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I—President Hoover receiving a birthday present of a carved buffalo horn from representatives of the Boy
Scouts of America. 2—Maj. Gen. Bouglas MacArthur who has been selected to succeed Gen. Charles P. Summerall as
chief of staff of the United States army in November. 3—Frank Haucke, World war veteran, who defeated Gov.
Clyde M. Reed of Kansas for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Drought Relief Program Is
in Effect, Directed by
President Hoover.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
DEFINITE plans for drought re
lief were made at a conference
in the White House which was partic
ipated in by the governors of the
states most seriously affected. To
these executives President Hoover
stated the program on which he and
Secretary of Agriculture Hyde had
been working for a week, and in the
main it was approved by them. Its
principal features are the setting up
of federal, state and county organi
sations through which financial aid
may be given farmers who have suf
fered severely from the long dry
spell, and arrangements for emerg
ency means to prevent human suffer
ing.
One relief step already was In ef
fect —the reduction by 50 per cent of
freight rates on live ^tock and feed in
to justify them. Any dealer or farm
er desiring to move any of the emer
gency commodities reports his needs to
the local county, agent, who may ap
prove or disapprove the application
and notify the local station agent of.
the railroad. A special liaison officer
in Washington handles negotiations
on particular cases between the De
partment of Agriculture and the rail
roads.
It is believed that use of the coun
ty agents, who are under the Depart
ment of Agriculture, will prevent any
one taking speculative advantage of
the lower rates.
Following his conference with the
governors, the President met the heads
of the National Grange, the Farmers’
union and the American Farm Bureau
federation. Chairman Legge of the
federal farm board also was in Wash
ington, having hurried back from the
Northwest by plane.
President Hoover announced that
his plans for a vacation trip to Gla
cier and Yellowstone national parks
were canceled and that he would re
main in or near Washington to help
put into effect the drought relief pro
gram, spending the week-ends at his
camp on the Rapidan.
HOUSEWIVES of the country are
warned not to let themselves be
gouged by dealers in vegetables, fruit
and other foodstuffs. There is no
cause for alarm over a shortage of
such commodities, and no justification
. for a marked advance in prices 'ex
cept in certain localities. Congress
man La Guardia called upon the
President and Secretary Hyde to re
port that profiteers in New York city
had raised prices from 20 to 3,5 per
cent. Mr. Hyde said there would be
no profiteering by the farmers, and
that the government would do what
it could to stop price gouging by mid
dlemen.
- Reports that barley, wheat and rye,
small grain usually more costly than
corn, were being substituted generally
over the country for corn as feed for
animals and in industrial uses, were
noted. The existing barley crop of
330,000,000 bushels is almost twice
the size of any barley crop produced
in the last ten years. It has increased
In value in recent weeks, and is being
used to larger extent in dairy feeds
and by farmers, chiefly In Wisconsin
and Minnesota, millers reported.
Corn products manufacturers have
purchased rye and barley as well as
wheat in recent W’eeks for substitution
in making industrial alcohol.
Nature did something in the way of
relief, sending cooler weather and oc
casional rains to some parts of the
corn belt.
DESPITE the facts that he bolted
the Republican ticket in 1928 and
supported Al Smith and that he is a
leader of the insurgents Ip the sen-
ate who make so much trouble for the
administration. Senator George W.
Norris of Nebraska was renominated
by the Republicans of that state, the
“regular” candidate, W. M. Stebbins,
being decisively defeated. Gov. Arthur
J. Weaver also won a renomination,
beating Harry O. Palmer of Omaha.
In the Democratic primaries former
Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock defeat
ed Dr. Jennie M. Callfas by about
three to one. Doctor Callfas bolted
the Democratic ticket two years ago
to support Herbert Hoover. She was
indorsed this year by the W. C. T. U.
For the governorship the Democrats
named Charles W. Bryan, brother of
the Commoner, who formerly held that
office.
Regular Republicans of Nebraska
were not supine under the Norris vic
tory. They intimated it had been won
by wholesale Democratic support, and
it was announced that Beatrice Fenton
Craig, a Lincoln school teacher, would
oppose Norris as an independent Re
publican by petition.
Senator Joe Robinson and Gov.
Harvey Parnell won their fights for
renomination by the Democrats of
Arkansas. In Alabama the same party
named John H. Bankhead of Jasper
for the senate. His chief opponent
in the election will be Senator Thomas
J. Heflin who, being barred from the
Democrats of Ohio went wet and
dry. They named for senator Con
gressman Robert J. Bulkley of Cleve
land, an advocate of repeal of nation
al prohibition; and then they turned
. around and selected as their guberna
torial candidate Congressman George
White of Marietta, a pronounced dry
who has Anti-Saloon league backing.
