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This Week b Arthur Brisbanb Worried Cuba Around the World, Soon Do We Need Poetry? Distance Kills Interest The worry of the western world cen ters In Cuba* Many have been killed. Bad conditions are caused by much poverty and suffering. Because rthe Monroe' Doctrine doeu oot permit ..foreign countries to Inter fere oh xhls -hemisphere. Uncle Sam f?iels responsible to other countries whose citizens have been killed In the Cuban rioting. TuOBe countries not anreusonubly "say to Uncle Sam: "If you cannot protect our nationals we shall doijt ourselves." Americans will read with amaze ment the announcement that repre ?entatlves of Cuba's government have tailed upon Cubans of all pu-'Mes to "unite against an attack by the United States." Memory must be short to forget that Cuba belonged to Spain a 'little while ago, was taken from Spain by this country and given hack to the people of Cuha voluntarily. And Uncle Sam didn't send In any bill for his expense in thus freeing Cuba from the Spaniards. Other countries might have done that. Blerlot, who designed the Rossi Codos plane that has Just beaten the world's long-distance record, speaks with authority on flying. Twenty-four years ago he was the first to fly the English channel. Now his plane has enslly flown the Atlantic, the whole of Europe and on to Damascus. Bler lot predicts "the enrth will be en circled nonstop, either by a craft us ing a heavy oil, or as soon as a means is found for utilizing electrically driv en engines." John Masefleld, poet, says that what the world needs is "the thrill of poet ry." Lacking poetry, the world in vents substitutes, like high speed In Airplanes and automobiles. Poetry would supply all the excitement needed. This innocent statement shows how little a real poet knows his common place brothers. Fifty million In this country respond to the purr of a 10-cyllnder automo bile, or the roar of a high-power air plane engine, that would find little excitement In : Charm'd magic casements, Opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands for lorn. Distance makes nil the difference. If the wife says, "John, there Is a foot of water' In the cellar," you hurry to the cellar. The Associated Press says: "Three hundred Chinese villages along the Yellow river In North Ilonan province are flooded, with heavy loss of life." You skip to the next headline. The Yellow river Is far away. Another dispatch from Seoul, Korea, says 414 have been killed and 7,348 houses destroyed by typhoon and floods. Again you pasB on. If you heard that the great nebula in Orion had exploded you would still skip on. Before you worry about dollar In flation read figures from the United States treasury. Dollars In circulation at the end of July were fewer by more than 01,000.000 than In June. And all our dollars In circulation, now that we have gone off the gold basis, are fewer by 00,540.000 than a year ago. All the monoy In the United States amounts to less than $-10 for each In habitant; ? That does not seem too much, considering that a healthy black slave In the old days was worth $1,000. Should we not, on the con trary, and "without any Inflation, hnve at least $5,000,000,000 or $10,000,000, 000 more In circulation? In the last 12 months the world has used 24,725,000 bales of all kinds of cotton, against 23.007,000 In the preceding 12 months. American cot ton URed In the Inst 12 months amounted to 14,1*12,000 bales, a train of 1,020,000 bales over the preceding year. This Is good news for American cotton growors. When men buy new automobiles It proves they have money to spend usefully, and money to spare Is the surest sign of vanishing depression. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of General MotorR, announces that sales of his corporation In the United States, Canada and overseas coun tries showed this July an Increase of 100 per cent over July, 1032. In July a year ago the total number of (Jen era! Motors automobiles sold was 30. 872. In July this year It was 100.018. Mr. Farley, postmaster general, pre diets that 3ft states will have voted to repeal prohibition before the first day of 1034, Arlrona, youngest state In the Union, formerly bone dry, vot ed three to one to repeal prohibition. The tote was 34,380 for repeal. 10,147 against It Arlr.ona In the twenty-first consecutive state to vote against pro hlbltlon. The dnnclng masters of America, numbering 4,500, hnve Invented a new step, called "Nlra,* In honor of th? national Industrial recovery act. Th# new dance Is a foxtrot with new an rangements. 