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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
President Hoover's First
Year Is Both Praised
and Attacked.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
HETHER Herbert Hoover's first
year as President is to be con-
sidered successful depends largely on
the political bias and economic convic-
tions of the one who does the consid-
ering. The varying views on the mat.
ter were expressed in the senate by
Senator Simeon DD, Fess of Oblo,
speaking for the administration party,
and Senator Pat Harrison of Missis-
sippi, speaking for the opposition.
Senator Fess especially praised the
President's efforts to combat business
depression, saying: “l regard the
handling of the economic forces that
were playing toward disaster by the
President as the most outstanding ac-
complishment in the history of the
government of which 1 have any
knowledge on economic He
said he was not entirely sure that it
was possible to avoid the cycles in
business in which a high business level
is followed by a “It it
can be done,” continued the Ohlo sen-
ator, “we have the leadersh in the
White House that will do it; for the
President has been working on the
problem eight years
In dealing with other features of the
administration record during the year
Senator Fess farm relief,
the tariff, the naval armament confer-
ence, other International questions,
and prohibition,
Senator Harrison
congratulate
audacity and nerve in speaking ex
planations of the misachievements of
the administration the last
year."
“If the failure to solve big problems
is an achievement, this admin-
istration for the last year is a suc-
cess.” said Senator Harrison. “If dis.
gusting the farmers of the land is an
achievement, then this administration
is a success. If dissatisfying labor is
an achievement, then this administra.
tion is a success. If indecision upon
the part of a President is an achieve.
ment, then President Hoover's first
year is a great success.”
NEMPLOYMENT is of course one
of the Immediate concerns of the
government and furnishes ammuni-
tion for thé opponents of the adminis-
tration.
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis.
following a cabinet meeting at which
the Industrial situation was discussed,
asserted that as a result of the Presi.
dent's activities unemployment has
been held to less than one-half that of
previous financial crashes. Other ad-
ministration leaders expressed confi.
dence that unemployment would be
materially relieved within the next
few weeks through the federal agen-
cies called Into action by the Presi
dent.
Senator Wagner of New York, Dem-
ocrat, has introduced a bill for stabili-
zation of industry by construction of
public works and the prevention of un-
employment in periods of business de.
pression, and appropriating $150,000,
000 for these purposes, Secretary
Davis opposes the measure, holding it
fs unnecessary and provides methods
too cumbersome for its use,
lines.”
depression.
discussed
said he wished to
Senator Fess “on his
during
then
PPONENTS8 of our prohibition
laws closed their case before the
house judiciary committee on Tuesday
with the statements of & number of
witnesses, the best known of whom
were Breckenridge long, former as.
sistant secretary of state, and Dr.
Stewart Paton, psychiatrist of Johns
Hopkins, Three women also took the
stand, Mrs, Robert W, Lovett of Bos-
ton, Mra. Cortlandt Nicoll of New York
and Mrs. Carroll Miller of Pittsburgh,
Mrs. Lovett sounded the keynote of
the testimony of all three with a dec
laration that the anti-prohibition wom
en are seeking the same objectives as
the dry women, namely, protection of
children, a decrease in crime, and
abolition of the commercialized liquor
traffic,
“But what have we today?” she de-
manded. "Drunken children, erime on
the increase by leaps and bounds, and
an illicit liquor traffic infinitely worse
than the open saloon.”
Mrs. Miller struck out at the W. C.
T. U., which, she asserted, is corrupt-
ing legislative bodies with its political
tactics,
Next day the drys began the intro-
duction of testimony with the first of
some fifty witnesses from all parts of
the country and from all walks of life.
