W. Bruce
J—~Tug-of-war in the Pythian games,
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
London Naval Treaty Will
Be Dealt With by Senate
in Special Session.
Ey EDWARD W, PICKARD
ATIFICATION or rejection of the
London naval treaty will be ac-
complished by the senate in a special
session, to be called by President
Hoover immediately after the adjourn-
ment of congress about June 15. This
was the plan decided upon by majority
leaders of the senate and house with
the approval of the President, It was
considered best for congress to go
ahead with the business before It,
complete that and adjourn without
taking up the treaty. The house lead-
ers said they were ready to set a date
for ending the session as soon as the
senate was prepared for such a step.
Opposition to hasty action on the
treaty, by opponents of the pact, and
a desire on the part of members of
the house to get through and go home
were the major reasons for
the reached. President
Hoover's announcement that he in-
tended to call a special session, If
necessary, to early action on
al factor.
fad
two of
decision
insure
the treaty was a princi
Senators Johnson of California and
Hale of Maine, leaders of the oppo-
gition, especially vehement in
their ol what they
an attempt to railroad the pact through
the senate by administration senators.
Under the program adopted, the tariff,
rivers and harbors, omnibus and vet.
erans bilis will be acted on in the
senate before congress adjourns.
were
jections to called
More members of the navy general
board and other high officers of the
navy appeared before the senate com-
mittee on foreign relations and naval
affairs to tell why they consider the
London treaty dangerous for the
United States. Much of their testi.
mony was to the effect that it would
make it impossible for the navy to
protect this country's trade routes;
there nlso was further criticism of
the reduction
in the number of large
cruisers for America and of the in-
creased ratio given Japan.
EBATE on the conference renort
on the tariff bill was just getting
under way in the senate when some
one raised a point of order which was
sustained by Vice President Curtis
and under which the meascre was
gent back to conference. Consequent-
ly final action on the bill was delayed
for at least one week.
The point of order related to a
clause in the flexible provision per-
mitting the tariff commission to make
effeciive changes In duties if the Pres-
fdent failed either to approve or dis-
approve a recommendation for aa in-
crease or decrease within 60 days.
Republican leaders were concerned
over the fact that several additional
points of order may be made relating
to rate items, If these are sustained
further delays are in prospect.
IGURES presented to the senate
campaign expenditures committee
revealed that Senator Grundy of Penn-
sylvania spent £201,000 out of his own
pocket in his losing campaign for re-
nomination and that the total cost of
that campaign was $332,070. Secretary
of Labor Davis, who defeated Grundy,
told the committee that he expended
and pledged out of his own funds
£10541.45. He sald he also handled
about $10,000 in contributions to his
campaign which he turned over to his
committee,
Francis H. Bohlen, who ran against
Senator Grundy and Secretary Davis
with the backing of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
testified that the total expended for
the ticket which included himself and
candidates for governor and Heutenant
governor was a little mare thin $200,
000. Of this amount $10,000 was con-
tributed by the association,
*
OME of the dry leaders in the sen-
ate were considerably more dis
turbed by the ruling of the Supreme
court, that the ordinary purchaser of
intoxicating liquor is not guilty of an
oftenze, than was the prohibition en-
forcement bureau. Senator Sheppard
of Texas, for instance, urged the early
enactment of legislation to make the
liquor buyer punishable under the dry
laws. Sheppard was co-author of the
Eighteenth amendment. Early in the
present session he Introduced a bill
to make the seller and purchaser of
illicit liquor equally liable to punish-
ment. Senator Jones of Washington,
author of the “five and ten law,” and
others opposed the views of Sheppard,
The court, in an Important test case
brought by the government, held that
congress not only “deliberately and
designedly” exempted purchasers In
the Volstead but for ten years
“has significantly left the law In its
original form.”
Enforcement hureanu officials pointed
out that the decision was entirely in
accord with the policy the bureau hod
followed.
act,
HREE bills intended to Improve
prohibition enforcement, printipal-
ly through the relief of congested fed-
eral court dockets, were given the ap-
proval of the judiciary
mittee. One measure would authorize
the summary prosecution of offenses,
elsewhere defined as
before United States commissioners
without a jury. Whatever the action
of the it must con-
firmed or disapproved by a member of
the federal bench,
Another would
States to define a misdemeanor
as an ng for a maximum
penalty of six months in jail, a fine
of $500, or both, and a felony as
offense by Imprisonmer
for not than one year,
The third measure woul
law to define a misdemeanor
under the prohibition laws as an of-
itted by one who is not an
habitual violator of the dry
and a involving not
one gallon of liquor,
house com-
misdemeanors,
commissioner, be
amend the United
code
offense cal
punishable
less
Jones
fense cor
than
Cnse more
UT in Seattle a federal grand fury
CL
Oregor
prohibition administrator for
Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Alaska, and others on charges of
corruption and bribery. Among the
indicted a
Lyle's assistant and legal advisor;
Earl Corwin, a prohibition agent; M.
