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——— I'' ' ' *^^^*^* > ”'■*■ ".^ I—Lieut. Gen. Werner von Blomberg of the German army (saluting) inspecting the cadets of the Mili tary academy at West Point. 2—First aerial view of the estate on a mountain top near Princeton, N. J., bought by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. 3—Larry Ritchie, one of President Hoover’s secretaries, with the wild turkeys and pheasants which he shot for the White House Thanksgiving dinner. NEWS REVIEW RE HREjnVENTS Farm Board’s Experiment in Stabilizing Price of Wheat May Succeed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD UNCLE SAM. through the medi um of the farm board’s stabil ization corporation, is engaged in another noble experiment, namely, the support of the domestic wheat market to keep prices from experi encing unwarranted declines. Thus far the experiment seems to be successful, for purchases by the corporation maintained the price on the Chicago Board of Trade around the 73-cent level, while wheat in foreign markets was slumping far below that point. Before the week closed, it was estimated, the stabilization cor poration was holding about 100,000,- 000 bushels, and it was said in Washington that the federal farm board would ask congress in the next session for another appropri ation of $100,000.000 to continue the purchasing policy. The coarse grains committee of the board at a session in the Capital strongly en dorsed the policy adopted by the corporation. It pointed out that prices of coarse grains had failed to reflect the shortage caused by last summer’s drought, owing to the weakness in the wheat market. A check to this decline has been essential if coarse grain prices are to show the strength warranted by the feed shortage this year, the committee declared. It recommended that the Treas ury safeguard the interests of do mestic producers of coarse grain *’by levying the maximum duty on all mixtures of feedstuffs.” The government’s stabilization efforts were at first severely con demned by many grain men, but their success in the admitted crisis brought about a decided change in opinion and won general support for the plan. However, there re mains the question of the disposal of the % great surplus accumulated by the corporation. Whether an considerable part of it can be sow, abroad is problematical, for other countries are getting ready to pre vent this by anti-dumping legisla tion and decrees. DREMIERS and bankers of the * western provinces of Canada are doing w hat they can to restore wheat prices and prevent a recur rence of the slump, and with a measure of success. On the Win nipeg grain exchange prices were rising and greater confidence was manifest. The leaders up there de clared the Canadian wheat pool would not be broken by the crisis. The premiers of Manitoba, Al berta and Saskatchewan were in conference in Montreal and sug gest that the government set a temporary minimum of about 70 cents a bushel. A dollar minimum, however, is the goal of Saskatch ewan farmers, and wheat grow ers of Alberta urged u minimum of $1.15. Any plan for stabiliza tion by the Dominion government must await the return of Premier Bennett from London. THE immediate reason for the farm board's action is thus set forth by an expert: The western wheat co-operatives, both in the United States and Can ada, have borrowed heavily from banks. As wheat prices declined, and the margin of collateral got thinner and thinner, the co-opera tives were faced with just one thing—the forced selling of mil lions of bushels of wheat. A drop of a few cents more a bushel might bring on a crisis of major propor tions. American millers have been con tending with plenty of cancelled orders upon the theory that wheat can be bought much cheaper at a later date. Possibly 100.000,000 bushels of wheat were affected in these two situations. So. Mr. Legge and his associate's of the farm board again entered the market to stabilize prices. WITH a stirring and optimis tic speech President Hoover opened Wednesday night the White House conference on child health and protection which undertakes I to develop into a national welfare program the suggestions be made a year ago. Twelve hundred ex perts have been working on the problems he set forth at that time and it was for this conference to co-ordinate their solutions. When the big gathering had been called to order by Secretary Wil bur, its chairman, Mr. Hoover de livered his address in which he asked for safeguards and services to childhood beyond the reach of the individual parent and which can be provided only by the com munity, the state or the nation. “If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated and healthy children,” he said, “a thousand other problems of govern ment would vanish." His solution for the questions concerning