9), 1 IM, by Kin* Ptftture* Syndicate, loo. WNU CONSUMERS' COUNSEL H Dr, Frederic C. Howe, bx-holur and 'banker, has been appointed "consum !. era* "Counsel" t>f the Department of Ag riculture. His job will be to wage a natfon-wlde war on unfair food prices, lie coines from Cleveland and received his academic degrees from Allegheny college and a Ph. D. from Johns Hop kins university, later* studying at Ox ford and In Germany nnd In law Bchools of Maryland and New York. He was a member of President Wil son's staff of experts at the Paris peace conference. Ecuador Indian Legend Tells Story of Genesis Berkeley, Calif. ? The story of Ge nesis as told In legend by the head hunting Indians of Ecuador was told here recently by Dr. Matthew W. Stir ling, explorer nnd chief (of the bureau of American ethnology of the Smith sonian institution who just returned from Pern. ^ In the beginning there were In the world only Kumpano, the creator; Chingaso, his wife, and their son. Esta, the sun. Out of mud, Kumpano created Nan tu, the moon, ns a wife for Esta. but she was shy and kept away from him. The nlghtblrd, Auhu, fell In love with Nantu, but she repulsed him also, and one night disappeared far into the sky. Auhu, however, went In pursuit and tried to climb n trailing vine to the moon. Rut Nantu cut the vine, which fell and became entangled among the trees, where It still remains. The eclipse of the moon occurs when Esta strikes Nantu. When Nantu is the aggressor, that Is the moon eclips ing the sun. And when Nantu weeps, there is rala. These two persons were the parents of the head-hunters' tribe, according to their legends. New York Plans to Outlaw Its Slums Project? Under Way Will Cost Many Millions. New York. ? They nre going to out law slums In New York city ? some day ? maybe. The big drive toward this Utopian goal Is already under way. After many years of agitating, planning, bickering and otherwise mulling over the prob lem, the city has finally cut loose with measures definitely designed to elimi nate two of the so-called "plague spots" with modern housing develop ments and Is turning over a third with a view to early action of some kind. At least two other projects are under consideration. The five enterprises look to the ex penditure of something like $70,000,000 on up to date, fireproof, sanitary housing to provlde cheap rental living quarters to replace the rat- Infested, disease-breeding hovels and tumble down rookeries now disgracing the af fected localities or but lately removed preparatory to the "developments." City Government Aids. While none of the so-called "elimi nation" plans Is a city project, the mu nicipal government Is lending Its aid and encouragement to the movement In a general way and Is undertaking to help out with street closing and tax exemptions, leaving the financing and management of the houses to private capital. Most of the schemes, Inciden tally, are conditioned on the outcome of applications for loans from the Fed eral Reconstruction Finance corpora tion as well as on petitions for city aid In the way of tax exemptions, etc. One of them, I. e., the Fred F. French Operators plan for replacing the so-called "Lung Rlock" on Man hattan's Fast side with a SO, 300 ,000 development, to be knovn as "Knick erbocker Village" has already obtained an It. F. C. loan for $S.07">, 000 as a running start toward actual fulfill ment. In announcing Its approval of the loan, the corporations's board had some nice things to say of the project, among them observing that: "The site of the development Is In the heart of New York city's heaviest tuberculosis casualty areas of the pe riod Immediately preceding nnd follow ing the turn of the century. . . . The building of n modern, clenn, light, apartment community will eliminate a potential disease-spreading block of buildings. The 'Lung Block' alone ac counted for 201 cases of tuberculosis between the years 1894-1001. Only two houses of the block have been free from the disease." Warrant Tells Story of Witchcraft Document Carries Signature of Cotton Mather. Denver. ? Witchcraft was n danger oub occupation around Salem, Mass., In 1002, and Frank C. Mertz of Den ver has the documentary proof. An apparently genuine death war rant, Issued June 10. 