News Review of Current mn Washington. NTO the lap of Gen, Charles Gates Dawes, or rather onto his shoulders, has fallen another big job, and the country seems to feel confident that this Strong Man of business, finance and diplomacy will be able to handle it compe- tently, He has been appointed by Presi- dent Hoover as pres- ¢ ident of the Recon- § struction Finance cor- = poration which is to go to the rescue of banks, rallroads and ! other interests whose assets and operations have been “frozen” by the depression. Two billlon dollars supplied by the government will be at the disposal of the corporation and it Is fondly hoped and expected that this great piece of machinery will, un- der the direction of General Dawes, extricate the country from the nomic morass, President Hoover In announcing the selection of Dawes added that Eu- gene Meyer, governor of the federal reserve board, wonld be chairman of the board of the new corporation. In a second statement the President announced that Secretary of State Stimson would replace Dawes as chairman of the American delegation to the disarmament conference in Geneva but would not attend the open- ing sessions, at which Ambassador Hugh Gibson would be acting chalr- man. Other members of the delega- tion sailed for Europe Wednesday, and the delay In the departure of Mr. Stimson was construed in Washington as meaning that Mr. Hoover does not expect a great deal from the confer ence. Of course Mr. Dawes’ resigna- tion as ambassador to Great Britain was promptly and Gen. Dawes eco offered accepted. ENATOR SWANSON and Dr. Mary Emma Woolley sailed on the liner President Harding and will be joined In Geneva by Ambassadors Gibson and Wilson, who are already In Europe, and by Norman H. Davis, who pre ceded them on another ship. Our delegates have been instructed not to agree to further reduction of Ameri can land forces. As for naval arma- ments, American officials see little chance that any other powers will be willing to make armament cuts which would materially affect this nation's naval forces, The French government, through Premier Laval, has plainly indicated that its stand at the conference “in Geneva will be unchanged. It will in- sist on what France considers guar- antees of security before consenting %o disarmament, At the same time Laval, submitting the foreign policy of his new govern- ment to the chamber of deputies, vir- tually doomed the réparations cone ference at Lausanne. He declared, In effect, that France would not give up her right to reparations, adding that all France could offer was to try to adapt existing international accords to the present crisis, Great Britain thereupon announced the conference opening had been postponed from January 25 and that further conversa. tions were in progress. It appeared evident the parley, if held at all, would be only a meeting of experts, ONGRESSMEN and other Inhabit. ants of the National Capital heard a lot about the liquor issue during the week—rather more than usual, Sena- tor Royal 8. Cope- land of New York, who Is a Democrat and a physician, intro- duced In the senate a bill which would amend the prohibition fict to enable patients who need lquor for medicinal purposes to obtain it In any neces- sary quantities on physicians’ prescrip ; tions, It also would Copel enable physicians to Ben, ang prescribe such liquor without record. ing In governmental offices the disease from which thelr patients are suffer ing. “The Eighteenth amendment does not limit the medicinal use of liquor,” Senator Copeland sald. “The national prohibition act and related acts ree ognize its use as proper, but they lay down certain ggnditions with which a physician must comply when he pre scribes and they prohibit absolutely the prescribing of liquor In excess of certaln arbitrarily fixed quantities, for individual patients, except such as are inmates of hospitals for Inebriates, “The conditions long have offended the professional instincts of the great mass of the medical profession. The Wickersham commission unanimously recommended that these grounds for complaint be removed.” The senate manufactures subcom- mittee continued Intermittently its hearings on the Bingham 4 per cent beer blll. One of the Interesting wit. nesses was David Burnet, commission. er of Internal revenue. He declined to predict whether legalization of beer would Increase consumption over pre prohibition days, but sald beer taxes would create a “substantial Increase” in revenues, Representative Dyer of Missour! tes- tified that states refused to enforce the dry law because the people re- garded the definition of intoxicants as unscientific and dishonest, As a re sult Dyer sald, federal judges have be- come real police judges, TEWTON D. BAKER having re- fused to seek the Democratic Presidential nomination, besides hav- ing made himself almost out of the question by reiterating his advocacy