Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 275, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1922 — Page 4

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Juliana gailn Slum a INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. New York. Boston, Payne, Barns £ Smith, ine. Advertising office* Chicago, Detroit. St. Loul*. G. Logan Payne Cos. BETTER PUT markers on the onion sets. "WHAT girls wear matters not." says Pavlowa. Very little, anyhow. THE ALLIES, it seems, thought the watch on the Rhine was an IngerboLL IT SOON will be time for the fellow with the oversize Adam's Apple to don his sport shirt INDIANAPOLIS undertaker is a candidate for coroner. Sort of a grim political joke. BANKERS complain the new peace dollars won t stack. Vasnt that the chief objection to the old ones? Mayor Shank's ‘Blacklist Mayor Shank’s impulsive proposal to keep a "biack-list of property owners who fail to recognize the feasibility of his street paving program so that the city in turn can retaliate when the citizens themselves ask for improvements, is a rather unusual and even startling application of punitive methods of government. It is to be hoped, in the interests of a bigger and better Indianapolis, that the plan of paving ail of the streets and alleys can be brought to a successful conclusion, and the mayor's desire for improvement is laudable both from a civic standpoint and from the fact that such an undertaking will afford work for the unemployed. But when the mayor publicly announces that he wants the board of public works “to keep a list of everybody who remonstrates and whenever any of these people petition for any improvement, gas, lights, water, sewers, anything, I want the hoard to deny it," he Is sponsoring a most unusual procedure. When the candidate becomes the official his vision oftentimes undergoes decided changes. When Mr- Shank was campaigning and appealing to popular support one of his reiterated pledges was that he was not going to "cram improvements down anybody s throat, but now after ha' ing surveyed the city's most urgent needs he has come to the conclusion that above all things Indianapolis needs decent streets. He, perhaps, is not unmindful that a former mayor bore the sobriquet of "Chuck-hole Charlie because of the multitudes of pits and holes in the streets that laid in wait for the unwary autoist, and undoubtedly he has no desire for a similar title. The improvement program will appeal to many citizens who are Interested In civic progress and there Is every reason to believe that whenever it is practical no opposition will be encountered. The trouble win come, however, if the administration attempts to override the opinions of propertv owners who may have good reasons for not approving of the plan at this time. Then it will be interesting to watch the developments if the mayor adheres to his newly promulgated governmental doctrine.

April Fool Jokes Practical Jokers gleefully watch the approach of April I 00l s day. When and why did man first set aside April 1 as a festival of pranks and laughs? No one knows. Its origin is lost in the mists of antiquity. Romans of two thousand years ago had a similar yearly celebration. April Fool’s day is a monument to man's sense of humor—which has carried individuals, nations and whole civilizations through many a crisis. Man endures nerve strain and conquers economic problems that would kill the strongest beast. When the burden is heaviest it i3 his ability to relax and laugh that freshens him for the next round of the battle. Humor is a stimulant, an intoxicant. Humorists make life interesting, keep us from taking the daily grind too seriously. Wherefore, the men who draw the funny pictures and figure out new twists to old jokes are as important as the ones who furnish food, clothing and fuel. Humor is philosophy, presented as a farce. One of the greatest humorists that ever lived was the slave, Aesop. He also was one of the greatest philosophers. Halfway between wholesome fun and cynicism there is a stage of humor known as ridicule. It has wrecked political parties and their candidates- It is the one thing that office seekers dread above all else. For truth, mighty in all forms, is a dead shot when pres ,-nted by a philosopher humorist. You watch April Foci pranks. They seem very funny at the time. Try to analyze them and you realize that humor is a baffling mystery. Nothing harder to explain than a joke. Charles M. Newcomb, industrial psychologist, says: "Laughter is caused by lapses from the established order, and it is an escape from social rigors and inhibitions, yack to the freedom of primeval instincts.” Laughter is man's gleeful way of greeting anything that temporarily defies the natural laws and social regulations which make civilized life a mechanical existence. Our subconscious minds resent the fact that we have to be in a perpendicular position, with more or less dignity, when we walk. We laugh when a fat man slips on the Ice because of the satisfaction gi T es us that we are able to keep our feet. If the fat man hurts himself laughs stop, all rush to his assistance. This gives the lie to the cynic’s contention that humor is closely allied to cruelty. Take the April Fool jokes good naturedly. They are merely re-m'c-ers that man hasn’t lost valuable asset, sense of humor. *Public Fed Up on Strikes A few years ago the prospect of “the biggest strike in history,” as the coming strike of union ccal miners has been termed, would have brought the public to the highest pitch of excitement. That time is past. Today 6uch a prospect causes only the slightest ripple. Concerns burning a large amount of coal and concerns which depend on shipments of merchandise for their existence are calmly laying ii supplies. The public generally is refusing to become sy'-ited. Both sides in every labor controversy bend most of their efforts toward creating public sentiment. They issue innumerable statements, all at great length and all for the consumption of the public generally. The forthcoming unpleasantness is no exception. Hardly a day passes without a statement or two or a half dozen, ail made in an effort to mold public opinion. The public is bored with strikes and rumors of strikes and with all other similar disturbances. The fact of the matter is that the populace generally has been scared so many times by threats of difficulties and suffering that never materialized that it is going about its business and letting the other fellow fight it out. The man in the street has come to such a state that he doesn't believe anything is going to happen until it actually happens. And nine times out of tan the man in the street is correct in his attitude.

