Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 58, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1921 — Page 4

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JnMana §mlg SFiroes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 23-29 South Meridian Street Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. 1 Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising office* j New York. Boston. Payne. Burns &. Sm'th, Inc. _ NOW if the other railroads Trill only follow Ford’s example. PRESIDENT HARDING continues to follow that most criticised custom of dictating to Congress. PERHAPS the fire department will learn some day that water pressure is one of the necessities in putting out a fire. IMAGINE trying to "catch an edition’’ while sitting in an editorial chair like the one presented to President Harding! THAT VISIT of the two councilmen to the garbage plant probably gave them some idea about why West Indianapolis is dissatisfied. WITH OIL on the free list the American public can continue to flivver even if the tariff does send the price of everything else out of*reach. Unfortunate Dogs! Those citizens of Indiana who breathed a sigh of rnief when an agreement was made between the Indiana School of Medicine and the Indianapolis Humane Society for inspection of the dog kennels and the rooms given over to vivisection at the college apparently rejoiced too soon. For, instead of exercising a restraining influence on those among the medical fraternity who do not recognize the teachings of humane treatment of animals, the agreement appears to have resulted in the break down of the humane society. , . The result is that the humane society is not making the inspections it publicly agreed to make and the medical college is not living up to the agreement it made to cooperate with the society for the protection of dumb animals. Today, the college is not under restraint of any sort and the agency by which it was sought to restrain it has taken refuge under an impossible mask of secrecy, with the avowed purpose of preventing the public from knowing how* it has failed to liv6 up to an agreement, publicly and voluntarily made. Dean Emerson refused either to deny or affirm reports of cruelty to animals at the college. The humane society refused to make public reports concerning the college. The ideal has been reached by the advocates of vivisection. They have succeeded in muzzling the public agency which should be most concerned in bringing their conduct to public gaze and they are attempting to build a wall between them and public criticism by exeris'ng undue influence over the body that was to assure against any improper treatment of animals by them. All of which proves better than anything else could prove, the need in Indianapolis of a humane society properly organized and properly functioning. Such a society should be officered by citizens of Indianapolis whose conception of the society’s duty to the public is such as to preclude back door meetings end secret deals for the suppression of reports. Public support of a humane society that would act as an agency for the suppression of inhumane treatment of animals would be general and generous. Public support of a society that stands in the way of the organization of a real humane society cannot be expected and will not much longer exist. Matrimonial Progress It is probably useless in the hot weather, incident to good corn days and nights,” to worry about the various matrimonial affairs of those in volved, for love blindness is the most unreasonable catastrophy that can occur. It is of interest, however, to observe what the other half of the world is doing. William H. Leeds, whose forebears hailed from Richmond, Ind., Wayne County, is soon to marry Princess Xenia of Greece. Would that it were of Ohio! It seems that he has the blessing of the brides mother-in-law and, as Leed's father left an immense fortune to him, lie will get along with his own parents-in-law as long