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|PPf5T0P! LOOK! LISTEN! LEST AMERICA SHARE TOE FATE OF FRANCE! by George Peek Diagnosing the sad case of France Will not help the poor French people but it may serve to aid America avoid <i similar collapse. Take a glance at the processes which undermined France and note well the deadly parallel between what took place there imd what now exists in America. France became rich, fat and lazy. ,6he imported millions of aliens to do her manual labor. When the depression came, there was no work for these aliens. Meanwhile, they had become voters and Were easily swayed by the politicians . who promised them that the French Government would support them in the manner in which they were determined to live. These politicians, vainly trying to make good their promises, concocted various crack-pot schemes, discredited ,free private enterprise and branded ' . *11 wealthy Frenchmen as social enx L a b o r i n F r a n c e g a i n e d p r i v i l e g e ';-V/"fmd power by favorable legislation. '*'% ;lt disregarded property rights. Un- ' "•-r.^fler a 40 hour week and two hours off' ;;Afor lunch, industrial production fell and" the relief burden mounted. V.feocial reforms were the order of the <lay accompanied by attacks against - -the propertied class." Cost of government rose to fifty per cent of France's national income. Private enterprise was blamed for this, so the government took over all the defense industries to eliminate profit. This was pumping from the frying pan into the fire ior under political control, costs went up and production went down. While France Was producing fifty-four airplanes per Inonth. Germany was producing 500. French morale, both military and civilian, fell to a point where thrift and industry were almost considered to be crimes. Too late, France awoke to its rotten condition. Its liberal government Was overthrown; private enterprise Was encouraged, urged to step in and resume control; all privileges of labor Were taken away and strikers were imprisoned. Before this got properly tinder way, Germany attacked. France offered feeble resistance for her peopel had made such a mess of their own situation that many Frenchmen actually welcomed the invaders on. the theory that any change would be for the better. Doesn't France's sad picture have a familiar and an alarming look ? Haven't we been witnessing many of the Same sort of things going on here in America? Haven't we journeyed far along the same ill-fated road that France travelled on the way to her doom? Isn't it high time to call a halt to many things going on in this country and do a right-about-face? Surely, every American should gitfe serious thought to the awful similarity of France's pre-war condition to the situation existing in America today and having given that thought, do something about it before, as in the ease of France, it is too late. Batter More' Food One tablespoon of butter contains ioughly 100 calories, while a taUev jpoon of sugar contains only 50 calories. Demosthenes Demosthenes' most famous oration was "De Corona," delivered in 130 B. C. as a reply to the famous speech of Aeschines against phon. • a Siege of Troy The siege of Troy is a myth and according to Homer's own account, Belen of Troy must have been 00 years old when Paris fell in love with her. WOOD FARM TOPICS DEPLETED SOILS NEED NITROGEN Agricultural Colleges Will Help Farmers Test Soil.. By PROF. GEORGE D. SCAltSETH (Soil Chemist. Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station.) Although there are about 75,000,- 000 pounds of nitrogen in the air above every acre of land, this plant food is as useless to most growing crops, in its gaseous form, as seawater is to a thirsty man! Just as salty sea-water must be ^distilled to obtain suitable drinking water, so atmospheric nitrogen must be combined with oxygen, carbon and hydrogen before it is of any value to growing crops. The process of obtaining useful nitrogen is called "nitrogen fixation." Legume plants, such as alfalfa, clover and beans, which are among the most primitive of our higher farm plants, have long been the most effective crop .in fixing nitrogen in the soil. The first fixed nitrogen was probably made by lightning flashes long before life appeared on the earth. Eventually single - celled green plants, bacteria, slime moulds and higher plant life became more highly developed until some became host plants for nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Man would not need to become concerned about the possible lack of fixed nitrogen in the soil if he were able to move, continually to newly cleared woodlands every time the fertility of the soil became depleted. Such a procedure was followed in the early days of this country but it is no longer possible. Although the natural nitrogen supply of our soils was once regarded as inexhaustible, a century of civilization has sharply reduced this previous resource and farmers have to face the problem of supplying crops with plenty of available nitrogen. Fortunately the solution of this problem is relatively simple. Either more nitrogen-fixing plants must be grown and returned to the soil, or nitrogen-carrying fertilizers must be used. About the best procedure to follow in determining whether nitrogen will be needed is to consider the past performance of the field in question. If the soil IS dark in color