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Finances Bulk Large in the Halls of Congress
IITASHINGTON. —The billion-dollar congresses of ordinary pence times were
"T dwarfed when Secretary Glass, presenting the annual estimates to con
gress, proposed appropriations of practically $5,000,000,000 for the government
during the fiscal year 1921. According
to these figures it will cost more than —■
five times as much to conduct the s' 'P
peace-times affairs of government as
it did in the year immediately preced- ft? '
ing the world war. /2L I
1 he greatest individual estimates c~~ s' J/
for expenditures, of course, go to the
army and navy. The yearly interest
on the war debt, however, is $1,017.- .
• >OO,OOO, which sum alone is greater j&s
than all the appropriations for all pur- '*■*> 'U u Js ~
poses whatsoever of any peace-time
congress. One item which has appeared perennially in estimates without ever
becoming actuality, appears again this year with promise of being taken
seriously. It is an estimate of $287,500,000 toward a sinking fund which ulti
mately is to retire the public debt.
No appreciable reduction in taxes for the next fiscal year is to be thought
of, Secretary Glass declared in his annual report. Government receipts must
be kept at their present figures, he said, in order to bring government borrow
ing to an end.
Demand for the utmost economy in government expenditures was made in
the senate by both Republican and Democratic leaders. Chairman Warren of
the senate appropriations committee said the time has come to “shut the gates
entirely on new requisitions, new departments and new commissions.”
American Farmer Leads the World, Says Houston
THE American farmer leads the world in individual production of crops,
Secretary Houston of the department of agriculture asserts in his annual
report. While countries such as Belgium, under intensive farming, get a
higher acreage yield, taking both
sf\~ acreage and yield per acre into ac
count, the American agriculturist pro-
LI I 6c, . duced two and a half times as much as
-» his Belgian and German rivals, two
A— <2 viLiimim. /\ 1 and three-tenths times as much as the
I / §/y \ V British farmer, three and two-tenths
i jL-Jpf *VT ' \ \ times as much as the French and more
4s|§j|fv )V Xi ] j than six times as much as the Italian.
j\/ i \a I J The result of this and of the Amer-
V/ lean f arnier ’ s work is shown in the
—Jr 1019 American crop production, placed
at three times greater in value
than the average annual output during the five-year period preceding the
European war. The aggregate value of all crops this year is placed at $15,-
873,000,000, as compared with $14,222,000,000 in 1918.
Live stock on farms this year was figured at $8,830,000,000, as against
$8,284,000,000 in 1918.
Included in Mr. Houston’s recommendations are the following:
The building up, primarily under state law, of a system of personal credit
unions, for farmers whose financial status and operation make it difficult to
secure accommodations through the ordinary channels; expansion of facilities
for aiding in marketing, especially extension of the market news and food
products inspection services; continuation of federal participation in road
building through an appropriation of $100,000,000 for each of the next four
years; regulation and control of stock yards and packing houses; federal legis
lation to protect consumers against adulterated feeds and fertilizers; increased
state support for rural schools and more definite instruction as to rural prob
lems and conditions; legislation to improve rural sanitary conditions and
provide hospital and medical facilities.
All Aboard for Mars, Says a Russian Scientist
HUSBANDS suffering from ennui or other persons whose worldly cares cause
them to seek the seclusion of utterly new surroundings, take heart. There’s
away out. How would you like to spend an otherwise hard winter on Mars?
Don’t laugh. It’s a possibility. Any
way, there’s a Russian aeronautical
engineer at large in this country who
is telling about it. His name is Prof.
Georg de Bothezat and he has an in
ternational reputation.
Among aviation possibilities, he
says, is the invention of a maehine,
propelled by a jet, which would take
no count of space. Mars for luncheon,
the Milky Way for dinner and back to
the old world again for breakfast.
“There would be a few dangers in
such interplanetary travel,” he declares, “such as bumping into meteors, but a
keen-eyed pilot would soon become an adept in overcoming such obstacles.
Professor de Bothezat also is working on a machine that will climb to an
altitude of 40 or 50 miles and then fly without fuel. This can be done, he says,
by utilizing the atmosphere at this height, which has the exact proportion of
hydrogen and oxygen to produce combustion. The passengers would travel
in a fuselage constructed on the thermos-bottle idea.
$40,000,000 Water-Power Tunnel for Palestine
A NORWEGIAN engineer has devised a plan to provide water and electric
power for Palestine at an initial cost of $40,000,000. Albert Hjorth of
Christiania proposes to utilize the variation of the level between the Mediter
ranean and the Dead sea, and by
- means of a tunnel for water to pro
f 1 vide electric power for pumping sta
-r*V) v . tions, irrigation and general purposes.
