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PAGE EIGHT EXPECT CREDIT BODY SOON TO END BUSINESS, Most of Work Apparently Accomplished, Announce- ment of Jaffray —— | Minneapolis, Minn, July 30. -The | Agricultural Credit’ — Corporation | which was organized with a capital f $10,000,000 to tide the north: | over a temporary emergency, | will complete its chief work in 30] days and meet the need for which it was created, in the opinion T, Jaffray ed oon the | condition of crops and the prevail: | ing pri | Mr. Jaffray said a marked drop in pressure calls for poration had developed in month | He said: ‘The corporation has given di- rect and immediate aid to a large number of banks and has benefitted a large number of furmers. In addition to the closed b already reopened, many will reopen soon when crop and the price for it assured. The general sentiment of the northwest is greatly improved and has a part in the mater drop in pressure on the Ag cultural Corporation. The farm diversification pro- gram will be continued “We have called 60 per cent of our $10,000,000 capital,” Mr. Jaffray said “I had hoped that this would be all ind now I feel more the are that was necessary, sure of it if the harvest comes at the present price level. There is a general improvement in sentiment. There is more confide in the banks, The reopened banks will be able to continue now on a firmly established basis. A good THEY S AW A REVOLUTION! ERAY. WU ESS a MCEMURHES) Will reapanicé ieag girls, several members wealthy families, decided several ent prospects are assured.” But instead the Braz howed them a perfectly good re volution. i Anxiety was felt for their safet ws Mo word ed from them tor ys iter the figiting in Sao Paulo started, however, has come they are in Argentina now, Here are th them: Viola ads Shermont, upper left; Frances Dagmare, upper right, and Adris Milar, HAS GOOD YEAR Judge Gary Optimistic Over Business Conditions Is New York, July 30.—Despite a per- ceptible slackening in steel oper- ations in the second quarter of the year, directors of the United Steel corporation yester an extra dividend of the common shares fo successive quarter in the regular dividends of share on the common and $ share on the preferred sto Total earning of the corporat amounting to $41,381,039, while al most $9,000,000 below those of the preceding three months, were how- ever about $6,000,000 above prelimi- nary estimates made in the financial district. Confidence on the look of the country was expresseg by E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, after the meeting of the directors. “I made a statement early in April that I believed that as soon as the presidential election had occurred and at least a month before, we would have good business in this country,” Mr. Gary said. “If 1 were to make a prediction’ at the present time, | would not change materially what I then said.” 16 TRAPPED BY business ‘out- FIRE RESCUED Minneapolis, July 30.—Sixteen per- sons trapped on ihe third floor of a rooming house by a fire which filled halls and stairways with dense | smoke, were carried down ladders to safaty by firemen about 1:30 a. m. today. One person was ‘over- come by smoke and taken to a hos- pital and several others were re- vived by firemen after being car- ried from their rooms. The fire caused only slight damage to the] building. Edna Purviance Visits Dines In Denver Denver, July 30.—Edna Purviance, motion picture actress, is in Denver visiting Courtland S. Dines, wealthy Denver oil man, it became known to- day. Miss Purviance, who was a member of a party in the Dines apartment in Los Angeles last New Year’s day, during which Dines wa: shot and wounded by Horace Greer, | a chauffeur of Mable Normand, told Newspaper reporters there was no truth in reports in circulation here that she and Dines were to be mar- ried. “Yes, that’s right,” added Dines, below, ‘Major Stuart MacLaren (left), | world flight, | Aviation Society. “we haven't even planned an engage- | ment.” Miss Purviance said she had come to Denver for a few days, as the re- sult of the failure of an announced hunting party to leave Salt Lake City on schedule. “J just had to come over here and yisit Courtland,” she said. “Court- -land and I are very dear friends, ‘and 1 couldn’t be in this vicinity Lena visiting hif ee ee “Denmark will erect four radio sta- | tions in Greenland, Go To The Bismarck Shoe Hospjta: For First Class Shoe » Repalri DAVIS ENTERTAINS John W. Davis, Democratic nominee, pauses in the ‘preparation of his accey ech, to read to Lucy Nancy Post. She is a grand- daughter of Charles Dama Gibson, the artist, at wuose summer estate at Dark Harbor, Me., ring for the » campaign. JAPAN’S TRIBUTE TO MACLAREN - commander of the British ’round-the- hi honor upon his arrival in Tokio. The pt 15-year-old daughter of Seifu Karuchi, director of the Japan Imperial! Flight Officer W. N. Plenderleith, London to Japan ‘with MacLaren in the Vicker-Vulture, is seen in tl center. GIANT OF STEERS ON EXHIBITION Just because this pure-bred Durham steer is considered the largest surfacing, widening or regrading. in the world, he got a free trip from Atberta, Canada, to the British. Empire Exposition at Wembley, England. 