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Smyrna times., 1937-01-28
| FRlILDING
|rIIIcEs OK'D
,onts to Farm
,oq7 Gets Wash
F,.t,,, Approval
,rHE SAME AS 1886

| payment for 'all soil. build, ,llits
~ n 1887, together wltn !,
'%sols of the agricultural
program for Dela, IA
T. Desn | approved by tne
II sgrlculture, according
,..iTsd / from Washington
| ssIusr, extension econ
!. University of Della
s,,gs Of the program in
| Trl delaware, diversion Re-
h 1881 program will be
\ ane as under the 1880
M rate of payment for
mn the general soil-de-
|xs already has been an
! m farms not eligible to
|ssIoa payment, the soil
| ,OTance will include 81
I, acre Of crop land. In
| he soil-building allow
| Il farms, whether eligl-
H. diversion payment or
| do include: 81 for each
|muercial orchards on the
! lLlary l, I9o',
\ % which only one crop
e1gcisl vegetables was
|, 1886; g for each acre on
h Or more crops Of com
| getsbles we're grown in
! nts for each acre of
|mGup, open pasture and
y une-haIf of the number
ii crop land on the farm.
tng rates Of payment are
! for planting approved
| leglmes and perennial
! Ealfa, S2.5O; red clover,
L clover, sericea, and blue
/ per acre; Austrian win
] Ttch, crimson clover,
|xsua, and orchard grass,
! acre; white cover, bur
|Mtop, and timothy, 81 per
/ zse a mixture is used,
/ d payment will depend
\ Ind and quality Of leg
\ grasses in the mixture.
wing rates are provided
Fw Or discing under any
|aSTing crops as green
|fg the crop has attained
: growth Of at least two
lrlsavng on the land GER
|asz crops grown in 1887;
; nFet beans, or cowpeas
\ used under, 81 per
rn9n clover, Austrian
pa or vetch, plowed or
|aasi rye, barley, wheat,
" grass, oats, or mixture
Moved or disced under;
F'a nillet, sorghum, or
VA ploged or disced un-
Esini, Or cowpeas, not
u pastured or harvested
! wen al Of the forage is
Y and, and lespedeza left
Nd 81. Soybeans, cow
y clover, or any combina-
~ grain and legume, in
1 = commercial orchards.
l aseed, and left on the
y Payments also are
iT applying mulching
Smyrna times., 1937-01-28
HOME MAKERS CLUB MEET
Downs Chapel Club Met at Mrs
Earle Carter's and Elected Officers

I1"HIt O<iI ttT dilu E1feCVtC OIIfCtIS
The Downs Chapel Homemakers'
Club met at the home of Mrs Earle
Carter on Friday, January %, at
2 p. m. Miss Whitcomb was in
charge of the subject, Outlook
Material" and demonstrated fine
busters for the home. The new Of
ficers of the club are: President,
Mrs. Levi Everett, Jr.; Vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. w. Robinson; Secretary,
Mrs. w. c. Wright; Treasurer, Mrs
Lester Cook. After fine meeting
and social time the club adjourned.
Smyrna times., 1937-01-28

Preparing Town Hall For Clock
]. H. Bader Co., started work
Monday on the Smyrna Town Hall
belfry to remodel it into an en-
closed tower to house the Town
Han clock.
Smyrna times., 1937-01-28

Selection of Policeman Postnonest
Smyrna Town Council in regular
session Friday evening, had a num-
Der Of applicants for policeman to
succeed William Cougb resionad
Action was postponed until = FIR
ture meeting.
Smyrna times., 1937-01-28

Andrew Bateman, Formerly Dover
Andrew A. Bateman, 73 years
old, formerly of Dover, but for the
last twenty-five years or more
Continued on Page Five)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-26
Labor Supports President
On Court Reform Proposal
A. F. of L. Executive Council Declares for Plan and An
nounces Purpose to Call Workers Throughout
Nation to Rally Behind Chief Executives Recon-
mendatiOns.