L. Fryant, a deputy sheriff who won
notoriety as a wire tapper in the fa-
mous Olmsted “whispering wires”
case, and C. T. McKinney, a young
lawyer from Kentucky who led the
prosecution of the Qlmsted liquor
gang.
FFICIALS of the Methodist board
of temperance, prohibition and
public morals were asked to appear
before the senate lobby committee to
explain its alleged failure to report, In
accordance with the federal corrupt
practices act, its activities In the
Presidential campaign of 1028,
Deets Pickett, research secretary of
the board, testifying In the absence of
Dr. Clarence True Wilson, its general
secretary, insisted that its activities
in behalf of Hoover were “nonpolit
ical.” He pointed out that the Depart.
ment of Justice has declined to prose-
cute the hoard for noncompliance with
the federal statute.
Pickett stated that hundreds of
thousands of copies of the Volce and
the Clipsheet, organs of the board, a‘-
tacking Al Smith's prohibition record,
were circulated during the 1028 cam-
paign ; that the religious issue received
attention in the Voice, a fact he now
deplored ; and that, as reported to the
board by Doctor Wilson after the com-
paign, “we did use all the energy that
we were capable of In bringing about
the election of Herbert Hoover as
President and Charles Curtis as Vice
President.”
ASSIvE no longer describes the
resistance of the Indian natives
to British rule. The rioting is increas.
ing daily and has developed into
bloody conflicts with the police and
the troops, What Is worse, in the
eyes of the British, is the fact that
the Moslems pre joining thelr tradi.
tional enemies, the Hindus, in the cam-
palgn In some localities, though In
other places there have been sangul.
nary fights between natives of the two
religions.
Worst of all the rioting, but not
directly connected with the Indian
campaign, was that in Rangoon. In
that capital city of Burma warfare
broke out between different bands of
to break a strike o¥ dock
the mobs,
wounded numbered
sand. Latest
perhaps a
reports Indicated
hy coolies,
becoming desperate,
livered several fi
and provocative concerning the
that the negotiations between
tion agreement were broken
least temporarily.
hint at the
between France
newspapers even
bility of war
a speech before the Italian
of
make
Europe
appenled to
accord with Italy so
may present a united
America In the future
he Is certain
deputies,
an
agninst
%
struggle which
come.
HINESE
Honan
been
Nationalist forces Ir
are
defeated by
northern
Hsl-shan
province
have severely
troops of the alliance com
sgnanded
Yu-hsian
men, The government
forced to dig In
by Yen and
and nu
troops
¥
% il
vance on Chengchow,
til rel
nies have
the re
nforcements arrive. The
been
» railway
May 8
engaged In
south of the Yeliow
| the United
tion restraining
Orleans raliroad,
system subsidiary,
States upheld an
the Texas and
a Southern
from
so-called
ing with the activities of the Brother
hood of Rallway and
Clerks among its employees,
D ETERMINE
ern nent expenditures
D
the basis for
nual costs to the government,
“1 am
charging the national
men who served In war or became dis
dent in his veto message,
the public.”
new record for the east to west trans
continental flight.
York, he made one stop, at Wichita
fiving time. He battled strong head
winds all the way to Wichita, Tur
ner's only compnalon was a lion cub,
an hour or two In Buenos Aires, re
Havana and Lakehurst, N. J.
gsengers numbered nineteen. It
service. *
who flew from England to Australian
is touring the Australian continent
English admirers,
EVERAL well
dinal Lucon, the venerable archbishop
World war; Mrs. Katherine Keith Ad
ler of Chicago, popular novelist, whe
in France; Lord Randall
Davidson, former archbishop of Can
terbury ; Daniel M. Lord of New York
Ashton, the richest man In England
(@), 1930, Western Nowspaper Union.)
Turkey Business
on Stable Basis
Heretofore Industry Has
Been Regarded as Side
Issue and Gamble.
(Prepared by the United Stntes Department
of Agriculture.)
Turkey raising in the United States
hus been regarded as a side issue and
a gamble, but increasing knowledge of
parasitic diseases and thelr control is
putting the industry on a more stable
hasis, save A. I, Lee, poultry husband.
man of the United States Department
of Agriculture, “There are now more
than three nnd a half million turkeys
on farms in this country, and they con-
stitute 13% per cent of all poultry,
The 1920 crop of market turkeys indi-
cated a decided the
ness ns compared with 1928. The es-
timated Increase was about 9 per
cent.”
ndvance in husli-
Information Needed.
