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NOJtTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Lloyd George in Strange Company mum "Who's Vho" on Congressional "Junket?" I DECIDED MOT TO CO - BUT- WASHINGTON. "Who's Who" on tho excursion promoted by the 1'nn-Pnclflc union to enable members of congress and government ofllclnls to study rude conilltloiiH In the trans pnclflc countries tlint milled on the nnny transport flrent Northern July 5 from Sun FrancIsco7 Noliody scorns to know. Originally more thnn 200 were listed when tho Invitation was first Riven out by Hep resentatlve Ilnndnll of California Quite n few members who wanted to make the trip nnd take along several friends nt Uncle Sam's expense were scared off by the ery of "Junket," oth ers were plainly told In letters nnd resolutions from their constituents that they had better stay nt home. Originally the cost was fixed about $1.75 n day. Then It was given nut that nil must pay their own expenses Soldiers' Bonus Legislation in Congress l.li elinneo of the passage of sol diers' bonus legislation next win ter seems to have gone glimmering. Failure of the party platforms to de clare for the proposition seems fo havo destroyed all hopes of favorable action by congress. Supporters of the bonus bill had relied duplicity on the political con ventions taking a stand on the sub ject. They had gone on the theory thnt political pressure from the ex service men would bo so strong that both parties would be sure to declnro fot some form of adjusted compensa tion. The soldiers' bonus bill ns passed by the house a week before the recent ad journment Is ponding In the senate committee on finance. The committee hns given the bill no consideration and may prefer vto allow It to slumber without nctlon during the coming ses sion. Officers of the American Legion, however, nre certain to agitate nnd probably will force the committee to report tho hill to the floor of the sen ate. ' Even In case the hill In some mirac ulous manner should get through tho senate and n conference report Is ap proved by both houses Its .veto by President WHson Is considered cer taln. The administration's view of the proposal hns been made clear through a letter sent by Secretary of the You May Now Do Business With Russians UNCLE Sain hus lifted the ban on trade with soviet Hussla, If you have any goods you want to sell tho Russians, go to It. Hut bear In mind: Ton do so on your own rink and your own responsibility. No p;!u ()r other protection will be given "you." No passports will be Issued to your rep resentatives to enable them to go td Hussla nnd drum up business or other wise look nftor your Interests. If your goods could In any way be employed In war, they may not be exported. The post onlee will not accept any mall for Hussla, so you cannot cor respond with your customers or agents. No goods may be sent by parcel post. Otherwise, you nre free to engage in commerce with tho bolshevlkl. Your Uncle Sam's Big O OW Uncle Sam has developed one of the biggest insurance compan ies In the world Is shown In u state ment Issued by tho bureau of war risk insurance suuimurlKlng the prog ress which has been mndo in bring ing the bureau's work to a current bonis. The marine ana seamen's Insur ance division, which, during tho early pnrt of the war, wrote war risk baxards on bulls, cargoes nnd seamen, has done a totnl business of $2,487,013. 351 j collected premiums amounting to $47.r85.380; paid claims of $20,118,387, and has. n surplus over expenses and refunds of $17,fiC9,821. The allotment and allowance di vision, which developed Into a bank ing business run for the benefit of lioldlers, sudors nnd mnrlnca and their families nnd dependent relatives, has ulncQ the beginning of tho war ap proved 2.000,803 claims for allotment nnd-allowance. Involving pnyineuts for nllolnientu umountlng to $38.833.1HK1, for iitlovnnccH umountlng to $200,481, 505, n total expenditure of $555,810, 611. The Insurance division has written 4631,003 IwUeles covering Insurance to other than transportation. The trip Includes visits to Hawaii, the Philip pines, China, Japan nnd Korea. It's known that the party reached