Eve Simin Ed
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Tariff Bill Passed by Senate
After Months of Heated
Controversy.
FTER months of heated and acri-
A monioug controversy the senate
passed the tariff bill by a vote of 53
to 31. It goes back to the house which
passed it last May and will be thrashed
over in conference committees of the
two houses. The result will be a
compromise bill which may be ex-
pected in about six weeks.
The bill as passed by the senate
represents a higher degree of protec-
tion than that under the
present law, but provides duties on a
somewhat lower than the bill
passed by the house,
afforded
level
Senator Reed {Rep., Utah)
told the senate that the dutiable items
in the bill as passed represent the
equivalent of an average ad valorem
rate of 38.90 per as compared
with 40.54 per cent as reported from
the finance committee, 43.13 per cent
as passed by the house, 34.61 per cent
in the present law and 21.08 per cent
In the Underwood act of 1013. The
senate made 1.253 amendments to the
house bill, according to Senator
Smoot,
Among the features of the senate
bill are included many increases In
rites on agricultural products
those granted In the house bill, a
somewhat smaller increase In the duty
on sugar than in the house bill, im-
position of duties on cement and brick
as in the house bill, a new duty on
soft wood lumber, elimination of duties
on shingles and hardwood lumber as
proposed In the house blll, lower duties
than In the house on aluminum, pig
fron, watches and clocks, and on
many chemicals and other manufac-
tured articles,
Bitter contests In the deliberations
of the conference committees of the
two houses are expected over the ex-
port debenture farm relief provision
and repeal of the flexible tariff which
are In the senate bill. Senator Borah,
who voted for the bill, Indicated that
he did so chiefly because of his sup-
port of these two provisions, and in-
timated that he would vote against
any conference report that eliminated
them.
On the final vote on the bill 46 Re-
publicans and 7 Democrats voted for
the bill, while 28 Democrats and 5
tepublicans voted against it. The rad.
feals split, seven of them voting for
the bill and one being paired for the
bill while five voted in the negative.
Smoot
cent,
HE question of paying the price
which France demands for joining
a five-power navy reduction treaty has
been passed up to Great Britain by
the United States delegation. if the
ritish government offers a security
guarantee acceptable to France, the
American delegation may favorably
consider America's commitment to a
consultative pact.
Under this plan Great Britain would
be pledged to protect France against
aggression. America would be pledged
to consult with European powers In
the event of a European war, but
would not he bound to employ armed
force against the aggressor. It is not
clear whether the United States would
be committed by implication to take
sides In a European quarrel, and join
any boycott proclaimed by the League
of Nations. Whether the British gov-
ernment will make a concession In line
with a security guarantee acceptable
to France is the big question of the
moment, and one MacDonald's cabinet
must soon decide,
Since the beginning of the confer.
ence France has been trying to induce
Great Britain to underwrite French
gecurity. Hitherto the British have
refused to give France security guap
antees, declaring against entangling
military alliances. But both France
and Great Britain would like to com.
mit the United States to an under
standing by which this country would
not be neutral In case of a European
war, but would respect any blockade
declared by the League of Nations.
Now the American delegation holds out
promise of such an approach to com-
mitment of a character represented
by a consultative pact on the condition
Great Britain will give France an ac-
ceptable guarantee,
has returned to the conference and
is happy in seeing what he believes
is & surrender by Great Britain and
the United States to the French de
mand for a security pact.
HAT France has reduced her army
by 44 per cent since 1913 was
claimed by Senator Albert Mahleu as
the senate approved the 1030 army
budget. Expenditure, however, in-
creased, owing 40. a boost in war ma-
terial. This year France will begin
the application of the one-year service
act, practienlly all conditions now be-
ing fulfilled. One of these conditions
is that a force of 100,000 permanently
enlisted men should be maintained.
T. REY.
bishop of
Wolf Perry,
Island,
the
James De
Rhode
elected imate of
wes
Episcopal
i
church at a session of the house of
bishops in Chicago. He succeeds the
late Anderson of
Bishop Perry as primate or
presiding bishop occupies a
in the United
that of the archbishop of Canter
in England. lishop Perry is a great.
great-nephew of
Hazard Perry, hero of the battle of
Lake Erie in 1812
lishop Charles P.
