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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER VOL. LII. HAPPENNINGS OF THE WEEK HEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Rumanian Queen Having a Lively Time in Her Tour of America. By EDWARD W. PICKARD MARIE, the beautiful queen of Ru mania, grabbed the front page last week, and it Is a fair guess that the men of America as well as the women followed her doings with great Interest. For three days after her ar rival In New York she, with her son and daughter, was the official guest of the nation. Hurrying directly to Washington, her majesty made a for mal call on President and Mrs. Cool- Idge at the White House late Tuesday afternoon, which call was promptly re turned, according to official etiquette, it the Rumanian legation, where the queen was lodged. A few hours later Marie was given a state dinner at the White House. Before these official doings, Queen Marie Motored to Arlington and paid graceful tribute at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and then was driven to Mount Vernon. On Wednesday she visited the Naval academy at Annap olis and reviewed the 17,500 middies there, and also went to Baltimore, where she was given a great reception and a lot of Maryland fried chicken and beaten biscuits. Thence back to New York, where, still enthusiastic and untired, she attended a great levee given for her at the Rltz-Carlton by William Nelson Cromwell, president of the Society of Friends of Runjanla. Thursday she went to Philadelphia to tee the Sesqulcentennlal exposition. Beginning now her real tour of America, the queen was in the hands of Samuel Hill, son-in-law of the late James J Hill. The Itinerary, as re vised by him, takes the party, after a visit to Niagara, through Canada to Minneapolis and SL Paul; to Mary Bill, Wash., for the dedication of a line arts museum; to Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, and eastward again to the Glacier National park; and through Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield to Chicago, where there will be a stop of several days. On the way thence to the Atlantic seaboard Marie will see Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. California was eliminated from the list of states to be visited because the rallroadß there refused to carry the queen's train over their lines for a nominal charge, as had all other railroads. Of course, the snobs, notoriety seek ers and such like folk took advantage of Queen Marie's visit to the utmost, but she is not to be blamed for that. Her majesty Seems to be a "regular feller," thoroughly interested in the people and things she sees and cer tainly no more pretentious than a Queen should be. INTERNATIONAL bankers and In dustrialists of fifteen nations, in cluding the United States, Issued a manifesto In New York and all the European capitals, urging the removal ®f tariff barriers and other restric tions upon European trade In order to Place the continent upon an equal foot l°?i both in living standards and com mercial competition, with the United States. John J. Mitchell of Chicago, ®e of the signers, said: "It should be stlnctly understood that the mani festo in no way refers to American Griffs, either by allusion or by lnfer ®®e" It involves only post-war Eu ropean trade agreements and immlgra on and industrial restrictions. The council of the International amber 0 f Commerce, in Paris, opted a report substantially follow the recommendations of the bank manifesto. The American repre ~| lves la the council did not vote the question. This report urges Jr® ®°vement of raw materials and abolition of export duties and re gions. It also proposes abollsh jii_ f of compulsory visas, as hamper business as well as tourist trade, condemns all laws discriminating foreigners, demanding that tlfi 7 I glven 4116 same right as na -0418 everywhere, "with complete on Installment Reach Into Billions and one-half billion dollars UnhL°' Eoods are "old annually In the Of th !?tateß on the Installment plan. oe debt Incurred by this vast pur- Z®*® on the part of/the public only °n'e ti'^' 000 1,1 ont «|fcinding at any IBM I6 ? 6 are the two fig ln a report off* a countrywide « ®. y rece ntly completed by the Na- Association oS Finance com- freedom of movement, right to domi cile, liberty to establish any business or Industry, and generally enjoy the same legal and social rights as na tionals." SENATOR REED of Missouri, sole O representative of his senatorial In vestigation committee, resumed the In quiry into the Illinois primary and campaign funds, and also took up cer tain features of the Indiana political scandal. Sitting In Chicago, he called before him witnesses who told the sup port, the Illinois Anti-Saloon league Is giving Frank L. Smith, regular Repub lican candidate for the senate, and the reasons why that dry organization had refused to back Hugh S. Magill, inde pendent Republican candidate. George B. Safford, league superintendent for Illinois, was heard first, and the caustic Missourian had a fine time with him, making him virtually admit that the league was ignoring the slush fund charges against Smith because he Is a dry and had a better chance to de feat Brennan, the wet Democrat, than has Magill. Then Safford told a long story of his dealings with Rev. Robert O'Brien, one of the originators of the Magill candidacy, which story later re acted greatly to his disadvantage. The minister, he said, told him the Magill committee had raised between three and four hundred thousand dollars and would spend It In the campaign, and he added a lot of detqll of this conversa tion. Next day Mr. O'Brien