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Broadcaster for the Government The thousands of radio fans who nightly listen into the weather repor crop reports, messages from Secretary Mellon and other Important govei mental statements, will be Interested In meeting face to face T. C. Gale, t man who talks to them each evening. Here Is Mr. Gale at work In his offi In the Postofflce department, broadcasting messages to fans the country ov< Raise Forest in Sand Hill! . Big Reforestation Campaign Is youn& Pine- sPruce nn(1 other simi: ,, , ... ... . ? were brought from WIsconi Under Way in Western Sec- and Mlnnesotu and were planted tinn nf Nphraska. the hI,ls* The*' Prompt died. Diff tion oi NeorasKa. ent 8pecIes were obtalBed from , l. mountains, but they also died. Tr< I -,.rr were brought from still other seetlc W FIND RIGHT KIND OF TREE of the country and were planted, t W they all went the same way. Th those In charge of the project < | Completed Work Calls for Planting of termlned to grow a tree that wot 3,000,000,000 Pine Trees?Land thrive under sandhill conditions. No Good for Farms so It Was they established the "Bessey" nurst Made Into National Forest ?named after Dr. Charles ?. Bess* the famous botanist. Lincoln, Neb.?In western Nebraska, F<>r eighteen years the experts ho - - - of r?rnr1iif*lTl^ ?! tree whl Along the Dismal river, fene of the most ?? ????? - stupendous public works ever under- would measure up to their necessiti taken In this country is getting under aRd they have developed a hardv ch way. It is the reforestation of the nursery stock which they ha jsund bills, and the completed work proved will grow and thrive in t calls for the planting of 3,000,000,000 ? i pine trees in a section of the country QTT'TT'T^ Df TDTC 4 where no trees have been known to oJCjJljIX rUK DU?\ 11* grow. In the next six weeks more than a million and a half Western yellow pine and Jack pine sprouts will Divers Plan to R&COVer TrG3SU be planted in the reservation, which is prQm ged Qf Ocean, known as the Nebraska National forest For thirty-five years efforts to grow Benjamin F. Leavitt Invents Dlvli trees have been made on these hills by Suit With Which He Expects to the owners of the cattle ranches which Salvaoe $11,000,000 Lost With dot that section, and for twenty years Lusitania and Arabic. a scientific campaign to muke that country into a great nationul forest I Philadelphia.?Salvaging of the gc has been made, but not until this year sunij wjth the Lusitania and t has the idea gotten down to a real Arabic, some $11,000,000 in all. is t working basis. At the present time object of Benjamin Frunklin Leavi fifty men and the necessary horses and who recently sailed from New Yo tractors are doing nothing but plant- for the spot off Ireland where t ing young trees. For the next six Lusitania went down in 1915. weeks they will devote full time to iL The expedition Is costing $250,0< Then the work must wait until next an(j some qqq stockholders are ba< ye"- ing Leavitt. One thousand acres this year will be Divers will have to go down 2 1 -"^nn.nno vouncr trees. The taot tn renrh the Lusitania and 3 |/ICU11CU nu.1 ^ w _ Nebraska National forest consists of j for the Arabic?twice as far, Leav 20o,000 acres, which were withdrawn | 8ay8( as any diver has ever been ai from the public domain in 1902. Ne- to g0 ln an ordlnary rubber dlvl braskans laughingly remark the tract sujt> was called a "forest" because ln all Leavitt has spent six years the 20o,000 acres there was not a venting his own diving armor. Ln I single tree of any description. grS{ jn 19^ he made the worli Trees Would Not Grow. record descent of 361 feet ln La The sandhills of western Nebraska Michigan, are Just what their name implies. They Ergtit diving suits have been built are partially covered with a sort of Leavitt's own factory here at a c< grass, especially in the small valleys, of $2,500 each. The Leavitt suit Ihe country cannot be farmed. So the made of manganese bronze, a quart very roughest portion wus segregated Inch thick, the torso and headpit and made into a "forest." solid and the arms and legs made But trees would not grow when ribbons of bronze incased in rubb planted. Thousands and thousands of with ball bearings nt the shoulders. NEW PARTIES ARE NOW BARRE1 ?c Soviets Have Monopoly by Law, all the powers of dictator of Petrogri _ . . , . "Our party has the monopoly Says Lenin Adviser. legality,"'he said. "The danger of tl monopoly is that a number of peoj are getting into the party who