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Show LEW FREE PRESS. LEH1. UTAH SEEN and HEARD around tie f '34. NEW DROUTH MAY RIVAL THAT OF iJ PIT AT A i ieiu MA oy warierCORRESPONDENT iVATIrtNAI A WASHINGTON FAMOUS itainiau iui oiiui Even Went Further Murray Causes Worry Democrats are very unhappy as a result. For, once embracing that theme, the President went a great deal further, by inference, than he has ever gone before. Just as, in the platform, which of course he dictated, he went a great deal further with reg;.Kl to TV A than he has ever gone before. In fact, he approved language which might have been disquieting to the Supreme Court in his TVA decision. For instead of talking about "incidental" power, the President had the platform boast about the "yardstick" which would force electric rates down, and make electric current cheaper to all consumers. Naturally the radical fringe is They had been highly pleased. somewhat disturbed at the of their leaders at Philadelphia the complete blackout of Dr. Tugwell, the failure to mention Prof. Frankfurter, the absence Brain of most of the Trusters. But a few hours before the President was accepting the nomination Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was telling an audience that competition must go, even in and manufacturing, eventually, that collectivism and were the thing! All of which spells a much wider cleavage in the Democratic party, next year, assuming that Roosevelt is For beyond the shadow of a doubt there would have been more than 21 Democratic senators opposed to that tax bill, aimed so sharply at corporations, had the President and Wallace made their speeches before instead of after that final vote in the senate. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray of Oklahoma is really causing more concern among Democratic chieftains by his "walk" than is Alfred E Smith. Or James A. Reed. Or Bainbridge Colby. Or Joseph B. Ely. Or Judge Daniel F. Cohalan. The answer is very simple. Elections are decided by electoral votes not by the size of popular majorities in any particular states. A majority of 700, while a little g when the returns are 0 coming in, is just as good as when the electoral votes are counted. It so happens that the Democratic strategists do not regard the three states in which the "quintuplets" reside as doubtful. New York, the home of Al Smith, Colby and Judge Cohalan, they regard as "in the bag." Massachusetts, the home of former Governor Joseph B. Ely, they regard as a cinch on account of their confidence in Governor James M. Curley's oratory. Missouri, the home of Former Senator Reed, is conceded even by the Republicans as probably for Roosevelt. Naturally the Democrats are not worried about the "Show Me" state at all. But Oklahoma is something else again. It is normally Democratic, but two factors are threatening to upset this normal alignment. One is the fact that, over a long period of years, Governor Alfred M. Lan-doas an independent oil operator, has been' building up friendships. As told in a recent dispatch, it was one of these frien- ed Humorous Mistake Failure of the Democrats at Philadelphia to make any statement answering the demand of the Republicans at Cleveland that the special power given the President to mark down still further the gold value of the dollar be revoked, was not an oversight. Senator Robert J. Bulkley of Ohio, one of the leading Capitol Hill experts on currency, pointed out to members ot the resolutions committee, when this matter was under advisement, that the Republicans had made a rather humorous mistake. The special power which the President still has, which would permit him to mark down the gold value of the dollar to one half its original value, along with the power V) issue paper currency, or to adory bimetalism, expires by a few days after inauguration! So that, Senator Bulkley pointed out, to demand its repeal by a congress which does not come into power until a few days before that nothing like sufficient time to put such an important measure through the house and senate is father in the nature of a futile gesture. , , . Even, pointed out, in what Democrats regard as the unlikely contingency that the Republicans capture the Presidency, and the1 house, there,, is no possible chLnce of their obtaining" control' of the senate for four more years. So even if there were a Republican landslide', they could not, the provisions against the will of the Democrats. . the-setjat- jre-pe- al Could Lul Poplar During the months that remain before this power expires by limitation, in January, the President By WILLIAM C. UTLEY NXE ;ain the plains of the W'. are t!: and !e- drouth that mav surpass in 134. srrl" the of record the drouth even spair ai- has been far less in some states th;- g than m lrj34. hrat !!:''o though this year there has teen an absence .f t! e s which accompanied the earlier drouth. . ii rart it the Dakota-Worst conditions have been in the v rfII. . an. r.r..