They led off with Samuel Crowther, a
writer who has been gathering infor.
mation on the liquor question for a
magazine; Edward Keating, former
congressman from Colorado; Dr. Dan-
fel A. Poling, president of the World's
Christian Endeavor union, and Heury
M. Johnson, Louisville lawyer.
Mr. Crowther sald he had
Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford to
attend the hearing but they un-
However, both sent tele.
asked
were
able to do so
grams
warmly endorsing prohibition
It is noteworthy that so far most of
the drys the
economic benefits the country has de-
rived from
the wets dwell particularly on
emphasize especially
most of
the al-
down of morals resulting
: ’
1 prohibition, while
leged break
from it,
w, TOT at all to the surprise of those
: trade,
conditions in the grain market became
such that the federal farm board found
ies in
A conversant with the grain
it necessary to modify its activit
bolstering up wheat prices through the
and
Grain Stabilization
Farmers’
corporation
the National Gral
tion,
The change
by Cl
farm board,
arbitrary
ed t
v t
oy i
Mr. Le;
» made t
to co-operatives
present until
wheat during the week were uns
and generally lower,
Later Mr. Legge was quoted
hecome
is endan
vorit
avoid such drastic measures
the present gre "mes bu
if raliroads are le to unload cars
of grain 1 an
would becom 1
Officials of grain and
other farm commodity exchanges held
embargo
twenty-five
a secret meeting in Chicago and gave
out the word that so far as they were
concerned the verbal with
the farm board was ended,
“We have shat ap and
get back to business as best we can
under the situation, despite what poll
ticlans and governmental spokesmen
may say or do.” sald one of the Chi.
cagoans who attended the conference,
The general opinion of the meeting
was reported to be that the grain
trade was satisfied with the modified
policy announced by the federal farm
board, withdrawing the fixed prices
for wheat being paid to co-operatives
only.
warfare
decided to
GECRETARY OF STATE STIMSON
7 sprung a surprise on the world
with a statement in London that the
United States is willing to reduce lig
naval armament by more than 200,000
tons, if the fleets of the other naval
powers are reduced accordingly. He
said this in reply to reports that the
naval conference was likely to result
ifn an increase Instead of a reduction
in the tonnage of the navies of the
world, and =aid his plan seemed to be
acceptable to America and Great Brit-
ain,
France was still holding up the pro-
ceedings of the conference although
Premier Tardieu obtained a good ma-
jority in the chamber of deputies, The
French continue to demand a tonnage
of at least 700,000 tons, If they are
given this, Italy demands the same
total, But Great Britain's fixed pol
fey i® to have a navy as large as those
of any two continental powers, and
to have 1400000 tons she must add
200000 tons to the figure on which
the agreement with the United States
is hased, That In a nutshell Is the
gituntion, though there are many com.
plieating side features,
The subcommittee of the conference
to which was referred Mr. Stimson's
resolution on the limitation and “hu.
manizing” of submarines reported ft
could do nothing until the French del
egates resumed their part in the nego-
tintions, Premier Tardieu
and, Dumesnil and others over to Lon-
don Thursday and
Saturday,
Progress,
M*®
vestigate
went
HOOVER'S commission to in-
Haiti is
several of them, in-
deed. Immediately after its arrival in
Port-au-P twelve hundred
native women prayed in public for an
end of American occupation and then
paraded throug the
conditions In
getting an earful
rince some
the streets past
headguarters of the commission, vole-
ing an appeal for the “liberation” of
Haltl.
missioners
(mn
heard
of he Nat
John H.
commissioner, as
prominent
denounce
the Americun h
virtually a dictator
President Jorno,
Gon,
Russell,
whose puppet Is
They anand a
president and
the
election of a
“It
to elect a
{free
one of them sald:
v i $ 1 «
council of state dares
president on April 14 instead of per-
{ted
tr ne i
popular election, Ur
sg machine gur
hliood.”
tians in
United
ganitary service
States
American
:
ished Son
sion supervise lection, but Chal
man Forbes told them this was
possible,
The Dominican Republic
down after
dent
Gen
has quieted
the res ation of Pres!
Vasquez
Rafael leader of the In.
surgent movement, as rovislonal
head
HULBSDAY was denominated
ternational oyment day”
nists and para¢
rations by
cities In
some pinces
the un
unters with the
1
sthers there was no dis
iid be recorde
nists shot
gation and ma went of a rebellion
of 14.000 high school papils in Manila,
They
leged
Reds
encounters
struck r hecanse of al
insults by a woman tea
the incite
with the
LFRED VON TIRPITZ, who was
i lord high admiral of the German
the World war and fa-
country's submarine war.
fare, died in Ebenhausen of bronchi.
ts at the age of eighty-one years.
