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nave money enough to buy gasoline. Whole COM
munities have gone back to barter.
The farmer trades butter, eggs, potatoes or other
products for clothing store food and whatever else
ne needs Several middle colleges are accepting
wheat, pigs, poultry, and other farm produce ir
return for tuition"
Banks have failed Farmers have lost their saw
ings. The lack of banks impedes the financing OF
those farmers in a position to borrow money or
decent security, OF 1850 banks in North Dakota in
1920, only 255 have their doors open today.
What have been the causes of this generalization
of American agriculture which threatens to reduce
the free American farmer to the level OF the medieval
peasant?
Mechanical farming irrigation, and scientific
fertilization have increased production Wheat ano
cotton production in the rest of the world has made
great gains The result has been sharper competition
and lower prices
The price Of American wheat is determined by the
world price in Liverpool though of the
American wheat crop is consumed in the United
States The farmer never has been able to gain any
advantages from the tariff on wheat while the tariff
on materials he has to buy greatly has increased his
expenses.
The western farmer has been the victim of all
sorts of extortion-rom loan sharks bankers eleva-
tors, insurance pirates and the like. Fraudulent
grading of grain has cost the farmers of North
Dakota alone much as $1OO0OOO0 in single year
High interest, extortionate hail and other farm
insurance, and unfair grain grading and dockage
have taken from the North Dakota farmers as much
as $50OOOOOO yearly, average of $3.50 year a
farmer. This often has exceeded the total annual
profit from a farm
After the the farmer was Debated much more
rapidly and extremely than any other group. He
picked first because he was helpless through
lack of organization. No other group could force
society to concede justice quickly the farmers
But their inability to organize leaves them most
ptiful prey of we'll organized minorties.
Mr. Liggett believes that unless conditions are
remeded the American farmers will go radical They
certainly have the foundations for such policy and
psychology. But their record bellies the prospect.
little squirt in the price of wheat and they prob
ably would believe they did in 1896 and 1924 that
God once showing his direct approval of the
Grand Old Party.
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| and said, Lets have one more
round"
James j. walker had already gone
to bed and had to be aroused to
make his belated and dramatic en-
trance for the poll of the New York
delegation. Dudley Field Malone
protested to. the chairman that it
was monstrous to make decent citi-
zens stay up so late. But Senator
Long still was ready for fight or a
frolic.
saw him plainly at $50 as he
was dashing down to the aisles to
soothe a swaying delegation. Duty
called, and yet Senator Long of
Louisiana paused for a moment Il
his mad career. For the first time
he noticed a blond Stenographer
who was keeping track of the con-
vention proceedings.
Inspired by the chivalry of the old
southland, he leaned across the rail
in her direction and said, How are
you, baby?" Before she could reply,
he had bounded off to bleed and die
in the cause of Franklin Roosevelt.
1t is these little touches of cava-
lier courtesy which endear the SEN
ator to the gently bred unrecon-
structed areas.
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IT SEEMS. TO ME BY H ER0zS

HEARST and Huey got theil
L L man, and the triumph repre-
sented some nice dovetailing in team
play. Mr.. Hearst, of course, pulled
all the strings, but his post was
more than a thousand miles away
and so the leg work was up tc
Senator Long.
Louisiana's KingfiSh was easily
the most colorful man in the con-
vention. Alfalfa Bill Murray seemed
paid in comparison. To a certain
extent Senator Longs advantage
was a physical one. In the mere
matter of mileage he outdistanced
all competitors. 80
One second would find him busily
arguing in the aisles with the
Iowa delegation, and within the next
he would have forced his way back
to the platform again.
1--WE had to sweat them through
a night session before they came
around for him." he declared to his
constituents back home after the
nomination of Franklin D. Roose-
welt. And it was generous of him
to call it we" for there were many
times when it seemed as if he were
both star and supporting cast sas
well.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
-DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Ulcer of Leg May Persist so Years

