Tim Heaven millennium
President Hoover has won over to
lis side the pulpits of Washington,
and probably they reflect the attitude
f the pulpits of the Nation. It has
e!1 come out of his program for ame
liorating the condition of American
fcurnanity and of drawing all Nations
closer together.
Iu all churches and Sunday 'bchools
prayers for the President and words
of praise for his program are heard.
What is this program that we hear
so much of? It stands for enforce
ment of all laws, with a commission
now studying that problem; it seeks
to lift heavy burdens from the should
ers of the farmers, with a board
actively at work on that problem;
it undertakes to better the conditions
of the child life of the country; it
is trying to solve world peace ; it is
making an effort to thwart waste and
make the common man more effic
ient; and it has the noble desire of
narrowing the wide gulf ' that separates
tie poor man from the, rich man.
" These , are the major facts of its
program. It is common talk that if
Mr. Hoover can carry to an end even,
one half of his great plan, he will
go down in history as one of our
foremost Presidents.
Internationalum Invades U. S.
In addition to having the Prime
Minister of Great Britain drop in
sociably to talk things over, that au
gust body, the Institute of Interna
tional Law, designs this year to cross
the Atlantic and hold its regular ses
sions on American soil.
. This, is the first time that the In
stitute, which is composed of the men
most eminent in International Law of
most of the nations of the world,
las ever held a session outside of
Europe.
Studying Our Native Tongue
A cheerful thought for those who
bewail the "American language" that
they believe threatens the good old
English mother tongue is the official
announcement by the bureau of educa
tion, that more pupils study English
in public and private high schools
of this country than any other course
offered. The bureau states that its
reports cover about three-fourths of
tie enrollment in this country, and
slow that nearly three million stu
dents, or 93 per cent of the total, are
studying English.
The Sugar . Baby in England
Not only in the United States is
there worry over the gangling infant
industry, the sugar beet, that simply
wXL not . grow up no matter how
bountifully he is fed with the silver
spoon of special legislative favors.
It is now five years since the first
labor Government in England decided
to nourish the troublesome sugar pro
geny with a subsidy. Reports from
abroad are favorable to the relinquish
ment of responsibilities by the gov
ernment as the ward is said to be
tanding on his own feet. .
In announcing the proposal to grant
a subsidy five years ago, Philip Snow
den, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
said that it was one of the biggest
things that could be done for British
agriculture. What progress then, has
there been to justify the granting of
a subsidy which in five years amount
ed to about 12,000,000 pounds?
The answer is forthcoming and will
be of great interest to those United
States senators who favor the bounty
plan as the only feasible method of
taking care of our own domestic
beet baby.
Advertising in the Ether
The sign-board evil that is being
so bitterly fought in most of our
states, is getting "up in the air."
Aviation authorities are already dis
cussing the dangers to aviation of
roof advertising, which they realize
will soon spring up along the air
routes. Such signs, if allowed, will
inevitably be confused with the official
air markings placed on roofs for the
guidance of aviators. Officials have
already suggested that such adver
tising be "discouraged."
It seems to us that a vote of the
aviators flying the regular mail and
passenger routes would be over
whelmingly in favor of absolute pro
hibition of advertising on' roofs, or
other places designed to attract the
attention of travellers by air.
Politics This Week
An, Avenging. Angel appearing sud
denly 'among the high protectionists
of the Senate last week could, hardly
have seemed more fantastic than
1 e crcnt"re that Senator .Walter F.
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George of Georgia would create a
Counsel to represent consumers when
rate changes are considered by th
Tariff Commission.
"Heresey" one can imagine the
Hawley-Smoot coterie exclaiming with
hands uplifted in horror. The usual
protectionists comeback to the "con
sumer argument", is that, since we are
all producers, there can be no con
sumer class. However, all journalists
members of the medical profession,
office workers, teachers, hired help
and other citizens unsheltered by
tariff walls may ask to what class do
they belong in the economic scheme
of things if not to the consumer
class. Perhaps Senator George's
amendment will show them.
Another significant departure from
the ordered scheme of tariff making
is the idea of Senator McKellar of
Tennessee fo have the Senate elect
its members of the House-Senate
Conference on tariff, instead of allow
ing the Vive-President to appoint
them. The precious flexible tariff vic
tory will not be thrown aside as the
export debenture plan was if its sup
porters can help it.
