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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1933)
CANADA FINDS j SLUMP WANING Toronto. Ont. —<UP)— Canada ts stirringg to new life and break ing the depression which has en meshed it for four years, statis tics show. » The employment figures for May show an increase over any month since September, 1931. From 7.998 key industries, payrolls have increased from 699.414 in April to 714.891 in May, 1933. In April. 1922. a total of 768 ves sels carrying a load of 912.999 tons of freight passed through Canadian canals. In April of this year 949 boats laclened with 1.062, 813 tons of freight passed through Fourteen new industries have spr’ng up since January. A shoe firm in Montreal found it difficult to find sufficient work ers to meet the labor demands. One shoe firm in Toronto is three months behind on its orders while another firm has increased its payroll by 10 per cent. Breweries through Ontario have increased their staffs and are working night and day in an ef fort to keep up with the orders coming in from the United States. Glorifying Yourself By Alicia Mart MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR SUMMER LEISURE Leisurely summer days are agrand time to get caught up on your beauty. You may not take prires any where for your looks. You may even have grown up with a »et of brothers and sisters who called you ugly. But if you really want to, you can make youioeli attrac tive. It is all in tr.e little things you do. I know a woman of 50 who is always the synosure of all eyes because she is so faultlessly groomed and well-dressed, and 1 know that her clothes do not cost her half what other women's do. She brushes her iro ngray hair nightly with all the loving care that a mother bestows upon the golden curls of her first born girl. She has worked out a marvelous coiffure for herself, a few little waved bangs on the left forehead, the rest of her hair rolled very softly back over the tops cf the ears (which incidentally are lovely cars and should be shown) into a roll all down the tack of her head, with no ends showing, every hair in place. Her face has that moist, dc-wy, healthy leek that life out in the open and the most persistent care of the skin gives a woman. Her stnake-up is always inconspicuous —you just think how fine she looks today! And her nails and hands are always meticulously cared for. She uses natural ena mel, not scarlet. Her clothes are neatness personified, soft, gracious things but practical. And she . wears white all the rime in sum mer and it always is absolutely immaculate. There’s a lesson in this 50-year old woman for every girl and wo man any age. It’s care that makc» you attractive! Government Hired All Indian Graduates Albuquerque,. N. M. — (UP) — College graduates may have diffi culty finding employment, but all of the 54 boys graduated in the 1833 class of the U. S. Indian school here have gone to work for the government. The Indian youths were em ployed in the emergency forest camps on Indian reservations as carpenters, laborers, timekeepers and interpreters. | Besides the 54 Indian boys, 45 girls received diplomas. Graduates represented the fol lowing tribes: I Acomas, 4; Apache, 2; Chey enne, 1; Cherokee, 1; Hopi, 11; ' Mojave. 1; Navajo, 45; Papago, 1; Piute, 1; Laguna, 6; Isleta, 5; Santa Clara, 3; Santa Ana, 2; 1 San Domingo, 2; San Juan, 1; | Taos, 7; Ute, 2: Zuni. 4. State School Farm Made $12,000 Profit Miles City, Mont. — <UP)_ A $12,000 profit for the fiscal year has been reported by the state in dustrial school farm, an audit by State Accountant William Hasking reveals. | The report was in sharp con trast with that for practically all other farms at state institutions the same period. Production values and crops sold were placed at $2C.929 29 while production costs amounted to $7.938 52. Nearly all vegetables * used at the school were produced! on the farm, and no beef has been purchased at the institut os i in nearly three years. i Stolen Bulbs Worried Director More Than C*/ Salt Lakv City. Utah — (UPi — Mrs Richard Kh tUng, a director j in n local gardens corporation, ex citedly reported to police that more than 100 biubs had been atol'en. "Where were they?’* an officer asked. "In my ear." the woman replied “Thcii the car is stolen ft!so,’* "Yes." was the answer, "but 1 %a« too worried the bulba to think of it" " Bombs Bursting in Air” Or rather, we should have said over the Fair. Here is the scene looking across the artificial lagoon at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposi tion as a brilliant display of fireworks told the world that the fair was open for business. Over 85,000 persons passed through the turnstiles on the opening day. DEPAIR FILE MODERN SONGS Philadelphia — (UP) — Modern songs are filed with a philosophy of despair and futility, in the ton, co-rector of the Protestant ton, corector of the Protestant Episcopal church in St. James. “We’re in a social slump,” he said, "and there