or black, has received a liberal application of manure or plowed legume, or is an old sod, it is likely that nitrogen will not be a limiting factor in the crop growth. However, if the soil is strongly acid, gray in color, or low in organic matter where legumes have been frequent failures, or manure has not been used, such soils are likely to need nitrogen and it is under these conditions where nitrogen is most likely to give profitable returns. Farmers need not long remain in doubt as to whether their soil is deficient in nitrogen. Agronomists at the state agricultural colleges are equipped with modern facilities for making tests of the farmer's soil which will quickly reveal its needs for other vital plant food elements such as phosphoric acid and potash. County agents are likewise ready to co-operate in making such tests. On the basis of the information revealed by the tests, the farmer can select a commercial fertilizer analysis suited to the needs of his land and to the type of crops he plans to grow. r Our Washington Letter WMnrial Washington, October 2 --Evidence that Congress expects sudden and unpredictable changes in our foreign affairs is found in the growing resistance to adjournment. The question of quitting for campaign work in their election districts has plagued the legislators for months. If their wishes controlled their actions, the Congressional mill would have been closed weeks ago. Instead the indications are at this writing that the policy of three-day recesses will be continued for several weeks in response to, a seemingly genuine public demand that the lawmakers stay at their posts rather than devote their time to speech-making in their districts. From a strictly political standpoint this is precarious, for in many instances their rivals are making hay while the incumbents carry out their official duties remote from their bailiwicks. Talks with the solons reveal that remaining here is not so much a partisan matter as it is a test of representative government and executive powers. The Presidential race has greatly intensified public feeling about legislative functions in our system of government. Some Congressional leaders have urged adjournment until Difficult Problems Confront Aviation in the Stratosphere St. Petersburg, Fla.--Painting a picture of knotty problems still to be solved and of unknown factors still to be encountered and tested, R. C. Zinn of Pan-American Airways finds five chief obstacles that must be hurdled before , commercial stratosphere aviation is realized. The problems presented by the impracticability of short flights, decrease in pay load, increased cost of flying equipment, higher maintenance costs and deficiency in engineering progress must be worked out, he declares in a bulletin published here by the Florida Engineering society. Conditioning the weather inside the plane will be more a matter of cooling than of heating, Mr. Zinn reports. Despite the common impression to the contra ry^-that the cabins will have to be heated--compression of the rarefied air found at high altitudes will raise its temperatures past the comfort point. Trouble From Cosmic Rays. Radio reception will be difficult at' altitudes around 50,000 feet because of the high interference of cosmic rays and auroral disturbances, it is predicted. Trouble will be experienced with gasoline motors using electrical ignition systems be- PRESIDENT S SON IS APPOINTED CAPTAIN ^ IN THE AIR SERVICE the elections are over So far the per- cause of i^ni^t^on of the ^mo^pheTe suasive talents of these chieftains i from the same electrical phenomhave b«jen unavailing. With the mem- €na that add to the dlfficulties of bership apparently in a mood to radio reception "mark time" the leaders are helpless "At first thought it may seem unto change the picture. important," Mr. Zinn writes, "but Disturibng developments in our Far] in Germany in actually testing mou ^ I tors at 30 000 to 40,000 feet, it was noted that ionization affected the gasoline so that it would not corn- Eastern relations have revived strong fears that this country will be drawn into the whirlpool of war. Convinced that they are closer to the real think-! pletely vaporize in the carburetor, Bindweed Control In a study of root development of bindweed by the government it was discovered that this plant tends to exhaust its roots rather than to replenish them during the first few dajfs of leaf growth, and that there is a definite advantage in waiting until the new shoots are four or five inches tall before destroying them. In practice, this means that cultivating at intervals of 14 to 21 days is more successfully than cultivation every week or 10 days. This finding puts control by tillage methods on a practical basis and has resulted already in large-scale bindweed- eradication programs being undertaken under state auspices in at least two of the more badly affected areas. Farm Notes IMPROVED STORM S A S H NO MORE •. ^JUTTY J TROUBLES • Here is the greatest storm, sash improvement in years! Now you can have for your home genuine Morgan Storm Sash with glass bedded in putty and permanently secured with wood moulding. This definitely prevents loosening of putty and leakage which is common with the old-fashioned storm sash after it has been installed and removed a few times. All Morgan Storm Sash ai» treated with water repellent toxic chemical which guarantee long