Chicago.
position
States
bury
Commodore Oliver
ProrosaLs to pay World war vet.
erans a portion of the face value
of their adjusted compensation certifi
cates in cash received a death blow
in a letter from Secretary Mellon to
Representative Hawley, chairman of
the house ways and means committee.
Under a bill fathered by
tive Cochran the 2635.000.000 now held
to the credit of the adjusted compen
sation fund would be made available
for the payment to certificate holders
of 25 per cent of the face value of the
certificates,
In his letfer Secretary Mellon point.
ed out that the Cochran proposal is
based on the false assumption that
all of the $635,000,000 reserve is Im-
mediately available.
The fact is that in order to finance
the scheme it would be necessary to
increase taxes or authorize a bond
issue for the purpose, he wrote, there
by increasing the public debt with “a
consequent disruption of the orderly
program upon which the government
is proceeding.”
lepresenta-
HE Department of Agriculture an-
nounces that a 28 per cent in-
crease in the acreage of corn this
year, a 15 per cent decrease in that
of durum wheat, and a .1 per cent in.
crease In the acreage of all other
spring wheat, as compared with last
year's harvest acreages, were indicated
by farmers’ intentions on March 1 to
plant this spring.
The report was based on returns
from about 50,000 farmers and was in-
tended to furnish information which
would enable farmers to make such
adjustments in their plans for this
year's plantings as may seem de
sirable,
HE Canadian house of commons,
by a vote of 173 to 11, passed
Prime Minister King's bill to ban
liquor exports to the United States,
The galleries were crowded for the
final commons sceme In connection
with the bill. Senators, who will now
have the bill in hand in the upper
chamber, crowded their railed sanc.
tum overlooking the commons floor,
following the vote with keen Interest.
The 173 to 11 majority recorded for
the bill Ig one of the largest on com-
mons’ records, and the total vote of
184 out of a possible 244 votes in-
dicates a remarkably large attendance
of members,
IGH treasury officials express con.
fidence that the 1 per cent In-
come tax reduction granted by con.
gress for the year 1920 can be con
tinued this calendar year. Income tax
collections for March have exceeded
expectations thus far, and the finan.
cial outlook for the government for
the remainder of the fiscal year 1930
at least is bright.
Revenues from income taxes for the
fiscal year that ends June 30 now
total $1,785,282.857, or $134,000,000
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Helen Hul
more than was collected for the cor
responding period last year. This col
lection has given the treasury books a
paper surplus of $101,957.270, despite
a falling off of customs receipts for
the year of $20,000,000,
Treasury experts hold that with set-
tiement of the pending tariff bill the
custom duty collections will expand,
Federal actuaries
fest drain on the treasury
from the federal farm board
gress has just appropriated an add!
tional $£100,000,000 for the board. How
much the board will be forced to draw
from the fund is dependent upon the
agriculture situation.
HE great North German
liner Europa broke
record on her maiden trip to the
United States. She smashed the ree
ord held by her sister ship, the Bre
men, by 18 minutes,
bettered the
believe the heavy
will come
{on
Lloyd
the world's
and could easily
mark by several
from Cher
to Ambrose
cial time
Hiht
17 hours and 6 mis
Bremen IR
own of the fast
he world goes to th
{IHAIRMAN ALEXANDER LEGGE
of the federal form relief board
has put himself emphatically bn re
ord as opposed to the development of
any new lrrigation
enterprises by the
and
governme
itural
the
lands whicl mld Increase
agricu litles
of new
Comm opening
and abso
won sense,” Mr
that he
Interior
surpluses is “unwarranted
lutely cont to comn
ary
Legge asserted He added
has had conversations
that more active
may follow,
“Certainly,” the farm
man cortinued,
ly aginst all
“we will I square
bills In that
would give us more farms and farmers
CONZTress
at this time.”
HE national business survey con
ference has received reports from
lines of business for the four
months following the stock market
crash which indicate that
business, in general, Is firm and show
ing steady improvement,
yo.
“i
early retarding factors, partly psycho
logical, “appear to have been gradu
ally overcome,” according to Julius
H. Barnes, chairman of the confer
ence, who made public a summary of
the reports. This view was horne out
by the reports themselves, three
fourths of which were optimistic.
“The reports indicate that the Im
portance lald upon construction as an
influence in restoring industrial bal
ance has not been over emphasized,”
Mr. Barnes asserted. “They show that
for a revival
manifold forms a first requirement is
adequate and reasonably priced credit.”