has been a dim ming down of the sense of the worth of life. "The question most frequently demanded by youth today is a reason for life: a desire to know ‘what it's all about’.” Dr. Newton spends much time j lecturing to college students. "Recently I heard Rudy Vallee say that fcur out of nine of the popular songs tell of weariness, loneliness and futility,” he said. "I find in songs such expressions as ‘we’re dancing in the dark till the time ends—and it soon ends,’ and that ‘we’re waltzing in the wonder of why we’re here,’ and ‘that time hurries by and we are here and gone’.” Only Ten Per Cent Are Professional Criminals Auburn, N. Y. —(UP)— Only 10 per cent of the 4,000,000 per sons who have been or now are in prisons are professional criminals, according to Rev. George S. Scott, chaplain of Auburn prison. “There is not a man who has not violated some law, whether he is inside or outside of a prison,” Stott said, “but the prisoners usu ally are the first men to have been caught. The prisoner is no differ ent in prison than he is on the outside. The problem touches our pocketbooks to the tune of $400 a year to look after a prisoner, be sides his loss of income.” Man Was Attacked And Bit by Goldfish Springfield, Mo. — (UP) — R. W. Lochrie believes he is the only man living who has been bitten by a goldfish. The piscatorial at tack — to make the story better — occurred in the basement of the Lochrie home. During heavy rains, the Lochrie basement acquired from 6 inches to 3 feet of water. When Lochrie en tered the basement after a partic ularly heavy downfall to retrieve seme gadget for Mrs. Lochrie, he felt a nip on an ankle. He reached down and pulled from the water a goldfish. Search disclosed several other goldfish. Where they came from still is a mystery. The Lochries never kept the “fish bowl” variety and still don't believe it rains goldfish. Revision of Old Safety Rules Planned Indianapolis, Ind. — (UP) — A revision of police rules dating back to ‘‘horse and buggy days” is planned here by Charles R. Myers and Frank C. Dailey, president and member, respectively, of the safety board. Rules relating to barn ser geant, wagon men, mounted pa trolmen and bicycle officers, most of which ceased to exist before or when horses were banished from the force, are among those to be revised. Other regulations place a ban on visiting saloons and getting dumk. forbid policemen from apologizing for arrests, or carry ing a cane cr umbrella. Another j obsolete rule applies to station houses which no longer exist. Pheasant Drowned While Taking a Swim Kansas CitL — <UP) — Goo fas, a Chine!*, pheasant, has taken his last plunge. The unusual bird, until his life was cut short, amused and bothered workers at a form near here by his love of the water. Daily, Goofus would set bravely out to swim a small lake. Always he would shriek for help when ap proxu.nateiy half across the lake and would have to he rescued. Time after time he was rescued CATS ARE PALS OF LONE PIGEON Monona, la. —(UP)— Despite the fact that the meat of»a young pigeon, to a cat, is almost an ir resistable delicacy, a number of pet cats of the J. G. James farm here have adopted a young pigeon as their pal. The pigeon and the cats eat, sleep and sun themselves together with never a sign of uneasiness. The pigeon, until recently, was unable to fly because of a broken wing. In some manner, the crippled bird allied himself with the cat colony, and in stvte of his help lessness the cats made no effort to harm him. Now that his wing is on the mend, the little pigeon flies away now and then with his bird friends, but always returns to spend the night with the cats. Santa Barbara, Cal, eceived so many inquiries it is considering manufacturing for sale the metal policcmer developed to stand in the street and warn autoists of school crossings. To Wed Schmeling A new photo of Anna Ondra, Czech actress, whose engagement to Max Schmeling, German boxer, has been officially announced. Miss Ondra has been reported engaged, in the last few years, no less thun 18 times. Her suitors included a nobleman, a banker and American movie pro ducer. Just in t.me, and nuried back to health. The last Ume rescuers ar rived tco late. Goof us was pulled from the water, but the endeavors of the rescuers to resuscitate him were futile. CITY AC TS TO ^RELIEVE NEEDY Huntington, Mass. — (UP) — This little town hot: taken the de pression bull by the horns and begun operating th( village mill on a community basis to create Jobs for the townitolk. The woolen mill had been closed for years. OF INTEREST TO FARMERS _ -- - POISON PLANTS livestock men ere oiten puzzled ay mysterious losses of live stock. Animals often die in such a myster- j Lous manner that even the veterin arian cannot point definitely to the cause of the trouble. A thorough study of poisonous plants will often throw light on these vexing prob lems. During the past eight years a project has been under way that has she'd considerable light on the causes of