Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 18 March 1926 — Page 3

THURSDAY, MARCH 18,1926.

THE POST-DEfis^CRAT

PAGE S

Buick Serves ILS. Navy atFarthest Point South”

This road, which is the most southerly in the United States, can be reached only by railroad. It is located at Key West, Florida, 125 miles from the mainland. The driving area for automobiles is only 16 square miles, yet G. W. Almons, former radio officer of the U. S. N. dir : gible Shenandoah, finds

ample use for his Buick every day. Almons was transferred to the United States Naval Communication Service Wireless Station at Key West the day the Shenandoah started on her last flight. The officer who took his place suffered serious injuries when the ship fell during a storm in Ohio. The sign in the picture shows that

Almons is able to get Authorized Buick Service even out on the fringe of the country, with the Gulf of Mexico on all sides and a very small touring area, in which to drive his car. An automobile road to Key West, from Miami, is now under consideration. When completed, it will be virtually a bridge 125 miles long.

=f

U.S. INVITED TO JUMP INTO THE EUROPEAN MUSS

League Council Hastens Decision To Vote On Court Early.

Washington, March 19.—The feverish political gyrations of Europe', particularly as they center in the League of Nations, are beginning to cause noticeable flutters in Wash-

ington.

The State Department made n|o effort to conceal its surprise at the course adopted by the council of the League of Nations yesterday in deciding to convoke at Geneva a round table conference of the forty-eight states now in the world court to consider reservations upon which

their campaign to the country but it coincided with preliminary conferences in which administration officials are seeking with an apparent lack of confidence some clew to the tangled armament situation in Europe. CONNECT CEUNA, PORTLAND WITH PAVEDHIGHWAY Short Stretch From Road 21 East of Bryant to State Line Road.

More Pure Science Research In United States Is Urged

IMNOTA OATS IS GOOD PRODUCER

New Variety Developed In Minnesota, Proves

Its Worth.

Minota oats grown by a group of five farmers * in Clinton County in 1925, averaged 52 bushels per acre, while ordinary oats grown by five other farmers in the same threshing ring averaged 36 bushels per acre. The first group grew 9,128 bushels on 176 acres, and the second grew

6,749 bushels on 186 acres, the Minotas an advantage

bushels per acre. Minota oats, a new variety developed by the University of Minnesota Experiment Station, and distributed in Indiana thru the Purdue University Experiment Station, were first grown in the Clinton County community by Frank Anderson. In 1924, he decided to try Minota oats to increase his yields. He was well J pleased with the results and in 1925 each neighbor who had helped him thresh during the preceding season decided to try Minota oats. In fact only those in the threshing ring who had sent their hired men, and had failed to see this new variety, grew the ordinary variety for that neighborhood with results as indi-

cated.

Mr. Anderson reports that the Minota oats stood up as well or

giving better than any other oats, that the of 16 j kernel is good sized and the per-

centage of hull is reasonably small. His oats have been certified by the Indiana Corn Growers’ Association, and will be sold for seed purposes. Other farmers report equally satisfactory results. M. A. Ripley of Adams County who grew 20 acres of certified Minotas, had a yield of 65 bushels per acre and reports that it is 13 bushels better than any other oats grown in his neighborhood. Wolverine and Victory oats are other good varieties that are being certified by the Indiana Corn Growers’ Association.

Portland and Celffia, Ohio, the Grand Reservoir city, will be con- i nected by a system of paved high- j way by the end of this season, ac- |. cording to word sent out from In-1 dianapolis, where Gove. Ed Jackson,

American adherence to the court is after a conference with members of pnntinp-pnt THpro hn H Wn ™ nr*- ^ he state commissmn, gave

his approval t 0 the plan of the commisison to add 911.5 miles of new roads to the state highway system,)

W. A. Bentley of Jericho, Vt., i a snowflake specialist. Mr. Bentley says that the February storms brought him about seventy-five new snowflakes, some of them of great beauty and interest.

contingent. There has been no previous suggestion from any source that the league machinery might require any such action to pave the way for American membership.

