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Show 1 1 : - fc.r ,e!r iflH HEARD th f Jjtional Capital - f lerCS FIELD I that unless JL un.Qer chairman of the sen-fJ-L relations committee, that f m of the treaty U only post-r- .. .inmate victory is based on geography, XL .lain fact l that It was itfWcbbeat the treaty, as look at the roll call iriU help iTi fit Ci id instead L of thla avenue the creation f!.inr shins to eall Into the of using Atlantic coaat to was 46 for the treaty . T nAAABOO J Vrf it raneu vi mc TOte M New England. . ion therefore, might be Ltea the treaty. Ten t .i..Mt two New itul aae un.cuj ana isew said to senators acratnttt It Engianc votes tne Lt obtained for the treaty were rf New Hampshire, Democrat, bsoa of Vermont, Kepublican. and Copeland of fork, and Barbour and Kearj of ersey, complete the northeastern f 14 votes against the treaty. lie interesting phase of this Is m senators were voting for of their Ush local Interests f la general, and the porta and U leading to them In particular. obviously reflects the judgment .e states as to what the effect of If this canal would be. No new Mens with Canada arranging I items could conceivably change I miuue. ajb uvi uirusiei u the country uoesn't believe the noald help even the West, but forfait, thnt it wnnli! fnlnro i Irtbeast, even if it should prove cue ttu suwuj iuuu.o, last Is Inclined to doubt. fetors Wagner Forrest, i of course, the radio are In a very different status from the air mail contract. In the case of the air mall, the government p ,ce Ior the mail, T Tv was which admitted at the time to be far In excess of the value of the service rendered. It was done deliberately, and with very liuie opposition to the idea, for the purpose of aiding the development of aviation. It was not only paternalistic. In the sense of the government's extending aid to a public Otility. but from a military Both army and navy wantedstandpoint the commercial air equipment of this to be brought to the highest country possible degree of perfection. Whereas, the radio licenses were not Issued on a dollars' and cents' basis t all. There were no contracts In the normal sense of the word. No money changed hands. The government did not subsidize the radio, end the ODer- ators who were granted licenses did not pay the government anvthine for the privilege. On the contrary, it was thought undesirable to put the operators in the position of being obliged to get more money in revenue In order to pay for the licenses. So the operators are now in the po sition of owning very valuable conces sions, given them for exactly nothing, out given them on a basis which would permit the government to can cel them at very little If any notice. Several instances are cited by the Republicans of stations being taken away from people, or given to people. for political reasons. But no such In-in ui a umracier wuicu uiunes the speakers willing to Identify them- selves with the criticism. lodk for Leader H Annnlntmnnf Af So,.if Robinson, of Arkansas, to the United i States Supreme court bench at the'end likely to Change of the present session of congress has been taken so seriously by senate pern I that is only part of the geo-d- l that is working ocrats that already maneuverings are 3t the treaty. Another glance at under way In behalf of about half a k rail shows that Senators Rppd dozen would-bsuccessors to his post vii of Pennsylvania, with the I as majority leader. of Philadelphia in mind, voted If seniority were the only test, there t ratification ; that Senators would be four contenders with enough m Mid Hastings, with the port service stripes to qualify. They would aimgton In mind, did the same ; be Senators Key Pittman, of Nevada, fat Senators Tydings and Golds Ellison D. Smith, of South Carolina, p, of Maryland, with the port of Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, and fore in mind, followed suit A.nHenry F. Ashurst, of Arizona. The batch of six votes, which no new last named has represented his state ations or modifications are apt in the upper house ever since Arizona's lag into the fold. And for pre-- star was added to the flag. Incidental uie eame reasons. Their coinly, this Is the first year his friends a believe the canal, no matter have ever had any cause to worry. fwructed Or on what conditions, But talk about Mrs. Isabella S. Green- i injure their states. way, the lady who succeeded Budget ftar Byrd, ot Virginia, voted Director Lewis W. Douglas in the It the canal. He might have house, is persisting, and there Is no fMing of the port of Norfolk. underestimating her popularity In that tt Glass, of the same state, was huge but sparsely populated expanse. I gainst ratification. Possibly Some of Ashurst's friends have, for tame reason. this reason, been thinking that this prg George and Russell, of would be an appropriate time to rec- I ?oted against. By a curious 0gnl2e the long service and ability of ence there is a port in their the Arizona senator. If promoted to Which shows how leader, they think, It would so add to aching certain communities in his prestige back home