Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1931, Page 23

Part 2—8 Pages WORLD CALAMITY AVERTED Conference of MacDonald and Hoover Seen Preparing Two Great Nations to Act in Harmony BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. NESTIMABLY advantageous have been the international results of the understanding reached by Brit- ish Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- Donald and President Hoover on the Rapidan and in Washington in the Fall of 1929. That understanding not only established the principle of naval parity between Great Britain and America, thus easing the whole prob- lem of British-American relations, but epared, these great nations to act in ‘mony in the political, economic and 1 financial- strains which have afflicted the world of late. And very great have been those strains—much greater than many per- | The recent Ger- sons have realized. man crisis alone touched the verge of catastrophe. It was a matter of some 48 hours He knew that a German crash meant a general crash. He knew that European money could not be voided of its value without & financial panic in the United States. Broad humanitarian motives were not absent from his feelings. That is true. But the actual thing which moved him, and moved him with such resolution and rapidity, was his knowledge that disaster overhung this country. Crisis Thought Worst. ‘Those there are who assert that the hations have passed through even worse crises than the one just surmounted. German statesmen do not think so. Italian, French and British statesmen do not think so. And President Hoover certainly does not think so. It was not a case, as often in the past, of loss of confidence in individuals or corpora. tions or banks or municipalities or even smal] countries. It was loss of confidence in the big- | gest governments in the world. I will deal with a few major matters which one encounters in sounding au- thoritative political thought in Wash- It is noted here that Gen. Charles G. Dawes, American Ambassador at President Hoover understood. | in Later Strains. | Appeals for lower tariff walls, it is | suggested, could be addressed with more |reason to Continental Europe than to |the United States. Moreover. it is | pointed out in responsible circles that | the American tariff is constructed sci- | entifically to prevent low-cost foreign goods from underselling high-cost do- mestic goods in the American market. thus threatening the American living standard—a threat promising no good to anybody—whereas no foreign living | standard is threatened by goods which are a product of a lower standard in the United States. “If you iteh to knock off tariff bricks knock them off where they are least jus- tified and highest.” That is probably what President Hoo- | ver himself would-say to you if he said anything. | World solvency through debt remis- | sions scarcely sits smiling to the Wash- n governmental soul Banker Al- bert H. Wiggin's International Pinance Committee has emphasized the burden of the world’s debts. “Very well,” one can hear an administration spokesman saying, “let’s tackle the problem first by | doing something about Europe's expend- iture of $3,000,000,000 a year for hypo- thetic wars, which were outlawed un- equivocally ‘and utterly in 1928. That | colossal cost properly reduced, we can | see, or begin to see, whether this nation |or 'that is or is not able to pay its | debts. Until then the phrase ‘capacity to pay' must have a hollow suggestion War_debt cancellations for war financing can have o place in any policy outside a lunatic asylum.” Pacts and Entanglements. Now we come to pacts. It is rather hard to find any responsible politician in Washington who is crazy about them. France’s appetite for pacts is considered gargantuan. She eats them up, but they do not seem to do her any . She ceaselessly cries out for| more. ‘Washington 1is astonished. “Why,” it argues, “if the pacts we have are no good, how can any pacts be any good? Besides, to go on piling up pacts is offensively implicative with reference to the spirit and the purpose behind the pacts already made.” If you have a new international peace pact to sell, I hardly should ad- Vise you to bring it to this market. My concluding word shall be relative to the question of America's status among the political sovereignties of the earth. Are we still free, or are we entangled? There have been alarums. Vulgarly, President Hoover has been ac- cused of spilling, or tending to get in the way of spilling, the traditional beans. I guess he has not done it. We are still free. We have postponed the collection of some war debts. That all. Not that we have escaped foreign at- tention, foreign flattery, looking to our being taken for a diplomatic ride. Nearly all our overseas friends have been us. Germany has desired us to sit in on her claims against Prance, and Prance against Germany. | counselors, official and non- 3 tM:” ebxpom:v:y and ive rights, 2 sure— g e 3 to foreclose our action with regard to an_aggressor. But we rigidly have preserved our right to choose our course in any emer- i a only 49 per cent free list. gency. And we shall continue to preserve that right. Moscow Has No Breadlines, But All Goods . and Services Given in Lines ~MOSCOW, June 20.