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APAN during the week scemed to
be getting deeper and deeper into
the morass of international trouble, but
gave no outwand sign of weakening In
her determination to
subdue the Chinese.
Having received a re-
port from its investiga-
tors at Shanghal, plac-
ing the onus of the
hostilities on Japan,
the council of the
League of Nations
got its dander up and
sent to Tokyo a sharp
note ealling to Ja-
pan's attention again
her obligations under
various treaties and
the league coveant, re
her of her high position
the powers and appealing to
cease the warfare against
China. The decision to send this re
buke was reached In the absence of
the Japanese and Chinese represent.
atives and over the protest of Ger
many and Jugo-Slavia. It was signed
by the “committee of twelve” and thus
a loophole was provided in case it Is
not backed up by the league assembly
later. The communication took the
same stand taken by Secretary of
State Stimson, that the validity of Jap
anese occupation of Chinese territory
could not be recognized.
Mr. Stimson formulated
stern protest against the use of the
international settlement in Shanghal
by the Japanese as a base for military
operations, and declined to he im
pressed by Japan's argument that the
other powers also had landed troops
there. He told Ambassador Debuchi
that if the Chinese should enter or
fire on the settlement on any pretext
while Japanese forces were utilizing
it as a military base, the United States
would hold Japan responsible.
Secretary
Stimson
minding
among
her to
another
In preparation for a grand offensive
the Japanese heavily shelled the Chi
nese lines, and many shells fell in the
international settlement. Two English
sallors were killed. This caused great
excitement in London, A special meet-
ing of the cabinet was called at once
and Prime Minister MacDonald left a
nursing home to preside over it. Amer-
fcan marines also were endangered by
the rain of shells but there were no
casunlties among them.
UTHORIZED by his government,
the Japanese minister to China
served an uitimatum on Gen. Tsi Ting.
kal, commander of the Nineteenth Chi
nese route army, de
manding that the Chi
nese retire twenty kil
ometers from Shang-
hal and threatening
to drive them away
by force should they
not comply. There
were evidences that
the Japanese were
growing anxious about
the great concentra-
tion of Chinese troops
and feared that Gen.
Chiang Kai-shek would
bring his national
guard divisions to the anid of
hai's defenders and take command of
the entire army. Minister of War
Arakl asked Emperor Hirohito to ap
prove the cabinet's plan to send 30,000
to 45,000 fresh troops to Shanghal If
the Chinese continued their resistance,
For the third time American Consul
General Cunningham had to protest
against a rald by Japanese plain
clothes men on the middle school of
the American Methodist Church, South,
The furniture was smashed, books and
papers scattered about, and an Ameri
can flag nailed on the outer wall was
torn down. Other Japanese civillans
assaulted American Viee Consul Ar
thur Ringwalt and an American wom-
an he was helping out of the bombard-
ed district, For this outrage Tokyo
apologized,
Chiang Kal.
shek
Shhng-
RESIDENT HOOVER on Wednes.
day sent to congress a special mes-
sage asking support for a reorganiza-
tion of the government and recom
mending the creation of four new fed-
eral offices. He requested, simultane
ously, the major alteration and chang-
Ing In title of four other federal de
partments. Under the eight new and
altered divisions he would consolidate
present overlapping activities In an
effort to subtract “millions of dollars
annually” from the tax burden,
Authority also was nsked for the
Chief Executive to transfer and con
solidate executive and administrative
groups merely through the issuance of
executive orders, each to lle before
congress for 00 days before becoming
effective,
Specifically,
gested :
1. Consolidation of the millions of
dollars’ worth of construction work
undertaken annually by the various
federal departments Into a new office
to be known as public works admin.
istrator.
2. Incorporation of the vhst amount
of personnel administration into one
office headed by a "personnel admin.
the President sug:
istrator,” with the clvil gervice com-
mission remaining In an advisory
capacity to that agent,
8. Transfer of the administrative
functions of running the American
merchant marine to the Department of
Commerce under direction of a new
assistant secretary.