that the dantry think the effect-o- f the gerous Mrs. Greenway might decide to ioBld be. And it may not have be content with her present seat in the pare accident very house. il'vef administration that twoFletch1 senators, eter- On the other hand, Senator Pitt-Trammel, of Florida, were ab-u- d friends have much the same man's keep unpaired I JacksonvUle Is w state. thought in mind. The Nevada senator since passed twenty years of serv1" 'he Louisiana "II spnstnra. TTnev long id the echoing Overton, thoucht ice In the house, and now occupies the ' important post of chairman of the for Orleans and voted "No." So " eign relations committee. But he also Connelly, of Texas, who is up Is not In the happiest possible position section this Ume and wants For one wtes from with regard to Galveston, though friends a are many great d, as there thing, usual, voted with the A. Patrick Senator lent his of colleague,. not think he gave do tt big who McCarren, point is that none of xl pressure is apt to diminish. McCarren wholehearted support two years ago. Some even minn mm u FAB wanted Senator Tasker u uaaie, re f Shakcup Unlikely So there is at publican, Seating that cancellation ;tniti! nti a art of that by the I IcHSl t"C iwssiuiui mm of all radio licenses would which has usually charac-- ? mora- niDciM. .i i barm0ny i tt! w.MUl; uuui uie aciiuu i OPi7Ml the nartv in Nevaaa wneu nw I, aspect to the air mall, man has run for senator, so far as the P lot of whispering here about senatorship is concerned at any rata fusibility of a decision to revamp id set-u- p e h : .... . George Has Chance Mustry. is I1 I nothing tangible to seize moment, only gossip, which lJlbe so Ie fI L Fletcher and Ellison Smith are In are no such need of aid, in which they fortunate indeed, for there is Demo-rmtno "indication that their fellow will yield to the Importunitiea . of friends of either Ashurst. or to All the signs point clearly jufar senator some of the selection to nior to either of them as successor ffc Arirnnaan when he bids his final court adieu and mounts the Supreme la no there assuming bench always me up o slip between the cup and Interesting were it not Mme ort of gossip preceded mail move, and several other 7 the . which w come asgovernment, such a Pitt-man- surprise, ''ke,y feature of any shake-u- p Sb?K 8lluatlon that It would terrIble f fom a publicity A very I & large percentage 3 at I li Dresent are operated 1 f II. f C' .Wms on another large Of f gtatlnnn TJ, r0UPS rUn" BD0Ut ftl 40 ' W ' Lii etatl0n8 now operating. Ilcans in the house and senate I bitter ' 'hat ,n. Dh th wat'ng thpsa II with rttikii . ri. "UCIty J i .tn. i. are najatiuu ui nit Mtuiujou been -- hake-up- . J'ng the situation at a recent senators cr- d k. "uuncan ew thta single it i. entator on the radio at Uml: ill$r reallv a I I f u . UllCt' n . Z anything like a Possible, thev con- eccldent there should nnan'i'lty of aenti- - mn0' ltd (pj J ,tm!norit7 ';eaL I u rlln.O' wet r.tii.M "i la ?!v.. 4 - hAu L 'nslst, there must be a th0 "ason, they Tery Privately, li fear- -th htJh,m that moment, the man who seems best thance of winning the to have seems to be Senator Walter F. Georga th of Georgia. It Is rumored that James Senator would prefer President but F. Byrnes, of South Carolina, short such a been has Byrnes selection time in the senate that his affront would be too much of an must to the Idea that long service had has himself be rewarded. George makes him only twelve years, but that Furthto Byrnes, a veteran compared senator! ermore, some of the older at the have been Just a little Irritated o the down Idea of Byrnes' running to ten White House and coming back as they Especially do. to them what their way clear to discould not obey the orders he brought. his twelve years of George has had as a very service. He Is recognized which aorne Iw. has He P" able man. service lack. the senators older In At the . s! Copyrlf M.-- Svl v i .A 'ft jk A Actually, retain, Winglew Bird That Have Been Wiped Out ? Different With Radio of Pre&l f ""P'oyer np to find InreatlgatioD, with ,h. New Dea, unde, wuicD might have their licenses. trouni f LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH STWirsj; thn4 Farming In China T;" -- . Chines Foot-Pow- mental, difficult, and vital problem! of all civilized people." Perhaps the greatest agricultural triumph of the Chinese farmer is hit knowledge and use of natural fertilizers. He cannot afford nor, In many places, could he obtain them, even were he able to pay the price-expephosphatea and citrates commercially prepared. The chief aids he can enlist In his everlasting battle against soil exhaustion are human and animal manure. In the West, and more especially In the United States, ,4man," to quote Professor King again, "Is the most extravagant accelerator of waste the world has ever endured, nis withering blight has fallen upon every living thing within his reach, himself not excepted, and his besom of destruction in the uncontrolled hands of a generation has swept Into the sea soil fertility which only centuries of life could accumulate. own. It Is