—Breadlines are , where. Every theater ticket window has Sovietdom, which boasts of | its queue. They can even be seen out- being the only country in the world to- i side of restaurants at meal hours. day where there s no unemployment, | Every street car and bus stop has it but the “line” on Moscow is that it|line-up, and at railroad terminals pas- probably has more pther kinds of lines | sengers are sometimes required to come than any other city on the face of the hours ahead of train time for their lobe. | giobe. | The lines to which these lines shall be devoted are thoss that human beings form: when crowds are after the same thing requiring individual atten- tion or service. In this line our Muscovite wins. With ® smile on his face he bravely ventures forth. day in and day out. into the labyrinth of the efty’s lines, where he must patiently wait for the multiple things he requires for himself. Line-up Starts Da; His day begins with the kitchen line. I he lives in a place with a commu- nal kitchen he must wait in line to brew his tea on the communal stove. Then he sets out for his place of work and line No. 2—waiting for trolley car. | Here he has time to read his morning | paper. He gets » “line” on the latest party line. At the factory or office he joins the line of his fellow-workers as they file into their place of employ- ment, Then comes the lunch line at the factory or office cafeteria. 1If it tickets. Your Muscovite has become as ac- customed to standing in line New Yorkers have to street corner unem- ployed apple venders. Queues to him meeting of the It 1s hard {o say whether their abolition—and abolition is bound to come some day with the country’s eco- nomic and industrial development— will be welcomed all around. Your Rus- sian, after all, is a sociable being. and | lines to him provide an excellent op- | portunity to exercise his sociability. (Copyright, 1931) s il | Philippine Emigration To Hawaii Still Going On HONOLULU —Figures received here from the Philippine Insular Bureau of Labor show thai in spite of the efforts happens to be his pay day he jumps |of the Philippine government to curt into another human queue to collect his_rubles Comes the moment when he finishes his seven-hour day of work. He or she, as the case may be, decides to do some shopping. And now the fun be- gins. Lines and more lines are the order of the day. Longest are the lines at the co-operative stores, where arti- cles of clothing are sold. against orders issued by factories, offices or special organizations. Here they sometimes extend for over a block outside the ttore. Citizen has choice. He must get into the line if he wants his suit or pair of shoes. He does not mind waiting in line for an hour. He considers himsel! fortunate to be able to buy what he needs at a price far below that charged in the open market Once he has handed the clerk his order there is another line- up at the cashier's booth. Spring Up Rapidly. Such lines are to be found every- where in Moscow. They spring up like wildfire as soon as it becomes known that a store has received a supply of Koods which have been lacking for sev- cral days. They also find their ex- pianation in the fact that stores are much more centrally located here than in other cities, in the tremendous in- crease in the city’s population, and in the concentration of goods in large government and co-operative stores as against numerous small privately owned enterprises. Lines at food stores are generally much shorter. They are longest in the early morning hours and at the close of the working day. also vhen it known that certain new supplies have been received. Lines at food stares, however. are expected to become shorter with the passing of the Winter and a resultant improvement in transporta- tion. Stores All Crowded. Ivan Ivanovitch no Crowded conditions obtain in virtu- ally all Moscow siores. They are part 2nd parcel of the ever-growing rise in the city's popmlation. Thus, lines of waiting people can be every- emigration to Hawail, the influx co: tinues. Last year 7.813 Filipinos cam for sugar plantation work. Furthe more, the returning Filipinos were le: in 1930 than in 1929, indicating great satisfaction with life in Hawail Formerly the Hawallan Sugar Plant ers’ Association, at its own expense brought all the Filipino labor to Hawaii If the laborer remained on the planta- | tions for three years, he was given free | transportation to his home district in the Philippines. But so many Filipinos | prospered in Hawaii, saving money | either to send home or take home, that the planters can get large numbers of laborers willing to pay their own w to_Honolulu. 