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He's Learning Greek, Too

THAT we must all grant pretty bright of
Il Aris. Still, would not call it tops. An even
tougher test would have been to take Arts into
living room after some modern interior decorator
had worked his will upon it. The dog should have
been allowed to sniff about, within reason. among
the strange architectural contraptons and then
told ON the chair, Arts" II the poor beleaguered
beagle under those circumstances, could have told
the chair from the writing table or the double bed
he would indeed would be the dog without peer.
Yet even under the schedule adopted the tribu-
lations Of Arts were many and confusing. 1 submit
another section Of the report:
"Aris was sung to in Greek In the midst of the
song one of the words he knows inserted but it
was sung in the same tone and rhythm the rest
of the poem Arts recognized it at once and acted
accordingly. Later he learned the Greek word for
it."
Personally, I think it is a mistake for an Airde
dale go in for the dead languages. While it may
increase the skill and charm of his style think it
is fair to say that the average dog likely is to find
Greek Of no particular practical use IN later life.
will admit again that the Hamburg hounds
arouse my interest and admiration but they fall far
short Of par in truly intelligent performance. If
Arts and Harris and Paris really were bright they
would walk right out of the studio of Dr. Sarris and
gallop along until they found Adolf Hitler. Having
located Der Fuehrer. I think it would be very
SagacOus If Arts and Harris and Paris proceeded to
bite him severely in the seat of the pants. Then
they would be indeed immortal dogs
Copyright. 1884. BY The Timesl
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need and availability of pasture in
dozens of states.
The Bureau Of Animal Indus
try's agents decide which animals
are fit to ship, Gull herds and save
bulls which will preserve the best
strains. They have visited more
than 100000 farms, checked nIUre
than 100000 head of cattle,
and approved more than 100000
for purchase, certified $4,000 car
loads-about two-thirdS of the
purchased animals-for shipping
and condemning or moving the
rest. The bureau also inSpectS
the FSRC's canned meat.
TINE national livestock feed
Il committee appointed by Sec
rotary Wallace is making a ma
tional survey of the location of
available feed and forage supplies,
including corn stalks, and wheat
straw Hay and other feed will
be bought, some to be given to
FERA for penniless farmers and
some to be held for sale, while
commercial agencies are encour-
aged to conserve supplies for
later emergency.
The bureau Of plant industry
iSolates grain seed in areas where
it might otherwise all be sold on
the market and holds it for next
year, to see that seed best adapt
ed for given areas will then be
available for those areas. 1t has
$25000,000 for that.
The forest service is planning
it's great $100,000,000 shelter belt
of trees, to run 1000 miles
through the plains states for flu
ture protection. A field Office has
been opened in Lincoln, Neb., and
work will begin as soon as organi-
cation is complete, to afford fur
ther emergency relief through
employment.
TINE bureau of chemistry and
l. soils is helping the forest
service, as we'll as checking soil
condition through the drough
area.
The weather bureau, still an
other department of agriculture
agency, prepares special daily re-
ports for Secretary Wallace on
rainfall and temperatures over
the country.
The bureau of agricultural eco
Monies provides vitality important
information on the status of all
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Just One of the Boys