child hood which he said should stir a nation was “much learning and much action.” Following the collapse of the investment banking house of Caldwell & Co. of Nashville, Tenn.. more than fifty banks have closed or suspended payment. Most of them are in Tennessee, but some are in Arkansas, Kentucky and Mis souri. The affairs of Rogers Cald well, head of the investment con cern and formerly regarded as a financial wizard, lias been in par lous state since September, when a state bank examination of a sub sidiary of his company, the Bank of Tennessee, caused the authori ties to require a deposit of $3,840,- 000 in securities to cover liabili ties. Incidentally, the attorney general of Tennessee now an nounces these securities are miss ing. Thursday morning the Central Bank and Trust company, largest financial institution in Asheville, N. C., failed to open for business. A notice was posted stating the bank was closed by order of the board of directors “for the conservation of its assets.” The bank’s latest state ment of condition showed deposits of more than $18,000,000. William Virgil Bell, president of the First National bank of Horse Cave, Ky., which closed early in the week, committed suicide by hanging. TRUSTEES and faculty of the | University of Chicago have sanctioned a radical experiment in education. The traditionally re quired four-year course will be abandoned and a system substituted whereby a student may be gradu ated whenever able to pass exam ination requirements. The under graduate school and the graduate college, as such, will be abolished. The institution hereafter will con sist of the professional schools and five divisions in arts —the humani ties, the biological sciences, the so cial sciences, the physical sciences and the college. President Robert Maynard Hutch ins says of the reorganization: "It means that we shall be able to co-ordinate our teaching and to co-ordinate our scholarship. The student who hitherto has been pre vented by departmental limitations from working in fields related to his special interest will get such an opportunity from the divisional pro gram. Co-ordination achieved by divisional program means a sav ing to the university in that dupli cation of courses will be elim inated. “Our research program will be aided because the divisional organ ization puts in one group all the faculty members who have a com mon interest and relation in their work. “Those students who wish to ob tain only a general education may get it as fast as they are able, and if that is all they want, they may depart from the university with honor. By enabling a student to acquire a general education as quickly as his ability permits, a considerable saving in time should result for those who wish to go into professions such as law or medi cine.” U' NGLAND is hearing some un pleasant statements concerning i her rule of India from the native del egates to the roundtable conference in London. And those delegates, representing the princes, the Hin dus, the Moslems, the Brahmins and the untouchables, are united in the demand that India be granted at least dominion status with fed eral rule. Among the distinguished Indians who voiced their country’s wishes last week were the maharajah of Bikaner, noted fighting prince; Sir Tej Bahandur Sapru, leader of the Nationalists; Mr. Jayakar, a bril liant young lawyer; Dr. B. S. Moonje, a Hindu leader; Muham tned Ali, prominent Moslem, and the beautiful Begum Shah Nawaz. The attitude of the Tories of Eng land was set forth by Lord Peel, for mer secretary of state for India, who surprisingly asserted that no prom ise of dominion status, now or in the near future, had been given by Great Britain. After defending the British rule in India he suggested that a beginning be made by giv ing the provinces a certain amount of autonomy, while maintaining a strong central government un changed from the present one. O TRIKES and riots prevailed in many cities of Spain for a week and strenuous efforts were made by the Republicans and Communists to convert them into a political demonstration that would overthrow the monarchy. But the government adopted stern measures and succeeded in quell ing the disorders. The biggest of the strikes was in Barcelona, al ways a center of disturbance, but after several days its abandonment was ordered by the labor federa tion that started it. In Madrid and Salamanca there were strikes by students, who demanded a re public. The wiser anti-monarchists in Spain believe they will succeed before very long in their aims but that the time is not yet ripe. OTE.VIO VINCENT, editor of the Haiti Journal, a lawyer and former diplomat, was elected Pres ident of Haiti by the national as sembly to succeed Eugene Roy. Vincent is one of the most strenu ous opponents of American occu pation and his victory was