10% feet in girth and weighs 2834 pounds. VACATION ded this bouquet at the celebration staged in his ntation was made iby the who flew trom He stands 18 hands high, is VIOLATION OF | TREATY CLAIM i ; British Make Representations | ° | on Changing Naval Vessels | «iv! Hl {that political enigma, his boss, Cal- London, July 30, (By the A. P.)—| The British government has made} | representations to the governments | of the United State and Japanese | that the alteration and elevation of | guns on capital war vessels or ex- penditures for the purpose of in-| creasing the radius of action of | these would he, in the opinion of | the British government, a breach of; the Washington convention, ‘This declaration was made in the | | House of Commons today by Arthur | Ponfonby, under-secretary of for- ei affairs, in answer to a ques; tion, 1S URGED.” President Should Take Rest, | Friends Say Washington, July 30.—Friends are urging upon President Coolidge | a brief vacation immediately after |his formal notification as ‘Repub- ! |lican nominee August 14, but the {executive has failed tayreveal his | plans fcr the immediate future. | President Coolidge, they point j out, has been under heavy pressure {during his year of office, being {forced to assume the duties sudden- ly upon the death of President | | Harding. | Object Lesson Should i | Have Impressed Youth A boy returned from school one day with a report that his scholar- ship had fallen below the ‘usual average, | “Well.” said the father, “you've | fallen behind this Seed have | you?” “Yes, sir.” “How did that happen?” “Don't know, sir.” The father knew, not. He had observed a number of cheap novels scattered about the house, but had not thought it worth while to say anything until a fit- ting opportunity should offer Itself. A basket of apples stood upon th floor, and he gaid: if the son did | “Empty out those apples,‘ and | take the basket and bring it to me! half full of chips.” Suspecting nothing, the son ed. “And now,” he continued, “pat! those apples back in the basket,” H When half the apples were re placed, the son said: | “Father, they roll off; I can’t put | jin any more.” | ‘ “Put them in, I tell you.” i i “But, father, I can’t put them in.” “Put them in! No, of course you } can't put them in. De you expect {to fill a basket half full of chips ‘and then fill it with apples? You sald you did not know why you fell ‘behind at school, I will tell you. Your mind is like that basket. It} will not hold more than so much, and here you have been for the past month filling it up with chip-dtrt-— ‘cheap noyels."—Bombay Guardian 'Crael Human Sacrifices | | Part of Aztec Religion| In ancient Mexico, the Mexico of |the Aztecs, human sacrifices were {not only the custom, but practical- ly the only sacrifice offered. But | mostly the sacrifices were composed of offenders, law-brenkers and ene- | mies. Enemles were generally of- | fered up in preference to victims of | their own race, | _ Another civilization much like the Aztec was the Incas. The Astec and the people of the Incas w | shiped a sun god much as the Egyp- itlans and the Babylonians, al- though the moon was a sort of | \lesses divinity to each, finding its counterpart In the Egyptian Isis. | ‘The human sacrifices were un- | necessarily cruel, The victim was | elther laid upon a regniar sacrificial ; table and had his heart cut out by a few incisions, or else was put ; upon an eminence and armed’ with | ja blunt wooden sword. He was then attacked successively by men armed with obsidian swords and very sharp. He: fought until he was killed. Many evidences of these crucities have been excavated, There was another custom, that of a priest praying a person to death, This was believed quite pos- sible. Anyone whom a priest was known as praying to dle was cer- tain to die. For the most part they | died, killed by terror.—Bruce Bryan, in Art and Archeology. #2,000,000 TO BUILD U. 8. FOREST ROADS By NEA Service Washington, July 30.