a LIEN ELLENDER the Speaker of the house IS
L A one of the younger statesmen though not ex-
actly youth He is about 35 Still, if he had been
on the opposition side the youth movement could
have been encouraged for his appearance is boylsh
and his talent is about the best in the legislature
However Mr. Ellender merely was representing Huey
Long.
The dictator had a football player among his
strong arm squad and the nominal Governor or
the state O. K Allen was attended by another for
mer college athlete ostensiby his secretary. Here
was youth the bright. athletic college type serving
as coat holder to a politician more degraded than
the most paltry Tammany district workers.
When Huey wants to sit in the Governors prl-
vate Office he Shoes Mr.. Allen out. Mr. Allen isn't
even allowed to speak if Huey says shut up" You
momentarily expect Huey to yell, oscar, shine my
Shoes" and to see the Governor go to his knees
and get busy with his rags ard brushes But youth
fetches and carries for Mr.. Allen. They have some
peculiar local ideas in louisiana They do not per-
nit house of prostitution to operate within pre-
scrbed distance of the state university but exempt
the state capitol from the meaning of the act.
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TONS dry amendment is being
voted on this fall and seems likely
to carry.
On the other hand the Demo-
cratic candidate for the senate,
F. Harold Dubord, has an uphill
fight. He is opposing Frederick
Hale, old-time conservative, who
has represented Maine in the SEN
ate for seventeen years and whose
father was there before him. Du-
board was named in the federal
trade commissions utility inves-
tigation as one of those on the
pay roll of the insult companies
during their fight over exporting
power.
ID EPUBLICAN newspapers in
~ the state agree, saying little
against Governor Brann and are
concentrating on reelection Of
Mr.. Hale. Charges are being made
that the Republicans have entered
into a deal to bring about Brann's
election and Hale's. Supporters of
Alfred K. Ames, Republican can
didate for Governor, have filed a
protest with Mrs. Guy P. Gan
nett, Republican national commit
teewoman, charging that her hus-
bands papers are falling to sup
port the Ames candidacy Wig
orously.
In the Third congressional dis
trict Representative John G. Ut
terback, Democrat, and former
Governor Ralph o. Brewster, Re
publican, are fighting it out again
as they did in 1892. In that year
Mr.. Utterback beat Mr.. Brewster,
34,520 to 1925, and took his seat
only after an election contest had
been decided in his favor by the
Democratic house of representa-
tives
Congressman Edward c. Nor
gan is young, aggressive New
Deal Democrat, and his defeat in
the Second district would have
more significance than that OF
Utterback.
Carroll L. Beedy, Republican
who retained his house seat in
spite Of the Democratic landslide,
seems certain of reelection this
year.
Political records show that
Maine has served as an indicator
Of national trends only in years
when Republicans have triumphed
generally.
This year the Literary Digest
poll shows Maine voting, 8,501 to
7,708 for Roosevelt.
The election takes place Sept. 10.
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Furthermore, in at least one of
the three congressional districts
election of the Republican candi-
date might be considered more of
a boost for New Deal policies
than election of his Democratic
opponent.
This is the situation.
Louis j. Brann, the states third
Democratic Governor since the
Civil war, is popular and is re-
minding Maine voters that he has
obtained millions of dollars of
public works and relief money
from Washington. He is a wet
and repeal of the state Constitu-
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tive, more coordination was
needed, so a general committee in
charge of drought relief has been
named.
Meanwhile, the AAA, while de-
voting most of its attention to
the drought, is planning for the
future what it hopes will be a
balanced, planned American agri-
culture.
Benefit payments this year will
be about $500,000,000, mostly in
drought states, and it confidently
predicts a big increase in national
farm income for 1884 despite the
drought, the impoverishment
of nobody knows how many farm
ers, and the uncertainty about
next year.
Private industry has supple
mented the huge federal drought
program. Instances include the
reduction of railroad rates on hay,
feed, and cattle movements, loan
by oil men of a huge pipeline
to carry 100000 or more gallons
of water a day into parts of the
drought area, donation by Cali
fornia peach growers to FSRC of
peaches which were to have been
left to rot on trees, and an offer
by the National Food and Groc-
cry Distributors Code Authority
to help stop prof1teering.
NEXT - What the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration
and Federal Surplus Relief Cor
poratiOn are doing toward drought
relief.
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launching a great campaign which
will employ tens of thousands Of
distressed rural folks at roofing in
the fields for stubble and weeds
badly needed for forage.
IT'S Federal Surplus Relief Cor
Il poration kills and cans $4,000
head of cattle day to build up
reserve for needy unemployed
against winter, when meat prices
will scoot up, and to protect the
rest of us from even higher prices
which that reserve will prevent.
The Farm Credit Association,
working with $100,000,000 from
the congressional grant-which is
not enough-lends for seed, feed,
summer following, etc., while try
ing to see that the government
pays enough for cattle to protect
its existing loans.
The Citizens Conservation
Corps has turned its tools to
drought work in a program for
which it already has received $780,
100000.
The Commodity Credit Cor
poration is advancing $10,000,000
of RFC money to finance pur-
chase and orderly holding and
marketing Of hides, easing the
present market glut, averting a
subsequent certain shortage, and
turning some over to FSRC for
processing into relief shoes.
But to get a more detailed pic
ture of the activities directed
from Washington, come down to
the big buildings housing the de-
partment of agriculture and the
AAA, where the executive staff
and at least dozen bureaus and
committees are working hard on
the drought.
THE AAA commodity purchase
Il section directs the cattle
buying-at a rate of 10000 day
for Federal Surplus Relief Corpo-
ration canning and shipments to
pasture-and has pur CHI as d
100000 bushels of wheat, durum,
oats and barley for seed, with
more to come, including some
from Canada.
The departments extension
service, with its county agents
everywhere and alliances with
agricultural colleges, plays a gen.
eral role in all operations, aiding
livestock purchases, exchanging
information between Washington
and farmers, and reporting on
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Questions and Answers
Q-who CAPTURED Jesse james. the outlaw2

