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Drought and Prices.

This year, If time turned backward
down in history as the year of the
great famine. The drought, carrying
crop control far beyond the limits
of bureaucratic intentions, has con-
tributed to the forecast Of smallest
crops, generally speaking, in thirty
years. But thanks to carry-over sur
pluses from other years and to
modern improvements in the storage
and transportation of food actual
suffering from any food shortage is
not expected. The worst effect, as
far as the average consumer goes.
will be an increase in the price of
some, not all, foodstuffs.
What this will be, anticipating with
Secretary Wallace natural attempt
by middlemen to make hay while the
sun shines and engage in some peace
time profteering, no one knows. Ger
tainly the Government, which has
been bending such extraordinary
efforts to increase the farmers pur-
chasing power, will have to be on
guard against extortionate prices for
food that will rob the city man of
his ability to buy. But, unless the
ravages of drought and the results of
A. A. A. crop control are to be ac-
companied by the even more harmful
favages of cheapened, debased cur
rency there is not much to fear. If
the average city man escapes the ruin
of drought by paying a little more
for some foodstuffs, he will count
himself relatively fortunate. Such a
price is small compared with that
exacted from the Dakota farmers, who
have seen most of what they own
vanish in a cloud of yellow dust.
There are some fifty million more
mouths to feed in the United States
than there were in 1900, and some of
the crops this year-such as corn,
oats, barley, rye, flaxseed-are smaller
than in any year since the late
nineties. But Secretary Wallace pre-
diets that there will be plenty of
food to keep every one in the best
of health" with material" increase
in certain foodstuf prices and a pos
sible shortage in such things as
"sirloin steaks and pork chops" But
prices of food must travel pretty far
before gaining the level of 1926. In
August Of last year the retail food
index stood at 1867 and in July of
this year the index had moved up
just a little more than three points
to 1899, an increase of 90 per cent.
But in 1920 when the index reached
its peak of the period since the base
year, 1918, the index was 203.4. In
1926, which has been adopted as the
statistical desideratum in prices, the
index stood at 1905.
For the first time in many years
complaints are heard of the "high
cost of living" A rise of only two per
cent in food costs since last year
would not justify the complaint, OF
course. But while food prices as a
whole have risen slightly, there has
been a great increase in certain types
of foodstuffs, and this has brought
the complaints. Before next Summer
these will grow in volume and in
bitterness, regardless of what the
statistical index may show.
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White, former Gov. Honest" Vic
Donahey and Representative West
are engaged in a hot contest. West
has the support of Senator Buckley.
who aspires to political leadership in
the State, and also the support OF the
administration as a real new dealer
However, unless there is big swing
to West in the last days of the prt-
mary campaign, Donahey or White
Is expected to win. Senator Fess
is veteran of many hard battles.
Early in the year it looked as though
he was slated for defeat. Indeed,
Chairman Jim Farley of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, has been
counting on Ohio to furnish the
Democrats another Senator in the
new Congress. But Ohio was lost to
Hoover two years ago by only $4,000
votes and Mr.. Fess may yet squeeze
through to plague the administration.
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George Washington has been "de
bunked." So has everything and
everybody. In this general process OF
iconoclasm, George stands forth in
passive triumph as one who "can
take it."
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Will Hays is referred to as the
Gear of the Movies" His attain
ments give him claim to better title
He still reigns while no other pre-
tender to a czardom has a chance.
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1t is always the privilege of any
statesman who could not foresee what
has already happened to compose long
articles for print on what is going to
happen.
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Chinese fear that the U. S. A. will
drain their country of silver. 1t has
for some time been the custom to ex-
pect China to shudder at anything
that happens.
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Average Needed.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
If we could oQly average up the
conditions that alternately compel
Congress to make flood and drought
relief appropriations, the country
could save a great deal of money.
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Gangs

The bad boys round the corner fight
While gangs they organize
With manners that are impolite
And purposes unwise.
They've often played the little part
That nature meant them for.
Don't let them think they're going to
start
An international war!
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1t was once inquired by G. Bernard
Shaw, why America seemed to enjoy
being abused to its face. The answer
is being made plain. 1t does not.
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Progress in Crime.

Progress in Crime.
"Any licker bootleggers in Grim
son Gulch?" asked the mysterious
stranger.
mo, SIR" answered Cactus Joe.
Our business mems association de-
cided that half gallon jar is un-
wieldy and there's more money to be
made with a pill box full of dope. u
"I have no fault to find with my
fellow men," said HI Ho, the sage of
Chinatown. "Nor can I hope to be
wise enough to prevent them from
being dissatisfied and finding fault
with one another"
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Post.Mortem Voters.