. Prison-Made Goods in the Open
Market
A new angle of business competi
tion which may well come under the
head of a "domestic" tariff, has just
been raised in the report of the ad
visory committee appointed in April,
1925, by Herbert IJopyer, tthen secre
tary of commerce, to collaborate with
the department in solving the . prob
lem of removing prison industry from
competition with free labor. The in
vestigating committee finds that goods
manufactured in prisons are unfair
competition and should . be either
marked as prison-made, or kept en
tirely from the open market. This
is a matter of State regulation. Some
states forbid sale of prison-made
goods, confining the products to their
prisons to certain articles useful in
State institutions. It may be added
that some nations absolutely . forbid
the; sale in their territory of any im
ported prison-made articles.
This demand for supression of pris
on-labor competition may have far
reaching effects, since some states
"farm out" convicts to industries. It
has been reported, for instance, that
one Western state has furnished con
vict labor to sugar-beet growers
Mechanical Mathemetician
We' think of the "robot" as the
newest of the new, yet here we have
the official record of a brass robot,
perfected in 1910, which has just com
pleted "his" twentieth year as a
scientist. The report of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey, on which this re
markable "creature" serves, states
that it has been successfully engaged
in computing cerjain scientific data
on the rise and fall of tides in the
principal sea ports of the world. The
work, performed by the robot, the
report states, would have required
the services of 75 mathematicians.
The record of service of this dean of
robots proves that only his name is
comparatively new. " '
Porto Rico's Mother Tongue.
Porto Rico has seen eight civil
governors come and, go, but the ninth,
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, just in
augurated, was the first who ever
used Spanish, the beloved mother
tongue of the people, for even a part
of his inaugural address. Colonel
Teddy won the harts', of his new
barges before he even set foot on
the. soil of Porto Rico, speaking as
rr.uc hhe could in Spanish to the re
ccption committee. One of the sorest
of the sore pots in the American
Administration of Porto Rico has
been the insistence, by various com
missioners of Education, upon im
posing the use of English by the
young people of the Island.
Who Designs Our Planes?
"There have teen too many man
designed kitchens, too many man-designed
railroad coaches. Aviation is a
new field, and beginnings are always
rich in possibilities. Why not begin
right on this and have the interiors
of our airplanes designed by wom
en?" These are the words of a man and
an architect. His question is a natural
one. The answer is that -airplanes-some
of them have already been
started on their first flight bearing
the mark of the "feminine touch."
A woman designed the interiors
of the planes used on tle Pan Ameri
can Airways' lines to Havana -and
San . Juan. The color schemes are
planned to tone in with the warm
trophical colors of the West Indies.
The sea-blue of the Southern waters
is reflected not qnly in the ceilings
of the planes, but even in the blue
thermos bottles from which cool
drinks are dispensed during the journ-
eyf The red leather chairs are de
signed for comfortable sitting. For
the summer they are provided with
linen crash covers.
A woman also planned the Curtiss
"Condor" transports, with their wall
coverings of interwoven cotton da
mask in combinations of fireball and
beige, or dull gold and green in a
modernistic pattern. The floors are
carpeted in a simple conventional
motif.
Excellent ventilation, steam heat
and sound-proofing are features of
modern planes that are being in
troduced into up-to-date aircraft be
cause women passengers are demand
ing those features. Because women
like to travel in comfort themselves,
they can understand more easily how
essential the little refinements of
travel comfort are to all women.
Opponents of Tariff
Plan a Campaign
Plans for opposing the tariff bill (H.
R. 266) rates in general and particu
larly the new provisions for employ
ing domestic value in applying ad
valorem rates and "differences in
competitive conditions" in the execu
tive exercise of the flexible revising
power, were discussed byj minority
members of the Senate Committee on
Finance a few days ago. The meeting
was attended by all the minority ex
cept Senators George, (Dem.) of
Georgia and Barkley, (Dem.) of Ken
tucky, who are not in Washington.
Further, the minority Senators will
again endeavor to defeat the sections
of the 1922 act, continued? in the
proposed bill, which gives to the
president the power of raising or
lowering .rates by 50 per cent' to
carry out the protective intentions
of the tariff law, the ranking minority
member of the committee, Senator
Simmons of . North Carolina, stated
orally. While the President's power
of adjusting rates under the Fordney
McCumber Act was to be used on
differences in cost of production as
reported to him by the Tariff Com
mission, the new tariff bill would
make " "differences in conditions of
competition," which includes compara
tive costs of production together with
other factors such as transportation
and imporj costs, the basis of these
executive adjustments, he said.
