Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1930, Page 3

ACREAGE CUT MOVE MAYDAVACEG.0.. Democrats Expect Gains in Disfavor of Farm Board’s Suggestion. BY MARK SULLIVAN, The best reports from the wheat- growing territory say the farmers are unsympathetic to the Farm Board's program of reducing acreage. Demo- cratic leaders in Washington have con- fidence that this dissatisfaction with the Parm Board will express itself in November in the loss of Republican seats in_Congress in some of the most dependably Republican territory in the country. The Democrats expect to cap- italize the situation to the utmost. They are preparing a prolonged barrage against the Republicans, designed to unseat Republicans in the wheat terri- tory and some other farming districts. Every gain made by the Democrats in this section would be so much more than the Democrats haxe expected hith- erto. The Democrats have expected. and the Republicans have conceded. that the farmer will make a certain and considerable number of gains in No- vember. The territory of these antici- pated gains has not, as a rule, how- ever, included the wheat-raising and other Western farming districts. The present facts about the wheat situation begin with the position of the Farm Board. The board’s suggestion is reduced acreage. The counter-sugges- tion made by political representatives of wheat-growing territory, such as Sena- tor Capper of Kansas, is purchase by the board of a hundred million bushels of wheat. This will not be done. The Farm Board will neither buy nor sell at this time. The board is now carry- ing some 60,000,000 bushels bought dur- ing or soon after the crisis last Fall. A very small fraction of this must be sold because of expiration of storage facilities. Enough more will be bought to keep the board's stock at 60,000,000 bushels. The board will not, however, embark upon any new net buying. Fear Prices Depression. The board’s reasons are two. One is that the psychological effect of new buying would be to depress future wheat prices. Knowledge by the world of a eat stock of Government -owned vheat hanging over the market would prevent prices in the future from going up. The board’s other reason for re- fusal is one of principle. The principle is that Government purchase of com- modities for the purpose of “pegging” the market has always worked badly in_the long run and always will. It is true that the board seems to have violated this principle in buying the 60,000,000 bushels it now has. In justification of this, there is a distinc- tion in reason and motive if not in principle. The 60,000,000 bushels were bought in the midst of last Fall's panic in other markets, and for the purpose of preventing one in wheat. The distinc- tlon between these circumstances and the present may seem refined, but it has governed the board. The net of it all is that the board will buy no wheat now. The board is firm on this as a matter of principle. In addition, the board has greater con- fidence in its own suggestion of Te- duced .acreage. Persons familiar with the market and with market psychology say that announcement now of a de- crease in planting would result in a prompt rise in the present price of wheat. Market psychology is, of course, & subject about which persons may dif- fer. As a rule, farmers do not pretend to know about it. It can only be said that persons experienced in marketing feel confident that announcement now or in the near future of reduced acre- age would result in increased prices. They think prices of wheat now exist- ing would increase, and it goes without | saying that futus prices would be higher by reason of reduced acreage. . Various Election Material What the Democrats expect to take advantage of is the general condition in the wheat territory. Some candi- dates will exploit the Government's re- fusal to buy a hundred million bushels | of wheat. Other candidates will take the ground that the situation could be cured by the “equalization fee” or the “debenture plan.” For reasons too com- lex to go into here, there is no possi- ility of either of these devices being enacted by Congress in the foreseeable future. Both are designed to make ‘wheat sell at & higher price in America than abroad. Members of Congress representing the East and consuming centers might have been willing to do that a year ago, when farming was the only depressed industry. They would not do it now when every industry is lepressed. . "I"he net of the whole situation is that the wheat situation must be cured by & | decreased acreage accompanied by co- operative selling. If not that, the sit- uation will take the course of nature with all other commodities. In a sense the wheat controversy is & question whether the farmers shall give their confidence to Alexander Legge, chairman of the Farm Board, or to the politicians and the candidates for office. In Washington there is extraordinary and widespread confidence in Legge. TACOMA-TOKIO PLANE RACE APPEARS LIKELY Two Pairs of Flyers: Announce Craft Ready and Waiting Only on Weather Reports. By the Assoclated Press TACOMA, Wash., July 19.