AST and furious were the gyra- tions of the candidates and thelr active supporters during the closing week of the campaign, and every known argument was brought to bear on the 47,000,000 quall- fied voters of the United States, of whom the experts be- lieved nearly 40,000, KX, would the The electors loth to yield to excitement but were dogged and de termined, prob- ably had up their minds be- fore as to they would cast their results of the election will be known to most of the readers ot this co in it reaches them, so predictions are not in order. President his campaign carried him field, I1l.; St. Louis, Mo. ; and then up to St, Paul, Minn. On route he made many platform but his main addresses wer cities named. The tour constitt last attempt to rapture t! votes of Illinois, Ind Jowa, Minnesota and his 3 go to polls, seemed and Herbert made Hoover long how ballots, The before Hoover's Gary, ladelphia, an East, and ha peal by radio fornia, hil Gove of ti ton, desire led hin Hart and the area. Franklin D. Roosevelt vada ites on mittee + ment re- lor, chair. cor- general $ i re prom Ising than It had been for two years. He said it was quite “that re- ver: from the low wint of last ummer has appeared” and that this lefinite and irogzreasive.” ade at the preparatory £15.000.000 recovery “is « 1 His brief address was n committee's first meeting to inchi of the drive for from the unemployment relief, Encouraging, public for too, was the news from Jefferson City, Mo. that the citizen's relief and unemployment committee of St, Louls told Governor Canlfield that mild weather and an upturn in Industry made it unneces gary to use any of the £200,000 ap portioned to St. Louis by the Hecon- struction Finance for re lief In September, BE. C, Steger, a dl rector of the committee, sald unex- pected increases in orders, particular. ly In the garment and shoe Indus tries and In raliroad shops, with much highway work in progress, made avall able relief funds adequate. corporation UST at a time when corn and wheat were selling on the market at the lowest prices on record, there was staged in Kendall county, [li nols, a demonstration of a plan that might wipe out in two years the en tire surplus of farm products, accord: ing to the county farm bureau and J. J. Groetken of Aurora. It simply is the mixing of ethyl alcohol dis tilled from corn and other products with gasoline for motor fuel, the pro portion of alcohol being 10 per cent Besides using up the grain surplus, it was pointed out, the move would aid materially in conserving the natural supplies of petroleum in the United States, now being consumed at a rate that Is “reducing the national supply at an alarming pace.” The demonstration tended to bear out research reports which have been compiled from severnl European coun. tries and by the Ameriean government on the value of ethyl aleohol ns a mo tor fuel, Two and one-half gallons of aleohol are obtained from a bushel of corn, two and onefourth gallons from a bushel of wheat, while barley, pota toes, beets, eantaloupes, nnd other sur. plus produets prodnee high slelds, At present the nse of such aleohol, even when rendered poisonous and soluble in gasoline, is restricted by the pro- hibition laws as well as by the com- plications of state and federal gas taxes, Manufacture of the fuel could be done In rural communities with simple distilling plants, as it {8 done in Ger- many, the sponsors of the test de- clared. By adding one gallon of it at 25 to 30 cents for each nine gallons of gasoline, corn would be worth 40 to 50 cents a bushel and other crops in proportion. HARGES that private contractors on federal flood control projects along the lower Mississippl river were mistreating negro laborers, mentioned in this column some weeks ago, led Presi dent Hoover to ap- point a committee of three negroes and one white man to make immediate Inquiry into the situation, The men named were Dr, Robert BR. Moton, president of Tuskegee institute; Judge James A. Cobb of Washington, D C and Jones, of the Urban rk, representing the negro race, and U. 8 Grant, ® Army Dr. BR. R. Moton Knickle executive 11 Eugene 800 ‘tary League of New represent Use announc thorough promptly as poss hla™ results of the inv to him Immediately. f { trmne $1 and impart uiry as report the i the ONG and -4 State dep: Pa., to be amba succeeds John whi af t Brynde 1 wedding Morrow and her father, W. Morrow don naval conferer her mother had Morrow to Long Miss Morrow has having passed ti} summer of 1031 rwen in Europe. TRICT censorship keeps f world most of the news ing the warfare between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco, but it Is known that the fighting continues with Increasing fury The minister of war at La Paz has an nounced that Cen. Hans Kundt, German military expert who organized and trained Bolivia's m.dern army, has consented to lead that army against the Paraguay. ans. The latter ap- pear to have compe. tent commanders, also, and have shown no signs of yield. ing to thelr opponents, The Argentine war ministry at Buenos Alres stated that many deserters from the Bolivian forces operating In the Gran Chaco were entering Argentine territory. Gen. Hans Kundg ENERAL election day In Cuba was marked by many Instances of violence, the worst of which was the explosion of a powerful dynamite bomb in a theater In Santa Clara. Five of the 600 persons In the build. ing were killed and many Injured. In. vestigators sald the crime was com. mitted by Conservatives In retaliation for what they claimed were govern: ment controlled elections. President Machado's Liberal party candidates were returned overwhelm. ing victors In the voting, In which two senators, T2 representatives, and off). cials of most Cuban cities were chosen, It was estimated that 80 per cent of the eligible voters did not vote, either through lack of Interest or because they heeded the lens of the opposition to boycott the election, 3 fone claimed two especially well known Americans, They were Horace Kent Tenney, Chicago attor ney who was prominent in his profes slon, and Harold MacGrath, whose noveis and short stories had pleased millions of readers, FF THE disarmament conference whose bureau resumed work ‘Thurs day In Geneva, does not wind up in utter failure, much of the credit will go to Norman Davis, representative of the United States, He has been exceedingly busy in European capitals, trying to reconcile the views and demands of the various Especially was he in- terested in the new French plan laid be fore the bureau, which calls for the adoption Norman Davis of an army conscript system and the writ security treaties, In a conversation with Premier Herriot and Minister of War Paul-Boncour, Mr, Davis sald the United States wus unable to commit itself force In defense of the Kellogg pact outlawing war, though it accepted the idea of consultation in tion of the pact. M. Herriot told proposal for the fessional armies powers, ing of new ta the use of case of viola Mr. Davis that his substitution of pro with con script forces did not apply to the Unit ed States nental E land. It was believed In proposal short-term and was confined to conti rope, exclu g even Eng that this night Induce Germany to re lerlin 1 sume participation in the disarmament conference provided the ngree that all shall apply equally to all tories, Including the naval atking taiking other powers reached the signa agreements Germany. the French are again about a Mediterranean Locarno of France, Great Britain Italy as a prelude to a naval under 1g with Haly, which would com London treaty and possibly further American, British and » reductions, On side and Gate ar Alessandri’s was a very ha for tician whose year 1920 was cut short revolt and dictatorshi in 1024 and who lost the next general election In 1631 to Juan Esteban Montero, Colonel Grove told his admirers that “we Intend to the tionary activities, only in Chile, but In other American tries. We have sworn to unite our efforts for the formation of a Latin American Federation of Socialist Re publics.” Martinez Mera, liberal, was elected President of Ecuador: and Tiburelo Carias Andino was successful Honduras elections, the A. Alessandri six election In by n continue not Latin revoln. coun EVENTY-eight prominent Drazili ans were sent into exile as pen alty for participation in the Sao Paulo revolt that was suppressed only after three months of strenuous effort hy the government. Included In the list were generals, politieal leaders and editors, most of whom probably will never be permitted to return. The men were loaded on a vessel at Rio and taken to another port for trans fer to a steamship on which they left for Europe, most of them for Portu- gnl. The deportation was carried out so the government might avoid long investigations and trials, and also to weaken the opposition party in the eampaign preceding the assembly elee- tion next May. police forces of London had thelr expected troubles with the army of unemployed that gathered there to present claim: to parliament. There were frequent clashes between the Jobless horde and the authorities and on one occasion the “army” tried to storm Buckingham palace. It also at. tempted to invade the house of com- mons and was _riven back with dim. culty after desperate fighting with the police, who ar¢ armed only with batons, W. A. L. Hannington, com munist leader of the hunger march. ers, and several others, were arrested and locked up. Chicago nlso had a parade of the unemployed, but the unfortunate men there were orderly and were permit ted to submit thelr needs to Mayor Cermak through a committee. © 1933. Western Newspaper Union, kind, Most fragrant odors that For though you die, give You die, that we, your wor GIVING THANKS IN DARK DAYS OF REVOLUTION DECEMBER 13, 1621 an annual festival in Connecticut had a sim flar festival annually from 1647 on ward Usually for thanks giving followed the harvest, and set aside primarily to give thanks to the Lord for the hlessings he had be stowed upon the Colonists, During the Revolution, the con: gress appointed one or more days for thanksgiving each year, except in 1777, when not even a congressman could find any blessings to point out to his constituents as reason for rejoicing. These Revolutionary Thanksgiving days usually were founded upon some military success and fortune smiled wanly, indeed, upon the Continental army in 1777-—the winter of despair at Valley Forge. Valley Forge Observation, Washington's Thanksgiving day proclamation at Valley Forge came after the snows and the hunger and the sufferings of that terrible winter of 1777-78 had departed and spring smiled again upon the fertile valleys of Pennsylvania. The occasion was the entrance of France Into the war as an ally of the Colonies. The Val ley Forge Thanksgiving May, 1778, was a military celebration, with the chaplain of brigade directed “to offer up thanks and deliver a discourse suit. able to the occasion” Then there was cannon fire and huzzasg, and eries of “long Live the King of France!” “Long Live the Friendly European Powers!” and finally a general ran. ning fire and the huzza, “The Ameri can States! Celebrations of Peace. Another special Thanksgiving day was ordered by General Washington at Newburgh on the Hudson, April 10, 1783, eight years to the day from the ghot fired at Lexington. Ultimate peace had been assured ever since the surrender of Cornwallis, but the ques. tion had become alarmingly acute ever since: How was it possible to keep oven a remnant of the army alive to a _ at Wane that ony. also these days } were Continental Proclamation, ial Tha November BEEZ tion was gal h reat Washington as at t He h As for Father George himself, he was entirely too busy to write much in APRIL 19, 1783 that diary of his, that is such a pre cious legacy to his people. Here is all he says: “November 20. Being OH, NOBLE BIRD! Ai" NOVEMB the 1 ality, integrity has or has 1 tion of this nat and there on Thanksgiving « not dom still reigns blossomed and fruit is m faltered in lord, man, as in 1607 and now that } ish of her harvest for this year earth Is drawing back her chlorophyl and her chemicals into her storeroom, to be covered with snowy blankets instead of green grass—eon- serving and renewing all her power, making ready for next summer's spread of glory, i autumn has marke umn way An, Spiritual Significance The Thanksgiving dinner may be, as it often has been, hallowed, and fake on a sacramental character. If it is not more than a mere feast it is wholly out of keeping with the true spirit of the day, which is one of pro- found spiritual significance, emphasis. ing as it does the relation between God and man. It i8 possible to spirit. palize the most commonplace, and even material things, as one meal in “the upper room” was spiritualised twenty centuries ago, and has survived both as a sacrifice and a thanksgiv- ing. Philadelphia Ledger, First Proclamation The first Thanksgiving day procia. mation evor lssued by a President was signed by George Washington, In 1780, The original is said to be In the pos session of Rev. J. W., Wellman, who inherited it from his grandfather, Wik Ham Ripley, of Cornish, N. IL
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