HERE Is no war in Manchuria be-
cause, as the League of Nations
and other authorities agree, there
cannot be a war until a competent
government has de-
clared war. But there
have been bloody bat-
tiles up there almost
every day, and the
situation during the
week was getting
worse, The league
council was to meet
again on November
16, and It was con-
fronted with the fact
that Japan had not
heeded Its order to
Henry Pu.Yi withdraw her troops
by that date, with the added aggrava-
tion that had reiterated the
statement that it would not obey the
order and would make no concessions
to the league.
Then China came to bat with a
statement by [ts representative at
Geneva, Dr. Alfred Sze. In a note
expressing his government's condition-
al acceptance of the one-year arms
holiday Doetor Sze the league
secretariat flatly that if the league
covenant and the Kellogg pact should
fail in the Manchuria crisis, (
would build up her fight forces to
protect herself against Japan,
fore that he had asked the leag:
send an international force to police
the Manchurian rallway zone,
Gen, Ma Chan-shan, commanding
the Chinese troops in hern Man-
churia, was said to have attacked the
Japanese at the Nonni river bridge
which the latter were repairing, and
after a sanguinary conflict the Chi
nese were driven off. But they did not
go far and at last reports were gath-
ering for another attack; and more
Japanese soldiers were on thelr way
hurriedly to the scene. There were
other battles, but this was the biggest.
What was more alarming to foreign
nations was the spread of the fighting
to the big city of Tientsin. This be
gan with outbreaks of Chinese mobs
that attacked
sion, The Jag
were due
’ Toky FO
told
“hina
ing
Be-
je¢ to
soul
to the
Chinese factions and that the
tive of the Chinese was to
the foreign concessions in the city: s
the Japanese forces went into action
“for protection” and shelled the Chl
nese, American, French and other
troops were held ready to act, but at
this writing had not been called on to
do anything.
In the background of all the trou-
ble Is Henry Pu Yi, who as Hsuan
Tung was the last Manchu emperor of
China. The young man is a quiet rent.
ing householder in the Japanese con-
cession in Tientsin, but loyal mon
archists have always been about him
and now it is asserted that there is
afoot a plan to separate Manchuria
from China and put Henry on the
throne, With this in view, it is said,
many thousands of troops have been
gathered together by Gen, Liang In-
Ching, former ally of the Manchu
dynasty and for years the enemy of
the Chang familly now headed by
Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang. It is true
most of these reports come from Jap-
anese sources, but they have the ring
of truth,
Ambassador Dawes was Instructed
to go to the league meeting.
disorders
HAT Germany can and will do
and what she asks the other
powers to do for her continue of ab-
gorbing Interest to the world. The
reich’s stand on dis-
armament was set
forth by Gen, Wil
helm Groener, the
brilliant soldier, who
is now minister of
war and minister of |
the Interior and who
may succeed Von Hine
denburg as president,
“Germany has the
right to the same
treatment as all oth-
er nations,” General
Groener sald, “She
is entitled to the same security and
to the same methods of disarma-
ment as other nations. It was ex.
pressly guaranteed In 1019 that the
other powers would follow the path
Germany took when she was dis
armed.
“When we disarmed we were for.
bidden to possess heavy artillery,
tanks, war planes, submarines, and
warships over 10,000 tons. Even antl
aircraft artillery was prohibited. Mil
itary conscription was forbidden, and
Germany was Instructed, even to the
slightest detail, on how to organze her
army.
“The result Is that Germany is ut.
terly disarmed, Measures have been
taken to gnarantee an effective dis
armament. Would it not be flying In
the very face of all logle, and would
ft not be a violation of the solemn
obligation to disarm entered Into hy
all other nations, if the forthcoming
disarmament conference would now
geek to apply other methods than those
tried out on Germany?
