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THE OEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. AIRMEN 10 MEET DADDY5 EVENING (-or-CkDisAEsy TESTING ASSOCIATIONS ARE BEST MEANS OF PLUGGING UP BIG LEAKS IN DAIRYING FAIRYTALE AT ATLANTIC GIT! CONVENTION WILL STIMULATE ENLISTMENTS IN SERVICE. oUASX (xRATIAn CONNER MACHINES FOR PASSENGERS Wonderful Progress of Aviation Will Bo Shown In Great Display of Ex hibits. Government Wtmts 15,000 Men for Air Service, Atlantic Qlty, New Jersey, will be the Mecca for a largo gathering of American men, null representatives of forejgn countries, who will 1)0 at tracted by the first Pan-American Aeronautics Convention, which meets there In Mnv. Cnptaln Charles' J. GHdilen, of the U. S. Air Service, Military Acronnu tics, now stationed In the administra tive department of the United States Flying School. ,Southcrfield, Georgia, says : "The Pan American Aeronautics Convention and exhibition to be held at Atlantic City during the month of May will bring to the attention of the American people the wonderful pro gross of aviation. The work of air craft during the war establishes its practicability for commercial uses aud Insures the creation in this country of a complete aerial service, connecting all cities and towns for the transpor tation of persons, mall and merchan dise. "Before tho close of 1020 I confl dently predict this service will bo in full operation, with extensions to all countries on this hemisphere In the United States trunk lines will be estnb lished across the country which will place every .city and town within six hours from some twenty-four- distrib uting points. Once created and in op oration our oxtenslve const line could bo put under complcto protection from miy possible invasion. Thousands of 'college trained aviators in and out of the service nre now waiting to- join In tho operation of nn aerial service. "The government calls for fifteen thousand men to enlist In air service for one or three years' time. This Is bound to receive a quick response, jis here Is an opportunity for men to bo immediately assigned to duty in the service and of tho number who enlist those who pass certain examinations will be given flying and balloon pilot ing instruction. This liberal offer Is equivalent to a one or three years' college course In aeronautics, and one mny become export fnudl -branches of. aviation, nnd if qualified a non-conv missioned 6r even a commissioned of fleer. In, nddltionto regular pay, cloth ing, quarters and "rations, extra pay jbegins with Instructions to operate 'the aircraft. As .tho number of men wanted is limited to fifteen thousand for tho entire country, quick applica tion to the nearest recruiting officer ,wlll be necessary before the privilege Is withdrawn. . "Everybody directly nnd Indirectly .Interested "In aviation should attend ithe Atlantic City convention and exhl bltlon In order to keep abreast with the times and become familiar with the development of aircraft for de fense' and commercial uses and wit ness the demonstrations of the world's .greatest airplane aviators, who will fly, and balloon pilots sail to the At lantic air port from pll over the country." Demand Enemies Be Punished. Paris. Premier Clemenceau of France has received from Mrs. Charles II. Fnrnam of New York, representa tive of the committee for tho protec tion of women under international law, a resolution signed by 5,000,000 Amer ican women relating to crimes ngalnst women committed by the Germans and their allies during the war. Tho res olution denounces the German attack on humanity through womankind as "Infamous and sinister," Superabundant proof exists, the res olution says, of tho crimes which the armies of the central powers perpe trated against women Jn all the coun tries invaded. Dernnnd Is made that all officers, soldiers and civilians belonging to the armies of the central powers who per petrated any crime against women or girls In any allied country should bo punished If possible, especially on pntent and notdrlous enseg. Caused Unrest Among Yanks. Washington, D. C. A mass of bol shevik propaganda believed responsi ble for undermining the mornle of American troops in Russia, has been received at the war department. It was taken from letters forwarded by soldiers to their relatives In the United States. Much of the propaganda was di rected at British troops. World Common Language Likely. Paris. With the final constitution of tho league of nntlons, the latter will bo asked to provide for a xworld wlde common language by tho Inter nationalization of a French and Eng lish. "Without n common language, no society of nations can exist," says Paul Mlelllo of the French universi ties' propaganda. The league will bo asked to internationalize both French nnd English-and to see that instruc tion of them is carried into the schools nnd universities of every nation under Its jurisdiction. THE TWO BUFFALOES. . "Wo were different from most of our family," snld one of the buffaloes in the zoo, whose namo was Billy. "Yes," said another buffalo, "Billy and I were different from most buf faloes." "You speak tho truth, Benny, when you agree with me," said Billy. "Tell us nbout yourselves," said tho other buffaloes. "Well," said Billy, "I will let my partner speak, lie is a better speak er than I am." "Oh, nonsense," said Benny. "I do