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Show by Arthur Brisbane Farming, Pleasure, Pain A 'Long Road to Go A Dry Capital? $200,000,000 Too Much FARMING has its pleasures and its pains. This writer, farmer byprofession, writer by necessity, was grieved to see on his farm in New Jersey magnificent ears of corn each with the marks of a borer at the small end. On the other hand it was a pleasure to see in one field, planted with corn, frown originally in Mexico, developed in California, a straight line of corn stalks 17 feet high, the ears so far from the ground that no farmhand i-uiuu i'tn;n UUtJ to ( ARTHUR. BRIfiBAi" see if che borers j had climbed up. Stalks, at the root, I as thick as a man's arm. From the writer's alfalfa ranch on the California Mojave Desert, comes this news: "The yellow butterflies i have been busy in the alfalfa. The 1 butterfly mates when two days old, lays eggs the following day, woiths hatch in three to seven days, feed on tender leaves of the alfalfa plant. ; To discourage the butterflies we cut hay before the bloom appears, ard to kill the worms, the hay is cut close to the ground, and the checks are given excessive moisture. Farming is not a dull occupation, a especially when valuable young colt.? T, get caught in the wire fence, and fire swfeps through the pines. 3 If the President's farm commission will tell this farmer how to fight corn borers, the yellow butterflies, this pe- itioner will ever pray. Earth's 1,800,000,000 people are not QUITE CIVILIZED YET. Further details concerning the massacre mas-sacre of 3,000 Mohammedans by Chinese Chi-nese in Kansu province show that tha human race has still some dis-tarce dis-tarce to travel. Of late Mohammedans had been murdering Chinese. Then came famine, fam-ine, most desperate, among the Mohammedans, Mo-hammedans, who were invited by Chinese Chi-nese officials to come to Taochow, for a conference with promises of roasted barley. (Continued on last page.) This Week By ARTHUR BRISBANE (Continued from first page.) When they came, men from 15 to ',0 were separated from the women taken outside the wall, and "3.000 of hem butchered like sheep." VVlien :;ey saw that they were to be killed th" Mohammedans asked no mercy. Aftr the famine, the Mahamme-dans Mahamme-dans will doubtless murder ten or twenty Chinese for each Mohammedan killed in the massacre. Si it goes among human beings most cruel and blood-thirsty ol all animals. S-rator Howell, of Nebraska, asks President Hoover to make Wa.hin.g- drv because v.o ought to have one sample dry city. He says the President could f.top bootleg at the capital. Thr- President is an able man. But nobodv on this earth could make Washington really dry. Hov could President Hoover prevent pre-vent Senator Howell, of Nebraska, from taking a bottle of whiskey irom a white or colored bootlegger and hm-M"" n- S5 in his pnvae office? "That 'is how the thing is do. although al-though bootlegging by Senate HoweU happens to be unthinkable. An individual who makes whiikev secretelv, sells it sccretely to somebody who sells it again secretory to the m--Vvidual who intends to drink it. How vo vcu gr.in.- to stop that? All the President'", horses and all the Presi--'-.rt's mrn couldn't do it. "Thr pulv h"-pp is to crea';e among American citizens respect for law nd the Constitution. That seems a slow procetJ. Senator Borah says that President Hoover "must go through to the end, and assume responsibility for ths tar-f tar-f f " That new view of the President's Presi-dent's duty interests Mr. Hoover and the people. The old idea was that Congress should writs 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 hir. nephews neph-ews this year $200 000.000 more than he needs. President Hoover and Secretary Sec-retary Mellon are said to agree that 'nccme axrs can safely be rut. It is said that collecting the income 'ax. is costing the Government $500,-100.000 $500,-100.000 a year, which seems a great :ler.!. It shoal.1, be possible to find a better system. A talented Ancriran actress decides de-cides that she muse play Shylock and does, in London. Critics ray that l.-jr false whiskers are not convincing. The young lady probably will die convinced con-vinced that she is a great unappreciated unappreci-ated Shylock. Millions of young women makj the rame mistake, undertaking work for which rature did not prepare them. They v.'ould laugh if the men insisted in-sisted on nursing a baby, without the necessary apparatus. Women make efforts outside of their natural field hat are just as preposterous. |