States and Secretary
N UCH attention is
, being paid these
days to our relations
with Russia, or the
lack of them. In Mos
the opening ses
slon of the All-Union
Soviet congress was
aroused to wild en-
thusiasm by a violent
attack on the United
States—and Ineldent-
ally all other “capital
V. Molotov istic” countries — de-
Ivered by Viacheslav Molotov, presi
Ree of the council of people's com-
missars, which means premier of the
Scciet government,
Molotov characterized the lack of
diplomatic relations with the United
States as abnormal and as being part
of a plot of European groups, headed
by the Vatican, against Soviet Rus
sin. He said that twenty countries
are having satisfactory relations, ex-
cept Poland, whose relations might be
improved.
He denounced the charges of dump-
ing and forced labor that have been
made against the Soviet government,
and declared the Ac.erican “foolish
Fish bill"—framed by Representative
Hamilton PFish, Jr., after a congres
sional Investigaticn into Communist
activties—undoubtedly would affect
trade relations between the two coun
tries.
“America must remember.” he de
clared, “that the imports of the Union
of the Socinlist Soviet Republics de
pend upon her exports.”
The premier called the attention
of the delegates to a statement by
an American senator that “a thou
sand persons are starving to death
daily in the United States.” He asked
the delegates to compare this situa
tion to that in the U. 8. 8S. ‘R. where,
he said, there was no unemployment
and no starvation.
In Washington it
Secretary of State Henry Stimson Is
now devoting most of his time to a
careful study of the Russian question
in all its phases, presumably at the
request of President Hoover, That
this indicated any Important change
of policy by the administration was
considered unlikely by the well in-
formed. Indeed, William R. Castle,
acting secretary in the absence of Mr.
Stimson, sald that the latter's study
had no significance beyond tfie fact
that the secretary desired to Inform
himself more closely on the Soviet
problem. Since secretary.
Mr. Castle pointed out, Mr. Stimson
has been devoting his time to dis
armament, Latin-American affairs, and
other problems, leaving no time to
study Russia,
From the statements of state de-
partment officials it was gathered that
no consideration would be given to
the suggestion that a separate div-
ision for Russia be established in the
state department, and that there was
nothing in the report that an assist-
ant secretary of state would be ap-
pointed to handle Russian affairs
President Hoover hat in the past
stood firmiy by the policy that there
cen be no recognition of Russia be
fore the Soviet government agrees to
recognize official and private obliga-
tions to this country and cease propa.
ganda intended te overthrow the
American government,
cow
was learn2d that
becoming
ISTRICT ATTOR.
ney Thomas C.
T. Crain of New York
county is liable to
lose his Job as a re
sult of the exposures
of corruption in the
magistrates’ courts of
the metropolis. The
Clty club through its
officers filed formal ; A
charges against Crain,
alleging Inefficiency,
incompetency and nis- T. C. T. Crain
feasance in office, ‘nd asked that Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt remove him.
The governor promptly appointed
Samuel Seabury as special commis
sioner to investigate the charges and
report back to him. If he sees fit
the governor may remove Crain and
name a successor (0 serve the remain
der of the year. Seabury already has
been serving as cpecial referee In-
vestignting the magistrates’ courts
and will continue that work. It is
expected that the Crain inquiry will
lead Into the police department and
any other department of the city gov.
ernment or phase of politieal life
which may be related to the disizict
attorney's conduct of his office.
Republican lenders and others are
urging that the legisiature acthorize
a thorough nonpartisan Investigation
of the entire New York city govern.
ment, and a mass meeting of citizens
was called to promote that plan.
T 18 understood now that the new
naval treaty between France and
Italy will be signed by only those
nations snd Great Britain. It will
not be Incorporated In the London
naval treaty of 1080, but both pucts
will run concurrently until 1080. Of.
ficial expressions of approval of the
convention will be asked of both the
United States and Japan. but neither
will be called on to sign it. because
it was recognized that this might em-
barrass them owing to the high sub-
marine tonnage which the pact allots
to France,
The London treaty as ratified by
the American senaie provides for 52.
000 tons of submarines for the Unit.
ed States and Great Britain, The
Franco-Itallan-British agreement pro-
vides for 81.000 tons of submarines
for the French navy. If this figure
were to be Inserted In the London
treaty It Is possible the higher ton-
nage would be juestioned by the sen-
ate and the whole treaty would need
the senate’'s consent again. This the
administration desired to avold. The
same parliamentary reason applies to
the case of JapaLn.
