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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S, i THORNTON FRIEND OF LEGION . AncsiaKN LEGION tOepT for Tble Department Supplied by the American Lesion News Service.) WILL ALLOW FAMILY CLAIMS Class Heretofore Regarded aa Now Permitted by U. 8, Veterans' Bureau. Unau-thoriz- ed Consideration of a class of veterans' claims heretofore regarded as unauthorised will be permitted by the (United States Veterans' bureau, ao 'cording to word received b the American Legion. A new ruling provides that claims which were made for family allowance 'after the veteran's discharge from the service can now be considered where the person to whom It was desired to make the allowance was subsequently jbrought by law within the permitted 'Class of beneficiaries. In the particular case submitted by the Veterans' bureau for decision, an attempt was made by an enlisted man to claim an allowance for his aunt, who, he showed, was absolutely de pendent upon him for support. At that time the claim was disallowed because an aunt was not then, nor now, within the permitted class of family allowance beneficiaries. The aunt involved In this case, however, stood in loco parentis to the enlisted man. Following the discharge of the enlisted man from the service, the first Sweet bill amended the war risk Insurance act by enlarging the permitted class to whom allowances might be made to include "persons who have stood In loco parentis to a member of the military or naval forces at any time prior to his enlistment or Induction for a period of not less than one year." This amendment was made retroactive in Its force to October 6, 1917. The aunt In the case ruled upon held such status. In view of this retroactive provision the comptroller general has ruled that a regulation of the Veterans' bureau requiring that application for family allowance must have been made while the enlisted man was still In the service to form a basis for a successful claim does not apply where a subsequently enacted law has given rights which could not have been claimed while the enlisted man was in service. HOME FOR A Canadian by adoption, but formerly a citizen of the United States, Sir Henry Thornton, head of the great Canadian national railway system, shows his respect for American World war fighters om every occasion. When members of the American Legion In Canada gathered to pay tribute to the honorefl World war dead of the nation, Sir Henry was the prin cipal speaker, taking this opportunity to demonstrate his regard for the heroes of the land of his birth. The event was attended not only by Amer ican Legion members, but representatives of nearly every allied nation. n men In the One of the Dominion of Canada, Sir Henry is with the attempt heartily of the American Legion to organize the veterans of the United States now in Canada Into posts of the American Legion. A recent reorganization of the Legion in the Dominion has caused the Inauguration of such ' a , campaign. Sir Henry was born in Logansport, Ind., in 1871. His early education was received at St. Paul's, Concord, N. H., and he later entered the University of Here he received a Pennsylvania. degree from the civil engineering department of the school In 1894, and almost Immediately obtained employment with the Pennsylvania Railway company as a draughtsman. He held various Important positions with the engineering department of this company and In 1911 became general superintendent of the Long Island railway, a subsidiary line of the Penn In this capacity he had sylvania. much to do with the development of the Long Island terminal and with the electrification of the Long Island railroad. In April, 1914, he was called to England to become general manager of the Great Eastern railway. This railway was one of the most lmpor-- Free treatment will be afforded tubercular veterans In the Veterans' Mountain camp of the American Legion, a project sponsored by the men's organization in the Adirondack mountains of New York. estate of a former Here a 1,275-aer- e well known millionaire has been secured In the heart of the New York forest preserve. The camp will not only be used as a sanitarium for tubercular and convalescent veterans but will eventually become a home for men. aged and Indigent The only requirement for admission will be an honorable discharge from the armed forces of the United States. Everything will be furnished to the war fighters, treatment, board, lodgmoney. ing, clothing, and pocket Veterans from any section of the country will be admitted. If It is proved they are In need. The project was originated by the American Legion in New York as a portion of Its hospitalization program. The Legionnaires of the state seek a fund of $2,500,000 