some. AS the human being walks
the muscles of the legs, by their
contractionS, serve to force the
blood upward.
The elasticity of the skin and the
suction created by the breathing
help, also.
Naturally, interference with any
one of these factors may result in
weakness of action. The valves may
break down, the walls of the YES
sells may lose their contractile power
and dilate.
Failure to exercise may result in
loss of the part that leg muscles
play.
AS one grows older the skin loses
its elasticity. Tumors in the abdo-
men, due to a growth of any kind
may interfere with the rate of the
flow of blood.
Excess weight may interfere with
circulatory action and also with ex-
erciSe. The effects of such failure is
to cause gradual swelling of the
tissues due to the accumulation of
fluid and finally to destruction of
tt tissue by failure to secure proper
blood supply.
Then when any injury to the skin
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occurs with slight infection, the It's
sues of the body are unable to take
care of it satisfactorily. The ulcer
persists and the patient despairs.
There are, however, many in
stances in which proper treatment
will result in cure of such cases,
even though they have persisted for
quarter century.
There is no magic healing salve;
nor is there any method of treat
ment that will cure an ulcer over
night. The condition is one that has
persisted long because of the devel-
opment of factors which must be
overcome before the cure can be
brought about.
Obviously. it is important to in
crease the circulation of the blood,
to free the patient from pain, to
permit him to get adequate sleep, to
support the tissues with bandages,
and to raise the foot of the bed so
as to aid drainage.
OF course, the presence of dia-
bctes or some degenerative disorder,
a weakness of the heart, o. a tumor
OF tho abdomen, require special at
to- ton if permanent results are to
be accomplished.
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SinnDIifvinp Denocro,

OIllplliylll9 democracy
ENAIOR LONG has been quoted
as saying, I'm my state I am the
party" Nobody ever had to noll
louisiana to determine the accu-
racy of the count. Every delegate
always knew which way he was 60
ing to vote as soon as Senator Long
told him.
Upon one occasion a reporter
ignorant of the way things are done
down in the delta, undertook to ash
delegate from New Orleans how
ne purposed to stand in regard to a
certain issue about to come up be-
fore the convention.
The .lucklesS one undertook TO re-
ply in his own right, and Long
swung upon him fiercely. Hush
up!" he said. What do you know
about it?"
Only one issue ever has been
raised which gave him real trouble
The story of his receiving the Ger
man naval officer while wearing pa
Jamas sent Long scurrying out 10
the back areas of the red CLAW
country to explain. 5 But he man.
aged to square himself with q
speech which ran about as follows
Fellow Democrats, I owe you an
explanation and an apology. It is
true that I did receive that Office,
IN pajamas. But you know that
isn't like me. I received him in pa
.jamas because all my good old-fash-
Toned nightshirts were up at the
statehouse."
icopyrirht. 1882. bv The Timesl
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We Gained Nothing

THE United States not only
i financed herself in the war,
but loaned European governments
an enormous amount of money. The
fact that they used most of that
money to buy food and ammunition
for their soldiers has little to do
with the matter. They had to buy
somewhere and they could not have
bought anywhere without our help
When the war was over, we asked
nothing, either by way of added
territory, payments in kind, or cash.
The allies took not only all the
German colonies, but about all the
German cattle, coal, and ships on
which they could lay their hands.
Besides that, they levied a pre-
poSterouS tribute on the German
people.
The fact that they overreached
themselves should be no concern of
ours. The fact that we have no idea
of forcing them to pay us beyond
their strength should not deter us
from insisting that negotiations be
carried out in such manner as will
let posterity know who made the
mistake.
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Thrown in u. S, Lap
ITO sum it uu. Eurone has n,

