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Show THE PAYSOX CHRONICLE, PAYSOX. UTAH Huge Crop Losses Due to Drought Boost Prices and SCOTT WATSON T 11AS become uluios: axiomatic that genius By ELMO does not transmit itself and that the sons of great men rarely, if ever, turn out to be great. Certainly that bus been as true in America as In other nations, although we have had a few fam ilies which, over a period of years, have contributed several In dividuals of distinction. Two of these which come readiest to mind are the I.ees, who during the Revolution produced a statesman and a soldier, both of more than ordinary ability, and during the Civil war a really great military leader; and the Harrisons, who produced a Revolutionary war statesman andtwo Presidents. Put if it is necessary to find an exX ception to prove the rule it may be found, perhaps, in the statement made by some one that American history is all cluttered up with Adamses. For in America there is one family, and only one, that generation after generation has consistently and without Interruption, made contributions of the highest order to our history and civilization. Those are the words of James Trusiow Adams (who, by the way, is a Virginia Adams and not related to the Massachusetts family of whom he writes) in the prologue to his book, "The Adams Family, published recently by Little, Brown and company of Boston. The Adams family was established in America about 1G30 when a certain Henry Adams, probably because of a combination of religious and economic reasons, decided to leave England and try his luck in the New world. By chance he settled at a place called Braintree in Massachusetts. He married and had children, who in turn tnarried and handed down the family name. This went on for four generations without producing any man of distinction until we come to John 'Adams, a farmer and shoemaker In Braintree married Susanna Boylston, daughter of a family prominent in the medical history of the colony. With the fifth generation, In the person of John Adams, historian, publicist, diplomat. President of the United States, the family not only suddenly achieves national and international position, hut maintains it in successive generations for two centuries. Was it due to some mysterious result from the combination of Adams and Boylston blood far beyond the ken of science even today ; or to some unfathomable synchronism between the peculiar qualities of the Adamses and the whole social atmosphere of the next few generations, a subtle Interplay of unknown forces ; or to mere chance in a universe in which atoms rush and collide chaotically? Fascinating as is the problem, It is insoluble. All we shall see is that without warning, like a fault in the geologic record, there Is a sudden and immense rise recorded In the psychical energy of the family. The stage was set for the first great Adams, John, to play his part in American history when the dispute between England and her rebellious colonies sent him to the Continental congresses, where clear heads were headed to see that independence was inevitable and union of the colonies essential. While most Americans think of the Revolution mainly in terms of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Henjamin Franklin and a few others of spectacular deeds, the true history of those times could not be written without the name of John Adams. It was he who had much to do with bringing congress to the point of declaring independence; his was the master stroke which caused the adoption of the New England troops around Boston as a Continental army and s which checkmated intercolonial y placing George Washington, a 'hginian, in command; lie deserves the principal credit for establishing the American navy, and he furnished imnny of the political ideas on which Vhe new nation based its government. The international career of the Jeal-,ousi-- Mississippi river was so low that barges and towboats were stuck on sandbars and ntud fiats all ulong tiie Fattier of Waters. At tiie same time tiie levels of Lnkes Michigan, Superior and Huron were higher; which led commentators on tiie lake diversion controversy to think that the policy of the government lias resulted in giving the citizens who use tiie Great Lakes more water than they need, at the same time depriving tiie manufacturers and farmers of the Mississippi valley of stitfieient water to float their cargoes fo tiie sea. Rouse Government. Adamses began when John Adams was sent to France as one of the American commissioners his son, John Quincy Adams, going with him to begin his education in European schools, and after a brief stay there and a brief return to this country he went back to England as one of the commissioners to arrange the terms of the treaty of peace and later to become American minister at the Court of St. James. His career as vice president and finally as President completes the pattern of the life of this first great Adams. In John Quincy Adams, the second generation kept up the standard set by the first and even advanced it Before he was seventeen years of age he was private secretary to the minister to Russia and to his own father