PAGE TWO. THE TRIBUNE, DILLON, MONT.; THURS., DEC. W,1933. T*\EATH came suddenly to Alezan-, der Legge¿ p resid en ti th^ Inter­ Sweet Clover to , News Review of Current national Harvester company and . one of the country’s leading Industrialists, In his suburban home near Qhlci _ New High Record Events the World OverHe was almost sixty-eight years or age and apparently had been .In j good health -Varieties and Strains for Mr. Legge was the first chairman of Almost Every Condition the federal farm board, under Presi­ National Prohibition Passes Out and Foreign Liquordent Hoover, giving up his $100.000 National-Topics Interpretec* and Purpose. Comes In— Johnson Put in Control of AAA Codes— post with the Harvester company In by William Bruckart ^Preparvd by th* Coll eg* of- Afrloultaro. the summer of. 1929 tp accept the $12- University of Illinois.—WNU Servlos. .Will Budget Director Douglas Resign? 000-a-year government position. For Illinois farmers already have adjust­ 20 months he devoted himsety to farm Washington.—When the Eighteenth As ,to the local option problem, ed their crop acreages to the point relief experiments, standing his ground amendment to the Federal Constltu Washington observers are “able only where, they are growing almost eight­ 1 tlon became a mat? By EDWARD W. PICKARD in the. face of 'Widespread ‘criticism, to guess that-there will be many heat­ een times as much sweet clover as Then he resigned and returned to his New Source ter of history the ed fights In numerous communities they were thirteen years ago, but this former place, throughout the country. People ■ al­ ATIONAL prohibition went Into cents a bushel for each bushel the of Revenue other day-1 *00k oc- crop may be expected to spread to new By the gift of $400,000 some time . , caslon to look up ways have fought oyer the prohibition N the discard on December 5. State farmer agrees to withhold from pro­ prominence under the wheat program prior to his death and of $500,000 in some’ hid records about the consump question since it has been an Issue* and of the agricultural adjustment admin­ conventions In Pennsylvania, Ohio and duction In 1934. The payment will be tlon of liquor in the days gone by, Utah ratified the repeal amendment his will, Mr. Legge brought to com-, they will argue about'it npw in many istration, according to a new bulle­ based on the average -field of the One of the things I found was that on that day, making pletlon months of work to perfect a areas that otherwise are noted for tin, “Sweet Clover. In Illinois," which contracted acreage during the previous philanthropic organization to be known 1914 was the record year and that in their peaceful atfnosphere where poli­ the necessary thirty- five-year period. One-half the payment was recently released by the experi­ as the Farm Foundation, it was made those twelve months our nation, then tics are taken usually in smaller doses, ment station of the College of Agri­ six, and Immediately will be made to the farmer as soon consisting of approximately 100,000,(XX), known by Frank O. Lowden, former There seems to be assurance here culture, University of Illinois. -on being notified by as his contract has been approved, had disposed of almost 800,000,000 gal­ telegraph, Presl dent governor of Illinois, and chairman of of a. continuing problem resulting from As a soil Improvement crop for the the other half when he has fulfilled the foundation. ' • lons of \ whlskys, wines and pther Roosevelt and Acting onii community being wet and its next acres which will be retired from wheat the terms of the agreement In developing his project, whose liquors. and beer,1 that slightly more door neighbor being dry, or vice versa, Secretary o f State production, sweet clover has no supe­ In return for the farmers’ agree­ funds and activities will be devoted than Sr 000,000 of the total >vas In AVIlllam Phillips Is­ Such a condition Is conducive to en­ rior among the legumes, according to ment to curtail ho^ production the to the Improvement of “thé social, cul­ whisky. sued proclam ations forcement difficulties, and there are ob the authors of the bulletin. government will payj $5 a head on 75 tural and economic conditions of rural From those statistics, I learned also that . the Eighteenth vious enmities as a consequence. So, Experimental work started by the per cent of the average number of life,” Mr. Lowden disclosed, Mr. Legge that the federal government had ob­ amendment w as no from the Washington viewpoint, it np University of Illinois College of Agri­ hogs marketed or to be marketed from enlisted as trustees a group of twenty tained roughly $430,000,000 In taxes, pears there are troubles just beginning longer a part of the culture Id 1005 