- qP\ <7\ ’ - SI Mr * H j° rth proposes to dig a tun
jM /"'-‘li nel 37 mIleS long ’ from the Medi
terranean to the Dead sea, passing
under Jerusalem. This tunnel would
iiVi H* carry water from the Mediterranean
to the western slopes of the lower end
sLpQttP °f the Jordan valley. Thence the wa
ter would pass through pipes down to
the Dead sea, where a power plant
would transform the water power into electricity, to be distributed as light and
power through the country. This power would be used to drive a pumping
station at the southern end of the sea of Galilee.
The surface of the Dead sea is about 1,300 feet below sea level; that of
the sea of Galilee 650 feet below sea level.
Two canals would be built running parallel with the River Jordan, and
from these canals water could be distributed among the fields sloping toward
the JoYdan sufficient, it is claimed, for the irrigation ot many hundreds of
thousands of acres.
ARIZONA STATE MINER
EXPERTS IN CAMP IN NEW ZION CANYON NATIONAL PARK
Three experts, largely responsible for the creation of Zion canyon as a national park, around a camp fire at the
“Temple of Siuawava” in the Utah wonderland. They are, left to right: Robert Sterling Yard, executive secretary
of the National Parks association; W. VV. Wylie, who “put the Yellowstone on the map.” and Miss Margaret Yard.
Belgians Can Not
Find Former Homes
All Landmarks Obliterated by
Shell and Shrapnel Fired
in War.
NEW SURVEYS NECESSARY
Long Series of Disputes and Compli
cations Likely to Arise—Old Boun
daries of Farms Are Completely
Wiped Out.
Ypres, Belgium.—Thousands of Bel
gian families probably never will find
their former homes in No Man’s Land.
All means of identifying them have
been shot away.
They will find homes, of course,
somewhere in that desert waste, per
haps on what used to be somebody
else’s land. But the exact location of
their own sacred bit of ground may
forever remain a mystery.
Nearly five years of ceaseless bom
bardment has obliterated the land
marks upon which the pre-war land
surveys were based. The old bounda
ries which distinguished one farm
from another have literally been
pounded into the earth —too deep for
resurrection.
New surveys will come in time, prob
ably more scientific than the old. Ev
eryone who once owned part of the
great battlefield will receive some
thing, equal in size and as near as pos
sible to where his former home is
thought to have been.
Peace of Mind Vanishes.
But in another sense this can never
compensate. Nor can the old peace of
mind ever fully return to folk so at-
I Students Fined 12 Cents j»
When Guilty of Flirting, j
Bangor, Wales. —Under the ;>
rules of the Antimotting league, «!
the object of which is to pro- ;>
mote the best interests of the J;
colleges here, a student is liable J;
to a fine of 12 cents if found J;
guilty of ogling or making any J;
sign whatever to attract the at- <|
tentiou of girls. ![
MAYOR FLEECES VIENNA
War Grafter Gets Away With
Huge Sum of Money.
Funds Collected to Aid Soldiers Used
by Speculator With Offi
cial’s Aid.
Vienna. —Mayor Reumann has just
disclosed to the Vienna city council
a loss to the city of 13,000,000 crowns
through a business venture undertaken
by a former council headed by Mayor
Weissklrchner.
On the beginning of the war, Mayor
Weissklrchner organized a committee
to collect public subscriptions for the
relief of soldiers and their dependents.
It is charged that Weissklrchner ad
vanced huge amounts from this fund
as well as city moneys to Hans Hafner,
who undertook to exploit several
schemes for the benefit of Vienna.
Among Hefner's ventures was the
tached to their own little piece of
earth that nothing less than certain
death from shell fire —and sometimes
not even this —could induce them to
desert it.
This is one phase of tomorrow’s hu
man story in that vast, cratery deso
lation which reaches here beyond eye
range in every direction —once one of
Belgium’s most beautiful farming dis
tricts.
As yet, very few homeseekers have
returned. Os these, some took one de
spairing look at the miles of water
logged shell areas and climbed back on
a train for the. place from whence they
came —to wait a few months more un
til the process of reclamation has had
time to make a little progress.
Others are still searching among the
ruined trenches and shell holes, filled
FARMER IS MINUS $30,000
Falls for Scheme of Mysterious
Stranger.
Would Cut Ice at North Pole, Dump It
in Kansas and Sell It
There.
