ECRETARY OGDEN L. MILLS and
his associates In the Treasury de-
partment have lald before the senate
finance committee their revised pro-
gram for raising $1,
033,000,000 for the
purpcse of balancing
the national budget.
The blll they offer re-
Jects those features of
the measure passed
by the house which
makes extreme ralses
in normal income tax
rates, surtax rates
corporation income
taxes and estate taxes,
restoring these taxes
Ogden L. Mills to the level of the
rates as they were In 1924,
Mr. Mills proposed a compromise on
taxing stock sales. The house bill
provides a tax of one-fourth of 1 per
cent, but not less than four cents a
share. The secretary would make it
a straight four cents a share tax.
Most of the excise taxes in the house
bill he rejects, but proposes a tax of
three-fourths of one cent a gallon on
domestic gasoline, which is not taxed
in the house bill.
Mr. Mills’ program does not differ
much from the last recommendations
he submitted to the house ways and
means committee, It is now too late,
he says, to apply income taxes retro-
actively to 1931 incomes, but the loss
occasioned thereby will be offset by
“tightening of the law through admin-
istrative changes.”
The secretary now belleves that it
will be possible to reduce government
expenditures $200,000,000 Instead of
$120,000,000,
Articles not taxed In the house bill
on which Mr. Mills would impose taxes
are tobacco, checks and drafts, and
domestic gasoline.
i more attempt to get Thomas
J. Mooney out of the California
penitentiary has failed. Following the
counsel of his legal advisers, Gover-
nor Rolph denied a pardon to the
man who is serving a life term for
participation In the 1916 Preparedness
day bombing in San Francisco which
resulted in ten deaths,
V HAT Representative La Guardia
of New York called “an epldem-
le of economy” continued its course
in congress, to the disgust of some In-
dividual members and of certaln gov-
ernment officials, Drastic reductions
in budget estimates were made and
further slashes were In prospect. The
house created precedent by accepting
without conference the entire 10 per
cent made by the senate in the appro-
priation bill for the Interior depart.
ment and as the budget bureau grl-
ready had made heavy reductions
from the department requests and the
house had previously knocked off some
millions, Secretary Wilbur spoke of
“the odds and ends that are left.” He
called the $4,000,000 reduction in funds
for the Boulder canyon dam “hocus-
pocus,” and then took the diminished
bill to President Hoover for a confer
ence.
The senate Instructed Its appropria-
tions committee to reduce the treas-
ury-post office supply bill by 10 per
cent, and also approved a reduction
of $1,000,000 in the prohibition en-
forcement fund, the only important
item which the house left at the bud-
get estimate, Next came the slashing
of the navy appropriation bill by the
house,
The appropriation measure for con-
gress itself was put aside for one
week or more to give the special
economy committee time to perfect an
amendment carrying the entire re-
trenchment program of pay reductions
and abolition and consolldaton of fed-
eral activities. The decision of the
economy committee to put all the pro-
jected savings Into one bill to be a
rider to the legislative supply measure,
as President Hoover wished, was
reached over the protest of Chalrman
McDuflie of Alabama. McDuffie sald
his proposal to cut federal wages 11
per cent after exampting the first $1.-
000, would go into the bill, and that
advocates of the Hoover five-day work
week and furlough without pay plan
would have to offer It as a substitute.
Mr. Hoover thinks his plan would save
between $225,000,000 and $250,000,000
A year,
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HEN the Republican national
convention meets in Chicago #t
will have for its temporary chairman
and keynoter Senator L. J. Dickinson
of Towa, whom the ar-
rangements commit.
tee selected for the
post with the approv-
al of President Hoo
ver, "HellRalsing
Dick,” as he Is known
in his home state, has
been one of the
strongest defenders of
the Hoover adminis.
tration and can be 4
counted on to set ron
forth vigorously the Sen. Dickinson
issues on which the
Republican party will base its appeal
for the favor of the electorate. He
was in the lower house for six terms,
dg
bloc; then was elected to the senate
to succeed Dan Steck, Democrat.
Other appointments made for the
convention were: Sergeant-at-arms,
Everett Sanders of Indiana, former
secertary tc President Calvin Cool-
idge; secretary, Lafayette B. Gleason
of New York; parliamentarian, James
Francis Burke of Pennsylvania; as
sistant, Lehr Fess, Ohlo, son of Sen-
ator Fess; chief doorkeeper; Col.
