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Show THE STUP BUILDING AIR CRAFT American Legion to Recommend Inter. national Disarmament Conference Conduct National Referendum. An International air disarmament conference to stop the present air construction race will be recommended by the American Legion, which will conduct a national referendum to obtain the views of prominent Americans as to the advisability of such a conference, HI legion. for This Department 'Supplied by the American L(rlon Nw Service. Copy WILL ATTRACT LEGION All members of congress, governors of all states, 1,000 editors, 100 college presidents and a number of prominent citizens will be asked by the Legion to express an opinion on the proposal which would involve the holding of a meeting In Washington, similar to the naval disarmament conference, to be attended by representatives of all lead ing world powers for the purpose of reaching some agreement as to the number of fighting and observation planes to be maintained by each. If the opinion of the national lead ers is favorable to the Legion's project. President Coolldge will be asked to call an International conference. A necessity for Immediate action In the matter of limitation of air armament exists since France took the lead in an program, and the remaining European powers have entered the mad race to overtake the French. France at the present time has 140 squadrons of the military machines and plans to have 220 at the end of 1925. The planes will carry cannons and will also be used to transport six machine guns and their crews. The plans include machines which will serve as actual troopships of the air. England is the nearest competitor, having appropriated $27,500,000 to enlarge her air armada. It has been estimated that by 1926 England will be able to send aloft only 624 battle machines in comparison with France's air fighters. Italy and Russia have actively entered the race, the latter planning to have 10,000 planes in op- MEN Girl to Help Entertain Visitor Attending National Convention at San Francisco. Pretty When San Francisco opens Its gates 150,000 members of the American Legion expected to be present at the fifth annual convention, some of the nation's prettiest girls will be ready to show the "doughboy" and "gob" visitors about the city. An official committee, composed of the city's society matrons and debutantes, has been named to work In conjunction with the convention committee and will act as hostesses to sponsor ie many affairs to be held for the men and women who will attend the convention. Special entertainment has been arranged for the women of the American Legion auxiliary and other women guests by the committee of the city's society leaders. Banquets and dinner dances will be tendered the guests while the Legion men are busy with convention matters. Hostesses at these affairs will include national leaders and workers of the auxiliary and women prominent In Legion affairs in addition to the local reception committee. Mrs. Alfred Carller, wife of a Belgian war veteran and a former war worker in army cantonments herself, has agreed to return from New York to assist In entertaining the Legion visitors during their stay in her native city. Mrs. Carller will have to the eration. A ' statement Issued recently by Na tional Commander Alvin Owsley calls attention to the fact thiat naval and land forces have been reduced by na tional agreement and that the Legion proposes to attempt to obtain similar measures govenning aircraft. 'The crying need of the world today Is peace Industrial, commercial, eco nomic peace a restoration from the ravages and horrors of war, a settling down and getting back to the sane purkS suits of Industry, quietude of heart and mind, to live In safe seclusion away from the covetousness of the Inviader," the statement reads. "Can we of the Legion who were their comrades in arms not ask the nations to pause and see what they -- i are doing? Preparedness in a larger sense means a temptation to use that which Is being prepared to fight.- The wounds of the last titanic trouble are - still gaping open ; the life blood of the U V nations Is still pouring out because of too much preparedness for battle. "I propose to the world prepnredness for peace a coming together in a great world conference for the limitar tion of airplanes for war Instead of wnr Mrs. Alfred Carlier. to destruction. I challenge the right of any nation to prepare any Instrument of destruction and claim the charge of several important social name of defender of world peace. events during the week of the con clave. Other San Francisco women Peace will come when the people of the will to have peace and express have promised to take charge or a world will In solemn declaration and their number of "canteens" to be established throughout the city In order to covenant sealed with honor. "America Is ready to lead the way to assist In providing food for the vis secure peace In the air and she has itor ImThe popularity of canteen workers gone far by example to make war on sea." and land possible and the well known war, was during It Is not likely that the average man has forgotten them since DRAWING CLOSER TO LEGION tils return to civil life. As a consequence, a "buddy" Is likely to be found Public la More Interested In Member of Organization, Commander hanging over the counter of one of these places, talking to some pretty Owsley Believes. San Francisco miss. The American public Is drawing closer to the American Legion In the TROPHIES MANY POSTS SEEK opinion of Alvin Owsley, Legion national commander, who has recently Legion Organizations Display Great completed a speaking tour which car d Awaro-eBe In to Honor Interest rled hlra into eight states, Cuba and at National Meeting. Panama. "I believe the people are more Competition for membership Is keen In the question of disabled