of American membership In the League of Nations, the party leaders of Ohlo agreed to support Gov. Georg White as Ohio's favorite son. The state's delegates, however, will be “free from any sort of control,” which means they can switch to any other candidate, South Dakota Democrats have de in Minnesota a movement has been started to secure that state's delega- tion for Al Smith, “ LFALFA BILL" Murray, gov- + ernor of Oklahoma, who was In Washington in behalf of a bill to re- nove the 10 per ‘cent tax on state bank note Issues, ad- dressed biennial convention of the Anti - Saloon league and rather staggered his hearers by arguing for a “zone control” system for liquor traf. fle. Though known as a prohibitionist, the governor sald that prohibition “possibly is not the final solu. tion of the problem of the Gov. Murray traflic.” Dr. A. J. Parton, chalrman of the league's executive committee, replied to Murray indirectly by asserting that “the South will not be misled by the hue and cry about state's rights,” and will not support any candidate for the Presidency who is either person- ally wet or runs on a wet platform, The league went on record as oppos- ing anything that might weaken prohibition—referenda, resubmission, state control, modification and beer proposals, as well as repeal attempts. Srt— WO or three weeks may elapse be fore Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon knows whether the house judiciary committee favors his Impeachment as demanded by Representative Wright Patman of Texas. The hearings were adjourned Tuesday until the official transcript of the testimony is complet. ed and printed. Just before this Alex- ander Gregg, counsel for Mr. Mellon, read to the committee a cabled denial from President Olaya of Columbia that he and Mellon had ever discussed the Barco oll concession. “This is the most damaging evl dence yet introduced,” declared Repre- sentative La Guardia. *Mr., Patman bas been working for days here to show us that the oll concession was discussed by Mr. Stimson and Presi dent Olaya. Why did you get this cabled denial and why was it sent? Why should President Olaya show so much solicitude for Mr. Mellon and the State department?” Mr, Gregg replied that he was cer- tain no one in the State department as asked for the denlal Mr. Patman read to the committee n list of stocks he declared Secretary Mellon had put up as collateral with a Pittsburgh bank for a $060,000.000 bond issue made by the Gulf Oil cor poration, NE of the State department's best “career men,” Joseph C. Grew, ambassador to Turkey, has been selected by the President to succeed W. Cameron Forbes as ambassador to Ja- 5g pan, and the cholce is sald to please the mikado’'s government. Mr, Cameron is anx- fous to quit Tokyo but may be persuad- ed to remain there for a time because of the complications of the Manchurian situa- tion, Mr. Grew, who was born in Boston, has J. G. Grew spent many years in the diplomatie service. He has held several impor tant posts and attended various Inter national conferences, and In 1028 he negotiated a valuable treaty with Turkey. He has been ambassador at Angora since 1027. Jefferson Caffery, minister to Colombia, may succeed him there. For the London ambassadorship va. vated by General Dawes, Lawrence O. Phipps, former senator from Colorado, is being urged by his friends. As was predicted, James R. Beverly of Texas was appointed governor of Porto Rico to succeed Theodore Roosevelt, promoted to the governor generalship of the Philippines. Mr Beverly is now attorney general of the island, (uikonesy received a thorough scolding for the way it has been squandering billlons of dollars, bring- ing the nation to the verge of bank- ruptey, In a memorial addressed to it by the Federation of American Busl- ness, a national organization headquarters in Chicago. ment was presented to the senate by Senator James E, Watson of Indiana, and he asked that it be read from the desk Instead of being merely filed, “The very existence of the nation is at stake and your constituents, allve to your every action in this crisis, will accept no excuses and no ations,” was the conclusion of the de- mand voiced in the memorial duction of goverament expenditures and reduction of taxation. “The tremendous Increase in the cost of government Is the result of three major causes,” the memorial contend- ed. “First, government competition di- rectly or Indirectly with the business activities of its citizens, and the ab- sorption by increased taxation of losses thus Incurred; second, new regulatory or social services not contemplated in our scheme of political administration, but taken on in increasing volume in recent years, and, third, independent boards and commissions, under direc ment and frequently financed with re volving funds that free them of United States treasury supervision, The whole pattern of government Is being changed