—An air- plane race from Tacoma to Tokyo is in prospect next week. Backers of Lieut. Harold Bromley and Harold Gatty announced today their monoplane, City of Tacoma, was ready for final tests, and would take Off Tuesday or as soon afterward as weather reports are propitious Robert Wark and Eddie Brown announced they hope to have ‘heir biplane, Pacific Era, ready about the same time, They completed arrange- ments in Nomes Alaska, today for a midair refueling Bromley and Gatty plan to make one stop en route, probably near Nome VICE ne now n.w. Col. 8591 IT PIANO, §15; PLAYER- storage charges. UNITED 418 10th_st. n.w i STOPAGE % ROOF REPAIRING. Dainting. gutter_ snouf- ing: best malerials: reasonable. 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Local_moving also. * | SOMETHING | WORLD FAR TREE TOBEDENOLIHED Redwood Will Make Room for New Agricultural Depart- ment Building. The old California redwood tree in the Department of Agriculture grounds, relic of the Chicago World Fair of 1893, is to be torn down within the next few weeks to make room for the new Agri- cultural building, it was announced yesterday. With the famous tree will be razed the old department headquarters and several unsightly buildings in the vicinity. ‘The huge redwood tree was exhibited at Chicagn and then brought to Wash- ington and placed in the Mall. It is well known to thousands of persons, who formerly were permitted to climb the circular stairs within it. The doors at the base were closed to the public several years ago, however, when it was found that curio seekers were destroy- ing the tree. One of the more popular suggestions for disposing of the tree would place it in the new National Arboretum, which is to be a collection of living trees representative of the nation. Work Soon to Start. ‘Within a few days, it is expected that a wrecking crew from the Hechinger Co., of this city will start to tear down old buildings in which the Secretary of Agriculture for years has maintained his private office, and that of his staff. In the meantime nearly a quarter of a block of buildings already has been | torn down in the area bounded by B and C, Thirteenth street and Linworth place southwest, to make way for the huge first unit of the “extensible build- ing” for the Department of Agriculture. It will first cover this block only, but eventually is to take in three blocks. The extensible building will be at- tached to the administration building jon the other side of the street by bridges over B street. The first unit, | however, will not be so attached. A feature of much interest to Wash- ingtonians, which is to be saved for this Summer at least, will be the large and beautiful flower garden in front of the old Department of Agriculture Ad- ministration Building. In addition to tearing down all the old buildings to the north of the new | marble building, there will be a new | 35-foot concrete roadway constructed through the Mall from Twelfth to | Fourteenth street. It will cut through {in a straight line somewhere between the old building and the new one, and will give access to the new building plaza. 01d Building to Go. All the old brick, frame, wocden and even greenhouse buildings which clut- ter up the Mall grounds between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets are | scheduled to go. In their place will be _developed a parkway. The new extensible building is to be erected by Nelson-Pedley Co. of Phila- delphia, which has been awarded the | contract in the sum of $2,074,000. Ele- vators are to be installed by the Gurney | Elevator Co., Inc., of New York, which | also has been awarded contract. So as soon as Hechinger completes tearing | down the old buildings, the new struc- ture will rise as rapidly as possible. Nelon-Pedley has 450 calendar days to | complete the new building, from the date of the “notice to proceed.” | " In the moving process in connection with the extensible building, two other | units of the Department of Agriculture | have had to move out to make way for the wreckers, the cereal investigation of | Bureau of Plant Industry and packers | and stockyards administration of the Bureau of Animal Industry, which will also be housed in Building C with the Bureau of Entomology. 