RESIDENT HOO-
ver returned to
washington after an
sleven-day cruise to
Porto Rico and the
Virgin islands, with a
countenance that ap-
proximated the shade
of an almost ripe to-
mato. West Indian
sur and wind had
burned his face badly,
and there was a
President strong suspicion the
Hoover skin would peel, There
was no question, however, that he wns
rested, and greatly so, as a result of
his leisurely trip.
One of his first announcements was
that a tax increase could be avolded
If his budget and other recommenda-
tions for expenditures were not In-
creased by congress next winter. To
that end he appealed to the nation to
bring pressure on congress against
“the demands of sectional or group
interests.”
The statement was made in the face
of lagging Income tax receipts indieat-
ing a treasury deficit of perhaps $800.
000,000 at close of the current
fiscal year, June 80. It was regarded
as part of the President's effort to
mobolize public sentiment against
further soldier yonus legislation, farm-
relief appropriations or similar pro-
posals in the new congress to con-
vene In December.
Senator William E. Borah, Repub-
iiean insurgent, idaho, retorted,
through the press, that “the record Is
that congress has appropriated less
than the budget oureau has recom-
mended each session for the last few
vears.” He declared his willingness to
cut off the $00,000,000 provided for
the administration's naval building
program.
the
BLIZZARD in Rocky mountain
and plains states took a toll of
eleven lives, including five children,
two men and a woman in Colorado.
Scores were in a serious condition
from frostbite and exposure.
Thousands of cattle perished In a
wide area Including Wyoming, Colo-
rado, South Dakota, Nebraska and
the western parts of Kansas Okla-
homa and Texas. In the southern
part of the area, peach, apri-
cot and other stone-fruit crops were
ruined
The child vi
pupils at Plens:
er, Colo,
Maude
classes
storm
ims of the storm were
Hill
The morning of the blizzard
Moser, the teacher, ended
because of the storm. Carl
Miller arrived to take the puplls to
their homes in the school bus, Miss
Moser started to walk to her home.
There were twenty-two children In
the bus when Miller started, all be
tween the ages of eight and thir
teen.
Three miles from Pleasant Hill the
bus plowed into a snow drift ten feet
deep and stalled. Outside the mass
of falling snow was a curtain, ob-
scuring the road, tracks and cover
ing fences. Miller tried to back
toward the school but could not get
the wheels of the bur free from the
drift.
After remaining with the children
for many hours, Miller realized he
must get ald or all would perish. In
the driving storm he started out,
thinking he could reach a farmhouse.
Struggling on for more than three
miles he fell exhausted In a cornfield
and perished.
Five of the children
when a rescuing party
but the rest were saved.
There weré other tragedies In the
storm that swept the mountain states
and other sections: but this tragedy
was one to arouse the utmost pity.
Bravely the children met their fate!
They sang and boxed and played to
keep warm, as they were told by the
driver before he left ‘hem to seek
ald, as urged by the young leader put
in charge, until the merciless wind
and chill benumbed them into helpless
drowsiness,
school, Town-
were dead
found them,
NUTE KENNETH
Rockne, football
coach of the Univer
sity of Notre Dame,
with a name that be.
came a collegiate by-
word, plunged to his
death with five fellow
passengers and two
pilots on a Transcon-
tinental and Western
Alr, Inc. air liner In
the mid-Kansas graz-
ing country, Knute K,
Witnesses sald the Rockne
eraft, flying through clouds and fog,
lost a wing In the air and hurtled to
the ground like a crippled bird
Rockne had only recently recov-
ered from an lliness which a year ago
had threatened to terminate his bril.
liant coaching career. Last year, how-
ever, he developed one of the very
best of his many excellent teams, and
made a schedule for 1031 which in-
dicated that he looked forward to an
equally great team this year,
American football sustains a great
the best in useful, wideawake citizen.
ship,
President Hoover In an official
statement described the death of
Rockne as “a national loss.”
HE development of Fascism In
[taly Is to be marked further on
July 1 of this year by the banish.
ment of the twelve good men and
true from the penal courts of Mus
soliniland, Juries are abolished with
the reform of the courts of assizes, or
those which try criminal cases, which
Premier Mussolini will put in effect
three months hence, and for them
will be substituted a Juridical com-
mittee, or what's called a “college”
consisting of two professional judges
and five nontechnical citizens who
are called “assessors.”
