Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1922 — Page 4

3toifcma Sailg Sftmrfi INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephone—MA in 3500. gj MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. , ■ ... I Kew York, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. ■ Advertising offices | Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. ■ NATURALLY, the politics of a juror is a matter of concern in a case ■Evolving as many politicians as the Hartman case. 3 SEEMS that the auto drivers just will not learn that the parking (time limit cannot be overlooked without causing trouble. I THE NEW traffic ordinance introduced in the council is possessed (f one merit which, in itself, entitles it to passage—it makes the city (traffic rules conform to the State laws. ( MR. HARDING advises the Congress that the ultimate consumer (should pay the soldiers’ bonus or there should be no bonus, perhaps on (the theory that the ultimate consumer is used to it,WThe Coal Industry ( Edward G. Lowry of the Public Ledger staff dispatches are a (part of the Times’ news service voices popular sentiment when he says (that the coal "business should be settled in the coal business; that the necessity of Government intervention in a natural business is an admission the breakdown of our boasted efficiency in the conduct of great (enterprises. ( There really is no reason why the mining an.d marketing of coal nhould not be the most stable of all our industries and no reason why it (should not be conducted in peace w r ith reasonable profits to both the (niners and the mine owners. W That such a condition does not exist and does not portend is a matter (of such growing concern to the people of this Nation that they must Shortly evolve some plan to insure industrial peace and steady production of coal in order to stop the unnecessary and costly disruption of manufacturing and utility sendee that is injuring all commerce. There are students of the question who believe that the present shaotic condition of the industry is brought about by the collapse of a plan which it is charged was attempted several years ago for the complete unionizing of the industry with attendant stifling of competition. Whether this is true or not, it is a fact that in the bituminous field we have at present a thoroughly untenable situation under which it is possible for West Virginia coal to be delivered at the bins within a stone's throw of Indiana mines at less cost than Indiana coal. I. nforturately for the consumer, there is not sufficient V r est Virginia coal to sut ply the market. Government control of coal production would be a misfortune, in the jpinion of Mr. Lowry, which opinion is shared by many others. But Glovernment control of coal production might result in the elimination of i number of unnecessary and improper charges on coal which are now in rogue and of which testimony could be given by our local utility managers [f they pleased. The trouble about coal in this locality is that there is too great a iifference between the cost of production and the cost in the bin. Unless these costs are separated and some of them eliminated in the lear future, there is likely to be Government interference of a kind that (will be very distasteful in some quarters. uThe Roma Disaster ( The second disaster to United States owned, foreign built airships (of the dirigible type has resulted in a loss of life as appalling as the first (md has demonstrated nothing more than that the difficulties of building ftuch a ship have not yet been met, let alone overcome by science. ( The Roma was constructed along different lines than the giant (iirigible built in England but its principle, and its menace, appear to (lave been the same. Explosions in air, induced by conditions that were 2$ eyond control of the operators ended the career of both ships, and the tragedies are diseouragingly similar. ( . Such experimentation and such sacrifices as these appear to be necessary to the development of this particular means of transportation but Sgwith the cost so great it is impossible to push aside a doubt as to whether (he ends to be obtained are worth the price