BEAR MEETS
•LOCAL” GIRL
Berlin —(UP> — A droll instance
of "carrying coals to Newcastle’’ is
revealed following the return to
Berlin of a German-American ex
pedition which made a film in the
Arctic.
The expedition needed a polar
bear. Not just an ordinary polar
bear, but a well-behaved beast, of
good appearance, and not too
fractious in front of a camera. A
Gary Cooper or Clark Gable of the
rpecies, in brief.
Where could such a bear be ob
tained? In Germany there is one
outstanding answer to such a
question. Hage.nbaek, In Ham
burg! Hagenback, of course, is one
of the world’s most renowned col
lector of wild animate. At 10
minutes notice, he can supply
anything from a gila monster to a
trained flea.
So the expedition went to Ha
genbark. They got a big. white,
friendly bear, nattily tailored and
with the manners of a Chester- ]
fied, bundled him aboard ship,
and carried him thousands of
miles north to the land of eternal
snow. Back to the land from
which he came, or — presuming he
was born In Hamburg — of which
ha had probably heard at his
mother’s knee.
Last reports of the creature as
he scampered hither and yon in
the true habitat of a polar bear
were that, while he had a home
sick look in his eye, he had met
one of the local girls up north,
who induced him to stay a while.
The Brass Collar Shattered.
From the Fort Worth Press.
If the people of Texas really be
lieved in the sacredness of the par
ty pledge, or the fetish of party
loyalty, the vote for governor
would have been on the order of
seven or eight to one, democratic.
Instead, the returns show that
the actual vote was more on the
order of six to four. Something like
200.000 democrats, when returns are
complete, will be shown to have
voted for Orville Bullington. The
vast majority of these voted in the
democratic primary.
We do not believe that these 200,
000 democrats are inferior in ethics
or honor to those democrats who
“voted her straight." The former
constituted, in effect, a jury which
rejected the plea of the sacredness
of the party pledge.
If you say that some 450,000 or
500.000 ether democrats upheld the
sacredness of the party pledge, we
answer that if Sterling had been
the democratic nominee, many or
most of the 450,000 would have
been found voting republican.
This is backed up by the letter
received by Bullington from a
Ferguson leader in a northern
county when it seemed Sterling had
won the democratic nomination
The Ferguson leader offered to
“shell the woods" for Bullington
As it turned out. of course, he
“shelled the woods” for the Fergu
sons. and probably used the sacred
ness of the party pledge as his big
gun.
The truth about the party pledge,
from the ethical standpoint, is that
It att'unots to bind the consciences
of men bv legal fiat.. This is some
thing which is revolting to free
men. which they have never ac
cepted and they never will. You can
.say: “You must not," only of crimes
or of moral misdemeanors which
are generally accepted as such by
the majority, haw is only custom
made visible. When you attempt to
bind the individual conscience, you
will always fail—and you should.
Any “immorality” surrounding the
pledge proposition was the immor
ality of passing it.
From the practical standpoint, of
course, the full acceptance of the
party pledge dictum would bind
Texas’ voters forever by the brass
collar to the chariot wheels of party
boss ism.
That bossism will always inevit
ably look ridiculous and forlorn in
seeking to unhold the sacredness of
the party pledge—a la “Jim" Per*
guson.
ONE OR T’OTHER
Real knee length hair is most as
rare
As mediaeval wimples;
And growing scarcer, too, each day,
Are those bewitching dimples.
These gifts of Venus come, they say,
From tranquil lives and nerves;
They’re not for her who stunts in
air,
Nor through the traffic swerves.
Beauticians make that schools girl
cheek
And lcvely throat, with simples;
But the most skillful of the lot.
Cannot put in the dimples.
So listen girls. Marie and Bess,
Jane, Geraldine and Anna:
This Is a case for quoting Burns—
“Ye hae them—or ye hanna.’’
—Sam Page.
FRANCE REMEMBERS
Paris — No deed of valor goes
Unrecognized in France. Two years
ago Major Dieudonne Coste and
Maurice Hellenic made a successful
Atlantic airplane crossing from Par
is to New York. France has just
erected n monument to the two men
at Saint Valery en Caux. They were
present, at the dedication.
AMERICANS PLUNDER EUROPE
Philadelphia — (UP) — Ameri
can women have plundered the
fashion and beauty of Europe to
make them attractive and well
dressed, according to Baroness
Tamara Steinhill, of Paris, who
spoke to a group of women here.
