J° PROSPERITY can be restored by
the united efforts of individuals
busiiess industrial confer-
should have
results, The
who particl-
them.
along
and
Washingtor
marked
Si men
pledged
work
lines:
the
ence in
pated
selves to
these
To
ment by
spread employ-
shortening
the hours of each
worker; to stimulate
capital expenditures
by industry; to ex-
pand employment and
repair and replace
ment work on the
railroads; to stimu.
late home improve.
ment and repair; to assist home own.
ers In carrying their mortgage bur-
dens; to make credit aftirmatively use-
ful by making i l
titled to A.
The central committee named to car-
ry out th headed by
Henry M. On Angeles, a
white-ha
has
closest
Robinson
available to those en-
program fis
tobinson of 1
banker and
one of President
Iawver who
Hoover's
advisers
been
friends and unofficial
and who has previously served the
public in various capacities, notably as
a member of the commission that for-
mulated the Dawes plan. [It Is sald In
Washington that Mr. Robinson may
snl be known as the Colonel House
of the Hoover administration.
Of the sub-committees named at the
conference, the first to get into action
was that on
Its chalrman. Walter C. Teagle, pres.
ident of the Stn ard Oil Company of
New Jersey, the in-
tends to the
spreading employment.
committee
industry to
be worked
from the varior nethods already
nearly 400
ountry,
do
most con
devised 1
country
conference already was
having an effect on the revival of in
dustr the news from banks was
}
ORDO cheerful.
it the
NDREW W. MELLON, ambnassa-
4 dor to England and former secre-
tary of the treasury, had a long talk
with the President, and on emerging
from the White House sald he believed
the current advance In stock prices
was Justified and would be main
tained. Mr. Mellon's reputation as a
financial wizard has been consider.
ably lessened, but there are still many
who think his judgment is sound.
MONTAGU C. NORMAN, governor
i f the Bank of England, eame
over to this country recently as “Prof,
Clarence Skinner.” ostens bly to spend
4 vacation In Maine. But It was not
tong before he was In New York con
sulting with some of our leading bank-
ers, and then It was officially admitted
in Washington that he would “see or
communicate with™ Ogden L. Mills
secretary of the treasury. In the
ids of many this made it certain
that the main object of Mr. Norman's
visit was to ne. It
uibly had to do with Britain's
return to gold standard in 1933,
this being dependent on the settlement
of the war debts and reparations and
the lowering of world tariff barriers,
ESIDENT HOOVER
P Director J, Clawson
begun preparation of the budget for
the 1034 fiscal year which starts July
1 next. Cabinet mem-
hers and all heads of
independent establish
ments have submitted
their estimates and
Mr, Roup has begun
hearings on them
Whether the budget
will be larger or
smaller than the one
submitted to congress
for the current fiscal
year is not yet known,
but probably It will
be larger,
The naval general board completed
its new building program and laid It
before Secretary Charles F. Adams
Whether or not he would submit it to
the President with a recommendation
that it be offered to congress in De
cember was not to be decided until
Secretary Adams had consulted with
a number of ranking admirals
It was understood the general board
program included a one-year Install
ment of the Vinson $£800.000000 ten
year program. It recommanded start
Ing work on the seventeenth S-inch
gun crulger permitted under the Lon.
don treaty and already authorized.
Othér parts of the program presum-
ably call for the Iaying down of
two cruisers, one airplane carrier, and
additional airplanes and submarines
S ‘PREME COURT JUSTICE ELLIS
A. Staley at Albany ruled in the
Walker case that Governor Roosevelt
‘had the authority to sit In Judgment
of
discuss war del
the
and Budget
Sec'y Adams
on the mayor, and that the courts could
not interfere in the executive ncts of
the governor. However, he also ruled
that court actlon might be taken after
the governor has given his decision on
the Walker ouster charges, provided
the mayor's three constitutional de-
fenses had been violated,
ing his office over to Joseph V.
Kee, aldermanic president.
statement Walker made a scorching
attack on the governor, declaring the
hearing had been conducted unfairly
and developed into “travesty, a mock
trial” in comparison with which a
drumhead court martial would
liberal. He said he was convinced the
governor's verdict, whether for
against him, would be dictated
political expendiency.
Walker closed by asserting
seek vindication by running for r
election. He said he was taking the
advice of “the most loyal and distin-
guished Democrat in this
evidently alluding to Alfred E. Smith
seem
or
by
1e would
country,
————
NLESS late returns from the Dem-
ocratic ran-off primary upset pres
ent figures, “Ma” Ferguson will be
governor of Texas again. At this writ
ing she has a rather slight lead over
Gov. Ross 8. Sterling. The vote had
veered and swayed from the lpeum
bent to Mes. Ferguson in such dra
matic manner that A. F. Henning.
head of the Texas election bureau, de
total
The
voile,
returns were still to be ear
vassed by the county committees
OVERNOR'S day at Reagirt
G Jersey, was taken by
Roosevelt the occasion
campaign on the prohibi
on, and what he sald to his
150065) listeners vas highly pleasing
to the wet Democrats. Some of the
Republican leaders, on the other b ind,
called It old stuff and ludicrous: and
it did not have the approval of the
Frankiiz
D.
first
tion questi
as for hi
speech
After for
Wsevelt
good word
Mr. R«
speaking a
temperance,
has brought, declaring “the
only business In the country that was
Describing the Republican platform
prohibition repeal with “the concise
sincerity of our own platform.”
**The Democratic party squarely met
issue,” said the governor,
administration
evade and
“while
nt.
the
tepublican
tempted to confuse
issue.”
NE after another the state con
ventions of the American Legion
disregarding the advice of the
leaders of the Legion and adopting
resolutions calling for
mmediate payment of
the veterans’ bonus In
full. The meeting of
the New York Legion,
in Brooklyn, was en
livened by an almost
violent demonstration
against F. Trubee Da.
vison, assistant sec
retary of war for av-
iation and now an as
pirant for the Repub
liean nomination for
governor of New
York.
Mr. Davison, defending.the federal
F. Trubee
Davison
ington, charged that many members of
sing fake military discharges that
were produced by a “Communist
owned diploma mill.” His speech was
frequently interrupted by loud Jeers
and boos and cries of “put him out.”
and finally It was necessary to call
the police reserves to restore order,
HREE major conditions on which
it will make loans for self-liqui-
Reconstruction Finance corporation
board. The applicant must prove that
bis project Is self-liquidating ; he must
prove that It {s adequately secured by
good collateral; and he must be able
to give the board complete information
on all phases of the project Among
the minor conditions are the barring
of convict labor; limitation of labor
to 30 hours a wek, and giving pref.
erence to war veterans with depend
ents,
When the applicants gathered in the
corporation's offices Los Angeles wis
near the head of the line, asking $132.
000,000 to carry to the city the water
and power made available by the Boul.
der dam. New York wanted $75,000,
000 for a bridge across the Hudson to
Weehawken and $55,000,000 for the
projecte” triborough bridge,
i
|
vere almost disrupted at the
start because the aviators learned
that the prizes for closed events had
been reduced to 28 per cent of their
advertised value. But the flyers final.
ly gave in and consented to go ahead
with the contest,
former army flyer, won
dash from Burbank, Calif., to Cleve.
land in 8 hours 19 minutes elapsed
time. He then continued to New
York, establishing a new transcontinen-
tal record of 10 hours 10 minutes,
jova farmers engaged in the “strike
= Yor higher prices were being investl
gated by a grand Jury in Council
Bluffs which was instructed to inquire
into wilful obstrue.
tion of highways, de
i struction of
fk and intimidation
g truck drivers, The
‘holiday™ movement,
t started by C. P. Savery
; and other leaders,
f meanwhile was losing
f its peaceful aspect
§ and there were con
flicts between the pick.
ets and sheriffs’ pos
gees at various points.
