emy at West Point,
Charles A. Lindbergh.
J.. bought by Col.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Farm Board’s Enperiment in
Stabilizing the Price of
Wheat May Succeed.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
NCLE SAM, through the medium
of the farm board's stabilization
corporation, Is engaged in another
noble experiment, namely, the support
of the domesti¢ wheat market to keep
prices from experiencing unwarranted
declines. Thus far the experiment
seems to be successful, for purchases
by the corporation maintained the
price on the Chicago Board of Trade
around the 73-cent level, while wheat
in foreign markets was slumping far
below that point,
Before the week closed, it was esti-
mated, the stabilization corporation
was holding about 100,000,000 bushels,
and it was sald in Washington that
the federal farm board would ask
congress in the next session for an-
other appropriation of $100,000,000 to
continue the purchasing policy. ‘The
coarse grains committee of the board
at a session In the Capital strongly
endorsed the policy adopted by the
corporation. It pointed out that prices
of coarse grains had failed to reflect
the shortage caused by last summer's
drought, owing to the weakness in the
wheat market. A check to this decline
bas been essential if coarse grain
prices are to show the strength war
ranted by the feed shortage this year,
the committee declared.
It recommended that the Treasury
safeguard the interests of domestic
producers of coarse grain "by levying
the maximum duty on all mixtures of
feedstuffs.”
The government's stabilization ef-
forts were at first severely condemned
by many grain men, but their success
in the admitted crisis brought about a
decided change in opinion and won
general support for the plan. How-
ever, there remains the question of
the disposal of the great surplus aec-
cumulated by the corporation. Wheth.-
er any considerable part of it can be
sold abroad is problematical, for other
countries are getting ready to prevent
this by anti-dumping legislation and
decrees,
REMIERS and bankers of the
western provinces of Canada are
doing what they can to restore wheat
prices and prevent a recurrence of the
slump, and with a measure of success.
On the Winnipeg grain exchange
prices were rising and greater confi
dence was manifest. The leaders up
there declared the Canadian wheat
pool would not be broken by the crisis.
The premiers of Manitoba, Alberta
and Saskatchewan were in conference
In Montreal and suggested that the
government set a temporary mimimum
of about 70 cents a bushel. A dollar
mimimum, however, is the goal of
Baskatchewan farmers, and wheat
growers of Alberta urged a mimimum
of $1.15. Any plan for stabilization
by the Dominion government must
await the return of Premier Bennett
from London,
HE Immediate reason for the farm
board's action is thus set forth by
an expert:
The western wheat co-operatives,
both in the United States and Canada,
have borrowed heavily from banks.
As wheat prices declined, and the
margin of collateral got thinner and
thinner, the co-operatives were faced
with just one thing—the forced selling
of millions of bushels of wheat. A
drop of a few cents more a bushel
might bring on a crisis of major pro-
pertions,
American millers have been con.
tending with plenty of cancelled or.
ders upon the theory that wheat can
be bought much cheaper at a later
date.
Possibly 100,000,000 bushels of
wheat were affected in these two sit.
uations. So, Mr. Legge and his asso
clates of the farm board again entered
the market to stabilize prices,
yim a stirring and optimistie
speech President Hoover opened
Wednesday night the White House
conference on child health and protec
tion which undertakes to develop Into
a national welfare program the sug-
gestions he made a year ago. Twelve
hundred experts have been working
on the problems he set forth at that
time and it was for this conference to
co-ordinate thelr solutions.
When the big gathering had been
called to order by Secretary Wilbur,
its chairmai., Mr. Hoover delivered his
address in which he asked for safe
guards and services to childhood be
yond the reach of the Individual parent
and which can be provided only by the
community, the state or the nation.
“If we could have but one generation
of properly born, trained, educated
and healthy children” he sald, “a thou-
sand other problems of government
would vanish.” His solution for the
questions concerning childhood which
he said should stir a nation was
“much learning and much action.”
J oLLOWING the collapse of the In.
vestment banking house of Caldwell
& Co. of Nashville, Tenn.. more than
fifty banks have closed or suspended
payment. Most of them are I Tennes-
see, but some are In Arkansas. Ken-
tucky and Missourl. The affairs of
Rogers Caldwell, head of the Invest.
ment concern and formerly regarded ns
a financial wizard, had been In parlous
state since September, when n state
bank examination of a subsidiary of
his company, the Bank of Tennessee,
caused the authorities to require a
deposit of $3.840,000 In securities to
cover labilities. Incidentally, the at-
torney general of Tennessee now an-
nounces these securities are missing.