Q-Who captured Jesse James, the outlaw?
A-As the result of reward Of $4,000 offered by
Governor Crittenden Of Missouri for the capture Of
Jesse James, dead or alive two members Of his own
band, Robert and Charles Ford turned traitors and
shot and instantly killed him in his home at st.
Joseph, Mo-. April 8. 1882.
Q-Have there been any old-age pension appl-
cations passed on in Marion county?
Ayes. The first checks were issued July 2, 1884.
Q-Is there any premium 1876 half dollar?
A-No.
Q-Where was Walter DamroSch. the musical
conductor, born and of what is he?
Ale was born in Breslau Prussia, and came to
the United States with his father at the age Of g.
He Is a jew
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CHOIR ON PROGRAM
FOR MASONIC PICNIC

Outing to Be Held at McCOy's Lake,
Greensburg.
The Indianapolis chapter choir
will present a program at a Masonic
picnic Sunday at McCoy's lake,
Greensburg. Arnold Spencer is di-
rector and Miss Dorothy Sunder-
land is accompanist.
SoloistS who will appear also are
Kiefer Elliott, Kenneth Vance, Earl
Davis, A. Richard Young, Halle
Mitchell, William Condrey, Kenneth
Hartley, William Franklin, Burt
Moon and Raymond Moon.
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And this is what makes the
IVA experiment so important.
1t is the proving ground for the
gradually growing fight, bound to
get more intense, between govern
ment operation and private oper-
alton. between Socialism and cap
italiSm. 1t is laborary by which
Bonneville and Grand Coulee and
all the rest of RooSevelt's power
planning projects may be tested.
Originally. IVA did not plan to
expand so rapidly. 1t planned a
''yardStick" by which private cleo
trio power could be measured
against government rates. 1t con-
templated working out the expert
ment in Knoxville and a few
towns near Norris dam: together
with Tupelo. Corinth and Ath-
ems, near Wilson dam.
But the 'yardStick" is getting
out of hand.
And the strange part of it is
that the expansion is forced not
by the three brain trust directors
Of IVA. but by the solid folk of
the solid south.
TVA reckoned without the host
l. without the host Of towns
which clamor for cheap power
rates. Some are within trans
mission range of IVA. Some are
not. But their clamor is just as
loud.
In point OF age, IVA is a mere
baby. But the word regarding it
has gone round with the fervor of
a gospel message. Every one has
heard about Tupelo, first town to
get the benefits Of IVA current.
And the city clerk here has got
out his yellow account sheets
many times TO tell the story of
what iva has done for the city
treasury.
The people are burning 50 per
cent more electricity and paying
half as much for it," he says.
The rate has dropped from 10
cents per kilowatt hour to cents.
And for this power the city, which
owns the distributing system. pays
iva only So mills. 1t pockets
the profits between this and the
cents. AS a result its income
has skyrocketed.
DYHALIA. Miss. is 10 miles
- from Muscle Shoals. But the
corner dry goods store bears a no
tice tackled on shutter, announc-
ing that the borough aldermen
have determined upon a recon-
Sideration of rates for electric cur
rent"
Jackson. Miss, Is beyond IVA
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crops, drought conditions, farm
prices, food and feed supplies, the
foreign drought situation, and so
on. Daily information pours in by
telephone and telegraph.
The bureau of agricultural en-
cheering tackles the serious
drought condition in irrigated
areas.
The bureau Of home economics
figures out the most economical
ways of shifting from high-priced
food to other foods, with the
relative energy and protein con-
tents.
And the consumers counsel Of
AAA, through the widely circu-
lated Consumers Guide and pub
lie statements, posts consumers
on price changes, enables them to
distinguish between fair and I'M
fair increases, checks their COM
plants and reports them to other
agencies for action and tells
housewives what they can do
locally to protect themselves
against gouging.
y =
THERE are other drought agen-
Il cieS under Secretary Wallace
such as the emergency drought
relief service, which tells farmers
how to make poor fodder more
palatable for cattle and things
like that. Nobody can keep track
of them all.
Though the emergency drought
set-up has been remarkably effec-
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enough to be the father of their
fighting colleague, are more serene.
But all-including most of the
personnel on TVA-are imbued
with the crusading instinct. They
are working for a great cause.
They compare it with the Panama
Canal, but point out that its social
reverberations will be far great
err.
And they are right.
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Syndicate Incl
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
MA Service STAFF Writer

