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Show LEW FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH SEEN-- " HEARD around th National Capital I i By CARTER FIELD President Roosevelt Washington. will support a move by the new con gress elected this fall to meet In January to reduce the tariff on distilled liquors, unless there Is an un expected change In the situation. The President came very close to recommending this action to the con gress which adjourned In June. Sev eral reasons prevented bis doing so. One was that as time passed he grew more and more anxious for a speedy adjournment, and there was do telling how much debate would follow such a recommendation. Another reason was that he was far more interested In bis tariff powers, which were not granted until the last few weeks of the session, tan be was In the liquor situation. Theie was a third, though much less Important reanon. The tariff on dis tilled liquors, of course, Included rum, Mr. Roosevelt was keenly Interested In the proposed development of the rum industry In the Virgin Islands. lie was fully aware, through bis for mer connection with the Navy department at the time the Islands were ac quired and through other Information, auch as that resulting from Mrs. Roosevelt's visit to the Islands, of the drying up of all Industries there 6ince the United States acquired the islands. He expressed the view to newspaper men several times that this old rum Industry, ended by American prohibition, could be revived, and occupation furnished to many of the idle cert bimetallism at a ratio of 30 to 1, that he was not willing to recommend such action. Naturally, the W silverltes would be pleased with this, but they are not talking In terms of 30 to L They bark back to the old 13 to 1 ratio of Bryan's day, and Insist that comparative production of gold and silver makes this the normal ratio. Care in Feeding Colt Is Advised Blue Room the President's Temporary Office Guard Against Infection Is Urged by an Authority on Live Stock. Too Much Gold While there was no discussion of this point on the floor of the house or Trri It. Haif. AameUU Llv North C&rolic Sit WNU Service. Br Stock r. Coli. senate during the passage of the silver The feed and management of a colt bill In the last session, there is a widethe first three years of his life during even held among treasury will ly theory, determine largely the kind of anexperts who are opposed to bimetalimal he will be In later years. During too has the United States that lism, much gold for its own good at the the first six months the foal lives mostly on his mother's milk, with a little present moment. A better distribution of gold, they believe. Is apt to be one grain and hay at first and more added of the beneficial results following the gradually during the latter part of the period. To start the foal in full health enactment of the silver law. on a and vigor. Immediately after its birth. By buying silver from abroad considerable scale, the argument runs, It should be given a good draft of Its this country would be creating buying mother's first milk. This milk has regulating properties which tend to clean power abroad without Increasing comthe aMmentary canaL If this cannot United States If the petitive Imports. l be done, a of castor oil were to buy a similar amount cf textiles or liquor, It would have a depres- should be administered. The mare's udder must be kept clean sing effect on domestic production of the articles thus Imported. Bringing to prevent Intestinal infection In the foaL A lukewarm solution of 2 per In goods from abroad does not Increase the consumption of that particular cent coal tar disinfectant followed by kind of goods. As the old high tariff rinsing with warm water. Is good. The spellbinders used to say, every dollar hind parts should be washed dally for of Imports means just a dollar less di- the first week. If necessary, the dam's milk flow can vided between American labor and be stimulated with such feed as plenty American capital. But the case of silver is unique. of pasturage, oats, rolled barley, wheat, By previous action this government bran, and corn. But If the foal suf. Is buying every ounce of silver profers from too rich milk, then the dam's duced lu this country at a fised rate daily ration supply should be curtailed. The earlier the foal learns to eat actually higher than the world price. It makes no difference whether the solid foods, the better for itself and production soars or diminishes. So Its mother. A mixture with equal parts that if this country should in addition of oats, bran, and cracked corn is good. buy, say, lOOxiO.OOO ounces of silver Colts should be given clover, alfalfa, there. from or other legume hay as soon as they China, there would be no reperTo a slightly lesser degree, though nor will eat it Plenty of water Is Impominers the cussion silver hitting be the volume produced would greater, the development of rum distilling theL silver mine Inowners. The silver rtant the United States would simply go When the mare Is worked, the colt promised great things for Porto RIeo. lie there or should be left In a cool stall with the and vaults either treasury Even more Important has been the be coined. mare being brought to the barn to rapid development of rum exports such purchases however, Meanwhile, suckle the colt In the middle of the from the Philippines to the United would Increase enormously the