Thursday morning the Central Bank
and Trust company, largest financial
institution In Asheville, N. C.. falled to
open for business. A notice was
posted stating the bank was closed by
order of the board of directors “for
the conservation of its assets.” The
bank's latest statement of condition
showed deposits of more than $18.
000,000,
William Virgil Bell, president of the
First National bank of Horse Cave,
Ky.. which closed early in the week,
committed suicide by hanging.
RUSTEES and faculty of the Unl-
versity of Chicago have sanctioned
a radical experiment in education.
The traditionally required four-year
course will be abandoned ard a sys
tem substituted whereby a student
may be graduated whenever able to
pass examination requirements, The
undergraduate school and the graduate
college, as such, will be abolished.
The Institution hereafter will consist
of the professional schools and five
divisions in arts—the humanities. the
biological sciences, the social sciences,
the physical sciences and the college,
President Robert ‘“faynard Hutchins
says of the reorganization:
“It means that we shall be able to
co-ordinate our teaching and to co-
ordinate our scholarship. The stu.
dent who hitherto has been prevented
by departmental limitations from work-
Ing in flelds related to his special In.
terest will get such an opportunity
from the divisional program. Co-or-
dination aéhleved by divisional pro-
gram means a saving to the univer.
sity in that duplication of courses will
be eliminated.
“Our research program will be aided
because the divisional organization
puts In one group all the faculty mem.
bers who have a common Interest and
relation In thelr work,
“Those students who wish to obtain
only a general education may get it
as fast as they are able, and If that is
all they want, they may depart from
the university with honor. By en-
abling a student to acquire a general
education as quickly as his ability per.
mits, a considerable saving In time
should result for those who wish to
go Into professions such as law or
medicine.”
NGLAND is hearing some unpleas-
ant statements concerning her rule
of India from the native delegates to
the roundtable conference in London.
And those delegates, representing the
princes, the Hindus, the Moslems, the
Brahmins nnd the untouchables, are
united In the demand that India be
granted at least dominion status with
federal rule.
Among the distinguished Indians
who voiced thelr country’s wishes last
week were the maharajah of Bikaner,
noted fighting prince; Sir Tej Bahan-
dur Sapru, leader of the Nationalists;
Mr. Jayakar, a brilliant young lawyer;
Dr. B. 8. Moonje, a Hindu leader:
Muhammed All, prominent Moslem,
and the beautiful Begum Shah Nawaz.
The attitude of the Tories of Eng-
land was set forth by Lord Peel, for
mer secretary of state for India, who
surprisingly asserted that no promise
of dominion status, now or in the near
future, had been given by Great Brit.
ain. After defending the British rule
in India he suggested that a beginning
be made by giving the provinces a cer-
tain amount of autonomy, while maln-
taining a strong central governmen:
unchanged from the present
There would be time enough to change
the central government after the prov.
inces had proved thelr
rule, he sald.
one,
capacity to
§ TRIKES and riots prevalied In
“Y many cities of Spain for a week
and strenuous efforts were
the Republicans and
convert them into ¢ political demon-
stration that would overthrow the
monarchy. But the government adopt.
ed stern mensures and succeeded In
quelling the disorders. The biggest of
the strikes was In Barcelona, always
& center of disturbance, but nfter
several days its abandonment was
ordered by the labor federation that
started it. In Madrid and Salamanca
made by
Communists to
demanded a republic. The wiser antl-
monarchists in Spain believe they wil]
succeed before very long In thelr alms
but that the time is not yet ripe.
TENTO VINCENT. editor
7 Hait! Journal, a lawyer and for-
mer diplomat, was elected President
of Haitl by the national assembly to
succeed Eugene Roy.
of the most strenuous
American occupation and his victory
was rather a surprise. He is the first
regularly elected President of the re.
public since American Intervention in
1816. Following the recommendation
of the Hoover commission that went
to Haiti In February, that the office
of American commissioner general be
terminated, Brig. Gen, John IH. Russell
has left the Island. and the new Amer
ican minister, Dana G. Munro, has ar
rived in Port Au Prince, the capital.
of the
Vincent iz one
on Thursday concluded his four.
