APAN, ignoring the orders of the
League of Nations and resentfully
disregarding the notes from the United
States and other powers, is apparently
to have her own way
in Manchuria. Con-
venlently dubbing all
opposing forces ‘‘ban-
dits,” she sent her
armies forward from
Mukden during the
week In an advance
that was destined to
reach Chinchow. Re-
sistgnce was met at
varfous points but
was overcome with
armored trains, bomb
Ma Chan | planes and artil-
ing
Chinese steadily fell
Ral
Gen.
lery,
back,
Finally Marshal Chang Hsueh-llang
decided It was better to give the Japa-
no further for carrying
warfare into North China, so he
forces to withdraw
and this move
and the
nese excuse
the
ordered
within the Great Wall,
ment immediately, accom-
panied
flight of
1
population of
all his
was begun
by much confusion and
ie-stricken ei
Japanese gaine
Manchuria and the gn
by General Ma C!
directly under cot
Chang has been In vain,
n Nanki:
ment was or;
appointed with Eugene Chen, les
the Canton faction as minister
eign affairs. It was thought that Chen
might be able to negotiate a settlement
with Japan on the basis of guarantees
nt of treat
g the new coalition govern-
ies In exchange
military withdrawal of the Japa-
nese.
AN OSCOW charges
i 1 slovakia has been
voke war between
presums;
munitions, he story was that
Czech diplomat had tried to Instigate
the assassin 1 of Koki Hirota, Jap-
anese ambassador te
man
Wanek,
matie
Moscow, and the
accused turned t be Carl
ech diplo-
The gov.
ernment at Prague recalled Wanek but
scouted the g that the mission
itself was Involved in any plot.
Wanek ha
gecreiar ct
missi
alle ion
s a reputati
il several
and counts ¢
ary atta
AHATMA
i Lond
lowers that
rest For
coniers
» re Tie
arong
he would
sacri-
a
as the
arty for
warned
1e come
rith the
British they night
have to face bullets
Instead of staves, His
utterances plainly in-
dicated that he {is
about ready td aban-
don his policy of pas-
sive resistance,
“If the fight Is In-
evitable, I will expect every son and
daughter of Mother India to contrib-
ute his mite,” he sald. “However, I
will not abandon attempts to save the
nation from a flery ordeal. If, on the
other hand, there Is no single ray of
hope I shall not hesitate to call upon
you to bear any amount of suffering.”
He counseled his followers to keep
their heads, despite the bloody events
in the northwest frontier province, the
arrest of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehur
and deportation of Abdul Graffur
Khan, leader of the “red-shirt” tribes.
men,
Tae trouble on the northwest
frontier of which Gandhi spoke is giv-
ing Viceroy Lord Willingdon great con-
cern. he anti-British red shirt or-
ganization staged violent riots near
Peshawar and fought with the troops,
many being killed and wounded.
—
Mahatma
Gandhi
ASTE and extravagance in the
federal government must be re
duced, In the opinion of President Hoo-
ver, and many others as well, and it
was announced at the White House
that the President was preparing a
specinl message to congress recom-
mending the consolidation of depart-
ments and bureaus. He wants imme.
diate legislative actlon providing for
grouping all construction activities of
the government under one administra-
tive head and the transfer of the ship-
ping board and all federal merchant
marine activities to the Department of
Commerce,
According to a statement Issued by
the President, the purpose of the con
solidations is to cut the cost of fed-
eral government, curtall the growth of
independent bureaus, eliminate over
Inpping and promote efficiency, While
refusing to set a definite figure indi
cating the savings which would follow
the consolidations, Mr, Hoover sald the
grouping last year of all veterans’ ac.
tivities under the veterans’ adminis.
tration is expected to save from $10.
000.000 to $15,000,000,
Chairman Cochran of the house ex-
penditures committee, which will han-
dle the consolidation legislation, is In
accord with most of the Chief Execu-
tive's recommendations.
URING the holiday recess a sen-
ate committee considered two bills
that call for the appropriation of fed-
eral funds to care for the unemployed,
and heard testimony
and arguments from
social workers from
Chicago, New York
and other cities, One
of the measures, In-
troduced by Senator
La Follette of Wiscon-
sin, provides for the
appropriation of £250,.
