Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1921 — Page 4

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JttMana Uaite SFimeo INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . . ... „ ( Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising olllees j j^ ew fork, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. THAT THIRD candidate movement seems to be resolving itself Into a consideration by those who obtained a law of how best to otertlirow what they did! AND AFTER ALL these years it now develops that dumping on Sellers’ farm wa3 an illegal practice as well as an obnoxious one! PROHIBITION AGENTS are now telling the grand jury about the relations of Chicago policemen to the booze traffic. What will the grand jury do about it? HOWEVER, the important question Is not what Arbuckle wore, but what he did at that fatal party! POLICEMEN say they have been told of several instances in which whisky runners have been robbed of their booze on the roads into Indianapolis. Are the police hesitating as to which offense to prosecute? THOSE INDIANAPOLIS MINISTERS wno are hesitating to take a stand in the municipal election doubtless remember that they stood for Jewett four years ago. The War Chest Audit In yesterday's editions the Times presents for the first time a complete audit of the financial affairs of the war chest, concerning which there has been, and still is, considerable controversy and feeling in this community. Had the people of Indianapolis been as familiar with the details of this enterprise as they should have been, there is little dcrnbt that the community chest which succeeded it would have been more successful. For, in the absence of authentic information relative to the war chest disbursements, the wildest kind of rumors received some credence, as community chest workers learned to their regret and dismay. It is, of course, foolish to criticise these disbursements at this late date, even if they might be regarded as subject to criticism. The gravest error that was committed in regard to them was unquestionably the error of not taking into confidence the people who contributed to the fund and compelling them to become acquainted with the details of how the money was spent. Perusal of the audit discloses that an actual fund of $2,143,833.28 was administered with a total outlay from a founder's fund of $111,811.46. None of the war chest fund was used to pay administration expenses and if fault is to be found with them, it must come from the contributors to the founders’ fund to be recognized. In this audit it is disclosed that $40,000 was appropriated for the homecoming celebration that marked the return of Indiana’s soldiers from the war, and that $3,950 was expended for the “memorial arch,” erected on that occasion. s Grossly exaggerated reports of these two expenditures did much toward injuring public confidence in both the war chest and the community chest projects, in spite of the fact that the total of the two is a figure that is comparatively small. The lesson to be learned from the experience of the war chest administration is plainly that there is no group of men in Indianapolis in whom the community as a whole reposes such blind confidence that it may administer a public fund without keeping the community fully informed of its every step This is unfortunate, but it ought never fail of recognition in the future. Astronomers ’ Troubles Recent developments show that the present astronomers are about as charitable to each other as are the wagging tongues at a sewing bee. on Main street The worst of it all is that instead of fighting ignorance, the invectives are hurled at others of the same profession. Occasionally, however, some great scientist gets by with a discovery and it he does starve to death, receives posthumous honors in the time of the third and fourth generation thereafter. Such was Galileo, Newton and a score of lesser but modern lights. Recently a Professor Todd proposed to use a mine shaft in Chile as a barrel of the telescope and to magnify neighbor Mars 25,000,000 times. Thereby all family secrets, the population in the year 1924. and color of its inhabitants will appear as an open book with snapshot illustrations taken from life. Then a director of the Harvard observatory kills all the joy of anticipation by saying he has no faith in the idea; that it is a foolish, wild scheme. The first professor may be condemned to the rack and thumb . screws if he does not recant at once. There is a saving incident, however, of late happening. Professor Einstein, who recently visited America and explained his theory so beautifully, is confirmed a little. It is the director of the Yale observatory who says work carried on at Mt. Wilson Obgervatory for several months had distinctly tended to ratify the Einstein theory. The astronomers now say that Einstein has been proven right by three experiments, made many times over, in a number of years. One almost has to understand the theory first before grasping the proof, but suffice it to say that the orders that Einstein he quartered and drawn are revoked and his theory may be taught in school as soon as the old book wears out and new ones can be printed. Xhe Bonding Problem The ruling of the Superior Court, overriding the order of Judge Valter PriSchard preventing a bondsman from becoming surety for more than one Citv\ourt defendant at one time serves again to call attention to a deplorable situation. In effect, this ruling, which appears to be in accordance with the law, sets aside the greatest single obstacle to the professional bonding which has proved so unsatisfactory to the police court and the board of safety. The ruling also brings out that in his effort to cope with the evil, Judge Pritchard has strained the authority of his court past the breaking point. There are two things that require attention in a study of the bonding question at the city court. One is the desirability of providing a method by which persons entitled to bond can obtain it quickly and without extortion. The other is the necessity of preventing professional bondsmen from building up a system by which they enrich themselves and their favorite lawyers and defeat justice. Probably the problem, which is as old as the police court, will not be solved until public spirited citizens form an organization for the purpose of providing bonds for the worthy and conduct it much on the system that remedial loan companies are conducted to restrain loan sharks. Such an organization, functioning as a bonding company, ought to be able to see that justice is done the unfortunate who is entitled to a police court bond. With this avenue open to the legitimate bonding, it should not be very difficult to curb the illegitimate practices that Judge Pritchard has tried so hard to eliminate. Forced Candidacies Senator Kellogg of Minnesota announces his position relative to reelection as follows: “My duties are such that I eannot leave Washington to carry on a personal campaign, and I have no taste or talent for wirepulling or political intrigue. I am perfectly willing to leave the matter to the people of Minnesota.” Senator New of Indiana sets about building up, through such Federal patronage as the prohibition department and other departments afford, a political machine to capture the primaries and return him to the Senate. Senator New is not "perfectly willing” to leave the matter to the people of Indiana. He expeots the people of Indiana to return him to the Senate, but he knows that they will not do so unless they are coaxed, cajoled and coerced. He is unwilling to "leave the matter' 1 to the people of this State and he does not intend to overlook any methods of influencing the people of the State in his behalf. The result of the New method of seeking re-election has two distinctive disadvantages to the people of the State. It not Infrequently provides them with office holders that they do not want and it invariably reduces the efficiency of office holders who are compelled, because of their political duties, to neglect their official duties. What this State needs is more statesmen who, like Kellogg, "have no or talent for wirepulling or political intrigue.”