Minneapolis, Kan.—Visions of af
fluence gone and with them $30,000
hard-earned cash, Homer Hograth, a
farmer near this town, applied for a
warrant for Gallileo Grubino, alias
Gallileo Grubb, alleged participant in
the discovery of the north pole and pro
motor for the “Aurora Borealis Ice
company.”
One blazing hot day last July Galli
leo appeared on the Hograth farm. He
was equipped with an apparatus simi
lar to those used by surveyors. He
seemed busy and preoccupied, continu
ually looking toward the skies and
gesticulating, as if absorbed In cal
culating some obstruse problem in
mathematics.
Finally, Hograth says, the stranger
suddenly exclaimed excitedly, “This is
th» spot, the very spot.” Then Gallileo
offered to buy the farm, but Hograth,
scenting a mysterious fortune, refused
to sell.
Upon his fouth visit Hograth vs
Gallileo agreed to take Hograth Into
operation of a large plant for the pro
duction of artificial milk and a factory
to manufacture footwear from patent
ed artificial leather. A building was
erected for the milk process scheme,
but it was never put in operation,
while the shoe factory proved a dead
loss.
To cover its losses, it Is charged,
Mayor Weissklrchner drew upon funds
raised by needlework guilds and upon
other charities all over the country,
and also from the profits of municipal
war kitchens without acquainting the
opposition members of the council of
his action.
No accounting of the charity funds
was ever made, so the use of those
i!unds was not discovered until the
present government took office.
Weissklrchner and his associates
have been called upon to explain these
transactions. Meantime the city is be
ing sued by manufacturers in Slovakia
for vast quantities of artificial leather
fabrics, which they furnished to pro-
with marsh grass and stagnant water,
for clues to their homes.
Landmarks Are Demolished.
The big stone at the corner bound
ary—and from which, perhaps, all sur
veys for the entire neighborhood were
made —the well in the front yard, the
house, the barn, the shade tree over
the gate—all have simply disappeared
under war’s terrible effacement. Noth
ing remains to indicate where they
once were.
What ’will happen when the real van
guard of the exiled Arcadians finally
arrives? Opinions here differ.
Some predict a general scramble to
stake out plots on the most desirable —
or, rather, least undesirable —locations,
a mild restaging of some of the inci
dents in our own American history,
such as when the squatters rushed in
to the Middle West.
And then a long series of disputes
and complications when others arrive
who believe themselves the rightful
owners of the “claims,” with probably
years of legal entanglements in court.
For it is easily conceivable that under
prevailing conditions it might be ex
tremely difficult to dislodge a claim
jumper.
partnership for $30,000. He explained
that he had accompanied Peary to the
north pole, and that the pole was real
ly a steel projection. He had in
vented, he told Hograth, a mighty
scoop, to be attached to the pole
and to be run by electricity. In
the process of the earth’s revolution,
Ga’lileo explained, the scoop would dip
into the ice of the arctic, and as the
eai tr revolved the scoop would grad
ually tip and its contents fall to the
earth in the exact longitude and lati
tude of Hograth’s farm.
Hograth, after paying the $30,000,*
agreed to remain on the farm and taka
care of the ice, while Gallileo w. Id
return to the pole and harness his
scoop to it.
Gallileo is still at the pole.
Wild Ducks Pursue Grasshoppers.
Bismarck, N. D.—The invasion of
North Dakota by grasshoppers has
brought a counter invasion of wild
ducks and geese, according to the re
ports of the game wardens from all
over the state. In virtually every sec
tion of the state where there is water
thousands of ducks and geese ire to e
found weeks earlier than usual, feed
ing on grasshoppers. Deer are rr j
plentiful than in former years along
the Missouri river bottom, according
to reports.
vide Hafner with material for manu
facturing shoes.
CANADA TO CUT DOWN COINS
High Price of Silver Causes Melting
of Money for Commercial Uses
in the Dominion.
Ottawa. —The high price which bat
silver has been commanding in the
metal markets of the world may neces
sitate a reduction of the fineness of
the alloy from which Canadian silver
coins are struck, it was authoritatively
stated here today.
With bullion prices at the present
level, there is too great a tendency to
withdraw coins from circulation and
melt them for commercial uses, it was
said. The Canadian mint here has
been kept busy to meet the demand for
silver coinage and minting Is not a
profitable business, with bar silver so
expensive.
To lessen the temptation to withdraw
Canadian coins from circulation to be
melted and sold for bullion M now is
proposed to reduce the percemage of
pure silver in them.