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America Wants the Monroe Doctrine Defined ... -rQV LAtli Aiwrfnm cocntrtc* irt.tvti partlrlpAt'Ht In ihe p^»r« :H r-«> Vml also rtiuw Invhfdl to Jota tti* Vtmtw of Nallon* an- wateto- ' ^ ,.'rvt of Salvador that tb« Untied Statva drftne the Monroe dor*ra*e

AWEUL THRILLS OF FIRST RIDE

Owner of New Car Quickly Dis-

covers He Cannot Shift Gears

Like Derrwstrator.

TRAFFIC TINGLES PUZZUNS

- PILE OF NEWSPAPERS OF MUCH ASSISTANCE

SMUTS ARE MOST DESTRUCTIVE TO CEREAL CROPS IN ALL GRAIN-GROWING SECTIONS

Rule* of the Road, repeclaiiy Gettlnc by Policeman at Cron log. Oftan Cal Driver** Goat—Many

Things Forgotten.

Worked Under Wheels, Tney Help Motorist Out of Mud.

m. that they will kno» Jim what they an- ajcrwlnp to If they Join tb^ Ira cur. The vtate department Ua« acknowl«dcrd rv-flpt of tbr mjue« from Joan Franco Itiredra. mlnlKrr for foneifn •ftaim of Salvador. Hla note say*,

amonc otlirr tlilncsf

“Ttir text of the trwitr' cont* In* bouglit. n nninc It look* fast aa tary one artl-Je which ba» awakeoed warm i oa clvlnjr candy to a child, but when illwumioti throughout the whole Atner- ‘ you start out by yourself—that's dlf-

Irac contli'rnt. Including the tnltcd j frrent.

State*, due no doubt to Its brevity and ; About the frit trouble you bare la ■ark.of cl. ante**. 1 refer to antrle 21: with your seam, and white you are

ir la rfctv eovraant nhall be d.-erord Jo affect the validity of in- i certain that you can shift them aa i-nearotnen:*. mr h aa tr.-ntle* of nihitruttou or regiooai under- , wetln* the demonatrator did. you dlae the Monroe doctrine, for securing the malntroan.e of peace.' • rover that you can't, and In all prob--yj P vcmtncot r.*r>gnlrm that the Monroe doctrine oonaotMate* the abtllty you htame It on the car.

. n ,| rr .- Of th. continental watt- of i.-tln America ^ - r - — . ll realize*

1 saved them from ! that It la a powerful

Ririaa Bother.

Method of Handling Difficult Situation So Simple and So Uniformly StKceasful That Every Driver Should Know of It. From a tnotorUt wl^> live* In n section where mud road* are common cornea a augpeation which ha author guarantee* aa the beat remedy for such a siruatiiu) short of a r»lf °T Nuaky mule*. Ue atatea that be ha* tried the method on numerous ocm.aiou*, and that It ho* never failed to work. He aaya: -I : Iwnya have stored away *oroewhere In my car a stack of old newspaper*. They don't take up so much room but that I can always find a place for them. When l strike a mudhole and the wheels begin to fly around In that exasperating way which tells me •hat 1 am firmly and definitely stuck. 1 get out my bundle of papers. — TukinT - a - newspaper' I 'fold It In half horiiouial acres* the page and proceed to the task of working t*“

.. .. .... This Is a simple matter, and

; • ^ Jw pllabed by feeding the paper while the

^ oi „ i ^2 ?r^r«srjsis I -r *■* -« —■ * m “•

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feht

ud aat n nu

t«o«e*wr. the covenant of the l«giie of Nation* does

raw ifcc • .urpmu-s

Aerrica.