1t is the policy of the Philippine La- bor Bureau to discourage emigration and promote home enterprise, but the good wages and excellent living condi- tions available here for men willing to work on the plantations continue to at- tract large numbers of Filipino laborers Cuban i Blite HoteV Pool Causes Riot in Budapest VIENNA —Budapest has been rock- ing recently at the great bath scandal A Cuban’ doctor, by name Ramon Cos- | tello, colored, went to the fashionable Hotel St. Gellert—and took a bath | there. Now & bath in the St. Gellert| is quite an affair. The hotel is one of the finest in Central Europe, its swim- | | ming B0l has genuine artificial waves, | 1t is the chief gathering place for Hun- garian soclety on warm Summer after- noons. The aristocratic crowd saw the dark figure of the Cuban disporting the ertificial waves—and there | was & riot! The hotel jer ejected Dr. . He indignantly went to | his lawyer and sued the hotel. The hotel lost the suit; Dr. Costello imme- | diately returned, very uomgolcuuully. and resumed his 3 much pub- | licity attended the affair that the Cub-n was challenged to a prize fight by an angry Hungarian anxious to Jet his race feelings froth over. . EDITORIAL SECTION he Sunday Star. WASHINGTON. D. (., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1931. eace Across the Rhine? French Good Will and German Good Faith Held Absolutely Essential to Any Prolonged Co-operation. JEALOUSY, FEAR BY Editor N Europe, where every one disagrees with every one els: about every- thing, there is at least one axiom on which every one is ready to agree. That is: “If a durable reconciliation took place between France and Germany everiasting peace would be secured to Europe.” The French don't in the least deny the truth of this axiom. They have de- fects—several defects, if you like—but they certainly have one quality: they are intelligent so far as intelligence means comprehension. Ninety French- STEPHANE LAUZANNE, in Chief of Le Matin, Paris SUSPICION. HATE-—-ALL "men out of a hundred understand per- fectly well that friendship with Ger- many would mean the end of fears. the end of armaments, the end of disputes. the end of war. Those same Frenchmen also understand that such friendship could be based only upon absolute equality and mutual co-operation, and they do not copceive an entente where one nation would dominate the other More than that, those same Frenchmen realizing as they do how immense the national and moral profit of reconcilia- tion would be, are willing to pay a large price for it. Let me make this point clear and state what kind of sacrifices France THESE would consent to in order to conciliate| Not only would she settle the question | 1y | of naval and land armaments with Ger- | oq many on a just basis of common se- | COULD BE Germany She would first of all very likely agree to a bid reductions of the irritating debt | reparations—which means that France would agree to bear the greater part of the expenses of repairing her devastated regions She would not object to the restitu- tion to Germany of her former African colonies—namely, Togoland and Kam- erun She would help, in every way possible and in a spirit of conciliation, to solve the problem of the Polish Corridor so as | She does not From a Decoration by J. Scott Williams. CURE D BY CONFIDENCE. curity requirements, but she would cer- tainly conclude financial, economic an industrial arrangements with her neigh- bor for the mutual benefit of the two countries. Such likely would be the price France would pay to rid herself of the night- mare of apprehension for the future in which she has been living for the past 70 years. She wants peace; she needs {1t perhaps more than any other nation. wish to dominate Europe. G. 0. P. VICE PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER Believed Curtis Wil in "32—Hoov NOW SCARCE 1 Not Be Candidate er Certain to Head Ticket. BY MARK SULLIVAN, IE aim of this dispa clarify one area of n presidential _situation, publican part of it. For that purpose let us begin, irrelevantly, text about Senator Borah of with a Idaho. In every presidential campaign sinc: and inciuding 1916 newspaper readers have read again and again that Scngto Borah of Idaho would be a candidate for the Republicn