of attainment. ( In the early development of the heavier than air crafts there was ( great loss of life and, indeed, the stage has not yet been reached wherein (here exists the safety desired in air travel. But the losses suffered can (ardly be compared with those sustained through the development of the (ighter tha nair crafts when the number and advancement is taken into (consideration. ( -X It would seem that further progress in the use of balloons depends Sipon the ability of science to provide a gas content, that will not explode. Sit is true that helium is such a gas and it is notable that the Roma did £|iot end its career until after the helium was removed and balloon gas Substituted. ( If any lesson is to be drawn from this tragedy it is that the future of Sflthe dirigible is linked with the development of a nonexplosive gas that ( in be manufactured in quantities such as to make it available for all (uch service. ( And, until this gas is developed it would seem to be not only useless (nt criminal to continue to ask men to risk their lives in experiments or Bests of a machine that is more erratic and dangerous than its weight (n high explosives. |With Considerable Noise u Whether the protest coming rrom certain citizens of Carmel and some of Indianapolis over the proposed location of the reformatory north if that little city is manufactured or genuine is a question for the commission on location to decide. There is no doubt that is a powerful influence working against the Carmel site. In support of the opposition to the proposed location of the reformatory .ittle of actual value has been produced. It is rather ridiculous to imagine that because the reformatory is located fifteen miles north of Indianapolis it would interfere with a boulevard at Fifty-Second street, or ;hat it is only a question of a few years until Indianapolis expands to or past the proposed site. Among those who are opposing the Carmel site for the reformatory There is a preponderance of citizens whose chief motive appears to be the jmbarrassment of Governor McCray and his commission. These persons lave been very busy “representing” the citizens of Carmel, just as they were very busy a few months ago “representing” the people of Green;astle. Their activities will continue no matter what site is under consideration until such time as their “friends” are satisfied. It ought to be an easy matter for the commission to determine the ittitude of the majority of the people of Carmel and vicinity toward the ocation of the reformatory at that point. They are not so many that ;hey could not be personally interviewed and their individual opinions >btained with no greater effort than is being expended in listening to the irguments of the various delegations sent to the commission. hi this matter, as in all others, it is not necessarily the noisiest 'action that is truly representative of public sentiment. Fire Hazards Eight hundred fire alarms due to inflammable roofs in less than two nonths form a record that deserves consideration by fire prevention mreaus and the authorities of Indianapolis. The records of the fire department disclose a menace to safety that lalls for immediate and drastic measures looking toward elimination. Experience has proved that the fire hazard An be materially reduced jy the aggregate of small contributions to that purpose. Common sense lemonstrates that there is no economic loss greater than that caused by ire, for- what is burned is eliminated from community usefulness and is ost forever. Indianapolis has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in the ;stablishment of a fire department to cope with flames and it is well ihat the investment has been so large and the facilities are efficient mough to deal with the situation. But, there is a point in the treatment >f such problems as these where it becomes evident that the source of he evil should be eradicated, since the cost of controlling it is so xemendous. Is not this city near the point where the* cost of reroofing all its fire lazards would be no greater than the cost oA maintaining fire protection :ombined with the losses that even the fire cannot prevent?