Imck and forth when j

... lengthwise. Usually only

few will have been worked In when

nor fix _

id* since «a the other hand, the doctrine will be forthwith trao*-

*,in*oi-K ^ fun rauc,lon 0t *i "““T"* Pf T,.T!^“ex^lS nn<3 °’h«- «ra. and finally two | ^ ^ and the rt V«f milversal public law. Juris ct de Jure. 1 request that your excellency or cm _, ^ yo „ , ou can I , *** , f ^ few •—' * « , ..v, enough to give tb" anther tic mierpretailoa of tfce Monroe doc- | ^ ^ hr]1J . . Tolce call ' r,r * tsrt forward,

wnderstood In the present hUtorical moment.

Ir»t. a* U

i complimentary.

do the work, keep on feeding In the

lag out something that you know Isn't j Dritl | lr ,ct!on Is gnlned.

, _ „„ “This method of Itandilng a difflcul: bBrtt 7 ™ i rftnation l* so simple and so onlformn ^. w j ly successful that every motorist shonld

- — >—— : Hear when you go to pas* anoiner «tored away

“Stop Throwing Forests Intn tiie W^ote Baskets! K-ck^mTo b • i liver n curb or Into a

re*-

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Stinkr . Smut of WhMt-Cr.ln From Treats and Untcsrtrt ^rspared l y the rmted Slates Derari- i wheat U docked more or le*» by tho

roent of AgrtcuMure.i j miller.

Smuts caused an estimated loss In when *rout:y aee.1 la sown In the 1918 of 2MJOO.OOe bushel* of wheat. | Ml , lh , M |„klng smut >|w.re* gertiib 110.U0O.UO bu*lels of oats, and ^• on0 ^ naie slmultaueou«ly w^tb tli« when* 000 bushels at barley In the 1'nlled k( .mel*. and the smut fuutu* peu«State*. These ditease*. whb-h are |r;ltrt lhr young wbea 1 plant. It coo among the most destructive that at- ,| nu „. to grow within the tissue* *«t tack cereal crop*, ooeur to a Crontcr |he whn)( ,4 not ,,,,1 form* lt» spore* or le*» extent in all the grain-growing ^ p| a cc where the healthy kernel

section* of she country. , slmuid be develo|ied. Tfiere are two knds of wlwat *■»«. | Control o. T Loose Smut

the loose suut and the .■ovaor'T MBU , #mn , is ,-r^y q:«cult to cote the latter ta a:*o caMed hunt or atlnk- l ^ fungus Is Inaide of the

. orgsnleatlont in

*r cniservatlon iwmpolgn. vlmries I.Bthrop Pack, president ^ ih, *.vx>clatlcn. has given out bg t-,. ntib-h show the tremendous Intj»ov hi pulp wood consuniptloo. In •wiyrr*- the subject ha* come up for

fMiuetn dlscuoalon.

i Here are the figures submitted by hr Park, who call* for a nttlona'. tnre.1 |Kdic> and for better fire prelect tun for the forest*. In Cvirds cmi-

<cninl and value:

w . * ».*rait ttn

t*.. " ”1."!.!...^. 'MAT M.«nAm ■’»

lo.tM ia,.m™ MW .l-M , «~t-rtMjr lie, «iu

leaned. Ttd* will wave paper and .-Ut filing espmwe*. too W- WMUIW. «'■ drrt.rel. w.U M ««««•■«« <*"» '

™ 1,1—r .»d P.,lp •«« n-< r^-nur » ™

U» future raw material supply.

slbie far a motorlat to get t

7X.M7.1U

It recommended a nation-wide forest sur-

wv, letter fire rroiectUm. and increoaed plantiag of „ .« w i*tion one of the first organization, to Join -h* Amerwm. Forawtr, ‘ ^

in If campaign for paper conservation K Uw National

ri ' oounerA* of. Chicago. Ml*. Kloreo -e King. ,,,P ^ a‘

_. ..op than try to pass a street car. The... again, you've wondered what ww« the matter with your new car ' because It wouldn't go rifbt and

I lumped .Ions .nd lh. ««„- heted . wm .

PI. , furpm-. .od 7 od radldn’, c« B"- “ <“ i .... mafhiw o». M —Ik. j » h» ! i'osslblv you have stopped and tele-1 — —

!Sr2Lr^,?iS.”Sr«~ i AVOIO SQUaKS IN SPRINGS

1 releiised your brake and you were all

right.