difficult to determine at exactly Fertilizer Carefully Saved. what period the Chinese settled in the "On the basis of the data of Wolff, "Middle Kingdom," but the latest Kellner, and of Carpenter, or of Hall, discoveries seem to prove the of the United States and that their first home on the Great of people are Europe (yearly) pouring Into Plain of northern China, near the Yel the sea, lakes, and rivers, aud into the low river, was made so early that they underground waters, from 5,794,300 to may, perhaps, be counted as the 12,000,000 pounds of nitrogen, 1.88V aborigines of the northwest China 900 to 4,151,000 pounds of potassium, and 777.200 to 8,057.600 pounds of The Chinese themselves attribute to phosphorus per million of adult poputhe Emperor Shen Nung, who Is sup- lation, and this waste we esteem one posed to have lived about 2700 B. C, of the great achievements of our civthe arts of husbandry and the inven ilization. Whereas in China all this tion of the plow. This mythical peris saved and returned to the field." sonage still remains the patron of Near every farmhouse, and often in farmers and was, until the abolition of a proximity to the living rooms that the monarchy, In 1911, worshiped shock our olfactory nerves, stand potter Jars for storing this precious feryearly at the season of the spring sow ing by the emperor in Peiping, and by tilizer, later to be diluted with water his delegates in every province. before It is "fed to the crops." To this sovereign are also credited Household waste, stubble, rougltage the original arrangements with re- from the fields, ashes, and the dropgard to landed property In China. As pings from passing caravans, carefully a matter of fact, It seems probable collected by small boys with baskets that the early settlers separated into and scoops, are all made into comclans or family groups, that these post by being mixed with earth. clans came naturally to vest authority Agriculture In China falls naturally in elders, and that the latter in the Into two great divisions the "wet course of ages became the rulers and, farming" of the canal, or finally, the owners of the land. country, and the "dry farming" of the northern plains, or secVast Areas Not Cultivated. tion. rural of the popDespite the density The outstanding feature of Chinese ulation In China, where, in some is the amount of human agriculture are sections there having provinces, labor expended upon it. Fields are 3,800 people, 384 donkeys, and 384 pigs to the square mile, or 240 people, 24 prepared by hand, often watered by hand. Seeds are sown and crops ferdonkeys, and 24 pigs to one of our tilized and reaped by hand. farms, there remain vast areas From dawn to dusk the farmer's nncultivat-ablbecause of uncultivated, and animals work on the land, family mountain land in China proper. often cooking tie midday meal a on their mess The Chinese are able to live of millet on an improvised mud small holdings only by reason of favor- stove and as a manger for their the fertility beasts the using able climatic conditions, cart that has carried out of the soil, effective agricultural compost and will bring home the ripe methods, extreme personal economy, crop. and the small taxes taken by the Though groups of villagers somestate, times work together, hired help Is rare. In That wise old Emperor K"ang Hsl, Consequently, the Chinese farmer and honor of the fifty years' Jubilee of his his family work their own lands undecree a reign. In 1711 A. D., Issued aided. This means, of course, phenomsaying that "as the population of the enal energy on the part of alL arable of amount empire increased, the How Rice Is Grown. land did not increase," and that the Nowhere Is the . industry of the estibe therefore, should, land tax Chinese farmer better illustrated than mated on the census of that year and in the provsouthern, or never It Increased. be never should inces, where climatic conditions permit was. of several (sometimes as many as In 1753 the total revenue from the four) crops a year from the same soil. or land tax stood at taels 29,000,000, Since rice is not only the staple, about $22,000,000 In gold, and in 1900 but the favorite food of the people, from collected were taels 27,000,000 from the highest to the lowest, it is the same source, the decrease being not surprising that paddy fields form accounted for by the calamities of the an eighth of the total area of .cultipreceding years. vated land in China. traveler in China If the week-en- d Yet, notwithstanding the enormous out of train acreage of rice planted each year gets the idea from looking since 3000 B. C, this crop Is all set windows that he is in a land of con; out in clumps and every spear transtinuous farms and vegetable gardens his Impressions are largely due to the planted, by hand. The double operafact that wherever cultivation is pos- tion allows the farmers' to economize sible It Is highly intensive, and that their land and save in many ways not an inch which might be used Is except In labor, the one thing they have in superabundance. wasted. Each rice field is surrounded by Its One Family