in Paris and in London. On his twenty-seventbirthday, after his graduation from Harvard, President Washington sent him as minister to The Hague and later to Portugal, Prussia and Russia. Then followed a term of teaching at Harvard but he was soon called hack to public service on the peace commission of 1S15. Next he emulated his father by becoming minister to England and came home in 1817 to serve President Monroe as secretary of state. John Quincy Adams was a master diplomat, having learned his lessons In the European school of international relations. He brought Spain to terms In Florida and his conciliatory actions offset the rasli deeds of Jack-sowithout blunting the force of the American policy. To him, according to Historian Adams, belongs most of the credit for the Monroe doctrine, though it has come down in history bearing the name of the Virginia Pres dient. Like ids fattier lie failed of to the Presidency, but his great years came during his service as congressman from the Plymouth district when lie stood almost alone in defense of constitutional government during the period of the slavery dispute. Finally lie died at ills desk, worn out in the service of the republic The third generation of Adnmses did not produce another President, but it did keep lip the family tradition of diplomatic service to the nation, and if there were any way to evaluate comparative worth of national and International service it might show that the contribution of Charles Francis Adams was Just as great as wei j those of John and John Quincy. Originally a Democrat, he turned Whig in defense of freedom and uulon. After a career as editor and congressman, Ills great opportunity came when Lincoln and Seward sent him to the post his father and his grandfather had held minister to England. There lie successfully checkmated the Confederate attempts to secure recognition, and when his firmness forced Laird Russell to forbid the English-buil- t ranis to leave the shipyards for Confederate service, lie sealed the doom of the southern cause. And as a member of ttie Alabama claims commission ids conciliatory spirit tempered n SZfKgZAFST Of The'IWVY-CHAKL"-- 3 I7WTCIS ADAMS the excessive demands of his colleagues, convinced Great Britain of the fairness of the American cause and won a Just settlement. The fourth generation is remarkable for the fact that the Adams genius was scattered among four sons, which accounts perhaps for the fact that no one Is so outstanding as had been representatives in the previous genera-lions- . Only one, John Quincy, turned to politics and he, having chosen the unpopular Democratic party, had little chance to rise to prominence. Charles Francis was first a writer and then a business man. He became president of the Kansas City Stockyards association and later president of the Union Pacific railroad. lie led his state in railway regulation, hut he was never-verwell satisfied as a business man and later returned to writing. Perhaps the greatest of the four was Henry Adams who won ids distinction His book, in the field of literature. The Education of Henry Adams, has been called the most thought-provokinautobiography, though it was not so intended, that American has produced." Nearly as famous Is his Michel and Chartres." St. Mont Brooks Adams dabbled in law and in writing it i story without making any profound impression upon either. In his Epilogue, the Adams ills torian carries the record of tlds remarkable American family down to the present when he writes; 20, John 1821, On September Quincy Adams wandered among the tombstones of the family burial plot at .Quincy musing .on the past and future of his line. Four generations of whom very little is known he wrote in his diary, than is recorded upon these stones. There are three succeeding generations of us now living. Pass another century and we shall all be mouldering in the same dust, or resolved into the same elements. Who then of onr posterity shall visit this yard? And what shall lie read engraved upon the stones? Tlds Is known only to the Creator of all. The record may be longer. May it he of blameless lives! The century has passed. We have een the generations, and today a third Charles Francis, a son of Joint Quincys grandson, John Quincy, Is head of the family. A Harvard graduate, like all his family since Joint ; for thirty years treasurer or the university; a lawyer, like all Ids family; a famous yachtnian wtio defended t he American cup against the British ; a man true to the family tradition anl honored in his community, lie sits in the cabinet at Washington ns secretary of tiie navy which was founded hv John. "Joint Quincy's wistful nope .ms The record uiay he been fulfilled: longer.' ( by Wostorn uwiai.er I'umQ-- By EDWARD W. PICKARD OROTRACTED drought and exces- sively hot weather brought to the XlHEAT prices and drought did V farmers of the United States a mixnot have much effect on the Reture of good and evil and aroused the publican primaries in Kansas as many administration to the consideration of persons had expected. Gov. Clyde M. relief measures beyond those conReed, who sought to champion tiie enuse of tiie farmers and severely