rather a surprise. He is the first regular ly elected President of the repub lic since American intervention in 1910. Following the recommenda tion of ihe Hoover commission that went to Haiti in February, that the office of American com missioner general be terminated, Brig. Gen. John H. Russell has left the isJand, and the new American minister, Dana G. Munro, has ar rived in Port Au Pri. —. the cap ital. . GEN. Charles P. Summerall on Thursday concluded his four year term as chief of staff of the army, and was succeeded by Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur. In his farewell statement General Sum merall spoke enthusiastically of the reorganizations that have given the country its best organized army since the armistice, and gave high praise for the officers’ and en listed men’s intelligence, loyalty and devotion to duty. RESULTS of the prohibition ref erendum held by the Ameri can Bar association show that 13,779 of the members voting are in favor of repeal of the Eight eenth amendment, while 0,340 are against repeal. Judge Orrie L. Phillips, chairman of a subcommit tee that handled the matter, says that whether the association, in view of the referendum result, will take steps toward repeal of the Eighteenth amendment probably will not be known until the next annual meeting in Atlantic City Dext September. He also said it was possible that no definite action would be taken then. C MUGGLING of liquor and aliens by airplanes from Canada by two powerful combines has been exposed with the indictment of fourteen men by a federal grand jury at Detroit.' Although the op erations of the flying rum runners were confined for the most part to the Detroit area, plane loads of whisky and fancy liquors occa sionally were flown across the bor der direct to fields in the vicinity of the larger cities in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. It is charged that aliens sometimes were carried as extra cargo on the liquor trips, and that special trips were occasional ly made for aliens. ABOUT a score of men, women and children were killed and a hundred others injured by a tor nado that struck the little church colony of Bethany, a few miles from Oklahoma City, Okla. More than two hundred buildings were destroyed by the twister. The storm first struck a country school house, where four pupils were killed. (©. 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) THE COOLIDGE EXAMINER mmimmwiMmm Can I Learn to Fly? by William R. Nelson miaiimmmuaiim Vertical Banks AIRPLANES and automobiles, as machines of transportation, have many traits in common, the student pilot soon realizes. But they also differ widely. The stu dent who drives a motor car picks up certain phases of flying quickly. Other phases, however, because they are peculiar to flying, are con fusing and difficult to grasp. I encountered one of flying’s par adoxes in my lesson on “vertical banks.” “In a vertical bank the controls cross,” my instructor explained. “The rudder, being in a horizontal instead of a vertical position, serves as the elevator and the ele vator becomes the rudder. Remem ber that.” He took the controls at 3,000 feet and told me to follow through while he showed me the vertical bank maneuver. It was not different from any other bank except that he held the stick over longer and, when the plane’s wings were almost vertical, brought the stick to neu tral and well back. To level out he moved the stick in the opposite direction and held it there until the plane righted itself. “Bank over until that wire (mean ing a diagonal brace between the wings) is parallel to horizon,” he instructed. “Then neutralize the stick and pull it back to hold the ship in the turn. If the nose climbs, push the bottom rudder pedal. Re member you will be on your side. If the nose drops, push top rud der.” I banked over sharply and as the brace wire became parallel with horizon, neutralized the stick and pulled it back toward me. That movement “tightened” the circle, the elevator, being in a vertical po sition, acting as a rudder. To in crease the diameter of our circular course I allowed the stick to go slightly forward. As it did so my Instructor shouted through the speaking tube: “Hold the stick firmly. If you in crease the size of the turn we will lose altitude. Now try bringing the nose up and down with the rudder pedals.”’ . At first the crossed controls con fused me. Seeing the earth on one side and the sky on the other also bothered. But after a half-hour of practice I had apparently mastered the maneuver sufficiently and my instructor signaled for me to return to the airport. • • • Taking a Ride SOLO flying began in earnest after the last lesson, and next 1 was sent out without a preliminary “check flight” by my Instructor. That marked the beginning of an other stage in my flying course and my graduation from the ranks of the “dual” students. I, however, did get further instruction. “What are we going to do to day?” I asked as my instructor came in from the field where he had been with another student. “We?" he asked, rather surprised. “You are going to fly. I am staying here. There’s your plane. It's all ready for you. I'm going to watch from the window here. Now show me some nice, three-point landings.” My heart was pounding slightly as I climbed in alone, looked about to see that all was clear and opened the throttle. I had experienced many thrills since starting the course, but none that gave me more satisfaction than that of my first “all alone” lesson. The take-off was without inci dent, and as I leveled out at 1.000 feet for the trip around the pat tern, I reveled in the thought that I could make these turns as 1 pleased without fear of being sig naled for them if I chose to stretch the course here and there. The first landing was good, and I immediately roared away again. Around and around 1 flew. Each time I had no trouble with any of the routine maneuvers. After a half-dozen turns about the pattern and as many good landings I decid ed to fly away from the course for a little ride over the open country. That decision and the ride that followed put more desire to fly into my blood than anything I had done. To be free to make one’s decisions and to have enough confidence in one’s ability to have no fear of trou ble, kindled a desire to “fill ’er up with gas and roar away” to some distant place that was difficult to control. At 70 miles an hour < ne can cover considerable territory in ten min utes, and from 2,000 feet one can see so much farther away that I felt ns though I had seen half of the state by the time I returned to the field. Being away from the “pattern” gave opportunity to “hunt" for the airport, as a visiting pilot, a stranger to that locality, would have to do. I found it easily. (©. 1930 Western Newspaper Union.) Bank Cash Paradox The paradox of a run on a bank is well expressed by the case of the man who inquired of his bank whether it had cash available for paying the amount of his deposit, saying: “If you can pay me, I don’t want my money; if you can’t, I do.” All depositors want to be sure their money “is there.” Yet it never is there all at one time. Annual Illness Cost The amount of money spent an nually for medical care in the United States is estimated at $2,000,- 000,000. This includes fees for phy sicians, dentists, nurses and at tendants and cost of hospital treat ment and drugs. i numimmiH—muu Christmas Things to Buy or Make at Home rrn irn ■ uri mii mtmm Hand-Embroidered Gifts p This trio of lamp shade, table scarf and cushion, of heavy nat ural-colored linen, embroidered in gay wool yarn, emphasizes the vogue for ensemble furnishings iu the home. As a Christmas-gift sug gestion it scores 10 per cent per fect. The materials are easily available at any fancywork depart ment. iji !•' Wrought Iron Gifts Popular r—¥ fi —¥ — In matter of “what to give for Christmas,” fancy this year turns decidedly in the direction of things made of wrought iron. The pic ture shows a most ornamental iron flower pot rack designed to hang in the window. Growing vines and plants thus silhouetted against the window pane cast an indescribable beauty over the entire room. Charming for a “family” gift for every member of the household will enjoy it. Meet the Powder-Puff Lady “Merry Christmas” is what tins daintily attired powder-puff lady is going to say to legions of maid ens and matrons on the morning of December Twenty-five, Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. The hem of the skirt of this bewitching china doll is arranged in pockets, each of which contains a gay-colored powder puff. For His Den a “Doggy” Lamp / 1; \ / • m\ The fad for animal ornaments is stressed throughout holiday gift sections this season. This porce lain china lamp base cleverly in terprets the now-SQ-popular animal theme. “A master of the kennels” will enjoy seeing this lamp on his library table, or, if he is a lover of horses, why not give “him” a lamp with a handsome porcelain steed standing at its base? ‘S \H & Widow Millie & Filled the |« P Stocking ‘By Wm. L. Gaston ■ IDOW MILLIE lived on \ \ j a western farm and V/V/y with the help of a hired '•w.' • Inan — a slow-going man named Mike—nobody r ever heard his last name—managed to grow good crops and maintain the appear ance of thrift. Five years before her husband, Wilson Macy, had died and she had been left alone to carry on the work of the ranch. Mrs. Macy was an attractive young woman whose age would have been guessed some where in the early thirties. She was plump, good-natured and gen erally liked in the community. Somehow she came to be called Widow Millie by the neighbors, who used the name