But every one cannot be an asses
sor. Only special categories of citl-
zens who have high moral and intel
lectual, if not political attainments,
will run the risk of having thelr
names in the wheel to be drawn as
ASKSOSS0Ors,
The reform of the courts of as
sizes and the abolition of the jury Is
a result of the reformed penal code In
Italy, a work on which Minister of
Justice Rocea and his collaborators
have labored for five years. The re
form was brought about by what were
considered scandsious decisions often
returned by juries made up of men
of Insufficient Intellectual attain.
ments Jo distinguish between the
facts and the emotional bunk of the
lawyers,
Discontent with these abuses had
accumulated In less than a century
for the jury system was only intro-
duced in Italy in 1848.
URING the for.
mal adjournment
£4 of he German relchs-
ff tag the Bruening
cabinet Is armed with
parliamentary certl-
fled dictatorial pow.
ers to run the country
until next autumn,
when the relchstag
reconvenes. The gov-
measures to curb at-
tacks om President
Hindenburg.
emergency
¥
Chancellor
Bruening
The
curtal.s
t
chored to the
decree
enormous!
ie vital civie rights
constitution,
Basing the action on article 48 of the
constitution, enabling the President to
take dic measures
curity and order are threatened.” the
decree curtails the personal rights of
German
tatorial
when “se
citizens such as the freedom of speech,
the inviolability of homes, freedom
of the press, secrecy In the malls, the
right to meet when unarmed, the right
to form associatio:s s, or own property.
Public announcements of political
gatherings must be confined to the
barest facts. Newspapers Infringing
upon the terms of the decree may be
suspended for eigh* weeks, and other
publications may be suspended for six
months,
The publle speaking “muzzle de
cree,” the old timers eloquently claim,
is more severe than a “ukase” in the
days of the former kalser.
During adjournment committees will
continue working on a mass of internal
reform projects, and the relchstag can
be called together al any time on the
demand of one-third of the members,
or the council of elders can authorize
such a special call by majority vote,
RRUSSIa bade open defiance to the
international grain conference at
{tome Abraham Kissin, Soviet
delegate, declared that, far from re
ducing her wheat production, his coun
try would Increase It this year and
that instead of giving up her policy of
so-called “dumping,” she intended to
increase her wheat exports In order
to pay for her imports, which exceed
$3500,000,000 n year,
“Any proposal to exclude from
economic Intercourse a nation occu
pying one-sixth of the world's surface
is foredoomed to failure,” Kissin said.
“Russin’'s population Is Increasing at
the rate of 4,000,000 a year, which Is
proportionately twice as great as the
increase of Europe's population, there
fore we must Increase out whent pro-
dugtion.”
The United States Agricultural de.
partment has estimated that spring
wheat plantings would be reduced 14.7
per cent. This exceeded the hope of
the farm board for a 10 per cent cut.
when
HE Cuban Su
preme court has
given a decision
against President
Machado's suspension
of newspaper publica:
tion, holding that he:
acted In violation of
the constitutional pro.
vision for free speech
when he shut down
Jresses which had
published Information
and ecriticlsm distaste. President
ful to the government, Machado
Mr. Machado set forth the necessity of
public security and order as reason
without any showing that there was
an emergency or that the newspaper
comment was contrary to the public
good,
VAST financial organization with
millions of capital to relieve the
cotton producers of the South from the
distress caused by low prices of thelr
commodity, is declared to be in process
of formation by Chlieago capitalists,
headed by William Wrigley, Jr.
Detalls of the scheme have not been
revealed, but the maln {dea Is under
stood to be to uccumuinte large quan:
tities of baled cotton and hold it for
higher prices. Cotton is now selling
at prices ruinous to the planters and
is a drug on the world market,
The plan is also sald toe embrace a
system of trading credits by which
the vast surplus of cotton will be ex
changed for commodities, of which the
cotton growers stand In dire need
These Include farm equipment of all
kinds, groceries and clothing.
“ARTHQUAKES
hee, Caripoean
r= | Sea
and fire In
A Managua, Nicara-
IPRA gua, took an est
CORY NB mated toll of 1,000
2, Rh Je dead and many
er” thousands Injured,
many of them
Americans, The
American legation,
the British and Nicaraguan
government were all de
stroyed. Fire following the earthquake
razed twenty blocks of the
district, causing an estimated
erty damage of $30,000,000,
American
respond to
Red
sent
mission
Crs
Cy
©,
Arrow Points
to Managua
legaticr
bulldings
prop-
ngencles were quick to
need for
Cross rushed supplies
the helps.
to the
several years ago, were
to maintain order and relieve dis
tress.