000, 0K), The other,
fathered by Senator
Costigan of Colorado,
puts the amount at
n
Senator La L375,000,000. Mr. Cos-
Hett . 4
Follette tigan told the commit.
tee that nothing short of government
help could provide necessary relief for
the Some of the wit.
nesses heard estimated that as much
be needed for
unemployed.
as £700.000000 would
relief during 1932 that the funds
state, city and private sources
not be sufficient to carry the
through the winter.
President Hoover is now, as always,
opposed to a direct appropriation from
the treasury for unemployment relief
purposes, holding that it would be in
the nature of a dole and would be a
dangerous precedent,
and
VW ETS in the house of representa-
tives, it now appears, are
tain only vote on prohibition In
this They may have thelr
cholce of whether this shall be on a
referendum proposal for repeal of the
Eighteenth amendment ér on a
calling for modifieation of
Volstead permit the
ture and sale of light wines and beer.
Representative Ralney of Illinois,
floor leader, sald the
ttee would not report
re ] ither “The
wets will have to bring the bill to the
floor through the petition of 145 mem.
said. “That Is the only
in which they do it. They
will have but one vote and that either
and
The
inter-
to ob-
one
SE8RIOoN.
mens
the
manufac
ure
act to
measure
bers,” he
way can
ferendum or light wines
both.
be so
on
heer. ‘hey can’ have
rules I wuse will
preted,
He sal
the better chance
he felt the referendum had
for “getting by”
included,
be
cause many drys, himsel
would vote for it,
NEITHER reparations nor war
+ debts will be finally settled at the
European conference which Great Brit-
ain has called to meet January 18 In
Lausanne, If the pro-
g practically
agreed upon by Brit-
ish and French treas-
gry experts is adopt-
ed. They suggest a
new three-year mora-
torium for Germany
on the conditional re-
parations and that
Germany be required
during that period to
pay the unconditional
reparations into the
Bank for Internation-
al Settlements, such amounts to be
immediately reloaned by the bank to
the German rallways or reinvested
within Germany, thus avolding all cash
transfers abroad by the reich.
The creditor powers would under.
take to concede to Germany an in
partial re-examination of her capacity
to pay reparations toward the close
of the moratorium period.
On this side of the water Senator
Cordell Hull of Tennessee comes for
ward with a call for international ae-
tion to lower tariff barriers as the
first step In solving the debt problem.
The former chairman of the Democrat-
le national committee says payments
can be made only through the restora-
tion of healthy International trade,
that tariff walls have strangled trade
and that it 1s “fatuous™ to Insist on
debt payments and at the same time
have world commerce hampered. The
senator, who Is a member of the Dem
ocratic policy committee In congress,
gnys he purposes to offer a resolution
looking toward a tariff conference of
the nations,
gram
ai
Senator Hull
SENATOR CAREY of Wyoming, Re
publican, and his subcommittee on
banking amended the house bill to in-
crease the capital’zation of the federal
land banks by adding the sum of $25.
000,000 to be used in granting post.
ponements on farm mortgage pay.
ments, This additional sum Is to be
repaid to the federal treasury by the
banks when their need for the money
has passed. Senator Carey believes
the amendment will permit a morato-
rium and, at the same time, avold
wenkening the banks,
A favorable report on the measure
with the amendment was decided upon
by the committee,
OTH federal reserve and commer.
cinl banking officials are severely
criticized for their course with respect
to the stock market collapse In the
fall of 1020 In an ap-
pendix to the report
being compiled by the
senate banking and
currency committee's
subcommittee which
is investigating the
national and federal
reserve banking sys
tems,
The committee,
headed by Senator
Carter Glass, Demo-
crat, of Virginia, who
was sponsor for the
Federal Reserve act in congress, Is
particularly critieal! of what it holds
to have been the bank's excessive par-
ticipation in the security markets and
of the “mischievous” effects of loans
made to brokers “for account of
others.”