In recognition of the Increased In
terest in turkeys and the need for
further information concerning para-
sitie the United States De-
partment of Agriculture has estab.
lished a foundation flock of turkeys
at the United States range experiment
station ant Miles City, Mont, This
work pot under way last spring, Of
C00 birds raised last season, 300 yere
Ever
a research worker, Is de
diseases,
gelected for the breeding flocks,
ett E. Wehr,
voting all his time to the Investigation
of para The
this ill also include a study
sitic diseases, work at
station w
he established
chasing hatching eggs which
t artificially, The young
were brooded in special brooder houses
flock was by pur
were In
cubated birds
yards until they were ahout
old The
precautions to prevent in
ps of the poults by such par
tur
range
investigators
ax are introduced hy adult
i inrge enough to
Modern Improvements.
improvements in mechani
of hatching and
“Mo
eal
iern
means brooding
Mr. Lee
re now produced by
and shipped
much the same
says, “Day-old
s x Aol
inl hatcheries Ly parcel
naner as baby
post in
y
1
Ke Artificial brooding has been
rticular value in preventing losses
which at one
blackhead disease
threatened to destroy the in
have determined
s Is eapsed by
irkers
sannot live jong in so
transmitted In
sarasite, the of
ad parasite su
in the worm
chickens may
clhironie
worms, prevention of the
getive form of
turkeys calls for rearing on
sround away from chickens and
Cun
wir blackhead
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n
ldible Period of Many
Vegetables Lengthened
iv of our best are
for a very short period of time.
corn is for
y when it Is In the roasting
tage. When past this stage It
wot be used, The same is true of
woh crops ms beaps, peas, lettuce,
spinach, radishes and many others.
he edible period of such vegetables
can be greatly lengthened by a suc
vegetables
sweet used
Ie
‘or example, If a row or two of sweet
corn is planted every two weeks from
fhe roasting ear season will be ex-
two to three weeks to
months, This succession
other vegetables as well with the re-
sult that the fresh vegetable season
Poison Are on Decline
At the second annual conference of
the Eastern Radent-Control district,
Washington, it was reported
that clippings from thousands of
ented a material decline in the num-
ber of accidental human deaths from
rat poison during 1920,
fince the sales and use of extermi-
nators have not decreased, the confer
ence concluded that the diminishing
rate Is due to the increased,
nation-wide use of powdered red
gquill, which Is unique as an ex-
terminator in that it is deadly to rats
live stock. dogs, cats, poultry and
mice but harmless to humans, and
even baby chicks. It is highly rec.
ommended by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture,
Oats Grown With Wheat
as Succotash Are Good
There Is a very common notion
that oats grown with wheat as a
guccotagh are not good for seed. Just
what the foundation of this notion
i no one seems to know. There is
nothing In the association of the
wheat with the oats to In any way
dicturh its Inheritance and it there.
fore is just as good for seed as oats
tat have been grown alone, The
main difficulty in using such grain
for seed les In thoroughly separat-
ing the wheat and onts so that a
elenn crop can be raised,
death
Muskmelons May Pay
Any Garden Soil Is Suitable
for Good Crop.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Muskmelons produced locally and
sold In small towns and on roadside
markets could often be grown to
vantage In small acreages In many
parts of the country, according to
Farmers’ sulletin | 1468-F entitled
“Muskmelong,” recently revised by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture and available to anyone request-
ing it. The country's earlot markets
are well supplied from the big produc-
ing centers, but local growers in many
sections can advantageously
and zell melons on the smaller markets
which are now not fully supplied by
the cariot movement, says the author,
W. R. Beattie, horticnlturist of the
bureau of plant Industry.
Well drained, warm, sandy-lonm or
slit loam soils are best adapted to
melon growing although some of the
finest melons grow on sandy river hot.
toms and rich clay loams, Mr. Beattie
points out. Warmth, drainage, abund-
ance of quickly avallable plant food
and humus are essential for success,
Any garden soil is suitable for melons
grown for home use,
Insect pests and are the
greatest obstacleg to muskmelon grow
ing, according to the bulletin, This
crop must be rotated, appearing not
oftener than once In five or gix years
on the same land and with no related
vine the rotation if the soil
is to be kept uninfested, Seed treat
aud-
produc “
diseases
“ kr ins
crops in
ment and dusting or spraving will be
for the
necessary SUCCES, bulletin
points out,
The author vari-
eties and types of melons hest suited
to the Ear
dens, on the preparation of soil, cul-
harvesting of
In est: growing
the need Is for
improvement of q ndard
also comments on
local markets and home
tivation, and packing
melons,
sections
shed melon
most urgent
uality and sta
ization of packs, says Mr. Beattie,
Requests Farmers’ Bulletin
1468-F should be addressed to the Of-
United
Washing-
for
Information States
Department of Agriculture,
ton, D. C.