Title of ‘ Duck Hunter
Superlative” Claimed
Fort Worth, Tex. — (UP) —
Deputy Sheriff Ralph Martin
claims the title “Duck Hunter Su
perlative” after killing his game
without firing a shot.
While staking out a cow one
morning, a duck with a clipped
wing flopped at his feet. He con
cluded the ’ hunt” by wringing its
neck.
There are about 295 navigable
streams in the United States.
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AIR EXPRESS
CUTS RATES
New York —tUP>— Air-express
tariff rate rcductons affecting
11,266 miles of air-express service
of the Railway Express Agency,
Inc., from coast to coast and from
Canada to the Gulf were an
nounced by the general offices here.
The new schedule, effecting re
ductions of from 15 to 30 per cent,
is the fourth issued since the in
auguration by the Railway Ex
pre-s Agency of its air-express
service six years ago. Fractional
weights of three ounces, or less,
are discarded, under the provi
sions of the revised tariff, while
weights four to 12 ounces, inclu
sive, are treated ns one half pound
and those over 12 ounces as a full
pound.
Air-express traffic moving be
tween nearly 100 important cities
of the country is affected by the
new rates, which are operative
over six major air routes, They are
the United Air Lines, operating
from New York, via Chicago, to
San Francisco, and their opera
tions, Chicago to Dallas and Fort
Worth. Tex., the Carney Air Lines,
Salt Lake City to Seattle and
along the Pacific Coast, San Diego
to Seattle; the National Parks Air
Express, Salt Lake City to Los
Angeles; Cheyenne to El Paso and
Pueblo to Amarillo; the Northwest
Airways, Chicago to Minneapolis
and St. Paul, Fargo and Grand
Forks, N. D., and Winnipeg, via
Pembina, N. D.; the Kohler Avia
tion Corporation's Milwaukee
Detroit Airline, and the Rapid Air
Transport’s Omaha-Kansas City
St. Louis route.
Lloyd George Given
Carnegie Pension
London —(UP)— David Lloyd
George, Britain’s "Grand Old
Man” of the war, receives a pen
TOY MICROPHONES INJECT
NEW LIFE INTO “PARTIES”
Kansas City — (UP) — ihc
boy who used to be the life of the
party with water shooting flower
in the lapel of his coat has a new
racket here as a result of the po
lice radio system.
“Officers, pick up Bill Doe, last
seen drinving a green sedan, Mis
souri license number such-and
such, wanted for wife desertion
and chicken theft,” a radio will
announce at a party where Bill
Doe is appearing, probably with
out his wife.
"Pick up Mrs. Flossie Roe driv
ing a yellow coupe, license number
so-and-so, wanted on charges of
disorderly conduct, driving while
intoxicated, transportation and
possession of liquor and resisting
an officer,” the sonorous announc
er may continue.
Mrs. Roe, perhaps a little hi
larious, and the philandering Doe
will become highly embarrassed at
first and then likely as not will
rush to the telephone and inquire
irately for the basis of the charges
broadcast.
The police will know nothing
about the matter. The other
guests, at least some of them, will
be laughing, however, over the use
of a new radio gadget which per
sion of $10,000 yearly from the
U. S., according to “Everyman.”
Lloyd George and John Burns,
it is claimed, are Carnegie political
pensioners.
When Andrew Carnegie became
a British Radical and controlled
several Radical newspapers, he Is
said to have endowed four Rad
cals. Two of them are Lloyd
George and John Burns. The other
two were the late Lord Morley and
the late Thomas Burt, who was a
Member of Parliament. The pen
sion granted to “L. O.,” as the
wartime Prime Minister of Britain
is sometimes called, was $10,000.
Burns receives $5,000 annually.
mils any practical joker to |
"broadcast" anything he pleases ,
over his radio set.
When police receive calls from ■
angered victims they advise them
to look about the houS3 and see if |
there isn’t a small home micro- i
phone and some equipment in an«
other room. There usually is.
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Keeper Finds Pikes
Peak Is Shorter
Colorado^ Springs, Colo. —(UP) —
Pikes Peak isn’t what it used to be. j
It’s four inches shorter. It has j
shrunk.
Lawrence Cockrell, veteran em
ploye of th esummit house., w'ho
has spent enough time on the
14,000-foot peak to total five
years, dscovcred that the peak
had shrunk when he placed the
steel door on the summit house
and locked it up for the winter.