Silent Awaiting Word.

The proposal to invite the United States to participate in the meeting of the court states for the purpose of explaining the American reservations went without c omment, pending receipt of the invitation and an understanding of the thought and

purpose behind it.

Opponents of American adherence to the tribunal meanwhile seized the occasion to renew their attack in the Senate, in a speech sizzling with denunciation and sarcasm, Senator Reed (Democrat, Missouri), advised his colleagues to at once adopt a resolution appointing a delegate to

explain to the league.

Doubt on Disarmament. Yesterday’s development not only came at a time when the anti-league and anti-court forces are carrying

l r'yf X -

part of this being 33.5 miles between Portland and Alexandria, and eight miles, connecting state road No. 21 with state road No. 33, at the Ohio,

Indiana state line.

There had been some discussion I of paving the road from this city east on the Water street road to the | state line, there only being a few

miles to build after the Craw road!' writin s to Herbert Hoover

Free!

A Wonderfully Interesting and Practical Course of 20 Lessons by Mail on COOKERY ARTS and KITCHEN MANAGEMENT to Every User of

Pillsburys Best Flour FOR BREAD, CAKE &. PASTRY

"NJOW you can secure the J-N personal advisory service ofthis famous Domestic Science authority FREE. Mary Ellis Ames, an authorityon Cookery Arts and Kitchen Management, and Director of Pillsbury’sHome Management Club, has written a wonderfully interesting course which is offered free to members of the club. Onpe you have seen this course, you will be amazed that it costs you nothing. Never before have so many new household ideas and unusual suggestions for preparing and serving food been gathered together as in this course, comprising 20 lessons, which is offered free to members of Pillsbury’s Home Management Club. Ask your grocer about Mary Ellis Ames and the Pillsbury Club Course.

TN addition to the excellent baking results which Pillsbury’s Best Flour always guarantees, you can now secure, in every bag, a coupon to apply on this valuable course in Cookery Arts and Kitchen Management which contains all the essentials of a college course in Domestic Science. This course is so thorough and practical that it requires little or no explanation outside of the lessons which are mailed to you each month. But it is so original it will set you thinking and you will undoubtedly decide to ask Mary Ellis Ames to help you with actual problems which arise in connection with household management or in

preparation of special dishes for Special affairs. At any time during the five months you are taking the course you can ask Mary Ellis Ames for advice about any special recipes you may want—about any cooking problem— about the conduct of any social affair—in fact any inquiry pertaining to the preparation and serving of food for any occasion will be answered personally by Mary Ellis Ames without charge. Think what a wonderful service this will be! It is absolutely free to every woman who sends in the four coupons entitling her to membership in Pillsbury’s Home Management Club.

HOW TO JOIN THE PILLSBURY CLUB and Enroll for this Valuable Course (Indiana enrollments close March 1, 1926) Coupons will be found enclosed in every bag of PILLSBURY’S BEST FLOUR. (24-lb. bag-1 coupon; 48-lb. bag—2 coupons). Send only four coupons addressed to Mary Ellis Ames, Pillsbury Flour Mills Company, Minneapolis, Minn., and you will be enrolled without one cent of expense as a member of Pillsbury’s Home Management Club and receive the first four lessons in the course. Other lessons will be sent in four monthly Installments—four lessons each month. (20 lessons altogether). You pay no money for this course. All lessons are sent postpaid. You study lessons when and how you choose. No blanks to fill in. No examinations or correspondence required. You may write in for advice, however, and Mary Ellis Ames will gladly answer inquiries regarding any household problem. Pillsbury Flour Mills Company Minneapolis, U. S. A.

leading east from Water street was built. But it appears that if«the unimproved portion is to be improved it will have to be done at the expense of the property owners along the road, and this is hardly

likely.