Battery Exhausted.

Then, perhaps, you allowed your light* to burn all ulght In the garage. | F 0O€fckT springs ure nan! oh the or maybe you left on your Ignition and ^ device, oblninable si moat exliau-ted your battery. Alan, per- nrrr * vorj ztore*. -spread* the leaver, hap*, you forgot all about your light* | po-f, ai a^ end enough so until a pollceroon warned yon. (hBt grease may be spread evenly on Tiw new driver usually kill* hi* en- Jhenj when once adjusted glne on the track when he pease* In front of n street cur. Again, did you ever aiep on the aeeelerator Instead of the brake and run over the curb? In the winter, did you let your radiator

freeze?

lug smut.

mt ta fdwid In practically

papers from neighboring houses: but when the mishap occurs In some lonely

Device Shown In llluatratlon Spraarf*

m Equally on Both Side*

for Greaslnp.

twa- I P very wheat field. It Is most serious

“Boiling” Senators Give Soldier a “Square Deal”

p I'VAToitK rM -»1« IM mm, d., u-

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la the southern winter wheat sectionsouthern Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indian*, souihern Olio, southern Pennsylvania. Maryland. Virginia. Kentucky and Tennessee. Throughout this general ar.-a the annual losses ran. e from 3 to & per cent. In many Individual fields losses of If. to 20 per cent are known. Ouislda of this general region the damage due to loo*, smut range* from about 1 to

2 per cent.

Bunt, or Atlnklog ftnuL also 1* found In the different wheat-growing areus of the country. Commonly, the damage done by ihl* smut Is from 1 to 5 per cent of th* crop. Frequently, however, fields show losses which range from from 20 to 10 per ‘cnt.

seed which I* spwn andihewe he reached by oWraify chemicals ^_ r ^' out 'killing the wheat -embr-o. •"'•e disease, however, can be coatrolled bjf the eo-call-^i hot-water treatment. The 1 method Involve* soaking the seed grain In cold water for 4 to fl hours. It 1* then -lipped In hot water at a tempera-'' lure of 129 degrees Fahrenheit for Itlmlnutes: the seed should then be spread out to dry. ' It la very Important that the water be kept at the «r.ct temperature and' thc seed Immersed for Just the err red period nf time. If fhe water 1* allowed to get one or two degree* above the temperature Indleaied. oi the time prolonged beyond the 10 minute*. mnMderable Injury to the grain

will revolt.

The hbi-woter treatment, on account of II* difficulties. Is not practicable «

Several fields have been destroyed lu t |||( , krrrar8 f an n. One roiivt havewhich the damage amounted to 50 or | ^ BCCurate iiicriuometer and facilities^ even 80 per cent. f or keeping tli? lemjK-niture of ihe w* . How to Distlnculah Smut*. | le r constant. This, can be done quite: Loose smut *hot»* up most atrlkhtply easily: wkewf *taa» ts^valhhle.

REPAIR BENT HEADLIGHT RIM Novel Plan Outlined for Remeoylng Delect In Nickel Part—Finish

Is N Injured.

Here I* a novel method «*f repairing' Leaf Spring Spreader, a bent headlight rim. If !t Is of nickel., , . Remove the rim from the oth-r bead-- width of the spring*, a single operallcb* and pour molten babbitt feto the , ,ioo of the .ever, which Is rotable r.nd hollow portion of it. Thl« will not In- may be operated at any angle spreads lure the nickel finish. After removing the leave* apart and locks itself lo the hardened babbitt, place U In the thi* pt*Uloo until by a further puu damaged rim and with a small hammer i on the lever the sjireader Is released and light taps force the rim to assume ! and immediately ready for the next the shape of the babbitt. Insertion.