Hawaii July 11 and left two days Inter, Later advices from Shanghai said China was preparing an elaborate program for the "party of 130 mun- j hers." Special trains were to lie placed nt the disposal of the visitors through Nanking, on to Peking nud to Mukden, where the members of the party would hecomo guests of the .Tnpaneso government, and would be taken on an extended sight-seeing tour through Korea and Inter through Japan. Everywhere banquets, recep tions, excursions of various kinds, presentations and other affairs were being nrranged. Newspaper men were Invited to make the trip with the congressmen, so that there could be publicity for tho trip nnd articles written to pro mote better understanding between the countries. Hut later orers barred the newspaper men from the trip nnd re stricted It to congressmen and mem bers of tljclr Immediate families. Who the congressmen nre wns to have been ninile public when the flrent Northern sailed. Hut the transport sailed with the state secret undlvulged. Treasury Houston to the house ways and means committee flatly opposing any bonus legislation, and also by the attitude of the administration spokes man nt San Francisco In the drafting of the platform. ' Hoth the Republican nnd Democratic platforms dccliiro for proper treatment of tho ex-service men, but both care fully avoid any specific mention of cither the cash bonus scheme or any forms of ndjusted compensation de signed to aid, those who suffered no wounds, The effeot of both the Republican nnd Democratic p'utforms Is to re pudiate the policies of'the pnrty lead ers in the house. The action of the party conventions, both at Chicago nud San Francisco, appears to have been a vindication for the minority among house members of both pnrtlcs. If trade Is actually resumed with Hussln, It apparently will have to be conducted through tho co-operative societies In tho soviet nation. These societies, which have a membership of 20.000.000. furnish the only known tiled I n m for tlie resumption of trade between the United Stntes and tho territory controlled by tho , Moscow government. Whether the soviet authorities are willing to havo tho co-operatives .car ry on trade with tho United States nnd other nations which have not ex tended any form of political recogni tion to the Lenin and Trotsky regime remains to be disclosed. So far iih 'he I'tilte-l Sinti i 's en Corned, all restrictions on trade have been lifted except ns to articles sus ceptible of immediate use for war pur poses. If Americans hnvo anything they desire to ship to Hussla, they nre free to do so with this one limitation, while Russians may ship out anything Americans will take. Tho Russian co-operative societies stand as the only commercial and In dustrial machinery left lntnct amid general economic disorganisation and chnos. Insurance Company poucieJ .Mirw the 'amount of $40,284,802,600. col lected gross premium remittances from nil sources approximating S33S.Cl2.ooo hnndled 128.300 claims for Insurance on nccOunt of denth represented by In Burnnce to the amount of Si.i4i.sis 133, wlille 3.2A0 claims for Insurance on account of permanent and total disability Involve Insuranco to the amount of $28,n30,3-so. Tho medlcnl division hns dcvclnnrd a medlcnl practice of tho following proportions: 1'ntlents given treatment nnd ex nmlnatlon, 452,000: pntlentB admitted to hospitals under government super vision, 54,701); patients nt present re ceiving hospital treatment, 17,500; po tential pntients, U4i,G00. P 19 9 i HH ill Lloyd (leorge, premier of England, photographed at Boulogne, France, during Ids recent visit, with M. Mlilerand. the French premier. The two distinguished statesmen were received in quaint costume by the native llsherwlves. and were presented with huge bouquets of (lowers. Says War Cost Hundred Billions English Financier Fixes Real Losses of the European Belligerents. AMERICA WORLD'S CREDITOR To Only United States and Japan Did the War Bring Prosperity, According to English Authority Germany y a Heavy Loser. London. Tho aetuul cost of the war to European belligerents was. In excess of 20,000,000,000 ($100,000, 000,000 nonnul value), represented by property