The strip connecting with state road 33 in Ohio, will be eight miles in length and will begin at state road No. 21 at Bryant, extending east. It is understood that the contract for this road will be let as soon as satisfactory arrangements can be made between the state highway commisison and the Jay county commisisoners. Other units to be built in the state will include the following mileage: Peru-Marion 24 miles; HuntingtonDecatur and easf 33.5 miles; TiptonAttica and west 68 miles; Newcas-tle-Richmond 23.5 miles. PROTESTS SALE OF DOGS TOCOLLEGES Humane Society President Opens Campaign Against Practices In Future.

Indianapolis, March 19.—A statewide campaign to prosecute persons guilty of wholesale disposition of dogs to medical schools and other establishments for experimental purposes, has been started by W. P. Hargon, president of the Indiana Federation of Humane Societies, he announced. Mr. Hargon said this work will be carried out through county humane organizations 4n response to requests from dog owners in many parts of the state, and as a result of investigations which the state organization has made recently. Rumors Investigated. First investigation of the condition was made a few weeks ago when the matter came to the attention of the board of public safety and the city council. At that time it was rumored that a shipment of dogs from Anderson had been disposed of through the local dog pound. Board of safety members, hwever, declared after an investigation that this was untrue and that the animals were sold directly to the experimental stations here. We have found that dogs have been gathered at Muncie, Anderson, Greensburg, Terre Haute and in some instances as far away as cities in adjoining states and have been sold here for experimental purposes.! Already I have received letters from j many residents of these cities telling of the loss of valuable animals, supposedly through this method,” declared Mr. Hargon. ‘‘We intend to stop the wrongful disposition of an-) imals, which I have no doubt has ' resulted in the destruction of many blooded and very valuable dogs. COOUDGEFUNNERAL TO BE ON SATURDAY

President Arrives Too Late At Plymouth To See His Father Alive.

The plan to

stimulate and en-

courage fundamental science research in this country is one of the most significant of this period, contends Albert A. Michelson, President of the National Academy of Sciences and a Nobel Prize winner. “I regard this as one of the most important and significant movements in the direction of helping to make the contributions to science worth?* of the enterprise of America,” says Dr. Michelson in

press his satisfaction that Mr. Hoover had consented to act as chairman of the trustees of the National Research Endowment. ! This special board established by 1 the National Academy of Sciences ; with headquarters at Washington, ID. C., seeks to secure adequate funds for scientific research in pure t science in the United States. *‘We can no longer plead youth and the pressure of building up the industries as an excuse for the unfavorable comparison of our own meager contributions with those of England, France and Germany,” declares Dr. Michelson, in referring ’to the fact that foreign countries lead the United States in pure sci-

ence research.”

Dr. Michelson. Charles E. Hughes 'and John W. Davis, shown above, are members of the board of trusjtees of the National Research Endowment. Other members are: Ga.no Dunn. Chairman of the National Research Council; Vernon i Kellogg, Permanent Secretary of .the National Research Council; Elihu Root, Herbert Hoover, Andre v/ W. Mellon, Colonel Edward M. House, Julius Rosenwald, Cameron Forbes, Felix Warburg, Henry & Pritchett; Dr. Robert A. Millijkan. Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences and ;Nobel Prize winner; Dr. John C. Merriam. President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; Owen D. Young and Henry M. Robinson; Dr. Simon Flexner. Director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: Dr. John J. Carry, VicePresident of the American Telephone and TeJegraph Company;

. v/b U/ze/pTWexx? Q t/n<fpr((/aa&. Dr. William H. Welch, Director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University; Dr. James H. Breasted, Director of the Oriental Institute of, the University of Chicago; Professor L. R. Jones of the University of Wisconsin; Professor A B. Lamb of Harvard University; Professor Oswald Veblen of Princeton University; Dr. Thomap H. Morgan of Columbia University; and Dr. George E. Hale. Director of Mount Wilson Observatory. In a declaration of the trustees, it Is contended in part: “That It Is wiser to make large expenditures for scientific research, thus advancing civilization, 1m proving human welfare, conserving health, and saving countless useful lives, than to tolerate unnecessary suffering and then endeavor to alleviate it at still greater cost. “That research In all branches of j the mathematical, physical and biological sciences should be encour-i aged, because of the intellectual and spiritual value of adding to knowledge and because the greatest advances in science and In Industry often result from apparently use» less abstract discoveries^ “That scientists exceptionally qualified to widen fundamental knowledge through research are of such value to the nation that every effort should be made to facilitate their work.* , .,