Year term as chief of staff of
army. and was succeeded by Mal Gen.
Douglas MacArthur. In his farewell
statement General Summeral! spoke
enthusiastically of the reorganizations
that have given the country its hest
organized army since the armistice.
and gave high praise for the officers’
and enlisted men's Intelligence, loyalty
and devotion to duty.
R ESULTS of the prohibition refer.
endum held by the America Bar
association show that 13.779 of the
members voting are in favor of repenl
of the Eighteenth amendment. while
6.340 are against repeal. Judge Orrie
L. Phillips, chairman of a subcom-
mittee that handled the matter. says
that whether the association, In view
of the referendum result, will take
steps toward repeal of the Eighteenth
amendment probably will not be known
until the next annual meeting In Af.
lantic City next September. He also
said It was possible that no definite
action would be taken then.
MUGGLING of liquor and allens
by airplanes from Canada by two
powerful combines has been exposed
with the Indictment of fourteen men
by a federal grand jury at Detrofr.
Although the operations of the flying
rom runners were confined for the
most part to the Detroit ares, plane
loads of whisky and fancy liquors oc-
casionally were flown across the bor.
der direct to flelds In the vicinity of
the larger cities in Ohlo, Indiana, and
lilinois, It is charged that aliens
sometimes were carried as extra ear
go on the liquor trips, and that special
trips were occasionally made for aliens.
A rove a score of men, women and
children were killed and a hun
dred others injured by a tornado that
struck the little church colony of
Bethany, a few miles from Oklahoma
City, Okla. More than two hundred
buildings were destroyed by the twist
er. The storm first struck a country
school house, where four puplis died
(@. 1930, Western Newspaper Union)
*
Protection for
Bees Necessary
Exercising to Generate Heat
Does Not Improve
Wings of Workers.
Every time a bee flaps Its wings It
is just one more flap nearer bee heav-
en, for bees cannot replace or repair
wornout tissues like other animals, B.
A, Slocum of the New York State Col-
lege of Agriculture explained recently,
Winter protection Is necessary for
bees because the only way they can
Keep warm Is to form a cluster in the
hive, and the bees on the inside of the
cluster flap thelr wings, Just as peo
ple would wave their arms to gener-
ate heat. When the temperature falls
below 57 degrees heat must be gen-
erated, he says.
Heat Wears Out Bees.
The bees in the cluster fit so tightly
that those on the outside act as an
insulator, the hairs on their bodies in-
tertwine and Incorporate tiny air par-
ticles which Increase their Insulating
value, The generaton of heat wears
out the bees so that they soon become
old, and If an excessive amount of
heat is needed the colony may die be-
fore spring. At least the bees will be
old and die more rapidly than they
are replaced with young bees, making
& condition which beekeepers have
called “spring dwindling.” It is dim.
cult to get such colonies In shape
strong enough for the honey flow,
Packing Boxes Useful.
The remedy, Mr. Slocum suggests,
is to protect the hives with packing
cases and to provide windbreaks.
Many types of packing cases and va-
rious Insulating materinis are satis.
factory. Detailed instructions how to
pack bees Is given In the free Farm
ers’ Bulletin 1012, available at the
office of publications at the New
York State College of Agriculture.
Properly Housed Fowls
Will Prove Profitable
(By M. A. SEATON, Extension Poultry.
man, Kansas Siate Agri
cultural College.)
Poultry profits for the coming year
depend mainly on the puliets,
In managing most poultry flocks It
is considered advisable to cull the
hens to a polnt where they will com-
prise about one-fourth to one-third of
the flock, and have sufficient pullets
to make up the remainder. If a suf-
ficlent number of good pulleis are
avaliable to carry out this plan a suc
cessful poultry year should be in sight
if good management is practiced. If
the pullets have been poorly devel
oped and are small and unthrifty, win.
ter egg production will be low,
Hens will need a well-constructed
and properly ventilated house to lay
a large number of eggs this winter.
