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BIG INCREASE IN MORTGAGES Nebraska Bond Examiner Makes Report on 1931 Filings Lincoln, Neb.—(Special)—Farm mortgage* filed during 1931 totaled more than $16,000,000 move than those filed in 1930. according to a report compiled by State Bond Ex aminer Lawrence for the state aud itor's office. The report also shows that 36 counties reported more farm mortgages cancelled than were filed. City and village mortgages tiled amounted to $35,451,550. which is nearly $5,000,000 more than were released. Chattel mortgages filed totaled $231,799,917. being $65,077,732 more than were released during the year. A total of 15,464 farm mortgages were filed, 12,693 city and town, 239,591 chattel, which makes a grand total of 237,088 for the year, while 12,543 farm mortgages were released, 13,710 city and town, and 146,904 chattels, or a total of 173 263. ROAD WORK TO NEEDY FARMERS Activity to Commerce in North Nebraska as Soon as Weather Permits Lincoln, Neb. -(Special)— Al though no date haw been set for work to begin on roads In the drought stricken nrear, Governor Bryan has stated that hand and team labor will again be used as eoon as weather will permit. Where the work begun last fall is com pleted or nearly so, new projects will be begun ana the some rules regarding employing and rotating of farmers and teams are to be ap plied. Governor Brvan said the staff engineer has been instructed to start work as soon as possible in order to supply work lor formers to carry them over until spring. Hundreds of farmers and their horses will in this way be employed and the money paid out for such R'ork will afford the farmers an in rome to build up the physical con dition of their horses for putting in spring crops. Some roads built up in this man ner will receive attention long be fore their turn, but the farmers ore thus enabled to earn money without humiliation. Plans are afoot to include the northern part, of Antelope county northwestern Dixon county, and in Thurston county work will be pro vided on thr road near Mncv and Winnebago. TELES HOW HOPPER FtJGS MAY HE DESTROYED Lincoln. Nrb. — (Special) —Great numbers of grasshopper eggs can be destroyed if the soil in which the egg* were laid last fall can be disked lo a depth of two inches by early March or plowed deeply before April 1. M. H. Swenk of the Ne braska agricultural college says in his fourth grasshopper report re leased to newspapers. Experimentally it has been shown that in fields cultivated so as to more or less disturb and break up the egg pods, fully 80 per cent of the eggs do not hatch. Most of those that do hatch come from pods not thoroughly broken up. Deep plowing followed by thor ough packing of the plowed land will cover up the eggs so deeply that the hatching grasshoppers can not get out of the ground. Disk ing should be so well done that the egg pods are broken up and ex posed to moisture and alternate freezing and thawing this spring. More effective work could have been done last fall but there may still be time this spring. If possible the eggs ehould be exposed by March 1 or plowed under by April 1. The difficulty farmers will en counter in putting these recommcn tialions into practice will be to reach all of the grasshopper eggs with farm tools. Professor Swenk says. The grasshoppers lay very few of their eggs in Well cultivated fields. They prefer weedy fields, fence rows, weed patches, thin al falfa and buffalo grass sod. pasture, ditch banks, roadsides, rallrond rlghts-of-way. dry lagoons, rough land and similar places. Burn ing off such places will destroy large number of other In sects but not the grasshopper cg-js. since they are too deeply lnbeddpd In the soil. Professor Swenk’s complete report has been mailed to all county agents end several hundred other indlv.d uals on a special mailing list at the agricultural college. Anyone inter ested in reading the complete report can ser it at Uis county agent's of fice or Ret a copy of It by writing lo the agricu’Cuial college, Linceln. MUCH COBS SHIPPED IN BY WINSIDE FAKMEBS Winside, Neb.—(Special)—Ab*ut i??l.000 bushels of corn have been chipped intrt Winside since Septem ber 1. This is due to the. drought ■which caused a r».;it«ge of crop* here. Most of the corn came from Nebraska, but a little came from lo va. In 1928 more corn was chipped in than this but at that time more feeding was done. In 192i) a bump er crow wus grown and much com i was chipped out. - THIS CURIOUS WORLD - } r "■ ^ " "IT -'if .. - ' :' ln '""""'"'A The SUN, Al HOOH, on A CLMARJ>Xi. IS otNcxepowe^. Chartres, •,. FRANCE",.. lue SpIRBS of NoTre qamb CaTHEDRAc WBR£ QOU.J IN DIFFERENT* cenToGies.^, The Tweifth, and StxJeenTA, AND ARE. Different in architectorg. e t»u tv mm senvicr. IMC. geeTleS* Neve* ZASTeo ftoTAToa5* until. 1059 ?