Glenn Haynes of Iowa; assistant, J. N,
Johnston, Kansas,
RANKLIN ROOSEVELT is deter
mined not to have a quarrel with
Al Smith If he can help it, and In his
campaign for delegates the New York
governor Is becoming most conciliatory
and cautious. Up in St, Paul, Minn,
he replied In a way to Smith's attack
in which that leader of Democracy
more than intimated that Roosevelt
was a demagogue trying to set class
against class. This Franklin dis
claimed, declaring pleasantly that he
favored a national policy that “seeks
to help all simultaneously”—an alm
with which no one could quarrel but
& pronouncement that is scarcely rea-
son for Smith to abandon his announced
intention to take off his coat and fight
to the bitter end the nomination of
the governor. On the whole, the pres-
ent situation is such that Democratic
leaders fear a repetition of the con-
vention deadlock of 1924 and impair
ment of the party's chances for success
at the polls in November.
V ARNING that wet planks in both
party platforms this year would
cause the prohibitionists to get togeth-
er and elect a dry President was is
sued from the woman's national com-
mittee for law enforcement.
Mrs. Leigh Colvin of New York
made the statement before the wom
en's convention, at the same time
claiming definitely that President Hoo
ver Is a supporter of prohibition.
She predicted his defeat, however, if
the party adopts a wet plank.
Senate committees considered va-
rious proposals relating to prohibition
and heard the views of many persons.
Matthew Woll of the American Feder
atlon of Labor warned the lawmakers
of a potential revolution by labor un-
less the beer Industry is revived
Bishop Cannon appeared before the
Judiciary subcommittee to advocate
making the man who buys liquor as
guilty as one the whe who sells it
The manufacturers’ committee, by a
vote of 4 to 7, turned down the Bing
ham beer bill for 4 per cent beer,
Senator Tydings introduced in the
senate his emergency construction
act as an amendment to the pending
tax bill. It provides for the creation
of a $1.500,000000 bond issue to be
amortized at the rate of 10 per cent
each year, and to be sold as a “popu-
lar loan” to be repaid entirely by a
tax levied on 2.95 per cent beer taxes
at the rate of 24 cents per gallon.
ECRETARY OF STATE STIMSON
is now at Geneva and apparently
already Is up to the neck In matters
relating to disarmament, reparations,
security and the orl
ental situation. He is
quarted in a fine villa
and Is doing a lot of
entertaining, but also
he Is attending to
business, As one real
achievement, the dis
armament conference
approved the princi.
ple of reduction of
armaments “to the
lowest point consist.
ent with national safe
ty and the enforce Sec’y Stimson
ment by common action of Interna-
tional obligations.”
Approval of the principle was op
posed only by Maxim Litvinov, head
of the Russian delegation, who sald
the action was not related to any ef-
fort to secure genuine disarmament,
Following up the American and
Italian proposals, Sir John Simon,
British foreign minister, proposed a
resolution Indorsing the principle of
“qualitative” disarmament-—that is
the prohibition of certain classes and
types of weapons. This was sup.
ported by Germany and Italy but op
posed by France,
HE interstate commerce commis
sion, In a report that marked the
culmination of a nation-wide survey
of the highway-rail transportation sit
uation, recommended legislation regu.
lating Interstate bus and truck car
riers,
“Unrestrained competition is an Im-
possible solution of the present trans
portation problem and Is Incompatible
with the alm of co-ordination under
regulation,” declared the commission.
Rallroads, whether steam or elec
trie, and water carriers, the commis
sion asserted, should be specifically
authorized to engage In the trans
portation of both persons and proper
ty by motor vehicles In Interstate
commerce over the public highways,
A much milder form of regulation
for the Interstate truck carriers, com
mon or contract, was recommended.
HAIRMAN NORBECK of the sen-
ate committee investigating short
selling of stocks and President Whit.
ney of the New York Stock exchange
did not get mlong well together last
week, Mr. Whitney gave a list of
24,000 shorts as of April 8, and the
names, made public after a few days,
were found to include several promi-
nent Americans and some foreigners.
Among the former was Arthur Cut-
ten, Norbeck sald the inquiry would
be greatly extended,
ENATOR WILLIAM J. HARRIS,
senior senator from Georgia and
ranking Democratic member of the ap-
propriations committee, dled in Wash-
ington following several weeks of ill-
ness during which he had two major
operations and one blood transfusion.
He was sixty-four years old and had
been In the senate since March, 1910,
He was re-elected in 1925, and again
in 1031.