MM a satisfactory house is not avall-
able plans should be under way to re
model or build a new It Is ad.
visable not to crowd the pullets. Cull
and sell part of them. At least three
square feet of floor space should be
allowed each pullet.
one,
Soy Bean Hay Compared
With Alfalfa for Cows
Reveral years ago the Pennsylvania
experiment station concluded a three
year feeding test In which different
of soy bean hay were com-
pared with alfalfa hay as a roughage
for dalry cattle and the results are
well worthy a eareful study. Soy
bean hay Is not as easily cured as
alfalfa or clover, partly because It Is
ready for harvesting till late In
the season and partly because It is
somewhat coarse and does not dry out
as readily as the other legumes men-
tioned. The result is that the quality
of the average soy bean hay crop ia
usually somewhat below that of the
common legumes. It usually produces
a smaller tonnage per acre than
nifalfa, but yields about as well as
clover,
grades
not
Have Spray Equipment
in Order Quite Early
The fruit grower who runs out his
spraying equipment from winter quar
ters In February or early March, in-
gpects It carefully and secures all
needed parts and accessories, is plan
ning ahead profitably and doing much
to prevent costly delays and failure
during the busy spraying season.
Much more time may be had for a
careful study and consideration of the
spraying equipment and its needs for
effective spraying work if such mat.
ters are given attention during the
winter before spring spraying work
beging,
Great emphasis should be laid upon
seeing whether the spray pump,
valves, nozzles, hose and other parts
and accessories work properly.
Black Knot Treatment
in Plums and Cherries
The only effective treatment for
black knot in plum and cherry trees is
to cut out and carefully burn all the
knots. Destroy entirely any trees that
are badly Infested. This disease
spreads so rapidly that quick work is
needed to save clenn trees, It is be
lHeved that a fungicidal spray, lke
lime sulphur or bordeaux, at dormant
strength before growth starts is a
safeguard for the clean trees, but the
knots themselves must be burned and
careful watch kept during the season
to catch any Just starting. When
handling these knots use canvas
gloves, and do not touch the knots or
gloves on clean parts of the tree.
Pithy Directions as
to How to Buy Seed
From the New York State College
of Agriculture at Ithaca come pithy
directions as to how to buy seed, writ
ten by Paul Work of the station staff,
Here 18 the how of good seed buying:
“Seed, to be good, must be clean,
viable, free from disease, and true to
a good name,
“There are two
good seed: first,
ondly, to purchase it,
“Growers should learn, In a gen-
ernl way, how the business is
handled, and should char-
acter, the
of obtaining
BOC.
ways
to produce it;
‘ Beod
study the
the Integrity,
the reputation of the various
houses, for firms differ as widely as
do Individuals in these respects,
“Make Inquiries as to the origin of
the seed and whether or not the
houses maintain trial grounds. Learn
to judge whether the statements made
in the catalogues or by the salesman
are based on facts or on mere ideas.
“When you locate good sources, en-
deavor to get seed of the identical
percentage another year. The use of
the seedsman's stock numbers will
belp both you and the seedsman in
this. Don't shop around too much if
you locate a good seedsmun. He soon
learns your needs and will endeavor
to meet them,
and
seed
ideals,
Carbohydrate Supply
The need for the sllo Is not meas-
ured geographically, Silos are being
successfully used in every state and
nearly every county In the Union,
Many of the countries of the world
are using sllos with success. Too
many farmers have figured that they
were oul of the silo belt, and let It
go at that. They should use the silo
formulas to the economy
of such structures rather than count
themselves outside the trict.
The losses In field-cured forage are
seldom spoken of Weathering by
sun, wind, rain and frost are great.
When shocks and stacks are covered
with snow and then the silo Is
appreciated. But even if we did not
have this weather damage, slinge Is
our cheapest supply of digestible car-
bohydrates,
determine
silo dis
ice,
Most Convenient Form
of Farm Repair Shop
Probably the most convenient form
of repair shop for the farm is a bulld-
ing that combines the workshop with
the garage. The car can be taken out
and the machine run in while repairs
are being made. The essentials of
such a building are heat, reasonable
light, and tools. The tools that come
with machines may be sufficient for
most work, although good tools save
time. Heat may be secured from an
old stove which may not meet all the
requirements of the living room but
which will heat the shop.
The 14 by 20 building offers a well
arranged combination shop and ga-
rage. Plans for it may be secured at
cost from county extension agents or
from the college of agriculture at Co-
lumbia, Mo.