It seems that there is a sub
terranean peak of ice underlying
the summt of the peak, and be
cause of tho unusually hot, dry
summer, a considerable portion of
this ice melted, and the whole top
of the peak settled four inches.
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Old Muzzle-loading
Rifle Barrel Found
Hamilton, Mont. — (UP) — The
barrel of an old muzzle-loading
rifle, possibly dropped by some
member of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition through Montana, has
been found by E. J. Kc.rlee on the
Kcrlee ranch, near Darby, Mont.
The name “McLain,” some iliig
ible lettering, and a Scottish coat
of arms still are visible on the
barrel, as well as the sights and
marks of other attachments.
Kerlee used the barrel as a
crowbar for some time before no«
ticing the lettering.
How They Solved a “Thorny” Problem
It is quite a job for a doctor to treat an ailing porcu
pine, what with the latter’s needle coat. So when it
became necessary to minister to this prickly pig,
John Merritts, of the Bronx Zoo, New York, devised
the “restrainer” shown above. The device permits
only the head of the animal to emerge, so the doctor
can do his stuff without himgelf becoming a subject
for medical aid.
laconic Association to
Hold Annual Meeting
Gillette, Wyo. — (UPi — Mem
bers of the Northwestern Wyoming
Masonic Association will hold
ihcir annual meeting here in 1933.
The exact date of the conclave
has not yet been decided but it
probably will either be held in
June or October.
Officers of the association are
Jack Range, Sheridan, president;
ind W. W. Tcetery, Sun Dance,
secretary. Lodges at Hulett, Buf
falo, Gillette, Upton Newcastle
nnd two at Sheridan are included
in the association.
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Detectives Use Sdt
To Catch Burglars
P.:(blo. Colo.. — (UP) — Three
Pueblo detectives used salt to
catch a couple of burglars.
The burglars broke into a gro
cery store and stole a quantity of
supplies, including the salt.
The salt sack leaked — and all
the lour officers had to do was
to follow the trail from the gro
cery store right to the front door ;
of the house where the two bur
glars went.
The officers found them, with
a half a sack of salt left, in the
house.
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TWO-HEADED SNAKE CAUGHT
Fort Worth, Tex. — (UP) —
Buck Wolfe pulled in his minnow
net and saw snakes, one with two
heads. Fangs darted from two
mouths and four eyes glared.
Wolfe took the freak water moc
casin home, and put it in a fruit
jar of alcohol in order that the
skeptic might believe.
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SOIL FERTILITY
It seems as If there Is no more
iomplex subject than the soil. Its
bthavloi under different treatment
reminds us of what a learned pro
fesseor once said about the cow,
' Sometimes she does, sometimes site
doesn't, sometimes she does nei
ther.” Treat two types of soil in
practically the same way and they
seem to respond differently. Of
course, there are general, well de
fined soil practices, but to secure
the best crops requires a close study
of every field. This is why farming
is one of the most interesting and
perplexing industries. The more we
understand soils, the less we seem
to know about them and the more
questions arise in our minds as to
the best procedure to get them to
do their best. One field grew alsikc
one year. The following year it was
planted to corn and yielded a poor
crop. The next year it produced a
good barley crop and this year the
field is back In corn. A larger por
tion was treated with fertiliser con
taining a little nitrogen, consider
able phosphorus, and some potash.
The corn that was fertilized is ex
cellent; that receiving no fertilizer,
fair to goed. In discussing witli
those informed on soil fertility the
reasons why this field has not
yielded ntore generously, they con
cluded it is what they termed "ni
trogen bound.” Just why soils do
that, nobody seems to know, but the
use of a little nitrogen has made
all the difference in the world in
the crop of corn; it means consid
erably more tons of feed per acre.
This field seems to have enough ni
trogen available to produce a good
crop of barley but not enough for
corn as it showed a splendid res
ponse when each hill of corn was
fertilized. It requires a close study
on the part of the farmer of every
field of his farm If fertilization is
to be done properly. Of course, good
barnyard manure can be applied to
most fields and will Invariably give
excellent results. It is fast being
realized, however, by the dairy far
mer that barnyard manure alone
is not sufficient to produce the best
yields of crops on all types of soil.