life and guard against iwellin*. Alexander Lumder Co. ft«nc 5 Main Street For dairy farmers, two of the best practices for fall are the application of lime and of superphosphate • * * In recent years, the cash income received by growers of oats in the United States has been less tban half as large as it was in the years just before the World war; From 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 gallons of darker grades of maple sirup are used each year for flavoring pipe, cigarette, and chewing tobacco. - - -- • • • In 1939, United States farm land planted to soil-depleting rrops was about 23,000,000 acres less than the average for the preceding 10 years. * • * About 90 per cent of the United States annual corn crop of 2Vi billion bushels is used for animal feed, say agronimists of the U. S. department of agriculture. Window Opener^ - Edwin O. Blodgett of Kenmore, N. Y., didn't like to get out of bed to shut the window so he developed an automatic opener and closer. A concealed button at the head of his bed performs the task, and a small electric motor from an old vacuum cleaner is the modus operandi. PRICED LOW Saftball Popular Softball Is becoming popular ia ! Panama and a league has ben or* 1 ganized. ing of the people, the legislators believe it would be a major political error to adjourn. The embargp on shipments of scrap iron and the loan to the Chinese are considered acts which may hasten involvement in war with Japan. The proposed sales of giant army bombers to the British, which is meeting so much criticism in the Senate. is likely to become a full-fledged campaign issue. The people's repre- i sentatives are frantically endeavoring J to gauge the drift of public sentiment ' in their districts as these controver-' 8ies arise over international affairs, j With the political campaign now in . its last month both parties are bringing up their heavy artillery to con* j vince the electorate. The rank and file of .party workers are cautioned about placing too much dependence on polls of opinion. The main difficulty is to arrange ways and means of insuring balloting by all eligible voters. It is admitted that polls, no matter how carefully taken of cross-sections of the population, have weak points, particularly in the evasive replies of persons queried by the professional samplers. The folks who have "not made up their mind yet" are the cause for concern. Another new and uncertain phase comes so close to election day that politicians will be hard pressed to meet the challenge. This is the reaction of the millions of young men and^ their families to the draft act It is a subject of importance when they actually register October 16 and are supplied with an elaborate questionnaire as to their most intimate affairs. This unknown element accounts for the attempts in Congress to delay to call until the elections. The public is presumably expecting a higher yield of taxes from the new excess-profits tax law thai) is justified hy actual experience. Preliminary statistics of corporation income and excess-profits tax returns for 1938, filed through December 31, 1939. and made public September 30 revealed that a tremendous number of business firms showed deficits. Secretary Morgenthau's analysis discloses that of the 520,500 returns for corp&ations 301,146 showed a deficit of nearly three billion dollars, while 169.885 firms showed a net income amounting to approximately six and one-half billions. It i= hoped that the improvement of business conditions since these returns were filed will help swell the Treasury's funds in the form of income taxes. On the basis of these returns the government collected an income tax of $853,278,113; the excess profits tax *5.987.636; and the total tax *859.565 749. Revenue experts freely predict that the new tax bill will be inadequate j to provide the money necessary for defWise expenditures. So much is heard about the principal bottle-neck in the preparedness nrogram, namelv machine tool*, that few DeoDle realize it is a relatively small industry. Special statistics com-> Diled bv the Census Bureau show that 1.332 plants. emDloyine 77,684 trained workers, were engaged in this vital work last year. The reports cover the machine tool industry; the machinetool and other metalworking machinery accessories industry; and the metalworking machinery and equipment industry. These figures cover 1939 activities only, and. therefore, do not reflect anv exn^nsion of those industries which m»" h»vo' cwirred recently a« a result of the Hefen«e proeram. Workers in this industry pre hiehly traiHed. which accounts for the labor shortage as emergency^emonds ••all for Dlant extension. It i«t ficant to no*e that the .Am°ric»n Youth Commission in its renort of September 30 stronelv advocates revision of our educational system to oualifv coming eenerations for soecial jobs. Among their recommendations is one ttiat "every community, meaning a local labor market, should provide in it* hteh schools realistic vocational guidance. tonroDriate vocational preoaration, and eventual job placement." thus reducing engine efficiency." Should stratosphere planes of the future stick to the gasoline motor, the problem can be solved by building electrodes into the carburetors. Diesel engines, another possibility, are not faced by that particular difficulty. , Newest Check on Mars Shows It an Arid Planet Washington.