wot Declares Communist Party Must Keep jnj0 fbe pebty bourgeoisie parties Its Ranks Closed Fxcept to Those such existed. Strictly Sympathetic With Die- "They are not oming into the pai tatorship of Proletariat. with bad Intentions, und are hon< enough, but bring in bourgeoisie vie* Moscow.?No new political parties They are an active part of the poj can be legalized 'n Russia for a num- lotion who like io participate in t ber of years ard the communist party economic and political life of the coi must continue to keep its ranks closed tlT- We shall 6urely be .he monopolh except to those strictly sympathetic of the legality of any party ln tl with the dictatorship of the prole- country for a number of years tnrin* . E. ZiuovielY told the last ses- come." sio of the all-ltussian communist M. ZinoviefT said it would be di pu>ty congress. j cult to clear out this element of t ZinoviefT is iiead of the Third inter- I party, but, as he labor class nu nationale, president of the I'etrograd "do in" the bourgeoisie, the part; provincial soviet, one of Premier Le- difficulties, no matter how great, in ; nin's closest friends and the author of . storing Russia ohould not permit a Lenin's biography. He is a fiery, revo- unripe measures that would lead lutionary crusader, and in the soviet the restoration of the Menshiriki . ~ - 1 v.?? "?? !, nthop hnurireoisie. regime virtually uus uwi >?icu >nW ? EPILEPSY CURED BY SURGERY ' 'The change that has come ov llauser is amazing," he sa d. "Wh I visited liiiu throe days ago he tt Operation of .mplanting Human m(? ||e m, 1(,n^r ha(, epllepsy. j Glands in Bodv of Prisoner at h;iS voracIous aprHite and is Sing Sing Pnson is Successful. such ft sturdy condition thl although he has useless parnlyz Ossining, N. Y.?Epilepsy and stut- left arm, I am going to assign h tering have been tured through im- soon to some light form of occur plantation of human glands into the tion." body of a Sing Sing prisoner, it has just been announced here by Warden Lewis E. Lewis. It was asserted to Holds Self to Grand Jury. be the liret time suoh ho operetio York-Judge Dehmev of t was resorted to for the cure of enl- Common PlMS c?urt, Vators^ N. ? j, held himself in bail to the grand 1u The prisoner, George Hnuser, serv. . . , * J . 1 . , , v. on a charge of manslaughter. lug a sentence for attacking a New York girl, formerly had a serious de- proceeding grew out of an a t^mnhllp ncciripnt in which Judce t feet in his speech and was subject to ---fo'" or five epileptic fits weekly. On 'anP-v s cnr 6*ruch Henry Cowan, ag January 21 last Dr. Terry M. Towns- eighty-three: Cowan died in the B. end, a New York city specialist, re- net hospital. moved glands from the body of a "I want to be treated the same prisoner electrocuted and transplanted anybody else," Judge Delaney said them to that of liuuser, having first fixing his own bond. "I do not wa obtained his consent to the operation, leniency shown to me because of r Warden Lawes says the operation position. I want the grand jury apparently lias bt.n entirely sue- investigate the case the same as yjsfni- would in other circumstances." very sandiest portion of the sandhills Trees from the Bessev nursery nov are being transplanted out onto th< hills and are "making good." Preparing the Soil. To eliminate the competition foi moisture by the native vegetation i ^ deep furrow is plowed, and in tin bottom of this furrow a specially de tpj signed plow makes n suitable trench || | in which the young trees are set. nn< p the sand is tramped down tightl; 1:1 ; about the tree roots. The surface o j the sand becomes very dry, but thi ?f j moisture is retained deep down when iff the roots of the young trees an !f tamped down. The number of tree: [if which died is very small compare* j with the total number planted out. | The early plantings of the develops > stock have nourished, many of th ['| trees now being thirty feet or more I: | height. The original heavy stand o J grass on the ground lias given way t * a thick floor of decaying pine needles which, It is expected, will inuteriall; change and Improve the character o I the soil. As high as SO per cent, or tn t8( trees planted In some years have llvet n. The average Is between CO per cen he and 70 per cent ce The ranchers In the sand hills hav er. taken up the Idea of reforestation, un there Is scarcely a cattle ranch wlthl fifty miles of the national forest thn has not planted a windbreak or n woo lot. Each year since 1912, when seec lings became available, the governmen