ITO sum it up, Europe has not
Il only ended the reparations
farce, but agreed to moratorium
on war debts until such time as a
satisfactory bargain can be made
with Uncle Sam
This means that the whole war
debt situation has been tossed into
our lap by q coalition of former
friends and former enemies.
theoretically, the reparations set
tlement will not be put up to us as
having direct bearing on debt re-
vision, OF cancellation, yet it has
become the real basis of European
strategy.
In other words, European govern
ments have made an agreement
among themselves conditioned on
what we do. among other things,
thye have agreed not to pay each
other until we act, which makes it
logical to assume that they will not
pay us.
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using Whatever the house afforded
proceed to bake pie. Then he
would eat the pie to prove it was a
good one.
He has applied the same system
TO politics, and the taxpayers of
louisiana know full well that what
Huey cooks Huey eats. Seemingly
ne found the baking powder business
extremely profitable, for the roll of
olllS which he carried casually in his
pocket was the wonder and admira-
Ilon OF every hotel lobby in Chicago.
upon one occasion he peeled a
Inousand-dollar note from the ont
side to make a wager that Franklin
u. Roosevelt would carry Texas 1by
more than 100000 votes.
One of the newspaper commenta-
TORS objected in his critioue that
senator Long "weeps about nm
employment on the floor of congress
ana makes thousand dollar bets in
Inc notels OF the convention citv"
When the article was called tn tbe
attention of the Kingish he was
very angry That blinkety-bIank -
ne said. What does he think 7 an,
"a plker? Why, down home once 7
tool" anu "on IT,
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Noisy CourtShiD

NROSS, who has made a careful
" study of the heath hen, re-
calls the habits of the bird in a
report to the Smithsonian Institu-
ton.
There was no part of its beha-
vior," he says, more unique, more
interesting, and more specialized
than the extraordinary perform
ances during the counting season"
During this season, he says, the
heath hens begin to gather before
sunrise, the males emitting a foot"
which sounded like the mufled
blast of a tug boat or a fog horn.
THE males frequently leaped into
air to height of three or four
feet" he says, "uttering a piercing,
rolling cry followed by a curious,
indescribable laughter like sound.
In this wild demonstration, the
bird completely reversed his orien-
tation in the air and landed on the
ground usually facing in the OPP
posite direction"
WIN sunrise, Lne males began to
quarrel with one another, jumping
at one another and ruffling feathers,
but without doing any serious harm.
Shortly after sunrise, the birds
quoted down, only to repeat the
commotion late in the day at sun
set.
"The females part in the court
ship is a passive one" Gross says.
She minds her own business and 1
never have heard her utter any
calls or notes or show any concern
in response to the ardent atten-
tons Of the males.
, However, the females gave fire.
quent calls and notes when attend
ing their young.
IF the mother bird was surprised
she gave Characteristic sharp call
signal to her chicks to scatter and
hide"
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association, and Of Hygeia, the
Health Ma0azine

Association. and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
Ulcers on other regions Of the
" body than the legs heal
promptly unless they are due to
cancer or to a constitutional
venereal disease.
An ulcer of the leg, as is pointed
out in recent consideration of the
subject by DR.. A. Dickson Wright,
may persist for any period of time
up to fifty years.
The reason ulcers of the leg. are
likely to become chronic is me-
chanical, primarily.
Drainage of blood from the legs
is slower than from the upper
parts of the body, even under the
best of circumstances. 1t is neces-
sary, of course, for the blood to
rise against the force of gravity.
Various factors help in this
process. In the first place, the
veins have valves SO arranged as to
step the blood up gradually and hold
it in the stepping up process.
The veins have small amount of
contractile power as contrasted
with the arteries, but they do have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-08
Uncle Sam 0hlipes