Senator Roscoe C. McCulloch and
Gov. Myers Y. Cooper, Republicans,
were unopposed for renomination.
SENATOR FESS of Ohio, the new
Republican national chairman,
says that the Hawley-Smoot tariff law
will be the chief issue in this fall’s
congressional campaigns. He admits
that prohibition may be a controlling
factor in some districts, but asserts
“the distinctively social and economic
nature” of that problem precludes it
from becoming a national partisan is
sue. Neither of the major parties, he
says, is ready to make dry law en
forcement an issue.
Under the immediate direction of
Robert H. Lucas, new executive di
rector of the national committee, re
search and publicity men will be
placed in charge of two bureaus to
conduct a continuous “educational”
campaign to counteract the Democrat
ic tariff propaganda.
Chairman Fess accepted the resig
nation of Mrs. Louise M. Dodson as
director of women’s activities in the
Republican national committee, and
gave the position to Mrs. Ellis R. Yost
of Virginia, a leader in the National
W. C. T. U. and an experienced and
skillful politician.
VARIOUS aviation records were
smashed last week. First, Dale
Jackson and Forest O’Brine with their
plane Greater St. Louis, recaptured
the endurance refueling record that
was taken away from them by the
Hunter brothers at Chicago. The
Hunters’ mark was 544 hours, but it
was easily beaten by the St. Louis pi
lots who. at this writing, are still in
the air with the announced intention
of staying there for 1,000 hours.
Then Capt. Frank M. Hawks sped
like an arrow across the continent
from Los Angeles to New York, with
two stops for fuel, making the distance
in the remarkable time of 12 hours 25
minutes and 3 seconds. His plane, a
Whirlwind powered Travelair, main
tained an average speed of more than
200 miles an hour.
Over in Germany Robert Kronfeld
set a new world’s record for distance
gliding, soaring from Wasserkuppe to
Gersfeld, about 97 miles. His flight
lasted all afternoon and he had to ma
neuver his glider in a heavy gale.
Miss Laura Ingalls at St. Louis
broke all records for barrel rolls, mak
ing 714 of them before coming down.
With one of its six engines disabled,
the British dirigible R-100 left Mont
real Wednesday evening for home.
THE BULLETIN, IRWINTON. GEORGIA.
She started at a speed of 80 miles an
hour, with favorable weather indicated
for the Atlantic crossing. Fifteen pas
sengers were aboard, besides the crew
of forty-four.
LABOR troubles in the coal field at
Providence, Ky., led to a novelty.
An airplane appeared over the region
and a number of bombs were dropped,
some of which exploded but none of
which did any material damage. The
plane was traced by its color and num
ber and one Paul Montgomery of
Murphysboro, 111., was arrested as ths
pilot. He confessed and named his
two companions who, he said, made
and dropped the bombs. One of them
was nabbed. Montgomery said he was
compelled to go on the bombing raid
by threats that he and his family
would be killed.
D RITISH forces are busily engaged
LJ in defending the Khyber pass,
northern entrance to India, and the
important city of Peshawar against the
attacks of Afridi tribesmen. So far
the invaders have made little progress,
largely because of the efficient use of
bombing airplanes by the British; but
the situation is considered dangerous
and the Afridis, who have been joined
by other tribes, though driven back
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Nationalist activities held up pending
the outcome of the round-table Indian
conference in London in October.
WHILE Chinese Communist forces
were advancing on Changsha to
recapture that city, the Nationalist and
northern alliance armies were engaged
in a series of heavy battles. The Nan
king government, however, had put
censorship into effect and little reliable
news reached the outside world.
Japanese reports from Tsinan, cap
ital of Shantung province held by the
rebel forces, said the city was being
repeatedly bombed by government
planes. The foreign consuls warned
the Nanking forces not to bomb the
business section, where most of the
foreigners reside. Gen. Chiang Kai
shek, commander of the Nanking
armies, said he expected to drive the
northerners out of Tsinan before long.
He declared therf was evidence of a
demoralization of enemy units on all
fronts, but this was not quite borne
out by reports from the battle fronts.
MORE than forty commissioners on
uniform state laws held an im
portant meeting in Chicago. They con
sidered over fifty acts that had been
drafted, Including legislation concern
ing public utilities, real estate, divorce,
veterans’ guardianship, co-operative
marketing, drugs, firearms, air licens
ing, mechanics’ liens, absentee voters,
and civil. depositions. Os these, forty
three, it was decided, should be recom
mended to the American Bar associa
tion and the state legislatures for
adoption.
The purpose of the organization is
to remove conflicting laws throughout
the various states and substitute as
far as is possible a general level of
laws.