MANTELL PERMITS ‘HAMLET TO BE UN FOLDED Asa Tragic Recital Which Gains Dramatic Intensity as It Proceeds

B.v WALTER D. HICKMAN. Another week, another “Hamlet.” Last week I witnessed E. 11. Sothern present his version of “Hamlet” with modern stage settings. Last night at English’s, I saw Mr. Robert B. ManteU give his idea of his master tragedy, adhering to the old and tested method of producing it. Mr. Sothern makes his Hamlet a keen, alert and even dangerous Individual who plans revenge for the death of his father. He permits the audience to see Hamlet Cunningly plan the various steps of his campaign of revenge. Mr. Sothern’s Hamlet does not receive sympathy although we respect and even fear his cunning In feigning madness. Mr. Mantell on the other hand, pictures Hamlet as a man with a sick soul, not a man physically strong but an individual overwhelmed at the tragedy which carried his father to the grave. Mr. Mantell obtains the sympathy* of the audience for his Hamlet. Mr. Sothern does not emphasize the scene in which the players enact the murder of Hamlet's father before Ge> trude, the Queen, and Claudius, King oi Denmark. Mr. Mantell permits the entire play to move with dramatic intensity to this scene and allows the consequences of that scene to play upon the sick imagination of Hamlet. Mr. Sothern laid stress upon the scene in Gertrude’s closet. Mr. Mantell permitted that scene to take its place as a contributory action to events which made even more sad the plight of Hamlet. In the reciting of the famous soliloquy of Hamlet, Mr. Sothern remained seated most of the time. Not so with Mr. Mantell as he moved about the tage. Mr. Mantell lifts to dramatic beauty the scene in which he plans to have the players enact the murder of the king. The whispered rendering of these lines prepares the audience to expect a dramatic outburst when the players actually present the scene before Claudius and Gertrude. Mr. Sothern's “Hamlet” is a much lengthier one than that of Mantell, who permits his curtain to rise at 8:15 o'clock with the final curtain close to 11. Mr. Sothern's curtain rose at 8 o'clock, the final curtain coming close to 11 :.”>0 o'clock. Mr. Sothern uses drapes and the modern idea of suggesting the scenes. Mr. Mantell uses real palaces, tombstones and the like. One represents the new school of scenic production. Mr. Mantell remains unshaken in his loyalty to the old school and judging by the applause after each scene last night at English’s, Mr. Mantell is safe in sticking to the old school. There is not such a wide difference between the conceptions of Miss .Tulia Marlowe and Miss Genevieve Hamper in the characterizing of Ophelia. Miss Marlowe is more dramatic in the mad scene than Miss Hamper. Miss Hamper at alt times permits her Ophelia to be a sweet and gentle creature. Miss Hamper really accomplished a marvelous thing last night during the pathetic mad scene — men and women in the audience cried gently. A splendid compliment. Miss Hamper. Miss Hamper makes her Ophelia a beautiful creature to behold, even In the mad scene. Miss Hamper is naturally slender and tall and makes, probably, the prettiest Ophelia on the stage today. I noticed a marked itn provement In her work last night than when 1 first saw her ns Ophelia. Some of the supporting cast was adequate, others fair. It appears to me that Mr. John Alexander, who played the role of Laertes, son of Polontus, is one of Mr. Mantcll’s most finished players, lie has the appearance of youth and reads his lines with understanding and feeling. Mr. Mantell shared a curtain with him last night. Mr. Edward Lewers emphasizes the comedy side of the first grave digger—-a little too much so, 1 think, because it permit* the audience to yield

Highways and By-Ways of Li!’ 01’ New York Copyright, 1921, by Public Lodsjw Cos. By RAYMOND CARROLL

NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—There are about 150 smart little suburban cities and towns in the metropolitan district of New Y'ork which contain the homes of those who work in the big town. Right now tho selling of automobiles is at Its height, and the difficulty of the various agents In the small places has been to get those who commute to Inspect their spring models. A suburbanite is generally pretty tired when he descends from the late afternoon local, and once he reaches his domicile h’ Is pretty apt to stay there, except for a weekly card game usually set for Saturday night. Then the small town automobile agents have bitter rivals among the big agencies In automobile row along Broadway In the fifties and sixties of Manhattan. The result has been that In many of the small places there has been a revival of the "puller-ln’ methods of the bowery and Baxter Street on the lower east side when clothing merchants had their salesmen out on the sidewalk to grab passersby. In New Rochelle when the various afternoon trains arrive the commuters are met by automobile salesmen at the depot. The work-weary men from the city are Invited to have a free ride home, and if the commuter shows interest in the talking points during the journey an offer Is extended to send anew machine around the following Sunday to take out the “missus and the kiddies.” In Columbus Circle, across from Central Park, is a popular-priced restaurant, which keeps open all night. One morning we happened to be along there at 5 o’clock and discovered the curbing for several blocks about lined with limousines and automobiles of the pattern seen in ihe residential districts of Riverside Drive and Park avenue. Inside the restaurant was the most remarkable collection of costly furs and be-jewe!ed women and their escorts in full evening attire. They were eutlnng ham and eggs, batter cakes and coffee poured from a spigot. “We get this '4oo’ trade every morning,” said the smiling manager of the restaurant. “They are folk who have been doing the cabarets in the Broadway |

BRINGING UP FATHER.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1922.