+ will be called upon to rally to the sup
port of the president, and to acquaint
the members of congress with the de-
sire of labor and labor's friends for
favorable action upon the presidents
recommendation at the earliest pos
sible date"
Shortly before the A. F. of L. exec
utive council announced it's stand on
the presidents plan, Labor's Non
Partisan League took similar action
At point press conference held by
George L. Berry, John L. Lewis, and
Sidney Hillman, directors of the
league, it was announced that a ma.
tional convention Of league represen-
tatives would be held here in the
| near future to arouse support fol-
the program.
At the same time, Berry announced
that a series of mass meetings would
be conducted in many of the principal
cities of the country.
A campaign to circularize league
members and affiliated groups "call-
ing to their atte ntion the absolute
necessity from labor's standpoint OF
adopting the presidents program,
was also planned.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-26
lilo TO CALL
Conference on Hours In
Coal Mining

Geneva.-The International Labor
Office has been instructed by its gov
erning body to communicate with
governments of the principal coal
producing countries; to inform them
that the ILO proposes to call con-
ference in 1887, on hours of work in
the coal mining industry; and to ask
the governments for observations on
the proposal. The replies of the gov
ernments will be submitted to the
governing body at it's next meeting
on May 6.
The decision to instruct the LILO to
consult the governments was taken by
the governing body at its last meeting
here, after it had considered resolu-
tion adopted by the international La
Dor Conference in June, 1886, urging
that such a conference be called. An
attempt to obtain a 40-hour week con-
vention, or international agreement,
for the industry, was made at the
conference, but failed by margin of
four votes to obtain the two-thirds
majority vote required for its adop-
ton.
The conference resolution came be-
fore the governing body at its sew
enty-seventh session last November,
but was referred to the February ses-
sion to give Director Harold B. Butler
of the LILO time to sound out govern
ments as to their views on the subject.
In the interim, the executive COM
mittee of the Miners International
Federation, meeting at Brussels,
adopted a resolution requesting the
governing body Of the ILO to convoke
a conference ON hours of work in coal
mines "at the earliest possible mo-
ment," and pledging its full support
to governments desirops Of protect
ing the coal industries of their own
country against unfair competition
from such oal-producing countries as
might try to evade or obstruct such
an international agreement"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-26
President Urges Congress
To Pass Crop Insurance Law

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has asked congress in
a message to enact program of
crop insurance and storage of re-
serves to begin in the year 1888, and
at first to be applied only to wheat
The president said the crop insur-
ance plan would aid not only farmers
but consumers and business and the
unemployment situation as well.
at would help" he said, "to pro-
tect consumers against shortages OF
food supplies and against extremes of
prices.
"And finally, it would assist in pro-
viding more nearly even flow of
farm supplies, thus stabilizing farm
buying power and contributing to the
security of business and employment" !"
The presidents message said that
crop insurance and the storage of re-
serves Should be a part of the foun-
dation of agricultural policy which
we are building"
The policy, he said, "must include
the conservation of soil and water,
better land use, increased farm in
come, and alienation of distress in
rural areas arising out of factors be-
yond the control of individual pro-
ducers."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-26
MORE THAN
% Million Seek Old Age
Benefits

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-A to-
tai of 23,657 ,461 employe applications
for participation in the federal old age
benefits program under the social Sc
curity act are now on file with the
Social Security Board.
Setting up an individual account for
each of these millions of applicants
is progressing rapidly, the board re-
ports. OF the total applications re-
ceived, only 517,170 have not been
started through the successive opera
tions necessary to set up individual
accounts.
At the same time the post office
department submitted to the board an
estimate of employe applications flel
in Is of the largest post offices in the
country as of January 15, 1887. The
department handles all applications
for social security accounts in its
1902 temporary tipping centers before
they are submitted to the board.
Meantime, industrial and CONNER
cial concerns, which have made ap-
plications for employer account num-
bers have indicated to the board that
their peak employment totals 26,252,-
799 workers. While thousands of ap-
plications are still being received daily
by the wage records division of the
Social Security Board from post office
typing centers, the board urges elig-
ible employees who have not yet done
so to file their applications. The board
added that post Offices are now as
signing social security account num-
bers within two or three days after
receipt of an employe application.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-26