as the money lasts. But tho worst is yet to come. He will be offered the title of prince! Thus will he became the first American prince consort. Probably he will put on that title, then his mother, who is now, by marriage, a princess, can associate with him without losing caste. Young Leeds rather awoke admiration when it was anounoed he would marry a princess of his own choice, but it is difficult to admire him as a prince. However, nobility has its trouble. A prince Doria Pamphili, belonging to the Italian nobility since the year 1335. but an invalid, is going to shock every one by marrying a good healthy English nurse, even if he must go to London so do it. This member of nobility is immensely wealthy and. of course, he should have taken for his wife someone with a title and a large estate. The fact that he has fallen in love with a nurse is unforgivable and threatens a long line of mortifications and upset conditions. So America is contributing to the nobility and an English nurse is also drafted there. There may be some hope for democracy some day, if matrimony continues to be a permanent state of being. Senseless Criticism After months of criticism, the merit of which remains now to be settled in the courts, the board of school commissioners cancelled the contract for engineering with the firm of Snider & Rotz. Immediately the carping critics of the board started to belittle them for not having made arrangements previously for the carrying on of the work that was covered by this contract Now the school board has ended that complaint by ordering anew contract with Snider & Rotz for the completion of the work that firm had in hand. And the selfish critics of the board arise to criticise it for doing tiiat which they criticised it for failure to do only a fe\v days ago! With criticisms of the school board based on facts and designed to bring about better conditions in the school city the public has every sympathy. But with the endless- carping of the few disgruntled would-be bosses, who never cease their complaining, the public is very tired. A long time ago the thinking part of the citizenry of Indianapolis realized that this unlimited assault upon tne majority of the school board was prompted by pique at inability to control it and ambition to bring about conditions favorable to selfish ends. * The constant fault-finding and senseless objections of the interests represented on the board by Mr. Charles L. Barry are merely confirming the general belief as to their purpose. And they are nauseating to the public. .4 Serious Movement This movement on the part of citizens of West Indianapolis to disannex that part of the city has been and is now being treafed in entirely too light a vein by this community. West Indianapolis is too valuable a part of the city to be lost. Its complaints are too well founded to be ignored. Its temper is too thoroughly aroused to be placated by soft words or happy promises. The citizens of that part of Indianapolis who are now asking to be relieved of the burden of contributing to the municipal government are giving vent, along a very practical line to a feeling that is general in the city. They are not alone in believing that the individual is not getting his money’s worth from his compulsory contribution to the upkeep of the corporation. When members of a society reach the conclusion that they are not benefited by membership in the society they usually pursue one of two courses —they withdraw or they attempt to make the society of greater bengfit to themselves. The corporate city is no different from a society in this respect and the citizens of YJest Indianapolis ought to exhaust every possibility of making the corporation of benefit to them before they retire from it. Whether they have reached a final conclusion that they cannot benefit by being <£. part of Indianapolis remains to be seen. Their persistence in taking fcteps to retire from Indianapolis indicates that they are in deadly earnest.