templated by the act creating the federal farm board. criticized the policies of tiie federal Both government and private crop farm board, was defeated for reiioml-natloreports led to estimates that the new by Frank Haucke, farmer, corn crop had been damaged to the exWorld war veteran, and former state tent of at least 500,000, (too bushels, commander of tiie American Legion. and the rains that fell throughout Senator Henry J. Allen, who was apmuch of the corn belt during the week pointed by Governor Reed and Is a were said to have come too late to staunch supporter of tiie Hoover adhave much influence on the yield since ministration, was nominated for tiie pollination had failed. senate term ending In 1933, and SenPrivate reports by one of the leadator Capper was unopposed for for Hie long term. ing experts of the Middle West indicated that a large part of the crop On the Democratic ticket Harry II. was beyond any material recovery. Woodring will oppose Haucke for tiie In Ohio the corn was deteriorating governorship, and Jonathan M. Davis, rapidly, and in southern Indiana it former governor, will try to defeat was badly damaged. In Illinois the Senator Capper. situation was at Its worst in the southern part of the state. The crop for SOUTHERNERS who voted In northern and western Kentucky Horace Mann, was said to he entirely ruined, and the announced tludr rebellion condition in Missouri and Iowa was formally the administration of southern against not much better. Throughout the federal patronage and political affairs whole drought region, also, pasturage generally by Postmaster Wulter II. and all fodder crops were burned up Brown. Mr. Mann's statement, which to an alarming extent. was Issued on the eve of a meeting On the other hand, these had crop of tiie Republican national executive prospects led to a sensational rise in committee In Washington, outlined the prices of grain on the exchanges, plans adopted by a group of promiand within a few days there was an nent southern Iloovercrnts to incorestimated Increase of about $050,000,-00Republican porate In in the theoretical value of farmand throw off the yoke of organization ers products. The market in Chicago northern patronage carpet-bagger- s went wild and corn led in the swift as well as of designing political hiadvance, followed by wheat and the jackers." other grains. For the first time In lloovercrats representing ten southfive years the public cante in on a big ern states had met in conference in scale, and there were heavy buying Savannah and adopted resolutions exorders from foreign countries. It was pressing resentment at the refusal of believed there would be a heavy subtiie administration to recognize Mann's barand stitution of wheat, oats, rye services and leadership. They agreed ley for corn as live stock feed, and to meet again In Atlanta on August 15 consequently the demand for those to perfect their organization. Because grains was large. Also the estimates of tiie heavy Hoover vote in the South of the Cnnadian wheat crop were in 1928, the ten states represented In slashed as a result of damage by tiie Savannah conference will be endrought, heat and black rust. The titled to 207 delegates In the 1932 yield of rye in Europe, exclusive of convention, 100 more than Bussia, will bo far below normal, and they were allowed in the Kansas City the Prussian oats crop is greatly convention. reduced. The Republican executive committee accepted tiie resignation of Claudius PRESIDENT HOOVER conferred M. Huston as national chairman and of Agriculture elected Senator Fess as his successor. Hyde on plans for a government proRobert ll. Lucas was made executive gram to uid the farmers threatened director, and lie quits Ids post ns inwith ruin by the drought, and lie ternal revenue commissioner to give asked both Mr. Hyde and Chairman his full time to the work. Legge of the farm hoard to make recommendations within a few days. It interest was felt In a was stated at the White House that GREAT which Gov. Franklin D. the President had received prompt Roosevelt of New York held with and favorable response to his appeal John J. Ituskob, former Gov. A I Smith to railroad executives for other and party leaders. It was unin reducing rail rates for tiie emerderstood that Mr. Itoospvelt would gency movement of live stock and feed seek on a dripping-wet- " in tiie stricken areas. ami would make a leading platform The farm loan board said It was Issue of public electricity rates. The willing to do nil possible to extend belief was that Mr. Smith would place credit through tiie Intermediate credit Mr. Roosevelt in nomination at the hanks, the farm land hanks and Joint state convention. stock land banks. From congressionRepublicans of Now York state al quarters came many requests for seem badly split as to the liquor quesofwas to added tiie those and hplp, tion. Tiie wets, led by former Senfer of Senator Ilohlnson of Arkansas, ator James W. Wadsworth, Insist upthe Democratic leader, to undertake on a declaration for repeal of the a refund by congress to the farm board if tiie latter would divert all Eighteenth amendment, declaring they will nceept no compromise. The