Cablegrams from Japan told of the
death in Kobe of Dr. Arthur T
ley, president emeritus of Yale uni.
versity, He succumbed to pneumonia
navy during
ther of his
ulty of his alma mater in 1879. Tween.
ty years later he was elected to the
presidency; retiring In 1921, He was
considered one of the world's leading
economists,
Other deaths included those of D.
H. Lawrence, noted English novelist
and poet, and Viscount Herbert Glad
stone, youngest son of William E,
Gladstone.
IL, lumber and sugar combined in
the senate last week and brought
about a vote of 47 to 30 in favor of
an increase in the duty on Cuban sug-
ar from 1.95 to 2 cents per pound.
Nine senators, most of whom are in.
terested in either ofl or lumber,
switched their votes, and the resulting
combination smashed the Democratic
Radieal Republican coalition that has
has been having its own way in for.
mulating the senate's tariff bill. Dar
ing the exciting debate Senator Can
away and others charged that a deal
had been entered into, and there were
warnings that the oll, lumber and sug
ar trade would be made a campaign
fssne. The house bil Increased the
rate on Cuban sugar to 2.4 cents per
pound, so an increase in this duty ia
virtually certain when the senate and
house conferees fix up the final draft
of the measure,
OHN NORTH WILLYS of Toledo,
Ohlo, nutomobile manufacturer, 1s
the new American ambassador te Po
land. Hig name was submitted to
Warsaw for approval, which It re
celved. and the appointment wns then
announced by President Hoover. The
Sent had no objection to the seclee
on.
(0. 1930, Western Newspaper Union.)
Outdoor Exercise
Very Best Tonic
Iowa Farmer Does All His
Work With Horses, Keep-
ing Daily Record.
Daily outdoor exercise Is the best
tonic ever prescribed and the cheapest
{nsurance against sickness or death,
This might be a doctor prescribing
for his patient, but it isn't. It is a
farmer, telling in the Breeder's Gazette
about the management of his work
horses, of which at March 1, 1929, he
had 35 head on a 720 acre farm in
central Towa, He does all his farm-
ing with horses, keeping a dally rec-
ord of labor costs so that he knows
just what it costs him to produce an
acre of corn, or oats, or pasture,
Finds Dally Labor Cost.
In 1928 this farmer, Clarence Hill,
counting his original investment in
horsefiesh, his labor, profits from snles
of horses and from manure fertilizer,
his feed and incidental charges, found
of only 61.3 cents per horse. The rec-
ord Involved 22 horses In harness with
an-average of 08.0 days of work each.
When he computes his costs for the
season (his fiscal year closes
on March 1) he expects to find a cost
Mr. Hill feeds his horses according
to work performed. In the winter they
where they ACCess
1k-flelds, straw-stacks, and to
plue grass: during February and March
each horse is fed a sixth of a bushel
of corn every day, while out on
pasture, to put him in flesh for spring
work : and on heavy work he receives
a ration consisting mostly of oats with
corn, and also mixed hay until
grass becomes firm, Then, the horses
pastured have
still
some
are turned out each night on good
grass sod.
Azoturia Unknown.
* Mr. Hill de
are kind
turn a horse out, even in
Mr
hitch,
them
Hil
tying his horses In
back
taught by
America, He declares he
© horse multiple
and bucking
the
uses the
according to system
the Horse Association of
is “operating
more economically with horses in
terms of final power cost per bushel
than he could by the
of any other form of power; also that
use of his big teams saved him In
1028 more than $200 In b
bills alone, He buys his horses as thin
two-year-olds, turns them on to grass,
produced” nae
red labor
puts them into harness as three-year
olds, and sells them as coming seven's
when their market highest,
In this way he finds his horses an In
vestment, the same as steer calves or
value Is
stock pigs, he declares.
for Storage Purposes
whose hay storage
find that
kinds of
gpace
baling the
hay will
cover
hay as can be
While the
the sav.