without approval or even discussion by our citizenship.” Next day a representative of Indus try, James A, Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers, iittee to warn members that a sure way to de appeared before a house com lay restoration of the opportunity to work is to divert too great a portion of private funds to publle purposes. Public expenditures—national, state, and local—now total some thirteen hil. Hon Mr. Emery re- minded the congressmen who have he fore them the task of drawing up the new tax bill with its Inevitably higher rates, Of that huge total, Mr. Emery pointed out, only ten billion is met by dollars annually, ing met by continuous borrowing. “Nearly one-fifth of the national ln. explained, “an we thus face a rising taxation with declining incomes.” j oxr WILLINGDON, viceroy of In- dia, is not taking half measures in suppressing Nationalist revolt against British rule. Having Jalled Mahatma Gandhi and most of his chief lieutenants, he fol lowed this up by put. ting in prison Mrs Gandhi, the mahat- ma's wife. and their youngest son. Mrs a little wom- an sixty years old, was given six weeks in Jail because she bad undertaken to carry on her hus bgnd's campaign. She the Gandhi, Mrs. Gandhi resume the independence work as soon as she got out. spinning wheel and entered her cell, the Japanese in Manchuria, thon number of troops. He sent out three well equipped expeditions which retaliated by slaying several hundred soldiers and “bane dits” in engagements at Yenta!, Tung: liao and Yingkow. Heavy artillery and bombing planes were freely used by the Japanese with terrible effect. The Japanese plans for establishing sn independent government in Man- churia—that is, Independent of all but Japan—went forward with speed There were renewed reports that Hsuan Tung, former boy emperor, would be set up as ruler of Man. churia, and so the Chinese govern. ment issued warrants for his arrest uRive thé debate in the house on the Agriculture fiscal year, | Hogs Respond to Good Treatment | Clean House and Lot a Big Help in Profitable Raising. Hog growers who are practicing | sanitation, feeding of a proteln sup | plement and a mineral mixture, using | self feeders and vaccinating thelr pigs, | are finding that these recommended | practices pay. This is the statement of George R. | Henderson, county extension agent at | large for the Colorado Agricultural | college, who has made a survey of | hog production methods on 80 farms. Here is what he found regarding san itation: Farmers who change their hog lots at least every two years are saving an average of six and one-half pigs per litter, compared to four and one fifth pigs per litter saved by those who simply clean thelr farrowing houses, but let the pigs run on old ground, Farmers who neither change lots nor clean the farrowing houses are saving an average of three and nine-tenths pigs per litter, which Is considered too low to enable the grow- er to break even on the enterprise. Pigs in the feed lot also respond to a good system of sanitation, it was | found. i Where hog lots are changed and houkes cleaned, farmers are market ing hogs at 210 pounds In 211 days or taking about 200 days to produce 200.pound hogs. Where houses are cleaned, but lots are not changed, hogs are marketed at 188 pounds in 225% days, or at 200 pounds In 240 days. Where no sanitation system Is followed, it takes 216 days for pigs to average 170 pounds, and 245 days to produce 200-pound hogs. “In order to make money on hogs” says Hen derson, “leading farmers have found that they must follow certain prac tices. One of these Is sanitation Sanitation means clean sows, clean | houses, clean lots and clean pastures.” Handle Potatoes Sc as to Avoid Any Bruising Too often men handle potatoes as If they were stones, forgetling that ev | ery injury reduces quality. Bruising potatoes is an expensive practice, It offsets the good all have done to produce a quality crop. The digging should be done If pos | sible when solls are neither too wet | nor too dry. Wet solls discolor tubers badly, while dry soll slips through the digger, leaving the potatoes to be bruised on the apron. By padding and | substiteting smooth rollers for the agl tators this danger is Deep | digging provides more dirt to protect the potatoes from machine damage. Deep digging gets all the crop. Then, too, sunning potatoes toughens them. Further, quality Is protected by picking In a padded half-bushel for a couple of hours after digging and haul | Ing to the storage in crates. In addi tion padding the grader, especially the | apron, running the grader slowly and placing something soft under the sacks being filled, are necessary In securing the type of potatoes most demanded hy | the trade. Such precautions, if gen. erally practiced, would add consumer | value to the crop. Better Sires Pay Well Good bulls—bulls of high producing {| strains