<ggs&> Surprise Duet in Congress9 Halls Proves National Anthem ‘Singable9 BY SUE M S AMARA Washington — <AP) — Two so pranos helped "The Star-Spangled Banner" over the barrier of con gressional sanction as the official national anthem. More than a year ago they ap parently proved to a house commit tee that the song is "singable" by vaulting triumphantly over the hign note hurdle. One of the last acts of the Sen ate before adjournment of the 71st Congress was to pass a bill making I it official. The house previously had passed the bill and President Hoo ver has signed it. Controversy has raged over the song for years. Musicians, poets, patriots and politicians argued and sang and all but swore over its • si inability." Finally in January, 1030, the song's supporters, several hundred strong, descended on the capital and secured a hearing before the House judiciary committee. Battle-scarred warriors declaimed London Benefactor Offers Million For Dance Hall and Petting Palace London — <AP) — London Is i about to have a public petting pal ace, officially recognized as such A "wealthy Impresario" has of fered to put up the $1,000,000 or more needed to build a "winter gar den for young lovers,” and George Lansbury, first commissioner of works, is delighted with the idea. "The man behind the proposition wants to build a great concert and dance hall, and is willing to include the winter garden In order to gain his object.” Mr. Lansbury explained, "'nie garden would be free, while the charge for the concerts and dances would enable the scheme to pay. Your Children 11 V_/ By Olive Roberts Barton All over tlie United States trees are being planted to com- j memorate the two hundredth an- i nlversary of the birth of George Washington and in almost all cases school children are actively inter- | ested in the work. In Bennington, Vermont, five j miles of English elms are being set out this year in honor of the memory of the Father of Our Country. The Southland, perfect at this time of year for tree planting, is 1 very busy. Six hundred high school pupils in Jacksonville, Fla. ; have set out one thousand forest trees along a country highway. Other school children in other cities are not only co-operating in the purchase of young saplings, but are actually engaged in plant ing them by the thousands. Many of the states are furnish ing the memorial plates or tags free of charge and are helping in other ways with the work in this February until Thanksgiving” festival. A Fitting Memorial Could anything be more fitting or magnificent than this tree planting program? George Wash ington was a lover of trees and some of the monarehs at Mount Vernon still stand that were there when the soldier and statesman had turned his sword to a plow share and retired to spend his de clining years on his Virginia es tate. As spring approaches our north Frenchman Claims Credit for Periscope Parts— iUP> —T'.i« submarine periscope was not invented by Sir Howard Grubb. Englishman, as generally believed, but by a Frenchman, according to a state ment made before the French Academy of Sciences. M. Jean Key, French inventor, claimed that he himself conceived the first periscope and." that it was used aboard the French sub marine a.vmnote, in 1881. At that time; he sssej England iiud no eloquently of what the song had meant to them In the way of In spiration. Tears glimmered in many eyes. A navy band played the stir ring notes. Mrs. Elsie Jorss-Reilley of Wash ington was to sing the song. She tooic her place beside the band and started: “O Say Can You See?" By the time she had reached “The Twilight’s Last Gleaming,” the crowd w’as aware of another clear soprano among the specta tors. She was Mrs. Grace Evelyn Boudlin of Baltimore. Carried awav by the sentiment of the occasion, 6he let her voice ring out on the high notes. The impromptu singer made an impression. If a woman in the audience could get past those high notes, the song must be all right, the committee perhaps reflected. At any rate, the committee re ported out the bill, and paved the way for the song’s official adoption. “I want to see some place in Lon don where young couples can 'feel at home'—and yet not feel at home, if you know what I mean. Court ing in the parlor or in the kitchen ia sometimes embarrassing.” Mr. Lansbury. who is 72. recalled that in his courting days there were only the public-house, the home or the streets and to be alone "my sweetheart and I used to walk the streets for miles and miles." So far he has been unable to ac cept the plan in full, but the wealthy donor—whose name is un rcvealed—is willing to accept al ternatives, he said. The greatest difficulty is to find a suitable site. ern teriltories, great plans are under way for similar memorials. As in Vermont, many communi ties have already begun the work. The American Tree Association is going to have a busy summer, I am sure. I