MOVIE LAND Lillian Gish Ittlpj MILLIONS LOVE HER Q-jg lsJ

What Happened in One Town We hear so much Just now about censorship that I know you’ll be interested, as I was, In knowing what happened in a town out West a while ago. I wish it happened in more of them! r <• The people who concerned themselves with the town’s welfare were seriously considering seeing if the local motion picture theater couldn’t be closed. They felt that motion pictures were a very bad Influence, judging by those which they saw there. But someone suggested that, instead of closing the theater, they see if the class of pictures that were shown couldn’t be improved. So they talked to the owner of tho theater. He objected jto getting better pictures, because tbe rental of them would be higher than that on the pictures he’d been showing, and ho said that the townspeople wouldn't pay a higher admission price, no matter how much better pictures he gave them. "You try boosting your price,” advised the chairman of the committee. “Ton’ll find that you can do It and make more money than you're making now.” Bo he did. He raised the price of tickets from 10 cents to a quarter, and booked better pictures—l don’t mean by that pictures with a moral and a goody goody atmosphere. hut pictures with a real story, that would bold the Interest of the audience. There are plenty of them, you kpow, and if a theater owner really wants to show them can arrange to do so, easily enough.

KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS

(The Hoopers, an average American i family of live, living In a suburban ] town, on a limited income, will tell the renders of the Daily Time* how the many present day problems ot j the home are solved by working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper baa i evolved and found practical. Follow them daily in an interesting review of their home lit* and learn to meet the conditions of the high coat of living with them.) TUESDAY. As Mrs. Hooper served he cream of chowder she referred to Mrs. Campbell s story of always asking her husband what he wanted for dinner before he left the ; house after breakfast each morning. •'Would you people like to know each day what you are to have to eat at night or do you like me to keep it a secret the way I do until you sit down at the dinner table.” -Oh I'd bate to know just what l was to eat every night,” exclaimed Henry, "it would take the edge off my appetite com pletely and I'd be thinking about it in the train until 1 shouldn't feel like eating a bite.” 1 “I think I like to he surprised,” added Roger. "If you are going to have any- ! thing 1 don't like I'd rather not know it.” j ••But then we couid tell yon we didn't i want, things," said Helen. "That would bo very nice I think.” ' “I don't like this flip. Take It away Take It away.” insisted Betty sensing an j ’ opportunity of getting rid of her *"np wbi -b her mother always had trouble in I g- ttiug her to eat.” “Finish nary drop of that soup Betty,” ' said Mrs Hooper severely. “I'm sure I I'm right In my plan oT never eonsultlng ; any of yon shout my menus, the way to many women think they should do In order te please every member of the family with the catering. Betty would always ; rule out soup and Helen would never j have carrots and Roger would vote i against spinach." “Does Mrs. Campbell always ask her family, wbst they want?" inquired Henry. | "That's what she has been doing,” i laughed Mrs. Hooper until her husband stop perl her and (.egged to be surprised 1 in a while instead or beh;g always ' consulted.” | “Well I'd hate to have you always asking me. ‘What will w- here t:, eat,’” coni tensed Henry, “and then to he certain of i what wo would have three meals lu ad ! ranee would be awful. it's all right for you to know as long ahesd as you like. Mary, if you don't tell us about It.” "There's another nice thing about mother,” said Roger sntiiiug at her over his fish salad "and that is she isn’t always saying so we can hear it,” ‘Oh I’m so tired cooking these same old things I don’t know what to do.' ” "And when you think how many fish salads she's made in all these years,” laughed his father, "it would be no cause for surprise- if she really were t'.red cooking these same old things for us.” ; “I’m really always trying to think of some new wrinkle that will .nuke the old jth ngs seern different anil there are so many eonblnatlons that we used never to ] dream of th* there really isn’t much exlouse these days for monotonous unappetix- ; !ng food even when the principal ingreI dlents have to be much the same always. I "I can’t t*dl you Henry,” said Mrs. j Hooper as they went out on to the front ! porch, while Helen put away the dishes j that she snd her mother had washed and | Roger vanished for his after dinner I chore of watering the vegetable garden. "what anew lease of life that washing j I machine has given me. I’m not the ieast j I bit tired tonight and I used to be all i worn out on Tuesdays.” j “You and Betty and Roger all had dis graceful stains on your things this week I too.” she went on reproachfully as Henry lit the lump on the readiffg table and opened a late magazine from the library to read to her while she sewed. "Is that so?” said Henry contritely. “Yes. 1 do remember now ’of spilling lodine all over two handkerchiefs. Couid you get it out?”

BRINGING UP FATHER.

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1921.

The theater owner experimented, no scouted around till he got Interesting pictures that could be put over without elaborate "teaser” campaigns or much advertising. He chose good comedies, not merely wild, slapstick affairs that don't really amuse any one. And he found that it paid. After a time he had to use much less advertising space, merely an ad In the local newspaper and a big announcement over bis theater being necessary. Also, he found that be could run a good picture for several days, since he was reaching a far wider audience than in the old days, when just the people who wanted somewhere to go and didn't much care what sort of pictures they saw when they went to the theater. We can't improve motion pictures unless we have the help of those who Insist that they ought to be improved. Nor can we improve them if those who tell people how bad they are, do as a woman did who recently "Investigated" the movies—she went to the theaters in the worsi parts of New York City and then told about what horrible pictures) were being shown, whereas only a very small percentage of the motion picturegoing public ever saw those releases. And if the city fathers in more communities would cooperate with the owners of the theaters I think every one would notice a distinct Improvement In the type of pictures that are made. Ira the picture that draws the crov and that every producer wants to make, remember; when there is no audi/nee for salacious pictures, there will be no pictures of that sort. —Copyright, 1921.

"Oh yes," answered Mrs. Hooper beginning on the new pillow cases she was hemstitching. "I dipped them in liquid amonia and the spots came out and the grass stains on Betty's clothes dis appeared when I rubbed butter on them and lay them In the sun. and the ink stain on one of Roger's shirt sleeves had dried in so that they wouldn't yield to a soaking in milk, so I had to take them out with an application of oxalic acid.” ""’ell to long as they all disappeared," said Henry relieved —"all is well " The menu for the three meals on Wednesday is: BREAKFAST. Sliced Pineapple Cereal. Broiled Bacon M tiffins Coffee. LUNCHEON. <'hecse ami Itice Souffle Gingerbread and Frit" Milk. DINNER. Broiled Hamburg Steak Hashed Brown Pota'.e* Green Peas. Fruit Salad (Copyright, 1921 )

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Photo by Hohenberger. Martin House, State Game Experiment Station. At the state game experiment station In Montgomery County, many of these little bird houses may be seen. They are set out at various points in State reservations, and are models of bird house construction. As is seen by the photograph the birds take advantage of the State’s hospitality.

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright. 1921. by Star Company. By K. C. B. Dear K. C. B.—l have wanted to write you for a long, long time, but haven't anything but my unimportant seif to write about, and maybe you won't be interested. But this morning, when I heard the hurdy-gurdy man as I walked down Chambers street, the music brought mertlories of a band I used to hear, a big brass band, uml while the band played hundreds of persons gathered to hear it and to enjoy tbe performance that went with it. It was a circus, K. C. 8., and 1 rode a big white horse and jumped through paper rings, and was all dressed up in fluffy tarleton skirts, and the little kiddies clapped their hands, l’or I made them happy. They thought I was n Fairy Princess. Y’ears have passed since then and gray hairs have come where nutbrown curls ouoe were-- and tarleton skirts and gray hairs don't make a good combination. And then there came a long tng fur New York, and i came here and I have a Job with the board of health, but no one in the office where 1 am knows there is a fairy princess among them But I am happy, and every morning 1 read your “gossip,” hear the hurdygurdy man and stop in St. Andrew’s and say my prayers, for I know that 1 am still a fairy princess, for it Is given me in my* job to help bring health to little kiddies and to grown-ups. 1 thought perhaps you might be Interested. EFFIE D. • * ♦ MY DEAR Etfie. • • • l WANT to tell you. I'M VERY glad. * • YOU WROTE to me. * * * SO TIIAT little children • • • WHO READ these lines. OR WEAK them read. • # • MAT LEARN by them. • • THAT A Fairy Princess. MAT HAVE gray hair, AND WORK all day. • • • AND HAVE crows' feet. ABOUT THE eyes AND EVERYTHING else TH/ T COMES with'time. * • • AND THE only way. WE MAT pick them out • s • IS JUST to watch. • • • WHERE HAPPINESS Is • • • AND THEN look around FOR THE Fatrv Princes* FOR SHE'LL be there I THANK yon. Girls Step in Hole While Bathing'; Drown Sr'-|al m The T me*. BLUFFTON, Ind., July It*— While bathing In a shallow portion of an abandoned stone quarry, near the city's community bathing pool here. .Miss Irene Buckles, 38. and Miss .Tcnnle Conrad, Hi. stepped over a ledge Into deep water and were drowned The bodies were recovered within a short time, but all attempts to resuscitate failed.

Do You Know Indianapolis?

This picture was taken in your home city. Are you enough with it to locate the scene? Yesterday’s picture was of the site for the new Indianapolis Athletic Club.

Odd Articles Forgotten by Guests at Hotels Decrepit Tooth Brushes and Frayed Collars Among Ownings Os ten Written For.

\ Why is a hotel ? Noah Webster says “to entertain guests.” But hotel employes say Noah is considerably out of date, as nowadays it is a place for guests to entertain hotel employes with a series of idiosyncrasies and laments. It is the one place outside of the home circle where the foibles and frailties of human nature may be exhibited without breaking any of the ruies of etiquette, in fact it appears to be an unwritten coda among rnests to "crab” Hbout something, it being a sign of n very verdant "hotellte” who finds nothing to complain about or who does not leave a few of his belongings to be returned. No doubt the returning of one toothbrush and oue pair of pajamas seems a trivial incident to the guest, but the returning of one hundred toothbrushes and pajamas to one hundred guests is not so trivial to the hotel man “Hotel guests seem to forget that the reason for a hotel is to serve the public with the best service possible, that hotel keepers are not trytng to do their guests or waiting for an opportunity to take their valuables. They lose sight of the fact th.it we are very anxious that none shall find none of his belongings missing. and that each arid every one has every convenience.” says the manager of one of the leading hotels of the city. GUEST PLAYS IN LICK ON DIAMOND. "We had a man stopping with us at one time who wore a handsome diamond stud valued at about S3OO, and he hud a pet bidding place for the stud Every night he would slip it underneath the paper in the bottom of the dresser drawer In leaving the hotel, h<* was in a hurry to make un early train and rushed off leaving hi* diamond in iis eighllj resting pi: ic !!<■ was gone three weeks on a business trip in the Fast and could not get back sooner. When he came hack he asked for his same room which fortunately for him was unoccupied. and there underneath the pa- , per he found bis stud just as be hud left It He didn't tell us about it until after he had found D He subl he discovered j his loss the next day after leaving, but was afraid to write for fear* that some one might get the letter that was not honest and heat him to tho pin, and \ look a chance on leaving it there, which in an instance of the mental operations and auspicious nature of mankind. The room had been oe< upled all the time during his absence |oo " The manager also 'laughed over the schemes of guests to smuggle ‘b.lWpets into their rooms “And they do do it, rnn, even bring 'em In In traveling bags and Milt oases, dogs, canary birds, parrots and one of our feminine guests had as her traveling companion a rabt'it. I have talked to a lot '■f folk who carried rabbits' f<>et in tSi* ir pockets for link, but that was my first experience with someone carrying the animal itself. She carried it in a very inconspicuous looking leather bag. and no one questioned Its contents. We didn't discover it until it had eaten the nap off the carpet chewed clear through It in two places. 'One woman came in rather late one evening. She was touring from the Fast ill a machine and came in leading a dog. about the size of a Shetland pony, and asked for a room for self and dog. When she was told that tho dog could not be kept In her room she said slie wouldn’t take the room then. She couldn't be parted from tbe dog. The suggestion was made that the dog could oe fastened outside the back door under the eye of the night watch, but she shuddered at the mere thought of such au Indignity. The clerk In despair called on me and after au excited conversation with Madame, she consented to my getting In touch with a dog kennel where she could board and lodge the dog for the night. We took him over and as far as I know he survived the night without any ill effects. But nevertheless she felt that we were unreasonable in not housing her pet, not realizing that if we fiadyno rule ugainut admitting pets, that our hotel would take the aspect of a zoological garden. HUMAN WEAKNESS SHOWN IN HOTEL LIFE. "But tho greatest general weakness of hotel habitants is in leaving behind their belongings," the hotel man continued. "The greater part of unclaimed articles are called for, but we have enough left over to justify a sale among the employes twice a year. Mrs. June Storey, housekeeper in another large local hotel, says that in leaving tbiugs behind the men are far more careless than the women. "Now and then a woman leaves something,” she states, "but forgetfulness is quite general among men "We find everything from a toothbrush to a million-dollar watch.” she said.