went be fore Senator Reed and branded Saf ford's story as "an absolute false hood," and Harold L. Ickes, Maglll's campaign manager, testified that It was "not even a clever lie." The young minister substantiated his denial by a complete relation of his meetings and conversations with Safford and Scott Mcßride, national superintend ent of the league. A full list o'f contributors to the Magill campaign fund was given Mr. Reed, showing the contributions to be $17,875. When Senator Reed took up the In diana affair he was told by a former Klansman, Hugh Pat Emmons of South Bend, that SIO,OOO was offered Em mons if he would lead his fellow mem bers of the klan to the support of Sen ator- James E. Watson, Republican candidate for re-election. The offer, Emmons said, was made by W. Lee Smith of Evansville, then grand dragon of Indiana, who told him the klan pro posed to make Watson President of the United States In 1928. Emmons also gave descriptions of the klan's organi zation and ritual which kept the audi ence in a gale of laughter. In Indian apolis Senator Watson Issued a state ment characterizing Emmons' testi mony as "preposterous" and declar ing he never had any understanding ( with the klan by which he was to re ceive Its support in exchange for votes on pending legislation or other consid eration. Being confined to a hospital, he asked that the committee go to In dianapolis to take his testimony, and Senator Reed at once complied. SOUTHERN Florida was thrown into panic by prospects of being swept by another Caribbean hurricane, but escaped when the storm veered off to the northeast Cuba was not so for tunate, for the hurricane passed over Matanzas, Plnar del Rio and Havana provinces, doing immense damage and taking a toll of several hundred lives. The city of Havana was the greatest sufferer and many of the deaths occurred there. The material losses In the capital were estimated at $30,000,000. In the harbor scores of vessels, including two steamers, were sunk. The lower parts of the city were inundated. The monument erected by Cuba to the Americans killed in the blowing up of the battle ship Maine in 1898 was razed, only the base and two guns from the Maine re maining. PRESIDENT CALLES and the iiexl can government have decided that the never conquered Yaquis of Sonora must be destroyed as a tribe and peo ple, and the grand council of war, headed by General Obregon, has laid plans to carry out the decision. An army of 18,000 is being prepared and It Is to be equipped with machine guns, mountain artillery, gas, bombing and photographing planes of the latest types and every other modern device of warfare that can be needed. panies and now being prepared for presentation to 500 financiers of America who will gather In Chicago for the third annual convention of the association November 16 and 16. The low ratio of the outstanding debt to the total turnover, 42 per cent, constitutes safe and thoroughly sound Knnving rlxik, the report states, and reputable firms are rapidly changing their attitude of distrust toward In stallment buying to one of keen Interest and participation In the method, DREMIERS and leading statesmen of the self-governing British domin ions and delegates from India gath ered In London last week for an Im perial conference, the purpose of which was to adjust more smoothly the re lations between the British central government and the component parts of the huge empire. Though several of the premiers, notably Hertzog of South Africa, were Insistent, In their opening addresses, on "free nation hood," "equality" and international recognition of independence, it was believed there would be no exciting debates and few If any radical changes. One matter caused a lot of interest Canada, Ireland and South Africa were determined to bring about the abolition of appeal to the privy council on. matters of domestic concern. THERE Is small prospect for an early reduction In land armaments In Europe, for seven nations notified the preliminary disarmament confer eace in Geneva that they would not limit their trained reservists until a system of security is organized which will compensate for the present in equality of their war resources. These nations are Italy, Belgium, France, Po land, Rumania, Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavla. Premier Pllsudskl has Increased Poland's armed strength by Incorporating the nation's police force In the army. LEON TROTZKY and his asso ciates of the opposition in Russia have saved themselves from probable exile to Siberia by publicly repudiat ing their opposition In a statement In the press. They declare they still dis agree with the majority of the central committee on a number of principal problems but have "definitely given up fractional methods of defense of our views because of the danger of such methods for the unity of the party." NORWAY, in a national plebiscite, hit prohibition a heavy blow, the people deciding by a big majority that the existing law prohibiting the use of liquor exceeding per cent of alcohol was unsuitable to conditions In Norway, the general opinion being that there Is more drunkenness and the people are poorer. It is believed the law will speedily be repealed. Premier Ferguson of Ontario, in dis solving the provincial legislature, de clared his government would go to the people on a policy of government con trol and sale of liquors and would stand or fall by the result He holds the efforts of Ontario to enforce Its dry law during ten years have been futile. GOV. ROLAND H. HARTLEY of Washington Is charged with mal feasance and misfeasance in office in petitions for his recall. The charges are