—
ALES of its wheat and cotton have
been stopped by the federal farm
board until next year, according to the
announcement made by Chairman
James C. Stone. He
said the board and
the American Cotton
Co-operative associa.
tion had agreed to the
terms laid down by
the Reconstruction
Finance corporation
for a loan of $50,000,-
000, stipulating that
their holdings of near-
ly 2,000,000 bales of
cotton be taken off
the market until 1933.
Mr. Stone also an-
nounced that the board had sold all
Its stabilization wheat except 3,000,
000 bushels. This means the grain sta.
bilization corporation has disposed of
more than 254,000,000 bushels of
wheat since July 1, 1031, and more
than 186,000,000 bushels since Novem-
ber 1 last. The stabilization corpora-
tion, therefor, is no longer a factor
in the grain market. It still holds
what Mr. Stone called “a certain
amount of futures contracts” which
will be held at least until after the
beginning of the next year,
A loophole for the disposal of the
cash wheat was left by the provision
that, though this wheat would be
kept off the market until the new
year, this limitation would not apply
to possible sales to foreign countries
not reckoned as important buyers of
American grain,
In making the arnounceme.t, Chair.
man Stone explained that the purpose
of the arrangements was to make a
better market for the farmers. The
cotton growers, he pointed out, will
get the full benefit of the market for
their crop of this year without the
price-dulling interference of the hold.
over crop. The Cotton Stabilization
corporation and the Co-oper-
ative association, Mr. Stone sald,
would gra liquidate their hold-
ings “durin inds when more active
demand is anticipated.”
J. C. Stone
Cotton
owas striking Jarmers did not ap-
prove of the truce called by the
bead of their “holiday” -~ssociation
and made preparations to renew the
picketing of the highways around the
larger cities. They also called on Gov.
Dan Turner to try to induce the gov-
ernors of several middle west states,
at a conference in Sioux City, to in.
stitute an embargo “upon all food-
stuffs from the middle western states
at less than production costs.”
Pickets outside Sioux City wrecked
& number of trucks and injured the
drivers, but the sheriffs forces then
got busy and dispersed them and re
moved frem the roads the formidable
obstructions placed by the farmers.
In Nebraska the picketing was aban-
doned for tne present.
Frasca circles of the country
were intensely interested to read
of the new plans for the Continental
Illinois Bank and Trust company of
Chicago, largest bank outside of Now
York city. The directors voted to na-
tionalize the institution and to set up
special reserves of $40,000,000 out
of surplus to cover losses incurred.
As a further mark of conservatism they
voted a quarterly dividend of $2 a
share in comparison with $3 in each
of the two preceding periods and with
a former annual rate of $16. The
bank's capital remains unchanged at
$75,000.00,
The directors explained to the stock-
holders that “the development of a
plan for nationalizing the bank was
suggested by recent legislative pro-
posals regarding the banking system
of the United States, all of which in-
dicates a distinct trend in the direc
tion of a more unified national struc
ture, strengthened and controlled by
the federal banking authorities”
RED HOVEY of Omaha, Neb. has
been appointed head of the agri-
cultural credit organization of the
Reconstruction Finance corporation
and already is busy
in his office In Wash-
ington. For many
years Mr, Hovey has
been connected with
the Stock Yards Na-
tional bank of South
Omaha. He is so fa-
miliar with conditions
and the needs of the
stock raisers of the
West that officials of
the corporation feel
he is especially well
fitted to carry out the
live stock feeders’ loan program, This
Is to be the first work andertaken by
the new Agricultural Credit corpor-
ation and 1s looked on as of vast im-
portance,
HIS year's national alr races at
Cleveland wound up In a blaze of
glory for Maj. James IH. Doolittle,
who won the free-for-all race and the
handsome Thompson trophy with his
Gee Bee racer. His average gpeed
for the 100 miles over a triangular
252.086 miles an hour, and
records for
course was
he broke all American
speed around a closed course, Three
days previously Doolittle with the
same barrel-shaped plane set a new
record for land planes, his average
speed on four consecutive laps being
=02287 miles an hour.
Mrs. Mae Halzlip of St. Louis
broke the women's world speed ree-
ord for land planes by attaining an
average speed of 255.013 miles an
hour in four dashes over the three
kilometer course. She won the Shell
gold plaque.
N EXICO has a new president In
the person of Gen. Abelardo IL.