It is too
the extent
population was in the neighborhood of
early to know
of the disaster.
ter, and hi
major
story records at least two
disasters.
aillicted
Central
volea
has less with
quakes than [ts
neighbors,
heen
So far as Is known there
habitable building left In the
beautiful Central Amerftan city, the
in size In the republic
dent Moncado himself abandoned the
palace for & tent,
once
second
national
nest S
son,
dent of
jJarnard and Byron B.
president and the
American
sixteen hours of each
the
the league
gnme., Thelr terms of
service In the presidency spanned the
itself,
national
hie league
nson quit the sports desk
innatl newspaper to
business
ames J. Hill he
: 2 $s * stellt A
rived as the empire builder of
Northwest, and John D. Rockefeller
lished the dynasty of Stand.
ard Oil. As each of those in his sep-
aiate spl the
did in
in the
ion of baseball
had estab
ire wore
mantle, so Johnson
Under hi
sport became, on
profession, and,
the company of large affairs. It
Johnson's genius that wrought
miracle.
its artistic
seven years old on July 17.
been re-elected president of the Amer
ican league for a five year term. His
activity In connection with the draft
his death.
I’ THE
lost one of
ters, and an unbeliev-
els, dramas and es
Absorbed in the work.
aday world about
him, never a propa-
gandist or a preacher,
shunning the mazy
introspections of the
aev, school, Bennett
with mingled realism and romanticism
portrayed the human comedy. With
gentle irony and exacting attention to
detail, he laid bare the dull material
Isms and the shams of civilization,
filling the most insipid with exciting
interest, but never receding from his
detachment to turn crusader. Sufi.
client of his works will survive to as
sure Arnold Bennett a permanent
place on the world's bookshelves,
a——
HE 21,006,000 libel suit Gus O. Na-
tions, former prohibition agent,
filed against Mrs, Mabel Walker Wille.
brandt, former assistant attorney gen
eral, in 1020, In connection with a
series of articles she wrote about pro.
hibition enforcement was stricken from
the docket In Federal court at St
Louis for fallure to prosecute.
Mr. Nations sald he could not pro.
ceed any further with the suit becaise
he had been unable to obtaln service
on Mrs. Willebrandt, but he asserted
that suits for $20000 damages each
were pending against her in New York
and Washington for alleged injury
done to him by the articles
The only observation of Mrs. Mabe!
Walker Willehrandt to the news that
the $1,000,000 libel sult fled agalust
her by Gus O. Nations had been
strieken from the record was: “The
action speaks for itself.” ;
4 1801, Western Newspaper Union)
Arnold
Bennett
Rat Proofing Is
Neatly Described
Principles Call for Use of
Well Made Concrete and
(Good Steel.
(Prepared hy the United States Department
of Agriculture. )—WNU Service,
Modern building principles and rat
proofing go hand in hand, says a new
Farmers’ Bulletin on “Rat Proofing
Bulldings and Premises” just issued
by the United States Department of
Agriculture, These principles call for
the use of well-made concrete and
steel, and other Indestructible and
noncombustible materials that are too
much for even the sharpest of rodent
incisors. They Include also fire stop-
ping In double walls and floors and
the elimination of all dead spaces and
dark corners where the rat can hide.
The sanitary features provide for hy-
of food, and the rat
cannot live without something to eat.
Rat Proof All Buildings.
new
gienle storage
All bulldings should be made
rat the in. Citles
in growing numbers have added rat-
proofing clauses to their building or-
dinanres with good effect that
others are sure to follow thelr lead.
Wllders should therefore compare the
cost of rat pr congtruc-
tion with the later, In
case local laws should require that all
bulldi
proof, says bullet
such
wfing during
probable cost
ngs be made rat proof.