destroyed, losses In Invest1 incuts abroad, depreciation of proper ties and by pensions, Edgur Cram inond, English tluancler, told the Hankers' institute at a recent meeting Here. lie fixed the following as the real losses of the Kuropeiui belligerents: Clormany 8.700,00O,WU (H3.W.0O0.O0O normal value.) France 6,260.000,000 The United ICInntfom '.5,310,000,000 Italy 2.100,000.000 Belgium C5u.0iw.ooo To only two belligerent countries tlie United States and Japan did the wur bring prosperity, Crummond said, but Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Greoco and Scundlnnvln nlso hud grown wealthier. He believed the "liq uid capital of the world, now dis tributed In centers which are unaccus tomed to the exercise of their new powers," would eventually again Had ItH chief outlet through London. America the Gainer. 'Tho war lias produced an extraor dinary chango In the economic rela tions of the United States with Hu ron," ho said. "Whereas, In 1014 America owed Europe 2,000,000,000, at present Europo owes America 2,- 000,000,000 ($10,000,000,000)." Assuming that tho post-wnr pur chasing power of tlie (lollar was 70 per cent of Its pre-war value, Crum mond snld during the last Ave years there had been nn aetuul Increase In the national wealth of tlie United States of approximately 30 per cent, and he cstlmntcd tills wealth how in the neighborhood of 70.000,000,000 to 80,000.000,000. The national wealth of Japan, he estimated, had been doubled by the war. Germany H-nvy Loser. On the IuisIk of a po--t-v.ni' mark valued at B0 per cent of Its pre-wur value he estimated Germany hns lost, apart from the Indemnity, 20 per cent of her national wealth, the whole of her mercantile marine, all her colonial possessions, nnd practically the whole of her investments abroad. If tho figures suggested at the Hytho con ference, 0,250,000,000, wero fixed as the Gorman war Indemnity, ho tie clnred tho total losses of the German people arising out of the war, would bo equivalent to nhout 1R,000,000,000, or one-hnlf hor national wealth. "So far as the world as a whole is concerned, the princlpnl loss is In the BEEF IMPORTS GROW Figures Are Given Out by Bureau of Animal Industry. Canned and Cured Meats Show Big Falling Off for the Period Covered. There was very llttto difference In the quantity of fresh nnd refrigerated beof Imported Into the United Stntes In 1010 anil 1020. The figures are taken from the meat Inspectors' re ports, bureau of nnlmnl Industry, Unl tod Stntes depnrtmcnt of 'agriculture. In 10 months ended In April, 1010, 27,073,105 pounds of fresh nnd refrige rated beef were Imported, In tlie period ending at tho corresponding time In 1020 tho quantity of fresh and rofrlgomted beef nrrlvlng In the United Stntes from foreign countries was 27.00S.SR0 pounds, an increase of about a quarter of n million pounds. fact that Kurope Is not yet a going concern,'" he continued, "but the un derlying economic forces which made her the great center of the world's commercial activities nre still at work nnd will rapidly transform tlie eco nomic situation In Europe." lie snld the dominant characteristic of International trade in tlie next ten years will be a tremendous world de mand for capital, and the Internal llnanclnl policies of tho nations should be framed with due regard to tills condition COTTON CONSUMPTION GROWS Amount Used During June Shows Big ' Increase Over Year Ago Says Census Bureau. Washington. Cotton consumed dur ing June amounted to 555,521 hnles of lint nnd 33,000 of Hitters, tliq census bureau .announced. During Julie a year ago 474.830 Cannibals Once Peopled Texas Discovery Made That Prehistoric People Were Different From Indians. - HAD REGULAR CAMP SITES k Life History Read From Records They Left In Their Burned-Rock Mounds Advanced to Stage of Pale olithic Culture. Austin, Tex. Evidence that Texas wns Inhabited by a prehistoric people different from the Indian who roamed tho plnlns when the first white man came hns been unearthed by James E. I'carce, professor of anthropology of the University of Texas. The early Inhabitants, ho said, lived u nomnd like existence, roaming from one pnrt of tlie wilderness to another