has given free to the ranchers a6 man of the acclimated trees as they woul ^ agree to plant and care for. As a r( j suit the whole character of the det plsed "sand hills" Is gradually undei ? going a change, and It Is expected I lar time that the terrific winds whlc ^ heretofore have swept the hills wltl ou out Interference will be much ten: er. pered. When the project Is completed th ies Nebraska National forest will be on * of the very largest bodies of nrtlflclr >ut *orestatl?n ,n the wor,d. en Je- Fox "Comes Back" Like Cat lid Pulaski, Wis.?A female sliver fo So broke out of a fox farm here an ;ry seven days later the manager, Joh sy, Meclkalski, received a letter fror William Nnhmals, Odanah, Wis., thn ,ve the fox he sold the farm seve ,ch months ago bad returned to his hoim es, 200 miles away. This distance wa iss covered by the fox In five days, an :ve npon Its arrival at Odanah gave blrt be to four puppies. D LUSITANIA GOLD >2 re "Millions In treasure at the bottoi of the ocean never has been salvage beyond a depth of 150 feet," say Leavltt, "because the pressure Is to ng great Air lines get tangled and n diver can work at that depth mor than 20 minutes, with an hour and quarter to lower and pull up." Leavltt says a novice can go dow ' ? O/Vk fna, ?? I1U in [lis BUll 11VI1I uw IV wv tvw uu he remain four hours. lie Air is manufactured within the sul from a tube containing eight cubic f? rk of oxygen and nitrogen drawn from four-pound cylinder of caustic soda, j valve outlet discharges the air, keer ing pure air circulating at least fou hours. The only line that connects the dive j?5 with the ship above will be a half-lnc1 '15 nontwisting cable that costs $1,120. Ir side this will be a telephone wire cor necting with a transmitter and receh ers within the headpiece. The diving suit weighs 350 poundsbut the enormous pressure of deep wi ter reduces the weight on the ocea floor to 75 pounds. Another Leavitt invention is a deei ,n sea light, a glass globe half an inc )St thick containing a 300-candle powe js bulb. A series of these will be droppe er_ on weights enabling the diver to se ^e over a radius of oeven feet, of The salvage shrp will be held dlrecl er, l.v over the sunken ship by six five-to anchors. rx More serious attention must also b paid to the press, M. Zlnovleff d< clared, as the bourgeoisie writers ar trying to get an Independent pres: ad. and even Journalists registered as en of ployees of the newspapers now pernii nls ted to operate (all government coi ?le trolled) are mostly of the old intell lid gentsla class. If U. S. RELIEF AIDS DEPORTEI ty ?st Charge Cruelty and Outrages to Chrh ?s. tians in Asia Minor by >n- Turks. he in- Constantinople.?Four American Tt 3ts lief workers have arrived here afte lis having been deported frum Kharpul to Turkish Armenia, 50 miles northwes of Diarbekr. They are F. 1). Yowell o fTl- Washington, director of the Kharpu he unit; Dr. Mark L. Ward of Newto ist Center, Mass., chief surgeon; Dr. Rut y's I'armalee of Host on, medical directoi re- and .diss Isabel llarley of l'awtucket ny It. I. Mr. Yowell charged the Turk to with unjust and untneuuiy ireuimen or of Americans and cruelty and outrage against Christians in Asia Minor. or R 71 i Rock, Dislodged by Cow, lie J Rolls Down Hill, Kills Boy in |; ? at, ' j Pikeville, Ky.?Grazing on a e,l i hillside past re, n family cow irn | dislodged a 25-pound rock which )a. i rolled down the hill and crushed to death Luther Lamb, the fiveyear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Itichard Lamb, residing In the Itatliflf Creek section, i The child had been spending ,ie J the day with his grandparents, , | along with his mother and sevrJ' ' en-vear-old brother. Late In the i afternoon the two boys were iu- ' J sent home by their mother. As )e- i i they were passing a cliff near ed ; J their home, the huge rock came ir- I rumbling dowr. ana struck the youngest boy, who wns instantly i killed. An Investigation showed as J that the rock had rolled for a i distance of about 100 yards before striking the lad. ny 1 to it I j Toothache plays no fuvorltee. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SundaySchoo I ' Lesson' , (By REV. P. B. FITZ WATER, D. E j Teacher of English Bible in the Mood Bible Institute of Chicago.) P Copyright, 1922, Western Newspaper Unio f ======== ?j LESSON FOR JUNE 11 0 ! s JEREMIAH CAST INTO PRISON 1 LESSON TEXT-Jeremiah 3S:1-13. j GOLDEN TEXT?Be not afraid of the faces: for I am with thee to deliver thei e saith the Lord.?Jer. 1:8. n REFERENCE MATERIAL ? Gen. 3) f 19-23; Jer. 20:1-1S; Luke 3:l&-20; Acts I 1-11; 16:19-34. 