R,GHT ShAUsT^E PA,NT

~ -■r. t emiwuspc** Good Mixture. Gnsollne in several of the Buropean To paint the exbsust pipe require* ! conntriea cost* •« much as $150 * gala compound capable of resUting a high lot. ^

decree of boat. Use two parts of!

■^TudUorC’dlsallowed all claims ft, ..-o^riy los. by flre unirss | ‘ ‘ U “ ,D th,, ' ciiiiii.ant* can cartlfv that the loss ocenrred while thi.- claimant was engrgeo rtirt j 1- thoroughly mixed and •thied to country. # . .

which la .en part* of endlnm rillcate.| __ _ ln New

at the time when the wlieat come* Into The zMseesed phtttt Is-found vohave the kernel* and chaff replaced by

*1001 Unde Sum. Senator

saW the present cliuatlon was "perfertlv absurd'' and read these paragraph* from a letter fom the sccre-

taty <>f war:

The original act was Intended to proride « rimide and expedition* method of settling the claims of otD-,B-r* and enlisted men for relmburee-m.-nt for personal property lost, damue r<i or destroyed In the mllitaty aervlce. of ihe United States through no fault of their own. However, a

ris* uf decision* b> the o®< '-ds of the treasury dcpartmentlrt'ep a

"--HOW .m Ihr f. k. « l-«l>id,’

rf the clk.rom wMrti >•» *™ «<* J-H.U«k krlHlj

numarized a* follow s :

*vlag pwernment property.

The oamptroner ha* ruled that "money" I* ni,! V 1 The comptroller has recently decide,! that propgrtj lost

- *- emwklered a* having Iwen lost "-h the field m wT aff'ect P^- «»-. -laImam w« artually in the batt'e line. This declaim will affrtt rrac •wally all toroek of personal baggage In the field other than that In courae ( Setter Wadsworth said the comml'iee on military affaEra JlxtUod with j ‘n'l'rtauioa.- and ll* ].urpo*c was to give the soldier a “aquare Oeai.

one P*r; oi glucose one Jour part* of ’ The Oral taxle* appeared n water, until It is I he consistency thst | Fork city In IS*- Steam wa* u

enables It to be applied with a brush. ] as MOttre power.

Great War Makes Many Million:ires’ in America AWKIUCA* millionaires increased by 1.47C In the *"* **'?*£, "” J j A Kurupe. During the second yen.- the Increase was . while ••Will .here were fUH> mora u-IIHtmalre. than to 1OT5. And In 1918. while 'lie net growlh uras only 81. the ,rnc . _ ■liaation rest* la rhe old saying. “Him "bo has—gotar Tho Increases of Hist yrar jo merrased !ncomw< ef ilii.w lu.-luded In the total* of year*

ron.- by. -•» •

I'KtrlbnUaa of thrse new mlltlonc!r,» llirougboitt the country shows '•-ai th;<k»«t where war activities *.-r- greoUkt. with New: York stale *1 having 2.888. Nevada was the ■'dy »ttie that didn't claim a ml'lloun, r-»ident In mt, bnt her milllon-

< 11 .e «-!-«• where, that's tdL

••I American millionaire*, rapltallsi* ' . nianuft; •urerw «!-«' urade war t*- 1 f< - d lan. I'orporathm official* uumhered

The Imgeet iociwwe in l»l?

•noiarried. which make* him appear

* a group made up 8.8S3 of the ,-rtnt 020. a»d the predurora of

-yq millionaires.

44 03lv004. Th* wan claimed to tie y.jin.Jard Oil's -laddy. J. D. HocLi- , . rj, yi„. may have been Mrs. K. H. raively rlcii over the United States , It l* shown that individuals througn | if; <--i -heir 191” lnc«'mi-s a great total v ^ pe->v6 yields Unde Bam’*

The photograph outside their house auto In v Bead*. Florida- The auto I Move and lights, waabstand.