In Girard, Kan, E. Haldeman- julius prints So
calist monthly called the American Freeman, sue
cessor to the old Appeal to Reason. For years he
has sailed into the system" hayed capitalism called
Hoover "a racketeer" and other names and tried to
catch the popular
His circulation didn't boom. So last month he
printed issue with provocative article entitled:
Why Don't the Workers Raise Help" This chided
the unemployed for cowardice, recalled that the
pioneers of fifty years ago took down their muskets
when they wanted food, reminded the readers that
neither beasts nor birds when hungry would hold
private property sacred.
1t a foolish piece, but it worked.
The local postmaster complained. The post
master general at Washington took steps," The issue
refused the mails under couple of statutes that
make unavailable any matter urging treason, insur-
recton forcibe resistance to any law of the u s. A.
The publisher picked up the chip that Uncle Sam
had knocked off and reprinted the offending article
in this months issue Uncle Sam knocked it of
again and denied that issue the mails.
The performance might be amusing if it weren't
dangerous. The publisher gets what he wanted, free
publicity and added circulation
And whatever influence he has as disturber at
a time when cool heads needed will have been
extended to a larger audience.
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We Should Sit TIGHT

Nov the proposition arises as
L Y to whether we should take the
initiative or permit Europe to hold
the play, whether we should indi-
cate willingness to consider the
revision of debts or force Europe
to ask for it.
Some think. that we should adopt
the former course, that our position
in world affairs makes it incumbent
on us to move first and that we
would gain by doing so.
Others think that it is our cue
to sit tight, and I agree with them.
Assuming that the debts owed
us on account of the war never will
be paid, why should we call it can
collation. when it amounts to repu-
diation? Why not conduct negoti-
ations so that the record will be
kept straight?
1t is not our fault that Europeans
can't pay. We did not ,overestimate
German reparations, or take any
part in the abortive attempt to
levy them We would not sign the
treaty of Versailles.
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Questions and
Answers

Would an electric fan whirIing in
a perfectly insulated and hermet-
ically sealed room lower the tenn
perature?
The operation of the fan would
not change the temperature, but
the movement Of the air will has
ten evaporation Of moisture and
dissipation Of heat energy Of a hu-
man body, so that person would
feel" cooler.
What is the name for a tailOr's
smoothing iron:
Goose.
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SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-

- TIA IL ~ a.
Last Heath Hen Wanders on
Martha's Vineyard Bird of
Colonial Days Near Er-
tinction.
COMEWHERE among the scrub
~ oaks OF Martha's Vineyard, the
little island of the Massachusetts
coast. wanders a disconsolate bird.
the last survivor of a once numer-
Gus species. The bird is the last
heath hen left in the world.
When 1t dies the heath hen viii
join the passenger pigeon as an ex-
tinct species.
This last heath hen on Marthas
Vineyard was previously given up
as dead, but its temperance was
reported this year by Alfred o.
Gross, who transmitted his discov-
cry to the Smithsonian institution.
The story of the heath hen is the
tragic story OF a bird which could
not survive the coming OF the white
man to America. Even when man
himself tried to befriend the bird.
it could not survive. Perhaps help
came too late.
In Colonial days, the bird was
common throughout the northeast
ern region. In fact, it was such a
common article of food that serv-
ants in colonial Massachusetts,
often stipulated that they were not
to serve it oftener than a few
times a week"
The bird was captured easily or
killed and undoubtedly saved many
of the early settlements from a
food shortage.
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Fate Was unkind

.NTHEN the white man came to
w America, the bird was found
in most of the sandy scrub oak
plains of Massachusetts,, Connecti-
cut, Long Island, New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
But by 1910 it had disappeared
from most of this area. BY 1870,
the bird was found only on Mar
tha's Vineyard.
In 1903 state reservation was
established on the island. A survey
showed that only fifty heath hens
still were in existence. Under proper
care, the birds seemed to thrive and
by 1914, their number had increased
to about 1000.
Then fate took a hand in the
game. In May, 1916, a fire swept
over the interior of Marthas Vine
yard. 1t destroyed the brooding
birds with their nests and eggs.
The summer of the fire was fol-
lowed by an unusually hard winter,
which brought an unusual fight of
goShawks. These are natural enc
AAAACS VI OAiC A1Cdb4A llG IlEhL
spring there were only $50 heath
hens on the island, most of them
males.
Next, turkeys were introduced on
to Martha's Vineyard. The turkeys
brought in an epidemic to which
the heath hens proved susceptible.
The mortality was so great among
the heath hens that the colony was
reduced to thirteen birds, of which
only two were females.
During the fall of 1928 only two
heath hens were seen. One of these
disappeared during the winter.
Since 1929 there has been only a
single heath hen upon the island.
This is the bird, recently given up
for lost, which again has made its
appearance.
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| ono OutlaStS Them