helped pave the way litters farrowed by the producers’ Industrialists, educators, capitalists and that the. states, counties and mu­ Constitution. In twen­ for a good many communities; they sows In the last two years. and farm leaders from all parts of nicipalities had raised enough addi­ for an Increase ln the state’s sweet Joseph H, ty-four of the forty* will continue for a long time, and so clover acreage from 48,000 acres In the country. tional revenue from liquor and occu­ far as present prospects Indicate the Choate, Jr. eight states the manu­ 1919 to 850,000 acres Id 1932, It 1» DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT returned pational taxes, such as licenses for sa­ future, it will require much more ex­ facture and sale of liquor now Is or pointed out In the bulletin. These * from his two weeks In Warm loons, to make the totnl tribute paid perience and much more wisdom than spon will be legal. The state law's un­ Springs and plunged at once Into the ITH considerable ceremony and studies have been expanded and con­ Wmilitary display the seventh Pan- by liquor exceed $1,000,000,000. The we now have to bring about a perma­ der which It can be sold vary from work of solving the various financial lax|s In effect were distributed and tinued up to the present. The new those providing “wide open” saloons American conference was opened In nent solution of the local option prob- problems confronting his administra­ pa'ssed along until the consumers of leiu. bulletin reports the results of experi­ - in Nevada to a strict system of dis­ Montevideo. Uruguuy, to continue ments made as early as 1917 and as tion. Most Immediate of these was these beverages paid them. There * * * probably three weeks. late as 1932. pensing hard liquor In Montana only the refinancing of government obliga­ were strong anti-tax fights launched through state-owned stores, one In Its deliberations are Although 1934 as n crop season for tions amounting to about $727,000,000 In many places, but the taxes, were cotton is quite some’distance off, the With new demands being made upon every county. Most widely enacted of managed by Enrique maturing the middle of the month. duly “levied, collected and paid.” Department of Agrl- the sweet clover crop by the agricul­ the laws Is one providing for serving This matter was easily and speedily E. Buero as secretary- tural adjustment program and other general. He is one of Plenty of taxes are being levied ToCutCotton culture has begun of hard liquor only with meals. settled when an entire block of $950,- these days, but collecting them Is a (arm developments, varieties and Governmental agencies In Washing­ Uruguay’s most prom­ Acreage sot’kln$ agreements 000,000 of treasury certificates was different proposition, because most of with the cotton strains are being developed and adapt­ ton were swamped with preparatory inent young diplomats sold In one day. The fact that It was our taxes are handled differently than farmers respecting the reduction of ed to almost every condition and use, measures to deal with the Importation and was summoned heavily oversubscribed was considered liquor taxes. acreage. Secretary Wallace said he according to the bulletin. Of the more of foreign liquors, many huge cargoes In administration circles to be a from his post as min­ than twenty-five known species of ister to Germany to To get back to 1914, the consumption hoped to restrict cotton acreage ln of which were waiting for entry; and marked victory for the New Deal eco­ of liquors was accomplished by the 1934 to 25,000,000 acres. That is sweet clover grown In various part» with the federal restrictions neces­ nomics. this duty In the con­ of the world, more than half have ference. people in about nineteen wet states. about 35 per cent below the average sary to protect the states that remain There was no cessation of the con­ We have started the new era (which acreage of years 1928 to 1932, Inclusive, been tried ln the United States. The dry. Joseph H. Choate, Jr., of New troversy over the President’s monetary E. E. Buero In his speech »In­ biennial white-flowered sweet clover, augurating the ses­ repeal of the Eighteenth amendment and the agriculture adjustment admin­ York, son of the famous lawyer and policy and the arguments on both sides must be held to represent) with twen­ istrative considers It will be n reduc­ Melllotus alba, Is the most Important statesman, had been appointed direc­ grew more bitter, though Mr. Roose­ sions President Gnbrlel Terra of and constitutes more than 80 per cent Uruguay demanded the "scaling down ty-four states in which liquor sale Is tion of sufficient size to maintain tor of the federal alcohol control ad­ velt himself maintained silence.