divided Into three counts: That he prevented, through the boards of regents of the University of Washing ton and Washington State college, and the state board of equalization, ex penditure of funds appropriated by the last legislature for educational build ings and equipment; that he "mali ciously and without cause" removed four regents, "falsely charging each of them with misconduct and malfeasance in office"; and that he appointed six members of the state legislature to lucrative state positions in order to obtain their support for his legislative policies. A legislative committee investigating the Texas highway commission was told that James E. Ferguson, husband of the governor, had offered to ob tain road maintenance contracts for L D. Winder of Belleville if Winder would pay *hlm $7,500, which was ap proximately 10 per cent of the contract price. Ferguson said the accusation was an infamous falsehood and that he did not even know Winder. EUGENE V. DEBS, for many years the leader of Socialists in the United States and five times their can didate for President, died In a sani tarium near Chicago at the age of seventy-one years. During the war be was sent to the federal penitentiary at Atlanta for trying to obstruct the draft, and was pardoned by President Harding late In 1921. His health was broken and since then he had not been active In politics. Thomas Mott Osborne, noted prison reform advocate, dropped dead in the street in Auburn, N. Y. About 64 per cent of the outstand ing Installment debt at any given time Is for automobiles—a total of about $1,600, ooo,ooa In 1025 there were 1,000 finance companies actively engaged in handling Installment funding. These carry on about one-third of the total business. The rest is conducted by dealers, man ufacturers and banks. The finance companies confine themselves to au tomobiles for the most part Host of them will be represented at the con vention. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1926. Winter Feed for Farmer's Horse Idle Animals Do Well on Roughages Supplemented With Grain. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The ideal method of wintering idle or light working farm horses to one that will bring them through to spring with normal weight, renewed vitality, and increased energy. Obvi ously the winter ration should be dif ferent from that for the other seasons. The liberal use of roughage, supple mented with the right amounts and kinds of other nutritious feeds, will maintain a horse properly during the winter. Idle farm horses, except brood marep and growing stock, ordi narily do well on a ration composed largely of the coarser hays, straws and corn fodder. Cornstalk fields, graln stubble fields, or pastures which have not been closely grazed during the summer are very desirable sources of a large part of the winter maintenance feed for such stock. It is often ad visable to supplement the coarser roughage with a mod&rate supply of legume such as alfalfa, clover, vetch, sorghum, soy-bean, or cowpea hay. These hays are not only rich In pro tein and mineral matter, but, being somewhat laxative In effect, they also help to keep the digestive tract In •good condition. They are especially valuable when fed with straw and sim ilar feeds, for when so used a supple mental ration of grain Is unnecessary. The drinking of an abundance of pure water by the horse will tend to in crease the utilization of dry roughage. If impracticable to feed a legume hay, a small quantity of grain, preferably oats, or, If nxtte economical, corn or barley, will' serve to maintain the horse In thrifty condition. One or two bran mashes a week or a little linseed meal each dSywfll help to keep the system in good condition and prevent Impaction resulting from consumption of large amounts of coarse roughage improperly supplemented. Balt for Horses. An average of about three-fourth ounce of salt dally is sufficient for most horses, except those doing heavy work or when on dry feed. The con dition of the horse that has been prop erly cared for in the open through the winter is usually better than that of the stable horse. In some sections of the country, however, weather condi tions do not permit wintering horses outdoors. Where the animals must be kept In stablss, these should be made as sanitary and comfortable as pos sible. An abundance of light and proper ventilation of the stable throughout the entire *year are essen tial for complete sanitation and the health of the horse. A system of ven tilation with floor-outlet ventilators will tend to carry off foul air and reg ulate the temperature, especially in colder climates. It is important that the horse be protected from direct drafts. Where windows are relied upon for both light and ventilation they'should be high up from the floor, and open Inwardly from the top. Stalls must be bedded, and cleaned daily, in order to keep them dry and sanitary. Clay floors are doubtless the best If correctly built and properly attended to. They must be kept smooth, with slightly more slope for drainage than WATER BEFORE DAIRY COWS AT ALL TIMES HELPS MILK YIELD Result of Experiments Con ducted at Beltsville. • —— (Pr«p«r«d br tha United St*t«a Dapartmaat of Acrlculturo.) Experiments conducted at the fed eral dairy farm at Beltsville, Md., on the drinking habits of dairy cows Indi cate that a greater quantity of water ,wlll be utilized when available at all times than when offered but once a day. Cows watered bat once a day not only drank less but also produced less milk than when watered at will from watering cups. Cows watered twice a day drank as much as when watered at will, bat did not produce