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Show :- V STORY OF mi PAST KB A Complete History of What Hat Been Happening Throughout the World. WESTERN Declaring that one of the urgont luiitters facing the Methodists Episcopal Episco-pal church, South, la ths care of superannuated sup-erannuated ministers and their dependents, de-pendents, speakers nt Hot Springs, Ark, told delegates to the nineteenth Quadrennial general conference of the , denomination there that every support must be given a plan to raise a fund of ten million dollars or more for that work. . Owing to the lnero.isIng demand for directors of community drama, thut Is, persons quipped to put on plays with volunteer talent, this year's Summer Art colony, which is conducted annually annual-ly under the auspices of the Pasadena Community Playhouse association, will Offr tiractlent tnatriWInn Oreatly Increased production this year of strawberries, cantaloupes, early ear-ly tomatoes and early potatoes forecast fore-cast by the department of agriculture at Washington. The forecast foi strawberries Indicated a production ot 15421 cars of 540 crates each of commercial com-mercial berries, a gain of 17 per cent over the 13,01 oars Inst year The cantaloupe forecast was 88 per cent above the 191 harvest, with southern California, Florida and Texas leading In the number of oars expected to be produced. The coramerieal area of watermelons in Florida was estimated by the department at 85,400 acres, as compared with 18,700 acres harvested har-vested in 1921. Production of early commercial tomatoes in Florida, the forecast indicated, would be sn Increase In-crease of 61 per cent while the Texas crop of early tomatoes was placed at 4988 cars of 893 crates each or an Increase In-crease almost as great as the whole harvest of 2.2G6 cars last year. Early Irish potatoes, according to department figures have a prospective production of 39,108 cars of 200 barrels each in the early producing states along the Atlantic coast from Florida and along the gulf. Business men and labor leaders are watching with a good deal of Interest the getting under way of construction on the $200,000 Permanent fioniA for uch directors. There will be courses , In play presentation, stage craft, dra matic dancing, voice, history of the drama, costume design, and allied subject. Cattle tested for tuberculosis have doubled In number each year 'since the U. 8 department of agricultural, in cooperation with the various states, took over la 1917 the work of eradicating eradicat-ing this disease. The work had already been started individually by the Chicago Chica-go livestock exchange. Official figures fig-ures show that the number of tests has Increased from 20,101 the first year to 1,366,358 during 1921 and that records so far indicate a proportionate proportion-ate growth during the current year. The Oregon national guard encampment encamp-ment will go into its annual session the latter part of June, according to telegraphic advices from the war department de-partment at Washington to Adjutant General White. Infantry and field artillery units will go to Camp Lewis, s they did last year, and tle coast I v artillery to Fort Warden. It la expected ex-pected that fully 2,000 guardsmen wl!) S participate In the maneuvers this year. Adjutant General White has been ad vised that $143,269.80 has been set aside by the war department for the Oregon guard encampment expense. GENERAL I Eight all-steel trains of ten cars each and costing a total of ?l,200,00o will be placed In service between Chicago and Seattle by the Burlington-Great Northern railroads, P S. Eustis, passenger pas-senger traffic manager of the Burling- i ton road, announced. The trains, lr was announced, will meet demands tor Increased Oriental and summer tourist v business. Ten thousand men werw employe' . when all underground mine.) of the ! " Oliver Iron Mining company near Duluth Minn., started operation on a full time basis this week, official of the company announced Saturday. the United States chamber of commerce com-merce Particularly the question is whether construction on an "open shop'; plan will encounter iwrticular assistance from organized labor. It was first raised after prominent publication pub-lication of an article asserting that not a tool In Hie bands of a union workman work-man would touch the structure In its erection and that not an ounce of material ma-terial would come from a concern having hav-ing union workers. A petition to the senate protesting against government leasing of naval oil reserves, received from the National Na-tional Association of Oil Producers, wns read in the senate by Senator La-Follette, La-Follette, Republican, Wiscons'n, whose resolution for an Investigation of the leases recently wns adopted. The pe-litki pe-litki declared that the "delivery of the naval