Highways amid By-Ways of LiF OF New York v Copyright, 1921, by Public .Ledger Cos. By RAYMOND CARROLL

NEW TORK, Sept. 2S.—"Xbe man in the park,” who has come prominently Into the public eye of late, is getting extensively Into the public packet, and that Is a good thing, for, really, it is more “blessed” (Bible word, meaning satisfactory In that sense) to see one person In this stony-hearted metropolis “give up” and “let go” than to see a hundred jobless men connect up with a meal. Asa direct result cf the articles appearing about the unemployed, the old burg is actually loosening up, and ahead of schedule at that, for “doling” Is not properly due, at least, until after the first faU of snow. Instances follow: An Essex street grocer along Battery Park before sun-tip each day with 000 sandwiches and two cans of milk, calling out, "I’ve slept in the parks myself; come, line-up, boys.” He is not a candidate for office nor 1s he connected with any charitable organization. He Is an ordinary man, not rich, whose heart has been touched by what he has read. The well-to-do, usually are sporadic in their personal Relief to the patrons of the great city’s open-air lodging houses. A party of three men in evening clothes, | and three women fashionably gowned, j early one recent morning, distributed small stiver pieces to those on (he four most southerly benches In Bryant Park. They had come from a nearby restaurant, and one of the women, about to enter a motor-car, seeing the figures of the unemployed in the moonlight, proposed the money hand-out. The thing which was a lark to the sextette was a Godsend to the beneficiaries. A young man does the same thing in dimes, without Rny ostentation, every Friday night, i among the benchers In Madison Square, i He is a smalt salaried clerk, the police