HE senate adopted and sent to the
house a resolution calling upon
the secretary of agriculture to investi.
gate the cost of maintaining the sys
tem of futures trading
in agricultural prod
ucts and to ascertain
what classes of citl-
zeng bear the cost.
Wheat and cotton fu-
tures both are cov-
ered In the terms of
the resolution, which
was formed by the
agriculture commitiee
by combining meas-
ures sponsored by
Senators Capper, Re
publican, Kansas, and
Sheppard, Democrat, Texas.
Profits and losses by various classes
of traders In wheat and cotton fu-
tures since July, 1029, together with
short sales volume and commission
pald by traders, would be gone into,
Sen. Capper
RS. LOWELL F. HOBART, re
tiring president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, addressing the continental con
gress of the organization in Washing.
ton, asserted that alien International.
ists, pacifists and criminals are un-
dermining the security of American
institutions.
a united front against these
ences, Mrs. Hobart sketched a sordid
picture of conditions which she sald
existed in this depression period
The congress was peaceful this
year, the only ticket In the fleld being
na of Holyoke, Mass,
REAT BRITAIN'S budget,
the house of commons by Chancellor
of the Exchequer Neville Chamber.
lain, and the Brit
ish found there would
be no relief for the In
come ax payers or
the beer drinkers for
another year. A deficit
of about §7,000000,
Mr. Chamberlain esti
mated, would be eas
ily made up by a new
customs tax to be an
nounced and a tax of
eight cents on foreign
tea with a preference Neville
of four cents om em- os deriain
pire grown tea. The
income tax remains at about 25 per
cent,
Of especial Interest to America was
the fact that the budget makes no
provision for $171.500,000 which will
be due the United States in the next
twelve months on the war debt ao
count. Neither does it list in the [tems
of expected revenue the equivalent
amount which will be due Britain from
German reparations and from the En
ropean allies on their war debts to
Britain,
Chamberlain sald he felt it would
be wiser to leave all these war debt
and reparations accounts out of con
sideration until after the Lausanne
reparations conference. After a de
cision is reached at Lausanne and
after it 1s known whether the Hoover
moratorium will be extended, there
will be a supplementary British budget
to meet the conditions then existing,
he sald,
News of this course by the British
government starfed a discussion In
congress of the possibility of repudia-
tion by Europe of the war debts owed
the United States. Senator Reed of
Pennsylvania sald he was confident
England would pay us when the time
comes, and others deprecated the idea
of cancellation. Senator Borah fook
the opportunity to reply to Al Smith's
of the value of American goods
chased by the debtors In
Mr. Borah sald this would be In effect
complete cancellation and
scheme for the benefit of private cred.
ftors of Europe at the expense of
American tax payers. Senator Lewis
of Milinols also attacked the Smith
idea, and both he and Borah tied the
question up with the disarmament
problem,
A JAPANESE foreign office spokes.
man has warned Russia of the
danger of war if there Is any recur
rence of alleged Soviet-inspired out.
rages against Japan in Manchuria. He
referred specifically to the wrecking
of a troop train near Harbin recently,
in which 14 Japanese soldiers were
killed, responsibility for which Japan
flatly charged to Russia,
The spokesman pointed out that it
must be remembered that while Japan
is not sending new troops to the Si
berlan border, the Russians are con
tinuing fo concentrate their forces,
(©. 1932, Western Newspaper Union.)
HALL. PA.
Find Reasons for
Cotton Seed Rot
Valuable Discoveries Made
by Federal Service
Investigators,
Ten years of observation of cotton
root rot at the United States cotton
breeding field station in Greenville,
Texas, have resulted in much useful in-
formation for the fight against this
stubborn plant disease, says Circular
173-C, “Cycles of Growth in Cotton
Root ot at Greenville, Texas”
One of the most significant observa-
tions has been thet the breaking up
of cotton root rot, which occurs
periodically, 1s not the result of the
soll, season, or crop, but apparently
of some Inherent character of the
fungus itself. This discovery Is Im-
portant because it indicates that this
breaking-up period offers a favorable
opportunity for using soll disinfectants
or planting nonsusceptible crops for
several seasons, thus reducing the
chance of infection, says the circular.
Cotton root rot is widespread In
Texans and occurs from there to the
Pacific coast and also in Old Mexico,
The root rot spots go through a period
of sustained growth and then in a
single season break up, except for a
few points which form the beginnings
of new infections. Cotton root rot, it
is estimated, reduces the annual cot-
ton yield of the nation by 250,000 to
000,000 bales and does damage to
other crops amounting to about $50.