A suggestion 1s offered
banks be prohibited from
corporations, Investment trusts and
others in making such loans. At the
same time, the report shows the na-
tion's bankers are opposed to new re
strictions upon their investments in
securities,
Acting under a resolution by Sen-
ator Glass to “make a complete sur
vey of the national and federal reserve
banking systems,” the subcommittee is
expected to bring in a bill to revise
those systems In some particulars.
Sen. Glass
that the
acting for
| RESIDENT HOOVER announced
the appointment of the fourth mem-
ber of the American delegation to the
nt conference at Geneva,
man selected being Norman H.
Davis of New York, who was under
of state in the Wilson ad.
ninistration chief financial ad-
viser to the ation in
the negotiations the
the
nnd
American del
that resulted in
HIER,
» week the remaining
ippeinted, he belng
to Belg
assador
negotiations,
wir Henderson, former foreign
in the Labor government of
id correspondents in
2
xpects to preside over
rence, alt
o
are again
ird party In the cam
be con
$1 t
le candidates—as-
are said to
President
hnson of Cal
is sometimes “regu.
and Gov,
! ti too
a few of them,
of Pennsylvania,
roa is alw i)
of Nebraska will not
ngidered.
¥8& Ob
tion is no
ian it has been for
Baker announced
would not be a
delegate to the Democratic convention,
but neglected to say whether or not he
would accept the nomination If it were
he and Roosevelt
“avallable eandidates™
by Josephus Daniels In a statement
given out In New York. There was
a recrudescence of the story that Al
fred E. Smith would again ask for the
honor of leading his party,
spokesman for “Alfalfa Bill Murray,
spectacular governor of Oklahoma,
offered him. loth
were declared
didate. And the chances of Gov. Ab
bert C, Ritchie of Maryland must not
be overlooked.
terstate commerce commission to put
recently authorized freight rate
for giving notice, instead of the cus
tomary thirty days.
The Southern Pacific Railroad com-
reached a harmonious agreement on
cent cut In pay.
cent In thirty days.
a 10 per cent wage reduction effective
about the middie of January as the re
sult of conferences
Cleveland, and that
unions would adopt
the American unions,
the Canadian
the decision of
INLAND had a national referendum
on the question of abolishing the
country’s prohibition laws, and on the
basis of early returns it was estimated
that the 90 per cent of the Finns had
voted wet. The result of the referen.
dum will not finally decide the prob
lem but will serve to guide the gov.
ernment,
RCHBISHOP DIAZ, head of the
Catholle church In Mexico, has in
structed the priests and all other Cath.
olics to disregard the new law passed
by congress which limits to 25 the
number of priests In the federal dis.
trict. So the chances for renewed
trouble there are good.
(© 1912, Western Newspaper Union.)
Study Methods of
Drying Hay Fast
Government Experts Work
on Problem of Eliminat-
ing Moisture.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Auriculture )—WNU Service.
To determine some of the mechan!
cal and economic factors Involved in
artificial drying of forage crops, the
bureau ef agricultural engineering of
the United States Department of Agri
culture has Installed at the Iberia live
stock experiment farm, Jeanerette, La.,
an experimental hay drier.
Methods of hauling the green mate
rial to the drier. of getting It into
condition to glve up moisture quickly,
and of handling the dried product are
ft few of the problems which the engl-
neers are studying.
Green hay contains a great deal of
moisture and Is bulky In volume and
weight, To redace the welght In haul-
Ing and the cost of drying, engineers
are considering the cutting and wilting
of the crop 'n the fleld. To eliminate
the moisture as quickly as possible at
the drier, they are studying methods
of preparation which Incinde chopping
or crushing of hay, or both. They are
determining the maximum tem-
perature at which drying ean take
place without injury to the product.
Hay that is crushed
comes out of the drier In fine pleces
chopped or
and has to be sacked or baled for mar-
keting, The
special equipment,
engineers,
haling process requires
ficcording to the
Hay is a crop of relatively
ket value,
low mar-
present are
the depart
ment are striving to develop machin.
the
experiment
forage
goy heans,
crotals
uct
aryving.
that will help off set cost of
Agronomlists
with different
nre
ing
crops such as alfalfa.
varieties of
rR vis R413
ers, pasture
out a
grass and
cropping sy
png
work
gtem
{ owners of ds g equipment
year,
Feeding trials are being made to as
certain the n tive value of artificial.