0 ^ PRIMARY TOPIC?Mow God Cared fc >t Jereiiuuu. y JUNIOR TOPIC?Jeremiah's Bold Trutl < tellinp. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPI e ?Faithful in the Face of Danger. 1- YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPI ,t ?Lessons From Jeremiah's Character. I. Jeremiah Predicts the Capture < ^ Jerusalem (vv. 1-3). n 1. To Whom?the People (v. 1 f Jeremiah hud been taken out of tl ^ prison by the king (37:17), an I ordered confined to the court of tl I prison (37:21). The people seem I v have had free access to bi:n in tl j court (32:12). From this place < j. limited confinement Jeremiah ni j. nounced to the people their approacl .. ing captivity. n 2. Counsel Given (vv. 2, 3). (1) A h that remaineth in the city shall die t th$ sword, famine and pestiience. (i j. He that goeth forth to the Chaldeai shall live. "He shall have his life f< e a prey" doubtless means that he sha e escape with his life, though losing a II. Jeremiah Accused by the Princ< (vv. 4, 5). 1. "He weakeneth the hands of tl men and all the people" (v. 4). Fro K a human standpoint what they sa! was true, but since Jeremiah was bi n the Interpreter of God to the natlc n they ought to huve heeded his advi< to surrender. n 2. "This man seeketh not the we fare of this people, but the hurt" ( ? 4). This charge was utterly fals Jeremiuh was the best friend of tl ^ people, for he faithfully proclaime to them God's judgment upon them f< - their sins and advised them how 1 I make the best of their unfortuna ' situation. 3. The King's Cowardly Act (v. 5 Jeremiah is abandoned by his cowar n ly friend. The very one whom Jer d miah was trying to help deserted hii s The king was afraid of the Chaldean o the princes, Jeremiah and God. o III. Jeremiah Cast Into the Dungec (v. 0). 8 This was not a regular prison, bi a cistern which had doubtless be( n emptied of its water during the sieg d leaving only "mire." Into this mi he sank. The purpose was to 1 It Jeremiah die there. There was i ^ possible way to escape. In this situ a tion Jeremiah is a type of Chri (Psalm 69). Jeremiah was one of tl y. bravest of God's servants. IV Jeremiahi Rescued From tl Dungeon (vv. 7-13). T 1. By Whom?Ebed-raelech, an Afi f, ran servant (vv. 7-9). The Jewii t- propliet whom his mvn countrynn tried to destroy is saved by a Gentil r. which may be thought of as for shadowing the Gentiles' attitude t ward Christ. Though Ebed-mele< had a colored skin he was the white n man in Jerusalem. He was not on sympathetic, but courageous. He we to the king and boldly declared th the princes had done evil in impri30 ing Jeremiah. T 2. The Method (vv. 10-13). The kb yielded to his request nnd furnished guard to prevent interference with tl work of rescue. He let down so rags and worn-out garments by rop Q and instructed Jeremiah to put the under his arms and under the rop ? so as to prevent injury to him as 1 e was lifted up. They lifted hlin o j. of the dungeon and he was pernltti ^ the freedom of the court of the priso 3 Why did Jeremiah have such a ha j' time? Why do the purest and he t_ men and women have ho suffer? W1 j. are God's prophets unpopular? Jar p miah, the prophet who declared Got' power to deliver, goes to prison ni suffers. "Why do the righteous sti ^ fer" is an age-old question. Cases point are many; e. g. Job a "perfe man" is given over to Satan to take f " except his life; three faithful Hebre children go Into the fiery furnaci Daniel goes into the den of lion: John the Baptist is beheaded at tl * request of a dancing girl; Stephen r stoned and Paul is beaten and ii ^ prisoned. The answer to these pro it , l f/OlrtM.Jl I IPIIIS IIi;i,\ DC (jltcu Ul'/Ufc IMC IUIIUMI. I lines: l 1. The power of Ood is more stri jj ingly shown in deliverance than keeping from trfnls. This was so I tlie case of the Hebrews in tiie flei ' i furnace and Daniel in the den < ^ lions. L\ Great gain accrues to the suffe ers; e. g. the Hebrews in the flei furnace were not only kept from heir - burned, but had walking with the ^ ! the Son of God; Job through h l trials was brought to see himself. J 3. Suffering turns out to the furthe i ance of God's cause; e. g. Job b J comes tlie priest through whose inte I cession his friends are pardo?