not mean to say that you speak non sense, but in this case you aro prais ing me entirely too much. You nro the one who should do the speaking. You're the speaker buffalo, if there Is to be a speaker buffalo." "And there Is surely to be a speaker buffalo," said the other buffaloes, for they wanted to hear the story. "Well, you had better begin," said Billy. . "You had better begin," said Benny. Both the buffaloes looked at each other and grinned. And the other buf faloes in the zoo said: "There .will be no speaking nnd there will be no story if one of you does not start." "True," said Billy. "Theyre wilt ing for you, partner." "True," agreed Benny. "And they're anxiously waiting to hear you start speaking," he added. "Here, here," said one of, the buf faloes, "this sort of thing can go on no longer. I will Introduce the speak ers of the evening and If you. are both "We Used to Be Harnessed to a Wagon." iso modest I will 'call on you both to 'rfrjeak. v " "Benny can give the first part of the speech nnd Billy the second part. That is fair enough." Then all the buffaloes cheered and said : "You've found a way out. Good for you 1" Billy nnd Benny grnhed and smiled at each other. "As long as we are both to speak It is all right," said Billy. "Yes," said Benny, "I did not wnnt to do nil the speaking myself, for I knew you could do so much better." "I knew you could," said Billy, "but If we are both to spenk they will at least have half of the time to listen to a good speech to mnke up for the half of the time when they have to listen to me."' "Exactly the way I feel about it," said Benny. "Silence, partners," snld the buffalo who had suggested that they both speak. And the buffalo partners as well as tho other buffaloes kept very stllh "We have with us this evening," be gan the buffalo, "two very fine speak ers. They are both able to speak on any subject, but they are both so mod est that they feel they aren't worth .listening to on nny subject 1" All the buffaloes grunted and said : "Let us hear these modest speak ers." "We shall hear them," continued the buffalo. "First of all It gives me great plensure to Introduce to you Mr. Benny Buffalo, and when he Is through spenk Ins Mr. Billy Buffalo will take "tho floor or tho ground, to bo more cor rect. Anywny, I mean that he will speak next and Inst. So let me pre sent to you Mr. Benny Buffalo." Mr. Benny Buffalo stood before tho other buffaloes white they nil cheered. "My partner nnd myself, fellow buf foloes," he began, "belonged to such n nice master. Wo weren't as wild as most buffaloes. We were tame. We used to be hnrnessed to a wagon and over the countryside we would go. "Yes, fellow buffaloes, we've lived lives much like horses. It Is interest ing to be n buffalo and yet to havo lived a life like another creature. It Is like little girls who aro really little girls nnd yet who piny boys' games and climb trees. They'ro nice and Inter esting little girls, I hnve heard. And now my partner will spenk." "Fellow buffaloes," said Billy Buf- alo, "we not only acted as horses might, but we raced horses. Yes, wo used to race the team of horses the neighbor of the mnster had. Wo cer tainly havo had different lives from most beforo we came to the zoo." Andjill the buffaloes ngrecd. Witty Little Lad. Ills Ma- Willie, why don't you tnko your arithmetic and study your tables In the Hbniry? , Willie Then they'd bo library ta pies, eh, ma? IS SERBIA NOW - - : years for his father, King Peter I. Recent reports havo been that King Peter would soon abdicate In favor of Alexander. The Scrblnn crown prince, whoso portrait is hero given, left Paris March 2 for Belgrade. Tho original Knrti George was a rich Serbian swine owner, who In 1807 led In a revolt ngalnst tho Turkish rulers. Six years later tho Turks regained possession and he fled to Austria. In 1817 ho was assassinated by order of Milosh Obrenovlch a herdsmnn who had driven out tho Turks. Tho throno then seesawed back and forth between the two families. Peter Knrageorgerlch was proclaimed king in1003, soon after tho assas sination of King Alexander and bis queen. SECRETARY REDFIELD A BUSY MAN Secretary of Commerce William C. Redficld is a busy man these days ow ing to the fact that the price stqblllza tlon program of the Industrial board of his department Is a storm center. For example, the other dny there was an all-afternoon session of dignitaries trying to straighten out the muddle caused by the refusal of the railroad administration to accept price agree ments sponsored by tho industrial board. Among those present were Secretary of the Treasury Glass, Sec retary of Commerce Redtleld jmd other cabinet members, Director General of Railroads Walker D. IHnes, Fuel Ad ministrator Harry A. Garfield, George N. Peek; chairman, and other members of the Industrial board; Edgar Rick nrd, acting food administrator, and Eugene N. Meyer, Jr., managing direc tor of the war finance corporation. Director Hlncs stood pat on his re fusal to 'accept prices fixed by tlur board. The case specifically under discussion wns the reduced price of steel rails, which is still not low enough to suit the railroad administration. Enter ing Into the situation also was the disposition of the railroad administration to go back to the old prnctlco of getting coal for the railroads at a lower price than the general, public. Talk of