and with great prepotency as | breeders—Iincrease the productivity | and, hence, the profitableness of the | dairy herd, Just suppose, for easy figuring, that ia herd of 10 daughters produce 100 | pounds of butter fat per year each | more than did a herd consisting of | their 10 dams. That Is 1,000 pounds | of butter fat. Suppose that It was | worth 40 cents a pound, which It { should be In average times. That's | 40,000 cents, of $400, and it is mostly | clear velvet over the profits made In | the herd of dams. Would it pay to use better sires and | receive that increased Income, or even | higher Income? Well, it has paid and Is now paying a great many dairymen, | =Idaho Farmer, previous effort reduced, the for a reduction in salaries of govern. ment employees. Mr. Shannon of Mis souri asked whether President Hoover would approve a cut in his salary and what was the extent of Mr. Hoover's private fortune, Mr. Wood replied: “He has made a lot of money, but he has given it away. My Informa. tion, from a reliable source, is that the President today is not worth $1,000. 000. I have faith enough te believe that if the salaries of the federal em- ployees are reduced President Hoover will reduce his own salary.” J) FuocRATIC primaries in Louis ana: were captured by Gov. Huey Long's hand-picked candidates headed by O. K. Allen for governor, despite the vigorous efforts of Long's brother and other relatives on behalf of George Gulon, There were many stories about violence and intimidation by Huey's henchmen, but that states. man, who Is also a senatorelect, laughed them off and sald the election was quiet, F100 conditions In the Mississtppl delta region grew worse dally throughout the week, and the Red Cross and coast guard worked hard to relieve the Inhabitants of the Inun. dated aren. One after another the levees of the smaller rivers gave way and the walers spread over many counties, (@ 1932 Western Newspaper Union.) Insulate Poultry House Tests at Nebraska Agricultural college Indicate that at the usual prices insulation for a 20 by 20-foot poultry house will cost about $50 or about 40 cents per bird housed If this cost is spread over the life of the house, it amounts to about two eggs per hen per winter, We know by experience that quick changes In temperature In winter may throw a flock out of production for several days or even for the rest of the winter, just when egg prices are the highest. It seems quite rea. sonable that good Insulation with its effective - Influence “on slowing up temperature changes inside the house should help very materially in keep ing up the winter egg production and should pay several times over the small cost.—Wisconsin Agriculturist, ¥ Ensiling Don’t Kill Weeds Weed seed which has gone through the process of ensiling in a silo Is not necessarily made harmless for growing In the fields later on, a ten-year experi ment conducted In the silos of the dalry department at the Kansas Agri cultural college shows. In fact, the tests Indicated that some noxious weed sted seemed to be strengthened by soaking In sllage for several months, In some cases, weed seed that had in the silo three years was still e Good Chance Now to Improve Live Stock Better Breeding Will Bring Back Day of Profits. Now while live stock is so low In price is a good tine to get for the farm better breeding animals. Often now registered live stock of good In- dividuality can be bought for a mod- erate amount more than grade anil mals and at a much lower figure than grade animals will sell for a few years in the future, The culling out of a few milk cows, or beef cows that are not so good, and replacing them with better heifers and often with registered ani- mals is a good use to make of the depression. The same can well be done In regard tc the flock of sheep. lest ewe lambs can be saved for re- plenishing the flock, an extra good ram can be bought at a moderate fig- ure and If desired, some registered ewes can be used to replace some that should be culled out. Good glits can be secured to replace some brood sows that have not been satisfactory without sacrificing sery much of the farm income, Farming is having a hard run but will not be put out of business, and better methods and better live stock will help bring back the day of prof. ite. —8outhern Agricuiturist, Pit Sile Saved Money for Illinois Farmer {log save much money that wonld have had to be spent thousands of farms last year. The ex- perience of Ben Boedecker, an [li nols farmer, was trplea] of many farm. ers who made temporary provision for feed “The ilo,” trench sllo, oedecker sald In the eountry farm storage, bureau bulletin, feet wide at the top, eight at the bottom and six feet required four men with a short day to excavaie, foot deep. It used to fill the silo, which held siraw and corn fodder. from except ever, came through the winter in extra good shape, “We siraw packed