1002, for one Rebecca Nurse, a Salem witch, Is owned by Mertz. The warrant has been authenticated by the Massachusetts Historical so ' clety and by William F. Warren, cura tor of the Hoston museum. It pos sesses signatures of Cotton Mather, the Indian King Philip, and other not ables of the time. The MX" signature of King Philip makes the document especially valu able, as there are said to be only sev en of these original "X" marks in ex istence. Rebeccn Nurse was considered some whnt of a neighborhood menace In and about Salem. According to the charges set forth In the warrant, she caused the death of some forty fowl and several swine. Uebecca was not satisfied with pick ing on the fowl and swine, but carried her work further by cutting with an ax "the Wench IMtuba," n member of | King Philip's tribe. Several mysterl Term "Poilu" Is Limited to Front Line Fighters Parts. ? Only the front-line fighting i troops of the World war have the right j to the famous appellation of "Pollu." This Is the dictum of the dictionary j committee of the French academy, I which has recommended the Inclusion j of the word "Pollu" In the next edition I of the Academy dictionary with the definition: "French soldier of the | front-line trenches during the wnr of : 1014-18." Popularly the term since the war j has always been used for any soldier of the war who wore the uniform, and | ip now often affectionately applied to | tl*> soldiers of the present French ! army. i Child in Coffin "Comes to Life" Warsaw.? A five-year old child "came to life" In her coffin on the way to her funeral recently. As the cortege was n'earlng the grave the mourners heard cries coming from fhe coflin. It was opened and the child handed back alive Into the armfuof the weeping mother and taken nome. Doctors state the child was In a state of lethargy almost unknown among children. ? ous fires In haystacks were Inld at her door. Such activity on the pnrt a wom an was enough to bring her to trial. A court of Massachusetts notables gave Rebecca h trial and found her guilty of witchery. She was ordered hanged by the neck "on a high hill at high noon so that all might see." Metz received the historical docu ment from E. W. Ballley, a Ponca City (Okla.) tourist, who had pur chased It from C. A. Powell of Gre nada, Miss. The value of the warrant Is unknown. Thief Rob* Priton Safe Bellefonte, Pa. ? Rockvltfw penitenti ary officials are looking for a safe cracker ? a particularly clever and dar ing one. The one sought cracked the safe In the prison office and fled with $201.85 ? funds contributed to the state welfare by penitentiary employees. Each building of the village will be of hollow square construction, provid ing a large interior court. Light and sunshine will be insured for every apartment. It Is estimated that this project will furnish employment to about 10, (XX) men directly or Indirectly for a year or more. Plan Cheap Rentals. Another project on the way to actual fulfillment Is known as the Ohrystle Forsyth street development plan, look ing to the improvement of some sev en blocks of the lower East side ? five of them with modern apartments for "rock-bottom" rentals to white-collar workers and the other two to be con verted Into parks. The total estimated Investment In the buildings will therefore be $9,280, ? 70S. The published value of $12,780, 708 for the development was explained recently as Including a figure of *3,500.000 to represent the value of the city leasehold Another* slum elimination project that Is looking up In spite of the de pression Is that known as the Itutgers town plnn, which Involves the pro posed expenditure of some $40,000,000 In a model housing development on the East side, Just below Manhnttan bridge. The development plnn Includes an Interior park and roof playgrounds. Each building Is to be a separate unit, 12 stories high. Backers of the proj ect are withholding a start of opera tlons. pending action on their applica tion for tax exemption. The Hillside Housing corporation' has the plans all drawn for a big hous ing project to wipe out a slum area In the Bronx, but there has been some hitch In Its plans for wheedling a $4,000,000 loan out of the Heconstruc- j tlon Finance corporation anVl the en- I terprlse is not going so well. Other projects In a more or less ne j bulous state look to the elimination of < slum areas In Brooklyn and Queens. j Man Claims Record of 45 Years of Insomnia I'ort Elizabeth, South Africa. ? The record for Insomnia Is claimed by Wil liam Colson, seventy-three-year-ohl curio dealer, who on reading of the recent death of a woman who said she had not slept for 22 years stated he had had 45 years of complete sleep lessness. "I have not slept a wink all this* time, and I never feel the need," Mr. Colson declared. "I go to bed every night, though, becnuse I formed the habit before I lost the power to sleep at the age of twenty-eight ? and be cause- there Is nothing else to do at night." Judge Refuses to Take Prunes in Lieu of Fine The Dalles, Ore. ? "The United States is not on a prune basis," ruled Police Judge Fish, when Fred Miller offered to pay a $50 reckless driving fine In dried pruneR. He was paroled and told to raise the money as soon as he could. Permit* Barelegged Coed* Warrensburg, Mo. ? Mrs. O. L. Houts, dean of womeji at the State Teachers college here, has ruled that women students may attend classes without wearing hose. Economy and heat were given as -easons for her