ROGERS’ SCREEN VISITS TOO INFREQUENT

• WILL ROGERS. Here Is a pen sketch of Will Rogers, who Is appearing this week in a movie called “One Glorious Day” at the Alhambra. In this movie Rogers is seen as the bashful Prof. Ezra Bolts.

too ea: ily to the comedy Idea That, of course, Is n matter of individual opinion. The cast of “Hamlet,” as presented last | night at English's, is as follows: Hamlet Mr Mantell Francisco, a soldier Abraham Ivory Bernar.io, an officer William Morton Marcelius, an officer John Knight Horatio, a friend to Hamlet Guy I.indsley ; The Ghost of Hamlet’s father Franklin Salisbury I’oloius, Lord Chamberlain A C. Henderson Claudius, King of Denmark Vaughan Peering Laertes, son of Polonlus John Alexander , Roseneranz, a courtier John Knight i Gulldcnstern, a courtier William Morton An actor Franklin Salisbury Another Edwnril Lewers An officer Abraham Ivory

District, and don’t want to go home before sun up. This Is their last stop before turning in.” Paul R. Purman, news ditor of the Cleveland fommerclal. which Is a morning daily to be launched a few days | hence in the metropolis of Ohio, was ! along Fifth avenue recently searching 'the windows for something nice in the j way of a present to take home to his’ little daughter. He found what he warned and then went rtowiitown to Park Row in search of an executive to handle liis paper's direct wire from the Atlantic seaboard to Lake Erie. Mr. Purman was accompanied to Manhattan by O. K. Rhiinansky. who orj ganlzed the corporation about to embark lin Journalism. Myron T. Herrick, amj bassador to France, Is reported to have | au Interest In the new publication. Mr. Purman Is a trained newspaper executive, serving with various publications and press associations in tho Middle West and lastly with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the morning rival of the new venture. Tha hotel detectives won't like this item, but It Is true and amusing, so why I not tell It. A large New York hotel, ; finding that Its rotunda was being used ; rather extensively by a suspicious crowd j of men against whom there was some talk, decided to change its force of | lidiise detectives. A clean sweep wns 1 ijhde and n new set of house detectives | installed. Faces that had become fa ! miliar in the rotunda disappeared with ; the old group of detectives. But In their | place came another crowd of faces also ' suggestive of devious ways of making a | living. I cannot say that the new flock I of loungers were any improvement upon j the old. 1 “Didn’t yon know that every set of ! hotel detectives carries Its own bunch iof hangers-on?” remarked an exceed ; ingly wise New Yorker. “The plight of j the hotel management, which probably Is still blind to what has taken place, recalls a certain New York heiress who married a New York policeman from whom she subsequently separated, ent-

A gruvediggef Edward Lewers Another Aldls Bartlett < isrie. a courtier Lawrence Krey A priest Thomas Lear Gertrude Agues Elliott Scott The l’ltiyer-Queen Violet Hall Caine Ophelia Miss Genevieve Hamper This afternoon Miss Hamper and Mr. Mantell present "As You Like It” and at night "Julius Caesar” is the bill. ON VIEW TODAY. The following attractions are on view today: Mr. Mantell ,nd Miss Hamper in plays of Shakespeare at English's; George MacFarlane at B. F. Keith's; “The Lincolu Highway: m” at the Lyric; “Golden Crook” at the I’ark; "Shame" at Loews State; “The Font Horsemen” at the Ohio; "Penrod" at the Circle; “One Glorious Day” at the Alhambra; “White Hands” at the Isis, and “R. 8. V. P." at Mister Smith's. ' ploying private defeptlVos to guard her | home from the discarded one. The thief ' of the guards was a former Obit ago po- ; licernan, whom she very nearly married, j Friends saved her from trading her New York cop for a Chicago cop.” PURDUE AGENTS TO MAKE SURVEY Close Study Will Be Made of Switzerland and Ohio Counlies. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 22—An agricultural survey of Switzerland and Ohio Counties will be made by the agricultural extension department of Purdue University as the first steps In au intensive agricultural improvement campaign there. Plans for this survey were completed at a meeting held at Rising Sun Feb. ItJ. Th* farmers' associations of the two counties, the county agents, hankers and business men of Rising Run. Vevny, Patriot. and other towns have pledged their cooperation and will join with representatives of Purdue In taking up this work. Headquarters will be established at Rls Ing Sun Feb. 21 with W. V. Kell of the farm nianngemt nt department of Purdtu In charge. Representatives of the poll! try, dairy, soils, animal husbandry, hor tieulture, farm management and marketing departments will assist Mr. Kell In carrying on the work. The plan will be to make a careful study of the present agricultural conditions. Just what is now produced, where the products are marketed and what the farmers are receiving for them. From n study of this survey the program of work will he outlined and steps will then be taken to aid the farm ers in the Improvement of the poultry, dairy and other lines of agriculture. It Is hoped, too, that arrangements can he made to establish lime crushers so that large quantities of lir e can he obtained for many of the sour .tolls that are present in these counties. This Is the first Intensive agricultural survey that has ever been attempted, and It is felt that much will be accomplished. If the plan works to advantage the work will be taken up In other counties. It Is also proposed to consider such a survey at the meeting to be held at Huntlngburg, Feb. 28. for Pike, Dubois. Warrick, Spencer, Perry and Crawford Counties.