to provide for the camp, and a campaign has been waged throughout the Kate to tbls end. , In speaWng of the project, the committee In charge stated: "The camp is a tangible manifestation by the American Legion that It means to end the Intolerable conditions under which thousands of veterans have been dragging along. The Legion means to )tovtde the necessities these men have lacked and place their comrades beyond the reach of want. It hopes to awaken the nation to the reality of things, and la firm In Its fcellef that once aroused, It will come forward, heart and hand, and aid them In this great work." committee the honorary Among which Is serving In assisting to raise the fund are former Ambassador James W. Gerard, Otto II. Kahn. David Belasco, Augustus Thomas, Oeorge W. Wlckersham and others. Memorial Erected. memorial has been erected by the University of Arkansas In honor of the students of that institution who gave their lives in the World war. A hnge boulder of native limestone to which Is attached a bronze plate bearing the names of the dead heroes serves as the memorial. American Legion members had charge of the dedicatory cereA monies. Brought Out Ancient Autos. Legionnaires In Santa Ana, Cel.. recently held a moat unique celebration in an "Automobile Resurrection day" which they staged. Derelict cars of very type were sought out and formed a parade through the city's street. It Is said that the vintage of some of the accieat that automobile cars was manufacturer; sought t purchase reilra. thenj "People Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree association, who has been sending millions of young trees to France to help reforest the devastated battle areas, commends to Americans the methods of the French as told In a report received' by the association. He says the operations in the forest of Roentgen near Aix la Ohapelle and In the forest near Cleves are conducted along the most scientific lines. "We find," says Mr. Piack, "that the French and the Belgians have cut something like four million board feet, with the coming growth fully In mind. "This is much different from the slashing and girdling done by the Germans during the war In their retreats. In this French method there Is a great lesson for the United States. With France there are always more trees coming. "In the United States there are millions of acres of Idle land once covered with growing trees. They could be that way today had scientific forestry been practiced In this country during the last forty years. There should be a forest crop In this country Just as there are other kinds of crops. "Our Idle land was not made Idle by an Invading army with cannon, but an invading army with exes. But we are in much the same situation as France, although from different causes. The thing to do now Is to reforest these Idle acres, for Our newspapers and our factories must have forest products 'f. o. b. the warehouse door. " Hungarian Invents Far - Seeing Machine The telehor, the machine which sees at great distances, Is the Invention of Denes' Mihaly, twenty-nin- e years of age, the chief engineer of the Budapest telephone works and head of several other mechanical orstuganizations. Mihaly, a dent of high frequency electrical currents, has no less than 62 Inventions on the market, Including the speaking kinematograph, a new system of colored klnematograph, a plastical kinematograph, and many automobile and wireless Inventions. The telehor is made of two separate instruments, the receiver and the The connection of the reproducer. two instruments may be effected either through a wire, wire connection or wireless. Every photograph, landscape, figure, handwriting or any object which Is placed before the obafL jective of the receiver Is seen under less than of a second on the screen of the reproducer. The principle of the telehor Is similar to that of the of Professor Korn. The latter, however, makes necessary an ordinary photo proceeding. With the telehor it is a question of transferring moving pictures, similar to those which appear In an ordinary camera. Every time the objective is transformer Is effected In the telehor, also, with a opened, the electro-ligh- t selenium cell which changes the different light elements of the picture to simcurrents In the Instrument. The obstacle to effectlnf this up ilar electro-ligh- t to now has been In the nature of the selenium, which acted very slowly so that the cell was Ineffective. The solution of the problem was made possible In the telehor with the Invention of an exceedingly small selenium cell, which Is capable of registering 100,000 light changes per second. well-know- n l t Ml-f- l Sir Henry Thornton, K. C. B. during the war. In 1916 Mr. Thornton was named deputy director of Inland