tCOpNI4kAL. A5Sf mn ocA fASrs ANU
XXTAsHINGTON, Aug. 24.-The
w United states government is
up to its ears in the greatest ef-
fort ever directed at amelioration
of a natural catastrophe.
It's as hard to envision this
vast, far-flung attack as it is to
comprehend the seriousness and
spread of the great drought it
self.
The weather used to be just
the farmers hard luck-unless
Washington happened to get his
freight rates reduced or lent him
a little more money for seed. The
present unparalleled drought,
threatening interference with re-
covery and badly frightening an
administration sworn to raise farm
prices by a threat of food prices
far too high, is being handled on
an entirely different basis.
At least S750,000,00O will be
spent before the federal effort is
over and we'll be seeing the most
enormous operation Of food and
feed conservation of all time.
Look at the drought map to see
the area involved-1,076 "emer-
gency counties" in twenty-five
states, including all counties in
Kansas, Nevada, the Dakotas,
Oklahoma, and Utah, and 341
secondary" drought counties.
Nearly half the counties in the
United States!
Our great so-called federal
bureaucracy is meeting mighty
test of its flexibility. ingenuity,
speed, and adaptability to new
emergency conditions. Several
agencies in the alphabet soup
are involved.
TINE extensive new powers
Il granted the New Deal by
congress are coming in handy, not
only for farmers, but for the rest
of us whose pocketbooks are
affected by many current meas
ures of conservation and preven-
ton.
The man in charge of all this is
President Roosevelt himself, max
ing the chief decisions and allo-
eating the S525,OO0,OO0 voted by
congress for drought relief. Here's
the Set-up below him:
The AAA and department Of
agriculture under Secretary Henry
A. Wallace are buying millions of
cattle and sheep to be removed
from the commercial market and
joining in a huge feed-forage pro-
gram of conservation and diStri-
button neceSsitated by the fact
that the most desperate problem
is primarily one of animal food
rather than human food.
Livestock left on farms won't
have much more than so per cent
or normal feed requirements and
compulsory rationing is a posi-
bility.
The Federal Emergency Relief
Administration is enlarging
grants to states for water and
food relief, expanding its work
program in drought states, and
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DO well 10 watch his step
and not incur the displeasure
Of Herr Hitler. This is Just a
suggestion that his experiments
may tend TO show up the Ger
man population, which under
Der Fuehrer is expected to
know only one word and that
the short one ia"
In defiance Of this fact DR..
Sarris has endeavored to dem
onstrate that dogs have minds
Of their own. And instead Of
making the path TO knowledge
easy the savant Uttered it with
boulders. It is his contention
that the canine ear Is Sensi-
tive and not TO be confused by
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and that one in a manner to suggest he merely
was showing off when you might have expected
youth so fortunately placed rip and tear and raise
particular hell throughout the session Still, he
didn't go along with the conspiracy and he did have
too much pride and conscience to look to Der King
fish for instructions when the time came to push
the electric button on his desk and cast his votes.
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There are not many youths
in the legislature, but of their
number only one belongs to the
opposition and that one hardly
could be called an active force.
He is a boy of % named John
Williamson, known inevitably
in the newspaper phrase as the
baby of the house. His father
was killed in action in France
and it was a pretty gesture of
his constituents to send him to
the legislature, as soon as he
was old enough. The boy has
a solemn face, a deep voice
and a mind much superior to
the average of his colleagues.
which is faint praise at that.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drea0 Pearson and Robert S. Allen