“Therefore we object to the drafts
of the disarmament agreement as
Gen, Groener
worked out by the preparatory dis
armament commission at Geneva. It
is a violation of the principle of the
equality of nations if it tries to make
eternal the difference between the vie:
tors and the vanquished by freeing the
victors of their obligations to disarm
and making the vanquished bear the
full brunt of the disarmament clauses
in the Versailles treaty.”
and conversations
(CONFERENCES
in Paris and Berlin concerning
reparations and war debts were held
behind closed doors, but it was re
liably reported that the French gov-
ernment sent word to Berlin that
whatever concessions are made to
meet the German situation must be
only temporary and within the frame
work of the Young plan; that France
will not agree that Germany's private
debts shall be given precedence over
reparations payments; and that If
there is any permanent reduction In
the conditional part of the Young plan
anpuities, it must be accompanied by
a corresponding reduction in the war
debts owing to the United States,
Germany, on the other hand, is evi
dently seeking to take advantage of
her present ecoxomic distress to ob-
tain a great permanent reduction of
reparations, or even their complete
obliteration, The French nationalists
are determined that Premier Laval
shall not abandon the principle of
reparations, no matter what pressure
TIS AL brings to bear.
Germ iy
UR political pot is already seeth-
ing and bubbling and there is a
lot of talk, loose and otherwise about
next year's campaign, Senator George
W. Norris of Nebras-
kan gave volce In
Washington to a few
characteristic opin
fons. The Insurgent
Republican nade a
strong attack on the
policies of Mr. Hoover,
and seemed to the
correspondents
ready to part f
in a bolt of radicals
from the GQ. O,
ticket that presumably
will be put up next
summer. Here are a few of the things
the Nebraskan said:
“If we are to keep men employed,
why discharge them? It may be neces
sary in some instances for private in.
dustry to reduce iis employment, but
there is no justification for the gov.
ernment discharging workers,
about
Senator Norris
“If we expect industry to keep men
at work the government ought to set
an example because the government Is
the largest employer in the nation. 1
favor a bond issue to cover the emer.
gency and provide work for the unem-
ployed, 1 d# not favor bond issues in
peace times, but this is an emergency
tantamount to war conditions 1
mean a bond issue, not to provide
charity, but to provide jobs by road
building and other federal construc
tion, Instead of fighting over the dole
the government ought to provide work
for its jobless citizens.”
Concerning the world court Senator
Norris said: “I shall favor American
adherence only If a reservation Is
adopted requiring the senate’s ap-
proval before any controversial issue,
involving the United States, may be
submitted to the court for decision.”
OMING back to the supposed op-
position in the Republican ranks
to the renomination of President Hoo
ver, which if It exists will probably
be futile, it Is Inter
esting to note that
Senator Hiram W.
Johnson of California
is going to visit Chi.
cago @r the purpose
of finding out what
support he would re
ceive In Illinois if he
became a candidate.
Some of the Repub-
lican leaders of the
city .and state said
they would give the
matter serious Sen Johnson
thought, and they were rather of the
opinion that Johnson might be ap-
proved by all or part of the Illinois
delegation in the convention. They
cited the fact that the Californian has
opposed all of the Hoover policies
that proved most unpopular in this
part of the country, and also they
thought his coming into Illinois as a
presidential entrant in the April pri
maries might help their state ticket.
Those of them who oppose Mr. Hoover
had heretofore had no one to suggest
except Frank O. Lowden,
HEN Harry Moore was elected
governor of New Jersey the other
day, It was immediately suggested
that he might be a good man for the
Democratic Presidential nomination,
and Senator Lewis of Illinois agrees
that Moore stand at the top of the
list of dark horses. Lewis also told
the reporters there was an “under
cover movement” In the Republican
party to repudiate President Hoover,
EATH having 1 re moved from the
senate the forcible and pletur-
esque Thaddeus H, Caraway of Ar-
kansas, the Democrats of that state
are considering the cholce of hig sue
cesscr, The suggestion has been made,
and well received, that the senator's
widow, Mrs. Hattle Caraway, be nomi.
nated to Ll out the unexpired term,
This would be tantamount to her elee-
tion, Mrs, Caraway is sald to be will.
ing to accept the office. 8he is a close
student of public affairs and has been
a charming and popular hostess in
the Lord Baltimore mansion, a colc-
nial home just over the Maryland line
near Washington,
UMANIA'S royal family has sup-
plied the world with another ro-
mance. This time it is Prince Nich-
olas, brother of King Carol and Prin-
cess Ileana, who Is the
central figure. Nich
olas met accidentally
and fell In love with
Mme, Delet), divorced
daughter-in-law of a
former eabinet
ry her and the
Nicholas
to his
Prince Nicholas Picked up the
and drove at
speed 125 miles to the village of To-
han.
automobile,
the happy couple rushed away,
the terrified mayor telephoned
news to Bucharest,
So far as
not relented enough to
marriage as even a morganatic uulon.