Arthur Henderzon, British foreign
secretary, made public the terms of
the three-power accord In a long mem-
orandum. They cover three outstand-
ing considerations in the armaments
situation. Technical problems of Eu
ropean naval power are swept away;
renewal of an armaments race such
as led to the World war has, It is
hoped, been prevented; success of the
world disarmament conference at
Geneva next yea: is brought meas
urably closer.
The basis of tue agreement as out-
lined Is the detalling of the limits of
both the French and Itallan bullding
programs in all fleet categories until
16936. It is estimated by naval experts
that France will continue to hold a
superiority of about 157.040 (ons over
the Italian fleet, although his is not
stated explicitly In the memorandum.
NE of the State department's
most valuable men, Undersecre
tary Joseph Potter Cotton, died in
Jaltimore after a long illness and two
severe operations for spinal infec
tion. Mr. Cotton, who was fifty-five
years old and a native of Rhode Is
land, worked under President Hoover
when the Iatter was food adminis
trator and later secretary of com
merce. He was appointed to the state
department post In 1920 and made a
reputation for his frank and direct
diplomatic methods,
LIVER WEN-
dell Holmes, the
grand old man of the
Supreme court of the
United States, cele-
brated his ninetieth
birthday on Sunday.
and received at his
home the affectionate
congratulations of
countless friends and
admirers. In the eve
ning the venerable as-
sociate Justice made
his first radio speech, ~
after listening to the tributes of Chief
Justice Hughes and others. Justice
Holmes said, through the microphone:
“In this symposium my part Is only
to sit In silence. To express one's
feelings as the eng draws near 18 too
intimate a task.
“But 1 may mention one though
that comes to me as a listener in,” he
added. “The riders in a race do not
stop short when they reach the goal,
There is a little finishing canter be
fore coming to a standstill, There is
time to hear the kind voices of friends
and to say to one's self: ‘The work
is done.” But just as one says that
the answer comes: “The race Is over,
but the work never is done while the
power to work remains.’ The canter
that brings you to a standstill need
not be only coming to rest. It cannot
be, while you still live. For to live is
to function. That is all there is to Ily-
ing.”
Next day Justice Holmes achieved
his ambition of harding down a decis
ion after he was ninety. In it the Sg-
preme court ruled that within the
meaning of the motor vehicle theft act
an airplane is not a motor vehicle.
Justice
Holmes
TEALING a march on the insurgent
Republicans and Democrats, the
Republiran national committee an.
nounced the organization of an ad
visory council for agriculture, with
Senator-Elect L. J. Dickinson of lowa
as its chairman, The other members
are Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas
and Representatives Robert G. Sim-
mons of Nebraska and Fred 8. Pur
nell of Icdiana. Thi. council will have
headquarters In Washington and In
the West, and will Immediately be
gin work in the corn and wheat belts.
One of its purposes, it was stated, is
io be the “dissemiuaiion of accurate
information regarding the various con.
structive steps the administration has
taken to ald the farmers and to save
them from bankruptcy In this eritieal
period of economle depression and
drought.”
Two days after this announcement
was made, the Insurgents opened their
scheduled conference the purpose of
which was to demonstrate (hat the
Hoover administration did little if
anything to relieve the economic de
pression in the country. Five sessions
were held, each devoted to discussion
of a major topic. Seantor Borah, who
still advocates the export debenture,
presided over the session on farm re
Hef; Senator Norrie, chairman of the
-
conference, presided over the public
utilities session; Senator Cutting over
the representative government ses.
sion, and Senator-Elect Costigan of
Colorado over that devoted to the
tariff. All of these except Costigan
are nominally Republicans,
NE more campaign issue was pro
vided for the Democrats when
President Hoover vetoed the Wagner
bill for a reorganized employment
service, Even If the measure is again
introduced and pussed by the next
congress, the Democrats are sure to
make the veto one of thelr principal
talking points, claiming the bill should
have been enncted and signed at the
height of ihe business depression,
MPRESS NA G-
«+ ako of Japan has
given birth to a
daughter, her fourth,
anc the imperial fami-
ly and the Japanese
nation are rejoicing
an. celebrating. But
he joy 1s mainly over
the safety of the new
princess and her
mother, and there is
little concealment of
the disappointment
that the child is not a
son, The throne of .apan can poss
only to male descendants of the sun
goddess and Emperor Hlirohito is yet
without a direct Lelr to carry on the
line that has been unbroken for many
centuries. Prince Chichibu, the em-
peror's next younger brother, contin
ues to be the helr presumptive.