Rodriguez, who was chosen for the
position by the congress after Pascual
Ortiz Rublo resigned
because of political
differences and his
ill health. Rodriguez,
who has been holding
the portfolio of min-
ister of war, is one
of the strong military
figures in the repub-
lic and in 1020 sup-
pressed the Escobar
revolt. On taking of-
fice he issued a state.
ment In which he
said: “Naturally |
shall continue the
same friendly, cordial relations with
the United States that have existed.”
In the new cabinet Manuel Tellez
remains as foreign minister and Al.
berto J. Panl as secretary of the
treasury; several others were reap-
pointed. Gen. Pablo Quiroga was
given the war portfolio. The entire
diplomatic corps in Mexico City
called on President Rodriguez, and
hundreds of congratulatory messages
were received by him, including one
from President Hoover.
President
Rodriguez
——————
Boyia was reported to have flat-
ly rejected the plea of the neutral
Latin-American nations for a
with Paraguay In their dispute over
the Gran Chaco. The Paraguayans
assumed that this meant
certain and went ahead with their
preparations. It was officially an-
nounced In La Paz that a Paraguayan
force had attacked a defense post on
the frontier and was repulsed by
Jolivian troops,
truce
had an agreement with the navy that
the latter would not indulge in hos-
tilities for the time being: but the
rebels fired machine guns on naval
planes dropping manifestos over
Montserrat, which seemed to end the
semi-neutral attitude of the navy.
Seven of its planes flew over Fort
Itaipu at the entrance of Santos har
bor and destroyed it with bombs. The
federal forces were sald to have made
considerable gains from both the
north and the south.
V HILE the Germans were prepar-
ing for the crucial session of
the reichstag, called for September 12
by Hermann Goering, the Nationa!
Socialist president of
the parliament, the
Yon Papen govern.
ment was keeping the
rest of the world
greatly Interested If
not excited by its
demand for the arms
equality which Ger
many Insists was
promised her in the
Versailles treaty. The
demand had been
submitted to France
in the form of an aide
memoire and some
days later was given to the public by
Baron Von Neurath, foreign minister.
It Is really an ultimatum, announcing
that unless the equality in armaments
Is granted by the powers, Germany
will quit the world disarmament con-
ference,
Before and after the publication of
the note, Gen. Kurt von Schleicher,
minister of defense, declared In ad-
dresses and Interviews that if the de-
mand were not granted Germany
would arm anyway, and he was most
emphatic In his statements. To
newspaper men in Koenigsberg he as
serted stormily: *“I mean everything
I have sald. We will no longer stand
for being treated like a second rate
nation.”
Premier Herriot decided that
France's reply to the Germvins should
be a refusal to discuss their demands,
and in this he was upheld by the cab.
inet. He also disapproved mixing up
modification of the Versailles treaty
with the disarmament conference, and
In his answer sald that if the Ger
mans questioned the accepted Inter.
pretation of the Versailles treaty and
the League covenant, the matter must
be referred to arbitration by the
League council or the world court.
Some stress was also placed on the
fact that the military clauses in the
treaty of Versailles form the tials
of many other post-war treaties and
that the entire edifice of post-war
turope will be imperiled if they are
tampered with,
Hermann
Goering
N BEPTEMBER 11, the eight.
eenth anniversary of the Battle
of the Marne, a fine memorial of that
mighty struggl> was presented to the
French nation by America, whose clit-
izens to the number 4,000,000 con-
tributed its cost. The plece of statu-
ary, entitled “France Defiant,” rises
130 feet above a 00-foot pedestal, on
an eminence overlooking the battle
fleld. It stand: as high as a seven-
story building, and is the largest
monument in France, It was designed
by Frederic MacMonnies and Edmondo
Quattrocchl was the sculptor. The
motif of the memorial i8 a woman
symbolic of France at bay, support-
ing a stricken soldier son. An Infant
emblematic of the future elings to the
hem of the woman's tattered robe. On
the front of. the pedestal is Marshal
Joffre's famous message to 11e French
army on the eve of the battle:
“At this moment when a battle Im-
pends upon which rests the fate of
our country no one must look behind,
All must unite to attack, Any troop
finding itself unable to advance
further must hold the ground and
fight until death. No retreat!”
OSEPH V. McKEE, who became
J mayor of New York on the resig-
nation of Jimmy Walker, was in-
formed by the citizens’ budget com-
mission that the city pays more than
$1,000,000 every day In the year for
salaries for its employees. Therefore
he got busy at once on economies In
a way that made the politicians gasp.