DEALERS FIGHT CITY COAL BIN Lincoln, Neb., Mixed Up in Legal Battle. LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 22.—Lincoln municipal coal yard must fight for Its life In the highest court in the State. This pet of “Charlie” Bryan, city commissioner and brother of William Jennings Bryan, has just emerged victor In a series of legal battles in the lower courts. Heads of fourteen Lincoln coal companies challenged the right of the municipal baby. They attacked the legality of the law creating a city coal yard to life almost immediately upon the birth of Mr. Bryan's industrial yard; the challenged the right of the city to enter into competitive occupations with taxpayers and when beaten in the lower courts on these issues they tried to tie tip by Injunction the city funds with which Mr. Bryan operates the city's fuel mart. On the eve of the injunction hearing Commissioner Bryan handed the coal men a solar plexus blow by turning back into the city treasury a sum equal to the appropriation originally made for starting the coal yard. Incidentally, he announced this money was part of the earnings of the yard during its first six months of operation. The yard, Mr. Bryan said, had a comfortable surplus on which to operate until the end of the winter, despite the sale of coal at 10 to 20 per cent less than the same fuel could be had at privately owned yards. Meanwhile, Lincoln householders who patronize private yards are buying their coal at a big saving over prices that prevailed at the beginning of the winter. Appeal bonds have been filed' to carry the case to the State Supreme Court on the contention that the city has no legal right to conduct a business with monies derived from public taxation. The dealers also allege “unfair and discriminatory competition..” Meanwhile Mr. Bryan Is bringing trainloads of fuel into Lincoln weekly. Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 192!, by Star Company. I By K. C. B Dear K. C. B.—A friend of mine has asked me to tea some afternoon and said that she would rail with her car for me and the girl next door. Now this girl next door has been carrying tales about me and 1 don’t like her and don't want to ride in the same car with her. Neither do 1 want to refuse this friend of mine. What would you do? J. P. G. DEAR J. B. G. • • • BEING A man. • • • AND NOT given to tea. IN THE afternoon. • * • OR TO worrying. ... ABOUT THE chatter. • • • .OF IDLE minds. • • • I HAVE no i<lea. • • • \\ II AT I would do. 0 0 • IF I were you. • • • BIT BEING determined. • • • TO GET the tea. • • • AND NOT wanting to ride. WITH THE girl next door. IT WOULD seem to me. • • • THAT THE thing to do. WOULD BE to grab her. • • • WHEN SHE gets in. • • • AND THROW her out. • • • AND THEN she'd know. THAT YOU had beard. THAT SHE’D carried tales. AND SHE'D also know. YOU DIDN'T want her. IN THE automobile. • * • AND WHEN I threw her. I'D BE very careful. TO THROW her clear. SO SHE couldn't grab me. AND DRAG me out. OR MAYBE I'd wait* TILL I got to the tea. AND THEN attack Iter. OR BETTER Still.* * ... IF I were you. ... I'D RIDE with her. ... v AND NEVER let on. ... THAT I cared a bit. ABOUT WHAT she *sa*!d. ... AND I'D be very nice. BOTH IN the auto*. * AND AT the tea. * VXD IN that way.* * * I'D PASS the worry* * FROM ME to her.* * AND I’D send her home. WITH HER mind made up ... SHE’D LIED about me. AND SHE wouldn’t sleep. AND I’D go to sleep. ... AND FORGET about it. ... I THANK you.

