- marizing it, he said: “In Washington 700 speakeasies and 4000 bootleggers operate unmolested, In Boston prostitution is rampant, with 15,000 persons engaged in purveying booze. In Kansas, after 50 years of prohibition, there is not a town where I ean't buy a drink in five minutes; Detroit is in the grip of gangsters and crooked politicians; drinking goes on merrily in Minneapolis; and North Dakota consumes immeasurably more liquor than before prohibition” The witness made many sensa- tional detailed statements and when cross-examined by drys he declared he could prove them all but was sure he would not be called on to do so. This was only the start, for the As- sociation Opposed to the Prohibition Amendment had a long line of wit- nesses ready for each proposed bill After the wets were through, of course, the drys were to have their oppor. tunity, and they, too, were fully primed for the occasion. founded on ientious con- Inw create a condit with enforced OTH wets and Democrats were cheered by the results of an elec tion In the Springfield (Mass) district to fill a congressional vacancy. The gaccessful candidate was Fred D, Griggs, a Democrat and an avowed wet. The Democrats professed to be. Heve this presaged the election of a Democrat In November to succeed Senator IY. H. Giilett, who Is not a candidate for renomination, The Springfield district, which is the home of former President Coolldge, Is nom- inally Republican, but Griggs won by several thousand votes, Some of the Democratic leaders sald the result to be credited to dissatisfaction with the Hoover administration. , wns N THE Central West there were several big events in connection with prohibition. A federal grand jury in Springfield, lil, indicted the Fleisch. mann Yeast company, the Corn Prod- ucts Refining company, and the Hub- binger Brothers company of Keokuk, lowa, as corporation conspirators against the dry law, with furnishing large s yeast and corn sugar to tillers. A lot of minor indicted. Another grand jury in Chicago returned in. dictments 188 individuals and small con scattered the country on charges indus. trial aleohol. The ofli- cials said this was the breaking up of They are charged yments of filicit dis bootlegrers also were federal against Orns if misusing government the biggest * the king of Srebren, r in the country, rlhiem who invented jon for removing ingredien alcohol, EFORLE reaching a vote he confirmation of the appointment of Charles Evans Hughes us chief justice of the Supreme court, the sen- heard a attacks on Mr. Hugh lems and tleman and his opposition was number of rather violent the toward economic ute sUD Sir supposed 108 to warm defense o record. Leading Idaho, the chronic everything as well The for Hughes wang 52 to 26. firmation were 38 Republicans and 14 confirmation of Mr. Voting for con vole Democrats, while in the negative were 11 Republicans and 15 Democrats, SUBMARINES are not to be banned as weapons of war by the naval conference in London, but their against merchant ships Is to be re. stricted and “humanized.” Such is the assertion of Mr. Stimson and Mr MacDonald, heads of the American and British delegations respectively, made after the had been taken up by the conference in plenary gession. The British proposed that the submarine be abolished and the Americans seconded that, but the French and Japanese objected, as was expected, and the Italians sat on the fence, All, however, were willing that ruthless warfare by submersibles on merchant vessels should be outlawed, Tardien put France in a commanding position when he gave oit the French demands. He an- nounced that he was willing to aban- don his government's naval requiie- ments which were laid down in the 1923 program, on one condition only. This condition is a mutual guarantee from the other powers, By 1030, the French memorandum says, the French navy will comprise a total tonnage of 724470 tons, This approximates the sea strength of Japan, who proposes 757070 tons as her proportion, and swamps Italy. who suggests a figure in the neighborhood of 400000 tons as her needs, The French strength wonld approgimate the British and American strength In a ratio of 5-2. The Japanese delegation on Thurs day made public its position, stating that Japan is ready to assent to a holiday in battleship construction un til 1086, which also is favored by the Americans and the British ; that Japan fa willing that the tonnage of battle. ships be reduced to 25,000 tons and the maximum caliber of guns to 14 inches, Mr. Stimsoil's demand, at first sup pressed, that In arranging battleship parity with Great Britain the United use question Premier States be permitted to build one new battleship of the type, of England has two, appears to been firm opposition of the as adverse Rodney which have ' abandoned owing to the dritish as wel One Min- criticism at home, rumor was scotched when ister MacDonald told house of commons that there was no question of Great Britain scrapping apy battle ships of the Ii Nel Queen Elizabeth or Royal Soverelin classes, and that nel cans nor anyone else had a The conference del ‘rime the dney and son, ther ny ad d mis of the question of meth referring it back to together and min anal cruise: num dingion io be based on ting big gun righteen was lirection of the house naval toward WW LLiAN HOWARD steady progre Wee K!