First he announced that his own sal
ary was reduced immediately from
$40,000 to $25,000 a year.
served notice that, after October 1,
OX) a year. And more of the
sort was expected to follow.
The budget commission pointed out
that in the six years of the Walker
administration 32380 extra positions
had been added to the city pay roll
at a total cost of £120,633.22% a year—
practically a third of the year's en
tire payment for personal service.
same
CANDAL
Lu ployed on
been transferred from
ects to the lower Missiax
Charges
been made that work
ers in river flood con
trol construction
ips down there are
labor
jobs has
western proj
ppi river val.
concerning
Rovernment
om
ley.
held by contractors in
a virtual
peonage ; that the
stule
men are working 12
hours =a
days a week
vA small wages
this falls in the prov.
ince of the Depart.
ment of War, Secre
Hurley
and
chief of army
and 7
at
day
very
Since
Gen. L. Brown
took cogniz
sent Cen
tary Patrick J.
of the
Lytle Brown
to wake an investigation.
LOS ANGELES, the pro}
of tragedies, provided another
the suicide of Paul Bern, moving ple
ture executive and husband of Jean
Harlow, a famous screen sciress
For reasons that at this writing are
unknown, Mr.
himself In the beautiful home he pre
sented to his bride when they were
married two months ago, He left a
note that only added to the mystery.
It sald he was making good “the
frightful wrong 1 have done you” and
wiping out his "abject humiliation ™
and Miss Harlow insisted she did not
know what he meant and that they
had been perfectly happy together.
Mr. Bern, who was born in Germany
ance charges
manager and director, and
and popular. His associates sald he
ters had committed suicide
One possible explanation for Bern's
suicide was revealed when it was
learned that for years before his mar.
riage to Jean Harlow he lived with
another woman. His brother asserted
Bern continued to support her in a
breakdown, and that Miss
In New York city as Mrs. Pan] Bern
and paid her bills with checks sent
to her fortnightly from Hollywood by
the movie executive, She left the ho-
tel last winter and had her trunks
shipped to Ban Francisco.
APID progress on the govern.
ment’'s $700,000,000 publie bulld-
ing program was reported by the
Treasury department in a review of
authorized projects,
The report sald that specific aun
thorizations aggregated
and that 230 buildings costing $71.-
400,219 had already been completed.
It further reported 382 projects with
under contract either in whole or In
part,
In regard to 136 projects costing
$42,172,900, the treasury sald they
either were In the specification stage
or that bids had been received for
their construction,
It was explained that Secretary
Mills had not yet determined on the
expenditure of the £100,000,000 pro.
vided in the relief act for publie
buildings. '
Most widely known of those who
died during the week was Sir
Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist,
traveler, lecturer and politician, who
passed away in London at the age of
sixty-nine years. He first gained
fame as the author of “The Right of
Way” and other novels
©. 1932, Western Nowspapor Unlom,
Feed Value Found
Among Farm Pests |
Live Stock Made Gains on
Russian Thistle and
Bean Straw.
Prepared by the United Btates Department
of Agriculture.~~WNU Service,
Russian thistle, a troublesome weed
In the West, bean straw, and flax-
were some of the little-used
co-operative lamb and pig fattening
experiments by the Colorado agricul.
United States Department of Agricul-
ture at Akron, Colo.
For one lot of 20 lambs, Russian
weeds” of the western plains region,
were ground fine and fed with shelled
corn and cottonseed cake for D0 days.