000,000 a year.
Coples of Circular 173-C may be
obtained free from the office of in-
formation, United States Department
of Agriculture, Washington,
New Ration for Calf
Secures Excellent Results
Excellent results have been secured
at Cornell university from a new calf-
feeding mixture, Only 325 pounds
of whole milk were used during the
first 17 weeks, The mixture fed in-
320
of winter wheat bran, 160
pounds of linseed meal, and S80 pounds
The calves were fed
the first 10 weeks,
pounds
starter for
g 900 pounds each of
ground and
whent bran, and 100 pounds of linseed
The calf starter ration was
ration Includin
ow cornmeal, oats,
uimeal
Iodine for Ewes
Where weak or flabby lambs are
be administered to the ewes In the
form of lodized salt, At one experi
ment staflon lodized salt is prepared
for the ewes by drying the moisture
out of 50 pounds of common salt and
sprinkling It with two ounces of po-
tassivm jodide dissolved in water,
Three or four weeks before lambing,
the ewes should receive about one-
half pound of meal daily, the amount
being increased somewhat after lamb
ing. The amount of meal fed will
depend largely on the condition of the
ewe, If she Is nursing twins, she
should receive a liberal supply of meal
#0 as to Insure a good flow of milk, A
very satisfactory meal ration consists
of three parts bran, two parts crushed
oats and one part oll meal,
Oats Treatment
Use formaldehyde, 1 pint to 5 gal
ions of water. Put 40 or 50 bushels of
oats in a pile on a clean tight floor or
a8 wagon box. While one man shovels
the oats from one pile to another, a
second man or boy slowly sprinkles the
formaldehyde solution over the second
pile. If a sprinkling is given to each
2 or 8 shovelfuls, the 5 gallons can
be rather evenly mixed through the
pile.
After the oats have been sprinkled
cover the pile with a canvas for about
5 hours. Then the oats will be ready
for sowing or they can be stored In
clean bags until needed. There will
be no danger of sprouting from the use
of this amount of water.—Indlana
Farmer's Guide.
Clover Resists Disease
Through years of selection the Ten-
nessee agricultural experiment station
hag developed a red clover that Is
highly resistant to southern anthrac-
nose or scorch, a common disease of
the plant which leaves the field look:
ing as if swept by fire,
The United States Department of
Agriculture warns that although the
clover grown In the Tennessee regions
where scorch Is prevalent Is apparent.
ly the most resistant, not all clover
grown there hag this quality. Farm.
ers cannot get this valuable strain sim.
ply by ordering Tennessee seed, but
should specify Tennessee scorch-resist
ant seed.
Spraying Potatoes
Sprayed potatoes yielded 120 bushels
more per acre than spuds not sprayed,
in Ohio tests, The yields were 172 and
202 bushels per acre on the two ad-
Joining flelds. Tt took 12 sprays to
make the difference,
Increased yield lsn't the only eon.
Blderation. If blight is present, and
weather is unfavorable, spraying is
necessary to get any kind of a yield.
Spraying pays in a good year, and is
absolutely essential in a bad year.
Yarm Journal
on Dots and Worms |
Illinois Farmers Organize to |
Conduct “Drive.”
More than half of the 2,000 farmers |
in Woodford county are having thelr |
horses and mules treated for internal |
parasites, such as bots and worms, in
the state-wide campaign which the |
College of Agriculture, University of |
Illinois, and co operating agencies are |
conducting to restore horse power, ac- |
cording to a report by Farm Adviser
H, A. deWerff. There are about 9,500 |
horses and 625 mules on farms of the |
county, |
Local veterinarians who are co-op
erating with the college and Farm Ad-
viser deWerff are conducting an or-
ganized cleanup In practically every
township of the county. Liquid car
bon disulphide is being used in the
treatment, this material having proved
most effective in preliminary tests
made by the college,
Cleanup campaigns are being econ-
ducted In 48 other countles beside
Woodford. “It is the best move that
farmers can make to rejuvenate thelr
horse power and thereby lower pro
duction costs,” sald Dr. Robert Gra-
ham, chief of the college animal path-
ology and hygiene division. “Few
horses are entirely free from parasites
of one kind or another. Although the
injury often is unnoticed, the loss In
feed bills and work may be more costly
of gome contagious disease.”