nomination. In 1916 he would be a candidate: again in 1920 and again and vet sagain in 1924 and 1928, Every reader of this present ar- ticle whose memory goes back to pre- vious campalgn yvears must have secn that statement or intimation over and over, in direct form, or in implication of headline, cartoon and editorial Yet the fact is Senator Borah has never been a candidate for the nomi- nation. He has never tried to be one. He has never had a delegate or tried to get one. Running for the presiden- tial nomination has never been in his mind as a purpose. The writer of this article has known Senator Borah, inti- mately it may be sald, since before he public life. which was in 1907. When the Senator is in Washington few days pass without my having prolonged talks with him. If Senator Borah had ever been a candidate, or intended to be. or tried to be, the writer of this ar- ticle would have known it. The fact is he has never been. Now the point of this, in its applica- tion to what is about to be written, is that in all presidential years much loose surmise is printed, much vague and preposterous speculatio tic aseribing of motive$—in short, much befuddlement for that part of the pub- lic that really would like to understand | national politics. As it was done in previous years, so will it be done in the coming one. 'And so the aim of the present article is to trim away from the picture of next year-—the Republican part of it—much of what is inevitably confusing to the reader. Hoover to Be Renominated. Persons who take an interest in na- tional politics and wish to keep them- selves well informed from now until the presidential election next year will do well to start from one fixed point. The Republican nominee will be Her- bert Hoover. That is a fixed program today; it will continue to be a fixed program until the Republican National | Convention. One solitary condition | alone could change it; that would be Mr. Hoover's elimination, present and ture, by any of the contingencies list- by the ~Constitution: “Removal, death, resignation or inability.” | Mr. Hoover will be renominated prac- | tically without opposition. He may be by Gov. Gifford Pinchot of | Pennsylvania. (The writer of this ai ticle thinks he will not; Gov. Pinchot | is more likely to try for the United. | States senatorship from Pennsylvania. | | and has & fair chance of getting it.) | If Gov. Pinchot should oppose Mr. Hoo- ver (which most probably he will not) | he might get as many as 50 to 75 out to give a measure of satisfaction to both | All she wants is to make sure that the (Of TOughly 1,100 delegates. e the Poles and the Germans. (Continued on Fourth Page) Machine Age Goes to Farm Hickman Price, Called Henry Ford of Agriculture, Has Greatest Wheat Crop BY WALTER B. PITKIN. N the Spring of 1910 a young news- paper _reporter lately graduated from Columbia University chucked his job down in Park Row and left New York City to seek a lost em- pire. The empire had been lost for three generations. Time enough in which to become a great tradition! It had been an original land grant to the family, made directly by the infant State of Texas r had hunted for in vain. Al he ay somewhere out in + Mirages—somewhere ept flatness which s of square miles in Northwest Texas along the New Mexico line. In those earlier days it was a land of many treacheries—no trees, no ces, no_houses a world of straight horizons melt- into the blu crazy fossil sea of soll over which a man might ride as far as from Wal to Niagara Falls without the slightest change of scene save for an occasional gopher hole and lone wild hor the Land of Gr on that vast. w embraces th f scene? Wrong! changing, after a ake would appear explorer. A whole would leap up »f him, twisting its 3 e to the east. The earth would ysses a little way beyond. v g—mirage after mirage of nature. The father had covere Y. than 300 miles in search of empire; then he had gone back discomfited. Again it was for hion. A the right Pioneers Invade Panhandle. 1 then years. Things that way. A rail- Out of the North Frontler farmers started to push back the cattlemen, slowly and timidly at first. Men said something couid be done with that rich earth of the Panhandle. But what? Well, try it out and see! The young reporter, reading all this in his newspapers, suddenly got the ancestral iich. The Lcst Empire, said tradition, embraced thousands cf acres —Iit was as big as all Manhattan Island Its s0il was as rich and as deep as Mis- sissippl bottoms, stoneless and clean. And underneath it ran a mighty river many miles wide, down from the snows of Colorado’s mountains; its siow, dark waters were within easy reach of the well-digger’s tools How could the empire be distin- guished from