AMTORG Trading corporation, the
Soviet commercial agency in this
country, announces that in the last two
months orders to the value of $40,500,-
000 for agricultural machinery and
tractors have been placed in the Unit
ed States.
About 85 per cent of the purchases
are made up of tractors, 12 per cent of
combines, and the remainder of other
agricultural machinery and spare parts,
it was stated. The orders were de
scribed as “the largest for farm ma
chinery ever placed for export in a
corresponding period of time.”
TWO men who gained fame in ths
World war were taken by death
during the week. They were Maj. Gen
Charles T. Menoher, one time comman
der of the Rainbow division in France
ana a former chief of the army air
corps; and Gen. Sir "Horace Smith-
Dorrien, who saved the allied retreat
at Mons by a daring disobedience of
the orders of Sir John French.
(©, 1930, We>tern N.wep.MV Union.>
Improved Uniform International
StmdaySchool
• Lesson ’
(By REV. P. B. FITZWkTER, D D., Mem
ber of Faculty, Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.)
(©, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for August 31
AMOS, A HERDSMAN CALLED OF
GOD TO BE A PROPHET
LESSON TEXT—The Book of Amos.
GOLDEN TEXT—I heard the voice
of the Lord saying, Whom shall 1
send and who will go for us? Then
said I, Here am I, send me.
PRIMARY TOPIC—A Shepherd Who
Became Great.
JUNIOR TOPIC—A Shepherd Who
PppumA
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
lC—Answering God's Call.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC—Work That Serves God.
I. The Call of Amos (1:1).
He was a herdsman and gatherer
of sycamore fruit (7:14). As a herds
man his income was not sufficient,
therefore, he supplemented it by sell
ing sycamore fruit. He was not a
prophet by succession, neither was he
trained in the prophetic schools. He
sat not at the feet of any great teach
er. God called him from a humble
life to stand before the king. A proph
et is one who forthtells more espe
cially than foretells. His primary work
was proclaiming God's message rather
than predicting events to come.
11. To Whom Was Amos Sent (1:1)?
God sent him primarily to Israel,
the northern nation. Though he was
from Judah, his ministry was to be pri
marily to Israel. It was during the
reign of Jeroboam II when the north
ern kingdom had reached its highest
state of prosperity. This prosperity,
as is usually the case, was accom
panied with a condition of luxury, cor
ruption, and gross wickedness.
111. Amos’ Message.
1. Sins denounced (2:6-8; 6:1-6).
(1) Avaricious greed (2:6 8).
a. Sold the righteous for silver
(v. 6).
The judge for a bribe of silver de
clared the innocent to be guilty.
b. Sold the poor for a pair of shoes.
The word “shoes” doubtless means
sandals, the price of which was com
paratively small.
c. Pants after the dust of the earth
(v. 7).
The word “pant” means to eagerly
desire. So avaricious had these men
become that they even grasped after
It was not merely the case of fall
ing into sensuous sin but indulgence
with a definite purpose of Insulting
God and dishonoring his holy name.
(2) Reckless security (6:1-3).
They were living in a “fool’s para
dise” and closing their eyes to the ap
proaching storm of judgment predicted
by the prophet. They regarded their
city as impregnable. The strength of a
nation is its righteousness, not its
wealth and armaments.
(3) Luxury (vv. 4-6).
Their luxury expressed itself in:
a. Extravagant furniture (v. 4).
They had beds of ivory, which means
perhaps wood inlaid with ivory.
b. Laziness (v. 4).
Many stretched themselves on their
couches, living lives of indolence.
c. Feasted on delicacies (v. 4).
They bought what they desired re
gardless of its cost.
di Adorned their feasts with music
(v. 5).
They sang idle songs, even invented
musical instruments for this purpose.
e. They drank wine (v. 6
They drank from bowls, indicating
excessive drinking. Though their feasts
were adorned with refinement of mus
ic, they ended in drunkenness.
(4) They failed to grieve for Joseph
(v. 6
Joseph here stands for Ephraim and
Manasseh.
2. The remedy proposed (5:4-9).
The prophet called upon them to
return to God. He said, “Seek ye me
and ye shall live.” The implication is
that while as yet the divine judgments
are stayed an opportunity Is offered
for them to turn to God. “Seek” means
applying for help. The time to repent
is while judgment is stayed. In their
turning to God they were to renounce:
(1) Idolatry (vv. 5,6).
They were to turn away from the
places of idolatry—Bethel. Giigal. and
Beersheba. God's judgment was to
strike these places.
(2) Cease to pervert judgment (v 7).
Turning judgment to wormwood im
plies the bitterness of the perversion
of judgment to the injured.