Growers
Is limited wil
Ifa and
alfalfa other
them
enable under sev
to put
ral
ern
times as much
gtored Is joo
ing it makes possible In the way of
hay lost from weathering in stacks,
hay saved from scattering In feeding,
and the labor of handling will
Iy more than make up for it
One thing must be watched for in
storing baled hay, especially in hay
mows, that the bales not be piled high
enough to exceed the safe load Loose
hay weighs from three to five pounds
per cubic foot, depending on how well
ft hag settled: while baled hay weighs
from 20 to 25 pounds for the same
gpace, or about five times as much,
and it Is easy with baled hay to over-
load a mow which will hold all the
loose hay which can be piled upon it.
usual.
Early Sowing Generally
Means Bigger Crop
Minnesota experiment station tests
have shown that early sown oats, bar
ley, spring wheat, and flax have a
better chance of making a good crop
than If sown a week to ten days later.
In these tests production decreased as
the seeding was delayed, Seeding
oats ten days later than the usual
time cut the yield four bushels an
acre with early varieties and five
bushels an acre with the late varie
Where seeding was delayed 20
nine to twenty bushels an acre. Seed
ing a month late cut the yields about
in two.
The rule for early sowing holds
good even if clover or alfalfa Is to
be planted with the small grain, Clov-
er will do best if seeded as early as
the ground can be worked.
Brussels Sprouts Need
Careful Cultivation
Brussels sprouts need about the
game cultivation as cabbage. The seed
fs sown about May 15 in rows one
foot apart. When the plants are large
enough, about the last of June, trans.
plant the plants two feet apart in
rows three feet asunder. After the
plants are rooted sprinkle a large
handful of 7-108 fertilizer around each
plant and hoe or cultivate in ground
fmauediately. When the sprouts begin
to appear break off lower leaves and
stems, If green louse appears spray
with nicotine sulphate, one teaspoon
with a small cube of soap to a quart
of water. They will stand quite severe
weather, and If sprouts are desired
into December pull up the staiks, leav-
ing as much earth on roots as possible,
and store in a cool cellar or pit.
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Open Sheds for Cows
Good in Mild Areas
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
The open shed or covered barnyard
is a practical method of housing dairy
cows in moderate climates, says dairy
officials of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture,
It provides the best-known method
of preserving all the fertilizing con-
stituents of the manure. When there
is plenty of bedding, cows in open
sheds keep cleaner than those confined
in stanchions, even when manure is al-
lowed to accumulate for
months at a time, At the experiment
station of the bureau of dairy indus-
try at Beltsville, Md., 68 per cent more
bedding Is used in the open shed than
when the cows are stanchioned,
several
The open-shed method permits free-
dom of action of the cow and gets her
off the hard floors of the barn.
Also where a small mil barn Is
used, the open shed is a cheaper meth-
od of housing than the customary dairy
barn,
The bureau of dalry industry Is now
building sheds at some of its field sta-
tions and dividing them into pens, so
the herd may be divided Into small
groups. Mangers with rigid stanchions
pre built at the feed alley, so the cows
may be fastened and fed Individually.
This Is desirable
are often fought away from feed racks
when the not fastened at
time of feeding, Cows housed in
Cow
king
because mid cows
COWS are
open
§
sheds should be dehorned.