all the other jndistinguish- able horizontal stretches Sclely by a few tiny driven deep into the dirt at the corner of every squire ml surveyors’ marking posts, driven close to & century ago, when the Bountles of Texas were first lald out Reporter Sets Forth in Quest. Well. there was a spcrting proposition fit to heat the mfl"“ any Park Row cub! And made the sportier by “find- Years went were changing road struc flocked land hu of pipe o villages—nothing , of earth? | Ever Raised by HICKMAN PRICE AMID He dropped his bag at a shack called the “Hotel” and went to buy some pro- tective coloration in the shape of a 10- gallon hat and a bandanna. As he was tying the latter arcund his neck, a stranger stepped up, introduced himself as the Secretary of the Ch2mber of Commerce, eyed the 10-gallon hat, then remarked in a kindly voice “It's a fine hat, all right. But don't buy any high-hecled boots. The cows are passing. The farmers are coming in. | Keep up with the paride. Buy a farm Finds Lost Empire Stakes. Price hired a team and buggy. bought a county map and struck out. Whether ers keepers”! 1f only he could chance | it was Lady Luck or extra sharp eyes or upon those little pipes he would come into his empire! The train pulled into called Tulia, and frem it hero, Hickman Price;. { a tiny Anm :\'l'try first. ate of Park Row. of the something else again, nobody can say but the im happensd. On his y out he came an the section nunbers Emplre! In the midst of the on One Individual. He got mad. Mad at the slow mules Mad at the petty two acres a day the | . Young Senator La Follette may run. | as his father always did, to preserve | the morale of his local following in | | Wisconsin. If he should, the Wisconsin | | Senator might get four-fifths of the | | delegates his own State, | hardly a one outside. That was alwa | the experfence of his father. | Senator Norris of Nebraska may run. | or may not. If he should, he might | get about half the delegates from his | home State and a sattering 10 or 12| outside. That was his experience in | | 1928, | | _Aside from these three, who can| much fantas- | that President Hoover should resign or be successfully impeached tod: hid President Hoo for that or any cther of the cons nal reasons, were-out of next year's pictur:, who, then, would the Repubilcans nominate for Presis dent? They would nominate. of course, their very best man, or one of thelr very best. Whoever they would nomi- nate for President in that event is the man they ought to ncminate for Viee President in all events. Since the chizf function of a Vice President is to take office on the “removal. death. resigna- ticn, y" of a Fresid=nt. it fol- Jows that the Republicans. if they ar: wise and prudent, will ncminate for Vice President next vear precisely the man whom (h:y would nom.nate for President if Mr. Hoover should become constituticnally unavailable today. Coolidge Held Next Best Choice. w. who is that man? Who is the best man the Republicans have available if Mr. Hoover wer: not? How many “very best” men do the Repub- licans have evailable? On this point there is room for legitimate specula- tion, and there will be much of-it. Search of the Republican field for available presidential potentialtties, other than Mr. Hoover. reveals a star- tling fact. The Republicans have very few such men. Let the reader ask him- elf—quickly so as to get his own re- action—just who the Republicans would nominate for President if they didn’t have Mr. Hgover. What names are at this instant in the minds of the reader of this article? Mr. Coolidge, I suspect, is one. And the fact is that in such an imagin'd emergency as the “removal, death, resignation or inabil- ity” of Mr. Hoover, a multitude of minds would turn to Mr. Coolidge as a remembered rock. But obviously the Republicans aren't going to nominate Mr. Coolidge for Vic: President (al- though in a well managed party and a well directed country there is no con- vincing reason why theygshouldn't). Next to Mr. Coolidge what “very best” men do the Republicans have to nominate for Vice President on the as- sumption they are going tb mominate their best? Senator Dwight Morrow of New Jerscy is clearly one, ably and amply equipped to be one of the best of Presidents. Now the fact is, beyond Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Morrow, there aren't many “very best” men in the Republican ranks. And since Mr. Coolidge is un- likely for obvious reasoms, it would seem that Mr. Morrow should be a pretty likely bet for the Republican vice presidential nominaticn, assuming, of course, the Republicans are going to name their best. - ‘Have any names oth'r than Mr, Coolidge and Mr. Morrov: come to the mind of the t who are in the TY and otherwise