REAR ADMIRAL SAMUEL Me
Gowan, retired, appearing before
war policies commission that Is
conducting Learingse, advocated
adoption of =n constitutional
prevent the country
from going to war without a refer.
endum of its citizens. He added the
amendment also should provide that
if the referendum resulted In war
every able bodied male citizen be
tween the ages of eighteen and thirty
five be drafted de advocated pro
hibiting any increases in wages dur
ing war also,
Chalrman Johnson of the house
veterans’ committee and General Del.
afield, former chairman of the war
department board of contract adlust-
ments, opposed the referendum plan
as impracticable and unnecessary.
jernard M. Baruch, who was chalr.
man of the war industries board dur
ing the World war, proposed that, to
prevent profiteering during a war, all
prices should be fixed by Presidential
proclamation at the prewar level
Empress
Nagako
the
now
the
amendment to
SORES of towns and viligges In
the Balkans, in Jugosiavia, Bul
garia and Greece, inve been wrecked
by earthquake shocks, and
though officially put at 150,
numbered nearer 1,000, The
continued for several days. King
ander of Jugosiavia and
of Bulg both left
and personally directed the relief work
in the districts, which
carried on
Cross,
the dead,
probs: ny
temhblors
Alex.
aria
stricken
effectively by the
Terrific gales, accompanied by snow
and extreme cold, swept over
Europe during the week, and flooded
rivers, blocked highways and
trains added t. the distress. The Is
land of Mauritius was devastated hy
a hurricane that killed a number of
persons and left 0000 homeless
Northwestern Japan had an earth
quake that destroyed many houses.
ERU’'S new provisional president Is
Lieut. Col. David Samanez Ocam.
po, and he has assumed the office In
Lima after flying there from Arequipa.
Ocampo was the head of the “southern
Junta” which was set up by Arequipa
revolutionaries. He and his followers,
to bring peace to the country, gave
up their regime In favor of the new
Junta st the capita: and Ocampo was
promptly put at the head of the gov-
ernment,
ECBETARY of the
Interior has ac
cepted the bid of the
Six Companies, Inc.
of San Francisco,
which offered to bulld
the Hoover dam, pow-
er house and appurt-
enant works at the
6 : Boulder canyon pro}
A = ect for $48.800.0005.
' kis huge engineering
job, the biggest ever
W. H. Wattis undertaken .n the
United States, will be directed for
the present from a hospital in San
Francisco, for Willlam H. Wattle,
president of the Six Lompanies, Is
confined in the institution.
The entire project, including erec-
tion of a dam and power house, in
staliation of machinery and building
of a canal, is estimated to cost the
tremendons total of $165.000,000. Con
gress has already autlLorized expendi
ture of $108,000,000 for the dam and
appurtenant work.
AVY department officials announce
that contracts for the construc
tion of at least pix of the eleven de
stroyers appropriated for during the
short session of congress will be
awarded early this summer. The de
signs for the new destroyers call for
the Ia most heavily armed,
fastest and most seaworthy vessels
of this class ever bulit for the Unit.
ed States Son. They will have a
speed of 40 miles an hour, weigh
1.500 tons each, carry O-inch guns and,
addition, have & large fuel earry
eapacity to provide a larger ro
of action,
wh 181), Western Newspaper Union.)
Old Fertilizers
Coming Into Use
Many Less Common Ele-
ments Considered Non-
essential Find Favor.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture. )~WNU Service,
Although fertilizers have generally
been considered complete with only
the principal plant food elements, ni-
trogen, phosphorus, and potash, the
United States Department of Agri-
culture has found that many of the
less common elements heretofore con-
sldered nonessential or present in the
soil In sufficient quantities may de-
serve a place in the fertilizer bag.
Deficient in Elements.
In large areas In the United States
some of the solls are deficient in man-
ganese, sulphur, iron magnesium, and
chlorine, Experiments In the green-
houses have shown beneficial plant-
growth responses to applications of
copper, boron, lodine, zine, arsenle,
barium, nickel, and other less common
elements,
The evergiades and east coast re
gions of Florida, where trucking is
the chief form of agriculture, have
been found deficient in manganese
and have been made highly productive
by application of about H0 pounds of
manganese sulphate an acre. Within
the last two years this new fertilizer
has come into general use. It has been
credited In some cases, with Improy-
ing the yield of tomatoes by 175 to
450 crates an acre, the yield of beans
by 834 tons an acre, the yleld of cab-
bage by 42,107 pounds an aere, and
the yleld of potatoes by 180 bushels an
acre. It has trebled and quadrupled
the mize of carrots and beets and
doubled the size of ecaulifiower,
Chlorine Helps.