laughingly. “Perhaps one of the most unique things that could be overlooked was a beautiful snow white transformation, forgotten by an elderly woman. It was as fine a head of hair as I have ever seen, and how one could forget such a necessary toilet accessory as their whole head of hair was a mystery to me. but it was forgotten, and I put it carefully away. In about a week I received a letter from the owner asking the return of the 'article left in her room:’ she didn't mention what it was even, but I knew and returned it.” DEt REPIT TOOTHBRUSH OFTEN OVERLOOKED. "Os course the most common article to forget Is the toothbrush, the sur i rising part of it Is that the owners very ofton writ" to ask that tney be sent them Why I have sent back toothbrushes that contained scarcely more than three bristles. Whether the owners were sentimentally attached to them or hated 1 reaking in anew one was never explained. "Watches are frequently left hanging to the bedpost or under the pillows and occasionally wallets of money will be discovered hidden about the bed. People are careful about biding the things but are sadly negligent In removing thPin t rom their hiding place And another favorite 'left-behind* witb the men is tie unpretentious collar We find* whole shelves of collars, find them hung on the bathroom d*or, looped over the door knob, strung along on the dresser, under the bed. The most of those loft and written Ur ar>* collars so frayed that they seem hardly worth the postage, yet like the defunct toothbrushes, seem to he a tender passion with their owners. ODD RESI I.TS ATTEND COMPLAINTS. "Absent minded guests are a •bugbear' t" the hotel employes.' One gentle man leaving the hotel came to me very excitedly one morning saving that he had been robbed of Ids wallet containing u large sum of money. We notified the manager and house detective made a thorough search of the room with no luck. The gentleman was all packed re dy to leave so She detective asked him if lie would mind going through his luggage again' The gentleman said he'd be glad to do so, but that it eopld nor he packed for he remembered that he hadn’t seen it since the night before when iie placed it under his pillow. However after a careful search It was found In the pocket, of his pajamas. One man came down complaining that his eyeglasses had disappeared mysteriously although he had worn them at breakfast tiae. He was very much irritated but was slightly mollified when the clerk reached over and handed him his glasses wtUch he had left on the desk when calling for his mail a few minutes before." Hotel records show innumerable tubes of toothpaste and brushes, collars, pa Jamas, B. V. D.s. feminine lingerie, razor strops, safety razors, hair nets, hair switches mi false curls, watches and brooches. Perhaps tho most surprising of all entries were false teeth, part plates and complete ones. One man evidently was in a decided rush for tie records showed that he left ills razor, strap. B. V. D.s, toothbrush, hairbrush and pajamas. There is food for considerable surmising as to how he made his next morning's toilet, was the hotel man's comment.

HOROSCOPE "The atari Incline, bat do not compel 1" j WEDNESDAY. JULY 20. Astrologers read this .19 a doubtful and iy but all the influences are distinctly un- ! favorable. The Sun, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn are all adverse. The seers declare that under this planetary government the President and those close to him may be criticised for j policies that are impartial and construe- j tive. Persons who have patronage to bestow ! will not be favorably inclined toward the , claims of women who desire political re-* wards. Again attention is called to the fact that with the Ingress of -the summer quarter, tbe Sun, conjoined with Mart, gave warning of danger of trouble and even conflict with a foreign power. Mercury, however, is so well aspected with Jupiter that actual hostilities probably will be avoided. Persons whose birthdatV it is , have rather a strenuous year before them, in all probability. They should avoid taking any business chances. Children born on this day wiil be courageous, possessed ot initiative and industrious. These subjects of Gemiui. who ara on the cups, have Cancer traits and may meet with reverses that tlmy ,can overcome. —Copyright, 1921.