(3) Cease to dethrone righteousness.
Leaving off righteousness is thought
to mean that unrighteousness was al
lowed to take its place. He now for
the third time urged them to seek the
Lord.
Praise the Lord
Good is the Lord—his loving kind
ness and his tender mercy are beyond
all my thought! I will therefore praise
him loudly, sweetly, with my whole
heart, and with the buoyancy of ecsta
tic love. —Joseph Parker.
Trifles
"In conduct do not make trifles
of trifles. Record the smallest action
as being either right or wrong, and
make a conscience of little things.”—
Spurgeon.
Lettering on Bridge
to Guide Air Traveler
Using a highway bridge as an air
way marker, is one of the latest de
velopments in this fast-moving trans
portation age.
This novel use of a bridge, said to
be the first instance of its kind, was
brought about by citizens of Napo
leon, Ohio. The bridge crosses the
Maumee river and the work was done
in conformity with instructions from
the bureau of aeronautics, Washing
ton.
In laying the brick, the contractor
started at the north end of the
bridge using all dark brick, and later
light brick for the marking were
inserted. The surplus dark brick
were then used at the south end.
Asphalt was used as filler for the
dark brick, while the markers were
filled with a lean grout filler.
The letters are 29 feet and three
inches high, and the name Napoleon
Is 340 feet in length. The width of
the letters run four feet and three
inches, thereby insuring easy visi
bility for the traveler in the air.—
Boston Herald.
Childish Marvels in
Arithmetic “Fade Out”
An English newspaper gives par
ticulars of the case of a two-year-old
Belgian boy, Andre Lenoir, who is
able to multiply accurately any two
five-figure numbers without hesita
tion. His is not the only case of
phenomenal power in this direction
—usually lost as soon as a real
knowledge of mathematics is gained.
One of these calculating boys was
George Parker Bidder, who was ex
hibited in his childhood as an arith
metical marvel. He became an engi
neer and was associated with Rob
ert Stephenson. He was a founder
of the Electric Telegraph company
and became president of the Institu
tion of Civil Engineers. Another
wizard who could do anything with
figures was Jaques Inaudi, who vis
ited London in 1893. He did not
lose his gift as he grew up.
Monster Skyscraper
The new Chrysler building in New
York is 71 stories high and topped
by a 185-foot finial spire of stainless
steel weighing 27 tons. From the
sixty-first floor setbacks the Chrysler
tower changes into a multi-arched
dome which finally converges Into
the needle-like finial. The 8 eleva
tors have a speed of 1,000 feet a min
ute. The total floor area is about
1,200,000. The total load of the
building, including all live and dead
Improving the home of Andrew John
son, seventeenth President of the
United States, after removing it to
Pullen park. The old log cabin grad
ually will be restored to its original
state. Old-fashioned palings have
been built around the house, which
is now a center of attraction for
tourists.
Labor Saver
A new British invention called the
Sharman main finder, is designed to
locate water underground. It is
claimed that when the instrument is
directly over a water pipe—or even
a gas pipe—it sends a buzz through
an earphone. The instrument is in
tended to eliminate the digging up
of roadways to locate water mains.
More Freethinkers
The German Freethinkers' society
on its twenty-fifth anniversary as
serts more than 52,000 persons joined
last year, bringing the roster of the
movement to 600,000. It was said
that in Berlin alone 6,000 persons
severed connections -with the
churches.
Death by Electrocution
In general, it may be said that the
length of time required to electrocute
an average healthy person is about
f-240ths of a second.
Usei Tail at Anchor
The sea-horse differs from all other
fish in having a tail that can be
twined around stems and used to an
chor the fish to a certain spot.
The cotton industry has some part
to play in more than one-fourth of
America's business activities.
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poet. What kind of a book do you
think would be appropriate for me
to send him?
Wickers — A book of postage
stamps.—London Answers.
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There is at least certainty in the
anticipation of pleasure if not In tho
realization.
I have seen corruption boil and
bubble till it o’errun the stew. —
Shakespeare.
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FLORESTON SHAMPOO — Ideal for use in
connection with Parker’s Hair Balsam. Makes the
hair soft and fluffy. 50 cents by mail or at drug
gists. Hiacox Chemical Works, Patchogue, N. Y.
Boosting Stamps Wanted
Postage stamps bearing attractive
pictures of Britain which would at
tract tourists have been proposed to
the postmaster general. Scenes of
landscapes, fiowers and animals
would be used. One enthusiast says
that the pictures would also brighten
stamp albums throughout the world
Land of Many Volcanoes
Altogether 107 volcanoes are known
to exist in Iceland, with thousands of
craters, great and small.
The man with too much common
sense misses a lot of fun.