among departments of the American veterans obtaining ample hospitals to to the due this plan year, Legion and snnatoiiums for the sick and present national trophies and awards wounded than they ever were before," nest to the departments making the he said. "They are beginning to showings before the fifth annual na that the first duty of the tlonal convention In San Francisco Unltpd States la to care for these this fall. defenders." Icelonnalres will strive for two Commander Owsley said that the Macprincipal trophies the Hnnford of the Legion for exclusion of stand Nlder and the Franklin D'Oller tro and In opposition to Immigrant phies. The department that has the thooe who preach radical doctrines comas members of highest percentage had found Immediate response. finrcd with the membership total for Other Legion policies which were the year 1922 will win the MncNIder met with favor by the public, he said, cup. which Is presented by the Iowa were the stand for a universal draft department. The Georgia department act, under which capital and labor and won this rtip at the New Orleans con all the resources of America would be race this In the and Is ventlon leading called for national defense; support year. of the action of the French and The D'Oller trophy has not yet been troops In ocenpylng the Huhr, awarded, as It was first announced a nnd war on profiteers. deconvention. The the New Orleans Declaring that the legion member partment obtaining as members the are rlairtj to responsible position In highest percentage of eligible the state and nation. Commander Owsice men In the state will receive this. ley pointed out that three governors, four t'nlted four lieutenant-governors- , trophy, the gift of the Pennsylvania department. State senators and more thnn thirty U not remain the The trophies members of the lower house In the termanent property of departments, congress are members of the Legion. but must be turned over each year. A gold plate will be awarded to each Subtle Taunt. lm department winning a trophy. Wife reading newspaper) Ameriwill be suitable to be attached to the can soldiers brought back from Gerdepartment's banner, which will bear many beer nfelns. In the bottoms of on Inscription reciting tne nonnr won which are mtisle boxes which make There will be presented each year noises like birds I Wonder what kind member-hlcent silver one hundred per of birds? honor plate o each department Veteran Hubby (dryy, very dryly) It or preceding Increasing maintaining Mocking bird. The American L U ts addition in year's membership, lion Weekly. their two trophies and plates. vj rvrt'J" - v t - Le-go- n TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, 1 WJ5W Wide Variations in Selling Hogs Analysis Made by Depart ment of Agriculture of Shipments. Allister Tires of Waiting at the Church If the totally unpredictable Miss Mary Landon Baker, society beauty of Chicago, has intended to go on Indefinitely picking petals from a daisy to the tune of "I will, I won't, I will. I won't marry Allister McCormlck," a cable dispatch that came from Paris the other day promises to save the daisy from further mutilation. Here's the dispatch: "The engagement of Allister McCormlck of Chicago to Miss Joan Stevens of London soon Is to be announced, according to a dispatch from Le Touquet to the Herald. The wedding. It Is said, probably" will take place in Paris early In October." Miss Baker let the bridegroom-to-b- e and the wedding guests cool their heels In a Chicago church the first time she postponed the ceremony. I Since then she has been a real boon to the society reporters, while the fashionable world of two hemispheres bus been kept guessing. The mystery as to why Miss Baker repeatedly prepared to marry McCormlck, always backing out at the last moment, never ha been dispelled. Mv. Lord Birkenhead Stirs Up Much Comment Viscount Birkenhead, who is better known here as Sir Frederick E. Smith, the British attorney general who prosecuted Sir Roger Casement for treason, stirred up much newspaper comment by his first public address In America. Henry Brecken-ridgassistant secretary of war in the Wilson administration, started the ball by this letter to John W. Davis, president of the American Bar association : "Permit me to refer to the ImpuWildent references to son la Lord Birkenhead's speech before the Institute of Politics at As a member of the American Bar association I regret that any one with so little sense of propriety has been invited to address Its annual convention. If It proves necessary for him to fulfill his engagement to speak I hope It may be Intimated to him that the expression of such opin ions concerning a great American statesman is distasteful and Intolerable to American audience." any The former lord chancellor of England made this reference among oth ers : "President Wilson, Indeed, came with a noble message of hope ; but un happily In the sequel hope proved to be his principal equipment. It Is a fas cinating speculation whether, had he been given health and strength to pur sue the campaign which he contemplated, his Idealism and personality could have affected the forces of the world. I am bold enough, even at the inomeut when I pay the highest tribute to his unstJ!flsh motives, to doubt It." The speaker declared that alone should determine whether the United States should Intervene In the affairs of Europe. e, n. self-intere- Secretary Mellon's Ideas on Europe Secretary of the Treasury Mellon signalized his return from Eurie by causing It to lie known that he had definitely decided to remain In the cabinet, at the request of President He also made report to the Coolldge. President on conditions in Europe, based on the Information secured In a trip of six weeks. Secretary Mel loo Is chairman of the American World war foreign debt commission and one A of the very rich men of the world, with many