Some of the thistles were raked out of
fence corners; other were cut green
Value
per ton, and the ground
lambs cost $4.27 per 100 pounds
The results from feeding
the whole thistles
just as readily,
This thistle experiment, believed to
on this weed as a feed, is Important
to the dry belt, the bureau points out,
because the thistie usually thrives In
When bean straw, valued at £3 per
ton, was fed with corn and to
fie same rate and value as
cake
cut sorgo
lot of lambs
to another
ations are that the whole
at £150 per ton is a
more profitable feed than the cut fod
another comparison
was fed to
SOrgo
In
one
whole fodder
The indi
fodder
Although flaxseed screenings have
been known to poison live stock, in the
Colorado experiments four
fifths of a po
flaxseed—a home-grown |
for days ns i
pounds of
no ill effects
of ground hog
of tankage and one
flaxseed daily gained almost
much Ground
per ton was A jess economicn
than cottonseed cake at $
The flaxseed
ably smaller galing and required some
what more feed per unit of gals
Jalance Grain Ration
Almost all farmers recognize skim
as a splendid supplemental feed
its high protein
Some
because of
to bal
growing pigs,
must be fed
fed to
Two to three pounds of undiluted milk
skimmilk
will furnish all the protein and min
erals necessary. Three pounds of milk
to one pound of grain usually is the
most desirable proportion. More than
ical returns,
One of the best ways to be eertain
the grain and give the pigs all the
skimmilk or buttermilk they will con
sume. Buttermilk also is about equal
to the skimmed product in feeding
valine. It is best to guard against
this often causes pigs to scour. There
is some danger of scours in pigs from
one month to three months of age If
full-fed on milk in rainy weather
Wallace's Farmer,
Beekeeping
Even during the busy days of honey
harvest, the foundation for next year's
honey crop may be laid. Often severe
losses are sustained and opportunities
for improvement are overlooked be
cause beekeepers are so busy harvest
ing their crop and preparing it for
son. In localities which do not have
a fall honey flow, the latter part of
the early homey flow is an excellent
fnferior queens. Even though it may
seem difficult to do in these busy days,
often the most profitable work in the
apiary is that of replacing poor queens
with good ones while this can be done
advantageously. Another Important
stone in the foundation for next year's
honey crop In localities not having a
fall honey flow is that of providing a
super of honey, food chamber, for each
colony to be sure to have an abund.
ance of stores for fall, winter and
spring.
Believes in Limestone
The champion limestone user of I
nois, it may safely be stated, says ao
writer in the Prairie Farmer, is D, M.
Hardy, eighty-four-yearold Monroe
county farmer, who last year applied
3400 tons, or approximately 85 car
loads, on 1,000 acres of land. While
he admits that this Is a sizable order
he says: “My experience with lime.
stone running over several years has
been that it Is one of the highest.pay-
ing farm practices that has been de
veloped for modern agriculture.”
A
Study Means to Put
End to Farm “Waste”
Specialists Seek Methods of
Using By-Products.
Each year we make new progress
toward economic perfection on the
farm and still there are plenty of
waste materials, This isn't because
We are not careful and willing to save,
but because means have not been
we throw away, law material to
board, acetic acid, alcohols, acetone
and charcoal needed each year in the
United States is found in the straw
of wheat, oats, barley, rye and rice,
marsh grasses,
The waste of these materials Is es
timated at over 260,000,000 tons a year.
The chemists know about it and so
do the manufacturers. The trouble is
that the materials are so bulky and
the expense of gathering them is so
great that they are not wanted when
more compact and more easily handled
stuff Is available. Most of the paper
and other commercial goods mentioned
fbove are now made from other raw
materials, principally wood and corn,
The various materials named are
not wasted altogether, of
i
and fertilizing value.
are burned, a modicum
constituents Is restored to
for the benefit of succeeding crops. It
will be a good
however, when a greater number
by-products yielding more directly and
more obviously a profit in the shape
of valuable
of
our so-called “waste” materials of the
farm.
Practices That Add to
Differences in earnings of wore tha
&
$3,000 per farin have been reveale
ite of
farm record studies in the st
nols during the past five years,
tices help the
3 little
which give
1
Comes wit or no cash
use of high
on, preparat
rol
involve the
tested for germinat
good seedbeds and con
crop dinea ses
} er} r
higher p
DCT EAR
where
/) Bf
and
s, proper arrange
limestone
fond)
in
phate
Dew
crop rotat
potash where possi!
ment of field
good dral
ETO
ng of high produ
fitted to
pment of a
to profitably
wr, power and machinery.—
mer,
nage, keepi
i
ing live stock which are
farm, and devek
¥
ut
gh business
all lab
ince’'s Far
eno
Individual Hog Houses
Earl Knebel, Jowa, writes:
individual movable hog houses § by 6
feet can be built complete with board
floor at a total cost of $11.50 each
from
made of rough
wood.
and not one was killed by smothering
being robbed, an individual pen was
foot gates or panels, which were
be moved or
needed,
weeks old they were allowed the run
side down with the wider spaces at
the bottom. These pigs were to be
raised on clean ground, so the sow's
to their new
Agriculturist,
Agricultural Hints
Grain crops In Great Britain are up
to average-—hay considerably below.
» . »
Rain. and dew on hay is more effec
tive In making hay heat than is an
equal amount of internal moisture, or
gap.