so much milk. The cows ased In the teste were av erage producers, and the maximum difference foand in production be tween watering once a day and at will, was only aboat 5 per cent The higher the production, however, the greater the benefit to be derived from frequent watering. Some low-producing cows fed silage, hay, and grain refused to drink more than once a day In cold weather. With cows of similar production and receiving the same kind of feed, water consumption was 80 per cent greater in hot summer than in cold winter is required for other types of floors, however. Grass Paddock Helps. In connection wth the'stable, a large paddock or lnclosure, especially a sodded one, helps considerably to keep horses that are worked irregu larly in fit condition. The exercise and grass thus made available are both beneficial. This exercise in the open will help to *uard against filled hocks, azoturla (so-called Monday morning sickness) and other troubles. A further aid to the health consists In thorough grooming. As spring approaches the horse must be put into condition for the heavy work ahead. This fitting period varies with the condition of the animal, or dinarily lasting from two to four weeks. A young horse, especially one just broken, requires longer than the mature animal. At this time the win ter ration, consisting largely of coarse roughages, should gradually give way to a smaller feed of flner-quallty hay and a small quantity of grain three times daily. This ration should be slowly Increased until, with the be ginning of light work, a 1,400-pound horse will receive dally about fourteen or fifteen pounds of fine-quality hay. This gradual change from coarse roughage to good quality feed will have prepared the digestive tract for handling eighteen to nineteen pounds of grain and sixteen to eighteen pounds of hay, which the horse will need when doing heavy work. Along with the more nourishing ration the work of the horse must be increased by de grees until he can, without overexer tion, do a full day's work. Nursery Stock Requires Very' Best of Attention Immediately upon arrival of the nursery stock care should be taken In heeling if in until planting time or until the soil has been prepared. By allowing the stock to lie around for several days before unpacking and heellng-ln, one very materially weak ens the plants If not killing them com pletely through loss of moisture. When unpacking the stock soak the roots In a tub of water for several hours be fore heellng-ln. Large bundles should be untied, the packing removed and the bundle somewhat loosened so that when heeled-ln the moist soil will come In contact with all roots. Plants are beeled-ln by digging a shallow, sloping trench In a cool situation and placing the loosened bundle of stock In It so that the plants lie nearly horizontal, yet with a portion of the tops sticking out of the trench, then covering the roots with soil. Waste of Plant Food by Management of Manure On many farms much of the. plant food In manure Is wasted by careless methods of handling. Not every farm can afford a covered manure shed, but It takes little additional labor to place manure from the barns In compact piles where the losses from leacMac are minimized, than It iocs to ißow it to spread In a shallow open pile all over the barnyard. The ssoat efficient way to handle manure Is to baal It out to the field in a spreader as fast as produced, but this practice Is aet always feasible. weather. The demand for water was greatest after eating hay. In cold weather cows prefer water that has been warmed, and will drink more of It, though experiments at several sta tions show that the amount of produc tion is Influenced bat little by warm ing the drinking water. Less water is required when large quantities, of such feeds as beets or mangels are fed. Winter Stores for Bees Quite Important Matter When honey In the hive Is not of the best quality, it is unsafe for winter stores in any place where.the bees do not have frequent flights during the winter, vis., almost every vre*k. In the North, about ten or twelve pounds of sirup made from two parts granu lated sugar to one part water should be fed as soon as the bees have ceased brood rearing, as sin Insurance against the danger of poor honey. It Is wiser, however, to have an upper story or "food chamber" already filled with the finest honey of the season, ready to place Jnst above the brood chamber when the section supers or other sur plus arrangements are removed. This will do away with the need of fall or spring feeding. One-Story* Dairy Stable Design Follows Approved Modern Ideas By W. A. RADFORD Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and slve advice ' FREE OF COST on all problem* pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On ac count of his wide experience as editor, author and manufacturer, he Is, With out doubt, the highest authority on the subject. Address all Inquiries to Wil liam A.' Radford, No. 1527 Prairie ave nue, Chicago, 111., and only Inclose two-cent stamp tor reply. Owners of dairy herds of consider able size have changed their ideas somewhat of what a stable should be during recent years. Instead of the two-story barn, with the Stable on the ground level and a mow floor above, a one-story stable, such as Is shown in the accompanying illustration, is popular. This type of dairy building design Is recommended only to those who al ready have buildings for the storage of hay and other roughage. In that case a considerable part of the cost of a building may be saved. By the addition of silos of sufficient size to house the silage the herd will need, the animals may be housed