The job for the farmer is to learn
how to supplement manure nnd
legumes with commercial fci lillzcr
that will bring him the largest
orofits on his investment.
INCUBATORS FOR TIGS
By using incubator houses, one
poultry man manages to have 12 of
his sows farrow in January or
February. That enables him to mar
ket the pigs at 200 to 225 pounds
by August, by which time the same
mothers have brought forth their
second litters. Other sows are far
rowing in other months, so that no
matter when the market looks up
this farmer can find a truckload or
more of fat shotes ready. The in
cubator houses are the commercial
ly built six-sided affairs with room
for six sown each, and a hard-coal
heater in the center. For cold
weather the outside is banked high
with clean sand that in warmer
time is spread out to make clean
j sun-pen areas. Each litter has its
own outside pen. In due time these
pigs are taken out to a 20-acre red
clover field where warm-weather
litters are farrowed. Here all pigs
have the common run, eat ear corn
and self-feeder materials, and graze
the field that also provides a mow
ful of hay. Such management as
this outwits the worst markets. He
says he can make some money on
five-cent pigs because no land is
devoted exclusively to them and be
cause, also, he feeds mostly home
grown stuff. Tankage and mineral
are all the extras he buys. And the
same winter brooder houses that
start his year right become homes
for baby chicks when spring arrives.
Thus the houses, the same as the
clover, serve more than a single
purpose. Scrubbing with disinfect
ant makes the houses safe for the
changes.
1856 AND 1P32
Those who think we are passing
through an unusual period in his
tory only need to make a survey of
the past to find that we have had
similar situations. Pehips at no
time in the world’s history have
tliere been so many nations in tnc
throes of despair as at present, but
if we will review our nation's prog
ress. we will find that the years
1837. 1857, 1873, and 1893 were times
much the same as we are now ex
periencing. Here is an editorial
which appeared in Harper's Weekly
76 years ago: ‘‘It is a gloomy mo
ment in h.story. Not for many years
—not in the lifetime of most men
who read this paper — has there
been s6 much grave and deep ap
prehension; never lias the future
seemed so incalculable as at this
time. In our own country there is
universal commercial prostration
and panic, and thousands of our
poorest fellow-citizens are turned
out against the approaching winter
without employment and without
prospect of It. In' France the politi
cal caldron see.thes and bubbles
with uncertainty; Russia hangs, as
usual, like a cloud dork and silent
upon the horizon of Europe; while
all the energies, resources, and in
fluences of the British Fmulre are
sorely tried, and are yet to be tried
more sorely in coping with the vast
i and deadly Indian insurrection and
with its disturbed relations in
r YI Alt’s GARDEN
Now is a good time to get the gar
den in condition for best results
next year. If you have had any
j serious insects or diseases it will
• probably be bc.st to burn all refuse.
Otherwise, it will be best to plow
it under in order to save the organ
ic matter. In any case, plow the soil
in the fall, especially for the early
vegetables. Another good way to
handle the weeds and refuse is to
reduce them to a compost. First
place a layer of refuse, then add a
thin layer of manure, and so on
until 5 or 6 ft. high is built up. In
the absence of manure, use smill
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China. It is a solemn moment, and
no man can feel an indifference
(which happily no man pretends to
feel) In the issue ol events. Of
our own troubles no man ran sea
the end. They are fortunately, ns
yet, mainly commercial; and, if we
arc only to lose money and by pain
ful poverty to b- taught wisdom —
the wisdom of honor, ot faith, of
sympathy, nnd of charily no man
need seriously to despair. And yet
the very haste to be rirh, which is
the occasion of this widespread ca
lamity, has also tended to destroy
the moral forces with which we are
to resist and subdue the calamity."
This editorial should brim; etunur
agement to those who niay.fe* i lhat
our present s i nation i; helpless.
Alter every period of depression,
which our nation has experienced
we have emerged stronger ami bet
ter. In all such periods adjustments
are made w hich are cam ntial tc
meet new inventions, scientific dis
coveries. and new ideals, i vt us not
grow panicky now, but rather be
directed to putting our own busi
ness in proper order. This will help
while the larger affair: of the na
tions me being adjusted.