these strange losses. Vet erinarians have long suspected that some form of plant poisoning was responsible for at least some of the live stock losses. With this in mind the veterinarians at Purdue joined forces with the botanists and as a result 420 farms on which local veterinarians reported losses of farm animals were inspected and on 242 of these farms toxic plants were located that were held respon sible for the loss of 614 sheep, 381 cattle, 191 hogs, 60 horses and mules, and 81 goats. The field work gave a practical viewpoint regarding the plants while feeding experiments conducted, demonstrated the pois onous character of the species un der suspicion. White snakcroot was found to be the most important poisonous plant. This is a common woodland species with opposite leaves, fibrous roots, and masses of handsome little pure white flowers that come into bloom during the late fall. From this innocent looking plant a poisonous principle called trematol has been extracted, a chemical that not only poisons live stock but in addition may enter the milk and cause human disease known as milk sickness. This is be lieved to be a malady that decima ted the pioneer population of the Ohio River Valley region during the *arly days, and it is held respon sible for the death qf Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln. Even to this day, although most of the land has been cleared, some hu man deaths occur every year from milk sickness. The amount of white snakcroot that animals can eat with safety varies greatly but in general about three pounds is us ually fatal to a sheep or a goat while about 10 pounds Is the lethal dose for a cow or horse. The first indication of trouble is marked list lessness followed by attacks of se vere trembling of so violent a na ture that the victim finally dies from weakness and exhaustion. In the human snakeroot poisoning, the chief characteristics are frequent vomiting of a greenish fluid, the presence of a sewer-gaslike odor on the breath, and symptoms of fever without a rise in temperature. Next to white snakeroot. the most im portant poisonous species is one that few farmers suspect, the common wild cherry. It has been found ex perimentally that the foliage of wild cherry, particularly on the young sprouts or when in a wilted condition, contains fatal quantities of highly dangerous prussic acid. So powerful is the prussic acid that a few drops of the pure liquid are deadly to any animal. Scores of in stances were found in which sheep, cattle, or horses died after eating wild cherry sprouts, particularly along fence rows, or after grazing on wilted wild cherry foliage from broken limbs cast into the pasture by storms or by telephone linesmen trimming the trees. Sprouts that de velop on the stump after a healthy tree has been cut down often cause trouble. The usual symptoms of cherry poisoning are staggering, dif ficult breathing, dilation of the eyes, convulsions, and falling, followed by coma and death. In many cases as small a quantity as one pound of wild cherry foliage may prove fa tal. Usually animals poisoned on cherry die so quickly that little can be done to save them. If time per mits, the administration of corn syrup and milk in quantity will prove beneficial. Probably next on the list of dangerous poisonous plants is the common farm weed, the ordinary cockiebur. The seeds and the young sprouts of this species are highly dangerous, particularly to pigs and sheep. Strange as it may seem, the plant is only poison ous in the two-Icaf stage, since the poison apparently disappears after the second pair of leaves unfold. Field work indicates that poisoning is most apt to occur along the banks ! of streams and on overflow land, particularly when the moist land begins to dry since it is then that the dangerous sprouts appear in largest numbers. The usual symp toms of cocklebur sprout poisoning are depression, nausea, vomiting, weakness, unsteady gait, twisting of the neck muscles, labored respira tion, and coma preceding death, which occurs within 18 to 20 hours after the first symptoms are noted. There is evidence that fats or oils will counteract the poison if the victim is not too far gone. The dis covery that cacklebur sprouts are poisonous to live stock has cleared up the mystery surround.n? num erous pig losses during early spring. The most deadly of all plants, al though not the most common. Is the water hemlock. This species is often contused with the wild pnrs nip, a non-po:sor.ous p’ant. The wdd parsnip, however, has yellow flowers, a parsnip-like root, and grows on all types of soil, while SELLING FLLD TO COWS In selling feed to cows it makes * lot cf difference in the piic" rc orived as to what combination is offered. If one has the wrong com bination of feeds for cows it's a good idea to look into the matter of changes in the feed production program. Let us suppose a dairy farmer has cem silage, timothy hay. com. and oafs He says, "I rill feed whut I have." Let us suppose he Iteda