Interests. His conclusions Include these: Franue is prosperous, althou her policy Is weakening her credit. England fears for the future of world trade and blames the deadlock In the Ruhr. Germany confronts the prospect of communistic uprisings and the disintegration of the empire, but could etlll function If permitted to do so There Is not a gleam of light look lug toward a solution of the repnrntlons controversy, but the problem must be worked out. The settlement of the Huhr deadlock will remove the lust ob stacle In the way of a general Improvement. There Is nothing the United States can do now or could have done to bring ifbout a solution, which must be worked out by the people Immediately Involved. ( I,. - Pel-g!n- n ex-ser- Gen. March on World-Wid- Honeymoon e MaJ. Gen. Peyton C. March surprised his friends by marrying In London Miss Cora Virginia McKntee of New York city. The bride Is twenty-six- , thirty-twyears younger thnn her husband. General March said he met his bride three years ago In Home, ' I where she was studying music and languages. "After a tur of the English sea. ' y side resorts," fnlA General March, "we conmay leave England and tour the tinent, and will probably return to the United States by way of Asia, thus completing a tour of the world. It will be an extended honeymoon." General March's first wife was Mrs. Josephine Smith Cunningham of Washington, whom he married In ISOl. Oeneral March has She died In three daughters and one son living. The daughters are Mrs. John Milll-keMrs. Paul B. Frank and Mrs. All three wf re Joseith M. Swing. nmiTied to army officers. The living sn Is Lewis March. General March ' elder son, Peyton C March, Jr., was killed In an airplane crash In the war. General March was made chief of staff of the United States army In UMS; he had been artillery commander of the expeditionary forces. Resigning hl commission March 5, 1921, he wa olnced on the retired list November 1, 1321 o ' r United BtRtea Department (Prepared br the or Agriculture. ) Costs of marketing hogs In the central corn belt show extremely wide variations in both home and terminal markets. An analysis has been made by the United States Department of Agriculture of shipments by 200 co operative associations in 1921. It discloses such extreme differences In unit costs that averages appear of little value as representations of marketing expense. In discussing marketing costs, evidently the first requirement la to know whose cost you are talking about advantage In reducing unit freight costs. Losses from crippling and killing hogs In transit under present prac tices, ure paid by the local snipping oflice and included In Its. marketing costs. Probably differences In losses from this cause should be considered when making conipurisons of ship ping corns; but the department has not been able as yet precisely to determine the factors making for variability In loss ratios. It has estab lished, however, that loss from crippling Is greater In mixed shipments than in shipments containing only hogs; that the loss is greater in winter than in summer; and that the per centage of hogs crippled is twice the percentage killed. Though seasonal variation In the number of hogs killed Is not as great as in the case of hogs crippled, there la, nevertheless, an appreciably larger death loss In the spring than in other seasons, per of sudden haps In consequence changes of temperature. Officials of the department are press ing forward their study of the whole) subject In the hope that it will throw light on the causes of strikingly wide variation In live stock marketing costs which has been shown to exist. They believe that diversity in the account ing methods and In the form of shipping associations, and differences In the amount of service received at terminal markets, account for a substantial part of the spread, but leave much of It unexplained. It is expected fur ther Investigation will reveal elements of cost which. In many cases, might be eliminated or greatly reduced, and will indicate the direction in which the best prospect of Improvement is to be found for the entire live stock shipping Industry. The department's study Indicates, for example, that between the local expense of the association with the lowest cost and that of the association with the highest there was a spread Cost per of nearly 1,000 per cent 1,000 pounds shipped was about 80 cents for the association with the lowFor the association with est cost the highest cost It was about $3. It is said, however, that the local costs of the different associations covered such a diversity of functions that "management" was practically the only Item common to them all. Units of Marketing Expense. In a general way local marketing expense is held to Include the local assessments manager's commission, for sinking fund, car preparation costs, and miscellaneous expenses, Losses arising from the crippling and killing of stock in transit are usually Included. Shrinkage In weight Is not Included, and represents a loss which falls upon the original shipper. Ex cluding freight, the department finds as that hog marketing by sociations In the corn belt through commission agents in the central markets during 1921 cost about $2.80 per thousand pounds. of this amount was About home expense, and the rest terminal market expense. It Is remarked that average costs at the different terminal markets are as apt to be misleading, though In a lesser degree, as average home costs for the different shipping associations. Average terminal cost for all associations and all markets. for example, was $1.90 per 1,000. pounds. But the variation between terminal markets was from $1.59 to The association with the low$2.23. est average terminal costs paid $1.32 per 1,000 pounds, while the association with the highest paid $2.62. These figures are averages of associations shipping to the