On light sandy soils In some tobac
co-growing regions an application of
20 to 30 pounds of chlorine per acre,
in the form of muriate of potash, Im-
proves the yield, quality, and
resistance of the crop.
A large proportion of the light sandy
tobacco soils are deficient In magnesi-
um and at 10 to 20 pounds per
acre of this element must be included
In the fertilizer if a normal crop Is to
be obtained. Mag
produces
drought
least
defic
characteristic symptoms In
the plant and the condition is popular
iy known as sand drown,
exium iency
Sweet Clover Pastures
of Important Benefit
“All in all th
clover
to the
soll, to
¢ benefits from sweet
pasture are largely
unenten residues left on the
roots left in the soil. to the
improvement of physical
il and to the sup
a by pasturing.”
Walster, in charge of
North Dakota
under dye
the
tates H. IL.
work at the
gricultural college,
“Under pasturing there is a consid
erable rey
¥ } through
both the ligul I he solid
manure
live stock
however, is sub
nitrification and leach
is unlikely of any
material benefit to the succeeding
while the solid manure is un
distributed and some leaching
losses take place in It, also”
Just what are the effects of pas
turing as compared to the effects of
other treatments upon the soil mois
ture conditions is not known, Dr. Wal.
ster says. It seems likely that a
closely pastured sweet clover fleld
does not draw as much water from
the soil as when two crops of hay are
taken.
Starve the Rats Best
Way to Control Pests
The best way to control rats Is to
make it "unhealthy and unpopular”
for them—and this can be done in a
number of different ways, says State
Veterinarian Dr. Homer A. Wilson of
the Missouri state board of agricul-
ture,
The first and best thing to do is,
when building. construct in a rat-proof
way. The extra cost amounts to little,
and the protection thus obtained will
many times pay for the trouble and
additional expense,
Rats must have food and shelter,
and if the buildings are rat-proof they
will be handicapped. This is a year
when we should try to starve the ruts!
Consumer of Lamb Not
Interested in Weight
The consumer of lamb is not Inter.
ested In whether a lamb can be made
to weigh 100 pounds in 100 days or
if It weighs 50 pounds. He is, how-
ever, concerned about the size of the
various cuts. The quality, flavor and
appearance of the meat are matters
which do concers him very much. The
economy of the feed yard only af-
fects him as it is passed on In the
price he must pay for his chops or
leg of lamb, The same parallel might
be drawn for wool. The consumer
knows and cares but little about the
breed, but he knows what he wants in
wearing apparel and pays accordingly.
Standard Crate
To make a standard potato erate
have slats 17 and 14 Inches with 12.
inch posts, says Prof. BE. V. Harden
burg of the New York State College
of Agriculture. With 1l.dnch square
posts and %-inch slats, the Inside di
liquid
ject to rapid
nanure,
to be
by Natural Crossing
New Importance Given to
Barberry Eradication.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture. )-~WNU Bervice,
The reason certain rust-resistant va.
rieties of wheat and rye lose their re.
sistance to stem rust is that new hy-
brid forms of rust constantly arise,
U. Cotter, pathologists of the United
States Department of Agriculture, sus
pected that new rust forms were orig-
inating by the interbreeding of
forms and were overstepping
bounds of resistance of
called resistant varieties of
wheat and rye not formerly
by either parent rust. The
this hybrid was almost identical with
that of a rust, 1011 and
scientifically
nis Horde,
assume,
both
described in
termed
which, the
a simi
ess of hybridization in nature,
The discovery gives new importance
to barberry eradication throug
wheat belt, for it is while
spores inhabit the barberry
various strains interbreed and
new hybrids. For many
been knowledge
originated hy lar proc-
common
produced on barberry
out barberry bushes,
evident that no plant breeder can be
will remain resistant to rust
new hybrid forms of rust may arise.