at less cost than when the usual barn is built The design shown Is 100 feet long and 36 feet wide, and has single stanchions for 50 cows, 25 on either side. It will be noted that the In terior layout of the barn Is for the cows to face out This arrangement may be reversed, if desired. The little alley runs through the center of the stable, which is a convenient arrange ment if it is desired to load the manure directly into the spreader. The design shows overhead tracks, however, for both manure removal and distribution of feed to the man gers. A system of suction ventilation to provide the animals with fresh air without drafts and for the removal of foul air. Is included In the design. The floor Is of concrete and the stall partitions of sanitary steel type. Drinking fountains are at the stall heads to supply the animals with a continuous flow of fresh water. The building is of frame construe Some Timely Hints for House Owners The time is at hand when the man of the house can well afford to devote his evenings to make minor repairs needed before the winter season sets in. If the home owner does not have the time, skill or inclination to per form the work himself, he should call In the necessary artisans to do the work for him. For example, he should: Have the furnaces examined and cleaned and necessary repairs made Have all smoke flues swept clean and defective parts replaced. Have chimney tops examined above roof and brick work repainted and metal caps repaired. Have all roofs examined, repaired and repainted if necessary. Have all exterior painting done now while the weather Is good and the paint will have a chance to dry prop erly. Have all interior painting and dec orating undertaken at once. Plumbing carefully checked for hid den flaws that may cause serious trou ble when the weather becomes cold. Have all general repairs and alter ations undertaken at once. By doing such work in the fall it can be carried out without resort to overtime and will be done by the mechanics regularly employed by your contractors whom they fcnow to be competent Wood Will Rot Away Unless It Is Painted It Is a well-known fact that all wood surfaces that are exposed to ths weather soon will deteriorate unless they receive some sort of protection. Paint is the accepted medium for this protection and when we consider that the film of paint that covers the framework of a house really Is only about as thick as a piece of ordinary writing paper we can see that paint is a wonderful thing. \ v Because of the service that painting gives, and the decorative value it af fords, one understands why the paint must be the best. To have a good job. It is necessary first of all to use only the best Ingredients in the paint Itself, secondly, the workmen chosen to apply the paint must be experienced and trained In their work, consclen- NO. 30. tlon, of good materials so that it will be weathertlght Continuous windows flood the Interior with sunshine and, light, helping to keep the stable sani tary. It will be noted by the floor plan oi . the building that there Is a milkhouse adjoining. The carrier track runt from the stable to the milkhouse u> make easy the transportation of can; to the cooler. A loading platform aim rij-H Jp] i W If 1A 12. £ 1 S »•! \f '£ >f j i 5 Ijl!ijil a ] £ s lli ,lj- l-j'tf f f l i. I 1| pllfles the loading of the milk into trucks or wagons. The mllkhonse if entirely separate from the stable, * health requirement in moat com munities. While this building is larger than most farmers will need to house addi tions to their herds it may be short ened to meet their needs. The same proportions, however, should be main tained. tlous and painstaking in the bargain. The life of all paint is linseed oil. but it needs protection from the son's rays, consequently pigment—coloring matter—ls added to protect the film and reflect the rays of the sun; white and light colors reflect the rays of the sun more perfectly than do the dark colors, consequently they wear longer. Cracked Plaster Ceiling ; Qiired by Wall Board When renewing walls with wall board baseboards, picture moldings, etc., can often be removed and re placed to advantage over the wall board. Where this is not practical a small flat batten will be found neces sary to cover nailing edges above the baseboard and around door casings and window frames. In covering cracked plaster ceilings it Is advisable to nail furring strips on the joists to provide a nailing sur face for edges and centers of panels. First place the strips that cross the joists, making them run the full length of the room. When these are up fit the other strips In between them. This insures solid nailing at. each joist for the long strips, while the short ones that miss the joists en tirely may be fastened to the first solidly nailed strips. Color Has Big Influence on One's Feelings, Moods Man has apparently become careless about one of the most Important Items in his environment—color. As soon as he realizes fully the lnhlbitlve and repressive Influence of drab, uninter esting color surroundings, the vistas about will be Immediately transformed. Man has always conquered or changed conditions unfavorable to his best development. There Is no reason to believe that he will not rise to the present situation and reinstate Into his dally life the color which Is so Im portant to his well-being. Electricity in Home Fifty-five different domestic opera tions are accomplished by electricity In * borne whose owner proudly claims that it Is electrified. A few years ago ten or twelve operations would have been considered the max imum.
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