reserves to the Standard Oil, Sinclair, Dohcney interests constitutes a return to the era of land grabbing and earpet bogging whose hydra head of inuuity was crushed by the policy of President Roosevelt almost a decade ago. FOREIGN Twenty-five thousand government employees of Poland have been discharged, dis-charged, it was announced upon the recommendation of the antiwaste commission, com-mission, .The KarJ.of Balfour warned the nations na-tions of Europe that they would lose what prestige they have in America unless un-less in making appeals for aid Kiev show some Indication of trying to helo themselves. Ills warning was voiced In connection with discussion by the counsel of the league of nations of ti e American relief administration's offer to feed Russian refugees in Constant1 lople. ' " August Ile'-kscher of New York, has donated 10,000,000 marks for the erer--it Munich Arnvlit a hospital for shell 8hoc!;e I soldiers, it wns i-nnoniv-d Sunday Mr. Ileckscher Is a native of Hamburg. Comparing the United States to the ! classical Greece at the time of Its de cay, and declaring that If George Wash-1 Wash-1 Ington were alive be would not receive ! Its much attention as Jack Dempsey, i James M Beck, solicitor general of the United States urgent awakening of the J educated classes as the only ineaus o," preventing the destruction of the Constitution, Con-stitution, In a lecture on representative representa-tive government at the College of Will iam and Mary at Williamsburg, Vn. South Water street, where abont $1,-000,000,000 $1,-000,000,000 worth of turnips, cheese ducks, eggs, onions and other food stuffs are bartered In a year Is pre-paring pre-paring to pick up its squawking fowls, Its smells, it liable of tongues, its slippery cobblestones and move. A $20,000,000 double decked street boulvevard above, trafric way beneath ' Is to rcM'a''" it. The rcct evii'ni1-1 evii'ni1-1 six blocks along the river through the I heart of Chicago ! . WASHINGTON I Operation by the government during the next five years of enough vessels I to carry 50 per cent of the foreijm I trade of the United States was advo- ' rated at the hearings on the ship sub sidy bill by Fields S. Pendleton, New j York ship owner, who hns been refer- red to by Chainimn Iisker of the shtp- I ping board ns the "Babe Ruth of the wooden ship game." I The Yokohama Specie bank has withdrawn $."500,000 In gold bars foi A shipment to Bombay. This Is the first I shipment to be made from this port I for India in many months. Facing almost certain rejection by the senate, Nat Goldstein, Missouri f ' delegate to the Republican national I convention at Chicago in 1020, who confessed to receiving Jf2,r.(KI of Lowden Low-den money, has requested President j Harding to withdraw his nomination! to be Internal revenue collector at St. 4 Louis. A hiin by thp Un'ted States of $., xt.wH) to the Republic, of -Liberia was mitlioried In a resolution passed by, the house. Eating crow seems llterllv to N-n 'een the one thing the famine-stricken leasants of the Volga have refused to do- During the worst periods of the hunger suffering, when cats, dogs, elay tnd even more ghastly fo 1 substitutes have bevn greedily devoured, the country coun-try has Ion full of big black and grey rows. Pelrian Industry is go Ins to Amerl can banlts for trade credits. Because. f the McMlity of fun U of American ";in:;8, due to lack of the speculative ntorepts of siine continent.il bank, 'Vlglan industrialists have found they ire alio t get most satlsfsy-tory cred :ts in the United St :tes. President MUlcrand's robust physl que brought him through his most trying try-ing trip through French north Africa In th n'nk of eondifon lf "reshest member of the presidential narty that returned to Paris the other lay after an absence of forty-two flays Involving a visit to Morocco, Algrrlr. and Tunis, twenty-one banquets, twenty twen-ty S3 called private rcpnts, at which forty or more guests were presenf, and many ether social retentions, hundreds f miles of nufonublllii;r in abnormal hftit, und two sea voyages. Aristocrats of cnt'ledoin are expel ed to bring Increased prosperity ti vestern Canadian farmers. The strong "usl'.n of "royal" blood in the Cannd-'an Cannd-'an l'"iN comtdnAd with latest sclen-if sclen-if c methods of dairying Is rapidly Increasing In-creasing the financial returns. New settlers are turning to dairying for the 'julck, large profits. The Prince of Wales, said to be the ;':-st heir tt the throne of s World power to vls't the Islands, arrvod at Manilla aboard the British crosier Renown, Re-nown, escorted by a flotilla of American Ameri-can destroyers. The Russian delegation nt the Cenoa conference h:is telegraphed to the .hums Gordon Bennett coiuinit'e ns'i- inif for the entry of two Rossi ma hi:l-bions hi:l-bions In t' e furi'hoomlng Interna'h.nul balloon race. |