Care of Young Turkeys
Is of Much Importance
When the poults
hen should be pla
made over four boards a foot wide and
twelve
edge and well na
vent falls Ina
will eur n he call
be so kay to follow moving
When
turne a out, care must be
young the
ced in an enclosure
are very
or fourteen
fled together to pre-
week the little turks
of the hen and not
objects
the
hen is first
exerci 8 to let her go to a branch
or get In swampy land, Until pouits
are six or eight they seem
to relish and to
and chops
Thes shou gid have all the
milk they will drink
they may be gradually given
bread crumbs and wheat
ange of feed for turkeys
should siways be made by mixing with
a former food or they may refuse to
eat enough to keep up the growth of
to combat disease,
allowed to range,
they may be turned
eld where the grass is
They follow
in a few da
at any regular
before
food waiting.
sed nd
days old,
grow
n leaves,
sour
days
wed grass or soy bea
clean
After ten
cottage
cheese, dry
bran. A chs
body so important
If turks are to be
nto a pasture
ghort and it is dry s00N
the mother hen and ys they
will come up for food
time, They always come In
if they find
Cattle Feedi ng Has N
Cattle feeding ix 8 business that
rules. About the that is
certain
cause Farmer Jones did
or that way, with success,
ficient reason
only thing
is not suf-
farm,
To be 8 successful cattle feeder,
from different sources, and then fit
body knows what the future market
will be. On a rising market it Is well
to have your neighbor's corn in your
cattle, but -on a mean market too much
of the other fellow’s corn may ruin
FARMNOT
Call upon your grocer to save you
a few shallow boxes for seed flats,
- . »
One dollar invested in 18 per cent
bulk superphosphate to mix with ma-
nure can be counted on to return from
£6 to $8 in increased crops.
* . -
Try some pole beans this year as a
space economizer. One pole occupies
little more space than one hill of bush
beans and gives a vastly greater sup.
ply of beans,
» * .
When the horses are allowed one
feed a day of good alfalfa or clover
hay, with all the other roughage they
will eat, no grain will be required un-
til the last few weeks before spring
work begins,
. . -
Corn silage, up to ten or fifteen
pounds per day, is good for horses. It
should be fed with s/me good hay,
however, Moldy silag” must be avoid:
od as it is poisonous © horses and fre.
quently causes death.
. * @»
Plant a better string bean this year
than you did last if last year's showed
any signs of strings. There are real
stringless string beans now, Look
over the catalogues of reliable seed
houses, They win ten you,
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WORMS SAP A
CHILD'S VERY LIFE
Does your child grit his
teeth? Pick his nostrils? Have
a disordered stomach? These
are symptoms of worms
those deadly parasites which
will so quickly ruin a child's
health,
At the first sign of worms, give
your child Frey's Vermifuge. For 7%
years Frey's Verm ¢ bas been
America’s sale, vegetable worm med-
icine. Buy it today st your druggist’s
Frey’s Vermifuge
Expels Worms
Funny
it funny?" spoke
evening after she had
conta
“Isn't
one
stuffed
mins
“Isn't 3 %} repeated
“that 1 en make me fat and
mother and daddy eat so thes
be fat? :
little Jean
been
vita.
imng
substances,
wont
Eat Everything
without Fear
of Indigestion
Are there lots of foods you can’t
eat—for fear of gas, bloating, pai
in the stomach and bowels?
Do you have to pass up favorite
ishes—while the rest enjoy them?
That's a sign you need Tanlac! For
more than 10 years Tanlac has re-
stored to Yisotous health thousands
who suffered like you do.
Mrs. Arvena Bowers, of 1230 Jack-
son St., Topeka, Kans., says: ‘Five
years I was troubl ded with gas, bloat-
ing and di But Tanla
toned up my whole e Pavsber and in
creased my weight 10 1hs.”
If you suffer from indigestion, gas,
dizziness, headaches, or torpid liver
try Tanlac. One bottle often brings
the needed relief.
Tanlac is a good, pure medicine,
made of roots, barks, and herbs. Get
it from your druggist today. Your
if it doesn't help you.
Without Poison
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K-R-Ocun be used about the home barn or pond
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mended by U.S Dept. of Agriculture, oven-dried
under the Connable process which insures meas
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KILLS-RATS-ON Ly
An Exception
In view of the fact that he started
out in life with the handicap of be-
ing unable to tell a lie, George
Washington got pretty far In poli
tics. —Ohio State Journal.
‘Maybe
“People sneer at cheap skatea™
*1 suppose the hardware man hesk
tates to mark them down.”
Manners are the happy ways of
doing things,
OVERWORKED . . . RUN-
DOWN. . . WEAK
Fairmont, W.,
Va —“Twoyears
ago I was over.
worked, run.
down and weak.
Mother got a
bottle of Dr.
's Favor.
ite
for me. After the
first bottle | was
myself again but
I continued with the second
and haven't needed anyth
{t certainly is great
to do
ip just what 4 is
made me great. gladly
PM amiise Hannah
ve,
AR diuggists, Fluid or tablets,