Garden Transplanting
Essential Operation
One of the essential :
gardening Is trans
man on
lings, put
plantings
plants in
some knowledge: th
to luck
The first step In transplanting is to
i y
Keep
ope? ns of
planting.
n start with 200 lettuce seed-
throngh
produce
two trans-
and lettuce
the garden, he must has
ut record isn't due
them
200
as much o the
of the
Resetting may
ronts
to a plant that its
removal f
prac
Careless
means that
roots
behind
to follow
Do the work In
cloudy
days. Make the hole In the row
large enough to take the ball of earth
about the plant, It is u good n to
put a small amount of water in the
hole before resetting. Put plant
in its rake In some dirt,
and press firmly into the soll. Be care-
ful not to injure the base of the plant
the thumb and
ii
water on
the
new home,
with fingers. Po
little top of the
more
after it settles with dry
and
soil,
cover
In warm climates, It is an excellent
plan to put a shingle
side 80 as to protect from the midday
Also put a small pape ilar
around the int to protec
cut-worms, This
3
on the south
Eun.
latter
importance when t
toes, peppers and
acter,
Meadow Fescue Is Grass
Adapted to Wet States
Meadow fescue i8 a grass
to about the same where
timothy Is grown. It is an early
spring and a late fall pasture, simi.
ilar to bluegrass. It is sown in the
fall at the rate of 10 to 15 pounds
per acre. It can be sown In cover
crops such as wheat or rye or fit
may be sown by Itself on well pre-
pared seed bed. It is not widely used
in the central corn belt. Its greatest
acreage is found in Kansas and Ne-
braska.
Timothy and red clover are used
principally in its place on a good many
corn-belt farms, If you can grow
clovers of any kind, it is suggested
that you raise them Instead of fescue.
adapted
territory
Agricultural Notes
SO SOOOBNOOSOOLNSO00OONOTDD
ately after it thaws,
* » .
ness men.
* - *
It pays to grade and standardize
farm products. They sell for a better
price and are more in demand.
. -* *
Up-to-date information on gardening
may be obtained by studying garden
bulletins and circulars and by consult:
ing successful gardeners,
. » »
A farm business without some kind
of records is like a clock without
hands. There is no way of telling
whether it is gaining or losing.
4 @
If hay is high in price and the qual
ity poor the hay can be cut or ground
to advantage, Little if anything is
to be gained If the hay Is of good
quality since it will be consumed with
little waste.
. 8 »
Increases of 10 to 20 per cent in yield
of sweet corn have been obtained by
treating seed with organic mercury
compounds, The treatment prevents
certain root and stalk rots, It can be
obtained in liquid and dust forms and
is applied according to the manufac
turer's directions.
ared
every
morning ?
Get poisons out of the system with
Feen.a-mint, the Chewing Gum Laxa.
tive. Smaller doses effective when
taken in this form. A modern, scien.
tific, family laxative. Safe and mild.
’ INSIST ON
THE GENUINE
FOR CONSTIPATION
Chinese Wall as Boulevard
Nanking, the al of China, 1s
surrounded by an ancient wall and the
wuthorities are planning to make
motor traffie,
new capit
use
ns a boulevard
‘he new roadway
if 22 miles and a width of 20 feet,
Many a man is blan
{isposition when he reall
‘rom constipation. The best
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UB Musterole well into your chest
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what a glorious relief!
Those good old-fashioned cold reme=
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— are mixed with other valuable ingre-
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It penetrates and stimulates blood
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years. Recommended by many doctors
and nurses. Keep Musterole handy —
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To Mothers—Musterole is also
made in milder form for babies
and small children. Ask for Chil
dren's Musterole.
Darktown Fables
Once upon a time Ra
Clay Washington came ho late at
night and found Washington
Johnson snoring in his own bed, where.
awaking and find.
Rastus staring down st him ex.
“Believe it or not, brudder,
Ah'se nuthin’ but er stowaway here, Ah
is "Pathfinder Magazine.
Henry
George
apon George upon
ing
ploded :
The common cause of digestive dif
culties is. excess acid. Soda cannoli
alter this condition, and it burns the
stomach. Something that will nen
tralize the acidity is the sensible
thing to take, That is why physicians
tell the public to use Phillips Milk o!
Magnesia,
One spoonful of this delightful prep
aration can neutralize many times ity
volume in acid It acts instantly; ve
lef is quick, and very apparent. AW
gas is dispelled; all sourness is soos
gone ; the whole system is sweetened
Do try this perfect antl-acld, and re
member it is Just as good for children
too, and pleasant for them to take,
Any drug store has the genuine, pre
ptional product.
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