by DTeW E0euTSOH UTlU hOOeTI 8 4WeN-
UPEO Miss. 24The south tapping Socialism without
Il
Socialism is stark word in these parts 1t
chvay
riding white
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Almost q NO-Hit Game

DUT that was the total score for youth on the side
ID of decency. 1t just prevented a complete shut
out.
An idealist might have been shocked to see
young statesman named James Horton on the die
tatorS side as the house of representatives voted
to bride voters at IS EACH abolish many of the
civil rights of the people and authorize a secret
police force to kill and MAIN Huey Longs political
opponents subject to Huey Longs approval.
Mr.. Horton played football at Centenary college,
He is thick necked, weighs more than 200 pounds
and is inclined to swagger. His contribution to the
deliberations of the statesmen was belcose roar
that he wasn't no henchman" followed by threat
to punch smaller man the nose. Some youths
come out of college no better than they enter.
There was one member of the youngish type,
always on his feet babbling indiStnct thoughts in
a weak indstinct voice. He on Hueys side and
his gaze constantly followed the dictator around
the hall to catch signals The Louisiana journalists
said this one was a cured drunkard Huey treated
him with the same respect that he might show a
clumsy but pathetic servant.
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Fair Enough
by
WESTBRO6KP EdLER

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Aug. "a. - To any with
1V1 illusions about the clear-eyed honesty, de-
cency and independence of youth in public affairs
an experience in the Louisiana legislature down in
the university city of Baton Rouge would be very
depressing Youth in the Louisiana legislature is
precocous in all the tricks of the elder statesmen
who have organized themselves under Huey Long
to rob the people in every conceivable phase of their
activity and blackmail every industry in the state.
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Haywood BROUN

II Germany, where the professors are persistent.
learned doctor has undertaken 10 prove that dogs
know words II is the contention Of Professor
Emanuel Sarris Of the Institute for Environmental
Research that with proper training a pet may be
conditioned 10 comprehend a vocabulary Of twenty
five and a slightly smaller number Of verbs.
Dogs are not good at adjectives and 10 them prepo
sitions are merely things with which to end
sentence The learned research man Will
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S75O,OOOOOO FOR DROUGHT BALM
T. s. Ready to Spend Huge Sum i'm Drought Relief Fight

This is the first Of a series of four
articles. giving a comprehensive sum-
mary Of what the federal government is
doing to combat conditions resulting
from the most disastrous drought in the
nations history.
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similar sounds Thus out Of his school pack he
chose three. which we're chrstened Paris Harris and
Arts NY own blunt hearing never would be able to
distinguish between these words If I we're an aire
dale named Harris and heard the voice Of authority
calling "Aris" I undoubtedly would answer Present,
teacher" and get back to gnawing on my mutton
bone.