Organization Is Nearly Completed

Indianapolis, March :i9.—Ora C. Davis, manager for Arthur R. Robinson, Republican candidate for the senatorial short term nomination today announced that campaign organiztion in ten congressionl districts were well under way and that the other three districts would be completed within a few days. Organizations in every county are in prospect, Davies said. District managers announced include: Sixth district, J. Brandon, Griffith, Richmond.

Ninth, Don Strobe, Kokomo. Tenth, Emmett Larue, RennsalaeL Eleventh, Elsworth Harvey, Marion. Twelfth, George Crompton, Columbia City. Second, Walter Wills, Linton. Fourth, David Battersen, Green Castle. Fifth, Frank R. Miller, Terre Haute. Third, Charles W> Lanz, Bedford. Thirteenth, John Moorman, Knox. o When D. M. Stone returned to his parked car at Woodruff, S. C., he found the top had almost disappeared. A goat had devoured it. The animal had even conumed the celluloid window.

Plymouth, Vt., March 19.—Colonel John C. Coolidge, father of the President, died at 10:41 o’clock last night. A brief bulletin brought from the white farm house by Angus MacAuley, bodyguard to the colonel, said: “Colonel Coolidge passed j away very quietly at 10:41 o’clock.” The President, speeding northward on a special tram to the bedside of his dying father, lost a hopeless race with death. The presidential train is due to reach Woodstock, thirteen miles from here, at 6 o’clock this morning. Word Flashed to Washington Word of the death of Colonel Coolidge was flashed immediately to the executive’s office in Washington to be relayed to the President’s train en route to Vermont. The President’s father, who was within two weeks of his eighty-first birthday, had been sinking gradually since he suffered a severe heart attack a week ago. At that time his physician, Dr. Albert M. Cram, of Bridgewater, said his patient was at the point of death. His pulse rate reached 140. The funeral services will be held from the house tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock. Rev. John White, Episcopal clergyman of Sherbune, will officiate. Burial will be made in the little cemetery at Plymouth where many members of the Coolidge family lie.

City Manager for Muncie.

The first ten weeks of the Hampton administration has convinced even his most ardent supporters that four years more of it will put Muncie on the blink. Citizens of all parties and factions are now planning for an election next spring on the question of a commission or city manager form of government. There is little doubt but that a petition containing sufficient names to insure the election could be obtained in twenty-four hours. The law requires that the city council must call an election, in an. odd numbered year, if a petition be presented bearing the signatures of one-fifth of the voters. If the election carry, and it will in Muncie by a two-to-one vote, five commissioners will be voted for in an election to be held the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. It will be impossible to call the election this year, since this is an even numbered year, but the trick could be turned in the spring of 1927. The city commissioners, elected in the fall of 1926, would take office January 1, 1927 and all of the present city officials, with the accent on Harry Hoffman, would automatically retire from public life. # Thus the present city administration will remain in office for two years, instead of four. Of course at the present rate of activity the Hampton crowd can do plenty in two years. Hampton, republican, was elected over Retherford, Democrat, by the narrow margin of 415 votes, in a city normally about five thousand republican. Five thousand republicans, practically all of them against Hampton, stayed at home. If every voter had gone to the polls, Retherford would have been elected by at least 3,000 votes. In a non-partisan, city manager election, political reasons will keep no one from the polls. Decent citizens should enlist in the movement to oust the Billy Williams gang from the city hall.