'FOREST FIRE FIGHT | ' CALLS OUT MORE MEN | | Ganotown Mountain Section, West | of Martinsburg, Swept by ‘ Stubborn Blaze. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., July 19.—A call for reinforcements to fight a forest fire in the Ganotown Mountain section, west of here, was issued today after mountain residents had worked all night. The fire is following what is known as the old Packhorse Ford Trail westward. The dryness of the moun- tainside, following a four-week drought, created conditions which made residents fear the fire danger was acute. The \ men have been deployed to specific sec- | tions, and because they were scattered | a composite report of damage done was | not available. Hot, dry winds are blow- | tny . ‘{tht started the fires is undeter- ined. | HOOK IS REPORTED SAFE i | LONDON, July 19 (#).—A Rangoon dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Co. today said villagers near the Bali | River insisted that Eric Hook, missing British airman, was being cared for in | a certain village. The report was being investigated, although floods were making the search difficult. No other trace of the avia- tor was found in the region where his companion, Jimmie Matthews, said he left him ter their England-to-Aus- tralia plane crashed more than & fort- night ago. by | Fourth Severe Drought in Shen- | Legend had Upper: Maj. Melvin J. Maas, member of Congress from Minnesota, who is in training rifie practic through its range practice, sergeants about to open fire. with the 20th Marine Regiment at Quantico, Va. is in charge of e and range officer and has had his hands full putting the regiment He is shown giving final instructions to three Left to right: Maj. Maas, Gunnery Sergt. John P. Meshaoff, Sergt. Louis A. Craig and Sergt. George C. Deyoe, all of Company A. Eower: Corpl, Smith W. Brookhart, . son of Senator Brookhart of Towa, is hurd at work with the 20th attempling to emulate his father, who is one i of the most expert rifiemen in the country. The 20th ended training yesterday and were reviewed yesterday at the District Building at 1 p.m. by civial and mili- tary officials. WET CHURCH FOLK HIT BY POLLARD Virginia Governor Sees Pro-“ hibition Doomed Without Proper Support. By the Associated Press. BRADDOCK HEIGHTS, Md., July 19.—Gov. John Garland Pollard of Vir- | ginia_told the Baptist Assembly of | Maryland and the District of Columbia | here tonight that prohibition s | doomed to failure unless church mem- | bers support it to the point of total | abstinence from drinking. | “It is absurd,” said Gov. Pollard, “for | the churches to expect the State to send a man to jail for a crime when they | are not willing to discipline their own | members for becoming parties to that | crime by purchasing and drinking boot- leg_whisky. “If as many church members prac- ticed total abstinence as vote for oro- | hibition, the public officials would have | less trouble enforeing the law. “A master blow would be struck at the bootlegger if church members would stop drinking.” Gov. Pollard said that as “a lifelong prohibitionist who is not yet willing to give up,” he warned the church people of the country that the “cause is lost unless the churches are willing to take a firmer stand against the hypocrisy of voting dry and drinking wet.” “We have been relying too largely on the force of the law rather than on the teaching of Christian virtues,” he said. EARLY FALL APPLES SCORCHED BY SUN| andoah Valley in 15 Years Still Unbroken. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., July 19.—Com- | mercial apple growers of the Shena doah Valley said today the inetnse heat wave had not yet affected the fruit. | In some orchards early Fall varieties of | apples had been scorched by the blaz- | ing sun, causing considerable damage. | W. S. Hough, entomologist in charge | of the Virginia Research Laboratory, sald this is the fourth severe drought in the Shenandoah Valley in 15 years. | The rainfall since January 1 has been 11.1 inches, whereas the normal is 19.3 | inches for' the period. In Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Shenandoah and other | acavhy valley counties all streams are | far below normal, and some have dried | uu. In many sections farmers are haui-; ing water for live stock, and in some in- stances are placing their live stock on the market at a loss, A Loudoun Coun- ty stock dealer who bought 20 head of cattle last Fall at 12 cents per pound | and fed them over Winter and this| Summer, sacrificed them in Baltimore | markets yesterday. “THIEVES’ MIiRKET‘; GOES UNDER MEXICAN DECREE! Government Condemns Site for New | Supreme Court Building in Capital. MEXICO CITY (#).