fice of
Selecting Dairy Sire on
Basis of Past Records
In selecting a bull on the
of the records
should be
dairy
basis of his ancestors
consideration given to the
under which the records
nye the United States De
of Agricul An investiga-
he Bureau of Dairy Industry
Md.
conditions
ture
showed that when
and fed three time
instead of twice, mfined
Hg Ir of In
make them fat
3 inary
vals of 15
instead
in ord flesh,
luction
was increased
A herd Improvement g fation
ord of 400 butterfat, If
made under ons,
ad-
ster of merit
rec.
condit
the bures ) is equal to an
vanced registry or reg
record of 000 pounds,
Bordeaux Mixture Good
Spray for Leaf Hopper
Bordeaux mixture has been found to
be an effective remedy for the control
of the potato leaf hopper and the dis
ease known as “hopper burn™ which
accompanies attack by this pest, says
the United States Department of Agri-
eniture. Leaf hoppers may migrate
from the early to the late crop, and
spraying ‘should begin when the pests
first appear. The spray should be a
the plants,
of the leaves,
should be sprayed.
Each side of every row
When leaf hop-
times necessary in hot, dry summers.
Dusting with commercial copper-lime
dusts is also effective,
COOOL NOON DOLD LOOD000ODY
Agricultural Notes
Make sure that growing heifers
have plenty of fresh, pure water at all
times.
- * -
Cows should be removed from the
pasture several hours before milking
if their milk is known to contain the
off flavor produced by weeds and
plants,
. * 9
No purchase of vitamin rich feeds
is necessary where the proper amounts
of good alfalfa are fed, say about one
pound to every 100 pounds live weight,
in a balanced ration.
» » *
Where milk is sold it is usually
more convenient to cool it at once aft-
er milking. It is true that bacteria
do not begin to increase rapidly In
milk till from two to four hours after
milking.
. ® »
Dairy farmers may help improve the
price of cream by consuming more
butter and dairy products. Temporary
overproduction may be corrected by
selling for slaughter all low producing
and unprofitable cows,
.« *
Efficient separators deliver skim
milk that tests below 2 per cent. When
the fat content of skim milk reaches
5 per cent there Is a preventable loss
of three pounds of butterfat in 1,000
pounds of skim milk delivered by the
separator,
HIS DIFFICULTY
Little Billy, returning from dancing
school, was asked by bis mother, “How
was the lesson?’ to widch Billy re
plied. “Not so good, Mummy.”
“How do you mean, ‘not so good?”
“Well,” sald the contemplative four.
year-old, "1 couldn't get the step the
teacher showed me.”
“Oh, so that was it.
think was the trouble?’
“Well, Mummy, I've been
about it, and I think I was m
GOOD AT HISTORY
What do yon
inking
fects”
He—Are you good at
She—Inded 1 am! I never forget a
date.
history?
No Upemployment
Though not
When polities goes dizzy,
There's work in every state
To «seep large numbers busy.
Nothing te Worry About
Gentleman (buying a cigar)—By
Jove! If 1 haven't left my pocket
book at home,
Saleswoman—That's
me tomorrow.
but
over or
great
compensation is
all right: yon
can pay
Gentleman—Yes, suppose |
hit by =»
wld get run
tots
brick?
set
swoman— Well, It wouldn't be
great calamity, anyhow.
Quo Vadis?
{to motorist
1)=Don't you
iid always give
to a woman driver?”
Motorist —] when 1
out which half of the road she
Boston Transcript.
who nearly
know that
half of the
you
road
8
always do, find
wants,
Results of the Fray
“Say, old man, sight!
Why, you are pasted vith fudge and
smeared with chewing Get mixed
up in a candy store?”
“Worse than that, |
umpire a basketball
two girl teams.”
You are n
gum
attempted to
game belweed
WOULDN'T TRY IT AGAIN
Diner—Let me see— 1 had a steak
yesterday.
Walter—Yes, sir.
again today?
Diner--No, I think not.
Will" you try It
If you will
I can do.
The Fickle Public
How many a man of genial style
Who can't see when to stop
is entertaining for awhile
And then proves just a flop.
Poor Papal
He-—My dear, you talked in your
slgep a long time last night.
She—~What did 1 talk about?
“Well—er—it seemed to be malnly
abuse of me.”
She—1 wasn't asleep.
More Modernism
Jack—Why did you break with
Alice, 1 thought you were crazy about
her?
Jim-1 am, but 1 decided 1 couldn't
stand it to live with her folks.
Latest Car Out
Mrs. Bragg—My husband's car Is
the iatest one out, you know.
Mrs. Cutter—Yes, I've heard the
neighbors complain that It wakes
them up when: he puts it In the
garage.
Just a Drop
Wife of aviator who is slout to
cross the Athantie—But what would
fallure be?
Aviator—Oh, just a drop ln the
ocean