available? may have thought of Ambassador Charles | G. Dawes, but it would be odd for Mr. Dawes to have served as Vice once, then remained out four .years, and then serve agaln. Moreover, Mr. Dawes in years is not at youmg as in spirit; he was an important person in | politics during the administration of Willism McKinley, and must now pay the price of that early distinction by being 66 years old. There are others, of course. Many have been mentioned for the Repub- lican vice presidential nomination and more will be. This paragraph does not aim to b> a complete catalogue of those who will figure in the newspapers as “being considered.” It sesms fair to estimate that none of the others has quite the stature in all respects of Dwight Morrow. (Some readers, of course, will have thought of some of the irregular Re- publicans, such as Gcv. Pinchot, but think of any one elsc likely to contend | obviously the Republicans are not going | against Mr. Hoover? And if all these |to nominate an irfegular. three should run, as not all three will, | G. 0. P. Has Only : the aggregate of their strength might 'be as many as 100 delegates out of ‘This brings us to an interesting fact: | The Republicans really have, aside roughly 1,100. | ' from Mr. Hoover, very little presidential France's Race Held Useless. | Simber—which & b S mules could turn over. Mad at the pros- pect cf being unable to plant more than half & section of crops that season. For the first time there dawned upon him the hideous handicap under which the common farmer labored. Scoops World on Tractor. He left his plow in the furrow and sought & man to keep the mules plod- ding while he went off in search of some better way of turning the Empire into crops. He quizzed the natives, wrote letters, sent telegrams—and :at | length picked up the trail of a shaggy giant away up in Oklahoma who had a | steam tractor. Him he did hire and | bind to come down and save the Em- { pire. Back on the fields again, Price had his next big idea—and mark you well! All this happened 21 years ago, long be- fere anybody else had conceived, let alone tried out, the notion. The steam tractor fellows had pursued the ancient rural custom of first plowing, then disking. then harrowing. then pianting That is the sum of the possible op- | position to Mr. Hoover for the nomina- From time to time, newspapers | e said, and will say again, that Mr. | Coolidge will oppose Mr. Hoover. But | he will not. That would be fantastic | and Calvin Coolidge doesn't do fastas- tic_things. There is one cther to be mentioned, if the list is to be complete. There is one main, only one as yet, who has | actually announced himse!f. That is a one time Senator from Mary- land. Joseph I France, who has announced himsell and is holding | meetings and fanning the August | air up and down the land. The newspapers report his mestings. France | won't have one delegate in the conven- | tion; not even one from his own State. | He was a candidat: once before, in | much the same spirit, in 1920, when he | werked himself into self-hypnotized | | conviction that he was the logical com- | | promise between the two leaders, Wood and Lowden, and he shed salty tears | | because the sure-footed delegation frcm | | But nobody came around to pin medals | tion. Maryland couldn't see, as he was sure | saying they have very lttle vics presidential timber, if the vice pugdenflll is chosen on the basls he should be, the_basis of only thebest. The Democrats, on the contrary, have quantities of presidential timber. Any reader of this article can name off- hand from 5 to 15 Democrats com- pletely available for the presidential nomination, sufficiently known to the public, in all respects equipped, begin ning with Gov. Roosevelt of New York, ex-Gov. Alfred E. Smith, Newton D. Bak:r, Owen D. Young, Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, ex-Gov. Cox of Ohio, ex- Gov. Byrd of Virginia, Senator Robin- son of Arkansas, Senator Bulkley of Ohio, Senator Hull of Tennessee and yet more. The Republicans don't have as large a list as that. They have good men, like Senator David Reed of Pennsyl- vania—but Republicans dorft nominate either their Presidents or Vic: Presidents from States such as Pennsylvania, which are sure to go Republican any- how. The number of Republicans available and finally packing down the seed bed. “Why not do it 2ll at once?” asked the ycung reporter. The Oklahoman spat a geyser of tobacco juice several rods forth, pon- dered d grinned. ““Twon't kill us If we it jest try C'moy Improves Labor-Saving Plan, They tried it, hooking machine be- hind machine in crazy procession. Fiity | acres a day were transformed from hard old sod into mellow soil planted and ready for the