Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-12-26
Worlds News

CHICAGO.--"G o Cd uipment
makes a good farmer better" Is the
slogan on which six and one.half mil.
lion farmers will hcnceforth key their
efforts toward placing bigger and
cheaper loaf Of bread on American Ia.
bles. This slogan was officially adopt.
ed by the National Federation of I'm.
plement Dealers and the National As.
ISOLATION of Farm Equipment Manu-.
facturers in session at the Congress
Hotel. The above associations repre-.
sent 240 farm machinery manufacture.
ers and 2l,000 dealers who distribute
their product.
LOS Notwithstanding that the
Indians are being deprived of their
rights and looted of their lands, John
Collier, secretary Of the American In
dian Defense Association, now in this
city, is advocating the complete trans
fer of the Indian Bureau out OF the
Department of the Interior and into
the Department of Agriculture. Col.
ilIi StNtTuI bbCldl
and business organizations here while
campaigning to establish Southern
California branch of the Indian De.
Tense Association. The program in
this end of the state is being carried
out through the agricultural depart
ment Of the Chamber of Commerce by
| Dr. George p, Clements
LOS ANGELES. = The increasing
demand for canned, dried and fresh
fruits in Central Europe and particu
larly in Germany has resulted in the
government of the latter country send
ing an agricultural and economic ex.
pert here to assist in working out
direct trade route to his country from
Los Angeles harbor. The German
government representative, II. Bar
/ tells, who has been assisted in making
ais survey here by the Chamber of
commerce, reports that his country is
also greatly interested in cotton
grown here.
Los ANGELES. - Motion picture
MINIS showing the business and in
dustrial development in Mexico and
also presenting views OF the country's
natural resources, Will be circulated
through various states by the Rotary
Club OF Mexico City, according to S.
Orozoco, now showing the lilms here.
I The pictures are designed to interest
new capital IN Mexico.
;. TORONTO.-ln recognition OF its
excellent exhibits at the 1924 exhibit
tlon, the Canadian Pacific Railway
mas been awarded one OF the medals
specially struck Off for presentation
to the Dominion and Provincial GOV
ernments, ana to a limited number of
other EXHIBITS whose high class en-
Tries In the livestock and agricultural
departments won for them champion.
ship prizes at the Toronto EXhlDluon.
WASHINGTON, d. c. = Canadian
and American engineers, who, with
Secretary Hoover, constitute the joint
engineering board to consider the st.
Lawrence waterway project, held
preliminary meeting here to consider
primarily what data should be gath
cred on which the cost and balancing
advantages might be estimated.
VICTORIA, B. c. - The Canadian
Pacific Railway recently announced
the award OF contracts for the first
unit OF the Amusement Center here.
The building is to be finished by May,
1925, and the cost is assumed to be
III the neighborhood Of $25O,OOO
VANCOUVER, B. C--The Canadian
Pacific is handling by far the greater
part of the grain moved from prairie
points to Vancouver this fall, accord.
ing to a bulletin issued by the Do
minion Bureau of Statistics. During
the three months ending October the
number OF cars unloaded there was
S,195, divided as follows: Canadian
Pacific Railway, 2,49S; Canadian Ma
tional Railway, 697.
MOSCOW, Russia.-The annual GER
!, emory of the Armenian church known
as the Blessing of the Americans"
took place at Erivan Caucasian Rus
sian. The Armenian Catholics or
Pope presided. The ceremony was an
expression Of gratitude for help which
the United States has extended to
Armenia through the Near East Re-
lief during the past few years.