~6 ALFONSO fo ti ai ” gw» 33 ui cafioid police were ordered by Premier Berenguer to disturb this and similar mest. though street demonstrations were barred, mer erals, Count and lk says the only in Spain constitutional government fn after that of England, tomanones ader of the way to save th i= to premier monarchy establish ys a modeled SACRKETT, ambassador to presented his credentials to President Yon Hindenburg and most dially received. In address Mr, Sackett expressed for the president as the living embodiment of German love for the fatherland. He then praised the und deter. mination with which ple are facing post-war problems, <« REDERIC M. American the Germany new was Or. his his admiration energy the German peo- able to years to come, republics would be gether for peace in EN million dollars will be ad- vanced, it was announced by the federal farm board, to the new Grain Stabilization corporation, organized in Chicago recently by grain cooperative associations, in an effort to cheek the decline in wheat prices, The new corporation, the first of its kind created and financed under the terms of the marketing law enacted seven months ago, will be empowered to purchase and store such quantities of wheat as may be necessary to con trol the surplus and stabilize the mar ket. It was incorporated in Dover, Del, B A sunall, funs rejoiced to hear of the good fortune of Connie Mack, veteran manager of the world's champion Athletics, He has received the Edward Bok award of 510,000 presented annually to the man or woman who, during the precoding twelve months, “rendered the most outstanding service to Philadelphia’ The gift was enclosed in an ivory case ahd accompanied by a gold medal, (@), 1920, Western Newspaper Union.) Good Roads Have Helped Farmers Those Who Once Grew Only Staples Now Plant Many Good Crops. The period of phenomenal progress in good road building throughout the United States which has marked the past ten years, has worked an unan- ticipated and extremely beneficial American diet. For every wholesome green vegetables, readily marketable In the nearest city. This Is the odd and interesting point brought out by Earle Duffy, writer in the Farm Journal, who points out that good roads are quite as essential to the modern farmer as his agricultural machinery itself, Change In North Carolina. “In North for example, this amazing has about since the passage of the first $50,000, 000 state bond issue for good roads in 1021,” he points out. “Farms where nothing but tobacco was grown for decades, are now green with truck crops of all kinds, Dairying, too, has sprung into prominence, for it has be- come an matter to ship dairy products to market by truck.” The same change has been wrought by good roads throughout the country, it is Farmers who once de- pended entirely upon one staple cotton, tobacco, whent now golng in widely for and fruits which would have been too perishable to be grown profitably under transportation conditions. Now, becanse these modities ean be whisked to market within a few hours, city residents are Ya- Carolina, ange come Cassy shown, almost crop ~R re vegetables corn, old com- demanding recelving a more ried and constantly Increasing green diet, Although the total of surfaced road construction in country been shenomenal recent years, there is 1 3 . the has still much to be done. Of 287,000 miles ys in the United States, 100,000 sur. fm- led writer of state highwa miles are miles to be ) tely Rpproxima 1 aced, leaving 97.000 being the gaps are Farm Journal Iowa, for example, is at £100.000.000 road nean a paved network cov proved. But rapidly, points out. ef tee prog: y O00 000 on + 7.500 miles paved roa states are rapidly filling wp paved gaps, Essential to Farm Success. Farmers who a few years posed road improvements or dubious concerning their advantages are now conceding that paved high- Ways are essent nl 1 SUCCOSS, » te lei Nun ¥ individ BRED op wore fa al but fierce- farmers sections are competing other today,” sa inl inly a rural comm pavements, Ys les of smooth ulton county, Georgia, Is better fitted to do battle for its than a must do business in ghare of prosperity neighbor ing county which 250 miles of mud” Pasturing Sweet Clover for Profitable Results Dest pasturing sweet clover, says J. H. Meseman, Madison can be secured by sow. {ng a field of the legume each spring. In that way there will be both one- year fields and two-year fields avall- able. When seeding sweet clover in native pasture land, J. H. says to disk the ground as early in the spring as possible. Also, give a light covering of manure to the pasture portions which are to receive the clover, says a writer in the Farm Journal, “Sow sweet clover as early In the spring as you can work the ground” says he. “I prefer corn-stalk ground; I give it a light disking, and follow with a harrow. One cannot get the geed-bed too firm for sweet clover” Messman says sweet clover is better than native grasses because it remains green even when the weather is hot and dry. In hig locality, he does not pasture the crop the first year until about the middle of July, and in a reasonably good year the pasture will take care of one head per acre till November or hard freezing weather. In the second year after planting, Messman turns in stock about the mid- die of July, Then the cattle are taken off, so that the sweet clover seed erop will mature. Pasturing the crop until the middle of July and then clipping jt prevents excessive growth which would prevent the binder handling it easily when harvesting, results in county, Neb, Increase Average Yield of Milk and Butterfat Tens of thousands of yearly herd averages, and hundreds of thousands of yearly individual cow records from dairy herd improvement associations have shown that it is well within the range of possibility to double the pres- ent average yield of milk and butter. fat per cow. In fact, among a hun- dred thousand yearly