Generally the officers
had the best of it, but not always.
Near Cushing, Ia, a force of fifty dep-
uties that undertook to five
of by
hundreds of farmers armed with lend
C. P. Savery
escort
hogs was attacked
pipes and sticks, and eleven deputies
were 11 Jured. The arvused sheriff de
the would he
fnany
of the members of the late bonus army
have entered the fray oz the side of
the 8
picket lines
is noteworthy that
iking farmers,
GLAND was confre
~+ of the worst strikes
years when more than 12
weavers in La quit
IEE)
hire work be
ditions. While most of the ml
were forced
with depleted staffs and others,
made private arrangem®nts with the
workers, operated at full capacity. The
the union est}.
mate that tikout was two-thirds
effect is mn first day and believe
It will spread to all the mills
enl to King Ge
intervene through the g rnment in
the dispute was sent to Balmoral by
er Lat
ta
iment, who wields
to close, contin
wh
leaders of weavers’
the
*=t apg
Joe Compton, a forn write mem.
ber of parl
district.
nt the 20.000 con.
busses
3 ERMaNy wns
F cited when Its parilament met,
for Adolf Hitler had des deed that his
230 Nazi members should not support
the Yon Papen government. At the
last moment the chancellor had
luncheon with Hitler and in thelr dis
cussion the breach between them was
widened. Von Papen then went quickly
to Neudeck, where President Von Hin.
denburg was resting on his estate and
received from him authority to dis
solve the reichstag al his discretion,
giving him almost dictatorial powers,
The aged president told the chancellor
he was at liberty to take this step If
the reichstag tried to vote no confi
dence in Yon Papen's government and
its $500,000000 reconstruction pro
gram, which seemed a certainty. This
would give the chancellor's regime at
least three months further life
The entire German press features
the N
ment. There Is no doubt that Von
Papen enjoys the president's full con-
idence and the chancellor will
yield even to a Nazi-Centrist combin
a coalition would set
and not
it would
that such
a presidential
net and that
up
offer a con
least ar than Von
Papen’s,
Clara Zetkin, seventy-five year-old
Communist, presided over the opening
session of the reichstag, being entitled
to that prerogative by being the old
She demanded the Im.
peachment of the president and eabl-
good or better
with the aid of the Catholic Centrists,
Nationalists and Bavarian People's
party, they elected as speaker Her.
derogatory to the national
-
———
of Mrs. Edith Rocke
Just three weeks before her death, was
filed for probate In Chicago. Edwin
Krenn, the Austrian architect who was
being bequeathed five.
the estate; to her daughter
Mathilde Oser, onesixth: and to her
son Fowler McCormick, one-twelfth
Edward A. Dato, Krenn's partner In a
real estate firm, has announced that
before Mrs. McCormick died Krenn
signed an agreement with Dato by
which he waived all claims to the es.
tate as well as his Interest In the
firm of Krenn & Dato, and accepted
in lieu thereof a guarantee of $2,000
a month Income for life.
The estate was once estimated to
have a value of $40,000,000, but it has
been greatly depleted,
©. 1912, Western Newspaper Union,
OPEN SEASON NOW
FOR WAR ON PESTS
Cet Rid of Mites and Collect
More Eggs.
Extension Poultryman,
Carolina State College
WNU Bervica
During the rush season, owners of
By C FP. PARRISH,
North
sud as a
work with a resulting decrease in the
number of eges laid,
the roost a tree
rather than in the poultry house,
1 his
chickens to on
is the se
hand and eggs on the other. Poultry.
men act as spectators but pay a stiff
admission price to witness the battle.
of the flocks at this time in
of good poultry
Negleot
vites enemies
bandry
these is the well known mite.
sect infests poultry houses,
hiding away under the perches during
the day but preying upon the birds
at night, sucking their blood, lowering
their vitality
eur production.