From the .Winston-salem JournaI-sentinel.
Under the absentee ballot law many
good men serve their country well
while living and keep on voting for
II after they are dead, IL reports srs
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Simple Needs.

Simple Needs.
What care I for gold or silver?
What care I for copper bright?
All I want is the proper filler
When I'm feeling an appetite.
What care I for the brokers kitty,
When for his pork the farmer beg'
And the hens are no longer "sittin
pritty"-
All want is the ham and eggs!
"It takes a smart man." said Uncle
Eben, Ito make folks stop and listen
although you kin easy do de san'
thing Wit o brass band"
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Jud Tunkins says vast fortune en-
ables man to sit in a rocking chair
on a front porch. Others can enjoy
the same luxury. Rocking chairs are
cheap and front porches can always
be borrowed.
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Corners.

"Is prosperity just around the cor
ner?"
"Of course it is" answered Senator
Sorghum. But in looking for it
you've got to. take care about selecting
lucky corner"
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There Is talk still of former Sen
ator Jim" Reed Of Missouri getting
into the senatorial race in that State.
If he does, the campaign in Septem-
ber and October Is likely to be a lively
affair. The Democrats have nomi-
mated Judge Harry Truman of Kan
sas City, a protege of Boss Tom Pen
dergast, who put it all over Senator
Bennett Clark and his candidate,
Representative Milling, in the pri-
mary. The Republicans have renomi-
mated Senator Patterson. Reeds
entry in the race, which at present
is mere matter of speculation, might
split the opposition to the Repub-
lican nominee. On the other hand
it might draw a lot of Republican
votes to Reed on the theory that a
Reed victory would be a setback to
the Roosevelt new dealers. Jim Reed
is an old-fashioned Democrat and
without sympathy for a lot of the
things that the brain trust is trying
to put over on the country. The re-
suit of the Democratic primary in
the State has been a lot of soreheads.
Follower of Clark and of Representa-
tive Cochran of st. Louis might be
glad to go to Reed in order to give
Pendergast a real bump, If they
could.
X X X
The Ohio primary elections are to
take place on Tuesday. What happens
in the Buckeye State then and in the
November elections will have plenty of
significance for the politicians. Sen
ator Simeon D. Fess, Republican, is
expected to win without much trou-
BILE in the primary. His principal
fight will come In November. The
three Democratic candidates for the
senatorial nomination. Gov. George
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existence when all diversion has
failed. We will strive to be natural,
to amuse ourselves temperately, to
set examples through our own habits
of work. And above all we will in
clude that which we have lacked
most in our own training, emphasis
on emotional values. We will have
the courage to admit tie with our
own children that will be marked with
unselfish love. Our fathers and moth
ers stressed a prosaic relationship.
Ours will be spiritual one.
1t is not inspiring to view the de-
preston, the major result of mate
rialistic zeal and the heritage for our
coming of age. 1t is pitiful to be-
hold our companions whose ambition
is broken and whose ethics are per-
manently shattered by the moral in
security of the family. And it is dis
heartening to turn about and look at
ourselves, enriched with 16 or 18 years
of education, trained and intelligent,
but now tossed into world where
we may find no niche to pursue labor
or pleasure.
How sharper than SerpentS
TOOTH" said Shakespeare, but we do
not mean to be sharp or cry migrate
full indignation to the world. 1t is
loyalty that makes us claim a bond
with our parents. The loyalty that
offspring instinctively has to respect
its own makes us take hurt and
shame that to have been our parents
children has not meant more to them
and to us.
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Continued From Third Page.)

Central America would have bound
themselves to intervene in the do
meStic affairs of one another. In the
case of dictatorial regimes trying to
repress popular discomfort with force
"a case only too frequent In that part
of the world-they would have be-
come accomplices to the crimes and
revenges of few autocratic individ-
uals. In every case, whether support
ing a bad or a good government, they
would have denied sovereign, inde-
pendent people the right to give them
selves the kind of government they
choose, a right without which the
very democratic system which they
professed to uphold could not exist.
Fortunately, these reactionary pro-
posals did not materialize at the con-
ference. Some of the delegates Of the
Central American governments recog-
nized the dangers involved, and de-
nounced the injustice inherent in
such undemocratic attempts.
Agreements Not New.
Having thus failed In its main en-
deavor, the Guatemala City confer
ence was devoted to passing a series
of declarations of an academic nature
which were embodied in a Central
American treaty of confraternity
Some of them were concerned with
the maintenance of the greatest rap
prochement, the most cordial har-
money and the most generous frater-
nifty in their reciprocal relations; the
outlawry of war, the preference of ar
bitration as the sole means of solving
any future controversies and other
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Central American Union Discussion
Revived by Return of September Is