Ivy dried har us compared with ths
hay dried under natural condit)
srseltel,
i niin
Found Wilt-Resi
wilt
stant
Alfalfa ns hoon tal ing ire toll
of the crop In many
United St Many
¥ fend a al aan a
the opinion that Grimm, the hards
sections of the
ntes were of
LrOwWers
va-
riety which has been go satisfactory
In many places, was
j Tests, he
this Is
resistant to this
dispense, wever, have shown
that not true and that
is oq
(in
iite susceptible to alfalfa
the other hand. at lea
ve shown resistin
150 Hardistan, a ent
named In Np
from
the
originated
resistant to
variety is also
apparently
’
greed
factor 1
another new varie
the
ns Hardist
Atfalfa wilt
bacterin
into
resistant to dis
as desirable .
is a disease caused by
Apparently bacteria
alfalfa plants, which are sub
It 18 of Importance
these
get
fore, to not
are
grow only varieties that
resistant to the but also
varieties of alfalfa which are winter
hardy. Apparently both Ladak and
Haridstan offer great possibilities —
Idaho Farmer.
disease,
Effect of Superphosphate
A report recently received from
Dr. C. Kruegel, director of the experi
many, presents results secured by
many investigators in Europe which
show that the use of superphosphate
does not increase soll acidity. This
Iden was somewhat prevalent among
farmers In this country some years
ber of Investigators Indicate that the
use of superphosphate even if con.
tinued on the same land for many
years results in no Increase in soil
In faet, this was the best
argument for the change of terminol.
ogy from acid phosphate to super
phosphate,
Sweet Clover Increases
The rapidity with v-hich sweet clover
is gaining favor among farmers of the
western states is well {llustrated In
the Iast report of the Kansas state
hoard of agriculture which gives fig.
ures for sweet clover grown for hay
in Kansas during the years 1020 and
1930. In 1029 the acreage was 106.031
while In 1930 the acreage had in
creased to 236000. The drought.re
sistant qualities of sweet clover will
no doubt cause a further rapid in
crease In acreage of this excellent
honey plant during the next few years.
Farm Machinery
Farm machinery on 40 farms in
Greene and Medina countles, Ohio, has
been found to have an average length
of life of 14 years, according to J. F.
Dowler, rural economist at Ohlo State
university, who has records of ma-
chinery costs on farms In these two
counties, The useful life of machin.
ery, Dowler belleves, can be Increased
by proper winter storage, timely re
pairs, the right kind of lubrication,
and better care while being used.
Exchange,
Feed Low-Testing
Milk to the Calves
Good Method of Eliminating
Surplus.
Due to low milk prices indications
fire that many unprofitable cows will
be kept this winter. This me ns that
a surplus {8 bound to be created and
some dairymen will be refused a mar-
ket for all of the milk,
Where milk is pald for on a basis
of its butterfat quality, this winter
will be a good time to feed the low-
testing cows’ milk to calves. Every
dalryman should join a
association in order to plek
low-testing animals. If you
fortunate enough to belong to
ciation, save out a sample of each
cow's milk both night and morning,
and set it aside unti] the cream rises
in order to determine which cows are
making the thin milk, If every dairy-
man would pick out one or two of his
low testers and feed that milk to
young stock during this winter, much
of the surplus would be eliminated.
Without doubt one or two calves raised
each month this fall will bring con-
siderably more money as dairy cows
than 's the prevailing price for dairy
animals at the present time.
Another thing that will not only
benefit the herd but will reduce the
surplus will be to give the Individual
cows about two weeks more rest period
this winter than previously. Without
doubt such a practice will be a good
investment well-fitted
always produce better milk more eco-
nomically than
thin condition.—Kural
out the
are not
fan asso-
because COWS
those freshening in a
New-Yorker.
Showing the Relation
of Drought and Crops
teports from many sections of the
severely from the
ight showed that the yields of
Crops above normal this
particularly true of
and of wi
This
the gsmnll Crops
area that suffered
10%0 dro
many were
This is i
the Sout}?