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
American Federation of Labor has
officially approved President Roose-
velt's plan for reforming the federal
judiciary. The executive council of
the A. F. of L., composed of the heads
of II international A. F. of L. un-
ions, at its quarterly meeting in this
city, issued the following statement:
"The executive council of the
American Federation of Labor Off
cially approves the recommendation
of the president of the United States
contained in the message he trans
mitted to congress under date of Feb
ruary providing for reorganiza-
tion of the federal judiciary. The
council arrived at it's decision to sup
port the presidents recommended
tion after painstaking investigation
and most careful thought and study.
Labor Believed For Plan
at was the opinion of the execu-
tive council that the sincere and earn
est desire of labor for judiciary re-
form and for the realization of social
and economic advancement, could be
promoted better through the accept
ance and application of the presidents
recommendation, rather than through
the slow, tedious process of Of con-
stitutional amendment.
"The council fully believes that la
Dor throughout the United States,
as represented by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor will rally to the
support of the president in the recon-
mendation which he made.
ut is the purpose Of the executive
council to call upon labor throughout
the entire country to give to the pres
ident's plan for judicial reform full
measure of support.
Union Help to Be Asked
National and international un-
ions, state federations of labor and
city central bodies, all chartered by
the American Federation of Labor,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-26
By GEORGE L. KNAPP

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has told congress and
the country that the farm tenancy
problem is one of the biggest and most
conmplex that America has to face;
and that action on it can scarcely be-
gin too soon.
The president summarizes the re-
port of the special committee which
studied the problem. Farm tenants
are already more than two out of every
five farm operators, and their number
is growing at the rate of 10000 a
year. Nearly all tenants are on short
terms, which makes for the ruin of the
land. Hundreds of thousands of men
who nominally own their farms real
ly own only an equity of 20 per cent
or less. Farm interest rates are too
high. And the situation, very bad al
ern Tenant Farmers Union on the
Four Point Plan Proposed
The president picks four forms of
action to be pursued:
1. Liberal and long term credit to
enable tenants who have proved their
ability as farmers to become owners.
2. Modest loans to keep small own
ers from slipping into tenancy and
to enable tenants, croppers and farm
laborers to improve their standards
of living.
8. Public action to take out of farm
use land unfit for farming, and reset
tie it's occupants on good land.
a. Cooperation of federal with
state and local authorities to improve
the leasing system.
The president notes with approval
that the committee stresses the need
of training in both farming and health
matters, and the evils of land specu-
lation.
Minority Report Vigorous
Though of high quality and unques-
tionable earnestness, nothing in the
formal report of the committee COM
pares in vigor and plain speaking
with the minority report of w. T..
Blackstone, representing the South
ern Tenant Farmers Union on the
presidents committee. Indorsing the
great body of the report, Mr.. Black
stone claims the right to disagree on
some:
"In setting forth these observa-
TOMS, we do not think we can be ac-
cused of making undue claims when
we state that we workers in the fields
through our unions, through our
strikes, through our willingness to
stand up against beatings, espionage
and all manner of terror in our fight
to improve our shamefully depressed
conditions have brought the attention
of the country to our problems, and
led to the appointment of the presi-
dents committee. AS the specimens
under the microscope land the pre-
sumed beneficiaries) we ought to know
better than others what is wrong with
us and our situation"
The first big point Of disagreement
is that the committee would put the
farm security administration and the
Farm Security Corporation under the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-26

Shanghai (ILNS)-Tramways were
halted in the international settlement
on February when conductors and
motormen went on strike for 80 per
cent wage increase.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-26
Farm Labor Organization Urged
In Minority Report on Tenancy

department OF agriculture Black Independent Agency
stone makes emphatic objection Continued two)
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Washington Current Comments