4. Creation of a new assistant sec-
retaryship of interior In charge of
“conservation,” under whom would
come reclamation work and the broad
supervision of water power develop-
ment,
5. Placement of all public health
activities of the government under
a new assistant secretary of the treas-
ury.
6. Promotion of the commissioner
of education to an assistant secre
tary of Interior, with transfer of all
educational undertakings to his care.
7. Promotion of the director of ag-
ricultural economics to an assistant
secretary, and the designation of an
existing ald to the secretary of agri
culture as assistant secretary for
agricultural research.”
The immediate changes, Mr. Hoover
asserted, would cost about $40,000 per
annum in additional salaries, but “the
saving in cost of administration would
be many times this sum.”
EMOCRATIC leaders of the house
prepared to place their own lax-
ation and economy proposals before
the nation as a means of balancing the
national budget.
Following the dec
laration of Speaker
Garner tha! President
Hoover had falled to
promete real economy,
Representative Rainey
of Illinois, Democratic
leader, characterized
the treasury tax pro-
posals as “woefully
insufficient.”
The first step In the
economy program was
H.T. Rainey the creation of a spe
clal committee to study menns of abol
ishing and restricting government bu-
reaus to cut expenses,
The house ways and means com
mittee met to consider the treasury's
additional tax program, which Included
a l-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax and a 7
per cent tax on domestic electric light
and gas bills. Rainey sald:
“The treasury originally recommend
ed taxes totaling $020,000,000 and then
admitted a mistake of over $400,000,
000, and came back with a request te
raise the total
“The treasury, even In ts new estl
mates, does not take Into considera-
tion expenses Ipcident to the 2500.
000,000 reconstruction corporation,
$125.000,000 land bank bill, possible di.
rect relief funds of veterans’ bills, and
will not even estimate the Increased
interest on the national debt
Y A vote of 30 to 48 the senate de
feated the La Follette-Costigan bill
to provide $750.000.000 from the federal
treasury to the states for the relief
of the jobless and Leedy, of which sam
£375.000000 was to be handed the
states for highway building. Party
lines were broken, and the “progres.
give” bloc was the only group that
voted solidly for the measure. Six.
teen regular Democrats and six reg
ular Republicans Joined with them in
its support,
This being out of the way, the sen.
ate took up the Glass-Steagall bill to
liberalize the federal reserve structure
and release a fresh flood of credit
throughout the national banking sys
tem. This measure had passed through
the house with little trouble and It
wns expected the senate would soon
give its approval
N SELECTING a successor to Oliver
Wendeil Holmes on the bench of
the Suapreme Court of the United
States, President Hoover set aside geo-
graphical considera-
tions and chose Ben
jamin Nathan Car
dozo, chief justice of
the New York state
court of appeals, The
nomination was sent
to the senate and
early confirmation was
expected, though sev.
eral protests were re- :
ceived by Senator Nor-
ris, chairman of the ju. hie
diciary committee. This
appointment gives the B. N. Cardozo
Supreme court flve Republicans and
four Democrats, and nine of the jus
tices are from the eastern states. It
had been expected that a westerner
would be named. Judge Cardozo was
recommended by various groups de
scribing themselves as liberals, and his
choice for the high honor was praised
by senators of such diverse affilia.
tions as Norris of Nebraska Reed of
Pennsylvania, Watson of Indians and
Wagner of New York.
IERRE LAVAL, losing a vote of
confidence In parliament, resigned
ns premier of France together with
his eabinet. Paul Painleve, former
premier, consented to try to form a
new government.
Pr BAKE R JOHN N. GARNER'S bis
western hat Is still on his head,
but his friends have started his boom
for the Presidentin! nomination by the
Democratic national
convention. 'The two
senators from Texas,
Morris Sheppard and
Tom Connally, issued
a formal statement in
which Mr, Garner was
presented not only as
his t.le's favorite
son, but as a states
man fully qualified
to be the chief of the
nation, They prom-
ised that he would
J. N. Garner get the full vote of
the Texas delegation and would have
the support of countless other Demo-
crats over the country when the na-
tion knows more of his character and
services,
“Ie has been speaker of the house
for only a few weeks,” sald the Texas
senators. “During that period the
house under his leadership has at-
tracted the attention of the whole
country by reason of its prompt, thor-
affairs, His record as speaker and
leader is among the highest proofs of
his splendid qualities of
and courage.”