But he probably. will not
measures, for he is fond of his brother
and gives him mush credit
cess In gaining the throne of Ru.
Then, of course, Carol can-
is known, the king
Pr s Nicholas, who Is
tht yen old, accompanied
Marie, and the
their tour of Amer
} ire
Queen
ina on
lea In
Ness Leavitt, a
ident
Van
Pr res)
hat C
law of
news t
brotherin Hoover,
Was ar
rges of violating the state pro
hibition law. A police officer and two
dry agents who were ralding speak-
ensies there fo
holding a sack
©
of liquor,
i
containing ning
pints and he was released
on bal pleading not guilty
Leavitt sald some one handed him the
sack wh
and asked
door
seen
after
ile he was visiting in a store
him to take it out the back
rid of it, and that he
a8 a friendly service not
he sack contained liquor.
h vier of the store, arrested,
said he bel the sack was brought
in by a bootlegger fleeing from the
police. Altogether a trivial affair
made news only by Leavitt's relation-
he President, .
\y/ Lia L. Edison, second sou
the late Thomas A. Edison,
who intends to contest the great in-
ventor's will, issued a statement at
Wilmington, Del, In
which he sald he be.
lieved Interests op-
posed to him are
trying to establish the
impression that he
wins not always on
friendly terms with
his father. As proof
that this is untrue he
pointed aut that when
both had perfected
like radio equipment
he (Wiliam) did not
market his set in op-
position to his father's even thougn
it was patented. .
and get
also
fever]
ship to ti
WwW. L. Edison
“I have had the highest regard for
every member of my father's family,”
he sald, “and never since his second
marriage has there been a single in-
stance of unpleasantness either with
my stepmother or any of my full or
half sisters and brothers
“Until the conditions of my father's
will and codicil were revealed no dis
agreement of Importance ever had
come between us. Even now I do not
intend to allow the case to degenerate
into attacks on personalities”
Edison's will left the bulk of the ee.
tate to Charles and Thoodore Edison,
the two youngest song, Thomas the
eldest son, has said he would not join
Willlam In contesting the will,
BSERVANCE of Armistice day
ceremonies and addresses In all parts
of the country, and in the lands of the
allied nations as well. President Hoo.
ver, of course, led our nation in ob-
serving the day. In the morning, ac
companied by General Pershing, Sec.
retary of War Hurley and Secretary
of the Navy Adams, he went to Arling-
ton cemetery and lald a wreath on the
tomb of the Unknown Soldier. At
eleven o'clock, the hour symbollie of
the ending of the war, the President
was In West Potomac park, where he
dedicated the beautiful marble temple
which the people of "Washington have
built as a memorial to the soldiers who
went from the District of Columbia.
In the afternoon Mr. Hoover pald a
visit to the old frigate Constitution at
the Washington navy yard.
General Pershing and American Le-
gion officinls participated In a com
memorative program in the evening,
and the Carnegie endowment for Inter
national peace held a mass meeting
which was addressed by Houston
Thompeon and Frederic R. Coudert,
(@. 1931, Western Newspaper Union.)
Matter of Profit
in Corn Breeding
Individual Grower Will Ben-
efit by Advice of
Corn breeding. by the newer and
highly Intensive “selfed-line” method
is not feasible for the ordinary in
labor, and expense involved, declares
G. H, Srringfield, agent of the United
States Department of Agriculture at
the Ohlo Agricultural experiment sta-
tion. Although many young farmers
may contemplate corn breeding by the
“selfed-line” method, it seeins more
practical for most of them to depend
upon the results of the experiment
stations, he says,
He points out that If a man's In.
terest is strong enough and if he is
of a painstaking, observing nature and
naturally interested and willing to
make a study of the job, he has much
in his favor as a corn breeder. How-
ever, if he is interested chiefly in prof.
ft and quick returns, he may lack the
patience necessary for successful corn
There are four angles the
tive corn breeder should
investment In land and
labor, In the “selfed-line” method,
each plant is pollinated with its own
pollen and after highly inbred (per-
haps for 10 generations) uniform
trains are thus produced, These
are crossed to get commer
cially valuable hybrids. It is neces-
gary to test several hundred
lines to get a few that are
continuing
Another is time. At
years are ned get
tested hybrid strains,
prospec
consider.