Terraces Stop Erosion
of Much Valuable Land
Five and a half million acres of
toll is belong destroyed each year that
could be prevented by terracing, ac
cording to E. G. Johnson, University
of Nlinols,
low ridges bullt crosswise of the slope
and catch the run-off water and carry
it away on a slight grade to an outlet
at the side of the field instead of al
lowing it to gully the land.
Complete plans for constructing
these terraces can be had from your
county agent or from the University
of Illinois by asking for bulletin num-
ber 20, “Raving Soils by Means of the
Mangum Terrace”
Ration for Lambs
Corn and wheat have about
same feeding value in a ration for
lambs. Alfalfa bay ss a feed to
lambs produced gains at about 10 per
cent jess per 100 pounds than sudan
hay.
Bearing out the results
from similar trials last year, lambs fed
cut alfalfa hay made faster and
CHIEF ATTRACTION
Every school child In New England
Is familiar with the kindly, benevo-
lent features of the poet Longfellow.
in a certain school held up a picture
of the kindly-faced poet.
“Who is this?" she asked.
“Longfellow,” chorused the class.
“Good!” sald the teacher. “Now,
Mary, tell us what you notice about
his face”
“A whole lot of whiskers!” sald
Mary promptly ~Boston Globe
LITTLE TO SAY
Wifle—There's
sald!
Hubby—Then you'll say it, of course.
Unafraid
Little Susan stood looking with round,
staring eyes at the visite
hat.
Eventually the lady turned to the
little girl and asked her whether she
nothing more to be
r's new cloche
“I do, Mrs. Mugge"” eo:
cent reply. “M
sald It was a perfect frig
day, but it doesn't frighte
wee-est bir”
One on the Verger
Officer—Is there a man called Dash-
ington Binks being me here to-
day?
Verger— Wedding now in progress.
Officer—Well, I have a warrant for
BINITIG BT
fining an
arried
Verger—Friends of the bridegroom
There
in
was no appreciable
the results
alfalfa,
difference
boma lamb-feeding trials —Success
ful Farming.
Potatoes in the Ration
Potatoes may furnish half of the dry
matter In the ration for cattle and
sheep, and onefourth for
Dalry cows should not receive more
sheep feeding, the potatoes should be
chopped and mixed with the grain.
For cattle and sheep, potatoes
should be fed raw and may be fed raw
to hogs, particularly brood gws, if
time and labor cannot be spared for
cooking.
Record Potato Yield
By growing 420 bushels of Certified
Rural Russett potatoes on 1.2 acres
last summer, Joy Bishop, senior voca-
tional agriculture student in Arling-
ton high school produced one of the
state's record yields among Smith.
Hughes students. In making this high
yield he used 20 tons of manure on
clover and alfalfa sod, planted certl.
fied seed the 20th of May, applied
1,000 pounds of 6848 fertilizer, culti-
vated seven times during the sum-
mer, and sprayed eight times. Total
cost of the crop was $147 and the net
profit was figured at $78.-—-Ohlo
Farmer,
Agricultural Squibs
More than 33,000,000 head of sheep
and lambs were marketed In 1081, or
3815,000 head more than In 1980,
" . -
Farm boys and girls of Garrard
county, Ky., have sold calves for a
total of $88,000 and won cash prizes
of £7,525 In nine years,
. 8 »
The best brood sows are medium to
large Individuals and display an ae
tive disposition. Short and fat or ex
tremely lanky sows are undesirable.
. 0»
Winter Is the most desirable time
for pruning the grape vineyard be
cause there is less conflict with other
work.
LA
Catawba county (N. C.) farmers are
planting pine trees this winter in re
foresting certain waste areas over the
county. .
Heavy feeding and no exercise
Sundays or ralny days are bad ;
horses. Be sure to reduce the
when the horses are idle, live
specialists urge,
i
No Foresight
“Newspapers are one-sided™
“How is that?
“They always make a fuss when a
famous man dies but never when a
Getting Training
She (engaged)—Jack is so crazy
Mrs. Wyse—Excellent training for a
. 3
.
His Line
Governor—What is your occupation?
Convict—Composer of popular songs.
Governor—Put him In the copying
department.—Der Wahre Jakob (Ber.
lin).
HIS IDEA OF POLO
“Ever see a game of polo?”
“Saw one once upon a time, but
it must have been a bum one as 1
got the idea it was against the rules
to hit the ball”
Looking for Readers
“Why do you refer to politics as a
great game?”
“My publicity,” replied Senator
Sorghum, “needs all the readers possi.
ble. I want to see if I can't get it a
chance on the sporting page™
Leaving It to Papa