the silage and hay at rates of three pounds of silage and one pound of the hay dally prr 100 lbs. of live weight How much of a mix ture of equal porta of ground corn water hemlock blossoms are pure white, the stems usually streaked with purple, and the roots clustered like n hill of small sweet potatoes. In case of doubt, cut one of the fleshy roots and if a Glistening yellow juice exudes be careful, since this is a certain sign of wa ter hemlock. Furthermore water hemlock grows only in moist plac es, such as wet roadsides, swamps, and along banks of streams. While snakoroot, wild cherry, cocklebur, and water hemlock arc undoubted ly the “Big Four" among stock poisoning plants of the corn belt, there are a number of other spo cies, however, that in the aggre gate cause heavy losses. The black locust, for example, the bark and seeds of which contain a potent poison called robitin. is a po son capable of causing death of horses sheep, and cattle. Ano her dan gerous tree is the buckeye, since both the nuts and the foliage of this common species are poison ous to live stock. Many a corn belt farmer has found Jimson weed responsible for heavy live stock losses. The plant is rarely touched in the field on account of its dis agreeable odor and flavor. Hogs are most susceptible to this type of poisoning and also most frequently graze on the plants. The greatest source of trouble coming from Jim son weed is from seeds and seed pods that are mixed with silage. Then there is night-shade, common in pastures, the green berries of which are fatal to sheep, hogs, and poultry. Pokeroots are dan gerous to animals and man alike. Mention should be made of the scouring rush or horsetail which, when cut in quantity with hay, may cause a type of poisoning in horses and occasionally in sheep. May apple roots are poisonous to sheep, cattle, and hogs. There are num erous other poisonous plants that I cause trouble. Among these are sneezewecd. black-eyed Susan, wild Indigo, cursed buttercup, cat-tail, wborled milkweed, water parsnip, button bush, star flower, and seeds of red son-el eaten in quantity. During the course of this extensive field work it has repeatedly been noted that animals that have been well fed on balanced ration are not nearly as apt to eat dangerous plants as animals that have been poorly fed. so the practicing of proper feeding methods is an ex cellent Insurance agains losses of this character. Especially danger ous is the common practice of turn ing live stock into the woods too early in the spring when there is nothing green present except such dangerous plants as Duchman’s breeches and dwarf larkspur, and allowing them to remain late in the fall when acorns and similar undesirable forage are the princi* pal items to eat. —- ♦ ♦ USING SKIM MILK Those who have plenty of skim milk available for feeding can util ize it to good advantage for the poultry. A good mash mixture to be fed with skim-milk is as follows: 200 pounds of ground yellow corn, 100 pounds of ground wheat, 100 pounds of ground oats, 20 pounds of meat scraps. 8 pounds of steamed ! bone meal, 4 pounds of finely i ground limestone and 4 pounds of I salt. To properly balanace such a j feed mixture, the birds should be supplied with all the skimmilk they can drink and be given no water at all. If given water, they will not take enough milk to properly bal ance the feed mixture mentioned. Under these circumstances, a flock of 500 hens will consume about 149 gallons of skim-milk per week. WINTER FEEDING The beginning of winter puts a stop to crop making activities but it increases the responsibility of converting feed crops into live stock and live stock products. This brings us to the very important subject of feeding. About 75 per cent of a dairy farmer's investment is for the benefit of feed crop production. After one has produced feed it is highly Important that it be com bined in rations that supply nutri ent requirements in the most eco nomical manner. If one has pro duced the right kinds of feed, ra tion making is made easy; if one has not given planning and subse quent action to producing the right kinds of feed, his feeding problem is more difficult and. as a rule his costs of producing milk, meat, and eggs are greater. BEST DAY EVER Heaven’s all right! but still I guess I'll kinder miss the Lady Lunar moth at night and the White Wan derer butterfly crawlin’ out of ita chrysalis! I want my heaven human too, 'Twixt me an’ you—Why I’d Jus* love to see a chipmunk hop up to the Lord an’ eat right out o’ His hand same as it does to me: Eter nity-eternity — don’t it sound grand but say, what’s the matter with today? GOITER IN LAMBS Goiter in lambs may be prevented by feeding around one-iwent.eth of a grain of potassium iodide per eve daily during pregnancy. This was determined in a series of tests at the Iowa experiment station. and ground cats will It take, sup plement iig this roughage, to supply the protc.n requirements of a l 200 lb cow produc.ng 30 lbs. daily of