—One of this capital's tourist attractions, known to visitors as the “thieves' market,” but un- | known as such to natives, has gone. The government condemned the site! for the new Supreme Court Building. For more than 200 years the block has been a place of barter and sale. it that it came into existence as a place for disposal of loot but of late years it was used as & place of legitmate second hand trade. Tourists who looked for what the guide books called the “thieves market” ! seldom fourd a native who knew what was wanted. Bologna Honors Marconi. CIVITAVECCHIA, Ttaly (#)—While Marconi's yacht was anchored Lere, the inventor was presented with an album containing a message of admiration and affection signed by 50,000 ci his native city, Bologna. Warns Churches GOV. JOHN G. POLLARD WAILING WALL GROUP HOLDS FINAL SESSION Moslem Attorney Argues Question Is One of Zionism Instead of Law. By the Associated Press. JERUSALEM, July 19.—The Walling Wall Commission, which has been in session here in an endeavor to bring about an Arab-Moslera sgreement over the Walling Wall, held its final meeting today. The delegates departed for their vari- ous countries tonight, ready to meet again after three weeks, possibly at’ Geneva, to draw up their report. Aouinl Bey Abdulhadi, a prominent Jerusalem attorney, made the final ad- dress on behalf of the Moslems. The_question is not pne of law, he said, but of Zionism. If the Zionists claim the right to rebuild the temple which was destroyed 2,000 years ago, he argued, then the Moslems equally may claim Spain, where the Cordoba Mosque still stands. Abdulbadi said the Jews aimed at constructing a synagogue at the Wall as they felt themselves powerful and strong under the Balfour declaration. “Not only owing to their fears for the mosque,” he asserted, “‘but because it is forbidden by their religion to allow the Jews to pray at the Wall do the Mos- lems oppose the Jewish claims.” mission yesterday to bring about compiomise between the parties failed, it was leahu CRIPPLES OFFERED AID WESTON, W. Va., July 19 (A).—A. F.| Whelan, chairman of the Lewis County Crippled Children’s Association, yester- day sald a Weston man whose mane he | would not reveal had offered to supply | whatever funds were necessary for the restoration to normal condition of all crippled children within the county. Whelan sald the only condition made was that the work be carried through to completion. A recent survey, he said, showed there were about 40 crippled children in the county. —and all types of complete show- ers Installed by your Plumber. E. G. Schafer Co. 215 13th St, N.W. ! ternational conspiracies, some of them TARIFF DECLARED AIDTO SMUGGLING Government Relinquishes “Ring” Theory in Combat- ing Diamond Runners. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, July 19 (CPA)—A high tariff wall seems to boom the smuggling business. Diamond smug- glers for years have lived on the 20 per cent tariff, with customs officials in- sisting that only the abolition of the | tariff would put them out of business and now, with tariffs still further heightened, an army of 3,000 customs | men _here is battling against an invad- | ing horde of smugglers. Alvin McK. Sylvester, assistant United | States attorney, who has been prosecut- ing smugglers for years, and Gregory O'Keefe, -special agent of the Treasury Department, charge that crooked cus- toms employes, in collusion with Amer- | jcan importers and European conspira- tors, defraud the Government of mil- lions of dollars every year by admitting smuggled goods. Philip Elting, col-| lector of the port, and F. J. H. Kracke, | United States appraiser, indignantly | deny this and insist that, with the ex- | ception of a few trifling cases, their men are rigidly and honestly enforcing the law. Watch Tariff Brings Protest. The raise in the watch tariff brought a howl of protest in Switzerland and | immediately thereafter comes the con- fession of Samuel Stansfield and Wil- liam F. Gilroy, customs examiners, that they have defrauded the Govern- ment out of $350,000 in duties, by ad-| mitting watches valued at more than $1,000,000. Replying to_questions by | Federal Judge Goddard, Stansfield and | Gilroy asserted there was “considerable | corruption” in the customs service. Ramifications of the case brought other changes, throwing the spotlight on the new intensity of the fight of the customs force against the shifting, varied and resourceful campaigns of smugglers of jewelry, diamonds, drugs and other small-volume contraband— to say nothing of the perennial rum war. Until the last year or two the Gov- ernment worked on the theory that the various smugglers were parts of vast in- with