--It was once th# fashion to suggest that the evercurious marks on the planet Mars were due to seme human-like agency; a race of Martian men who had constructed gigantic ditches or canals. Then when the markings were found to change with the Martian seasons the hypothesis wes j brought forward that the markings I were, perhaps, plant growth and I other vegetation. But even this last suggestion that the canals on Mars were merely great straight stretches of plant growth (possibly like the mid-western shelter belt may be a century hence) has had its difficulties. - One of the most recent of these troubles comes from the great Mt. Wilson observatory of the Carnegie institution of Washington where it has been found, from a study of the light spectrum of Mars, that the water vapor present in its atmosphere, at least in the equatorial region where the observations were made. An outside limit for water vapor in Mars' air would be about 5 per cent of that present in the earth's surface. Oracle's Speaking Tube in Syrian'Pagan Chapel London. -- A pagan chapel, equipped with a speaking tube for an oracle, has been discovered in ruins of 2300 B. C., in northern Srria. The chapel is a discovery of a joint expedition of the British museum and the British school of archeology at the mound called, Tall Braki It was unearthed in ruins of a private home of its day, not far from a huge palace. A hole in the clay semi-circular altar in the chapel'was traced by the archeologists as leading to an adjoining hidden room, where e priest might hide and • whisper through the tube in the manner o. oracles. declaring that an army is no better than its Commander-in-Chief, George F. Barrett, Republican candidate for Attorney General, charged in a radio address that President Roosevelt is demoralizing the American military and the American people by having his inexperienced son appointed a Captain in the air force. "We shut our eyes to the fact that the President and Commander-in- Chief of the armed forces of the United States was the first to assist or at least to permit his son to begin the officer-caste system here," Barrett said in an address over radio station WBBM at 6:30 o'clock (Saturday, September 28). Without once referring to his own candidacy for Attorney-General, Bar. rett told the radio audience how the people of Illinois are reacting to the unprecedented recent actions of the national New Deal administration. He has been conducting an intense and extensive caimpaign throughout the state and said that everywhere he goes he finds the people opposed to the policies which the New Deal is following. He termed his remarks the result of a "poll" of the People of Illinois. He said the people here condemn Roosevelt for having his" son appointed to a Captaincy; for his method in bringing about the semi-secret sale of destroyers' to Britain; for his efforts to create war hysteria; for his failure adequately to prepare the country for defense^ for his tactics in the Japanese situation; and for making promises, which he could not keep, to other foreign nations. In regard to the appointment of Elliot Roosevelt as an aviation officer, Barrett said: "Every'man and woman in Illinois believes in adequate defense, but let us get this straight, the defense plan is already overloaded with personal political dynamite. An army is no better than its commander, and today we have before us the spectacle of gross favoritism, open dishonesty on the part of the Army's Commander for the protection of his own son. "Your son, your brother, your husband will register for military service He will take his chance along with a million others. He will go where he is sent and do as he is told, but Captain Elliot Roosevelt, age 30, recently APPOINTED to the U. S. Army air corps, not to fly, for he knows nothing of planes, not to fight, for he knows nothing of fighting, but to sit at a desk in the procurement department of the Air Corps. Captain Roosevelt will receive a Captain's pay, a captain's allowances, the privilege of wearing civilian clothes, and a record free from draft evasion for which your son could be sent to prison." Barrett called the Elliot Roosevelt appointment a "befouling of the conscription law at its very source" and charged that it consitutes introduction of the caste system in Afoerica. Barrett charged that "step by step," Roosevelt is leading the country into war and that also step by step he is giving away America's military secrets. In regard to the much discussed secret bomb sight, Barrett said it could be assumed that if Roosevelt sells bombers, to Britain, the bomb sight will go with them. He condemned Roosevelt's "short of war" methods, declaring that "just as a log lashed to a travelling chain is drawn closer, inch by inch to the band saw, so the American people are being drawn irrestably into the bloody shambles of the battlefield we thought had gone forever from our history." COMING THROUGH CHURCH SERVICES IP 1941 Ford Super DeLuxe Fordor sedan. Like the rest of the new Ford line, It Is larger, easier riding, and more beautiful outside and in. CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS by Congressman Chauncey W. Reed Smart Politics With the elevation of Majority Leader Sam Rayburn ef Texas to the Speakership, the Democratic Members of the House were, for some time in a quandry as to who should be selected as the new Leader for the remainder