SCHOOLS FOR PART-TIME IN 22 OF STATES Instruction Provided for Children Who Have Been Employed. • WASHINGTON, Jly 19.—A progressive step in recent movements in compulsory education has been tho passage by many States of cotinuation school laws, which afford a child who has left school for employment opportunity for further educatio by providing part-time compulsory schooling for a specified number of hours each week. Some of these laws apply also to unemployed children, or to children who are no longer subject to day-school attendance requirements. A brief analysis of the continuation and everting school laws of each State, as well as those prescribing day school attendance, is shown In a chart recently issued by the United States Department of Labor through the children's bureau, en-' titled "State Compulsory School Attendance Standards Affecting the Employment of Minors, Jan. 1, 1921.” This chart shows that twenty-two States now have compulsory provisions for continuation school attendance. In three of these States, however, the establishment of such schools Is ffot compulsory, and in one tha school authorities are merely empowered, not compelled, to establish part-time schools and to require attendance. The age limit to which the compulsory attendance provisions apply varies, ten State requiring attendance up to 18 years of age, one State up to 17 and eleven States up to 18. The amount of attendance is from four to eight hturs weekly; the laws of each State specify or imply that this period shall be counted ns part of the child's legal working hours. In eight States the law permits no exemptions; in the other States the exemptions vary, three excusing a child who has completed the eighth grade. Only twelve States now provide for evening schlpool attendance, the progress which has been made In day and continuation school laws having obviated this need to a great extent, at least for children under 16. In most of these States the law covers only minors over 1C who cannot speak, read or write English with specified profieieeney, in one State applying to aliens only. As in the continuation school laws, the attendance requirement varies, some States having only a general requirement of "regular attendance”—others specifying an attendance of from four to eight hours weekly.

SAM BROWNE’S RACK; PRICES UP War Department to Issue Belt at Low Figure. I With the War Department's order restoring the Sam Browne belt for all commissioned officers, prices of this article of equipment which had been a drug on the market, immediately began to soar skyward and all sorts of nondescript belt- began to make their appear--1 an :o. according to local Army advices. Mnj. G<n. H. L. Rogers, the quartermaster general of the Army, has derided to issue a standard belt at a moderate price and has ordered that several patterns be made up with * view to ultimately adopting one of them for the use of officers. It its the intention to devise a belt which* will combine both service and dress features and to this end the cloth- • ii g and equipage branch have sent Louts Hener, leather and equipment expert of the quartermaster general's office, to .Teff.rsonvilje to superintend the manufacture of several different types, one of which will be adopted as the standard for all. % PUSS IN BOOTS JR. By David Corx. Now, let me see. We left off In the j last story, just as everybody aboard th# Ark was getting ready for the circus. Well, every one was waiting Impatiently for Captain Noah, when suddenly his head appeared at one of the port holes. "Mother.” he called. "where are my white dress ties? I can t find them anywhere " So Mrs. Noah laid down her vfork basket arid went Into the Ark to find them. And In a few minutes Captain Noah appeared In full dress, his silk hat upon his head and a long whip in bis hand. As be came down tho plank Japheth led out the big white horse, and after helping Fuss Junior to mount, led him into the center ring. Shorn then opened the big door in tho Ark and all the animals solemnly marched out and arranged themselves about the rings. Next dime Ham, leading his two wrestling monkeys, and after him came Shera with his elephant. Mr. Jonah, towering above the heads of the tallest animals, including the giraffe, announced that the circus would commence. • “Ladies and gefitlemen.” he “began, "allow mo to Introduce to vou tbe most wonderful cat rider In the world. Fuss in Boots Junior, on his beautiful white horse Marshmallow. Puss Junior ■without doubt is the most daring bareback rider in the' universe.” There was a great clapping of hands, hoofs and paws at this announcement, for Puss, had become a great favorite with the Noah's Ark people. “Ladies and gentlemen,” went on Mr. Jonah, “you see before you In ring No. 2 the most famous wrestlers of the world. Jocko and Monko. In ring No. 3 Is the largest lephant in existence. “Well, well,” exclaimed Mrs. Noah, when it was all over, “I certainly never enjoyed the circqs so much in all my life! not even when I was a little girl.” And that night every ona slept like a top, let me tell ybu, for each one was tired out with the day's work. And in the next story you shall hear of more adventures that Fuss had aboard tbe Noah's Ark.—Copyright, 1921. (To Be Continued.)

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