headquarters in the Rue de Pelican in Antwerp. American sleuths lurked in every by-way in Europe, hoping to find the tap root of some vast conspir- acy. They never found it, and Gov- ernment officials now admit that it is guerrilla warfare which the Government carries on against the smugglers. Giant Rings Rumored. The arrest of Florent Lamont three years ago with a consignment of dia- monds in the heel of his shoe had all the makings of an Edgar Wallace melo- drama. In the offing was a sinister ring of diamond smugglers, with head- quarters in Amsterdam, doing an offi- cial business of $50,000,000 a year. This cave of the smugglers was never found. Similarly, when a year and a half ago yre, the handsome police- man, and William Ballyn, the singing waiter, were arrested bringing in dia- monds, there was a *“$10,000,000 Euro- pean jewel-smuggling ring” in the back- ground—and it is still there. When a short time later Albert K. C. Lahaye, petty officer of the Red Star liner Belgenland, and Leo Ginsberg, New York jeweler, were arrested, the Government for the first time aban- doned the theory that jewel smugglhg was large-scale international business. John Roberts, head of the diamond unit of the United States Treasury Depart- ment, said it no longer appeared that any great world conspiracy existed, but, rather, that smuggling was carried on by small, shifting, isolated groups and individuals. Attorney Sylvester said “the most vigorous police work in the world is made ineffective by the in- numerable ways of concealing & jewel.” Bribery of steamship employes and, according to the recent New York testi- mony, customs employes, seems to be the main dependence of the smugglers. In past instances these allies of the con- spirators have received only from $100 to $200 for bringing in consignments worth $50,000. The higher the tariff the larger the split all around, but with many persons participating in a single deal, officials wonder how the foreign exporters can find dependable allies for such small compensation. (Copyright, 1930.) BYRD PARTY DOG DIES Dingo Stricken Shortly After Wel- come Given Master, De Ganahl. WHITE PLANES, N. Y., July 19 (#).— Dingo, a husky dog, who furnished the chief surprise at a recent surprise party incident to the return of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his Antarctic crew, is dead. Dingo belonged to Ensign Joseph de Ganahl, second in command of the supply ship Eleanor Bolling. Relatives and friends gave a surprise party for de Ganahl after his return. Dingo was an early, if uninvited, guest, and when the hosts went to the larder, the cup- board was bare, Dingo having eaten the refreshments. Shortly afterward he was stricken with distemper—not, it was believed, because of his feast—and he failed to recover., KILLS INSANE BROTHER Mexican Said to Have Acted to Re- lieve Sufferings. GOMEZ PALACIO, Durango, Mexico, July 19 (#)—Carlos Perez, an alleged “humanitarian killer,” was arrested here today and will be tried for the murder of his insane brother, Marcos. The accused, according to charges, shot his brother to relieve his sufferings, on the order of their father, Jose Perez, wealthy cotton planter. iy - Another attempt made by the com- 1 ol conlkndim!‘ A MRS, BORDEN HARRIMAN MARKS|(HEM|D STIDIES BIRTHDAY:; HOLDS UNIQUE POST, | Called Inspirer of Democratic | Party in Its Dark Wide Interest in Anniversary of Woman Leader Manifested. Hours. | 1 : BY WILLIAM HARD. | Mrs. Borden Harriman of Washington | and of the Democratic party far and, wide will this week have a birthday anniversary, and the event will be one of high Democratic interest. She has | made for herse a unique place in the | politics of the United States. | Living in Washington amid the dis- | franchised inhabitants of the Capital | | City, she does not aspire to elective office. She is not numbered among the | eight “gentlewomen”—as Mr. Speaker | Longworth calls them—of the House of | Representatives. She has no chance | to follow Ruth Hanna McCormick up | the rungs of elective political preferment to the Senate. She casts no vote in legislative affairs. Yet the life of the Democratic party would be horribly slowed and the optimism of it would | be sadly dimmed if “Daisy” Harriman were withdrawn from its counsels. Holds Hope for Party. She is a candle for the party in its | darkest days. Let the Republicans be re-elected and re-elected and re-re- elected. Let the scandals perpetrated | by thm roll off their backs like slime off | snakes, let them back in the light and warmth of prosperity and dominance. | Let the Democrats lie in the shades of | discomfiture and in the dungeons of political starvation and