There is no couse whatever for
alarm over the country’s construction
program, according to Mr. Barnes, as
expenditures this year as to aggre
gate $3.200000000, as against $2.5803
000,000 last year.
ment decreased slightly in the first
since August,
Reports from trade
indicated that 21
pared to 22 per cent in February,
declared definitely. that “the rise In
unemployment has been checked.”
WARDS of fellowships amounting
to more than $200,000, which will
enable their recipients to carry on
research and ereative work on four
continents, have been announced by the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
foundation in New York.
The recipients are 85 scholars, nov:
elists, poets, composers, sculptors,
painters, and other creative workers
resident In 23 states and Mexico, They
were chosen from among more than
700 applicants, .
(©. 1930, Western Newspaper Union.)
Increased Uses
for Soy Beans
Plant Has Advanced to the
Position of Major Im-
portance in Farming,
[Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Increased utilization of soy beans in
he last ten years has resulted in a
rapid Increase in acreage and produc-
dom, and has advanced the crop to a
»ositiog of major knportance in Amer-
can agriculture, The soy bean was
srought to the United States from
Japan and has been known here for
he last 100 years. However, it Is
ly within recent years that its rea!
ralue has been recognized. It is now
grown in most of the states in the
The principal uge of soy beans in
he United States has been as a feed
Recently, however, at.
ention has been given to the extrac
Another use for soy beans in
country is as a human food.
beans have been utilized for
wider use here as human
Feeding Tests Conducted.
With the Increased production of
feeding value for live stock was
riment stations conducted feeding tests
with all kinds of live stock. HNesults
marized and included in a new publi
the United States Depart-
nent of Agriculture, Farmers’ Bulletin
No. 117-F, “Soy Bean Utilization.”
As a feed for live stock, the bulle-
lin gays, soy beans offer a wide range
of uses. The feeding the
seed compares favorably that of
sther concentrated feeds. bean
nay, It has been found, may be fed
profitably to all kinds of live stock.
As a forage crop soy beans may be
used as hay, mixed with corn and
used for silage, cut and fed green, or
pastured.
A feeding test at the
the value of
ration of
value of
with
Soy
Iowa station
illustrates soy beans s&s
8 feed for cattle. In this test
racked soy beans proved to he worth
ton when old
neal was worth $45 a ton. The beans
palatable, the report says, and
ind no harmful effects on the cows.
Oil Content of Soy Beans.
The oll content of soy bean seed has
basis of a new
the
dairy
£0 a process linseed
were
wen the industry In
the
Several
woetions of country
beans are grown extensively.
mills in the Mid- Western and Southern
states are now crushing domestic.
grown beans for ofl and mesl. Many
ottenseed oll mills In the South have
been equipped to crush soy beans,
The soy bean Is a and is
ised as a soll-building crop In sections
of the South and Middle West.
the solls are acid and the clovers do
well. It has
placed the “cowpea” or field pea as a
improvement and hay crop In
parts of the South,
Besides reviewing the feeding tests
onducted at the experiment stations.
the new bulletin discusses soy bean
utilization for oll, meal, soil Improve-
ment, and as a human food. Coples of
the bulletin may be obtained, as long
as there is a supply available for free
distribution, from the office of infor.
mation, Department of Agriculture,
where
legume,
where
not grow almost dis.
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Grain Storage Building
Made From Hollow Tile
An unusual graln storage building
of hollow tile, which has the appear
ance of an elevator with a silo at each
of the four corners, has just been
The silo-shaped bins, three of which
an equal amount of small grain, are
#0 arranged that they can be filled and
emptied by air hoists electrically con-
trolled from the floor of the central
structure, where are located the scale
feed grinder, electrical equipment, ete,
One corn bin has the usual hollow
of solid tile walls with false bottoms
to provide the necessary alr circula.
tion through the corn.
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Agricultural Squibs
Plants protect soll,
ss » »
As pasture, the soy bean is valuable
Tomatoes and celery are two essen-
tinls necessary in well planned fam.
fly gardens,
w * -
A little silage every day or every
third day will be good for the chick.
ens rather than detrimental to them.
* » -
Pullets that are light in weight and
lay at an early age are the most apt
to cease production after a few weeks
and go into a moult,
La a
By growing soy beans, the expendl-
ture for a high protein concentrate is
made less necessary and relieves a
financial burden of considerable im
portance,
.