. . .
Fire blight was first reported in the
United States as attacking apple and
pear trees in the Hudson valley. It
is thought that the disease originated
in Japan.
. r Ld
Thin apples, on vigorous trees, to
about six inches apart. Remove all
fruits affected with insect or disease
injury by spray burn, by hail, by mb
rub, and with other blemishes
- - .
Ragweed is an outlaw, and there ig
no excuse for permitting it to grow on
farm or roadside.
* . -
There is a shortage of pork and pigs
in Denmark and Germany. These
two countries are the greatest com
petitors of the United States for the
English teade.
» - -
Through the practice of double erop
ping in the garden it is possible to
make the same area of ground pro
duce a larger quantity and a greater
variety of vegetables
]
CHIEFS |
TWO GUNS WHITE CALF
Ly
Editha
Those who think that the day of
the Indian is done, and pleture him as
fa pathetie misfit, slow-
ly fading into the sun-
set, should visit the
Blackfeet and thelr
chief, Two Guns
White Calf.
Here
traveled Ind
world 1
best known His
ther, White Calf,
last lineal chief of the
Blackfeet, WHS a
warm friend of Pres!
dent Iloosevelt, and it
visit to
the Great
President
today,
'
the
Two Guns
White Calf
was curing a
him in Washington that
Spirit summoned him.
loosevelt sent the body of White Calf
private car,
nors which
people in a
with a military
the Blackfeet deeply appreciated.
Two Gung did not choos
by his father's light. He could
made a8 wistful fig: us the son
the last
ries of the past, Two Guns is a
modern. finds, a great
deal to Interest an Indian in
ent day, and he intends
learn all ¢
Years, the famous Blackfoot has
escort-—he
shine
ee 10
of
ng in the glo-
ire
f, livi
But
There is
great chile
he
the pres-
see and
iast twenty
been
unique life, for
and no doubt he will continue to do so.
In 1912, a group of Indians, of which
Two Guns
Vi
as one,
earance
tracted instan
mental
10s 08
ing. The
on the roof
the highest }
and crowds
’ srl v % or wt a“
grouna of Lipis, ar-donnets, ar
onleg. It recorded tha
it is not
Guns lacked one whit of the |
his queenly guest.
September 17, 1027, found this most
Indian White
The Great White Father, Pres-
Coolidge, and the great red
Two Guns, met as leaders of
their people should meet—ceremonial-
ly and with courtesy. Presidents and
chiefs have met before, it is true, since
the days of Washington, but never be-
fore has their meeting been on such
equal terms.
There is nothing of the taciturn In-
dian of legend about Two Guns White
Calf. The chief has a ready sense of
humor, and enjoys a hearty laugh,
even at his own expense. He likes to
meet people, and to be In large gath-
erings, and he naturally dominates any
crowd.
Unusual in his character as Two
Guns is, in appearance he is the typ
ical Indian. His head reminds one of
a buffalo's His strikingly fine
physique, garbed in the picturesque
clothing of his tribe, is an eye-filling
sight. His good-nature does not dis-
guise the strength of character which
one feels is his chief attribute.
Examine a buffalo nickel, and com-
pare it with the photograph. While
the Indian head shown on the coin Is a
composite picture, the likeness to Two
Guns is apparent. He lght have
been the “invisible model” for the bead
~—evidently he stood out strikingly in
the artist's mind.
And it is fitting that Two Gun's like
ness should adorn the coin. The old
order has changed, and only a mod-
ern Indian, alive to the interests of the
modern world, would represent the
first families of America at the pres
ent day. He represents the new In-
dian, who is taking his place in the
sun, alert to the opportunities around
him, amMtious and successful.
(©, 1922, Western Newspaper Union.)
sophisticated at the
House.
ident
chief,
Date of Winged Victory
That famous treasure of the Louvre
in Paris, the great headless figure of
a woman known as the “Nike” or
“Winged Victory of Samothrace™ is
now believed by a German scholar to
have been a votive statue by a sculp-
tor living in the decade 190 to 180 BB.
C., according to a report from Berlin
In the Art News. The dispatch
states farther that this scholar, Prof.
Hermann Thiersch of Gottingen, has
further identified it as the work of a
sculptor named Pothkirtos, who lived
upon the island of Rhodes,
So Don't We All
“I thought you sald you took private
leswons from a bridge expert.”
“Yes, but 1 never get the hands 1
have studied."--Answers,