Washington weather is warm, hot in fact, with the thermometer at 94 degrees. IL has been quite as warm in Congress. The rise in temperature there arose from opposition to a bill supplying a billion and Q half dollars for re- lief without specifying so clearly as some wished, the particular manner in which the money was to be spent. The bottom dropped out of the opposition in the house a few days ago, and the appro- priation went through, after in- formal indication from the White House as to the channels through which part of the cash might be expected 10 flow.
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in hte latter part of August and early September.
 On reaching the islands the old bulls at once take their places on the rookery ground, in many cas- es, perhaps in most, choosing the same spot occupied in former years. They remain on their sell ected places throughout the en- tire breeding season, without eat ing. Once the place is chosen they can scarcely be forced by any means to forsake it and they display the most extraordinary courage and persistence in main taining their position against the assaults of their rivals, or the eff orts of man.
 During May and June the num- bers on the rookery increases, each bull upon arriving taking such place as he can obtain, som e times by dispossessing another, but as a rule, by selecting an un- coupled spot. Thus the late com CTS settle about the ends or rear of the breeding grounds.
 Shortly after the first of June the females of three years and over begin to arrive. Each is pregnant and is impelled by her condition to seek place to give birth to her pup. The females on arrival at once land and join a bull and within few days, some times a few hours, they give bir- tn. Each day other cows arrive and the harems grow rapidly. The arriving cows show a teno- ency to join the larger groups, and consequently there is an un- even growth, some bulls secur- ing large harems and in the ear- ly season, while others nearby, apparently equally as strong and
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-15

The royal family in England have their gifts for Wallis and Edward in the mail, under sep arate cover, charges prepaid, whi oh reminds one that a wedding is wedding, the world over, and with the high as well as the low ly. Among the problems that have escaped the notice of the League of Nations and legislators every where is the necessity for a safe and sane wedding, so far as gifts are concerned. Not a few cou- pies start life with six sugar bowls, or four cocktail shakers when neither of the contracting parties drink, and as the mer- chandise is viewed, there arises the sobering thought that the 2nd payment on the house must be met next month. It might be a good plan for both donors and recipients to lay aside false pride and get right down to business at the start. Why not announce frankly that the ceremony will be conducted on five dollar cash basis, for example. That would save the guests a lot of running around from store to store in the hot sun, and would also relieve the welded pair of the necessity for carrying a dozen smoking stands as surplus stock, the pro- per article being brought down from the attic when the we'll meaning relative who supplied it writes that he is coming for a visit
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-15

The relief matter beyond the lowerhouse at least, attention is being directed to the Presidents pointed message 10 the effect that something must be done to put a curb on wealthy tax evaders, who according to common belief. have larger loopholes of escape than those of moderate means, and a keener eye for loopholes, Neith- CT the rich man nor the tax col lector Is popular. How is a per
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-15

son to know which side to take? We growl about paying our taxes and in the same breath berate those who are able to avoid pay ment Perhaps the whole matter boils down 10 the adage that mis- cry likes company. In this inst ance probably it is entitled to larger company. That, in any event, is the Presidents view.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-15
How The Seals Live And Thrive
 Pribiloff Island