Mrs. It. H. Corwin of Lockport. N. •y made the trip from Lockport to Palm -.1. made into u divan by day. eleclric nulng water, and many other *Ul>e com-

a hlsck. sooty mirs* of dUK’liko- particles. These du»t-llke particle*, tho zpores oi the smut fungua. begin to blow trom the dlsi-saeil head soon after the latter emerges from the boot. Hiesv spores are carried by ihe wind to neighboring sound head* which are In bloom at the time; they lodge between the glumes or chaff, where they start growth Immediately and penetrate the newly forming kernels. When these Infected kernels ore ripe they can not be distinguished from sound kernel?, but they nevertheless contain the smut fungus. When an Infected seed Is planted and germinates the smut plant within It also begins to grow' and develop* within the growing plant; when the plant begins to form the head the developing tissues of the grain and chaff arc destroyed and the smut fungus produces It* spore* Wheat heads Infected with bunt readily distinguished a short time before the wheat U ripe, although the trained observer can detect the p ence of the disease several days fore. The beads of smutted plants stand more erect on account of th lighter weight. Tb? chaff Is spr, apart by the swelling of the enlarged false kernels or smut balls, which g! ihe heads a dark color. These smut halls contain -a greasy. Ill smelling

mass of smut spor»«.

In thrashing operations these smut | damage I (.alls are knocked out and the head j dipping more or less broken apart and the j the copi smut rjK.res scattered over the sound I tion of kernels; such grain ba« a darker eolor J gallons

disagreeable trior due to the

The Control o? Bunt.

-Bu'n'fT'or stinting smut. If ffldnj' controlled by the use of formaldehyde. A simple procedure I* to place 1 pint hr- 1 pound of commercial fortnalde WjnleLhi 40 gallon* of water. The seed |o he mwiod should be freed as much Va |x>selbl« fiom smut balls and othei foreign tikatler, and should then be dip hoif In t 1 .* folnialdebyde solution and lent them about 10 minutes. During Thi* period the sack should be raised ami hi jarred so as to stir up the.grain And get H thoroughly la contact with the solution. After treatiaeW! ihe grain should be sprawl out ta tlr^ fcnd then sown as soon as possible. ' On* pint of foneuidehyde solnttbnL' dl» solved in 40 gallon* of Water, if aulB Clcnt to treat abou: 40 bushels of seed

grain. •

Another metfiod of applying the solution Is to'sfiread the grain-te ha treaied on a claanJIoor. and by tnesna of a sprinkling -can ,ef»rinkle the solnDon over the grain. Wie grain shonld be abov -lcd over In bider to get the solution well in contact 'wlft the grata. The solution sboufd bt 'BppIlM at'lhe rate of atmut one galWtrtd' one buale el of seed grain. The grain should 1* piled ttji and COVCTed with tack* o* canva? and left for two or three hourw It should then, be. ajwt'L out to dry and sown as soon a* possible. After treating the grain, great oafy „ mu«t be taken not to pltre It on a floor or In sacks which are contain* nated with the bunt spores, or to sow It in a drill which Is eonUmlnatW. Bunt Problem of the Pacific Northwest In the Pacific Northwest, bunt, oi Stinking smut, presetil* a 'cry s-rien? problem because of soli infeati low la that region. Daring the thrashing «>» a smutted crop the smut gpores are blown long distance* over the fahowef land, as summer jellowlng for wkes* is a common practice. When the faii rains occur, along about seeding time. These spores In the aoll germinate and infect the young wheat plants as they develop. On this account send treatment Is not entirely effective; but. a general rule, the cupper sulphate treatment gives much better results

that' ihe formaldehyde.

Toe copper sulphate or hloestone treatment consists In dipping the seed In a solution of copper sulphate. 1 jHiund of copper sulphate being dissolved In 5 gallons of water. After Imm.-rrion the Bcefi !• drii-d or sowu immediately. Thi* solution may catme considerable Injury to the grain- Thin damage can be l-seenci greatiy by

-.1, after removal from

ilutlon. la a aeln-

md of <

* 1!“

prgaetre of t

Smutty > copper aulpual*