action. Jeweler* Turn Junlc Dealer* Bangor, Maine. ? This city's Jewelers have been obliged to take out licenses as "Junk dealers" because they havo begun to advertise, "Wanted ? Old Gold." Seal for the N. R. A. Co-Operators Kv?ry ImihIiiohh llrni or Individual who ntcrwH to co-opornte with tho gov ernmnnt In Its nntlonnl rooovery program In entitled to uro this xarI, which l? endorsed hy th? President. The rather futuristic eagle holds with the talon* of one foot n eog symhollr.lng labor's pine* In the machine age, and with th? other claw the /.Ik *sg lines representing electricity. U. S. PROBES WHEAT PIT SPECULATION Investigates Wild Market of Six Weeks. Chicago. ? An Investigation of big speculative operations in the wheat market has been launched by the fed eral government, covering a period of six weeks of one of the wildest mar kets ever experienced. In this period wheat prices soared 4f> cents a bushel In Ave weeks and then dropped 30 cents in two days. This Investigation was requested by Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agri culture. under authority of the grain futures act. Dr. J W. T. Duvel. fed eral grain futures administrator, as serted that a number of traders on the board of trade had accumulated the biggest individual "lines" in the history of the grain futures adminis tration. lie pointed out that the maximum line of 5.000,000 bushels permitted un der an agreement between the govern ment and the board of trade, drawn In 11)20. had been greatly exceeded In several cases. Clearing house members of the board of trade were ordered to file with the grain future administration, as soon as possible, a report of all transactions from .Tune If) to July 31. That the quiz Is Intended to delve deeply Into all phases of market op erations was seen in the fact that re ports to be made are to Include all accounts of 200.000 bushels or over. For a period of about nine months, ending July 21, no reports of open ac counts were made to the grain futures j administration under an agreement [ whereby all such reports were made I to the business conduct committee of ^he board of trade. Previous to this period It was the custom of the grain futures administration to get reports on nil open accounts of r>00.000 bush els or more. WASHINGTON BRIEFS President Roosevelt appointed Ar thur Bliss I.ane of New York as min ister to Nicaragua, The bureau of Internal revenue an nounced a $07,022 abatement to the estate ot Samuel M. I'elton, of which Hopewell I.. Rogers of Chicago is the executor, because of an overussess ment. The meat packing industry has been granted a modilled re-employment code by the administration designed to make work for 15-.000 or 20,000 men and affecting In all about 1-10,000 workers. Chairman King, of the senate com mittee Investigating federal taxation, promised that an effort would be made next winter to repeal so-called nuis ance taxes enacted tinder the Hoover administration. The agricultural adjustment admin istration announced appointment of W. C. McQueen, dairy farmer, as Its field representative In Chicago to handle disputes nrising In connection with the milk marketing agreement for the Chicago nrea. The federal power commission re- ' sclnded Its action authorizing a license to the state of Illinois waterway, to allow the state to answer objections lodged by other great lakes states al leging excessive authorized Installa- ! tlon. ' Marines to Leave Haiti Next Year Washington. ? Withdrawal of United States marines from Haiti late In 1934 1 and the establishment of an American flnnnclnl agency to Insure payment of Haitian bonds due United States citi zens were provided In an accord signed at fort Au Prince. Under Its terms the 700 marines now In Haiti will start home October 1. 1034, and are to he withdrawn com pletely within 30 days. Thereafter pub lic order in Haiti will be entrusted to the native guarde de Haiti, trained by the marines. Interest of American holders of the $1 f), 000,000 worth of Haitian bonds outstanding was protected In the ac cord. It provides for a fiscal repre sentative and a deputy fiscal repre (tentative, presumably A merlcans, to be appointed by the presided of Haiti on the recommendation of the Amerl can President. Iceland Reds Trample Nazi Flag of German Consul Reykjav'k, Iceland. ? A Communist mob at the herring fishing center of Slglufjord tore down a Nazi flag j from the residence of the German i consul and trampled It In the mud. The consul had raised the flag for the first time due to the arrival of a party of C.erman tourists. Cdtiini Fir?| S*nt?ne?i(l Ashland, Wis.? Paul Collins of Kan Clare, charged with carelessly throw Ing a cigarette stub Into n brush pile , and causing a forest fire, was sen- | fenced to 30 dnys In the Rayfield conn ty Jail by Municipal Judge !