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP | Copyright, 1921, by Star Company. By K. C. B. A YEAR age. • • • OR MAYBE two. • • • I WROTE some lines. MAYBE FOOLISH lines. OF THE business man WHO HIRES men. TO WORK for him. AND Is careful to see. ¥ITET ARE good men. AND WATCHES them. AND IF they fail. IN THE task at hand. MAYBE IUN'MXG a lathe OR KEEPING looks. OR SELLING drugs OR WHATEVER it is. HE FIRES them. • • • ANT) THIS same man. HAS A son at school. ANT) HE (foesn’t car*. WHO the teacher ANT) THE chances are. HE irO’LERS a lot IF H JR salary Is raised ANT) TAXES Increase. AND ALL he knows. is THAT so many hours. • • * ON EVERT day. HIS SON’S at school. ANT) HE’S satisfied AND THE other night. I WENT to a play. "51A N IN the Making." AND TT deals with tilts. AND WE sat down front. MT WTFE and T AND STEALING * phrase FROM OFF the street. WE AT® it op. • • n AND THERE wasn’t a moment. • • • IX Alvla Ton r acts. • • • THAT ora Interest lagged. • • • AXO TTK clappM cur hand a. *.. BOTH LONG and lond. AND IN' the morn' tut. WHEN THE papers e ara >. WE mRRIED to read. WHAT THE critics said. AND LO and behold. WE both were wrong. FOR THE critics said. IT WASN’T a play. AND WAS very dull. AND ONE of them said. THAT THE pretty face. OF KATHLEEN Oomegys WAS ALL he saw THAT ATTRACTED him. * * * I THANK yon.

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say, and his slender means allow him the treat only once a week. SOME PELLAGRA FOUND ON BENCHERS. A sidelight on the unemployment situation has been the discovery of several cases of pellagra among the benchers. That disease is held by some to be the result of improper nourishment, such as the eating of decayed vegetables. For years it was supposed pellagra was confined to the peasantry in parts of Italy and France, Koumania and Corfu, but it apparently has crossed the seas, for numerous cases have been reported fronl our Southern States this year. SHOOTING CAUSES MORAL OUTBURST. The fatal shooting of Mildred E. Hannu by her former friend and pensioner. Mrs. Grace Lawes, who ended her own lifa by first drinking poison and then shooting herself, has started the same sort of moral outburst against “booze | parties in New York as followed the exposure of the Arbuckle case in San Francisco. “The mind of Mrs. Lawes,” said Alfred llanan, brother of the vie tlm , "was inflamed and disordered by j drugs and drink.” lie scouts the idea | a third person was connected with the I shouting of his sister, and says It was I because the 1-aer ceased to support the ! Lawes woman that the tragedy resulted. I Notwithstanding the examples offered I by the two cases that have been so promi--1 nently headlined, so far as can be a* certained there has been no correspond- | ing drop in the quotations for the iead- ] ing liquors. A few persons may "swear I off” for a few days, but the moral effect of such tragedies is not lasting and tliey are soon forgotten irt the whirl of the big city. A play now running at a New 1 ork theater, written by one Emory Pottle, an American ex-lieutenant, whom I recall during the peace conference as stationed with his Belgian police dog at the Hotel Crtllon, In Paris, makes a low, revolting villain of an American soldier; the exception of an odious hero ,re a tod to prove the rule and possibly please “those who stayed at home" in whom are centered the box office hopes of the manager making production, himself the former busine-s associate of the man who wrote “Over There.” In refutation of the play'* insinuation that heroes are pretty poor stuff, ud in support of our faith that men who were heroes in France are pretty apt to he heroes at home, the writer submits this case from real life: Martin J. Maloney, policeman of the Meet One Iluudred and Thirty-Fifth street station, was wounded nd cited for I bravery during the lighting in the I Argonne forest as a sergeant in the TMh division. On Saturday last Patrolman Maloney was off duty and he went for his holiday to Rocha way ’ varh. lie was in the water, v hen he heard a woman , scream for help, She was being carried out to sea. Without mome t’s eslta tion the ex-service man struck out for her, but. unfortunately he was caught in the undertow and drowned. A life guard who also heard the scream rescued the woman. But the point [ am making is that a man who d< • s a brave deed cymes back from war just as brave and Just as : fine as when ho marched, any play that may be written to the contrary nctwlth standing. •ONCE V COWARD ALWAYS A COWARD,’ “Conversely, once a coward always a I coward,” remarked a high officer with : whom I was discussing this largo sobJect of heroism and Us probable permanency in an individual. Ho thee cited as an instance Lynn A. E. Gale, who is now a military prisoner on Governor's Island, and awaiting court- : martial for running off to Mexico instead ; of reporting to hU local draft board fur service. | “At the time of h’s draft dodging." said the offic.r, “Gale was on# of our best little ‘conscientious objectors' and be consorted with the leading radicals and pacifists. In Mexico City ho eventually won a name that resulted In his being recently deported to the border, where we placed him under arrest “Today do wa find Gaie standing by his convictions? Not much he Is run- ; ping true to form. Overnight he became an ex-pacifist, an ex-bolshevlst and an ci anything that is kin to the position b“ held when his country was going Into war. He offers to toll what he knows of parifUm and radicalism; giv# to the Government, information against radicals he obtained as one of them. Nothing doing He is going to trial charged with cowardice in war-time. The Army wants nnthlrg tiiat he can give—except to make him eland the punishment that he so richly deserves^