- -.a ,1 ll. nv eastern Montana and Wvcmincr: in a S( :neu iiai sinuiici meet; Oklahoma and Mexico of New the corners Kansas. Colorado, Missouri, am! another area of about the same size in m nthca-terover a vast region of the Southeast, ,. including generous slices of Ala Hopkins and the WPA revealed that bama, Tennessee, Georgia, the hundreds of family heads would Kentucky, Virginia and Penn- have to be transferred to the relief sylvania. Over the remainder of the rolls immediately. Their cattle had states between the Alleghenies and been soid and in most cases they the Rockies, except for some areas had piled up what Mr. Hopabout the Great Lakes and in New kins already called "mountains of debt." England, poor pasture conditions Reporting about results of the dry exist. of 1934 and other drouth pespring The result has been to throw thouriods. Hopkins said during the six sands of farm families or. the re- mor.ti.s before last December 15, lief rolls; to cause more thousands more than 32,000 persons had been to move out of the drouth regions forced to leave their homes in the into other states; to drive prices "dut bowl" and migrate to Caliof food higher and higher, with fornia. dollar wheat once more returned to Third Drouth in Six Years Chicago and other markets, and to of the Great Plains area "Most spur the federal government to faces its third major drouth in six swift operation of remedial agencies. years." said Hopkins. Some of the regions, particularly those in the Drouth Talk Displaces Politics central and western Dakotas, have There is little talk of anything else but the drouth in the stricken plains; the speculation as to the chances of rain overshadow even the argumentative possibilities of politics in one of the most colorful and interesting political campaigns of the nation's history. The ba-- ! rometer and the thermometers are under even closer scrutiny than pri-- '. mary returns and stray votes. Prayers for rain by the farmers of the Northwest have been largely in vain, with clear, unclouded skies still looking down over the parched grazing lands. Crops are suffering from the effects of the dust blown upon them, while live stock are hungry from lack of feed, which has been likewise damaged by the silt. o could if he wished go any of the three things authorized. He so far has taken advantage of only cne of these powers. This was when he marked down the gold value of the dollar to 59.06 cents. So that, under the powers in this act, he could still mark it iown to 50 cents of the original dollar. This would be considerably in excess of nine It cents of the present dollar. would be 9.06 cents of the original gold dollar. It would reduce the present dollar slightly more than 15 cents in its present gold value. Which would be immediately effective in making the dollar just tha' much less valuable in foreign exchange, hence making it that much easier to sell American goods abroad, and that much more expensive for Americans to buy foreign soft-pedali- There has been some Utile rain in the Southwest, indeed heavy rainstorm the last week in June in Texas were so severe that 26 persons were drowned in the flood which resulted. Dozens of homes were swept away along the hanks of Bin Sandy creek near San Antonio. The Southwest benefited little from slight precipitation during May. 300,-00- Former Repre- elec- 1 . all-ma- ' minerals) are supplied in the proper amounts in the above feeding recommendations for chicks. In addition, plenty of clean water will aid digestion and circulation. Profit for Novice Found in the Broiler Business The rearing of broilers is a very C" t ' -- it practical and profitable way of starting into the poultry business, states a writer in the Philadelphia 1 Record. The broiler plant can be conducted by itself or in connection with an egg farm. Broilers are young, plump chickens, usually killed when from 6 to 12 weeks of age. The main point in raising them profitably is to keep them growing as fast as possible. The first rule for deriving a good profit from poultry is to get only 1 chicks, from stock. The next step is to keep these chicks growing so that they will reach laying maturity before cold weather. There are two systems in vogue for feeding poultry dry and vet. The former is simpler and easi-- I er. The beginner is advised to adopt either one and follow it until he has a good reason for modifying or changing it. More care should be exercised in feeding chicks than fowls, because they are hungry little tilings and do not know so well what is good for them. They eat anything, and the digestive organs are not able to handle the objectionable ..":..' ,V 1934 blood-teste- d s. 1 . i y t:-- un.'