— Nearly 1, $2,000,000 will be expended within the next year by the U. 8S. Depart- ment of Agriculture for the con- siruction and improvement of highways running through and ad- jncent to the national forests of the country. * With the addition of state funds, | the money spent for better roads in the national: forest areas will run well up toward the three mil- lion mark. The states in. which federal ‘funds will tbe used for this pur- | pose, include Arizona, New Mex- | ico, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Minne- | sota, Montana and Colorado, and | the territory of Alaska. The result is expected to be a ;greater increase in motoring | through thege wonder spots for the national parks and other res- | ervations. More than 250 miles. of new j roads will be constructed, and several more. miles of completed | the president | Welliver | tourists and a greater interest in| CAL LISTENS, THINKS BEST, SAYS WHITE HOUSE CLERK By Harry B. Hunt NEA Service Writer Washington, July 30—Jud Welli- syaper man, now chief entails. in flourishes or clerk vast mass of routine labor his office He wastes neither energy nor time furbelows. What he needs to know about a matter at tn White House, has been giving consi ‘able thought of late} he finds out by direct, incisive to analyzing, or trying to analyze,| methods that neither invite nor ad- vin Coolidge. tek: Perhaps it is injudicious of us to] With these facts in tip Cal off to the faet that Jud has clerk, not in trying to figare out how the wheels go round in the president’s: mei§¥ai_ mechanisin. Still, since Cul is # candidate and Jud’s ‘analysis is a favorable one, we guess he won't fire Jud, so here | goes: The president, Welliver says, after a 10 months of close observation, ales two things superlatively well. ‘They a 1. Listening. inking. king up these two matters jn] ./ more detail, Welliver finds _ that though he is an expett listener is discriminating in his listening. In other words, un- less a thing is worth listening to he doesn’t listen to it. He may appear to be listening, but the sound waves vibrating against his ear drums will not be registering on his On these o though he may look like he’s listening, ‘he’s really thinking, Welliver holds. Just what he thinks at such times, ; doesn’t say—maybe it wouldn't look well in print-—but from the way the condition is de- scribed it seems that the president <t twists his mental dial and out-on the speaker on such oc- tun casions. The conversation continues, but meantime with it doesn’t register. And the presidential mind is busy something of real importance. Running close in importance to jhis listening and thinking ability, president's unhurried, metho rather plodding approach to the “BIG BERTHA” mit the intrusion of irrelevant mat- the mental hopper, the answer comes out with been dissecting him, metaphorically | mathematical precision and . exact- speaking. Maybe Cal doesn’t like to] ness, Welliver finds. It is like {be dissected. i Maybe his New Englend con-] = science will lead him to demand that Jud put in his time looking after the irs of his job as chief WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1924 pulling the lever for a total on an adding machine. If all the factors have been correct- ly entered, mistake in the Coolidge, answer, he holds, than in the mathematically exact, mechanical total of your cash register. For both are the result of simple but exact principles unde- viatingly applied. In his decisions as in his think- ing and his speech, Welliver finds, there is no lost motion, mo super- fluous maneuvering. The result is a definiteness and clarity as to the executive attitude on public matters that has not been equaled—well, at oo | pointer on tobacco: If packed | in tins eee there can be no more} least not since Welliver began ana- lyzing presidents. That recently popular slang phrase, “the cat’s meow,” has taken on new significance in Washington circles since members of the Washington vice squad, by imitating the softly- purred call of lonely feline, ob- tained access the other night to the apartment of a lady, formerly of the “official” set, where a riotous liquor party was in progress. Now wherever Sergeant McQuade, who “pulled” the house, goes, a med- ley of caterwauls follows in his wake. it would cost 5§¢ more but — eee eee packed simply in heavy foil ee it costs only 10¢ Licerrr & Myers Tosacco Co, — made and cut exclusively for pipes TONG VOTO JESSE GUILFORD | Called the “Big Bertha” of golf on ae unt of his prodigious drives, Guilford, former amateur . champion of America, is in the throes of a come-back. Recently he won the Massachusetts state title. running away from his field. ‘The event was played over his home course. Guilford shot it in 64, just seven strokes under par. W. E. 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