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Show if Arthur Brisbane if- I: " ( ' " I .-:,. '' farming, Pleasure, Pais A Long Rd to Go A Dry CapiUlT Hardly $200,000,000 Too Much I p ARMING has Its pleasuree and Its 1 I4 pains. Thls writer, farm by profession, ! wwer br necessity, was grieved ta tijhn his farm In Nnr Jimr mag-tbCSnt mag-tbCSnt ears of corn each with the marks of a borer r.t the small end. I On the other hand It was a, pleasure I to see In one field, planted with oorn, t grown originally In Mexico, developed in California, a straight Una of oorn- f stalks IT feet high, the ears so far ! 1 from the ground that no farmhand I could reach one to see If the borers i had climbed up. Stalks, at the root, as thick as a man's arm. " From the writer's alfalfa ranch on t the California Mojave Deeert, eontee this news: "The yeltow butterflies A have been busy in the alfalfa. Tha i . butterfly mates when two days old. i lays eggs the following day, worms hatch in three to seven days, feed f on tender leaves of the alfalfa plant " To discourage the butterflies we out t hay before the bloom appeara, and to i , ( kill the worms, the hay Is cut close to ' ' i the ground, and the checks are given I , excessive moisture." ' Farming is not a dull occupation, , especially when valuable young colts : get caught in the wire fence, and fire I sweeps through the pines. ; If the President's farm commission 1 will tell this farmer how to tight i corn borers, the yellow butterflies, i I this petitioner will ever pray. I Earth's 100,00000 people are not QUITE CIVILIZED YET. I Further details concerning the mas- I sacre of 8,000 Mohammedans by Chi- t nese in Kansu province show that the human race has still some dla- ji ; tance to travel. ' A Of late Mohammedans had been murdering Chinese. Then came tanv Ine, most desperate, among the Mo- ) hammedans, who were invited by Chi- 3 nese officials, to come to Taocbow, f tor i confeernce with promises of roaated barley. . " ' " I When they came, men from IS to 60 were separated from the women, taken outside the wall, and "S,000 of them butchered like sheep." When they saw that they were to be killed ' the Mohammedans asked no merer. After the famine, the Mohamme- dans will doubtleai murder ten or twenty Chinese for each Mohamme- dan killed in the massacre. " ..." go it goes among human beings, mosr'oruer' and blood-'thlrsty of all animals. I Senator Howell, of Nebraska, asks President Hoover to make Waahlng-i Waahlng-i '. ton dry, because we ought to have one sample dry city. He says the I President could stop bootlegging at , the capital.' The President Is an able man. t But nobody on this earth oould make Washington really dry-How dry-How could President Hoover pre-: pre-: vont Senator Howell, of Nebraska, ; from taking a bottle of whisky from a white or colored bootlegger, and banding him 5 In his private officer That is how the thing Is done, at though bootlegging by Senator HweU happens to be unthinkable. (An Individual who makes whisky secretly, seUs it seoreUy to somebody . who sells it again secretly to the nv ' dividual who Intends to drink it How f are you going io stop thatt All the President's horses and all the Presi- I dent's men couldn't do it . The only hope is to create among American oitisens respect for law and i the Constitution. That seems a alow process. Senator Borah says that President ' Hoover "must go through to the end, I and assume responsibility for the tariff." tar-iff." That new view of the President's dty interests Mr. Hoover and th f people. The old idea was that Congress should write the laws, the President approve or veto them, the Supreme Court interpret them. Mr. Mussolini would agree with Senator Sen-ator Borah's suggestion. Uncle Sam collected from bis nephews neph-ews this year 1100,000,000 more than be needs. President Hoover and Secretary Sec-retary Mellon are said to agree that moome taxes can safely be out It is said that collecting the inoome tax is costing the Government $500,-t00.000 $500,-t00.000 a year, which seems a great seal It should be possible to find a better system. I A talented American aotreei de- I sides that she must play Shytock and f loea. in London. Critics say that "her I false whiskers are not convincing. 1 rhe young lady probably will die J sonvinced that she to a great, (map- I predated Shylock. f Millions of young women make the I tame mistake, undertaking work tor I rhlch Nature did not prepare them. 1 they would laugh If the men la- 1 listed on nursing a baby, without j te necessary apparatus. Women make I tfforta outside of their natural field 1 kat are Just as preposterous. |