m:lk test mu 3.5 per cent fat? It will take 18.3 lbs, grain. How much grain would it take of the proper mixture? About 8 lbs How much grain would it take of the proper mixture if alfalfa hay is substi tuted for the timothy hay? About Tfc lbs. , DON’T DELAY SEPARATING Most cream separators will oo a much better *ob of skimming tha mjik when U is warm KANSAS FIGHTS GAS ’LEGGERS Topeka, Kan, —(UP)— Dry Kan sas is on guard against a new kind of bootlegger—the gasoline Impor ter who seeks to evade the state’s 3-cent-a-gallon tax on motor fuel. Thirty-nine “ports of entry" for gasoline trucks have been desig nated on principal highways lead ing into the state and an army of inspectors has been mobilized to prevent tax evasion on gasoline coming in from other states. State officials have estimated that bootleg gasoline has cost Kansas hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars in tax revenue annually. Henceforth at the 39 ports of entry and about, a dozen sub-sta tions at other points, trucks haul ing gasoline will be inspected, reg istered and sealed before being permitted to continue. A registra tion fee of 50 cents will be charged each truck. Glorifying Yourself By Alicia Mart ©i3j?BV NEA fijnyics INC ~ DON'T LET FRECKLES GET TOD DOWN Freckles can be cute as a bug’s ear, on some women. If you happen to be the young modern, built on the fascinating Hope Williams lines and manner, then a little string of freckles across your cute nose and cheeks only heighten your charm. If you have a secret yen to be a fragile, clinging vine, then I sup pose you must do something nboufc your freckles. For they have an urchin-something about them that ruins any attempt to pull a shrink ing violet line. \ As a matter of fact, freckles often come with the lovliest, mast transparent skins. Don’t lob freckles give you a complex! If they threaten to, start now to work on them. With freckles, as with every thing else, an ounce of prevention is worth several cures. Protect your skin, that’s the first step. Uso one of the good lotions or creams designed to counteract Old Man Sun. Then powder right over this. That is a double precaution. Third, carry a parasol. They’re chic now and they protect your face, there's no doubting that. i If your freckles are already on the up and up, then get yourself one of the bleaching creams, or freckle creams, and use it assidu ously. Bleaching stimulants should be added to your beauty shelf. And follow directions on every sin gle bottle or jar you buy! After you start bleaching, then be dou bly sure that you cream and pow« der before starting out. U. S. Money Helped Give Minister Power Berlin —(UP)— The minister of public enlightenment and propa ganda. Dr. Joseph Goebbels, ex tended his control over the Berlin high school of political science, which was founded In 1920 with the help of American public en dowments to cultivate political science unhampered by party bias. Since stute control of the insti tute was deemed incompatible with the principle of political neu trality It was agreed that the Rockefeller foundation and the Carnegie endowment which sup plied the largest contribution to ward maintaining the school would withdraw their means and that the school would further bo financed by the reich. However, the school's former teachers, including Director Erwin Jaeckh, will continue their work in a research institute, the "Insti tute of International Relations," to which the American lunds were transferred. This institute will not take on pupils, but confine Its ac tivities to the study of interna tional relations. i HAVE CLASS* DISTINCTION ' Twin Falls, Idaho. — (UP) — There is a "class distinction* among coal thieves, Sturgeon Mc Coy, local dealer, reported to po lice. In the past, loose coal was stolen, but those operating now are more particular and take only sacked coal. Man Beats Stag to Death How a man beat a wild stag to death with his fists has just been reported from Cologne. Germany. It is the first case of an unarmed person winning a battle for Ufa with one of the infuriated beasts. The man received only slight in juries about the hands and body. He was riding a motorcycle neap Adenauer. In the Eifel district, when the savage stag raced after hl»*machine and charged him. The cyclist was knocked to the ground, but scrambled to his feet in time to ward off another attack In the long wrestle that followed he gripped the stag with his hands and beat it with his bare fists un til It fell unconscious. It died with in a few moments. --- ♦»-- .. Court Action to Recover $1.90 Filed Hami ton. O’i ario — <UP>— A court action to recover 91.90 Is on file here. The plaintiff. Constable Alrx Arnold brought the action against Constable Goeffrcy Sulli van. a fellow officer, who he claims broke the robe rail In his automobile, i Sullivan s defense is that the rail was old and weary and fell apart when he touched It. Whether or not Arnold collects the 9190. he must pay 93 00 for filing the suit plus attorneys fees