emaciation. Even there is “Daisy” among them giving brilliant dinner parties ' and nourishing Democratic statesmen with soothing viands and with the spectacle of imminent impending regained power. Democratic mere n.en might give up. This woman soul remains robust and resilient. Though her upbringing might not have been suspected of giving her any special sympathy except for the successful and the fashionable, her native inclination takes her to the side of the out of luck. She is for the wage- earner groaning under an anti-union contract. She is for the farmer crushed under the surplus of wheat. She is for all under-dogs. She is for Democrats. Her sweet belief in the inherent good- ness of the world makes her see it filled tomorrow with kennels for all under- dogs and offices for all Democrats. Cheers Her Partisans, She is the most rousing cheer-mis- ress of every Democratic National Con- vention. She inspires as a delegate. She Inspires as a natlonal comraittee- woman. She inspires as a hostess. She is constantly heralded in Washington’s gossip as the prospective matrimonal in- [RS. BORDEN HARRIMAN. spirer of a distinguished Democratic national leader. She apparently can- not thus contract her inspiration. She has to inspire a whole party. She is unmalicious, bouyant, hearty, healthy, wholesome, charming and charmed, delighting and delighted, as innocently and exuberantly pleased with all the novelties of life as if they were still novelties and as if she were still 16. At her birthday anniversary party this next week it will be a phychologi- cal mendacity if the candles on the cake should go beyond that debutante number. % Her seriousness is of her true inner age. She is the only Washington host- ess who conducts the equivalent of a night school in political science. She is not satisfled to see her Demo- cratic statesmen eat. She is not satis- fied to see them calculating futuristic election returns. They must discourse and debate. Th~y must bring forward data and arguments. They must elucl- date issues. They must winnow the chaff of Republican sophistry from the golden grain of Democratic principle and the sanguine seeds of Democratic victory. Prophecy About President. Issuing from “Daisy’s” night school, and tingling with “Daisy's” discovery that no President with name be- ginning with an “H,” and particularly no President with two names, both beginning with “H’'s,” has ever been re-elected, a Democratic statesman can walk right up to Dave Reed and carry Pennsylvania. “Daisy” Harriman is a good woman. She is & one-party woman. Republi- cans she is sweet to, but not sweet on. Democrats have all of her heart. They have all of her unrivaled talents for making them happy now in the thought of how much happier they soon will If they fail to put her then into the cabinet, it will be just like men, but “Dairy” will still be faithful and still think them perfectly grand. All she wants is to be the re-fueler of her Democrats. (Copyright, 1930.) CONGRESS CALLED 1., SOUPKITCHEN Lawyers’ Committee Finds “Mendicants Loot Treas- ury by Vote Threat.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 19.—The Committee on American Citizenship of the Ameri- can Bar Association today made pub- lic & report which calls the farm re- lief bill an attempt to “raise the price of bread to 90 per cent of the people, in order that 10 per cent may have larger profit in rmducing it The report will be presented to the association at its annual meeting here, August 20-22, It is signed by F. Du- mont Smith and the four members of the committee. Attacks Farm Board. After reviewing the $250,000,000 already appropriated and asserting that the Farm Board and its subsidiaries “have engaged in a purely private business on which a loss of $20,000,- 000 has already been incurred,” the report continues: “If one crew of mendicants can come to the doors of Congress and, | with a threat of votes, loot the Trea: ury, other groups will follow the ex- | ample. These groups will combine to aid each other, trade and swap, votes, until each one gets its dole out of the public funds. “Congress has become a national soup kitchen, where every mendicant industry—every greedy, begging group —brings its empty bowl to receive its Treasury soup directly or indirectly. When the other industries begin to get their dole, this country will be reduced to the condition of that happy | community where all inhabitants make | a living doing each other's washing.” Inauguration Date. ‘The assoclation is also expected to recommend legislation changing the date of the presidential inauguration, | so that the new President may take | office within one or two months of | election. Stages Society Drama. NEWPORT, R. I, July 19 (#).