*<u | Paul's sufferings furthered the preat ing of the gospef; John through ba i ishment on the Isle of Putmos wi 1 given the vision of the Revelation. Light Out of Darkness. He brought light out of dnrknes not out of n lesser light; He can brir the summer out of winter, thou* thou have no suring: . . . now Of 1 comes to thee, not as in the dawnir of the day, not as in the had of tl spring, but as the sun at noon to illu i trate all shadows, as the sheaves I harvest to till all penuries; ull occ i sions invite His mercies, and all tlm< J are His seasons.?Donne. Knowledge and Wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom are n< plucked down from heaven. They gro J on earth. They are built up fro lower things, from right und unde standing.?Fielding Hull. I Chicago Girls Take I Horseshoe pitching has been taken up by many young v ) Chicago. Every day during the noon hour they may be s< ie Grant park, id ie ie How Oregon Cares f< to *''' ^ te This shows the cozy quarters for women serving on t the latest magazines and newspapers to read, are supplied ! a for several months. d , ^ HAPPY GOLF WIZARD ^ G he ' A part^ PS President Hurdlng shaking bands mothers or other j ,m with little James Frazler, son of Jim Mary's hospital, Pa: p3 Frazler, golf professional, after the the past three and he youngster gave an exhibition before u? Mr. Hnrdlng and his purty on the links ?{j at Sea View, N. J., where the Presl- Fl*3.!1CG n dent was the week-end guest of Senr(j ator Walter E. Edge. At Ave years, ? st Jimmy Frazler, Jr., is a wizard with rs HE ACCUSES VENEZUELA is Gerardo I-Vrnandez. who claims lie went to Venezuela as an American r- citizen to po into the automobile busi- President Po!n< e- ness and was unjustly imprisoned and ^ar,s- a niemorii - I f...>miUntiv tnrtiirpr] in a nrison near "ie war? I- - . U Caracas. Fernandez has tiled a com* ii- plaint with the state department. He ddicc iMCf n- maintains that many Americans dis- BRIEF I NFC is appear mysteriously and others were ? burled ullve in Venezuela. The Christmas s George of England Let Us Not Fail. The Iowa state c :gt And in doing good let us not fail, has acquired its fln For in due time we shall reap, not In the person of Mr rh failing.?Galatlans, 6:9. ton of Red Oak. >d " ; A Denver woman tg "Clinton's Ditch." trjct attorney for a ie The Erie canal, connecting the Hud* a j-jyul for her husb s- ?"> r'ver' the Greut Lnkes was A cra?.fls i? sometimes referred to as Cllotoc s bis , , f t ,n |e a- ditch because the canal was planned . and carried to completion by De Witt p . ' Clinton. . the Florlda coast The name Asia sig 8ong Birds of Africa. die," from the ft The Cape canary is the only nntive | geographers thought idrd of Africa that is well known for rope and Africa, w his sweet and continuous song. He Clifton Bingham, id is to be found even in the Orange old Madrid" and otl r River colony, which is otherwise de- often writes as mc void of song birds. without rising from Jp "Barnyard Golf" -< ^ J iy4"^:>;,mr Myyx- * romen employed In Michigan avenue business houses In ;en playing this "barnyard golf across the street in i or Its Women Jurors ** ' >v'"* .-x vt.** H <: v ;^f/?2y V ^ g&yL-j M ? . ..4^J^y^jSS he Juries In Oregon. Individual beds, a light, airy room, for the women who have been doing Jury duty in Oregon Reunion of Hospital Babies ir of the more than 400 babies who, accompanied by thel? guardians, attended the "reunion" of babies born at St. ssaic, N. J., the other day. All the babies were born within a half years. Honors Captain Guynemer ^ are speaking at the recent unveiling In the Pantheon, ll plaque to Captain Guynemer, famous aviation hero of IRMATION Great Britain has 13 war cemeteries In Italy, containing 2,386 graves. eason costs King Canrdian farmers were required to about $40,000. answer 220 questions in the 1921 cenonservutlou board SUSst woman member American coke ovens waste enough 3. Dorothy Hough-1 fertilizer annually to supply 8,720,000 acres. * applied to the dls- One sure way to Increase the num"permit" to shoot ber of grouches in the world Is to inland's affections. pose on good nature, h, measuring more In the Arctic regions there are 762 ngth and weighing I different species or nowers, nut withtured recently off in the Antnrctic circle there has never been found a flowering plant. nifles "in the mid- An authority on the subject states ict that ancient that the sound of cannonading can be : it between Eu- heard much farther than that of thunder. The limit of the carrying power the writer of "In of thunder is about 15 miles, while ler popular songs, twice that number of miles is not reiny as 50 verses garded any great distance for the his desk. sounds of battle to. carry. .. .