The cost of rat proofing all the con-
farms,
unt to less
struction on many American
SAVE,
than the
the same farms in a
rats on
le year. The
{ilustrates
loss occasioned by
pamphile
methods
corn-
houses
It also
city bulldi
markets,
proofing of
houses and
iggest city-wide ef
forts suppression of the
a model
rat.
an ording
Service,
Parmanent Rat Control,
Throughont the bulletin it is emphe-
the
of permanent rat control. “The
premises and the
iveness are
proportion to the
food avail ile and to the shelter af-
forded int fing in the
of rats on
destruct
nsunlly
broadest
sense pmbraces wily the
f rats f n buildings of
hut also
Ing
and nesting
Plan Permanent Garden
of Annual Vegetables
A plea that gardeners of the nation
plant more perennial fruits and vege-
Farmers’ Bulletin 1242-F, Permanent
Frult and Vegetable Gardens, recent.
iy revised and reissued by the United
The authors, W. R. Beattie and C.
PP. Close, horticulturists of the depart
ment, stress the value of several per.
crops, especially asparagus,
horseradish, raspberries,
fogan blackberries, dew.
currants, gooseberries, straw-
and grapes, according to lo-
They say that a garden of an-
blackberries,
berries
callty.
with of a few of
these perennials
Farmers' Bulletin 1242-F
the enltural requirements and yields
f each of these plants and the num-
one containing all
describes
The bulletin is available free, so long
as the supply lasts, to those request.
ing it from the United States Depart.
ment of Agriculture, Washington D, C,
Yard Lights Convenient
When Cold Winds Blow
When cold winds blow and frequent
night trips are necessary to visit the
brooder house, farrowing or lambing
pens, yard lights with flexible methods
of switch control are greatly appre
ciated. These are avaliable to the
man with the farm light plant as well
as those who receive electric power
from high lines. Dome reflectors may
be mounted on poles or the yards may
be lit from lamps in angle reflectors
conveniently placed on farm buildings.
These should be wired with three-way
or four-way switches installed at cen
tral positions, .
Undesirable Seed
Immature and discolored alfaifa and
sweet clover seed may germinate fair.
ly well but eannot be expected to
produce plants unless It is of good
welght, according to Prof. O. A, Stev-
ens, seed analyst at the North Dakota
agricultural college, Low grade seed
ean he expected to produce half or loss
as many plants as the germination
test indicates. Slightly green seed
germinates well. Seeds which are
brown from age or heating are dead,
he states.
Guinea Fowl Meat Is
Increasing in Favor
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture. )—~WNU Service,
Guinea fowl ment is increasing in
favor as a substitute for game such as
grouse, patridge, quail, and pheasant,
Guinea raising“ therefore promises to
become more profitable on general
farms where plenty of range is avall-
gble, according to Farmers’ Bulletin
1301-F, the Guinea Fowl, just issued
In revised edition by the United States
Department of Agriculture, Most
guinea fowls are raised in small flocks
of from ten to twenty-five, although a
few large poultry raisers near the
principal markets raise from one hun-
dred to two hundred a year.
The management of small flocks of
guineas Is similar to that of some
breeds of chickens, except that guineas
may be mated In pairs or one male
provided for every three or four fe-
males, The hens begin to lay in April
or May and lay from 20 to 850 egus
before hecoming broody. If not al-
loyed to sit they continue to lay
throughout unmer, laying from
40 to 60 or more eggs. Many guinea
the si
chicks, but
ys may be used
period
gulnes
turk
The Incubation
for gulnes eggs is 28 days,
The demand for guineas begins late
in the summer and extends through
the fall and months. The
young birds are sold when they weigh
and na to two pounds
months of age or older.