Harness In constant use will stand a
light oll application every month or so,
while all farm harness should be thor.
vughly cleaned and olled, preferably
twice a year,
Liberty and Spuds
at the Same Price
Bugs and Insects Always
Ready to Bid for Crop.
Eternal vigilance is the price, not
only of liberty, but of potatoes, What-
ever may be the attitude of the buy-
ers on the potato market, bugs and
insects are always ready and willing
to bid for the potato crop. Early, fre-
quent and persistent spraying is about
the best answer to them, according to
Dr. A. L. Plerstorff, extension plant
pathologist for the Ohlo State univer-
sity.
“The first spray should be applied
#8 soon as the potatoes are up or as
soon as insects are found on them,”
says Doctor Plerstorff, “As much
pressure as can be applied, up to 400
pounds, is desirable, Jordeaux mix-
ture is the proper material, with two
pounds of arsenate of lead for each
50 gallons of spray material,
“Growers should spray their
toes at least every 10 days during the
early part of the season, and every
week during the latter part of July,
and In August. Late potatoes need
from 8 to 10 applications. Some grow-
ers find it profitable to apply as many
as 18."
Small holes In
caused by a black
beetle, which lives
of the
with
pota-
potato leaves are
bug flea
and feeds on the
reach
spray it is
nozzle to
called a
leaves, To
the
the
side
under side
the flea beetles
nececssary to adjust
throw spray the
the top of the plant.
from and below
Smuts of Small Grains
Discussed in Circular
“Smuts of Small Grains and
Crops and Methods of Control,” ig the
title of a new circular just published
by the extension service of the
orado Agricultural college, for free
distribution to farmers, Anyone de-
siring a copy may obtain it by writing
to the college.
Waldo Kidder, extension sgronomy
specialist, Is the author of the cir
cular, which explains the nature of
smut, the damage It does to grain
crops and the most methods
of preventing smut.
Smut of oats and
control are discussed
tion of a
' t
quster is
home-made
given, with
to make It,
All farmers are
small grain or
has not heen treated to control
we
which
smut Josses”
to be use for k 1% mut on grain
seed without injurin e g ation
of the grain are copper carbonate and
formaldehyde solution,
carbonate is the
wheat, bald
millet
:
Formaldel
Copper
treating
oats,
seed,
best for
cane,
sedan
yds
hest to use with oats and
Methods of treating the various
of grain seed are described,
Carefully Capping Silo
Will Prevent Big Loss
If there is silage left in the
silo, It will probably prove to be ex.
ceedingly useful during the summer
months when the pastures become low,
Careful capping of the silage will pre.
vent excessive loss due to fermenta-
tion and decay.
A covering of roofing paper, cut to
fit the inside of the silo and weighted
down with silage or dirt, has proved
fo be satisfactory, according to the
reports of many cow testers, The idea
is to prevent evaporation of moisture,
When the moisture evaporates, molds
will form, thus destroying a portion
of the silage if it is not covered.
Some men also recommend smooth
any
it tightly and sprinkling with salt. The
salt helps to seal the surface layer
and also helps to prevent molds and
decay. A layer of old newspapers, tar
paper or similar material will also
serve the same purpose,
Shorthorns Profitable
Some have questioned the existence
of such an animal as the dual pur.
pose cow,
that many shorthorns of good beef
conformation produce sufficient
make good feeders,
constitute dual purpose stock and by
reason of such qualities many farmérs
prefer this strain of shorthorn to any
other class of cattle. No intelligent
breeder of such stock pretends to
compete with the dairy breeds in av.
erage production of milk per head,
nor, as a rule, does he pretend to com-
pete with the straight béef breeds In
the show ring, but he is a strong
contender for highest position as
measured by net return at the end of
the year.
Clean Seeds and Fields
Keep Out Noxious Weeds
No one knowingly pollutes his own
well but there are still thousands of
farmers seemingly but little concerned
nt sowing noxious weed seeds on thelr
flelds. Just as It Is easier to screen
out flies and mosquitoes than to keep
the swatter busy, farmers find it more
profitable to reclean thelr seeds than
to spend many anxious hours trying to
kill weeds already Introduced. De
stroying the enemy beyond the front
line has always been found to be
more eflicient than Inviting him inte
the trench for a hand to hand conflict.
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