as much to express their kindly feelings as to distin guish her from other people. Bob Ramsay and Jim Walden were both eligible widowers and each owned a quarter section of good land adjoining Widow Millie’s land, one on the north and one on the east. Each seemed a trifle more than anxious to have everything go right on the widow’s ranch and neither was backward In the prof fer of advice or offers to help. To do this properly required a call and neither was averse to calling on the widow. Tom Moulton was a bachelor—a timid, bashful bachelor who could blush better than he could talk. In the presence of ladies. He owned a good ranch and was one ot the most thrifty farmers In the com munity. He was good looking and very obliging. He was well liked but no one believed that he could ever muster the courage to propose marriage to any woman. He often slipped over to the widow’s farm, to see Mike, of course. He gave his farm advice to Mike. Some times he exchanged work with Mike and on these occasions there was an extra white cloth on the table and the biscuits had an extra flakiness. Tom liked the biscuits. Tom ate the biscuits hut he could not think of a word to say when the conversation was directed to him. On the night before Christmas both Bob and Jim called and Wid ow Millie proceeded to entertain both In the parlor. She managed conversation and kept It going in the general direction while the vis itors fidgeted and squirmed, each hoping that the other would soon leave. Millie was sure that Tom was in the kitchen. She could hear the muffled conversation of two slow-speaking men. Millie extended an invitation to both her visitors to come over the next day and have Christmas dinner with her. This was the signal for both to leave. After their departure Millie went to the kitchen, but Tom had gone and Mike had retired. But hanging on the kitchen wall Just over the stove was a pair of ladies’ silk stockings. She looked at them in amazement. They were not hers and how could they have gotten there? Going closer she observed a piece of note paper protruding from one of them. She pulled it out hastily and excitedly read: “Widow Millie: I have bung these stockings up here for you. 1 want you to till them and wear them tomorrow. 1 have hung up a pair for myself at home. I will fill them and wear them over here tomorrow uoon. The preacher and his wife will be with me. I fixed up everything else at the courthouse this afternoon. 1 can farm better if J do not have to cook. You can cook better if you do not have to farm. This is an honest offer, from Tom.” It would be hard to describe the thoughts that raced through Mil lie’s mind. At first she was indig nant She resented it as an imperti nence. "He had his nerve.” she said almost aloud a dozen times, but she smiled when she thought that nerve was rhe very thing that Tom was supposed not to hav*?. She liked Tom. and if he had corne out boldly and proposed in the usu al way she did not know what she would have done. She took up the note again, but she could oqly see the last line —“this is an honest offer, from Tom.” It smote her with its straightforwardness and simplicity. “He is honest,” she said to herself. She resolved first one thing, then another, but always came back to that last line —the honest offer. The last line won. When Tom, the preacher and his wife arrived. Widow Millie had the stockings filled and dinner was well under way. The minister’s wife finished it Bob and Jim were in time for the ceremony, and of course they stayed for their Christ mas dinner. (© 1930 Western Newspaper Union.) tired eveij; morning/ Get poisons out of the system with Feen-a-mint, the Chewing Gum Laxa tive. Smaller doses effective when taken in this form. A modern, scien tific, family laxative. Safe and mild. \ GENUINE I if »JtYTlw l H a a T i 1 ■ 3 I u H | y | FOR CONSTIPATION Prepared to Suffer i “I hope you’ll dance with me to i night, Mr. Jones." “Oh, rather! I hope you don’t think I came here merely for pleas ure!”—Stray Stories. What A Woman ; 44 YEARS OLD Should Weigh ! Are You Getting Fat ? These are authentic figures—look l over the table below —if your weight and height match them—congratu- I late yourself—your figure is a shapely one —free from fat—weigh | yourself today. Ages 40 to 44 4 Ft 11 In. 12G Pounds 5 Ft. 0 In. 128 5 Ft. 1 In. 130 5 Ft. 2 In. 133 “ 5 Ft. 3 In. 136 “ i 5 Ft. 4 In. 139 “ 5 Ft. 5 In. 143 “ I 5 Ft. G In. 147 “ - 6 Ft. 7 In. 151 “ 5 Ft. 8 In. 155 “ ( 5 Ft. 9 In. 159 “ 5 Ft. 10 In. 162 “ [ Weights given include ordinary Indoor clothing. If you are overweight cut out ■ pies, pastries and cake —also candy i for 4 weeks —then weigh yourself again—Go light on potatoes—rice, butter, cream and sugar—eat lean meat —chicken, fish, salad —green ( Vegetables and fruit. 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