Here are some of the ways in which
be First,
faut
The in-
usually
may eradicated.
they are nailed, knocl
spray the roost
and the whole wise, If needed, w
old burnt cylinder oil
equal parts of kerosene
second, paint or the
dinenm, as recommended In
Bullet] United
tn Agriculture.
at mites lave
Lik :
them Then
mixed wi
roast
spray
Kil of the
now that
is needed
be given radicate poultry parasites
the owner,
to the exter ha he birds mas
their highs
give
Hatchery Best Method
of Maintaining Flock
¥
iree Or Pid
the poul-
least 10
least this
him,
is not really in
business until he has at
A flock of at
for
possible four
laying !
makes it
ticularly if
ket, to sell his eges direct to
taller, getting the benefit
prices than are possible
are sold through the usual trade chan.
nein
To ensure a pullet flock of 100 birds
in the fall it is necessary to start with
«A chicks, Where chicks are
purchased from the breeder hatchery
hatchery any de
sired number ean be started at a given
time, and the problem of management,
il and feeding is sim.
Rize par
the re
higher
when
of
ez
around
or the commercial
rearing
ng,
in the flock mature at the same
go into the laying house in a
lition suited to high production
Darkens Hen Nests
Hens on the George Wehrman farm,
Sumner county, Kansas, used to break
Heng ready to go on the
would fly on the steps and fight
8 lot of egos,
result was cracked and broken
Mr. Wehrman stopped that Joss
by attaching burlap to the top of the
TERS
the front Now hens fly to the end
of the step, walk along the step until
they find an empty nest and enter It,
Instead of trying to take a nest that
already is occupied. Seemingly a hen
doesn’t like to have her feathers
ruffled. That is what happens to her
If she backs against the burlap to fight
another hen. It is probable that the
darkness created by the burlap also
has a tendency to lessen the fighting.
~apper's Farmer,
Poultry Hints
Provide roosts for the young grow-
ing birds
they will not pile up at night and
smother in the hot corners of the
brooder houses,
. * *
Providing plenty of shade for the
yards Is one way of protecting the
flock from the hot weather. If there
Is not sufficient natural shade, artf
ficial shelter can easily be provided
with boards, canvas, or brush.
* & »
Prevention is the safe way to raise
turkeys. Keep the old birds away
from the young. Hatch eggs in an in-
cubator,
*.« » »
There is no profit In feeding hens
which do not lay, and this is the sea-
#on when many decide to go on vaca
tion. Learn to pick out the slackers
and sell them for meat,
*. *
Feeds which are processed the least
and which represent more nearly the
whole product are safest to use when
making a chick ration,
- oh
*
UW ENZORIL, One of the w
queerest mountain masses
been sealed by a Belgian ex
tion entirely in Belg
which a part
ain Hes "The at, not
compl! required
10.060) {«
a cin
diffi
and re
Ruwenzori
ly under
rank,
gun
elephant
drench
yet
H :
peaks up to eternal
EDOWS
1
elise are there comparable he
der the oq
of a
dor, relatively
the
uator, r
cntilinont
mountain
Bre
Wesnther «
contritn
this African
throwing
tine
ing
myslery around
hidd« n to obs
and forests
fit rare Intoers
definite eo
18G4
ext
went
tion
that
nnd the ere
when the duke
led his expedition to the
The name, Mountains
is believed to have arisen from
taken translation from
has fitted
ell lato
that surrow
urative
ppearance of
11 latively
the
the Imp
ie Ie
have made
have all
they had
The combination
moisture, altitude and equatorial
has produced 8 unique veg
that in many %ars is
tastic,
Vegetation Is Extraordinary.