have been thinking that one good way to commemorate Wash ington’s birthday in schools is to tell the children about his ability as a naturalist, as well as that of a soldier and a statesman. Have you ever been to Mount Vernon where George and Martha Washington are buried? They are not buried really, but lie in open tombs in simple stone sarcophagi where the shade of forest trees falls over them. If they were alive they could stand and gaze down a gently sloping hillside to the beautiful Potomac they both lo.ed so well. A Lover of the land Washington loved the land and everything it bore Recently we drove through Fredricksburg. Va., near where he wras born, and many of the old trees under which he played as a bov are still there in the grand old town. As a very young man he was sent on a liazadous errand to the commander of the English forces west of the Pennsylvania Moun tains. Also as a surveyor he went out into that wilderness. That took courage. If you have crossed those mountains on a smooth paved highway, have you ever tried to conceive what it meant to blaze trail through virgin for est and wilderness thick with In dians, and where to be lost meant death? At Rny rate, it is a fitting ges ture to commenorate his birth by planting trees and it won't be long now until spring. underwater craft and the British government disapproved of them M. Roy attributed the perfection of the marine periscope to another Frenchman. Jules Carpentier. who constructed his model in 1897. He concluded by saying that other na tions have since copied the princi ple of the Carpentier periscope. -—« «—--— Office Hoars. From Nebe’spalter, Zurich. Mistress: Mary, I saw a man kiss ing you last night. Was it the post man or the policeman? Maid; Was it before or after 8 o'clock. WAS ON FAMOUS MONITOR IN HISTORIC BATTLE Pcnca, Neb.—In enfeebled health. James H McKenzie, who is believed to be the sole survivor of the Mon itor's crew, observed his 91st birth day at the county farm here. Mc Kenzie embarked on his maritime career v,hen he was 15. sailing on % British merchant ship which was oommanded by an uncle. He visited many countries of the world and silled around Cape Horn twice. He helped bring slaves to the United States before the Civil war. In 1861. when the war broke out, he left a Britisn merchant vessel at Brooklyn and enlisted in the union navy in place of anothpr man who was drafted and who paid McKenzie tp serve for him. Of the historic battle between the Monitor and the formidable Mer rimac, fought March 9, 1862, he can give a good account. MANY FARMERS IN BAD PLIGHT North Nebraska Relief Group Points Out Typical Cases in Territory Norfolk, Neb. — (Special) — The desperate plight in which scores of north Nebraska farmers now find themselves as the result of the rav ages of grasshoppers last year and as the result of abnormally dry weath er ror the past two or three years was pointed out at the neadquarters here of the North Nebraska Drought Relief association with the case of one particular farmer being cited as an example. The case presents the problem which is facing the territory asso ciation officials say, and so far there has been no workable solu tion offered. The case cited was as follows: A farmer in north Nebraska is two years past due on his farm mort gage payments. The loan company does not want to foreclose the mort gage until absolutely necessary. The farmer has 80 pigs which are mortgaged at the bank. The farm er is out of feed, has net money and cannot get any money. The loan company suggested that he sell some pigs and start over again on a smaller scale. The farm er asked permission of the banker to sell some of the hogs. The bank er refused to allow the sale because the price of hogs is too low and told the farmer his only hope was to get help from the Red Cross. The Red Cross was willing to help the farmer carry 10 head of hogs if he would apply for a gov ernment loan feed. To get a gov ernment feed loan the farmer had to get a waiver from his banker. If the banker signed the waiver he ^ rouid not rediscount the paper with the federal reserve hank. The farmer says, “My hands are tied. All I can do is to turn my farm over to the loan company and turn my stock over to the bank. I can’t sit and watch them starve to death. The banker says: “I owe it to my community to keep my bank sol vent .1 can’t run a charitable in stitution. If I am forced to take the stock I will just have to sell it and take my loss.” The relief worker says: “The banker ought to let the farmer sell the stock down to the Red Cross standard and try to keep the man on the farm. There is the problem, declares the relief organization. What is the answer? NEBRASKA POTATO SHIPMENTS DECREASED Lincoln, Neb.