possi- forenoon and afternoon. States since repeal. ble buying of American exports by the In weaning, the mare and colt must Mr. Roosevelt felt that the Filipinos countries from which the silver was be kept well separated until the milk did not get a fair deal from congress flow has completely stopped, or the when It adopted the tax on coconut bought will have to be repeated. The process olL He did his best to defeat that New Traffic Plan should start when the colt Is weaning went to and the proposal, actually A number of large cities are giving six months old, and the mare's rations length of asking congress to repeal It she has dried Heavy exports of rum to the United serious consideration to a proposal re- should be cut down until States to a considerable extent com- cently made by former Mayor John off. pensate the Philippines for any loss F. (Honey) Fitzgerald, of Boston, for they may suffer through the coconut solving traffic problems at congested Grass Holds Soil, Long cross streets and at the same time prooil tax. viding work for large numbers of men Fingers Aid Fertility Wants Good, Cheap Liquor without burdening the city treasury. Grass Is a miser. Its long fingers Mr. Fitzgerald's plan is simply the hold onto the soil and soil fertility as So that three of this country's at high- a miser holds onto money. It not only construction of possessions. In all of which the Presly congested corners, such, for examprevents erosion, but well managed ident Is keenly Interested for one realand loses less fertility, beple, as Fifth avenue and Forty-secongrazing son or another, are profiting enormousstreet In New York. His plan further cause less is taken from the soil by ly by the fact that the Import duty on provides that the municipalities levy pasture plants and part of that which distilled Hqu or Is so high. Mr. Roosean additional cent tax on gasoline. Is restored Is removed directly velt felt that It would be a good Idea Orlginaily, Mr. Fitzgerald proposed through the manure of grazing anifor them to get a head start on this that federal money be used for this mals. business before cutting the tariff which He suggested then that the Land planted to corn on an 8 to 10 purpose. protects them as well as domestic dis- money be loaned to the municipalities cent slope In Missouri and North per tillers. by the RFC or some other federal Carolina loses 15 to 17 tons of soil per But as to the proposition on the agency and repaid from receipts from acre annually. Land growing blue-grawhole the President feels strongly that the gas tax. So enthusiastic was Mr. or lespedeza loses only 0.8 to 0.9 every possible step must be taken by Fitzgerald that he made a special trip ton per acre. Similar results were ob.the government to provide the liquor to Washington and talked to the Presi- tained In a comparison of the native buying public with a good, wholesome dent about It Mr. Roosevelt liked the sod and cleaned tilled kaffir in grass liquor, at a price sufficiently cheap to Idea but it was discarded as far as the central Kansas, and of cotton and prevent the bootleggers and moonshinfederal government was concerned, begrassland In southern states. Decayers from operating. cause, technically, It was not strictly ing grass roots keep the soil porous Federal Alcohol Administrator Choate a project It was and favorable to the absorption of has been keenly In sympathy with not similar, for example, to a bridge, moisture. the Idea of reducing the tariff. In an where tolls for use of the bridge could Interview before congress adjourned be charged. Since that time, however, Prevent Pig Parasites he mentioned a stock of American type Interest In the Idea has grown, largely It Is much easier, according to the of whiskies which could be Imported due to the constantly Increasing con and used as the base for blends. He gestion from automobile and truck specialist at the Department of Agriculture, to prevent small pigs from did not mention the name of the owntraffic In the big cities. infested with Intestinal parabecoming ers of this whisky, but It Is a large Mr. Fitzgerald told the President at Canadian corporation with a plant In the time he took the matter up at the sites, such as the roundworm, than It the United States. This particular White House that he thought an extra is to rid the pigs of them once the company has a stock of some 20,000,-00- 0 cent on the gallon would make very parasites have become established. congallons of straight whisky from little difference to the purchasers of The parasites are quite easily a sanitation sysuse of the trolled by five years old upwards. gasoline, whereas, In the big cities, tem which should be started before at Actually, the Import the time saved by under-passin- g the birth of the pigs; Clean farrowing duty, which Is in addition to the busy corners would more than comexcise tax, runs the tax on pensate motorists and truck drivers. pens,are essential and the sow should to the amount of be thoroughly washed, before she Is whisky In most states to above $2 a He called atte turned Into the pen. After the pigs quart In New York, for example, the gasoline wasted by Idling motors dur- are born they should be kept In clean state tax of $1 with the $7 on Imported ing such delays and said he believed until they are about four pastures makes a $S liquors gallon without the saving here alone would make up months old. counting state and special taxes. In for the extra