Senator Simmons also declared that
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limiting the tariff rcvLo:i to agricul
tural and related products had not
changed. The minority, he pointed out,
had supported the resolution offered
by Senator Borah,' of Idaho, for this
purpose before the summer recess,
and Senator Thomas, of" Oklahoma, a
member of the Committee "eta Finance,
has announced his intention to offer
a similar restriction resolution when
the Senate reconvenes. Mr. Borah has
reasserted his opposition to general
tariff revision and declared that the
bill as now written should be de
feated. ...i.
The meeting of. the minority, which
was the first since the Finance Com
mittee majority made public its rate
changes, was devoted to a general
discussion of these1 rates, said Senator
Simmons.
Farm Home Makers Have
Long Working Week
More than 63 hours, a week is the
average "working time" for 700 farm
women who kept records and reported
to the Bureau of Home Economics
of the United States Department of
Agriculture.
They reported an average of 52
hours and 17 minutes spent on strictly
home-making activities alone. This is
more than the 44-hour working week
which is the standard in industry,
the bureau points out. In addition
these women spent an everage of 11
hours and 13 minutes a week on dairy
work, care of poultry, gardening, and
other outside tasks.
Some of these 700 home-makers
lived in the Middle West, some in
New York State, and some in three
far. western states. The group as a
whole represents rather superior home
makers those likely to cut down
working time by intelligent methods.
For the country as a whole the average
working time would probably be high
er. - WHEAT LOAN
The Federal Farm Board has ap
proved an application of the North
Dakota-Montana Wheat Growers' As
sociation, Grand Forks, N. Dak., for
a loan on wheat supplemental to that
already granted by the Federal Inter
mediate Credit Bank, St. Paul, Minn.
The advance by the Federal Farm
Board is to be 10 cents a bushel, with
a provision that the cobnide sums
obtained from the Intermediate Credit
Bank and the Farm Board shall not
exceed $1 a bushel. The maximum
loan requested by the North-Dakota
Montana Wheat Growers' Association
tion is $50Q,000. This association is the
first to qualify for the supplemental
loans which the Farm Board an
nounced ! at its recent conference in
Chicago with the organization ' com
mittee of 16 of the Farmers' National
Grain Corporation that it was ready
to make cooperative grain growers'
associations.
George Duis, president, presented
the application of the North Dakota-
Montana Association.
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that is, is it? Advertising is that
that IS. '
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OF FAIIL1 EOA1ID
Duties of the Federal Farm Board
do not include the fixing of prices
on agricultural products, it was as
serted by Samuel R. McKelvie, mem
ber of the Board in charge of wheat
activities, in an oral statement before
the Senate Committee on Agriculture
and Forestry, which is considering
the nominations of the members of
the Board.
Mr. MfKelvie said he did not un
derstand that the farm relief act
as passed intended that the Board
should enter the field of price fixing.
Jr'the prices were fixed by the Boanty
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on all commodities, be said.
The plans for a national organiza
tion tfor marketing wheat , were ex
plained by Mr. McKelvie. The board
of directors of the organization, he
said, would represent the various dis
tricts and represented by the cooper
atives and would be selected by the
stockholders of the cooperatives.
Three groups to be represented , on
the board of directors, he said, would
h thp farmers' 1vafrrs thi farmArc'
sales agencies and the wheat pools.
Hearings of the committee are ex
pected to be completed, said Chairman
McNary. Charles C. Teague, of Cali
fornia, and William F. Schilling, of
Minnesota, will be the last two mem
bers of the Board to appear.
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will be held late this week or early,
next week to consider the nomina
tions. Decision will be made then as
to when the recommendation of the
committee will be presented to the
Senate, the chariman said.
SOUTH'S CROPS
LARGER ; , NORTH'S
ARE SMALLER
PrpfiMit inrlirntinn are that thpr;
will be somewhat smaller yields of
the principal crops in the Northv and
larger yields of the main crops v in
the outh, as compared with last
year, says the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture in its Septem
ber 1 report on the agricultural situa
tion. The great crops of the North
corn, wheat, oats, potatoes and
fruits are. smaller than last year's
while - the great Southern crops
cotton, tobacco and sweet potatoes
are larger than last year's. Taking
34 principal crops together, the Au
gust estimates indicated a composite
yield about 5 per cent below 1928,
but one only slightly below the 10
year average.
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Mississippi Farmer Finds
; Phck Locusts Profitable
Black locust trees grown from
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Lawhon, a farmer of Lee county,
Miss. are now 6 to 9 inches in
diameter and 40 to 50 feet tall, As
sistant State Forester H. C. Mitchell
reports to the Forest Service, U. S;
Department of Agriculture, They are
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now so large that they will each
make from 10 to 15 fence posf s, worth
15 cents a piece, he says.
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