unnecessary repetitions Of the spirit
and letter Of the League Of Nations
Covenant, the Gondra convention. the
Kellogg pact, the Washington arbitra-
ton and conciliation treaties, etc.
Nothing could be found in them which
had not already been covered by these
earlier instruments.
The other articles of the treaty
those concerning the future unifica-
ton of legislation in civil. penal. COM
mercial, administrative and economic
matters; the future unif1cation of
elementary, secondary and profess
sional education; the development of
land, sea and air communications; /;
the completion of the Central Ameri-
can highway, the promotion of tour
ist travel the furtherance Of cultural
interchange, etc.-were all of a rec
ommending nature, expressing, once
more, the desire for certain things
which have been cherished long, but
failing, again, to indicate the ways
and means to arrive at them.
AS for the ideal federation, all that
the Guatemala City conference did
was to recognize that the political
union of Central America is the su-
preme aspiration" of Central Ameri-
cans, and to let the matter rest until
the next conference or until the next
September Is.
Copyright. 19341
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How would you like to get your
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time develop that urge for activity
that makes work a pleasure and also
gain in ambition and keenness of mind
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you weigh-then get an S5-cent bottle OF
Kruschen Salts. which will last you for
weeks. Take one-han level teaspoonful in
a cupful of hot water every morning and
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was in European universities or by
their own faculties after European
models. The extent and kind of ele-
mentary and secondary education may
be inferred from the high percentage
of illiteracy. There was little en-
phasis upon teacher training. Edu-
cation was parochial and private.
Public education was to come. 1t
has come, and with rush. Programs
of public education are everywhere
first-page newspaper articles. Their
public men are educators. Their edu-
Gators are in line for the presidency.
Ministers of education are ranking
cabinet members. No part of the
world is today more devotedly COM
mitted to popular education than are
the progressive Latin American coun-
tries. Higher education even is rest
ing now upon a national base. This
base is widening at the bottom
in view of an enlarging skilled
citizenry. Back of the programs of
these progressive nations for the pro-
motion of agriculture, commerce and
industry stand their public schools.
Mexicos thought-provoking expert
mentS in popular education, outStand-
ing in Latin America, are being
studied and introduced into the ele-
mentary and rural schools, especially
in those countries of large Indian
population. Teacher training is en-
phasized. Their normal schools are
really higher vocational schools.
1t is nothing less than new educa-
ton. Education of this type promotes
civic understanding and quickens the
national consciousness. 1t builds in
defense of good government within a
democracy of taxpaying citizens of
modest means. These citizens have
not been articulate at inter- American
conferences. That fact explains in
part the futility of resolutions which
have ignored their increasing political
strength, in governments by revolt at
least.
Pan-American accord through edu-
cation is the slogan of the Inter-
American Federation of Education,
which was organized primarily to
promote this objective. 1t owes its
existence to the private initiative bf
teacher groups in leading pan-Amer-
ican countries and expresses their
desire to help serve in any program
for accord in the Americas, free of
political design or selfish interest.
1t was in this spirit and in this
thought that representatives from 10
nations met at Atlanta, Ga, in the
Summer of 1929 on invitation of the
National Education Association of the
United States and formed this fed
Grafton. 1t is hopefully expected that
the second conference, meeting in
Santiago, Chile, September 9 to 16,
the first inter american conference
on education ever held in a Latin
American country, will work in the
same spirit and with the same mind,
although organized under govern
ment auspices and control, and will
help achieve the same ends by laying
again major emphasis upon those
types of training, especially in the
earlier school years, that will increase
the earning power of the people, train
them for citizenship, and, above all,
give to them an understanding SYM
pathy for the civic and social prob
lens of all the pan-American peoples.
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seen the labor of motherhood loved in
itself; and boys who have never known
the pulse and throb of wrestling a liv-
ing from rich soil and sunlight. We,
for our part, cannot respect our par
ents as the traditional dispensers of
sage advice because they have been
too preoccupied with other things to
demonstrate to us the wisdom of
parenthood.
Why has so much of this been put
in the past tense? Partly because
during the last two or three years
widespread reverses have had the ef-
feet of making our parents appreciate
more deeply their basic union with
us, the flesh of their flesh. Distress
and insecurity have opened their
hearts to the beauty of friendship
with us.
But we speak in the past mainly
because, with the extreme optimism
of youth, we have infinite faith in
the future. If our hopes are not full
filled in our parents, we will achieve
them in ourselves. We will have our
own children, for we cherish the i'm
portance of family ties. We will be
different. That is our perpetual hope.
Different in what way? We will
stress the simpler things, bring the