first sprouts. All with two men and one antique steam tractor. At that time it was a world's record. on anybody's heaving chest. It was just a dirt farmer’s job. Came good years, came bad. had the frontier farmer's usual ups and downs. And some of the downs were a long way down. But he evolved, lttle by little, the great lesson which has become the golden text of modern Price | he saw, the chance to put their State on | in the all-round sense, and lacking any | the political map. Ex-Senator France | kind of impediment, is really quite |farming. Except for the plague of | droughts, all his major difficulties went | back to machines, men and methods. Nowhere big enough tractors! Nowhere men with vision and training! Nowhere | methods of operating machines and - |men over acreage huge enough to HIS ACRES OF WHEAT. | ‘achieve the crucial economies! Even in those early days Price dream- excitement the horses rubbed up agamnst | ed of tilling whole empires in a block. the first barbed wire fence thereabouts, | He dreamed it in a world whose pro- ran away and left the young emperor | gressive' farmers were content to plow afcot. But what was that? A 15-mile |fwg or three acres a day and to put in walk was nothing, after that find. {a single shift of laborers even during A few days later Price bought four |the rush seasons of hawest. Put such mules and a wagon, which he loaded |a farmer and his best team'on Price’s with lumber. He struck out in the | acres today and it would take him 50 midst of a terrific thunderstorm to build | years to plow them once. The farmer's himself & home on the Lone Prairfe. s were a heritage from the little | Alone he built the cabin. Alone he dug: and meadows of the East—and a well. Alone he st about plowing' the earlier of Europe. m%ogu not once Lost, now Fcund, Empire his | it the great plains, which made four myles. In the course of & few for & race of glants. hours sfter Rises in Nei World. | happened which turned the tide, first n | ——" | the 2ffairs of young Price and years times the s le | later in ths larger affairs of mankind: Cattle men | something which started him cn the him he would soon | way toward becoming the most sig- | and leave his foolish | nificant figure in the modern world of The dirt farmers, At is the cnly present avowed contender against Mr. Hoover, and he won't get a delegate. That is the blueprint of the Repub- lican naticnal conventton. Every ex- perienced observer and politician sees it that way. The sum of it is Mr. Hoover will be renominated practically without cpposition. Age Counts Against Curtis. Mr. Hoover's renomination for Presi- dent is certain. As to the vice presi- dency, there is room for real specula- The present Vice President, Mr. | Curtis, will hardly be renominated Much though his energy and vitality | deny it, Mr. Curtis is. in years, rather an elderly man. Born on January 25, 1860, he will be over 72 when the Re. | publican nominating convention takes | place next year, and moze uban 73 when he next Vice President is inaugurated, n March 4, 1933. Neither the Repub- | icans no: any other major rty is ikely. under present-day conditicns, to | nominate a man of that age for Vice President. The chief business of 2 Vice President is to be ready to be President, if the actual President dies: and a man who would be anywhere from 73 to 77 on stepping into the ncy is just too old. Any political party taking seri- cusly its responsibility to the country, any party functioning as a major party ought, any -party seriously its own chances for ‘success, is not going to to put a man over 70 in the tly as Presi- small. Striking Conductors Give Free Tram Rides ! SHANGHAI—Chinese street-car offi- clals are trying to collect $3,000 from their employes following a one-day | strike. Conductors and motormen had demanded an increase in pay and other | concessions, but when these were re- fused they took out thir street cars and continued their opcration. There as a difference! Conductors refused |'to accept fares from anybody, and a | word flew around that free rides were being given, hundreds of Chinese flocked | into the streets and, boarding the ears, | tode them up and down for & 13-hour stretch, At the end of the day the/cars headed for the barns and officials were ready to negotiate. But they want the $3,000 for the uncollected fares. Slaughter of All Felines Ordered in Italian Town their favorite pussycats where the po- lice couldn't find them recently when an edict went out for the wl e slaughter of all felines in the town of Salo, near Brescia. The local podesta ordered the modern “slaughter of the innocents” after a 3-year-old child had been bitten by a cat infected with hy- xn-rnué::m a3 the cat had circulated EHE