Blind Nejerro Says He’s 121 Y ears Old FELTON, Mo., S->p*. John Johnson. ngro, who claims b is 121, is MIhJ. but h secs through th eyes of his son. Johnson lives on bis 160 acr farm near Williamsburg, which was given to him in Civil War days, shortly after slavery was abolished, by his former “master." Joseph Everhart, Johnson has sent one of bts sons (V) years old, to Fulton to visit ,T. E. Maughs and .1. L.i Maughs, grandsons of the man who formerly owned Johnson as a slave, so he could be able to tell hi* father how they looked on his return home. Johnson's memory of them was ns he had seen them as young meii, more than a quarter of a century ago. Johnson was born in 1790, and it 1* claimed that he lias papers to bear out his birth record. Ho came to Missouri nl 1535 as the property of Joseph Everhart. Ilia 60-year old son is his youngest. GOT I) BUSH TV AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE. Kept. 28. More than 20.000 Australians rushed to Gl< Innes. New Smith Wales, when gold was discovered thero and staked out claims Present indications are-that only a few claims are valuable, however.

IN THE REALM WHERE WOMAN REIGNS

Keeping House With the Hoopers (The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living in a suburban tofl n, on a limited income, Svill tell the readers of the Daily Times how the many present day problems of the home are solved by working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them dally lii an interesting review of their borne life and learn to meet the conditions of. the high cost of living with them.) WEDNESDAY. „ “What are you planning to do today, Roger?” asked Mr. Hooper, ns he followed the boy out on the back porch after breakfast, “f haven’t any Idea, father,” replied Roger, “1 don t 6eem to be able to put my mind on a thing, and I can't seo much to do. I miss mother like the dickens. She always tells me what she wants' 1 done, and she keeps me prettybusy when she's around, but uulesa 1 help Helen with the housework 1 don’t ->ee what t can do. I think I’ll just put in the day studying.” ”1 suppose It hadn’t occurred to you to pick those grapes that are all ripe on tho arbor,” said his father. "No, but I’ll get some of them for lunch if you say so,” replied Roger. ”1 wasn’t thinking of getting them for lunch; pick them all; wasn't your mother going to put them up this week?” "Yes, but I don't think grandma Intends to do It,” answered Roger. "No, but Helen does,” remarked Mr Hooper. I "Oh, Helen thinks she can do every- : thing,” said Roger disgustedly," and she can't even cook potatoes without burning them.” “Well, she said this morning stie thought they ought to be put up. and she can do It if we both help her,” added his father. “She looked up your mother's recipe for grape Jelly and grape juice in her flies, aud there is nothing about it that the three of us can’t do, and we can't help Betty by sitting idly around the house until we are released from quarantine. “Well, I'll pick the grapes,” said Roger, as he put on his hat and took a large chip Msket from a nail i*n the wall, “but It just seems to tne that none of us can do those. things the way j mother can, and it would be almost better to leave them alone than to spoil them, wouldu't it?” “No, I don't think so,” said his father. “We will at bast haie shown our desire to do the things that we know she had I planned, and with the definite lnstnic- ! tions for doing things that she hag col- ; lected in th r files there is no r* ss.,n why we should fall if we use ordinary care ! and Intelligence.” When Mr Hooper went downstairs to the laundry att-r starting Roger toward the. arbor to pick the grapes he found Helen and her grandmother preparing to do the ironing. Helen "as folding and sorting the clothes will, h hud not lea dampened and attended in the night before. as Mrs. Hooper always believed in I doing. • 1 “We ought to have don these 1 act 1 Helen observed, "but 1 just forgot Rll about them, and they were still all in a heap the way Rog. r took them J off the lines when we cam* downstairs “We were so surprised.” laughed hei grandmother, “we seemed to have ex pe-tod them to be all arranged in orderly roll* tha way Mary has them on Tuesday mornlng< to begin her honing, without any loss of time ” j “Oh, well, that isn't a very serious bold up.” observed H*nry comfortingly. I "It * enough to throw everything out.'' : -epiled Helen ssge'y, “and U. • p tb* j Ironing going all day nearly, when wo ! ought to have it finished right after j lniieb, so that w 9 could begin right oa i the grape Jelly.” “Well, you can’t go shopping tomor row. nor to the club on Friday the wav your mother does, so w.> will cat'h up on all that Jelly before the week is over.” said her grandmother as she smoothed out the sheets preparatory to tronlng them. “Mother doesn’t Iron the sheets.” re marked Helen. “sh Just folds them up smoothie, and then stretches them tight when she makes the beds so they never j wrinkle.” “Dear roe,” exclaimed her grandmother. "I’m surprised that she doesn't iron tho sheets when hes so particular about j everything.” “Life’s too short." observed Helen, with such a tone cf conviction that her grandmother again exclaimed, “Dear . I me Mr. TTcoper had gone hnrrtrd upstairs as the doctor's automobile bad stopped at the door, and waited for him on the ; front porch until h cauin down from i the alck room after tils morning visit I “The doctor says Betty is a little bet- j ! ter this morning.” breathed Mr. Hooper, i thrilling with a fervor of thankfulness. ! when Helen and her grandmother rushed I I tip from the laundry to find out wliat i j he had said. I The inenns for the three meals on | Thursday nret BREAKFAST. Orange Juice. Hash on Toast. Cereal. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Baked Spaghetti and Tomatoes. Rye Bread and Butter. Fruit. Milk. DINNER. Vegetable Soup. Veal Loaf. Creamed Potatoes. Green Corn. Banana Layer Cake. (Copyright, 1021.) BAR! I) TOMATOES B IT It SFAC.HI TTI Select large, firm tomatoes, cut off the tops and -scoop out the inside pulp Do not peel. Place them in a baking dish and fill with cold boiled spaghetti, two I tahlespoonfuls of grated cheese, half a I tenspoonful of onion Juice, salt and ! paprika. When the shells are tilled strew j the top with grated cheese. Rake covered, half an hour. CREAMED POTATOES. Boil the potatoes In salted water unj til done. Drain and cover with a sauce

Men Y©u May Marry By E. R. PEYSER Has a man like this proposed to you? Symptoms: Shy, unselfish, confident, but has dogged courage. Slight build. Devoted to you. Happy and easy with you. His mother doesn’t quite understand his comfort in you—as he has always been so aloof from men and other women. Always at home or at work when not with you. This makes him appeal greatly. He is restless, doesn’t develop things for himself; always expect: you to plan the next move. Ybur ideas are his, your wishes are his and the gratification of your desires his life. IN FACT, You have become his larger self. Prescription to his bride: * IS Point out to bin! his own needs and liis own tj yL- powers. Make him see your pleasure in the gratification of his own ideas. Absorb This: TWO IT TAKES TO MAKE A COUPLE. (CopyrlgUt, 1921.)

made as follows. Put two tablespoonluis of buttor tn a sauce par, and when it begins to bubble add two tablespoonfuls of flour; let them cook for one minute, then add one pint of hot tnllk. Sea son with salt and pepper and a half teaspoonful of chopped parsaly. This recipe is for small new potatoes. If old potatoes are used, they should be cut in small pieces. VEGETABLE SOI I*. One quart of soup stock or water, Vi cup of carrots, Vi cup of turnips, Vj cup of celery, cup of potatoes, V* cup of onions, X tablespoonful of barley, 1 sour apple, 1 tablc-spoonful finely chopped

Daily Fashion Hints ,/ \ Tkt\ ) Am "i //&/ Vrw,x_v/A-V \ V NA By AGNES AYRES, Star In Paramount Plrtorrs. Here is a frock to tide you over Into autumn, warranted to make you forget your sorrow over the departure of alt your summer fluffs and frills—a frock In which to 101 l before the open grates of fall to wear to the first bridge club meeting er informally at borne for dinner. It Is made of our newest and dearest fancies, stiff and bouffant taffeta, with a garniture of gayly contrasting ribbons. y Tho neck line is most unnsual, new and good, Japanese iu inspiration and French In interpretation, T should say. The sleeves are more or loss shapeless kimono nfairs, the waist line loosely located, with on upstanding band about the hips, while the short overskirt is full, bouffant and made conspicuous by three horizontal banns of t lie ribbon. Not for the stout lady—never! The underskirt Is quite long after the fall mode, and is deeidedly snug. Put, after all, the sleeves are the feufure of the whole frock. Sleeves of georgette or chiffon went out months ago; in fact, georgette has lost very heavily In popularity, any wav. And icf these are our old transparent sleeves, started by the French trick. I have no doubt, of simulating a sleeve in n sleeveless frock by a bit of ribbon, or lace or an unattached cuff. These are full aud loose and caught in at the wrist by a cuff of the ribbon.