kids up in the country, away from
the city life that makes them act like
Our youngsters will have
a home life which will be a pleasure
in itself and not the last resort for
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ington. Why not encourage then, a
larger measure Of private initiative
and the efforts of the peoples them
selves to achieve pan-American ac-
cord? Education is their best, and
perhaps only, means Of achieving this
accord; with emphasis in the Latin
American countries, especially upon
those types of vocational and charac-
ter training that increase earning
power and the understanding of the
rights and duties of citizenship.
Without vision, it is said, the peo-
pie perish. But without technique
and thrift the people starve. Tech
nique, applied to their rich resources,
will give to the Latin-American peo-
Piles an increasing surplus for the
upbuilding of individual, community
and nation. Political stability will
come with material comforts and
sire for national advantage through
friendly international relations. These
interrelationships will be, must be,
regional at first; to embrace eventu-
ally the largest unit in which these
nations can function naturally in the
exchange of commerce and culture.
1t is needless to say that this unit
is pan-Amerlca.
Latin American educational leaders
understand today that education is
progressive in content, methods and
results; and should serve, in order,
the individual, community, nation, re-
gion and world. The Latin American
countries did not have at first this
conception of education. Their cul-
ture, and the church and school upon
which it rests, was borrowed. Higher
education, particularly professional,
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NCOlIluueu FTOm 1Luu TdSe.J
ton of these governments by the
United States is due in part to it.
These 20 countries have today de-
pendable natural bases for regional
cooperation. These bases should be
laid down, and now, without alien
pressure. Every real an-American
should be glad to see the Latin ma
tionS take this step. The advantages
of association in these larger regional
units will lead eventually to volun-
tary initiatory steps by them for con-
tinental pan-American action by con-
vention and conference, which they
fear and dread today. Their century,
old resistance to all political pro-
grams and projects initiated by the
United States Government will van
ish; slowly, of course, but surely.
The strategic culture centers Of
the four natural American re-
gions are, in my opinion, Cuba, Mex
leo, Peru and Argentina. Brazil,
unique in size and language, forms
fifth and is a unit in itself. Modern
u dIlSpOIt may, 1OWcfcI, tAuOW DAd1u
some day into a coast-to-coast group
with Peru and Bolivia, countries also
of large Indian population. Time and
the tides of Amazon tributaries may
be waiting only upon the coming of
new generation of engineer builders.
Failure Of Efforts.
We have frankly failed in our eff
forts for pan American accord
through politically motivated pan
American conferences, especially
those that have had their provenience
in the Pan-American Union at Wash
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LEAGUE D|SAVOWS
NEW DEAL CLASH
Shouse Says Human Rights
Are Superior to Property,
in Radio RebuttaI.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The American Liberty League evil
IDENTIFY is determined against constru-
ing the new deal attitude as a
challenge to open warfare.
Rather, President Jouett Shouse
countered criticism with the statement
that the league would place human
above property rights, if a choice had
to be made.
He also recognized it Federal duty
10 aid the helpless and proposed ito
help recreate confidence" so business
can speed up and spread jobs.
Tells Views by Radio.
Although he mentioned no names,
Shouse in a radio speech last night
obviously aimed at the view in the
administration that the league exalted
property above human welfare.
He also undertook to dismiss specu-
lation of the bipartisan organization
being a factor for liberal-conServative
realignment of parties.
ut will act for its members, be they
liberal or conservative, as the issues
demand" Shouse said.
This action is to take the form of
a national educational" campaign on
behalf of the leagues philosophy of
the Constitution.
Pending legislation will be studied;
league witnesses will appear before
congressional committees; the cause
eventually will be carried into elec-
ton districts.
Opposing Alleged Abuses.
eve do not oppose change, but
would not sacrifice the form of Gov
ernment under which our country
has grown strong and prosperous.
There have been abuses. They must
not be allowed to recur. There have
been inequities. They must be
righted," Shouse said.
Shouse did quote the Presidents
inaugural statement, however, that
''the only thing we have to fear is
fear itself"
None can deny that there has been
a real improvement during the past
18 months" the league leader then
said. "On the other hand, it is obvi-
Gus to every observer that our people
today. are filled with apprehension.
The effort ito help recreate conf
dence" thereupon was pledged.
kilograms and letters of support
were reported arriving "by the thou
sands" with many including cash
donations The number of ST and So
contributions was said to indicate
response reaching ''far down into the
mass of American people"
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Bear Attacks Surveyor.

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo.,
September 8 R.-Gunnar Fagerlund,
member of a park survey crew, was
in the hospital at Mammoth yester-
day recovering from a broken bone in
his left foot and severe claw wounds
on his leg inflicted by grizzly bear
Fagerlund met four grizzlies yester-
day. Three ran away.