of this Congress which may be only a few weks. Several aspirants immediately hoisted their lightning rods, chief among whom were Representative Cilfton A. Woodrum of Virginia, leader m/ the House economy bloc and Representative John W. Mc- Cormack of Massachusetts, an ardent Administration adherent. Sectional ; considerations figured largely in the contest. It was contended that since Speaker Rayburn comes from the in the North where all the casualties will occur in case of Republican congressional victory. Had Woodrum of Virginia been selected last week, he no doubt would be unwilling next January to relinquish the post to Rayburn. That would have divided the South intc two camps with the possibility that, if the contest waxed bitter, a northerner would have been the ultimate victor. Logan-Walter fill Should Be Passed With the possibility of a continuous Congressional Session increasing, Senate proponents of the Logan-Walter Bill are seeking to secure a Senate vote on that measure. This Bill, if enacted into a law, will provide a uniform set of rules and regulations of procedure to be followed by the various government agencies and boards, and a uniform method and scope of judicial review of board and agency rulings. The measure passed the House by a three to one majority, but to date the Administration forces South, it would be good Democratic in the have ^en SUCCessful in politics to select a leader from the North, particularly on a presidential blocking a Senate vote on it. It will be remembered that last year the Bill Birds' Housing Problems Benicia, Calif. -- Human beingaren't the only bipeds who have housing problems. Something of th~ kind seems to be the case amenthe birds, too. Emerson A. Stdne - of this city reports finding one ner. which had been used by three deferent species of birds. The re-', was that of a black phoebe, and it contained at its bottom three phoebe's eggs. Above them was a thin layer of hairs, and on that there were three eggs of the western flycatcher and one of the dwarf cowbird. italv Plants Guayule ~~~ Rome.--Guaiyule, rubber-yielding shrub of the arid lands in California and adjacent parts of Mexico, will be planted in quantity during 1938 in the southern part of the Italian peninsula, in Sicily, and in the trans-Mediterranean province c I Cyrenaica. This is part of Italy's* effort toward ; economic se'f-suffic ancy, and in rsxti'cular it if h«ped will provide an errergencj supply of rv: :£F in c £3.of war,;.. . (Central Standard Time) fit. Mary's Catholic Church Masses: Sundays: 7:00; 8:30; 10:30. Weekdays: 6:45; 8:00. First Friday: 6:30; 8:00. Confessions: t Saturdays: 8:00 p. m. and 7:00 p. m Thursday before First Friday. After Mass on Thursday, 3:00 p. m and 7:00 p. m. Msgr. C. S. Nix, pastor. St. Patrick's Catholic Charch Masses: - : - Sundays: 8:00; 10:00. ' t Weekdays: 7:30. First Fridays: 7:30. On First Friday, Communion di« tributed at 6:30, 7:00 and before and during the 7:30 Mass. Confessions: Saturdays: 4:00 to 5:00 p. tt and 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Thursday before First Friday .>4:00 ""To 5:00 p.m. and 7:(« t/ TTd p. m. Rev. Wm. A. O'Rour1®, past©*. St. John's Catholic Church, Johnsburg Masses: Sundays: 8:00; 10:00. Holy Days: 7:00 and 9:00. Weekdays: 8:00. First Friday: 8:00* Confessions: Saturdays: 2:30 and 7:30. Thursday before First Friday: 8:33 arid 7:30. Rev. A. J; Neidert, pastor. election year. Accordingly the Demo- j the by unanimous con cratic caucus last Monday night elect- i but after White House urging, ed McCormack who almost immedi- , it was called back for reconsideration, ately received the blessings of the Senators supporting the measure have White House and Speaker Rayburn. been trying ever since to secure an- Northern Democrats, at first, elated other Senate vote on it. but have been over their victory, are now wondering blocked in all of their efforts to date, if they are not the victims of a clever Administration leaders are opposing political strategem engineered by the this legislation because the "little old-timers from south of the Mason czars" of the government departments and Dixon line. Indications point to. are against it. These "little big-shots" the election of a Republican HouSe in are afraid that if this measure is en- November. In that case, of course, acted into law, their strangle-hold on the G. O. P. will organize the House business and industry will be lessened, in January and elect one of their own • Members as Speaker. Speaker Rayburn is not likely to.be content with stepping down from the Speakership to an obscure place on the floor of the House but will undoubtedly become a candidate for Minority Leader. With the solid support of the Southern Democrats he could easily wrest it from McCormack whose strength is XT/^\ THIRD IN V7 TERML FOR PRESIDENT Ralph Willard of" Rochester. N. H. is serving a three-month sentence in j the House of Correction because he "tickled the feet of a minor frithoot her consent." Community Charch Sunday School: 10 a. m. Epworth League: 7:30 p..m. Lutheran Evangelical Church Sunday Service, 8:00 a. m. Sunday School, 9:15 a. m. Rev. Herman P. Meyer, pastor. u St. Peter's Catholic Church, Spring Grove Masses: Sundays: 8.00 an.I 10:00. " Holy Days: 6:30 and 9:0$. Weekdays: 8:00. First Fridayr Confessions: Saturdays: 2:30 and 7:15. 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