They recalled his twenty-nine years
in the house ns a representative from
Texas as service “distinguished for
its breadth of vision, its political cour-
age and its rugged and aggressive
democracy.”
Mr. Garner sald he had known noth-
ing of the statement beforehand and
had no authorized spokesman, He re
fused to talk of his Presidential
chances,
S————
OBS for a milllon unemployed with.
« in thirty days is the highly laud
able objective of a nation-wide cam-
paign which the American Legion has
started, In co-opera-
tion with Ameri-
can Federation of La-
bor, the National As
sociation of Adver-
tisers and or.
ganizations repre
sented the na.
tional ployment
commission. The en.
tire movement is un-
der the general direc.
tion of Henry LL.
Stevens, .Jr., national H.L.Stevens Jr.
commander of the
American Legion, It has the support of
'resident Hoover and countless other
national leaders, and the drive Is be-
ing aided by magazines and other pub
lications commanding a) total c¢ircula-
tion of 35.000.000, sixty na-
tional radio advert agreed to con
tribute thirty seconds of thelr time on
the air daily,
the
other
on
em
Nearly
isers
-
Committees In more than 7.000 towns
and cities, supported by more than
10,000 posts of the American Legion
and 30000 gnions afliliated with the
A. F. of L. are co-operating In the cam-
paign. That It will be successful Is
forecast by the report that nearly 2
0 jobs were obinined on the openin
day of the drive.
YER in Germany they are getting
ready for an election, and Paul
von Hindenburg their grand old man,
has yielded to the petitions of thou
snnds of his countrymen and consented
to be a candidate for reelection to the
Presiderey. Hix chief rival apparent.
iy will be Adolph Hitler, leader of the
German Fascist],
Press reports said Premier Klagges
of Brunswick had appointed Hitler a
professor of practical pedagogics at
the University of Brunswick so that
“the politician without a country” re
ceived German citizenship automat
cally, Hitler had lost his Austrian
citizenship and could not run for Pres
ident In Germany uniess he became a
German citizen,
EWFIK RUSHDI BEY, foreign
minister of Turkey, seems to be
one of the most optimistic of the dele
gates to the disarmament conference
in Geneva, After the apparently Ir
reconcilable views of the great powers
and told the conference that
political Importance of frontiers will
soon be negatived by fraternization
surest means of arriving at disarma-
ment, Turkey, he said, has been alm.
Ing at understandings with her neigh
bor nations, but opposed any kind of
alliances except one-an
among all nations against war,
He supported the French proposal
for Internationalizing cieil aviation
and urged prohibiting the manu.
facture of offensive weapons
Germany's proposals were submitted
Thursday. They Incinded abolition
alr reserves of stocks, abolition eof
conscription, prohibition of heavy ar
of warships and prohibition of alreraft
enrriers and submarines.
RS. MINNIE MADDERN FISKE,
for many years the foremost
actress’ In America, died in Hollis, L.
1, after three months’ illness at the
age of sixty-seven years. For half a
century she had greatly entertained
the people of the nation, and her pass.
ing was as greatly mourned,
Sir Edgar Speyer, who had been
called “the man without a country,”
passed away in Berlin, At the be-
ginning of the World war he was
an eminent British financier and a
privy councilor. Accused of treason
and of being a friend of Germany, In
which country he was born, he came
to the United States, and later his
British naturalization was revoked,
(ED, 1992, Western Nownpapsr Uslon.)
Manure Pi les Not
Deadly to Borers
Only Thorough Trampling
of Stalks Will Kill
Corn Pests.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Arriculture. )—WNU Bervice.