water transportation, with the rank of colonel in the Royal Engineers. This department handled all Inland water navigation in northern France, Egypt and Mesopotamia. He rose to the rank of major general, and was named Inspector general of transportation In 1918. Following his acceptance of British naturalization In 1919, he was gazetted a knight commander of the Order of the British Empire. He has been awarded the American Distinguished Service Medal, the Order of Leopold from the Belgians, and the Legion i of Honor from the French. Call from Canada for Sir Henry's services came In November, 1922, when he was asked to go to the Dominion to the Canadian National Railway system as chairman of the board of directors and president of the Horace Towner Has Ungrateful TO AIM TEACH d Domes-tie-grow- Before any person can become a In West Virginia schools, he or she roust take an oath of allegiance to support the Constitution of the United States and the state of West Virginia. This Is the text of a bill passed recently by the West Virginia legislature, as one of three messures sponsored by the American Legion, all of which have become statutes of the teacher state. The hill requiring the oath of allegiance Is one of the Ideas for carrying out plans for thorough Americanization pat forward by the Legion and given strength by the support of the veterans' Organization. Another bill requires that the United States flag shall be flown over every schoolhouse 4n the state while schoola are In session, except In Inclement weather. The bill further provide! that the flag, a regulation United States standard, shall be purchased by the school board from the building fund. The third bill which received the support of the Legion calls for thorough training In the schools of the state in history of the United States, civics, add Instruction In the constitutions of tne nation and of the state. This bill was presented with the Idea that thus would the principles of Americanism, the perpetuation of the Ideals of the nation, and knowledge of the organliatlon of the government become known to every atudeat In the lata. Job i Bnck In 1911 Hon. W. S. Fielding of Canada negotiated with President Taft for a treaty of reciprocity between the United States and Canada. It failed because eastern Canada opposed It. Mr. Fielding Is now ftnenrer minister, and recently be mode trip to Washington to revive the pioposltlon. It Is said In Ottawa his plHn will hnve the support of a Urge majority In the new Canadian parliament The farmers of the western provinces have Increased their voting strength, and the Liberals stand with them on this proposition. The Fielding proposal, made in the house of commons at Ottawa, Is that President Harding reduce by BO per cent the duties on cattle, wheat, flour, oats, barley, potatoes, onions, tnmtna hsv anrl 1nb. The Canadian government would then be authorize'! "to make such reductions of duties or similar articles Imported Into Canadu t :uiie a uioau from the United States." Preliminary ment which would call for th ratlflcetn of congress and the Canadian parll efforts will be directed to that a .toaj which the President Is already r tanir. powered by congress to take under UW rortney-Mecumoe- " 1: . nan-Uverteedin- ;. TV x oung an m m Is at .Start .. A. United Statu Dtputnul , " : (Pr.par.d hj th ot Asrleuitura-v t The United States Department of i. Agriculture gives some figures oa the quantities of milk that may be fed ' to calves at different ages. At birth ; a calf needs about 8 pounds ' t a day, while a , calf will use ' 12 pounds. Underfeeding at the start, ' says the department, Is better than .' , overfeeding. Some beginners make the ' mistake of giving the calf all It wants. This would probably be a good prac- - ' tlce if the calf were fed every 2 or 3 , ' hours, as Is the case when It runs . with the cow. However, when a young 4, . calf has been without feed for from ' 8 to 12 hours, there Is danger that It : will gorge Itself If allowed to con- sume all It wants, which may cause J "', ' U , l" digestive trouble. ' A uniform temperature of about90 i V degrees F. is necessary if the mik I is to agree with the calf and produceI . . . i .V c to make tempt up for any lack In quality of the milk by Increasing quantity. For Instance, they will Teed, much more skim milk than whole milk In the belief that the Increased quanti t. ty will make up. for the lack of This Is wrong, as the same. rule about overfeeding holds good with skim milk as with whole milk. :, If on account of age, souring, or dirt, ' the quality of the milk Is poor, the quantity should be reduced rather than Increased. The calf will not lose ' so much In development through a reduction In feed as he would from digestive disorders. A