The following story, which ap- peared in the S. s. Victoria ships news, is a particularly ineligible account of the habits and life of the Fur Seal which inhabit the Pribiloff Islands.
 The Alaska Fur Seal (Callor- minus Alascanus), which is found exclusively on the Pribiloif Is. lands n Boring Sea, although sim liar in appearance. has certain characteristics by which i. is re- cogcAed oy naturalists a. ds.- met from t',e seals inhabi:ing t.,t Russian and Japanese islands ly- ing near the coast of Asia.
 They have a range peculiar to themselves and are not associat- ed at any season of the year with the other species of fur seals. Ii is Remarkable among large an.- mals for it's highly gregarious and polygamous nature and it's habit oi performing long migration. It comes to land only in the sum- mer for the purpose of breeding and rearing It's young; the remain der of the year is spent entirely at sea. It is an animal of exceed ingly strong instincts and rela- lively small intelligence. The dis parity in size between the sexes is very great, the adult male be- ing nearly, or quite, five times as heavy as the female and thus it results that seals of different ages and sexes are different in appearance and to some extent in habit. The names by which the different ages and classes of seals have become known, therefore, are somewhat peculiar. The breed ing males are bulls, the females are cows, while the young are pups. The males just approach ing full maturity are called half- bulls, while the young males are termed bachelors. The breeding ground is a rookery, and the place resorted to by the bachelors is hauling ground.
 Practically all of the individ- uals of the herd during some part of the season from May to Dec ember make the Pribiloff Islands their home. The winter and early spring months are spent entirely at sea. The migration route, in general, is southward to the pass es of the Aleutian Islands, then east and southWard along the coast of Alaska, British Columbia, and the United States, to the lat itude of Southern California. The adult males remain farthest nor tn, wintering south of the Aleut- ian chain and in the Gulf of AL aska. The younger males go some what farther south and the femal- es the farthest of all. Returning from their winter resort, the seals reach the islands in general ac- cording to their age, the older animals first and the youngest last. The adult males begin to reach the Pribiloff Islands about May 1st, the adult females and older bachelors arrive there main ly in June, the two year olds us- ually in July and the yearlings
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vigorous, may still have no cows. Early in the season, before the arrival of the COWS, there is some display of rivalry among the bulls and late arrivals attempting to gain a place near the center
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of the late arrivals attempting to gin 3 place near the center of the rookery are frequently sub ject to the joint attacks of sev- eral bulls already in place. Tn
 tContinued on Page Three)
The Washington times., 1937-11-10

10 O:OO-PHILLIPs Fl. LORD-DEamatlEes
life-stOry of Neal Bowman.
phantom" Ohio state bandit
WJsV..
NOVELTY
7:15-HoBBY LOBBY-A quintet Of
lobbyists whose leisure time
activities range from collecting
samples of dirt from every corr
ner of the globe to battling man-
killing fish with a tiny knife, will
be guests of Dave Elman. WJSV
DISCUSSIONS :.
3:OO-HOME COUNsEL-Mrs. Frances
Troy Northcross, noted home
economist, speaker. ..... WJSV
7:45-BOAKE CARTER - News conn
mentatOr. ........E......" ."JSN
8:30-SID SKOLSKY-Asks his audi
euee to help him select the best
10 movies of the year, and the
best performance. .......W WMAL
s:45-POLETICAL SCIENCE MEETING
Henry MOrgenthau, jr., Secre-
tary of the Treasury; Senator
Harry f. Byrd, of Virginia, and
s. Parker Gilbert, partner of u
p. Morgan and Company, speak
on general theme of "Expendl.
lures Of the Federal Govern
Academy Of Political Science at
New York. ............. .WMAL
ORCHESTRA, DANCE TUNES
1OI5-HORACE HEIDI. .........WOL
11:30-LEO REISMAN. .WOE
! IL 12:O0-EDDY ROGERS, ..,,...,, WRC
l2:3O-BOB CROSBY. WJSV
The Washington times., 1937-11-10
GIVES FIFTIETH
CHURCH DINNER

Patrons of the fiftieth annual
turkey dinner given at the Pythian
Temple. 1014 Ninth st. N. W., for
the benefit of the Gorsuch M. E.
Church, Fourth and L. SITS. N. W.,
will regret that Mrs. Ella Rowe ex-
poets it to be the last she will su-
pervise.
Mrs. Rowe, now 80 yeas old, is
justly proud of the record for
punctuality and regularity. This is
not only the fiftieth of these din
ners which she has given for the
benefit of the church, but for 40
years she has not missed a single
church service.
She takes pride in the fact that
many patrons of the affair, held
each November, have been coming
back to partake of the bounteous
feast annually for 25 years. She
admits, however, that with the
passing of the years and with
many of her skilled helpers of
other years dropping out" the
task is becoming harder. The din
ners are being served from 4:3O
to 1880. This is the second and last
day.
Not only is she interested in the
turkey dinner, which is "hers," Z"
but she spends a big part Of the
year working for the bazaar, which
is a feature of the annual event.
Mrs. Rowe makes her home with
her son, Benson Rowe, at 1904
Warder st. N. w. She has been
a widow for more than 80 years.
Attendance of a grandson, Allen
Stewart Mitchell, and his bride,
who ware married October IL, will
make the present dinner outstand-
ing for her.