worth
conglderation
essary to
ably
also some qu
good, reason
There is
the profit in corn breeding
: and
can be patented
uspally made avallable by the experi-
No variety
best are
ment Ons, iy using these
individ 8
uncertainty
Finally,
individual!
must | 0
Interest
Protect Small Fruits
Small fruits that m we injured |}
r Hiro
»
accord!
the should be mule)
tection luring the winter,
fo £3 V. olginger of lowa State
lege,
n over
in the cane
nage and the to]
with
there will be itt
8 of the plants sh
soil,
it desirable var
ould
he covered
fess hardy bt
grapes should be
The varieties
tection are the Brighton,
Mountain snd the Ar
Kirawherries should be mulched aft.
first freeze,
of this mulch Is to
piternate freezing and thawing.
gtraw from which the cl
shaken or shredded corn “fodder
be used.
as it becm:
and carries many weed
change,
mulched du
need
ring
winter. that pro-
Green
the pu
down
since
keep
er the
the
Whent
may
nes a mat under the snow
seeds, —Ex-
Stops Erosion
other cultivated
wr are
Rows of corn or
during
where the
much less llkely to wash out
heavy spring rains than
rows run up and down the slope. Soll
erosion from the field will be greatly
will be
fields
and more walter
In many
cultivation,
nhsorbed by the soil
tour with very little more troun-
n where they are run with the
glope. If erosion is to be checked and
ge his ideas regarding
for corn rows being
er should chan
point of the compass. A row across
the slope aids in Insuring the stand
Protein Content of Forage
Contrery to general opinion, per
of various legume and non
For exam-
ag given by Smith of
the Purdue (Ind) station, is as fol.
lows: bluegrass 7 inches high, 4.00
per cent; green rye, 6 inches high,
451 per cent: green wheat, § Inches
high, 6.54 per cent; green oats, 8
inches high, 4.9 per cent: edible por
tions of rape, 8.37 per cent: red clo.
ver, 11 Inches high, 4.81 per cent; od
thle parts of alfalfa, 7.44 per cent:
nifalfa. 8 inches high (whole plant),
471 per cent; edible parts of sweet
clover, 8.56 per cent; sweet clover, 9
inches high, 5.8 per cent
Testing for Soil Acidity
The New Jersey experiment station
is recommending that soll tests for
ncidity be taken in the fall rather than
in the spring. They base this state.
ment on the fact that spots in fields
develop In the cover crops, especially
the clover and alfalfa, indicating the
need for additional applications of
lime. By staking these spots where
the legumes fall to grow properly and
then take the soil tests they are more
iikely to find those sections of thelr
arms that need lime,
Prove Bulls Before
Putting Them to Use
—————
Only Method of Assuring
Herd Improvement.
It is some considerable
satisfaction to us that breeders and
dalry farmers recognize more and
more the value of dairy herd Improve.
ment associations for securing better
sires, Breeders who have advanced
thelr herds in production through
keeping records and systematic cull
Ing do not desire to select a bull that
many decrease the production of the
herd. This leads them to seek ways
and means to prove the bulls before
used extensively in thelr herds,
In Towa we find that the herd im
provement association Is attempting tc
prove 1374 bulls. This activity is
named the “better sire contest,” and
04 associations have entered. It has
caused three or four farmers to own
a bull together, to build safety bull
pens, and provide paddocks where the
bulls can exercise so they may be kept
in good health, At the proper time
wards based on pedigree, type,
rds of daughters over dams, will be
given, This kind of work will help to
save the good bull which, up to now,
too often has been sent to the butcher
before his value was known, Further,
if carried out In the proper way it
will ultimately eliminate from
breeding cattle h producing
blood and establish characters that
will breed true for production
and good type.~Hoard's Dairyman,
degree of
rec.