.'-rtaking- erosion-causin- j : r ! ... on it! Farley's office on . sup-rose- pro-gra- The oil fields of Oklahoma happen to be mostly in the northern part of the state. Whereas it happens that the influence of "Alfalfa Bill" Murray is strongest in the southern part. Putting the two things together, friends of Landon who have been sizing up the situation are predicting he will carry the state by a very comfortable majority. Which would not worry the Democrats so much if the Republicans were not offering to bet A. 1! College 1- Lehman Relents tion night about how Oklahoma goes. Or Minnesota. Or North Dakota. With New York in the bag, even Illinois can take a walk. WNU Strrtc. C Bell PymMttt. Sit Drouth Did to Once Rich Grazing Lands. had low crop yields since 1930. In of the list are such enormous and practically all of the areas, the expensive ones as the giant Fort severe drouth of 1934 intensified the Peck and Grand Coulee dams, and distressing rural economic condi- at the bottom are numerous small tions which have been accumulating streams which have been dammed The Dakotas probably have been over a at comparatively lower costs, alperiod of years. the hardest hit. The governors of of wind erosion and though their costs have been atextent "The both states, as well as Senator Nye crop damages has varied widely in tacked from time to time in many of North Dakota, regarded their sitsections of the stricken cases as wasteful "boondoggling." uation as serious enough to warrant different few sections, favored with Officials believe that eventually their making a personal visit upon area; a over a the President of the United States, normal rainfallsoil and long period, water from the reservoirs behind crop ravages the large dams will make possible to make a plea for money to feed have escaped This is true of sections the use of much land that is now altogether. live stock and bring relief to dis- of the Red River valley in North unproductive, and that the smaller tressed farming people. The govdams will help in relieving the situDakota, part cf southeaste: n ernment has undertaken to render to some extent southand Dakota ation generally. what assistance it can; cattle will eastern Nebraska." be moved out of the drouth lands Resettlement Program. In other regions, such ns the north into better pasture, but there will In a third division of the program, he sniil. wind erosion litis be no wholesale slaughter as there Texas plains, the resettlement administration, un damaged as much as 9.5 per cent of the was last year. During the month of land. Some of tlie land is damaged so der Professor Tugwell, has under June some of the Dakota grazing badly that it is doubtful whether it will way a $10,000,000 schedule of purland in the worst areas received ever be aide to support crops in the fu- chase of lands to consubmarginal only about an inch of rainfall, where ture. Hopkins declared that much of the vert them into pasture m combatland in loam areas should be crop 3.2 inches is normal. sandy ing drouths. Under this plan, it is converted into permanent grass land. matter. Cost Is $250,000,000. Drastic reductions in the herds proposed to buy 1,282,522 acres of From April 1 to June 24 during of cattle in some of the states have the submarginal land at $2 an acre; the "big dry" of 1936, North Dakota resulted from reduction of pasture it has already made some little RoOStS and Dropping Boards i ogi csa. me jjiogram is aiviuea had only 2.06 inches of rainfall; land by In the DaDropping boards usually placed during even the record drouth of kotas, Minnesota, Montana and into two parts, one of which in about 20 inches from the floor for a volves six projects in the Plains low 1934 these three months saw 3.83 Wyoming, officials estimated that ceiling and from 30 to 36 inches states, embracing 415,000 acres. where feet or is 6 the The other part includes the pur- more aboveceiling the floor, should be chase of 867,522 acres of Indian about 10 inches wider than t ic grazing land on the Rio Grande roosts and be made of matched watershed of New Mexico. flooring running from front to back The conception of the resettlement and with nails well clinched so they includes the moving of 650 families can easily be cleaned. Roosts to better land at a cost of $3,300,000 should be put from 6 to 8 inches that's $5,076 a family. It also comprises above the dropping boards and all $2,645,000 for the purchase of land, and on the same level to prevent the $300,000 for antierosion work and the fowls from fighting to get on the development of plains land. one. Roosts should he There was a fourth division of the highest about two inches apart for . spaced f J i government s battle against small breeds and 13 inches for the drouth