The
thorough trampling of corn
stalks infested with European corn
kill the pests, says the United
Detalls of an Investigation of sur-
of borers in feed lots and ma-
Plles and Feed Lots as
Sources of European Corn Borer In
festation,” issued by the department.
The study was prompted by the knowl
»dge that when corn is put into silos
Cornstalks on the surfaces of typical
farm manure piles in the reglon of
were examined.
Artificial manure piles also were made
Ohlo, actual feeding lots were exam-
ined to discover how many borers sur-
vived,
3ased on the Investigation, the de
p riment finds manure plles unsatis
factory ns a disposal place for infested
cornstalks and refuse, but recommends
disposal in feed lots when it is certain
the material will be thoroughly tram-
pled by live stock
Coples of Circular 104-C may be ob
tained upon request from the office of
information, United States Department
of Agriculture, Washington,
Worth-While Advice in
“Farm Relief” Program
“Sure farm rellef” suggestions are
nade by A. H. Tedmon, Arapahoe
county agricultural extension agent,
in a circular to farmers of his county,
Tedmon's program, a copy of which
ved by the Colorado Ag
ricuity is ns follows:
1. Milk a few good cows; feed rec
ommended rations,
2. Fatten one pig
lult members of the
t prog l
3. Keep at least 100 good hens, cor
rectly housed and fed
4. Ralse a good garden; water from
windmill if possible,
5. Plant cash crops only, whic
has been rece
nl college,
two
cure the
for every
family;
wry
h show
litle or no surplus,
Gg Grow all
7. Butcher cows and steers:
rade meat wi thbors.
8 Raise your own living; keep your
roof tight.
8. Get
best you can today,
10. Drive a horse until you can af
ford to buy gasoline,
Don’t Fatten Brood S
Brood sows tha
your own stock feed
fat
th nelg
down to earth and do the
OWS
t will farrow spring
litters should not be overfed, Overfat
sows often have weak pigs and the
mortality rate is osually very high, If
the sows are to be good milkers they
should have the run of a good pasture
during the winter and spring, and if
this Is impossible they should be fed
alfalfa or clover hay In racks. Their
ration needs a good supply of protein,
either tankage or soybean meal. Whole
soybeans are satisfactory for sows
but not for fattening hogs. Corn alone
is not sufficient on the ration. Use
good supplements and some minerals
Commercial minerals are casily avail
able or home-mizxed minerals can be
used gatisfactorily.~Prairie Farmer,
Housing a Bull
Writing in an English dairy journal,
a breeder of that country makes among
others this Interesting statement re
garding the housing of bulle: “The
way that has been successful so far
has been our endeavor to let the bulls
sce and hear as much as every one
can in their necessarily restricted
lives, and never shut them up where
they can do neither and therefore
have empty brains. Satan finds lots
no doubt, for idle hands to
do, but nothing to what he does for a
If the bull is confined to his pen
Silage Requirements
Aside from the normal requirements
(1) a good job of cutting must be
done; (2) plenty of water must be add
ed at the time of filling if the silage is
approximate quantity of water needed
fodder, A part of this water should
be added at the cutter to be blown In
with the cut fodder. Some water
must be added In the silo to the sur
face as the silo is filed. Some farm.
ers run water In their silos overnight.
Animals Need Water
Animals need more warm water and
some hog feeding experiments indicate
fn 10 to 16 per cent saving in feed by
having warm water Instead of ice wa.
ter before live stock In winter, accord
ing to the Nebrasks College of Agricul
ture. The same Is true with poultry,
and hens lay more eggs if they drink
warm water. Water at the tempera
ture at which it comes from the well
is usually satisfactory. There is little
allied by chopping ice out of the
Growing Crops Not
leduces Amount of Soil
Nitrogen Available.
In a 12-year test on the Ohlo State
university farin at Wooster, one ton of
straw applied to wheat in December
increased the average yield of whent
by four-tenths of a bushel, whereas 2
ton put on early in the fall decreased
it by one bushel. Two tons of straw,
bushels. In 1017 the mulched wheat
not covered was a total loss,
was the only year It was effective.