drys, its available funds to drought relief. on the other hand, are as firm In their The measures of assistance that stand and threaten to form a new dry the farm board and tiie other agencies If tiie wet plank Is adopted. of tiie federal government can and party should undertake are being deterIt Is too BEFORE a crowd of 5,0)0 persons, mined, said Mr. Hoover. were lynched by a early to determine t he precise characInd. in mob Marion, They had been tiie much of ter depends upon relief; further spread of the drought; but arrested for murdering a white man and attacking Ids girl companion, and no stone will he left unturned by tiie were said to have confessed. Tiie in assistgiving federal government slieriff, police and fire department, ance to local authorities." tried in vain to scatter the lynchers OTHER ways the drought had with tear bombs and fire hose streams. INserious results. There were numerous destructive forest fires in PRESIDENT HOOVER announced hot h tiie West and the East; the of Muj. Gen. milk shortage in many regions was Douglas MacArthur to be chief of serious; and tiie water In the staff of the army to succeed MaJ. Gen. 0 0. 1. Summerall when the latter retires in November. General MaeAr-tliu- r, who is head of tiie army department in tiie Philippines, Is now on temporary duty in Chinn. He Is fifty years old, the youngest army officer of Ids rank in active service, and was advanced over the heads of several older ollicers, the President said, because ho is the senior major general whose age would permit him to term as chief serve the full four-yea- r of staff. He graduated from West Point in 1903 and his career, especially in the World war, was brilliant. At tiie same time tiie President appointed Brig. Gen. Ben II. Fuller to lie commandant of tiie marine corps to fill the vacancy left by tiie death of General Neville. EAL foreign Intervention in China may soon result from tiie Woody doings of the Chinese Communists in liunan province, If it is not already in effect. The British are leading the way, sending a considerable number of soldiers up tiie Yangtze to Ilunkow, which was threatened by the Reds. The troops were to he placed on a cruiser ready to lie landed if necessary to protect British property. The T America ii gunboat Tutuila left for upriver to reinforce tiie Palos, and the flagship Pittsburgh of the Asiatic fleet, with a destroyer division, was on tiie way from Tsingtao to Shanghai. Japan also was in action, sending a number of destroyers with landing parties of marines to Hankow, Kiuklang nnd oilier river ports threatened by Communist invasion. Tiie Nationalist government had admitted its inability to guarantee protection for foreign residents of Hankow, iiiough It was sending additional troops to that region nnd had Changsha. Tiie Communists were still entrenched In the hills about the city and were continuing their sanguinary course, having already slain two thousand Chinese residents of the place and captured four thousand. Outrages against British Nationals Included the sending of a severed finger of Miss Edith Nettleton, missionary, with a demand for $50,000 ransom for herself and Miss Edith Harrison, hold captive a month, to the British legation. r TNEMn.OYMENT In Great Brlt-nl- n has reached the highest point since July, 1921, the number registered ns out of work being 2,011,407. Last week hundreds of railway employees were laid off because of the falling off in traffic. Official reports show that unemployment In Germany Is decreasing slightly, in France Is negligible, and has decreased In Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Italy nnd Austria. In the United States the situation was brightened somewhat by resumption of work in the automobile factories of the Detroit area and other places and by several of the biggest railway shops. Tiie Chicago region saw good prospects for a revival of the building industry. JOHN HENRY MEABS and Ills pi-- lot, II. J. Brown, who Intended to make a airplane flight around the world, have had to postpone It, for their plane was wrecked as it was leaving the runway at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. The German aviators, Hirth and Weller, who were on their way from Berlin to Chicago by way of Ireland and Greenland, renched Reykjavik, Iceland, safely, but abandoned their 'project for want of a suitable landing place In Greenland and because their supply of gas did not arrive. Capt Frank Hawks set a new record for flight from New York to I,og Angples, making the distance In a swift tittle monoplane tn 14 iiours, 50 minutes and 43 seconds, with five stops for refueling. His average speed was about 179 miles an hour. record-breakin- census population of continental United Slates as The outlying possessions bring the grand total to 137,501,561, this including an estimate for the Philippine Islands where an enumeration has not been made for several years. The proportions of population east and west of tiie Mississippi have f of 1 per cent shifted less than In ten years, being respectively CP.tJ per cent and ,'Vtt per cent. OFFICIAL givebut theunrevised total 2. one-lml- t.c,. l y 3 j W'aturn Newspaper Unloft.) |