menace, the $75,000,000 large ones, while the space allowshelter-bel- t program, but this Dro- - ance on roosts should varv fro gram has been dropped, due largely 7 to 10 inches for different breeds, to opposition which labeled it im- Scantlings 2 by 2 or 2 by 4, and practical. Approximately $3,000,- - with the upper sides planed smooth 000 had already been and rounded, are satisfactory f '' spent. The idea was to plant a belt of perches, trees 100 miles wide and more than l.uuu miles long, stretching from the Canadian border across the Developing Pullets A Great Plains to Texas. pullet that is being raised for Its proponents contended that such a shel- a layer should have a gradual, un-m Masks like these were not uncommon in the Southwest during the ter belt would break the interrupted growth. A pause dust storms which followed the long dry spell of 1933. winds and conserve some of growth due to frequently empty the moisture. The weather bureau hopper or dry fountain may mean inches of rain. South Dakota fared 100,000 families would have to be that it would have no effect on a runt, and a runt means a pullet some better, getting 4.31 inches, as added to the relief rolls. It was says rainfall itself. However, congress that was potentially a good layer compared to 4.54 in 1934. In Mo- planned to carry the work relief prorefused to appropriate the funds but whose digestive capacity, lay-to ntana. 17 inches of rain fell, as com- gram until December and as far needed ing capacity, was not developed for the pared with 4.15 in 1934. Texas' rain- - beyond that date as the weather troller General project, and Comp- its highest degree, consequently McCarl, recently refall during the spring months was would permit, at an average efficient wage tired, ruled that the President could she can never be an 7 of cent normal. of expensive feed and of $44 a month. Compensation for not use only per use of farmers' teams would bring funds for$15,000,000 of drouth relief would better be sold. this year's drouth, it was By July the purpose. McCarl did, estimated, had cot o damage of 250 mil-- j the average to about $G0 a month. under protest, permit the use of a lion dollars. In the Sorthwest alone, 100.-- j smaller sum. Three Government Programs. Wirt farm families were forced to seek Turkeys Need New Range Some shelter-bel- t subsistence aid from the government. Officials of the federal governn strips, along Unless utmost precaution is used, In Washington a drouth emer-- I ment say to the farmers that the 1,300 mile line, have been planted. turkeys cannot be raised successgency committee was set up under Great Plains can be prevented from Such a strip consists of a narrow fully on ground where turkeys or J. W. Tapp, to make arrangements becoming a desert if proper precau row of trees up to a half mile long chickens have ranged the year beC Wostprn Krwupaper fnlon. for the purchase and processing of tions are taken. Science has not fore. Even then, after disinfecting a million head of cattle, which devised a way to make it rain, yet such ground, trouble often arises, but Winds Cause Uniform Climate would perish if the drouth c- t me government now has under wav says the Wisconsin Agriculturist and Farmer. The only safe plan Winds, when not opposed ued, although it was predicted that a program of three divisions to pro- by there would be some rain within a vioe ior xne storage cf what moi; mountain barriers, tend to cause is to provide new clean range and runs for the birds each season. few days. ,. ture exists and to prevent soil ero uniformity of climate, over extenand good areas. sive A survey of conditions in the sion. They largely deter-min- e Then, given healthy stock chance best r the flock i the has care, rainfall, drouth area, compiled by Harry L. therefore rir.i o trie three divisions is the soil distribution of controlling lo and thrive. life. grow What three-fourth- of Charles Hamilton sentative Western New York, who went to Kansas to go in the oil business about 16 years ago which was so potent in lining up the New York delegation for Landon. In fact, it is the old friendships of Landon with men who happened to be influential in a number of eastern states that made the efforts of the "Old Guard" to stop Landon so futile. low fa-- A-N- o. n, This, plus the situation in Minnesota and North Dakota caused by the prospect that the ticket will pull votes away from the New Deal, is the explanation of why there was such terrific pressure on Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York to reconsider his determination not to run again for governor. The pressure Roved successful. The "private view, of many New York Democrats is that the-tt- e is fairly, safe for Roosevelt if Lehman is on the ticket, and doubtful, if not swinging toward the Republican