calf often can take a relatively small quantity of bad milk for long periods and hold Its own and even make small gains, when a larger portion would cause digestive trouble and even endanger the ani mal's life. : 100-poun-d . . ': , - . ' but-terfa- Destroying Army Worms by Use of Paris Green The army worm Is a smooth, striped caterpillar about an Inch and a quarter long and a quarter of an Inch In diameter. It is rather dark In ap pearance. While normally It feeds by night and hides by day, not being generally noticed, as soon as It has increased to such numbers that Its food supply falls short It starts to travel, and, becoming bolder, feeds during both day and night How worms may be destroyed: If tne worms nave not yet attacKea a fleld the most Drartanle way t0 keep them out Is to plow furrows in front of them, throwing the furrow In the direction toward which they are traveling. The worms will fall Into the furrow, and when this Is full they may be killed either by dragging a log back and forth In the furrow, or by destroying the worms In holes pre viously dug at Interbals of twenty feet In the bottom of the furrow. Kerosene poured on them in the holes will destrov them. If the worms are the field, the following mixture, which will attract the worms and destroy them, should be spread about. One pound of parls green (poisonous), fifty pounds of wheat bran f dozen or and the Juice of ' one-thir- d Is Raspberry Cane-BorImported Currant Worm Cause of Great Damage Reduces Yield of Fruit er The raspberry has several Insects and diseases that reduce the crop Is one very greatly. The cane-bore-r that works so quietly that It Is not usually noticed by the novice. The adult beetles feed on the leaves and do some damage In this way. The most damage Is caused by the young worms feeding Just under the to form bark and causing the a gall. Later the worms go Inside nni bore Into the pith" where they remain over winter. When spring opens they change to adults. Spraying does not control them. The best method of control Is to examine the canes In the early spring and cut out close to the ground thon that are found Infested. These are readily found on account of the gnlM and swellings. The Infested canes must be burr-- d before the beetles come out. Dumping them In a brush pile only keeps . Sweet Clover Bloat Is the beetles from finding new hn-Is best the nort tor tlme Burning Troublesome to Cattle Sweet clover bloat Is believed to be remedy. onlv verv occasionally resnnnslbl for bloat In cattle. Sometimes If the ck- - Cleaning Up Is Needed ver is in Dioom tne iermentation oi When Disease Appearc honey In the blossoms develops suffi A real cleaning up Is needed when cient gas to form severe bloat At other times, especially when the clo dlseaae has appeared In the chicken ver la wet with dew or rain. It fer- flock. Not Just sweeping out from unments rapidly tn the first compartment der the roosts, and a sweeping off of of tfce stomach, and there the result the droppings board ; sot merely cleaning around th nest boxes, but taking ing development of gas Is also respon sible for bloat Prevention Is quite out every bit of removable furnishing difficult (the furniture) of a chicken house should an be removable), burning the litter, and following the thorough Potatoes Fed to Dairy sweeping of walla, celling and floor Cows With Fair Results with a good dlatnfectant. Any good Potatoes can be fed te dairy cows with commercial dip will do. It Is hen apdilution la hot fair results. They give better results plied la a when fed In connectloa with clover or water, using a fere sprayer. After the bona la dried, apply a alfalfa hay than when fed In connec tion with wild bay, timothy or fodder goed coating of whitewash In which la earn. In comparlaoo with corn. It re-- a little carbolic add or other good . r, disinfectant ; to eight pounds of ""Ba Ja . pound eC gxeuaJ i Berore returning me cnicerns iv m I cleaned house, treat them for Uce 9CUOB Currents and gooseberries have suffered severely from the depreda tion of the imported currant worm In the last few years and this year we may look for even greater Infestation. These worms can in a few days strip the bushes of leaves. This naturally reduces the yield of fruit and if re peated for several conaecutlve years. may kill the bushes. Now is the time to put a stop to the ravages of this Insect The most effective treatment Is spraying with lead arsenate at the rate of two or three tablespoonfals to a gallon of water. Lead arsenate has the desir able quality of adhering to the leaves for a long time and retaining Its strength throughout that time. For these reasons it Is much preferred to white hellebore, the old fashioned currant worm remedy. e ' one-to-fif- ' ,, po-ane- ' : one-hal- tuii