resignations by board members filled the air. JOHN JACOB ASTOR'S ROMANCE downe. Lady Violet married Lord Nnlrno in 1000. Nalrne nnd Astor wont over to France In the first British handful. Nulme was killed and Astor wounded In the same engagement. Astor went home, recovered, nnd went back to the front, August 27, 1010, he was given 20 hours' leave. He man aged to get to London, marry his wMowed sweetheart and get back. In Sep lember, 1018, Astor was "again wounded and lost a leg. He and his brldo started on their American honeymoon as soon ns he was able to travel. GENERAL SMUTS Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, min ister of defense, Union of South Africa, is one of the big men of the. peace conference. Report hus It that he Is the author of much of the league of nations' covenant. That ho Is a fighter the British learned In the Boer war. All of which is probably the reason ho has been chosen by the pence confer ence to go to Hungary as an emissary of the allies and the United States to Investigate tho various problems In cidental to the armistice, but made more complicated by tho coming Into power of the proletariat government. The now government In Hungary has definitely promulgated a system of government by village, town, district, and county councils, nnd n national as sembly of councils. The representa tives to tho national oRsombly will be elected by the town nnd county coun cils. The Jnst day on which elections enn bo held for the councils has been fixed for April 14, All men and women who have reached the age of eighteen will bo permitted to vote,wlth the exception of those who employ wage earn ers for profit or who live on unearned ' criminals, or lunatics. i A REPUBLIC? Reports aro current that the Karagcorgevlch dynasty has been de posed and n republic proclaimed in Belgrade, with that city ns the capital of Serbia and Jugo-Slavia. It was first announced In tho newspnper Vetchernl Llsty of Agram, according to a wire less dispatch from Homo received in London. At that tlmo tho Serbian legation In London knew nothing of It. In Washington Prof. Voyslnv M. Yo vanovitch, director of the ofllclnl In formation bureau of tho new Jugo slav state, declared tho announcement to bo a "pleco of tho most vulgar prop aganda." Agram Is tho capital of Croatia and Slavonln, two states of the Jugo slav federation. The removal of tho Jugo-Slav capital to Belgrado means that Serbia has taken the leadership away from the Croats, and Slovenes. Crown Prince Alexander has been acting ns regent of Serbia for several Capt. John Jacob Astor of tho King's First Life Gunrds and his Eng lish wife, Lady Violet -Astor, are en joying a postwar honeymoon in tills country. He Is tho son of Viscount Astor, once William Waldqrf Astor of New York. Viscount Astor is New York's greatest landlord and recently made the captain a gift of $7,000,000 worth of Gotham real estate. Lady Astor is a daughter of the late earl of Minto, viceroy of India and governor general of Cnnada. " In. 1000, when Captain Astor wns twenty years old, King Edward made him a lieutenant In the Life Guards. He met Lady Violet Elliott, seventeen nnd Just out of the schoolroom. It was n case of love at first sight with both of the young people. But the Mlnto family would have none of the Asto'rs. They wanted Lady Violet to marry Lord Charles Nalrne, son of the Marquis of Lans- GOES TO HUNGARY income or are merchants, priests, monks, Cow Testing Apparatus at Work. (Prepared by tho United Btatcs Depart ment of ARrlcuUure.) Cow-testing associations are proving to bo tho means of plugging up one of the biggest lenks In the dairy busi ness. They cnnblo tho dnlrymnn to determine definitely the unprofltnblo cows. Each cow must mako a profit over tho cost of feed, and this can bo determined only by weighing her milk nnd tho feed she consumes. No dairy Is better than Its nvcragc production. If this is too low, tho herd is not pay Ing a profit. Business principles must therefore, be-npplled to lower the cost of milk production, for efficiency Is ns' much of n necessity on tho farm ns In the factory. Few men feed their cows In propor tion to the quantity of milk produced, say dairy specialists of tho United States department of agriculture. With little regard for her needs, feed Is put beforo tho cqw In plenty If It is cheap and a less quantity If the price Ib high. Tho average cow uses about CO per dent merely to keep her body work ing, and it Is the quantity that is fed above this fixed necessity that fur nishes tho mntcrlal for tho milk. Somo dnlrymen may say, "I would do all the up-to-date things if I hnd time." Can the storekeeper afford to run his busi ness without keeping books? Yet that Is what many farmers are doing. Benefits of Cow Testing. Working in co-operation, dairymen .can obtain tho benefits of business methods nt a very smo.ll cost through tho organization of cow-testing asso ciations. Increases of from $10 to $15 nnd In some cases much higher in tho annual profits from ench dairy cow have resulted from the organization of co-operative cow-testing associa tions. The expense of membership In theso associations, on tho other hand, hus beeu only nbout $1,50 n cow each year. Membership lu tho organiza COW-TESTING URGED FOR BEST DAIRYING Records of Oldest Associations Show Increased Profits. Members Tell of Larger Production