— (UP)—Potato ship ments from the 1931 Nebraska crop total 6.9G8 cars to date as compared to 8,107 cars shipped on the cor responding date a year ago. The figures arc from compilations by the state and federal division ot agricultural statistics. Production of certified seed po tatoes fell off for Nebraska dur ing the last year, but showed an increase for the country as a whole, the statistician’s report show's. Shipment of potatoes has been ir considerable volume in recent weeks but indications are it will fall well below the record shipment of 9,160 cars from the 1930 season crop. WAGE CUTS ACCEPTED BY EWING TEACHERS Ewing. Neb —(Special)— The lo cal school board has voted a wage cut of approximately 5 per cent for 1 next year. The largest cuts were | given to those with the largest sal aries. The entire school staff was | re-elected and all have accepted ex cept the primary teacher. CONCORD PHONE LINE PAID SMALL DIVIDEND Lincoln, Neb.—(Special)—The an nual report of the Farmers and Merchants Telephone company of Concord, which has been filed with the state railway commission, shows totai assets of $21,926; total out standing stock, $7,400; total reven ues, 02.702.75; total expenses, $2, 7C7.30; net earnings, $469.72; divi dends paid. $186. The report shows a total of 217 subscribers at the end of the year, a loss of five over the previous year. John Vollers is pres ident of the company, E. J. Hugh es. secretary, treasurer and man ager. FIFTY YEARS OLD BUT STILL A HOME BOY Ainsworth, Neb. — (Special) — There is no place like home to Earl McCoy, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. McCoy, fanners four miles south of Ainsworth, who has never been away from the home of his parents longer than nine days at a time. He is 50 years old. An army of students swept sev eral inches of snow off the gridiron here just before the Gonzaga Washington State football battle November 21. Tales of Real Dogs 3v Albert Payson Terhune £' :jmjr iy^TWTWPnl**hm.i IB *•' He Was Grimily Dirty '3 was white and furry; all ex cept his head which was dark and lurry. Also he was grimily dirty and his soft coat was a regular Happy Hunting Ground for a mil lion fleas. But his eyes were steadfast and » wise. There was a brain behind their brown depths, if only some human would take the trouble to find it. For the rest, he was just a quar ter-grown puppy of no particular breed. Where he came from 1 don’t know. I don't even know the name of the sobbing little ill dressed boy who hauled him along the streets of Brooklyn by a frayed string. His story begins on the day when the little boy chanced to see L. T. Miller, a stalwart young Brooklyn man, go into a grocery store. The child took one good look at Miller’s strong face; then followed the man into the grocery, dragging the grimily dirty white pup behind him. Up to the counter the boy whim peringly dragged his puppy. There he accosted the surprised Miller. “Mister," piped the youngster, trying to choke back his sobs at the prospect of losing his four legged pet, “Mister, my mother says this dandy pup of mine is all full of fleas and she says I gotta get rid of him. Know anybody who wants a grand cog? He's awful cute. Aw, wont you take him, Mister?" Now if Miller had been the aver age man, he would either have laughed at the tearful child and looked disgustedly at the dirty pup, or he would have paid no heed to the pitiful pleading. But Miller happened to be gifted with a heart and with a rare insight into dog nature. Long and making Pal think it was all a won derful game he was playing. This was not Miller's first dog, by any means. He knew how such animals should be handled and taught. Besides, he had an endless fund of patience and common sense. And patience and common sense are the two needful rules for training any dog. Moreover, Pal happened to be one dog in a hundred, as regarded quick teachableness. So the educa tion went on happily for both mas ter and pupil. carefully he studied the puppy. He read what lay benind the steadfast brown eyes. He ended his scrutiny by taking the frayed string leash from the boy’s hand, and slipping a green banknote into that same hand. Then he led the puppy to his own home. On the way, he decided to name his new dog “Pal." That was the beginning. First of all. Miller washed and scrubbed the pup and got rid of his army of hungry fleas. Then he gave him a big supper and put him to bed on an old coat in a corner of the kitchen. Next day. Miller set himself to winning Pal’s confidence and love, and the obedience which every dog is eager to give the human whom he loves and trusts. In a few days Pal was a happy one man dog: and L. T. Miller was the “one men." Then began the long and jolly task of educating Pal. Not by beatings or by kicks or by starv ing or by conlusing and bellow ing at the canine pupil: but by "First of all.” said Miller after ward, “as Pal grew a little older I taught him gradually to “speak” for his food, and then to sit at at tention. and then to walk between my legs." From these simple stunts, the education progressed to harder t ones. But the process was so gradual that Pal took it all as a game. He loved to do his increas ing number of tricks: and to show off before strangers, and to be praised and rewarded for his work. Before he was a year old, he could walk around a chair or table on his hind legs any number of times he was commanded to. He could “waltz" in dizzy circles. He could play dead dog or do a spec tacular imitation of a wounded SPECIAL ANESTHETISTS URGE St. Louis, Mo.