i , setter l . Item HI btOCk r arming The cost of feed Is the biggest Item In stock farming. To produce a cheap ration Is therefore one of the most im portant factors in the business, and the stock fanner who wishes to be successful must learn how to reduce his feed bilL The Missouri experiment station re cently ixsued a bulletin on the cost of crop- production, showing the tost of putting up hay to be S3.3S per ton. They did not say whether this hay was put up In stack or mow, but the figures Indicate that modern labor- saving tools were used and that the hay was well housed either in stack or shed. It costs from 85 cents to $1.25 per ton to put corn in the silo; thus anges. we find that silage, on a ton basis, can Bring this mixture to a stiff dough to on be put up at from by the use of diluted molasses, and It amongst the worms. Cure quarter the cost of bay. The quality scatter be taken to keep this dough of silage can be controlled, while the should animals. quality of bay depends on the weather. from children or domestic Canadian Favors Reciprocity With U. S. , Underfeeding Cost of Feed Biggest a little while ago Horace former congressman from Iowa, was appointed by the President to be the governor of Porto Rico, to succeed E. Mont Relly. Scarcely had he assumed his new duties than he found himself confronted with an opposition as determined as that which had succeeded In having Relly ousted from the position. Governor Towner Is charged with Ignoring the Republican party, which Governor Relly favored in his appointments, and with turning virtually all offices over to Unionists, the dominant party of the Island, whose appeals to Washington brought the change In administration. President Harding probably will be carried Into the whirlwind of Porto Rlcan politics when he visits San Juan after his trip to Alaska. Reports to Secretary Weeks show coneI-4i!Lj-i"' if tinued friction. He considers It vir tually Impossible to name an executive who will please both factions. The secretary denies Governor Towner has Ignored the Republicans completely. Pleas for the removal of Towner are expected when Mr. Harding reaches the Island. Several New Laws, Approved by American Legion, Paaaed by West Virginia Legislature. Lime, Alfalfa needs lime. If the soil Is deficient, put on at least a ton of the or its equivalent In best of other pulverized forms. This can be applied at plowing time or later, before the first harrowing, bearing in mind that lime must be well incor porated with the soil to be effective. n Arrange early for the seed. seed Is better than Imported, which Is likely to be of the Turkestan common alvariety. Domestic-grow- n falfa seed such as is raised In Kansas or Is grown under similar conditions Is advised except for the northern part of the Eastern states, where Grimm or some other hardy variety should be used. Inoculation of Sol Do not forget to Inoculate the soil. Directions and the addresses of sources from which bacteria can be ob tained will be furnished by the Department of Agriculture or your state experiment station, or can be obtained through your county agent. Do not try to see how little seed you can use and still obtain a satisfactory stand. On the other hand, more than 20 pounds to the acre Is unnecessary. If the sowing Is done In September and conditions are favorable the young plants should reach a height of 12 Inches or more before winter. The crop should not be cut, but allowed to go through the winter to permit suc cessful survival of the freezing months. Circulars giving specific directions for growing alfalfa under various local conditions may be obtained from the department on request. Only PATRIOTISM a w v eea I hr th United Statu Department o( Ajrrloulture.) Preparation of the seed bed for fall sowing of alfalfa should begin In late July or early August, In the opinion of experts of the United States DeIn the partment of Agriculture. eastern alfalfa region from Pennsylvania south, September is a common time for fall alfalfa sowing, the date varying with local conditions. To get the soil settled It should be plowed not later than early August. Then Just before seeding time It should be loosened up for a depth of about 2 inches. If the subsurface is not well packed the conditions will not be favorable for the young alfalfa plants. M. Towrner, company. ' (Prpr4 Applying Mtminvio I Alfalfo Federal Experts. photo-maehl- tant military lines of communication XKJl T Tate .Tn1v nr. Farlv Anmisf. , ..j Best Time, According to 0 t?'tl ICUaiCOUll Tll-Smx- m Commends Forestry Methods of France best-know- MEN Wonderful Estate in Heart of New York Forest Preserve to Be Used at Sanitarium. 1 Promi Head of Canadian Railway System, Long in Army Service, 8t-- ng for Organization. A |