Dwindling Gasoline Supply Wi s h the automobile constantly increasing in popularity a rather cheerless note Is struck by Harrison E. Howe, who predicts in a bulletin of the American Chemical Society that by 1925 gasoline will be selling at from 40 to 50 cents a gallon. Mr. Howe sees the only remedy in what promises to become a serious situation the development of alcohol to such a quality and quantity that it can be substituted for the dwindling supply of gasoline. He shows that the alcohol industry has been allowed to drop to such a low point commercially, after having been built up dur.ng the war, that the annual output is now only 1 par cent of the amount of gasoline refined in this country. He believes that corn can be utilized to produce alcohol and declares that once it comes into general demand for engine fuel the stimylus given it as an article of commerce would be great enough to insure a production capable of meeting the demands of the motoring public. Mr. Howe quotes from a recognized authority on motor fuels the conclusion that the blending of alcohol with such hydrocarbons as benzol, gasoline or kerosene so as to enable its application direct to existing motors without material changes either in carburetor or engine design, offers the most practical solution of the problem.

EAT’NG PEACHES MA Y NOT BE ACTING But Movie Players Enjoy the Fruit Between Scenes

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This picture shows Alice Terry, lead ing woman; Rex Ingram, director of ‘Turn to the Right;” George Cooper and Harry Myers, the two comedy crook pals in the peach Jam comedy, sampling a few of the peaches used in the production. "Turn to the Eight" is on view all week at the .Ohio.

STAGE AND SCREEN. On Friday night at the Masonic Temple and on Saturday afternoon, the Little Theater Society will present as a special Lenten attraction an old morality play, “Everyman." The following ai traction are on view today: Ben Welch, blind comedian, at B. F. Keith's: “Roger Bean,” at the Itialto; “Straight,” a crook sketch, at the Lyric; "Big Wonder Show,” at the Park: “Turn to the Right,” at the Ohio; "The Cradle," at the Alhambra; “School Days,” at the Circle; “Bought and Paid For.” at Loew's State; “Iron to Gold,” at the Isis, and

High w ays an and By-Wa y s of Lil’ Or New York By RAYMOND CARROLL (Copyright. 1922, by Public Ledger Company.)

NEW YORK. March 29.—Grand opera in New York City Is without question a rich mau's game. That is the opinion, anyhow, of Toney, the barber, who stood upon a marble floor shaving the males of

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1972, by Star Company. By K. C. B I READ in the paper. • • A LOT of excltment. • * DECACSE OCR Congress. • • * SLIPPED I P on'a bill. ** * t AND MAYBE the Navy. WOULD RFN out of coal. • • • FOR TWO or three months. • • • wilicn, OF course. It won't • • • BUT IF it did. • • I'D BE very glad. • • FOR I never co;ld see. • • JUST WHY It la. • • THAT IN the summer. • • • WHEN IT'S nice and warm. • • • THAT A battleship. • • * COULDN’T TIE Itself np. * • • NEAR A summer report. • • • SO THAT officers. • • • AND THE sailor boys. * • MIGHT ENJOY themselves * • • AND STAY right there. • • WITH THE fires out. • • • AND SAVING coal. • * • TILL THE- cold weather came. • • • AND OF course I know. THAT TniS suggestion. * • IS VERY silly. • • • BIT IT 1s; ‘t any sillier. • • • THAN SWING to ourselves. • • HERE'S A battleship. AND IT cost a lot of money. • • • AND NOW we have it. • • • WE OUGHT to nse It. • • • AND IT Isn't nny sillier. • * * THAN SOME newspapers. • • • THAT ARE crying out. • • FOR REAFFOKIIONMKNT. • * • OF THE House of Congress. • • • AND MAKING demand. • * • FOR ANOTHER member. • • • AND MORE than likely. • • • THE VERY same papers. • • • ARE PANNING the members. * • • THEY ALREADY have. • • WHICH, OF course, I know. • • • HASN’T ANYTHING to do. • • * WITH A shortage of coal. • • • FOR BATTLESHIPS. * * • BUT ALL last night. # ♦ * A CROWING rooster. t * * KEPT ME awake. • • • AND I’VE got to pan something. * * * I THANK you.

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“The Love Charm,” at. Mister Smith's. -I- -1- -IRIBLE CLASS TO REPEAT MINSTRELS. A return engagement of the “Honey Boy Minstrels” will take place Thursday and Friday nights at the Knights ol' Pythias Hall nt 523 North Belleview Place under the auspleies of the Young Men’s Bible Class of the Eighth Christian Church. J. C. Short-well is in charge of the show and Floyd Starkey is int. rlocutor. Margaret McLain and Paul Caudell are members of the orchestra.

! the elite and others in the Metropolis I from 7 a. in. until 7 p. in. kith an hour j out for lunch, and then Journeyed to the ; Metropolitan Opera house and paid $2.20 j for the privilege of standing up at the back of the stalls for ahother three ami a half hours. To raise the $2.20 Toney ! went without cigarettes and tobacco for three weeks. To stand in the same place or the same carpet to hear the same opera four years ago, Toney paid $2.50, and u decade back the admission charge was only sl. Still Toney has a sense of humor. "I remember when I first heard grand opera In New York,” he said. “Then | we who loved opera for the music had to put up with Caruso, Fames, l’attl, iiempel, Schumann Helnk anil such like, while now we have to pay the advanced t rices to hear great artists like Galll- • ’urcl, Ponselle, Critnl, Da Luca and Kingston." The other day Toney had a letter from • his cousin in Italy, who told of hearing Butterfly" for one lire, or about C cent* in American money. During pre-war ; days one could hear grand opera at a ; minimum price In most any largo city of : Germany for what was then the equlva- , lent In American money of 12V4 cents. . In London, at the Albert Memorial Hall, where the best concerts are given, a resj creation is made In the top gallery for ; the free admission of about four hundred , persons, which happens to he the exact l“"standing capacity” back of the stalls | in the Metropolitan Opera House, of this j city. True enough, Toney Is only a barber Hut at this very moment there la In New York another barber, Louis Gluffrld*, v. ho also Is a wonderful tenor singer. Ciiiffrlda—remember the name. It may be In everybody's month some day—once “haved Caruso, and Caruso, after henr log Gluffrlda sing, thought enough of his voice to obtain a teacher fur him. lie, too. must pay $2 50 to stand up at the tirck There are hundreds of strug. ng music students ud music lovers - irtlsts In embryo—who arc never able to hear the great singers. And yet we have wonder expressed at Americans going abroad for their musical education, IThat there be no mistake about the “high cost of grand opera” from the j standpoint of those who count their pennies, I inquired at the Metropolitan how much It would cost to stand up at an evening's performance. “It will cost $2 50 to come In at the rear of the orchestra,” was the reply at the box office, “or If the person don't nind, be or she can go Into the top gallery and stand np there at the back for $1 10. The seats In the top gallery range from $1 63 to $2.20.” At a recent performance I observed that a large percentage of the boxes In the “Golden Horseshoe” were empty; yes, empty. Employes' bands constitute the direct outcome of an unsatisfied popular desire for good music, and each year the number of such organizations have Increased In the big town. For the entertainment of the 80,000 employes of the city of New York there are threo excellent bands One Is made up of members of the police department, another of members of the lire department, and the third with members of the street cleaning department. Some of the railroads have gone tn for this thing. One band of the Erie general offices and of the Lackawanna Railway Hoboken Band. The employes of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company have a band of thoir own, likewise the employes of Colgate A Cos.. R. Hoe 1 & Cos., the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Com- ; pany and the Second Avenue Railway Company. Then the postmen have a corking hand composed of letter carriers and mall sorters, and In E. F. Albee we have the founder and backer of the , Keith’s Boys' Band. DESERTER HONORED AS DEAD. ! CIPPENnAM, England, March 29. Black pnlnt on the war memories in : Cippenhnm and Burnham now cover the name of Walter J. Lewington. After being mourned for six years as killed at sea in the war he returned here, and It developed that he was a deserter. He Is awaiting trial.