—(UP)—Two sci entists, Dr. Harvey McKay and Dr. R. ?>1. S. Barrett, in a treatise pub lished here, have pointed out the necessity of having specialists ad c: dm mister anesthetics. Modern methods, however, prevent most dangers, they found in studying 275 cases, in only 75 of which nau sea of extreme type resulted. FUND AID'S CONFERENCE Chapel Hill. N. C — (UP' — Through the generosity of tae Ro senwald fund, the Southern Confer ence cn Education, which hue. been dog. He could yawn or “talk oi bark at command. There were a score of other tricks he was able and happy to do. Then Miller went a bit further with him. He taught Pal to use no; only his trained memory, but his keenly alert brain, as well. For example: Pal learned the names of dif ferent articles. Miller would put on the floor a hat, a handkerchief, a stocking, a shoe and several other things. Then, without point ing to them or even looking at them, he would say the name of each article in succession. Instantly, Pal would pick out the thing that had been called for and lay it at Miller’s feet. He learned the names of all the Miller family and of their regular guests. At the speaking of any of these names he would trot up to the person mentioned, nibbling gently at him. (By the way, some dogs have a queer insight into the meanings of words. For instance, T proved past doubt that my fiery red collie, wolf, knew perfectly the differ ence between the significance of 6 common words. At my men tion of any one of these, he would pick up the object named or do the thing commanded. This I tested again and again in the presence of friends.) Some neighbor saw Pal qo ms long line of clever tricks and as sumed the dog had been taught them through cruelty. So he or she sent an anonymous complaint to the S. P. C. A., to the effect that Pal was tortured. Mr. Merrill Hitchcock, (secre tary of the S. P. C. A. and a friend of mine), sent for Miller. Miller obeyed the summons and took Pal along. The deg went through his whole repertory of stunts lor Mr. Hitchcock’s benefit. The secretary saw at once that the dog loved his master and that Pal did his tricks for the sheer pleasure of doing them. So Hitch cock arranged for him to take part in S. P C. A. performances at schools and elsewhere. This was not Pal's first series of public performances. Already Mil ler had shown him at several benefits, etc. The cnce-unwanted dog was a professional entertain er, now; and was earning his keep, over and over, by his stage ex ploits. Presently, Pal was star in a dramatic program which included among its other actors a canary, a parrot and a cot—all of them taught and exhibited by Miller. The last time l heard of Pal, he was still making children laugh delightedly at orphanage benefits and in hospital wards. Yes, the wise white dog had earned his right to live; end he was doing something to make the world hap pier. Perhaps this has not seemed to you a very exciting tale. But it shows what even a forlorn baby mongrel can grow into, under the | right kind of teaching. ETCHINGS. The scroll of a vine with its dainty fronds, A tracery, faint, of fern; The luster of pearls on a velvet tray, The diamonds, white, that burn. The trunk of a tree and the branch ing limbs. With the leaves of costly lace; The silver spray from a fountain Bay, The lines of an elfin face. Phantasmagoria? Well, perhaps! You will find it all embossed. When the winter sun illumes the pans— The artistry of the frost. —Sam Page. All One-Sided. From Answers. Mi's. Peeke; We have been mar ried over a year now, and we never ; quarrel. If a eiiference of opinion arises and I am light, Henry al ways gives in immediately. Mrs. Becke: And if he is right? "Oh, that hasn't happened yet.” Carefully Worded. From The Humorist. ‘ You said you’d give me a check for $25,000 when I married your daughter.” Why! Sure! For $25,000 I'd give anybody a check!” held at the University of North j Carolina for the last four years, | will be held again next year. Next year’s conference will be held in Atlanta, in the fall, on dates to ba determined later. J A Sore Point. From Answers. "John, you didn’t shave this eve ning.” "I know. Mar;-, but I shaved this morning, and it makes mv face sore ! if r shave twice in one day.” "Well, it makes my face sere j when you shave once.”