to the. Farm. a The working of a Chinese farm de- own little dam foot hign. Some of fields are no larger than a small these human personal upon pends entirely and one observer says he saw labor and generally upon that of one room, "some in the interior of China no family. conlarger than a dining table, even one Tradition, custom, and economic Its crop, surrounded by Its rim ditions do not encourage the Invest- bearing and water, yet scarcely larger holding large-scal- e farming. for ment of capital ' a good-sizenapkin." The fields of China,, as already than field corner of his the a In for cultivated thrifty pointed out, have been same husbandman prepares his nursery for several thousand years by the reraising seedlings sufficient to plant his method without overtaxing their is due whole land. The soil is churned up fact remarkable This sources. soil by the plow until St becomes a mixto certain peculiarities of the guid-e- ture of wet mud and manure about careful working, very itself plus of porridge. Seeds, the consistency centuries. of by the experience then which are sown, sprout In thickly "When we reflect upon the depleted the nursery a few turning very days, lands," farm older own our fertility of of a Into green young plants. carpet remarks, as Prof. F. n. King The rest of the land has, meanwhile, few of which have seen a the enor- been prepared for their reception, emcentury's fcervlce. and upon fertilizers bankments made water-tlxh- t, etc. mous quantity of mineral Is admitted, by artifiwater to Enough applied annually which are being cial means If the rainfall cannot be yields, them in order to secure payingChinese depended npon. to a depth of several how the admire but cannot we used to remove well Inches, a so maintain to have managed fertilweeds and by the plow, uprooted grass oil the first condition of farming-sof and the soil again worked over to a iroblem the solve to ity-find well smoothed surface, ' moat funda aoll -- Thaustton. one of the per-for- arche-ologic- Caller Now there's what I call a Madagascar, In past ages, harbored fine servant aonie of the largest wingless birds, Hostess Yes, he's been la aur one being the aepyornls. Marco Polo family four hours. mentions a huge bird seen on these Islands and called it the roc Some think that be saw one of the last LIFE LONGFRIEND" live specimens of this fearsome aepyornls. Although not so tall as the Them mo a, being about seven feet la TMtlR MIOKMtCMifl It a laid height. gigantic egg, fossil fcll- rot la vi jjts remains of which have been found Thii sfa, ana bMt as In the bogs. There Is one In the m dependable aa British museum over two and a half family doctor durfeet round its long axis, with a ing their try las "after fory', NX capacity of nearly three gallons I keeps rear, rutlar Vic Imagine a bird standing nearly after year nine feet to height with a head as aSvhfully with any need io large as that of a horse, and with tut in crane tha doae. a powerful hooked beak. This was Na wonder ttaulr of UIo"tao free from complaint. the phororhacos. It must have had "eveaia W illiooa of people wrioome the aid of Uiu corrective. Jfxst KaMsv'a itaoMdy the speed of a racehorse, for Its vicmgulalea ubeemireiluuna tims were evidently run down and itrengtbenaand the potato Uiat tivecrat;aMycaricaa headon bring rapidly slaughtered with the powercfcea. oolda, , ." ful mandibles. It was found In South America, All druggW. Hii. . When early explorers visited Madior acid mdwea Qukfc reliej agascar they found the dodo and I UVla two. heartburn. Only lbs. solitaire roaming the plains, but the gun marked the doom of these fine birds which were really huge wlng-lepigeons. A live specimen was brought to this country and exhibited In London; its stuffed remains may still be seen In Oxford. London AnCntlenra Soap contains the swers. , same medication that has made Keeps Irrigation Wheel. br National Gewrriphle Society UlSA bas its lean years and fat, its serious famines In some sections, but on the whole it pretty well iu stupendous Job of feeding a quarter of the human race. And It has carried on successfully for thousands of years, although It has had none of the advantages of scientific bureaus for the study of vis, crops, ana weather conditions. This enviable position China owes to the note of permanent agriculture struck by its husbandmen when our ancestors were skiu-cla- d nomads. In no other country on earth is it so true that "all trade, as all life, rests upon the farmer's primitive activity." In China this is all the more significant, for its soil has been cultivated since the days of Noah, and has supported the densest population in the world through millenniums of history longer and more checkered than our DESERVES A PENSION , nsive Ttllir w CUHCUEA ForSJcin Comfort Ointment the C utli-ur- a Ferry's Seeds are sold only In fresh dated packages. When you buy Ferry's Seeds you are sure of the finest quality available. first thought in the treatment of pimple, ecsema and other akia trouble-heali- ng caae that seined chnoat hopeless. 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