cent a gallon. Maryland the state tax Is $1.10, etc. Irradiation Improves Milk Domestic liquor would still have a Favor Under-Pas- s big advantage even If the Import duty Among the newer methods of treat12 cents "Well, the gasoline tax la was reduced, say, to $2.50 a gallon. ing milk to improve Its quality IrradiIn England, and the people pay it the ation by violet rays Is gaining favor. President told Fitzgerald at that time. Bimetallism Drive to work done at the UniAccording "In Vienna It's 28 cents," Honey of Wisconsin, Madison, milk versity A new drive for bimetallism la being Fits retorted. thus treated has a slightly lower bacsenators and members of planned by Maybe this was bad psychology for the house from the silver states. the motorists, because the President terial count and lower acidity than Scores of letters from senators and not so long thereafter approved the ordinary whole milk. It was found that at refrigerator temperatures Irmembers In the western country have plan to Increase the federal radiated milk will keep several hours treasury's told colleagues remaining In Washgasoline tax and with no under longer than whole milk not so treated. ington that the optimism on this Issue passes. This added keeping quality Is partly In the whole western country, from At the time of the first proposal, due to a very slight reduction hi the Texas to Washington, and from Minidea aroused development of acidity of the milk the Fitzgerald under-pas- s nesota to California, is flabbergasting. of a great many cities, after irradiation. the support Most of the voters interested in biwhose officials thought that the farm metallism seem to feel that their seners were getting altogether too much Farm Hints ators and congressmen did not press out of the federal treasury while tha wheat area this year Is less the Issue firmly enough In the last ses- cities were Italy's Wherelittle. getting very than half of that of 1933. sion. as, city officials point out a tremenThere are exceptions to this, of undue proportion of federal course. Friends of Senator Wheeler, dously Dairy farmers receive of taxes are paid by city taxpayers. Then of Montana, and of Senator Plttinan, there were a number of states In the the total Income of agriculture In the United States last year. of Nevada, though there Is very little early days of the New Deal, particufriendship between the two report larly In the Northwest that thought that their constituents think they did they were being taxed largely for the Bearing apple trees In the United h States were about a pretty good job. They also say that benefits of the South and West fewer In number In 1930 than in 192a Senator Plttman'a activities In the Interest In the under-pas- s Idea, London economic conference revived aroused at that time for the reasons Dolomltic limestone has come Into the hope of bimetallism, dormant since Just stated, has grown rather than favor as filler material In the manuJ900, when William Jennings Bryan slackened, however. The now problem facture of agricultural fertilizer. was so crushingly defeated when he Is not one of employment as It was ran for President the second time on primarily, In the first days of Its disEvery hundred acres put under glass that Issue, cussion. It has now become chiefly a for fruit, flower and vegetable cultivasliver In the Is It country, Kveryon traffic problem. is estimated by tion in reported, feils that the fight has Just New York officials have told the to add England to the wealth experts of the $1,500,000 been begun, and that the new congress writer that the saving In time, energy, wiil force President Roosevelt's hand. nerves and even In gasoline In New country. If, Indeed, be Is not perfectly willing York city alone would be simply la- Blood : gets Into the.mllk by bursting westSome of the forced. to have It calculable If under passes were conof the small blood vesseW of the udder. ern senators have told their constitua at few Just of Manhattan' structed In 'many Instances this la cauied by ents that Mr. Rottevelt, had assured worst corner's. 1 Injuries to the nddw from lying In a than int be would be willing to to-Copjrririit WJru emrrun'poorly bedded stall H i II LI , if ' - On his return from the cruise to Hawaii, President Roosevelt found his executive office moved into the room of the White House, shown above arranged for this purpose. This was because of alterations under way's, the executive mansion. Army Engineers Come to the Rescue J f p-- w i . - '' r I - 1 under-passag- d iS?-:2r- . vJ-ft;Zr- (ki :. ss ft -' U- i V When three bridges connecting the ,two halves of BrUlgeton, N, J., were swept away In a raging flood, army engineers from Fort Du Pont, Del., came to the rescue and erected a temporary pontoon bridge. The engineer! are shown floating the first pontoon for the temporary bridge. The Commerce street span, wrecked by the storm, cas be seen the background. In H - f IViVi t III ".v- V .,'.'( SEAT WANTS WALSH'S Huey Long's Soldiers on Guard K ti X JvAX-Sv' , , t "rSrS, Scene in the office of the ZTJlr registrar of voters In New Orleans, gunners kept their weapons "nstrainedP" f:i city lhall, acrossnucy the street, In case Mayor T. Semmes waimsiey ahould direct the police to stage a sortie. values 4u. uiuiiajt w won the Democratic nomination w serve to senate the United States the remainder of the term oi w tThomas J. Walsh. 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