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
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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.
A loan widow is one who has money
out on interest.
It May Warn of Kidney or
Bladder Irregularities