MOREOVER, the lad from the
1V1 red clay country has every
right to be proud of the manner in
which he took the city slickers in
the all-night session. 1t might be
supposed that the Broadway boys
would have been more accustomed
to the rigors of dawn patrol, but
as the rosy finger of the morning
came through the great windows of
the stadium and messed about in
the white thatch of Mr.. Curry, it
was the product of the canebreaks
who looked the new day in the face
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TRANSPORT WHIPS SUBS

ON July 8, 1918, transport ship
" returning to the United States
from France was attacked by eight
German submarines in the Bay Of
BiScay.
Outnumbered as the ship was,
she succeeded in escaping the subs
and in sinking one of them. An ac-
companying destroyer escort sank
another.
French forces, strengthened by
American reserves, and heartened
by previous successes, staged a
strong attack on the edge of the
forest of VillerS-C otterets, and broke
through the German lines on a
front of about two miles.
Australians, too. had successful
day, carrying their line forward
along the Somme river for depth
Of 600 feet along front of about
a mile and a half
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Up From Nowhere

A ND yet the Kingfish did not
N come from any great white
pillared house upon hill He
worked his way up from the mud
fats of his native state and began
life as a travelling salesman in rural
Louisiana. He sold baking powder,
and no successor on his route ever
has approached his performance.
Again it was the personal touch.
He not only described the merits Of
his product, but he demonstrated it.
Taking a can from his sample case,
he would go into the kitchen and,
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Daily Thoughts

A man that beareth false wit
ness against his neighbor is a
maui, and a sword, and a sharp
arrow.-Proverbs 25:18.
The gain Of lying is nothing else
but not to be trusted Of any. nor
to be believed when we say the
truth. Sir Walter Raleigh.
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Your Questions Answered

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Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I have been a
reader of your paper for years and
I know you try to be fair. But I
don't understand why there's such
a row over the soldiers bonus. Why
die congress ever pass it. Didn't
they think we we're entitled to it?
I, for one, would like to know
what ever became Of all the insur-
ance money that every veteran paid
during the war. Surely all the
money did not go to the dependents
Of the fallen.
believe that most of that money
could have paid for most Of the
bonus. I hope some one will en-
tighten me on this subject.
A BUDDY.
What sport is popularity referred
to as the great national pastime"?
Baseball. because Of the popular
ity of the game.
Was AL Capone born in this coun-
try
He was born il Brooklyn. N. =.
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Says:

ton Has Been Tossed into
Our Lap By a Coalition Of
Former Friends and For
mer Enemies.
NEW YORK, July Average
In people hardly could be blamed
for being confused by the news from
Lausanne.
First, we are told of a treaty
whereby Germany will pay a fixed
amount into some kind of Euro
Rean fund, instead Of reparations.
The fixed amount is reported as
three billion marks, or somewhat
less than / per cent Of the sum
originally demanded by the allies.
Then we are told of gentleman's
agreement whereby the treaty will
not be ratified until war debt set
tlement has been reached with the
United States.
Again, we are told of an accord
whereby the allies will not try to
collect from Germany, and Great
Britain will not try to collect from
the allies until such settlement has
been reached.
Finally, We are told of a letter
whereby Germany will be advised of
all this.
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physician points out that many city dwener
walk about with their eyes the ground. We didn'
realize that modern architecture was quite that bad
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Ideals. and opinions expressed
IN this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
estlug writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor.