Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 14 July 1939 — Page 3

THE POST-DEMOCRAT -FRIDAY, JULY 14,1939.

JAYWALKERS WARNED DEATH ODDS ARE HIGH

Three Out of Five Killed In City Streets Are Pedestrians.

Chicago, July 14.—The chances of a pedestrian heing Killed in a city traffic accident are greater than the motorist’s and the odds will not be changed until walkers begin to obey the traffic laws. That is the blunt warning of the • National Safety Council. A study of the Council showed that three of every five persons killed in city accidents last year were pedestrians, and two thirds of them were violating a traffic ordinance or committing an obviously unsafe act. The solution, the Council said, is a rigid pedestrian control system that will cut the death toll among this “neglected j-et pampered” group. Mass Viewpoint Cited. Leslie J. Sorenson, chairman of the council Pedestrian committee,

said:

“The pedestrian has evolved the simple philosophy that his job is to get across the street as best he cam. He joins with other pedestrians in mass violation of traffic lights, blandly halting traffic and oreating /tremendous hazards to himself and motorists." Three-fourths of all pedestrians’ deaths occurred after sundown, the investigators found. A combination of drinking, darkness, walking in the road, improper lighting, dark clothing and headlight glare was responsible. In its indictment of the careless walker, the committee pointed out that comparatively few pedestrian deaths occur among small children. Five of six pedestrians killed are at least high school age, and threefourths are past college age. Drinking Adds To Toll. Thirteen p'er cent ef the 12,500 pedestrians killed last year were reported as having been drinking, while only 9 per cent of the drivers in all fatal accidents were so

reported.

Sorenson proposed a four-plank platform to increase the pedes-

trian’s chances of surviving.

1. Give the pedestrian the benefits of modern traffic engineering underpass, walk signals and pedestrian islands in the city. Give him walkways, sidewalks and similar devices in the country. And bet-

ter lighting everywhere.

2. Educate the pedestrian to

use and obey these devices.

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of them are necessary! If your jelly reproaches you with tears, prevent the weeping next time by covering glasses carefully. Store in a cool, dry place—free from dust and mildew. Follow your shortboil recipe exactly, and be sure to use fully ripe fruit—if you’d keep those jellies dry-eyed, firm, and good to the last bite. Fill glasses to no more than onehalf inch from the top, and cover with new paraffin immediately after pouring. The coating should be only

Vs of an inch thick — air pockets under paraffin are sometimes caused by a too-heavy coating. If it’s sugar crystals that disturb you, be sure to measure ingredients exactly. Count out loud when you pour sugar and juice in the kettle .. . and remember that a halfminute boil means exactly that. Both runny spreads and rubbery ones are all out of style today. The foolproof modern recipes give you jellies filled with the flavor of fresh fruit ripened in the sun . . . they’re wonderful time-savc^c . . . and you have half-again more glasses into -the bargain. Here are three “champions” on which to try your skill: Ripe Blackberry Jelly (Hales about 12 medium glasses) 4 cups berry juice 2 tablespoons lemon juice 8 cups sugar 1 bottle fruit pectin To prepare juice, crush thoroughly or grind about 3 quarts fully ripe blackberries. Place in jelly cloth or baa: and saueeze out juice. Squeeze

and strain juice from 1 medium lemon. Measure sugar and juice into large saucepan and mix. Bring to a boil over hottest fire and at once add bottled fruit pectin, stirring constantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard % minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at once. Ripe Red Raspberry and Rhubarb Jelly (Makes about 7 medium glasses) 3 cups juice 4 cups sugar 1 box powdered fruit pectin To prepare juice, crush thoroughly or grind about 1 pint fully ripe red raspberries. Cut in 1-inch pieces (do not peel) about pounds rhubarb, and put through food chopper. Combine fruits; place in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. (If there is a slight shortage of

juice, add small amount cf water to pulp in jelly cloth and squeeze again.) Measure sugar into dry dish and set aside until needed. Measure juice into a 3- to 4-quart saucepan. Place over hottest fire. Add powdered fruit pectin, mix well, and continue stirring iwitil mixture comes to a hard boil. At once pour in sugar, stirring constantly. Continue stirring, bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard V2 minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. -Paraffin hot jelly at

Ripe Peach and Plum Jelly (Makes about 7 medium glasses) 3 cups juice 4 cups sugar 1 ^ox powdered fruit pectin To prepare juice, cut in pieces (do not peel or pit) and crush about 2 pounds fully ripe peaches and 1 pound fully ripe plums. Add % cup water, bring to a boil, and shnmer, covered, 10 minutes. Place fruit in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. (If there ie a slight shortage of juice, add small amount of water to pulp in jelly cloth and squeeze again.) Measure sugar into dry dish and set aside until needed. Measure juice into a 3- to 4-quart saucepan. Place over hottest fire. Add powdered fruit pectin, mix well, and continue stirring until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once pour in sugar, stirring constantly. Continue stirring, bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard % minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at onea.

Traffic Signals On State Routes Regulated By Highway Commission

Surveys of traffic control signals on all state highway routes are in progress as the State Highway Commission prepares to carryout provisions of the new Indiana

traffic code now in effect, T. A.

3. Make the pedestrian subject! Dicus, chairman of the Commis-

to the same strict enforcement of ^ +nr

traffic laws as the motorist. 4. Enforce a rule that motorists wishing to make a left or right turn must wait for pedestrians walking with the green light. o Sorority Girls Set Up Library for Infirmary

New Orleans—A dozen or sb dogeared volumes which collected only dust in a sorority house have grown into a well stocked library that enriches the hours of hundreds of patients in New Orleans’ largest privately owned hospital. The sorority operates the library, which now occupies a room to itself, in the favor of Touro Infirmary. It is no ordinary sight to see college girls in mush-soled shoes and with a touch of the Florence Nightengale spirit trundling a book-cart through the cor ridors. There are strange requests for books, the girls said. One man would read only “Evangeline,” the tale of the lost Acadians whose ’Cajun descendants live along the Louisiana bayous. One woman would read only the Bible. Another patient asked for something “real risque.” Several Norwegian sailors looked only at the picture magazines. They couldn’t read English. Some Creoles ignored English, read only French books. “Sartor Resartus,” the work of Plato, and such tomes aren’t so popular, the girls admitted. o— PINE TREES SIAMESE TWINS

Yosemite National Park, Cal.-— Emil Ernst, park forester, has reported the discovery of “Siamese twin” trees, more than 150 years old, growing in the park and now the subject of special study. The two yellow pines apparently leaned toward each other to such an extent that they eventually united in a common top. It is believed to be the first phenomenon of the kind ever recorded in coniferous trees.

sion, reported today.

As a result of- studies made by highway officials, a number of traffic control signals have been removed; others have been modernized and still others have been moved to more effective locations. Completion of surveys now in progress will probably: result in additional revision of control signals

on state highway routes.

The new traffic code provides that the State Highway Commission examine all traffic control signals on state highway routes, approving those found necessary and removing those found unnecessary. Traffic signals mean a restriction on the motorist and where such a restriction is not necessary, presence of the signal means some delay and economic loss. Properly located, a stop-and-go signal adds to both the con-

venience and safety of motorists as well as pedestrians. In past year many traffic signals were erected in cities and towns to meet conditions which have since changed, or without a study of proper control methods. As rapidly as possible the Highway Commission is standardizing traffic control signals- on all highway routes as a means of promoting the safe, convenient, orderly movement of traffic. Believing that traffic conditions adopted by the American Standards Association as requiring stop-and-go signals, are too restrictive for Indiana, the State Highway Commission has adopted a traffic requirement only 50 per cent of the national standard. Even with this modification of the traffic requirements, a number of the signals now in operation on state highway routes do not meet the minimum established by the Commission and will be removed. It is anticipated that removal of these signals and proper marking of the intersections will permit freer movement of traffic and decrease accidents.

John Henry Titus Informs Towns Bars Reflect Their Personality

Pittsburgh—A barroom is the only true barometer of a community’s personality, declares the man who wrote “The Face on the Barroom Floor.” “Schools are no indication of a Community,” said 93-year-old John Henry Titus. “Public buildings and other aspects mean absolutely nothing when one tries to judge a place. It’s the barroom which really shows what a community is.” Titus has a pleasant way of making a living. He travels about the nation examining bars and lecturing. In the past 67 years he has averaged 20,000 miles a year and crossed the ocean 18 times. He spends Jiis'-winters in Florida. 'Titus wrote the poem which made him famous in 1872. It concerns a vagabond who staggers into a barroom and draws the face of his beloved on the sawdustcovered floor—then falls dead. The white-haired poet is not opposed to drinking. He says he likeg to take a glass of beer with his meals. He thinks barrooms have a democratic influence on a community. “Iii communities where liquor is

prohibited the people are stiff, radical, even fanatical. But where there are barrooms, it’s entirely different. The people are always ready to welcome you, shake your hand—they’re human. “It’s entirely against the constitution and the spirit of democracy to say: “You can’t do this.’ Liberty never killed anyone and neither will drink.” Despite his stand on the drinh question. Titus has spoken many times before W.C.T.U. groups, Y.M.C.A. and anti-saloon groups. “I guess they like to hear my poetry,” he said.

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Price in Year For Mercury Goes Up $20 Reno, Nev.—The steady increase in the price of quicksilver is considered more of “war-monger” than defiant speeches. Latest quotation on mercury was $88-$94.50 for 76-pound flask, up nearly $20 over last year’s average of $75,469 a flask. Quicksilver is used in the manufacture of high explosives and its prjee is literally a war "mercury,” rising and falling with the prospects of a conflict. Dqring the World War, quicksilvei rose to $300 a flask. Nevada has much quicksilver, but the- present price is not sufficiently attractive to warrant large operations. It was formerly mined in large quantities in Pershing, White Pine, Mineral and Nye counties. In 1937 (latest available figures) there were 20 quicksilver properties being operated in the state, producing a total of 198 flasks, worth $18,000. California produced $878,000 in quicksilver during the same period.

Change Personnel In WPA Division

Indianapolis, Ind., July 14.—Appointment of Arthur P. Crabtree as State Supervisor of the Works Progress Administration’s Adult Education Division was announced today by Stanton T. Bryan, Deputy State Administrator. Mr. Crabtree succeeds John Linebarger who will become State Supervisor of the WPA’s Literacy and Americanization Division. Both appointments were effective July 1, according to Mr. Bryan. Mr. Crabtree has been connected with the education division in a supervisory capacity since 1936. Originally he was in charge of educational work in the Marion County district and later was appointed to the state staff. Prior to his appointment to the state educational office, Mr, Linebarger worked in the WPA emergency educational department in Marion county. For many years he has been active in literacy and Americanization work.

FAR EAST SEES KEY TO DESTINY IN EUROPE, U. S.

jHiternational Moves Tip Delicate Balance In Orient

Manila, July 14.—An increasing conviction that tne Far East’s des- - ir- rests in the chancelories of -Ui'u^ and the capital in Washington makes the slightest wavering of international fortune of intense interest in the Orient. A speech by Adolph Hitler, a movement of the United States fleet, a royal visit to America or formation of a new European alliance provokes intense discussion, makes the Orient’s stock market tickers chatter and keeps newspapermen working overtime. Seven major powers whose homelands and territories represent nearly three-fourths of the world’s population are sititng at the Orient’s poker table. The chips are soldiers, warships, foreign trade, international credits and raw materials—and sometimes diplomatic bluff. Japan has been raising the ante in recent deals. So tense, has the game become that a sudden move by any one of the major nations is instantly studied in the light of what it might do to the delicate balance of the Oriental crisis. Five Powers Concerned. Great Britain, the United States, the Netherlands, France and Soviet Russia are the western powers with major interests in the Far

East.

The Philippine Islands, whose strategic value lies in geographical position and possession of vast, undeveloped resources, represent the major United States interest in the Orient. They lie between Japan and the British, Dutch and French colonies in southeastern

Asia.

Now under a semi-autonomous Filipino government, the Philippines archipelago is scheduled to become fully independent in 1946. There are many who believe, however, the United States will change

Bu RAY E. SMITH, EDITOR j THE HOOSIER SENTINEL

The unfairness of the press, as a whole, to President Roosevelt was illustrated the other day when his proposed $4,000,000,000 recovery program was made public. Mqny headlines called it a “new spending program’ ’or a new attempt at “pump priming.” To the contrary, the President’s program meets many criticisms now leveled at the New Deal. It provides that all money spent will be repaid, that projects will be undertaken chiefly through the channels of private industry and that the budget will not be affected and the net federal debt will not be increased. Actually, the new program offers only tried and proved principles. It simply provides gov-ernment-guaranteed loans for selfliquidating projects—such as home building, low-cost housing, highways and other forms of construction which will produce revenue to pay uiqmselves. Essence of the new federal' program is that , it will make credit available in spheres where it cannot now be obtained at least in sufficiency.

So President Roosevelt has failed to bring recovery? Well, what’s the explanation of these gains?— the first quarter of 1932, under Hoover, 26,094,970,000 k.w.h. of current was * produced, the first quarter of 1939, under Roosevelt, 37,893,659 k,w.h.; the first quarter of 1932, under Hoover, 36,936,900 barrels of petroleum were produced, the fist quarter of 1939, under Roosevelt, 87,175,850 barrels; currency circulation in 1932, under Hoover was $5,548,000,000 in 1939, under Roosevelt, it is $6,915,000,000, an increase of $1,367,000000; bond prices averaged under Hoover was $74.29 in 1932, under Roosevelt $85.78 in 1939. Under Roosevelt bond prices averaged has ad-

vanced $11.49. Who wants to go

its mind about setting the islands j back to Hoover ?

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ADVEKTISKMKNT FOR BIDS

The Housing Authority of the City of Muncie, Indiana, will receive sealed bids for construction of 278 dwelling units and other work incidental to the completion of the Munsyana Homes, Project No. INDIANA 5-1, located in Muncie. Indiana, until 9:00 A. M., C. S. T., on the 20th day of July, 1939, at their office, 618 Wysor Building, in the City of Muncie, State of Indiana, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids may be submitted on any or all of the following: (a) Construction of thp entire project. (b) Construction only, of buildings demolition and site development at project. (c) Plumbing and heating work of pr oject. (d) Electric work of project. (e) Dandscape work. The successful bidder will be required to furnish satisfactory performance bond cr bonds. Attention is called to the fact that not less than the minimum wage rates as set forth in the specifications must be paid on this project. Proposed forms of contracts documents, including plans and specifications, are on file at the office of The Housing Authority of the City of Muncie, at 618 Wysor Building, Muncie, Indiana. Copies of the documents may be obtained by depositing $100.00 in the form of a certified check with The Housing Authority of the City of Muncie for each set of documents so obtained. The amount of the deposit will be refunded to each bona-fide bidder who returns the plans and documents in good condition within 10 days after the opening of bids, provided he has filed a bid at the above stated time. Where the person making such deposit fails to submit a bona-fide bid, only $80.00 of each deposit will be refunded. The Housing Authority of the City of Muncie, reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any informalities in bidding. A certified check or bank draft payable to The Housing Authority of the City of Muncie, U. S. Government Bonds, or a satisfactory bid bond executed by the , bidder and a surety company, in an amount equal to 5 per cent of the bid shall be submitted with each bid. Proposals shall be properly and completely executed on Bid Form furnished by the Architects with non-collus-ion affidavit required by the Statutes of Indiana, and must be accompanied by Questionnaire Form 96-A, State Board of Accounts, for bid of $5,000.00 or more. No bid shall be withdrawn, for a period of sixty (60) days subsequent to the opening of bids without the co’nsent of The Housing Authority of the City of Muncie. The Housing Authority of the City of Muncie ROSS DOWDEN . ■ Executive Secretary June 30, July 7-14

own will or by persuasion from the

Filipino people.

To a large extent, this makes the 1940 presidential elections a matter of utmost interest here. Of the Far Hastern powers, only Japan would like to see an isolationist occupy the White House. The others would like to see election of a candidate such as Paul V. McNutt, L T . S. High commissioner to the Philippines, who believes the whole Orient would become a “bloody battleground” if the is-

lands are set free.

McNutt Sees Flag Safe. McNutt is convinced Japan would never attack the Philippines so long as the United States sovereignty is retained and that Americans who consider the islands a war risk are mistaken.

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Chapel Urged for Children To Honor Poet

Kenilworth, 111. — A miniature chapel for children where they could have their own choir and conduct their own services has been proposed as a memorial to the children’s poet, Eugene Field, by the Rev. Leland H. Danforth. Father Danforth is rector of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter. The chapel, complete with small pews, altar and reed organ, would occupy a room of the proposed new parish house, the rector said. On either side would be stained glass windows depicting childhood scenes from the Old and New Testaments. A small roof and belfry would complete the resemblance to a “grownup” church. Kindergarten and primary students of the parish Sunday school would us ( e the chapel under a teachqr’s supervision, lighting the candles, taking up the offering, and conducting the services in the manner of their elders. The church posseses an extensive Field collection, and has become a shrine for his admirers. A children’s chapel, the rector said, would be especially appropriate to his memory.

The business curve continues upward. Here’s a sample; Department store sales last week were 6 per cent above a year ago; auto output shows a contraseasonal rise to 81,070 units from 78,505 the week before; the U. S. Employment Service reports that it has placed 250,000 persons in private jobs in a single month, a 50 per cent increase; machine-tool orders in May were highest since April, 1937; carloadings in May were up 5.6 per cent above the previous year and shoe production up 11.6 per cent. Strangely enough, this was accomplished without Mr. Roosevelt’s resignation from the Presidency, a step described by Publisher Frank Gannett, hitter New Deal foe, as a necessary prerequisite to business recovery.

WOMAN, 73. BLASTS OUT HOMER AND RUNS BASES

Bristol, Conn.—Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, etc., please notice: Mrs. Martha Steele, Hartford, age 73, knocked a baseball out of Rockwell Park and toured the bases for a home run during a woman’s game at an annua] church picnic. Every player was more than 50 years old.

Add to unusual events something which took place in Forest Hills, N. Y. the other night. A business men’s organization of that city gave a dinner in honor of 100 WPA v/orkers who did a quick and efficient job of widening the thoroughfares. The spokesman for the business men explained that the work had progressed so rapidly that merchants and others could not believe it was being done by WPA labor. “Those fellows on the project are just about the finest fellows you ever saw. Men have to rest sometimes, but I haven’t seen a man lean on a shovel since the : proect began,” said the spokesman. What is rare is for a business men’s organization to give WPA the credit due it.

Readers of the financial pages of The New York Herald-Tribune were startled the other day by an advertisement display prominently in the upper outside corner of a page carrying quotations of stock and bond prices. The advertisement, set in largq type, ran in substantially the following form: WAR Should Result In .Greater Demand, Higher Prices. for CRUDE OIL And Consequently LARGER RETURNS FROM PRODUCING OIL ROYALTIES Investigate This Form of Investment. Descriptive Literature and Offerings on Request. T. G. Wylie & Co., Inc. 535 Fifth Ave. New York Could there be any more blatant appeal to selfish interest and greed for war profits than this contemporary example that appeared on the financial pages of one of the country’s most reputable and respected newspaper?

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Income Tax Figures Make Poor Showing The Treasury Department this week published some “Statistics of Income in 1937,” compiled from income tax figures for that year. It contains some food for thought for Senator O’Mahoney’s Temporary National Economic Committee, and for others who are pondering the problem of what is wrong with the country. The first fact shown is that only 5,350,148 persons had enough income in 1937 to report to Uncle Sam, although that was the most prosperous year since 1929. In other words, only that number had over $1,000, if single, or over $2,500, if married. At the most generous estimate, counting all these people as married, and using the customary figure of 3.5 individuals to a family, the 6.350,148 income tax reports represented 22,225,518 persons, or only 17 per cent of the entire 130,000,000 population. This 17 per cent, according to their tax reports, which certainly do not exaggerate their incomes, got a total of $21,<238,574,000 in 1937, or 31 per cent of the $67,500,000,000 entire national income in that year. Looking at this from the other side, 83 per cent of the population got only 69 per cent of the national income. Yet the fortunate 17 of each 100 families had an average income of only $3,340 in 1937, which is none too much for a family. Most of them, of course, got far less than that average, for it includes some individual incomes up to more than $5,000,000. The figures are still more impressive when broken down by income groups. For example, just 125,556 Individuals, , representing, with their families, 430,000 persons at most, reported incomes over $15,000, totaling $4,335,256,000. Thus, one-third of 1 per cent of the population got about 6.5 per cent of the national income.—Labor. ENGINEERS SEE 125 M.P.H, GARS

Swarthmore, Pa.—Two Swarthmore men, one a widely known research engineer and thq other director of an automobile association, predict that in the future automobiles will cruise “moderately” at 125 to 150 miles an hour. In other words, traveling time between two cities, such as Philadelphia and Boston, will be cut to a mere tv o hours. The men, William's. 'Canning and A. Ludlow Clayden, predicted that the time is not too far into the future because basically, the present automobile is sound enough to achieve such speeds. “Their steering is excellent,” Clayden, a nationally famous research engineer, said. “Their brakes would only have to be enlarged, not changed. Tires, however, would have to be built which would sneer at a mere 125 or 150.” Canning, a director of the Keystone Automobile club and a state highway executive in Pennsylvania. Georgia and Kentucky, contended that highways are the principal handicap for the super-speed machines. “Almost all of them lag behind in engineering knowledge,” he said, “with a few exceptions, one of which will be the HarrisburgPittsburgh super-highway.” The road of the future will he as far ahead of the average road of today as “the muddy road of the last century,he contended, and said that “intersections will be eliminated. “With roads like this and the use of every available safety device 150 miles an hour may soon be as practical as 50,” he continued. They will range in width from five to 12 lanes, each lane tinted a different color to indicate the maximum speed, and hedges and artificial shields will cut down headlight glare, he said. “Even engineers are amazed when we speak of the 150 miles an hour as a moderate speed for a pleasure car,” Clayton said, “yet there is no reason for feeling that automobiles should always be limited to 45 or 50.”

ITALY DUILDING PEACE OR WAR DESIGN OF LIFE Technical Equipment and Communications Vital Assets.

Rome, July 14.—Benito Mussolini’s conviction that hignly developed communications are indispensable in time of peace or war has spurred Italian engineers to prepare for either eventuality by building machinery and technical equipment probably unmatched by any other nation. Italian engineering genius has given to Italy the world’s fastest electric locomotives and the most powerful radio shortwave station in existence, and is engaged in plans for laying down a telephone cable between Sicily and Africa which will be the world’s largest. Over , a network of 4,000 miles of track—the largest network of electric railway yet built by any nation—Italian locomotives pufl passenger trains at speeds varying between 60 and 100 miles an hour. Train Speed 125 M. P. H. On a test run between Naples and Rome recently an electrically powered passenger train averaged 103 miles an hour, attaining a top speed of 125 miles. When these electric behemoths whizz through the quiet Italian countryside watchmen close the gates at road crossings five minutes before the train is due lest any peasant with his horse-drawn cart be caught on the track. Electricity, generated from Italy’s only major resource—waterpower—is gradually coming to he the most used fuel in Italy’s transportation system. Italy’s first subway train,' which will transport 92,000 passengers an hour to the site of Rome’s 1942 World’s Fair, will be operated by electricity. Already almo'st a third of the capital’s buses are electrically run. Mussolini’s prophecy that Italy’s destiny “always had been and always will be on the sea,” has been anticipated by the construction of a merchant marine the equal of any possessed by the great nations of the world. Twenty-five pew motorships to engage in world trade, each capable of cruising speeds of 16 knots, are being built in Italian shipyards. Phone Cable of 448 Miles Having completed 2,000 miles of roads in Africa last year, Italian engineers are now making plans to lay the first submarine telephone and submarine telephone and telegraph cables between Africa and the European continept. The doule~ service ^cable, to connect Tripoli and Sicily, will be approximately 448 miles long, more than 40 miles longer than the cable linking the Italian island of Sardinia with the mainland, which is the longest in the world now. Another cable to bring Italy in telephonic and telegraphic communication with its new Albanian kingdom will be put under the Adriatic se-i as soon as the laying of the Mediterranean cable is completed. ————o Hour Is Set Aside For Public Health

Mansfield, O.—An innovation in public health services—a program to immunize children of low-in-come families against smallpox and diphtheria—is being tried here. Called the “Public Health Hour” because each of 37 cooperating physicians in Richland county have set aside one hour daily or weekly for the work, the program offers immunization services at costs ranging up to $1 a child. Families unable to pay for any service will have their children treated free; families who average $60 a month for the past six months will be charged $1 per visit, regardless of the number of 'Children, whole families whose monthly income averages between $60 and $80 will be asked to pay $1 for each child. -— o The Isle of Man, of the coast of Ireland, still uses street cars drawn by horses.

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