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Peat may be added to clay or sandy
garden solls to Improve their water
holding eapacity.
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Brooder stoves are an excellent
means of warming the laying house
during cold snaps this winter.
» » -
It has been costing the federal gov.
ernment more than $10,000 5 day to
keep down forest fires in
forests,
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have beeen harvested, cut
burn the old fruiting canes. This will
SPARES
h
trousers and natures
mesnbers this when
(ne
i Wis
day while out tie] whe
buying cloth for
for
nore
jriir of trou
| Bers the hoy
than
“Why do you buy so much? asked
{ the friend
“3h.”
and ordered a good
{ deni Seemed necessary
responded the mn
i Is for the reserved sents
NEVER BUY 'EM
other, “this
Mrs. Kolture— Have you bought
i any of the paintings a1 the exhibit?
Mrs. Newrlche-
never buy
We
emminness no
ready made pictures!
Easier, Too
when | was small,
100 dry for me
my mind since
Arithmetic
Was much
I"ve char
tail,
{| For figures
Ked
now, | like to see
Good Cause for “right
had nmrried 8
and he hand for » few
They Neen
month
niinsies while she
in the Kijchen
Nudddeniv a
only
eft her
prepared 8 salad
sOrEam
the
om
darling?
rang
Kitehen,
what
flerving
out, atl he rushed to
prepared to fuce he knew
“Whatever Is the
he panted
“It's a—a she =uid
with an effort Herbert, what if
I had been in the house alone?”
matter,
caterpilier I™
“bly
Why the Worm Turned
Ted was told to bird insect to
the nature study classe for oliservation,
and asked his father to take him to
the country eurly the next morning to
Later, at school, he gravely
ng an
find one
reporied ;
“Miss ank, dade had to go to
work, so ouldn® ing the
+
insect
| today."
Aw, Quit}
3 penny
lurly Bill—Got =»
{ guv-nor?
Litile Smiffey—Certainly, but what
do you two men want with one penn?
Beefy Bert—We wants te ap.
guv-nor, to decide which of us is te
have yer walch and which yer money
News,
on yer,
toss
-— Manchester Evening
JUST A CRAB
check.
* * ®
Sunlight or ultra-violet ray Is neces-
sary for the prevention of rickets in
dairy calves unless the ration fed the
animals contains ample quantities of
vitamin D.
* . .
Winter rye sown In the spring will
not make a grain crop the first sea-
son, if at all. It will make an excel
lent pasture for a short time but beads
would not shoot up.
. * %
Grapes do well on a wide range
of solls, but they prefer a well-drained
gravelly loam. They require good
drainage and will suffer far more from
wet feet than from lack of fertile soil.
*. *
Asparagus should be planted as
early as possible In spring. A rich
soll is required. Prepare the plece
of ground this fall by digging it deeply
and In the process work in plenty of
barnyard manure,
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Ordinarily, a wooden bullding needs
repainting about once every three or
four years. An extra good job of
painting may last six years, but it's
poor business to put off painting until
it is absolutely needed.
CI
Human beings are about the only
animals with a taste for lice water,
Poultry and live stock on the farm
don't care for It. They do appreciate
warm drinking water and show their
appreciation in Increased profits,
“Do you know what an Autcerad
is?
“Sure-—it's a crab who thinks ew
| erybody ought to get out of the way
of his auto”
Speaking of Dictators
A dictator's smile
is a curious thing
He can put on more style
Than a regular king
Life on Juan Fernandes
Robinson Crusve—~Friday, 1 am
shocked. Even though yon did foozle
that shot you shouldnt use such aw.
ful language. Where did you iearn it?
The Man Friday-1 learned it from
the parrot. master.
Why, the Idea!
He—Seenms to me sou told me re
cently that you didn’t need any new
clothes—and pow
She But, John, dear, that was last
week.
A Goal Attained
Null—1 started out on the theory
that the world has an opening for
me.
Vold—And you found it?
Null Well, ther. I'm in the hole
now. ~Churchman,
Social Pig
“Why Is young aly Skigge such a
great soclal favorite?”
“He can eat anything that ever
came out of a chafing dish and act as
if be enjoyed iL"—Washington Star.