milk records, twenty-two thousand were above nine- thousand pounds a year. This shows that eventunlly we may provide an abundance of dairy products for more than two hundred million people in this country without increasing the present number of our dairy cows, It will, however, require more feed per cow because high-producing dalry cows ure normally big eaters. They ean uot make something out of nothing. Crop Insurance Up to Farmer to Plan Good Rotation Systematical- ly Handled Is Best. “Soll fertility is the best Insurance against crop fallure and damage by adverse weather conditions,” says lL. B. Miller of the University of Illinois, He states that a good crop rotation, systematically handled and reinforced ns needed with mineral and organic fertilizers, constitutes a crop insur- ance policy which guarantees greater dividends than the anuual premiums amount to. Many years of cropping on Illinois farms and on the soll experiment fields of the agricultural college have shown that in the normal seasons farming of this sort pays re turns greater than the ported, average or cost, he re- When the unfavorable season comes along the soll fertility crop insurance prevents disaster and hardships In much the same way that fire or thef insurance do when a loss is suffered, There is the added advantage that the crop Insurance has paying {ts way as it went along. True enough, there are extreme conditions and occa- sional fallures In of the best practices known, but the odds are greatly in favor of the well fertilized farm. been crop spite well managed, Getting Chaff in Wool Quite Costly Mistake Farmers might nas well throw away of their wool as to allow the fleeces to become filled with chaff, seeds and burrs during the cording to H. G. Zavoral, extension live stock specialist, university farm, St. Paul, who says that too much wool is being do not winter, ace discounted beciuse growers take sufficient pains to keep » Wool foreign material has to be put throug the fleeces clean. contal an exira process for cleaning biel r tno wool b ely 20 cent of ap- value ACCOraing uyers, costs proximat per the of the wool, or from 5 to 8 cents a pound. hay, straw and he sheep, chaf into the wool. For t feed and bedding either st! are away sides vertics racks roughage wil tom of dirt to sift down on top of slope the Is Not Difficult Task harh plantation may be start- ting divisions of the crowns, | { it is cheaper A rho ed from seed there to grow goed, are two this 1 is that o seedlings come C. B. Sa These ing to nois desirable be transplanted plantation when inferior strove. tional year plantation when the plants are grown from seed. Plants propagated by dividing the old crowns will true to type. This method of starting rhubarb gen. erally is preferred. Rhubarb should be divided and replanted every five or six years, In dividing the old crowns for replanting, four to six pieces can be made from each crown. Each division should have at least one strong bud and a goodsized piece of root. The larger the piece, the more vigorous the early growth will be be. cause of the food material stored in the roots. come Agricultural Squibs Red clover is one of the most popu- lar legumes grown. - » * Sudan grass has been nsed success fully as a hog pasture on agricultural college farms. . - . The germination of spinach seed will be hastened by soaking it for a few hours in warm water before plant. Ing. . » » Frequently some quick growing crop must be substituted on a winter-killed clover or alfalfa field that bad been set aside for hog pasture. - * - Some rather extravagant claims gllage crop, particularly for use in sec. tions where corn does well, - . -. The removal of manure and piles of litter is one of the best methods of lessening the number of flies that will be bothering cattle next summer, LIE Barley Is injured materially by be ing put into a ground that hasn't lost its winter chill and it is affected by light frosts in the spring much more than wheat or oats, ss» Quack grass spreads very rapidly by means of root pleces adhering to plows and cultivators, and Is difficult to eradicate for this reason. Farmers should be suspicious of any grass which has a creeping root. HEALTHY COMPLEXIONS 4 Healthy complexions come from healthy systems. Free the body of poisons with Feen-a-mint., Effective in smaller doses. All druggiste sell this safe, scientific laxative. PS deat: FOR CONSTIPATION Coyotes Fall Vicitms to “Fretful” are ygsius Porcupine given credit for MOR ex t hose per in the Fisher of the trans p soothes instantly, ends GUARANTEED. Never be withou Boschee's! For young and old. oschee€’s tte SYRUP FEL DIZZY ? 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Pierce, practiced medicine in Peansyl- vania and was known far and near for his great success in alleviating disease. Finally he moved to Buffalo, N. Y, and put up in ready-to-use form, his GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY, the well known tonic for the blood. This strength builder is made from a formula which Dr. Pierce found most effective when in private practice. It aids digestion, acts as a tonic and enriches the blood-—clears away pimples and annoying eruptions and tends to keep the complexion fresh and clear. All druggists. Tablets or liquid. Sunshine #4 4 4 — All Winter Long AT the Foromont Desert Resort of the West — marvelous climate ~~ worm sunny days — clear storlt nights — dry invigorating oir «= splendid roads ~~ georgeous mountain scones — finest hotels — the weal winter home. wrtte Croe & Chaltey PALM SPRINGS California LTIMORE, NO. 8-1330. w. NU,
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