<'. C. Hart. | \ F?th?r of Rouldar D?m Di?a Oakland, Cnllf.? Arthur Powell Davis, seventy two, Internationally known en gineer ns "the father of th? Boulder dam," died here after an Illness of several months. I ROADSIDE MARKETING By T. J. Delohery WHY PEOPLE BUY AT ROADSIDE MARKETS WHILE fruits, vegetables, poultry und dairy products are the main things sold over roadside markets, con sumers will also buy fruit juices. Jams. Jellies, preserves, canned goods, uut.1, popcorn, honey and such unrelated things as baskets, (lowers, shrubbery, pottery and craft products. These facts are revealed by the ex perience of thousands of producers, but more specifically In a question naire which the Massachusetts state department of agriculture sent out to 2,000 people representing a cross sec tion of urban population. A survey of 1,700 markets along 2,800 miles of first, second and third-class roads In Ohio brought out the same facts. The Massachusetts questionnaire was the groundwork for assistance which the state planned to give farmers who wanted to sell products of the farm, home and garden direct t-> the con sumer. It was found, In the replies, that roadside marketing, expanding yearly, has a promising future. More than GO per cent of the 2,000 replies to the questionnaire declared that city and town folks regarded roadside markets as satisfactory places to buy fruits, vegetables, eggs and poultry ptoducts, dairy products, flowers, Jams, Jellies, preserves, fruit Juices, canned goods, cider and honey. Freshness was given as the reason for buying direct from the producer, with quality and price following in the ordei mentioned. In keeping with this desire for fresh, quality products, 1,400 people de clared thomselves very much in favor of home-grown stuff. The reason is quite plain. Green Holds, fresh with dew. and the memory of the tasty vegetables grown In the home garden, to say nothing of tree-ripdied fruit, are responsible. Surveys made in Illi nois and West Virginia, vhere local towns and cities were "importing" many farm products which could he produced locally, backs up the answers of the Hay state consumers. In Illinois, for instance, retailers and consumers expressed themselves will An Inviting Display. Ing to pay 5 cents a dozen more for locally produced fresh eggs ; and not sufficient milk was produced In tlie vi cinity to supply consumers. Reviewing the compilation of the an swers to the various sections of the Massachusetes questionnaire, it was evident that roadside markets offer the fanner the opportunity to get a bigger share of the consumer's food dollar, If producers will only make a ill tie effort to grasp It. Not all of the consumers who answered the questionnaire are steady patrons of highway markets, hut more than 00 per cent declared a preference for buying tlielr fruits, vegetables and poultry products from the grower. Here again freshness was the reason assigned. This feeling was also car ried out In opposition to buying or anges. lemons, grapefruit, bananas and such other tropical fruits at road slde markets. True, farmers do handle fruits which they do not produce, this practice originating with their acqnlr Ing better knowledge of merchnndls Ing, and knowing customers like to do as much shopping ns possible in one plaee ; lint few handle eitnis fruits. In every survey made, freshness stands out. In Ohio, where consumer* spend 2.r> per cent of their irult, vege table and poultry dollar nt roadsido markets, freshness was given ns ttie big reason why they went Into the country for these products. Wlille the mention of freshness was general, it is rather significant In view of eondi'lons that less than 10 per cent of the consumers In both states were Interested In price or the possibility of saving money by buying direct from the producer. Another Indication that freshness nnd quality are the dominating factors In products to be sold at the roadside market Is the time of day when most sales are made. Convenience Is mentioned because consumers gave 1^ as one v.f tin* rea sons they patronized these markets, It outranking the much stressed necea sary business requirement service. Roadside marketing is still on the Increase, despite general conditions. Business Is good even though there may be less cars on the road. Fndl vidua) purchases Indicate Ill's; In vest I gatlons by college authorities and the records of Individual farmers showing they range In average from f>0 to 7r? cents. Kxpense of operating has shown n corresponding decrease, la bor, one of the biggest Items, being considerably lower where hired help Is necessary. The cost of other ne cessities such as packages and ndver tlslng vary with the volhrne of busi ness. ? !#?*. Wurtdrn N#w?p*por Unlom