and It The only snow drifted into the opening This year 1 am keep the snow oul” the silage was filed covered as soon as [t the silage In with a settled only about injured by the drought have heen a his soll, Protect Trees From Mice Mice injured but 300 trees of 215 dad ricuiture, This bait steam-crushed oats with strychnine and protected with paraffin oils. New York state orchard. ists may learn where to obtain, at cost, the bait mized by the blolog- feal survey of the United States De partment of Agriculture, by applying to local county agents. A 25-pound bag supplies enough bait to protect about 500 trees, he says Young trees should have additional protection, such as wire tree guards Pine-mice burrow and attack trees be low the surface of the ground and some mice work under the guards; oo ecasionally. with heavy snows, mice are able to work shove the guards Both guards and bait make cheap pro- tection. Senn, Planting Nuts Nature's way is to drop them on the ground where with contact with the earth, they will spront and grow, un- less eaten by rodents. They may be gtratified In layers of sand, kept in a dark cold cellar, for spring planting. Dr. Robert T. Morris, in his excel lent book “Nut Growing,” tells of his method of burying them in wire cages, of rodent-proof mesh. The nuts are put in and the cage set in the ground so as to be covered four or five Inches deep with earth, That preserves them over winter.—Rural New-Yorker, Agricultural Squibs Maintenance of the European corn borer quarantine kept the insect from reaching the main corn-producing re glons last’ year, states the United States Department yo Agriculture, * » To be Inviting and to induce buyers to come back for more, apples must be handled with great care from the time they leave the trees until they reach the consumer, ® » 0» Storing sprayers without a thorough cleaning may do more damage than a year's running. LE I Winter bring. the best chance to get tools and utensils in order the spring rush. . 0 Hog ralsing In the wheat belt building up faster than on the coast, where dairying and poultry offer bet ter possibilities, . ep which Is thrashed damp shows a higher smut content than that which is thrashed dry. More of the smut is blown from the dry grain during thrashing, MercolizedWax Keeps Skin Young Get sn oynes sud use as directed. Vine particles of sped akin nr off unti! all defects such pe phianples. liver spots, tan and frechios disappenr. Bin ie then sds td velvety, Your fans Invks [oa younger Merolised ax brings out the hidden beauty of your skis, Te remove ” ase cue ounes Vowdered Pasolite dimudved in one ball pint witch hassel, AL dreg stores, Retort That Appealed to Roosevelt's Humor The agitation about the useless noises of a big city reminds a cer. tain elghty-three-yearold Washing. ton contractor of g time when his company was filling In the land that Is now Potomac park. There was a battery of dredges at work there, and their puffing, snorting, and scraping so disturbed the repose of the members of the White family that a certain Colonel Halnes was sent none other than Executive, : “You tell the chief of the o« I'm sorry I phonles™ And when he Theodore laughed and loud and the work of the ers continued, House to register a complaint by the nation’s Chief President,” ntracting gun out west yy can't grind received the answer, long dredg- Roosevelt Don't dye hair. Science hasdi a quick, simple way to as easily as t hair healthy. c get rid of gray bh as thousands testify. Try it. Pay druggist only 75¢ for a bottle of WYETH'S SAGE & SULPHUR and follow easy direc tions. Results will delight you, = Tractor Statistics In number of tractor acres of Crog <P 8 per 100,005) ads all states ond and Californl figures are drawn f ment census report of 1050 soothing ointment draws out your cold like a magnet when rubbed on chest and throat. Eases breathing when inserted in stuffy nostrils. Jars and k tubes 30c. OR coLP3 A Flat on Shares Policeman-—See here, you folks can't stay in the park all night, You'll have to go home, Mr. Doubleup—But it's our turn, officer. We share our flat with an- other family and they occupy it to night. WEAK, NERVOUS, DRAGGED-OUT Richmond, Va— “About a year ago kids do out i cou hardly get around to do my work. My back ached, 1 had headaches, was nervous and did not : much rest at tT night. Some days 1 would be very short of breath” sad Mrs. R. M. Gentry of 1836 Venable St. “A druggist ad- vised me to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and after doing so I soon felt better. After 1 had finished one bottle I knew I had ime oved a whole lot and have always n thankful for having tried it." Dr. Pierce's Discovery Aloof Mr. Bee—Would yon take a cash gift from your wife's father? Mr, Dee—1 should say not. When my wife writes home for money, 1 never meddle with it at all. 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