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
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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.
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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.
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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