side, if Lehman is not on the ticket. If New York's 47 votes are safely in the Roosevelt column, there need be no worry in ftaff j s, 1 Good Ration Urged to Pu Fall Production. ... By rr. N. F, Wlter. Poultry WXU Se: program t A good ration for obtaining and development of late growth reto chicks is recommen ic-d-. Attempts are being made of hatched o,ore vegetation on thousands The following ration, one that :..,s acres of plowed fields, on the theory been successfully used at the coli that such vegetation will combat lege poultry farm, may be Nine erosion and conserve moisture. at home in small quantities or contour furrowing demonstration can be supplied by local elevuvrs stations have teen set up in the in larger amounts than would oe West. Tivs furrowing consists of convenient to mix on the farm Ground yellow corn, 39 pans; the development of small terraces d are These ends. closed with ground oats, 20 parts; wheat ran, wheat middlings. P) 10 parts; to censer ve the ram. and bone meal, lo meat is assistCCC parts; In many re ions the . in parts; dried milk, 5 parts; alfai:.i service conservation ing pan. It is believed that meal, 5 parts, and salt, the milk may be substitutskim Liquid to put can te if the farmers taught 1 per cent and ed for dried milk, and vegetation on part of their land oil should be provided liver cod of the campaign to furrow correctly, until the chicks go out on range will be successful in eliminating ration may be fed This most drouth disasters. the chicks are eight weeks until To make possible the storage of old. After this period, the ration water for use m times of drouth, the shodld be supplemented with a reclrmruion service of the Depart- grain mixture of equal parts of ment of the Interior has under way cracked yellow corn, whole wheat a series of dam and irrigation projand hulled oats. ects in the western states. Some The mash should be kept before lesser projects of this nature have the chicks at all times through- been on the WPA schedule. out the growing period. The gram These projects are of ambitious may also be fed in hoppers. When scope and wide range. At the top the chicks are 12 weeks of age, they should be allowed equal parts of mash and grain fed separately. Nutrients essential for most economical gains in weight (protein, 3r.yl.W?...5 carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and ' :i nerve-rackin- Janes dt'rtK Caro-lina- U i,r lo the enure sulUWte actual-- , hut onh to thai purl of ,1 uhwh means concert., lion proper. Ih,s ,t, ,.rk and the tducutional program ;.r.,Jn , the ofM'il erosion servwe Agriculture. ..I ih.. I), ih, run, it - President Roosevelt, it so happens, has no present intention of exercising this power. There has been a firm conviction in Washington for some time that France would devalue the franc, and that then Britain would let the pound sterling drift down to equalize the French cut. As a matter of fact, there has been surprise in Washington that this has not occurred long since. When and if this occurs the President will face a real problem as to whether to meet the change-- so vastly important in foreign trade. But the best information obtainable is that he is not inclined to exercise his further power to devaluate the dollar even under this provocation. with SPECIAL FEED AID TO LATE CHICKENS A tt; goods. dshipsthat Hardest Hit; Federal Government Acts to Prevent Dieter. President Roose-ve- lt Washington. is enormously pleased with the general reception of his acceptance speech at Philadelphia. Those who must support him for who party regularity reasons but more have been hoping he would be the conservative if group following Senators Glass, Byrd, Tydings and Adams are distressed. And the radical fringe is delighted. The thought of comparing the New Deal fight against capital against investments, if you please to the fight of the colonists against British royal domination-ca- me to the President almost at the last moment. He did not prepare his speech much in advance, and it is pretty nearly an accident that he took this particular tack. It all grew out of the fuss and furore that was kicked up when announcement was made, a little more than a month ago, that the President would make his trip to Texas and other states at a time when the Republican national convention would be in progress. It was charged he was trying to steal the convention's publicity, to deprive it of its normal share of front page newspaper display, not to mention radio broadcasting and newspaper picture sections. So he announced that on that trip he would make "historical talks," going into the history of the sections he visited. He not only did, but found some very adroit ways of working good political arguments into them. But the conservative TVrioiU: Dakota ui AUiim i DOUUrO 1 g |