Investigations at a number of exper!
avallable to the growing crop.
Top dressing wheat with manure Is
quite different from using straw alone,
because of the higher nitrogen content
of the manure and the available phos.
phorus and potassium content, Top-
dressing wheat with manure has In-
creased the yield In many cases,
Splendid Results From
Fight on Hog Cholera
The control of hog cholera by im-
showing
ETORs
encouraging results The
number of reported outhreaks
was 3088 for the fiscal year 1031 as
compared with 4,162 for the year 1930,
a decrease of 74 outbreaks The mor-
tality rate for hog
last year is
lowest since
partment of Ag
ord,
According to federal
the decline In hog cholera is being
hastened probably by sn Increasing
manufacture and use of anti-hog
rds of lcensed
blishments show that
for the fiscal year
1931 was 4.5 per cent greater
than that of 1930. Another helpfol
influence In control has been the co
operation of swine breeders with fed
eral stock inls In
preventing ths exposure of hogs to
the disease
estimated as being the
the United
rrieulture has kept rec
States
cholera serum, leco
biological
serum prod
esta
jetion
nhout
and state live offic
Tomato Ferti lizers
Tomatoes da be
for them
under ground,
ticultural speciall
#1 when the fertilizer
it three Inches
hor-
sis of the Ohlo State
8 pn id in-
dicate. In this demo toma-
10.4 tons to the acre with-
fertilizer, while an application of
is of 4-124 on the surface In
plant brought the
2.4 tons. No sdditional
t of surface treatment
ith the fertilizer one inch
with It placed two
surface the yleld
greatest
with
deep
h the
toma-
28 spent for
1 of $2064
is pinced abo
tests conducted bj
university thi 1 summer wou
nstration
toes yielded
out
50 pound
a ring about each
yield up to
yield
wns noted w
under
inches beneath the
was 12.96 while
15.20 tot was
zor In three ind
red
ahove tha
the
yield, obtained
fertil! hes
A lower r
fertilizer
wil
deeper. With
was secu
placed
toes worth £10 8 U4
fertilizer returned 8 net gal
over its cost, pl!
r
a
n the
fon and
to a larger crop.
1s its app
increased Inbor due
The
ER
$3
demonstrat
Lancashire. ~ Ohi io F armer.
Keep an “Open ‘Mind
There is perhaps branch
of farming hich an open mind Is
more needed than In fruit growing
nl
no other
in wi
There are certain pri »s which are
funda al and live, ri it practices of
one generation, or even decade, may be
obsolete the next. A grower was
taken to task at a meeting, by a man
who had heard him express a different
opinion about the matter under dis
cussion two years before. “1 changed
my mind,” he replied. “That is the
right and duty of every man when he
finds that he is wrong.”
He was a practical
ment
fruit-grower
sults In his business. Some of his
plans of a score of years ago might
be discarded now, and he, If living,
would be the first one to do it. New
handling of trees and soils, adaptabll
ity of various lands to orcharding,
ete, are coming up yearly.
Agricultural Squibs
Cows that are forced to go to the
creek for their drinking water in win
ter give about 10 per cent less milk
than those that drink from drinking
cups at the stanchion
* - -
Thick-skinned, highly-colored onions
which are in demand, can be grown
by Increasing the supply of superphos
phate fertilizer or by using copper
sulphate,
ee & @»
Only the efficiently conducted bas!
ness can survive in these times. The
farmer should keep accurate records
of his operations and business tran
sactions,
. +
Spraying machinery for fruit and
vegetable crops is now a necessary
part of the commercial growers’ equip
ment.
- 4% »
Manufacturers of the United States
are spending on research $13 for
every $1,000 invested; agriculture is
spending 43% eens por $1,000,
*
Even though the bottom of the hog
cycle has almost been reached, rural
economists believe that there will not
be a very large increase in hog pro
duction during the next three years
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saving about enough to pay for
the family's bread and butter
each month.”
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