Middle
means that
senson.
cotton in west ent
in he West, simp Iv
produced
vallable plant
soil or
fertilizers:
lightly o he n
hy the
i
subnormal rainfall
vinter the a
nitrates In
ha tt *
ched out: and
was carried
ha
mes avallable, throng! Wo eal
wical
to produce a hun
Processes Wak gr cient
per crop In 1831 even
zer was below nor
hy
of the attempt to grow
fertill
son of
an the
come in
inrge
nsnnl
food
zer will
crops
san
will be
Varied Kansas Crops
think of
cing corn and
Kansas as
wheat. The
the census
lea of the state's other re
13,940.41
harvested for grain,
Rpples, 1.307 848
peaches. 256.040
persons
‘ ®
followl gures from last
give sc
SOUrces : room corn,
pounds: sorghum
10.655.820 bushels:
hushels harvested:
bushels harvested ;: pears, 255.023 bush-
els harvested ; grapes, 9,177,412 pounds
strawberries, 4.455.175
In dairy lines, 320.102.5822 gal-
nilk were produced, 52,763,213
being sold as whole milk. Cream sold
as butterfat amounted to 57.133.252
pounds, and 12820714 pounds of but-
made on the farms--Rural
New Yorker.
harvested:
ter were
Flabby Hogs
Packers complain of an unusually
high percentage of soft pork from
hogs now coming to market This
pork is not desirable. Sclentists down
in NMlinois have discovered the
cause of so many soft hogs coming to
market. These men blame the condi
tion to the feeding of soybeans In the
natural state, They say that no way
beans in their natural state in the ra-
tion of fattening swine without pro-
ducing soft pork. They make no
qualification. So until] a safe way to
feed this product to fattening swine
Is found, farmers can well afford to
leave it out of the ration.—Michigan
Farmer.
sai
Refinish Inside of Silo
A good preservative for a concrete
stave silo is a wash consisting of
cement and water mixed to about the
thickness of cream. Apply the wash
with a stiff whitewash brush. The
brush may be made more effective by
cutting the hair off so that it is quite
stubby. Common paraffine is also used
in painting the interior of silos This
will not remain very long, but it is
cheap and easily put on. A very good
way to apply a wash to the interior of
gllo Is as it is being filled. Indiana
Farmer's Guide,
Around the Farm
It is reported by A. C. Baltzer, di.
rector of cow testing work In Michi-
gan, that amon 1.000 dairymen there
were 124 bulls five years and older
listed which is 30 aged bulls more
than a year ago,
* * »
Town is the leading producer of pop-
corn in the United States, says the
United States Department of Agricul
ture, Sac county, lowa, raises more
popcorn than any other county In the
country,
|
STOP RHEUMATIC
PAINS WITH HEAT
OF RED PEPPERS
Relieves Almost Instantly
Good old Nature has put into red
peppers a marvelous therapeutic heat
that gets right down to the source of
trouble and almost instantly relieves
the pains and aches of rheumatism,
stiff joints, lumbago end neuritis,
Thousands have found it the one safe-
guard against chest colds, too. Now
this genuine red peppers’ heat is con.
tained in an ointment that you just rub
on, In less than 3 minutes you feel re-
lief come. It is called Rowles Red
Pepper Rub, Safe. Will not burn or
sting. Geta small jar from yourdruggist,
The European Workman
Count Karoly), about to
a lecture
in New
“The
parison ¥
off
on
view
well,
Normandy.
#*Aha,’ he sa
hood friend—‘ah:
What are
of the town hall?
those statue
* ‘Those are
mayor. ‘They
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"Northrop & Lyman Co. Inc. Buffalo, N.Y.
Followed His “lock
After the most of his flock
serted
pano,
bean
again
for religious services
oe
ointment draws out your
cold like a magnet when rubbed on
chest end throat. Eases breathing
when inserted in stuffy
nostrils, Jars and
Money and Disposition
Cora—~Would you marry a man for
his money?
Dora—Not exactly, But I'd want
my husband to have a lovely dispo-
sition, and if he didn’t have money
he'd very likely be worried and il
natured.—Kansas City Star.
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