of Butterfat and Saving of Feed Bills Many Worthless Cows Discovered. (Prepared by tho United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Cow-testing associations pay and pay well, Who says so? The dairy men who belong soy so. Ten years' records from tlvc oldest association In tho United States say so. Ahd several years' records from hundreds of asso ciations tell the same story to tho dairy division of. tho United States deportment of ngrlculture. Association members any: ''I am making three times as much net profit from 12 cows ns I formerly mode from 18." "Through tho work of the asso ciation I huve saved one-third of my feed bill." "Tho nHsocIutloir-hns re turned moro thon 500 per cent on what it has cost mo." "I nm perfectly aston ished at the results. I thought I hnd n .very good herd of butter cows, but hove found many of them worse than worthless." The first cow-testing association In tho United States began Its work In Newaygo county, Michigan, in 1000. Tho avcrngo butterfat production for- tho first year was 215 pounds n cow. It Increased the second yenr to 220 pounds. It rose the third yenr to 202 pounds. The next year It passed the 200-pound mark, nnd It has been higher than that every year since. Tho average production of the last three years was 00 pounds of butterfat nbovo that of the first year. How much tho average of tho first year exceeded that of the year beforo tho work began Ib not a matter of record, but doubtless tho first year of asso elation work showed somo striking gains. Even nsldo from these, how. over, nnd counting only tho CO pounds of "butterfat, tho gains nro still far above tho cost of testing. The. estimated average butterfat production of all tho dnlry cows lu tho United States is about loo pounds n year. From 80 yenrly summaries of cow-testing nssoclatlons, Including tho records of 20,710 cows, their butterfat production nvernged 245 pounds year. This Is moro than CO per cent above the country's nverngo produc Hon, nnd a largo port of the gain may fairly bo attributed to association work. v. X tions, therefore, has been very profit able. Ilecnuso of tho great and obvious economic advantages arising from tho associations, dairy specialists of tho United States department of ngrleul turo believe that the organizations nro ono of tho most Important factors for the upbuilding nnd development of tho dairy Industry In this country. Such nn organization consists generally of 20 fanners, living within n radius of n few miles, who co-opcrato to hire nn expert tester to keep accurate ac counts of the amounts nnd cost of feed consumed by each cow In the as sociation, the quantity of milk pro duced by each and its richness In bnt terfar. Theso. statistics usually re veal the fact that some cows nre not producing enough to pay for their keep, whllo others aro highly profit able! Acting on this Information tho owner of tho cows disposes of tho leofct deslrnblo of his animals nntl makes up his herd exclusively of thoso thut produce n considerable profit. Association Testing Cheaper. The membership of tho association Is placed at 20 so that the tester can niako n complete round ench month, devoting ono work dny to each mem ber, nnd that he mny keep his records on n monthly basis. It has been found by careful experiments that tho aver ages based on monthly tests do not vary moro than 2 per cent from tho production, ns shown by daily observa tions. Slnco tho tester Is nn expert, nnd can make tho necessary tests and computations rapidly, nnd slnco ho can bo depended on to mako his ob servations Independently of pressure of work on the Individual farm, the owners of dairy cows find It cheaper and moro satisfactory In ninny cases to have their testing dono through tho association than to undertake to do It themselves. WHY TESTING IS GOOD (Prepared by the United States De partment of Agriculture.) There were 853 cow-testing as sociations operating In tho United Stntes July 1, 1018. These associations havo nn nggregnto 'membership of 0,778 farmers, owning 108,848 -cows. The cow testing association originated In Denmark In 1805, nnd the first 'of the organizations In this coun try wns formed In Michigan In 1000. Because of; the value of the associations' to the dnlry in dustry of the country the United States department of agriculture is stimulating Interest In them nnd Is assisting fanners in their organization. Sheep constantly add to the fertility of tho soil. When shipping live stock to market. don't overload the car. Very young pigs can bo fed rellk from u bottle and nipple. Don't let the calf drink foaming milk Just from tho separator. Don't nllow brood sows to come to fovrowlng tlmo in poor condition. Baby beeves mny be anywhere from six months to eighteen months of nge. Conrseness Indicates low vitality, sluggishness and slow-feeding quali ties. . Pnsturc is the cheapest nnd tho best feed thqt we can supply to our llvo stock. Only when oats are cheap nnd of good quality should they be used to fatten lambs. Fresh water from a good well, In q gnlvanlzcd tub, Is nn essential for q sheep pasture. Tho best type of swlno havo been; evolved from the experience bt brccrtr ers and packers. Sudden changos In' the feeding of n innro when she Is bred, as from dry feed to pasture or from pasture to dry feed, aro often the cause of the nil linn' falling to settle. "WWW