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A.3VOK1MAL MILK FLAVORS
Every producer of market milk is
familiar with the fact that certain
stiong flavored feeds* may impart
objectionable flavors to m Ik. i-'ilage,
for example, when fed during tho
milking period, Is apt to give an
off-flavo" to the. milk. When fresh
ly drawn tmlk is left standing for
some turn in a barn -aturated with
silage odors, even though no silage
Is fed during the milking period. It
sometime-’ acquires an objcct'onable
flavor. CTf-flavors due to I.xd are
easy to get. rid of as r.oon ns tho
source ol the tro’ib' * in discovered.
That a cow In nil ndvannd stage
of lactation, or one that has given
milk cont nuously for ci>e ami ono
half to two years, may p.odure milk
with an often aye odor and Mayor,
even when given th b *l. of feed in
a well ventilated barn, la not no well
known. That such h eft i tin* case
was discovered by a leading ex
periment station last y<.:r. A milk
producer of that state, who owned a
herd of II cows, had his milk re
fused because it had an offensive
odor. He finally turned in his ex
periment station le t help. The sta
tion t.he.n tested iiolh the morning
and evening milk of each row in
the herd, and soon discovered that
one cow was responsible for tho
trouble. Sine- this row was Ivin;;
fed like the ether cows in the herd,
nnd was enjoying the l> P of health
according to apix-nrum -s, aval since
the herd milk hr.I been normal in
flavor some men!tin I .-foie the milk
was finally rejected, th,* off-flavor
was laid o the fact that tho row
which produced it had riven milk
continuously for 'Z'3 months fn suc
crjssion. The milk ot verr.l other
herds war later found to I * simi
larly off-flavor, *.rud In » a-.-h cast)
it was found that one or mere rows
in these herd.- laid ex -.ended lacta
tion pnioas. normally, it appears
that milk of \ cow which Ins been
in lactation for ll or 12 months
in succession do. s not show any
foreign f'avoir, but vh.u she has
been milking for IS i nths or
more, trouble often rets in. This is
a bit of information w !] worthy of
remembering.
VALUE Of' friUifJiikAVOR
Poultryrniserr, who an- engaged
! 'n the business on a large scale;
are lapidJy lyitirpir.g their plants
with incinerator!: Theso Incinera
tors are looked upon as bcin;? as
necessary to their pi nt .vs a weil
fillcd shelf i t pr.iJtry medicine*.
What does It p edit a poultry mm
to fight to cave hi; flock from da
nse, seendnly win the tattle ami
tnen have it bn/k out msrUv; later
because cl enrek■".ness in db i**rinr
of the do; il from the cplfLmno?
Many chu lenraisuss who use every
other precaution i i lighUii j disease
and prevent n t its v;.r... i through
their flocks me ah mrl. crim'nally
negligent in the ihsj of tho
chickens The rieu l bird;; may Imj
thrown awny liiro -o much sefu.vo
—on a garbage dump, nr on an
open bonfire, or in a clump of
weeds where stray (legs drag them
out again. Perhaps one or two
healthy chickens escape from their
pens, pick around wh» ~e the dead
carcass has been or stiM is, and then
the IIcca is down enco more. Cre
mating is the only effective way of
destroying not only the body that
contains the t;svn. ,, hut tho germs
themselves. Ami a modern inc’n
erator is a practical way of accom
plishing this. An open konftre won’t
do the job cf During as it rhou'd
be done. The carcass must bo
burned io a cinder, ;o that it pul
verizes, and dlrlnta ;r t on is com
plete. Irdncrator;, ran clthi r bo
bought or made by th poultryman,
though if ht under takes their < o »
struction he must ire careful to
build one Ihtt v/lll r..'!y acrim
plirh his purpose, otberw o he has
nothing rout a trasiiburncr. Fire
brick and cunont an h4’ best n»a~
terlals.
A\iO KBEr’ ONL7 "L'ST
Flndin and k«vp.;;.: in use tho
dairy culls of onvhuidinj h^red
ity for production is one of the
main comer i Up -i.sivc dairy
men who want to increase or at
least maintain a its e onab’-y high
level of production in their herds.
quantities re nitrate «l soda amt
superphosplud < The manure or
ccmtnercial fertilizer will supply
necessary nitrogen and phosphorus
for the oaclcria which bring about
dr composition arid thereby reduce
llio weeds and refuse to compost
much faster than would otherwise
be the case. Er sure to rake all
weeds, leaves uni vims from aiiout
fruit trees before vinter arrives, fn
order to avoid eericus Injury from
mice.
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Legumes and Ume arc tho geld
dust twins of agriculture.