parsley, salt and pepper, dash of cayenne. <’ut vegetable* very tine, first in strips, 'hen cut them across Measure after cutting. Soak barley for two or three hours or over night. Mix vegetables end cook in four tablespoonfuls of butter for a few moments, stirring all the time; add the potatoes, barley and apple, then the stock or water and cook slowly for one hour. Add a little butter, parsley, salt aud pepper, and serve. Helpful Household Hints To Extract Juice From Onion. Cut piece from bottom of onion, pull back the brown skin, press onion on a coarae sieve, and work with a rotary motion. To Chop Parsley. Wash, dry on towel, remove leaves, gather very compactly between thumb and forefinger, and with a pair of scissors cut fine. This can be done with a sharp vegetable knife, but the scissors are beat. To Prevent Salt From I.nmpln*. Mix one tenspoonful of cornstarch with n half cupful of salt. Macaroon Urn mbs. Use dry macaroons, pound, and sift through coarse sieve. These are used Vi deserts. Thev should be kept in an air tight Jar if not wanted for Immediate use.

Relief Agent Tells Story of Famished Russian City

Rt ANNA LOUISE STRONG SAMARA. Russia, Sept. 21. via 1.0nd0... Sept. 2R. The city Is beginning to emerge from the depths of despair Into which It had been cast by famine and disease—ihanks ta foreign food and medii cincs which now are arriving in fairly largo quantities. Following the arrival of relief train No. 3. feeding stations have been opened throughout tin; city for women and children. The ration* usually consist o' vegetable soup, bread and a stick of chocolate. Being a member of the Friends relief organization, 1 personally distributed chocolate among 40,000 children. It was a four hours' Job and a pleasant task. I The older children welcomed the chocoiato with a whoop ts delight. The younger ones received it with wondering looks on their faces. Most of them bad never seen chocolate before, owing to the scar- ; city caused by tlie war and the blockade of Russia Some of the children said, “Thanks" in Russian Others Listed the chocolate and finding it sweet and pleasant, grinned with delight. One little girl made a low curtsey and murmured “Merci." Then she laughed | loudly at her accomplishment in French. She was a ragged, dirty refugee and had I been sleeptng with 0.000 other fugitive children around the Samara railway station, but she still retained traces of early i culture and breeding. The children wore very orderly. Although they were famished there was no crowding, pushing or fighting as they came up to get the food tickets which were issued throngh the public health authorities I had expected to see some of the children try to snatch tickets from the hands of their more fortunate fellows, l>nt nothing like that happened. The children came quietly to the table and ate w hat was placed before them. Afterwards tb" children begged for the paper plates that had contained the food. They used them for playthings The Russian children, it must be understood, are without the simplest toys. Encouraged by my friendly smile, the ! children pressed closer, interfering with the line of others waiting to be served A red guard drove them back with a stick. The children, pretending to be in great fear, turned and ran a little distance, then began laughing at the soldier. The red guard, a youth of about 19. laughed back. It was the first time I had seen anything approaching fun in this miserable place. I saw many sad eases of children whose health had been injured by eating dirt. When the famine was at its the eatiiiff of dirt became common in some districts. Some of these little ones are blighted for life by the injury done to their stomachs by the earth diet.