various markets, weighted on the volume of business. The low and high figures are therefore low and high cost associations and not shipments. As the services performed at the terminals varied con siderably, the spreads do not meas ure proportionate differences In unit costs. Commission Costa Vary. Thus commission costs varied from 68 cents to $1.19 cents per .1,000 But commission is usually pounds. charged on a per car basis. Variations In commission costs are prob ably due principally to differences In car load weights, rather thnn to vari An ations In commission charges. association whose commission costs are high probably has been unable for various reasons to ship full car loads, Similarly, variations In yardage cost may result from variations In the size of the animals. Variations In feed costs may be due to variations In animal weight and to some extent In the price of feed. Nevertheless, when all due allowance Is made for such causes of cost varlntlon, the dif ference between association costs I still marked. Further Investigations are beln made by the department Into th causes of this variation In shipping costs. It Is Indicated, by the prog ress so far made, that the real dif ferences In home station expense nre considerably less than the apparen differences. Diversity In Ing methods furnishes the explana tion of a considerable part of the Some shipping association spread. do not hnndle live stock exclusively, but are Interested in numerous slrl lines, and element of cost entering into the handling of the side lines have often been Included In statements on the live stock end of the business. Then, too, there are cases In which expenditures for good will, inch as dinners, and what might be termed development outlay, hnt'e enInvestigators for larged the total. the department are attempting a comparison of shipping costs from strictly comparable Items of expense reported by the different associations. believed this comparison will It show that variations In acfunl shipping efficiency, and In genernl business management, are not very great Heavier Loading Recommended, In view of the wide differences In comml"slon costs reported by the associations, department officials think Important savings could be effected The high cost by heavier car loading. association In 1021 had an outlay for commission charges amounting to more than twice that of the low cost association. Probably a great part of this varlntlon was due to a difference In car lond weights, rather thnn to differences In rstes or In services performed at the various markets. It Is suggested that economies effected by full loading might more than compensate for any additional loss due to crowding, and would give an added one-thir- d 1 . Versatile Soy Bean Good Oat Substitute May Yield as Much or More Than Grain Crop. The versatile soy benn not only can substitute for hay and silage, but has also been found, when allowed to ripen, to be a good substitute for oats. While the experiments so far made may not be conclusive, the college of agriculture at Ithaca Is of the opin ion that soy beans are likely to yield as many pounds to the acre as oats. and frequently even more. The fact that soy beans make a good substitute for oil meal In dairy rations Is another reason that dairymen particular ly are becoming interested in their production. Soil which has been put in condition favorable to corn should produce a good crop of soy beans. Like other legumes, they can use a large amount of acid phosphate. Unlike many legumes, however, they are not very sensitive to our soil and will frequently grow well where clover Is a failure. If soy beans have never previously been grown, the seed should be Inoculated. On clean land they may be plnnted solid with the gram drill at the rate of a bushel and a half of seed to the acre. The college recommends, however, sowing them In rows 28 Inches apart at the rate of 20 quarts of seed to the acre. In order to make cultivation possible. Soy beans are usually harvested like other beans. If not allowed to get too ripe, however, they may be cut with the grain binder. - World Hog Production Shows Large Decrease Numbers of swine In the principal producing countries of the world are estimated at 227,431,000 head by the United States Department of Agriculture, compared with 263,844,000 head for a representative prewar year. This a decrease of 30,413,000 head or 14 per cent The United States shows the largest Increase In production. There were C424,00 hogs on farms on January 1, 1923, compared with ,r8.933,0O0 hog on farms on January 1, 1914. Smaller increases nre Indicated for Argentina and Canada. The number of swine In most of the European countries was less In the recent estimates than during the prewar period, the department states. Some of the countries showing decreases In numbers are France, Germany and Denmark. 1 Quack Grass and Thistle Difficult to Eradicate Canada thistle and quack grass are undoubtedly two of the most difficult weeda to eradicate, once they have become well established. In fact they are difficult to handle even If they appear only In patches because of their underground rootstocks which are capable of growing and sending out new plants under the most adverse conditions. On farms where these weeds have Just barely gotten a foothold, an effort should be made to get rid of thwn Immediately, otherwise they become a menace to crop production. Sweet Clover Valuable for Soil Improvement Sweet clover pasture will not have to be seeded each year, provided It Is not pastured too close and a few plants are allowed to develop seed. Under these conditions, the sweet clover Is reseeded. It Is not well, however, to let the sweet clover occupy any field too long, because It Is valuable crop for Improving the soil, and we must pay attention to supplying oar oil not only with nitrogen but vegetable matter. i ' |