there Is a limited
which are often
of Farmers’ Bulle-
hateh and rear
guinea hens and
successfully,
winter
from one half
rkets
demand for old birds
gold alive : ples
tin 1301.F, may
Office of Informatl
Department of Agr ure,
ton, D. C
ined from the
United States
Washing-
More Cottonseed Meal
Is Used as Fertilizer
manufac
215.000
tons of cottonseed meal as fer-
tilizer In
31, 1830, or
total meal
cotionseed
and fertilizer
turers use approximately
Farmers
short
the year which ended July
9 per cent of the
produced from the 1920
crop, according to reports
received by the bureau of agricultural
economics of United States De
partment This com-
pares with approximately 183,000 short
tong, or about 8 per cent of the meal
1928 crop of cot-
about
the
of Agriculture,
produced from the
tonseead
Of the 215,000 tons used as fertilizer
h ended July 31, 1830,
30.000 tons was used
and 76,000
farmers
in the
tons
production
In the pre-
108 (6%) was
fons used
tons
g =~
15.005)
nseed and eake
1620.30 season
ons, Of this
about 160,000 tons was exported, 215.-
fertilizer, and
55,000 tons was carried over Into the
new Most
of 1.870000 tong, it Is estimated,
consumed as feed in straight form or
in combination with other products
This compares with 1,755,000 tons in
1028.20 and 1.656.000 tons In 1027-28
ONO tons was used as
rn . Ton A
season, of the remainder
Testing New Novelties
for testing novelties, He will not |
have sufficient capital at stake to be |
disappointed if half of them fail to
prove worthy under his conditions and
for his ideals. The mental quest is
one of the chief delights in the making
of experiments,
If a novelty falls the quest is never-
theless as keen. An experimental plot
without fallures is worth having. |
Now and then one of the novelties |
will prove useful to the man who tries
it. He will then enlarge his area of it
and test it on a commercial scale. In
a year or two it may supplant some
of the older varieties, In this way the
gardener can always keep abreast of
the time and ahead of his competitor. |
3
not
Rats cost the nation $200,000,000 a
year,
- * *
Raw vegetables from your own gar-
den are tasty and healthful,
- * -
You ean sow cabbage seed outdoors
when you plant spinach and radishes,
» » -
Put
sets to keep the
going.
in another planting of onion
green onion crop
» * »
Western soils need humus, Hummus
is decomposing organic matter. Bary
the leaves, lawn clippings, ete.
- - .
Losses of seedings on land that is
not adapted to alfalfa is what makes
alfalfa expensive, Be sure your land
hag enough lime. |
. = »
Gardening Is a combination of head
work and footwork. Let the headwork
guide the footwork and there will be
less of the latter.
. * »
The best time to set out strawberry
plants is in the spring. Plants set out
in this season should not be allowed to
produce fruit the first year. All blos
som buds should be pinched off as
soon as they appear.
SIZING HER UP
Mrs. Dumbley was waiting to be
Presently the assistant
proached her,
“What size shoe do you wear, mad-
am?” she inquired.
“Well,” sald Mrs. Dumbley,
coy smile, “1 bought size
girl ap-
with a
four last
The girl looked puzzied.
“Yes, madam, 1 remember,” she re
plied ; “but you're buying this pair for
yourself, aren't you?"
”
IT DIDN'T HAPPEN
“I've ju
played truant,
pen again.”
“Aw, it didn't happen—1 did it on
purpose.”
185t spanked you becan
Don't es
Pickled Perkins
ung feil
Kins,
Who ad a great fondness
Kins;
He went to & tea
And ate twenty
Which pickled his internal
~three
Truly Self-Made
said seit made man, “I
ther
I've
“Yes” the
was left without a
at nine months,
had to battle along for m;
“How did you manage to support
yourself at nine
“l crawled a hab; OW
$
the
mother and fa
and ever since
ryeelf™
and won
the way 1
The Scene
chit
Ug
he just
were a friend
jou
passed and you
never even spoke «
Quiggle—No more,
road he sent me a i
hh you w
wp—DBut 1 dos
We!l
smetery.
One Lesson Well Earned
“Remember, young said the
elderly man, “that in order to succeed
you must teach people to trust you"
“l have done that,” answered his
young friend, “and 1 succeeded
in getting into debt beyond my wildest
expectations.”
CAUSE FOR ARREST
have
“Those two pugilists are liable to
be arrested before they get much for
ther.”
“For fighting?”
“No. For being loud
ous.”
and bolster
Regular Boy
“How'd you like school?™
I asked small Dan.
“I like it closed ™
Said the littie man,
Well Fitted
Juliz——Geraldine is going to take up
newspaper work,
Maxine—She ought to ba good at
it. I often wondered why she didnt
use wrinkle cream on those headlines
of hers,
She Needn't Bother
*Is the madam in?
“Yes, but she says she has no time
to talk about vacuum Jleaners™
“That's all right. Tell her I'l do al)
the talking. "Pele Mele (Paris).
Contagious
Mra. Greene—~The professor's wife
is almost as absent-minded as he ia
Mrs. Blue—\What did she do?
Mra, Greene—RBulit a fire in the buy
renn and put her silk stockings in the
stove.
Not Even Companionate
Friend—1 am told that your wife
has started sult for divorce,
Movie Star—What! 1 am simply
astounded. Why, 1 hardly know the
woman