After emerging from the
tropical forests of the lower slones,
imber feels like
meadows
noted
hlundered int
of excessive
sh # Ts
uiteriy
dense
a Lilliputian vis
of Brobdingnag
among parsley plants nine
feet high, “bird seed”
and heather plants,
low Scottish shrub.
into great trees
To add to
mosses-—~brown, yellow, green,
all about under
grow in huge
limbs of
the heath trees like giant mushrooms
impaled on a The unearthly
usually by
which the strange
dimly; and there is a
of water from limbs
The way often
the
walks
thiree times his
relatives
that have
Dand 80
weirdness,
expanded
feet tall
colored
white and
and overhead
ine
redeasre
They
skewer,
fog, through
growths loom
drip
to one's knees,
Above the heath forests, on less
swampy ground, giant lobedias cover
large areas, sending their spikes up
to twenty feet or more, All about are
a variety of weeds, grown almost to
the magnitude of trees. Further up
are thickets of bamboo through which
progress is extremely difficult, The
highest slopes, just below the snow
line, are covered with a thick growth
Except on its lowest slopes Ruwen.
zorl Is uninhabited, and above the
tropical forests there Is not much ani-
mal life. The soggy heath forests
are almost devoid of animals, birds
and Insects. On other parts of the
slopes, where sparse animal life is
found, It forms & queer assortment:
a few small mountain antelopes;
leopards that prey on them: hyraxes,
which are harelike conies; fruit-eat
ing bats with a “wing-spread” of two
feet; and a few birds and Insects.
The name, Ruwenzori, was selected
by Stanley as the most common
among a large number of native des.
ignations. It has been interpreted as
meaning “King of the Clouds” and
“Rainmaker.”
Really a Mountain Range.
Ruwengzori is not a single mountain,
but a “pocket-size” range. With its
foothills it Is approximately 60 miles
long and 30 miles wide. The naming
system that has been followed is
rather complex. Topping the moun-
yet elimt
name as
is then
Odd Facts About the Equator.
While wus ! FI 8 Enon
example :
The equator crosses no
The equats
nental
Laws
traverses land
The
haif, traversing
nator c¢
Kenya
from the Belg
of F
severing
the tongu
rica which,
squeezes the Be gis
iantlie cong
In the 2
Afriea
Jungies,
canopied by
that only pencil
penetrate. In this
meets with naked,
tribesmen, and such unfriend!
far wild
potamuses,
Just below Ruwenzori’s western
glope is the bailiwick of the BR
bute pygmies, shy, diminutive folk
the jungles, and beyond fs the dom
of Bantu tribes, some of whom reli
human flesh The Masal, among the
world's fiercest natives, inhabit the
regions to the east of the mountain
letween the western coast of Africa
and the coast of South America, the
equator crosses no land. In the mouth
of the Amazon it traverses Mexiana is.
land and then plunges into 2.000 miles
of jungle land, almost as impenetra.
ble In places as the jungles of Africa
South America’s Jungle.
Equatorial South America is the
land of Indians of yellowish and red-
dish hues with straight hair which Is
cut as though soup bowls had been
applied to the natives’ heads as guides
for barbers’ scissors. The largest ani.
mal is the tapir, and ant eaters are
abundant.
At the eastern base of the Andes,
the &quatorial traveler meets the
Jivarog, natives who are proud of
their art in shrinking human heads to
the size of an orange, with the hair
and skin intact,
From thelr hot Jungle homes, the
Jivaros can see the snow-capped
Andes of Ecuador and western Brazil
Quito, eapital of Ecuador, nestles in
the Andean hills, about fifteen miles
south of the equator.
The equator begins its trans-Pacific
“Might” by crossing the Galapagos is.
lands and then makes a long Jump te
the East Indies where It traverses
Celebes, Dutch Borneo and Sumatra,
missing Singapore, the nearest point
of continental Asia by only 00 miles
These regions are inhabited by brown
skinned natives, some of whom show
some paris
trees
elephants, lions
From Sumatra westward, the equa.
tor touches no land until It strikes
Kenya, East Africa.