nnd kill ing, with rude stone weapons, nulmals and even humans for food. In eo oiereMo:i with Mi S nl'h xuiluilns tut oi h"re: nif i'tbnti"Uv. Hrof. 1'earce ' bus 'Reeii Investigating tho mounds for more than a year, he reported. "The life history of these people has been rend from the records they left In their burned-rock mounds or kitchen middens," the professor snld. "These mounds are piles of broken nnd charred hits of limestone three or four feet high nnd sometimes as long as 100 feet. Had Regular Camp Sites. "They nre made up of the kitchen refuse of these prehistoric peoples, who had regular camp sites nt fre quent Intervnls along the Edwards Fresh and refrigerated meats of other kinds Jumped to twice the quan tity in the 10 months ending April, 1020, ns for the snme period In 1010. The figures show 7,033,377 pounds for 1010 nnd 14,070,003 pounds for 1020. Hut the canned nnd cured meats Im ported during the same periods show n remarkable drop from 120,024,348 pounds In 1010 to less thnn 2,000,000 pounds in 1020. This Item accounts for the marked decrease In tlie total meat products Imported. The total weight Imported In the 1010 period wns 103,002,011 pounds, but 1020 brought only 50,240,055 pounds. Finds Ring Lost Yer.re Ago, Chester, Vm John Hunter the other day exenvntea from the soli In the rear of his Holland street home near Ertdystone n diamond ring, which lie had lost there more thnn 12 years ngo. It wns while spading thnt Hunter lost tho ring from n hole in his pocket. He bales of lint and 1C.0S3 of linters wero consumed, Cotton on hand June, 30 In consum ing establishments was 1,554,023 bales of lint nnd 270.171 of linters, com pnred with 1,303.040 bales of lint nnd 203,804 of linters n yenr ago, nnd in public storages nnd compresses 2.304. 030 bales of lint and 374.048 of linters cotnpnred with 2,705,771 of lint and 207,781 of linters a yenr ago. June Imports were 10,035 hales, com pared with 17,20!), in June, 1010, nnd exports were 241.450 hnles. Including 3.800 bales of linters, cotnpnred with 000,100 of lint nnd 3,710 of linters In June last year. Cotton spindles active during Juno numbered 34,503,754. compnred with 33.."0.358 d June a yenr ago. O Q Speech, Lost in War Recovered by Bowling Nlagarn-on-the-Lnke. Ont. Dumb for three years as tho re sult of being shell shocked In the war. Trooper W. Hart sud denly recovored his speech here , In the excitement of a bowling game. Ho was playing with the Dnvisville Mllltnry Hospital team. plutenu, extending from Austin west ward to New Mexico. "These people evidently were ad vanced to the stage of paleolithic cul ture, nn earlier ago than the period of licolltlilc culture, to which moit of the Amerlcnn Indians belonged. These enrly Texas Inhabitants hnd arrows and spenrs tipped with, flint points, chipped but not polished. They ' 1 not polish their stone weapons, nor did they engnge in any form of agri culture. They were, however, skill ful skin dressers, for we have found scraping tools made of flint. The kitchen middens which we dis covered nre tlie only thing of their kind in America, ' so far as I know, nlthough they hnd been found In other pnrts of tlie World. At these sites, camps were located with n great fire place In the center, over which huge slnhs of limestone were placed as a sort of primitive Move, upon which to cook tlie meat the Inhabitants killed. Cannibalism Practiced. "We know thus" propl; wero car.nl I :tls, for r ii"iv: the leftn'e ' eup- hi ve been found human bones Aplit ulmrt In order to get nt tho marrow. "The soft limestone slabs, being ex posed to the weather, broke from time to time, nnd were cast aside near-by, to be replaced by new ones. "In the course of our Investigations we hnvo completely examined some fifteen of these mounds nnd In them have found thousands of splendid spe cimens of chipped arrow nnd spear heads, as well as scraping tools and other Implements. Bones of tho deer, which were prevnlent In this region, are found In profusion, indicating that this was the princlpnl article of diet." hnd no idea where he had dropped It, ami in time forgot all about It. Ho was turning over the soil ngain with n spode. and