PUSS IN BOOTS JR. I By David Cory ' WelL when the Tlckety Tickery Clock stopped striking the little mouse said to Puss: "Now I will show you something. Come with me.” So she took Puss into a little room where a caudle was burning on a table. “Here is a little book,” she said. "Bead It." .Bo Puss opened It and saw written on the first page: “He who reads this little book Will learn about a Magic Brook Whose waters flow o'er golden sands And holds the wealth of many lands." “Ah;” thought little Puss Janior, “now Is my chance to find a fortune.” So he sat down and by the light of the little flickering candle read the Uitle book, and by and by he jumped up and looked around for the little mouse. But, oh, dear me. There w ,n't any little mouse around, nor was there any little house. For, would you believe it? They had both disappeared, and Puss was sitting on the bark o' a little stream, and just overheard : n the sky was a twinkling star. “Where am I? thought Puss. xmf.tVja he put the little book in hi* pocket. "I will go to sleep till morning,” be said to himself. So he curled up under a bush, and when the morning cama he looked .Into the brook to see If ha could find the saade of gold. And, euro enough, the bottom was covered with gold. But Just as be was going to pick up a handful a little fish said: "I am king of this little brook. Only he wao ’has read the Magic Book C'su take tfie gold from Its pebbly floor. So look out. Sir Fat, or I'll bit* your paw." "Here Is fbe Magic Book," said Fa**, taking it out of his pocket. “The lit-! tie mouse in the emerals bouse gave it to me.” “Oh, that is different," said the fish, “Y'ou may take all the gold you like." So Puss filled his pockets full and than he started off once more on hi* travel*, and by and by, after awhile, he aaw a. little town in the distance. It bad begun to snow, and the wind was cold and chilly. And Just then, all of a sudden. a little robin began to sing on a tree: "You had a merry Xmas day, So ‘hurry little kitten. And buy gome poor child a warm coat, A muffler and a mitten.“ So Puss hurried on end pretty soon he reached the little town, and then he went into a shop snd bought a little fur coat and a red wollen muffler and a pair of gray mltt-ns, and then ha went ou% and stood on the street. And pretty soon a poor ltttle girl came by. She was crying w-ith the cold. Bo Puss put the fur coat on her, and wrapped the muffler round her neck and gave her the mittens, and then he said, “Merry Xmas! Even if I am a day late.'—Copyright, 1921. (To Be Continued.)

' I saw a girl and a boy. apparently tb# j sole survivors of a family, talking to a I scrub woman in front of a building. I ‘ found that the woman was their mother. In the black days of the famine the mother, crazed by distress, abandonad her children in the country. They cams to Samara and later she followed theta so as to be near them. Legion Notes Sixteen World War Veterans from on post of the American Legion in Tulsa. Okla.. have settled upon Government ; homestead land In Bcott County, southern : Arkansas. By cold weather it is estl- ! mated that 100 ex service me- will have i tak-n claims on the land. The territory which will become a settlement of World War service men, th first in America stretches over 2.5<X) acres, j composed of adjoining individual tracts lof Rill acres each, 't he men have to liv* <>n the l.itn! but seven months before It be otnes ,- property, as Arkansas give* reside e redit to soldiers up to two ye rs o: A, vor Navy service. Part of the men will spend the winter on their land, clearing timber, building, hurting and trapping, for the tracts abound in deer, fox and lynx. The sixteen who have already settled are preparing to establish a central trading point and town which they will name “Legionnaire.’ Four of the pioneers are married and all have had farming experience. Homesteading is now possible in the following other States: Washington. Michigan. Montana. Arizona. New Mexico. Wyoming. Lonislana, Alabama, Colorado, Idaho and Oregon. . family which In Itself is a thriving v veterans' society has come to tha c of the American T.egion in Indei mlence, Kan. Thirty-three able-bodied men and women cal! the Civil War veteran. M inn t <’ Rrnncr, by the familiar ••pupa.” <>f the lot, the father, poldier of the Union In 61, Is proudest of his oven din sons who served overseas with the American forces in the World War. Os the remainder, twenty are girls and one son was too young to fight. Tha oldest is 42. Out of work, arrested on a charga of vagrancy and placed in a convict gang at Glenn Springs. N. J., Thomas M. Keelan, world war veteran, was flogged to death by his guards, according to the American Legion post of Spartansburg S. C-, near the scene of the outrage. A Federal ; investigation lias been demanded and two men are being held. and lie body of .the unknown American soldier to he brought home from France by Genera? Pershing probably will be selected fro a the Argonne cemetery at Romogue, where most of the unidentified dead were interred following the fighting in tlie forest tangles, according to Information to the American legion shortly before the General sailed. But.2 per cent of the war s dead yet remain tn France.

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