—Mid- | night drama outdoors is society's latest MAY BE RESHAPED Educators and Clubwomen to Promote Laymen’s Inter- est in Science. Because so many human activities | are motivated by or revolve about natu- ‘nl and applied chemistry, a nation- ide movement has been launched to | increase the layman's understanding of the subject and to reshape the teach- :n‘! of the science in schools and col- eges. Educators from all sections of the country will gather at the University of Cincinnati, September 8 to 12, to discuss the program in connection with the meeting of the American Chemical Socety. Greater popular understanding of | chemistry among women will be the chief aim of the sessions, it is an- nounced by the division of chemical education of the soclety. Organiza- tion of study clubs in women's organiza- tions in each State is progressing under direction of a committee headed by Dr. Harrison Hale of the University of Arkansas, Mrs Sherman on Committee, Mrs. John D. Sherman, former presi- dent of the General Federation of ‘Women’s Clubs, has been elected to the committee to further this work. Mrs. Sherman now is chairman of the de- partment of the American home of the general federation. ‘The women's club study course in its present form, it was explained, is made possible through gifts from Francis P. Garvan of New York, president of the chemical foundation. It has been pre- pared by a committee of the division of chemical education, in co-operation with the women’s club bureau of the University of Arkansas. 2 ‘The course is non-technical and is designed to give that newness of vision and awakening of interest which result from a knowledge of what this all-im- portant science is going and may do. The study program made public by Dr. Hale embraces 12 topics in the general field of American chemistry, as follows: “Chemistry — the Ball-Bearings of ogress,” “Water,. Sanitation and Med- icine”; “Feeding the Family,” “Clothe ing the Family,” “Painting the Picture of Progress,” “Fuel for Fire and for Force, “Dinner Plates and Drain Pipes,” “Rubber,” “Electro-Chemistry and the Kitchen,” “Gold, King of Metals, and Iron, the President”; “In Peace and in War,” “American Chem- istry and the Puture” Food Problems. “The growth of all food depends uj chemistry,” it was pointed out bym committee. Whether the diet of today is more wholesome than that of 50 years ago is among the problems to be taken up by the woman students, who will also be called upon = “awiticizze sanstructively the food uwded in the average American family, n & poor family and in a rich f: » Btudents will discuss question whether we are only at the “sunrise of America’s chemical and “what may cause an eclipse.” American chemical independence is also taken up. Delegates from every State will at- tend a meeting September 10 of -the Senate of Chemical Education. The RAIL WAGE AGREED UPON MONTREAL, July 19 (®).—For the first time in the history of the Inter- | national Brotherhood of Stationary | Firemen and Oflers, an agreement has been made with the Central Vermont | Railway, the union’s convention was in- formed yesterday. James C. Gascoyne, Montreal, who made the announcement, sald the agr:ement would put into effect the saze rates of wages as are operative on the Grand Trunk Western. Officers were elected yesterday as John P. Me- Namara; Boston; first vice president, follows: _President, James B. Conroy, St. Louis; second vice president, John Conway, Newark, N. J.; third vice president, John Coull, Clinton, Iowa; fourth vice president, James C. Gascoyne, Montreal; secre- tary-treasurer, Joseph W. Morton, Chicago. MANY STATES TRY REFORESTING PLAN Florida Studies Imported Seeds to Find Good Commercial Trees. By the Assoclated Press. _ ATLANTA, Ga., July 19.—Reforesta- tion of millions of idle acres and cut- over timber lands or farm lands that have been abandoned as unprofitable for cultivation is being attempted this year by many States in the Southeast. State officials are confronted by va- ried problems and conditions. In Florida the forestry service is busy planting seeds imported from foreign countries for the purpose of discovering trees best adapted to production of commercial forests, while in Alabama farmers must protect their pastures against the rapid growth of native trees, lest the grass be_smothered out in the shade. Between these two extremes is found successful planting of native trees and renewed growth of young forests. Georgia has about 7,000,000 acres of uncultivated farm lands that are soon to be reclaimed as forests under State- directed projects. 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