By GEORGE McMANUS.

MEN AND BUSINESS By RICHARD SPILLANE

Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22. —America lays a very high tribute each year on the altar of style. In the war days someone connected with the war industries board found on investigation that there were about 300 different styles of one kind of women’s garments being made. Os automobile tires there were about seventy varieties. It v.as so in almost everything from locomotives and box cars, shoes and socks, hats and hatchets, down to fire extinguishers, hay rakes, hammers and saws. Saving of material, labor, transportation and money was imperative. The board ordered the number of styles of women’s garments in question reduced from about 300 to 100; of the variety of automobile tires from about seventy to seven and of various other articles of general use in varying proportions. With the close of the war these restrictions, of course, lapsed. Variety has a virtue, but carried to an extreme it entails great waste.

SOME of the illustrations the war industries board gave of the losses through an unreasonable and wholly unnecessary number of styles were striking. Tires may serve as an example. It was pointed out that an establishment that endeavored to carry a fair number of ail of the seventy various kinds of tires would have $50,000 or SIOO,OOO tied up in stock. With a much curtailed number of styles a dealer could carry all the varieties in a stock representing $20,000 or $40,00, have a quicker turnover, require fewer salesmen, less showroom space and have a larger profit. “Dead” stock and slow moving goods repiesent heavy costs. Quick-moving goods mean profit. Reduction in styles of tires, It was argued, would give mobility to money in the industry In all its departments from manumacturer down to the retailer. The war industries people confessed they were drastic in the cuts they ordered. They justified their action by the urgent need of the time, but they insisted that business In general would profit by the lesson of- the tvar period, and that it would result In a permanent reduction In styles of all character of goods. They were in error in the last par-' ticular. There has been a return to the old order. Variety in shoes was greater than Immediately after the war. Extremes In style ran riot, particularly in regard to women's shoes There has been a sharp change within the last six months, however. Variety in stockings, too, never was so manifest and the changes in regard to skirts have been sudden ad extreme. The public and not the manufacturers are responsible for the styles. Manufacturers and merchants endeavor to anticipate or keep up with the desires of the purchasers. Women are the greatest slaves to style and style never lasts long. Style has Its ba.hs In change. Votaries of style desire something different from the mass. When the mass follow the Introducers of new designs the leaders quickly change' to something different. The

D.A.R. Leads Way to Make Parley Results Effective Society Which Provided Hall for Conference Continues Activities .

Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. B.v CONSTANCE IIKEXEL WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.—Although workmen have removed the last vestiges of the Washington conference from Me mortal (.’oiitiuemal Hall, the Daughters j of the American Revolution who had the honor of loaning their hall for the epoch making plenary sessions, are making it their duty to use every effort to safe guard the new agreements, just as they guarded the agreements drawn up by their forefathers In 1770. So states a forceful announcement, just issued by the committee on international relations, established as a result of the conference. Its officers are Mrs. Wllliaiu N. Reynolds, chairman, of Winston Salem. N. C.: Mrs. George T. Page. Chicago; Mrs. Klein Spencer Mussey, Washington, D. C. SUMS UP RESULTS OF ARMS CONFERENCE. "It is the purpose of the committee on international relations to endeavor to lay before all chapters and members of our organization the main results of the In ternational arms conference, so that every Daughter of the American Revolution may know of the new doctrines of liberty and Justice that have been outlined—doctrines whose Inspiration finds its source In the ideals of the United States of America.’ ihe statement reads. “Agreements have been reached among nations, programs for the welfare of the world have been laid down." continues the statement. “There is no bigger work for the D. A. R. today than to familiarize ourselves with the standing features of this ‘lnternational declaration of independence' and to pledge ourselves as did our forefathers of the Revolution, to guard these ideals and see to It that they are urbeld In the years to come.” Then the statement, which is a brilliant and pithy resume of the purpose In calling the conference. Its aims and its results, sums up the agreements reached as follows: 1. Naval limitation and naval holiday treaty; 2. Submarine and poison gas treaty. 3. Four-power Pacific treaty: 4. General Far Eastern treaty; 5. Chinese tariff treaty; 0. Shantung treaty. But the new committee on International relations of the D. A. R. (an organization which maintains one of the handsomest buildings in Washington as its national headquarters, employing about seventy clerks as headquarters staff) does not content himself with a mere review of what lias been accomplished. RECOMMENDATIONS sent to chapters. The committee submits to nil chapters of the D. A. R. recommendations for definite action, based o:i the results of the armaments conference. The recommendations are as follows: 1. Let the D. A. R. help to bring about an International gathering of women at Washington for the purpose of cementing International friendship and establishing

whole thing is a mad chase, r. whirligig of waste. Don't think !; Is altogether profitable to manufacture or merchant. Style is as changeable sometimes as the weather. Au article In great demand today may wane n favor tomorrow. Sometime- manufacturers and merchants are altogether misled as to what will catch the public fancy. When this happens there is heavy loss. THE waste in some Industries are peculiar. This was brought into prominence in the war period in the matter of fire extinguishers. So soon as the extinguisher people understand fully the urgent need of steed they discovered their cylinders were heavier and contained more steel than necessary. Next they four* 1 that an anesthetic used in the fluid ptr into it to prevent it from freezing v as in greater quantity than necessary. A considerable number of fire extinguishers go to sec: ions of the country where the mercury rarely drops to the freezing point. The fluid is not affected until the mercury Is —ay below SO. By exercising common sense in the distribution of their cylinders the fire extinguisher people were able to save not only a large amount of steel, which meant a saving In money, but by consigning extinguishers that d:*l not contain the anesthetic to countries where the weather is mild they saved so much of it as to be able to contribute greatly to the supply required in the hospitals of France for use in operations on wounded soldiers. FEW persons realize America's craze in styles. Think of bricks. Last year a computation showed there were sixtysix styles of paving bricks alone. Herbert lioover got the manufacturers, distributors and users together the other day and got them to agree to reduce the number to eleven. Mr. Hoover could do the same in regard to box cars and thousands of other things. Os varieties of box cars there are many hundreds. The n'umber could be reduced to seven and all the needs preserved.—Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.

| closer understanding among the women 1 of the world. I 2. Let the D. A. R. appoint a comtnit- ! tee to get into communication with organizations similar to ours in other countries, for the purpose of exchanging thought and suggestions tending toward warmer international relations. 3. Let the D. A. R. undertake to disseminate through the foreign language press of this country Information on American principles of liberty and justice and American standards of right living. These should include both historical Information and a “question and answer” service on national ethics. 4. Let every chapter constitute Itself a “bureau of information” for the community it represents, especially for tha foreign born, on questions pertaiuing to national history and national standards of patriotism. ! 5. Let the D. A. R. use their lnfluenea to have “international day" observed an- | dnually in all public schools on Feb. 6 (the date on which treaties were cloned at the international conference!, with appropriate exercises aimed to promote , international friendliness. 6. Let the P. A. R. chapters observe i “International day" annually in appropri- | ate fashion. 7. Let the P. A. R. prepare and distribute a simple outline of events and results of the arms conL -cnee for use in schools and patriotic organizations for the young, such as the boy and girl scouts, children of the Republic, ami so forth.—Copyright, 1922, by Fublic j Ledger Company. G. M. Crossland Goes to Shortridge Faculty George M. Oossland, an Instructor In the commercial department at Emmerich Manual Training High School, has been selected as head of the commercial department at Shortridge High School, according to an announcement made yesterday by E. U. Graff, superintendent of schools. He succeeds J. F. Weinberger, who died last week. Mr. Crossland Is a graduate of the University of Illinois ‘ and has been connected with the public I schools of this city for a number of years. Will Conduct Show a L Fairground Preparations are being made for the presentation "The Yankee Circus In Egypt” at the State Fairground Coliseum the two weeks beginning March 20, Charles S. Scott, director of the circus announced today. The elrcus is similar to the big tent shows, with animal acts, aerial acts, clowns, and everything that goes with it. Mr. Scott is making his headquarters at the Claypool Hotel.

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