to his surprise tlie long-lost ring enme up on a spadeful of dirt. A little washing nnd polish ing restored It to Its original beuuty. Tho ring Is valued nt $200. Chum la Now Her Stepmother. New Albany, Ind. Estelin Kelsnll and May Dctttman were chums and Estella Introduced May to her father, a widower'. Now she'll never have' to part from her chum, ns "dad" has married her. Dr. Oliver Kelsnll sur prised his daughter when he tele graphed that he and May were on their honeymoon. Needle la HMed Greenshurg, Ind. WJtlle lying on n dnvenport at her home Mrs. Noel Anderson felt a needle enter her shoul der. A phyalclnn wns called and It wns discovered that the needle wnn fast traveling toward the lungs. She wns rushed to d hospital, where an operation vu: porforuiet". FOWLS FOR BACKYARD FLOCK. Not Necessary to Have Hens of Extrai Good Standard Quality for Egg Production. For tho backyard flock, kept to pro duce eggs only, it Is not necessary to have liens of extra good standard quality. What breeders of dtundnrdi poultry call choice utility hens are ns good as any for egg production, nnuV cost but little more thnn ordinary mongrels. Hens of this grade in tho-medlum-slzcd breeds nre usually u little under stnndnrd weights, and: have superficial faults as unsound ness of color, or Irregularity of mark ings or of the shape of the comb -which In no way nffect their laying capacity but make them unfit for ex hibition nnd undesirable for breeding purposes. When buying hens In person, par ticular attention should lie given to Good for Producing Eggs. the general condition whether the blrd seems vigorous nnd lively andr to the nppenrnnce of the comb nnd' the condition of the foot. Healthy hens have bright red combs nnd bright eyes, nssert poultry specialists of tlie Unlt6d .States department of agricul ture. A slight paleness of the comU is simply an Indication that the hert is not lnylng at tlie time; but n bird" whose comb hns either a yellowish) or a bluish cast should be rejected, for these are .symptoms of Internal disorders. The skin nnd scales of legs and toes should be smooth, and the soles of the feet soft and free from, corns. DUST BATH VERY ESSENTIAL Best Results Cannot Be Expected If Hens Are Permitted to Become Overrun With Vermin. If the best results are to be expect ed from the Hock, the hens must not be allowed to become overrun wltli lice or the house with mites. Usually, there will be a place in the yard where the hens enn dust themselves In the dry dirt. In the nbsence of such n place, a box about 2 feet square and containing ordlnnry road dust or fine dirt should be placed In the house. A dust bath aids the hens In keep ing lice In check nnd therefore ndds to their comfort. If they are not nble to keep them In check by dusting t hem pelves, other measures can be taken. United States Department of Agricul ture. O: SELECTING GOOD LAYERS Keep as good layers: 1. Hens which have been the b"st layers during tho pnt yenr f.: oul'l 1 o lvpt over for breeders lor uext year. 2. Hens which have not start ed to molt. 3. Hens that have bright red combs nnd wattles and bright eyes. 4. Well spread pelvic bones, good depth from lay bones to keel bono nnd vent soft and pliable. 5. I'ale shanks, benk and vent on nil breeds which have yellow shanks nnd skin. Use all of the test to be sure you get the good layers. SEXES SHOULD BE SEPARATED As Soon as Young Males Begin to Crow They Should Be Fattened for Market The young stock should not be rear ed nmong n flock of old birds. They should be kept separate. As soon as the young mnles nag and worry tho females (which is about the time they mart to crow) the sexes should be separated, and the mnles fed an extra allowance of food. The cockerels can be mnted to the hens without fear of bad effects from inbreeding. ' FURNISHSHADErN SUMMER Chicks, Poults, Duckllngo and Goa llngt Must Have Ample Shade During Hot Weather. If the ground thnt the chicks, poults, ducklings and goslings range over during tlie summer h grass land browned by the bent of the sun and affording no tender green food, bo sure that the youngsters hnve ample shnde nnd one good feed of fresh, ten der green food every day.