our
low
high
Hold Back Developme nt
ny heifers hat have nn wel
fall to make
urity becau
{oo en
produ
quired for des
nl is bred
iy be br
thelr developn . il
hs and Jerse)
fifteen to seventeen months, Ti
The breeders may
1 thelr heifers a little
One of the greatest Ayrshi
gt
that the best hel
general rule. best
pre fer to hol
longer,
breeders once sald
ers
twenty-one n : nisl
this ‘qi ly enough. In
too nn ases the light
bre¢ds come in
» €Yer Owned were mn bred
ered
together
months,
eed for Deep Pl owing
> 4 can be made rich |
by the
in the plowed]
and
nder,
addition of manure
ers pi wed u
der any of the peas
soil
and beans; but land can be made rich
with manure and §
deen as thes
the surface so
form largely in
or surface soil and roots are
and weak are shallow
erops are likely to suffer
these on
When
{1 is made rich, the roots
the pl
shallow
are plowe qd under.
owed
When roots
from drought when the surface soll be-
and the crop is reduced In
gize and qu . because full maturity
reas bh od Leg ETOWT.
and removed from likely
the soil hefore
is not me crops
the land are
were grown,
Made $ $27.58 an Acre!
A net profit of $27.08
earned last year by Cha
Monrovia, Ts
for his year's amounted
to £1000. Money received grossed
£38.27 an acre. The difference of $27.58
was left to pay for Mr. Green's work,
and interest on the invest which
ig a good record for a tough year, Of
the 80 acres Mr, Green farms, 27 acres
are in alfalfa, with small amounts of
other legumes, Sweet clover is used
tor pasture. Here is a dairyman who
produces quality cream that is sold
on a steady price basis, and all of his
crops are fed to his herd of nine Jer
sey cows, some chickens, hogs and
sheep~Kansas Farmer,
An AcCTe WER
ries Green of
tal expenses to the acre
operations
nent
ent,
Agricultural Notes
A successful sailor studies his com-
pass and a successful farmer studies
market conditions.
» * ’
At present prices for corn and tank.
age, skimmilk is worth about 25 cents
a 100 pounds, to feed hogs,
® * »
Ordinarily the meat from hogs six
to twelve months old will combine the
most desirable features of welght,
yield and eating quality,
- * »
Forty-four men, managers of coun
ty live stock marketing associations,
pitted thelr skill against one another
to find which can ship live stock to
market this year with the least tran.
sit losses,
. * »
Pruning of young trees from one
to three years old takes very little
time and can be left until all danger
of winter injury ry bast.
Ad
Alfalfa as a forage for winter feed
ing supplies the necessary bulk for
a hog's ration. Alfalfa contains value
able vitamins, minerals and protein,
. * »
Colorado's total dry bean crop Is
estimated at 1,074,000 bushels, as of
October 1, compared with 38027.000
bushels last year and a S.year aver
age of 1.770.000 bushels
WV THAT many people call indiges-
. tion very often means excess
acid in the stomach. The stomach
nerves have been over-stimulated,
and food sours. The corrective is an
alkali, which neutralizes the acids
instantly. And the best alkali known
to medical science is Phillips’ Milk
of Magnesia,
One spoonful of this harmless,
tasteless alkali in water neutralizes
instantly many times that much
acid, and the symptoms disappear
at once. You will never use erude
methods when once you learn the
efficiency of this. Go, get a small
bott le to try.
Be sure to get the gen:
Milk of Magn esia
phy rsicians for 50 +
excess acids.
any drug st
sine Phillips’
prescribed by
years in correct: ng
25¢ and 50c a bottig
ore,
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What About the Ness Ring?
RESTFUL SLEEP
for FRETFUL,
FEVERISH CHILD
- With Castona's regulation
When your child tosses and cries
out in his sleep, it means he |
comfortable, Very often the tr
is that poisonous waste matte
being carried off as
dowels need help—mild, !
-but effective. Just the kind Cas-
toria gives, Castoria is a pure vege
table preparation made specially for
children's ailments,” It containg no
harsh, harmful drugs, no narcotics,
Don't let your child's rest—and your
on n—be interrupted. A prompt dose
of Castoria will urge stubborn little
bowels to act. Then relaxed comfort
and restful sleep! Genuine Castoria
always has the pame:
»
Fel, FAY
CASTORIA
CHILDREN oO AEE
I —————— wo - ar
Practice of Medicine
Swell Patient—Don't you think }
have traumatic neurosis, doctor?
Fashionable Medico-—-Not yet, but
I'l give you a list of the sumploms
and Re can go home and start work:
ing on them,
An onion a day is altogether too
continuous,
Etiquette is overdone when it says
“Pardon me” too often,
A ni
W, N. U, BALTIMORE, NO. 7-1 Bn,