BOARD NEEDS HIGHER TAXES FOR BUILDINGS School Congestion Can Be Relieved Only in This Manner. EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN Increase in the school tax levy, in order to meet the demands for new buildings, to relieve congested conditions now existing, undoubtedly will lie asked by the board of school commissioners, when the budget for the coming year is prepared, this summer. This was indicated by remarks of members of the board at their regular meeting last night, after they bad found themselves face to face with a large and determined delegation from the neighborhood of school No. 38, Winter and Bloyd avenues; a delegation which de- ! dined to be put off with the dustomary i platitudes about a building as "soon as ; our financial condition permits,” "we must first make a careful study of the ; matter,” "the hoard will go into the - matter carefully.” and the stock phrases, with which delegations from other schools have been soothed and sent away during ; tlie three months the present board has been in office. | TO PREPARE PUBLIC | THROUGH EDUCATION. W. 1). Allison, n board meXber. said that at a meeting of the Chamber of [ Commerce educational committee yesterday, a campaign of edtoaflon had been . decided upon, to bring the public to a • realization of the necessity of a higher ! tax levy. Other board mein: rs admitted that to properly house the school children of Indianapolis, do away with the portables, which have proved so unpopular and abolish h alf day classes, it will be necessary to raise more moot for building purposes, than is available under the present levy. This was tilken by many p-rsons as nn admission on the part of the new members of the board of the correetnc s-• of the position taken by the old board that new buildings must be eroded promptly. The majority members of the present largely on the platform that the old board was “running wild" In the erection | of new buildings and that the new memi bers could operate the school city on the | present revenues. After three months !ti office, during which time little progress Ims been made toward formulating a bulidli g program, and no definite steps taken toward rectifying the crowded condition of the schools, the present board seems about ready to fall back, substantially, on the program of the old board, which will re- , quire more money than la syllable under present taxation rates. NOT SLOW IN MAKING THEIR DEMANDS KNOWN. Not less than one hundred men and ■women wearing No. 33 badges filled the room when the meeting opened and were not slow to make their a- rounds known. Albert Olnsberk, 1931 Catherine street; Charles G. Glnslerg, 2M Cooper street; Leslie Hoyden. 21H7 Hazel street, and the Rev. Harry O. Ktener, pastor of the Fountain M. E. Church *poko for the delegation. They said they were tired of promises and bud come to “demand" anew building and "not to request one." They point ed out that the present plant consists of a four-room building, almost thirty years old, two old portables and two cottages, i They said there bad been no Improve ments made In twenty-seven years, si though hv long ago us twenty four years a school board had ordered plans pr pared for anew building. These prom lues wor.) by boards from time to time, but all tha school children got was the promise. The building was termed a fire trap. In which no factory owner would permit his employes to work, un der the conditions surrounding the school children. They frankly questioned {he sincerity of any promises the board might make, and ono speaker said: "The trouble vilth the people of 3S has been that they have believed what School boards ha ye told them." The delegation served notice on the board that "like John I'nUl Jones, founder of the American Navy, they had lust begun to fight,” and would not let up until they got relief In the form of anew bullying. : A petition signed by 731 property own- j ers and parents of children attending the school was presented. The delegation received unexpected support from Harry E. Yoekey, formerly as slstant city attorney, who had come to , make nn appeal for anew building at School No. 70. After listening to a recital of conditions nt No. 33, Mr. Y'ocxey broke Into the discussion. NO EXCUSE FOR SI TU bulbing says youkey. "I came hero Just a year ago to ask ■ for a building for No. 70.” he said, “and you talked Just as you are talking to- : night. I am hero for No. 70, but from all 1 have heard hero conditions at No. 88 are Infinitely worse. There Is no excuse In a civilized community for conditions such as exist nt 38.” Charles L. Barry, president of tho board, attempted to smoothe the trouble hy saying that ten or twelve other; schools were In the same condition. “If tho snmo condition exists nt ten > other schools that Is no excuse whatever. \ It only makes matters worse,” Mr. Yoekey [ answered. The Taxpayers League of Indianapolis which blocked a bond Issue for tho erect- j lon of anew building at No. 38 last year | by a protest to tho State board of tax J commissioners, assisted later at the hoar ] ing by Mr. Burry, was dragged into the discussion by a member of the delegation. After all efforts to tie tho board to some definite date, when something would be done, Charles Ginsberg said: “If you ean not help us, tell us where we must go. If we have to go to the I Taxpayers’ League we want to know i it.” Finally the statement was made hy President Barry that when tho time earno for doing any building "you head tho list.*' The delegation was the most Insistent that has yet appearod hefore the board j and it refused to be appeased with vague l

Dead Man Puts Ohio Town of Lithopolis on the Map

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Miss Mabel Wagnatls, O. Henry and Map Showing Location of Lith opolis.

S5 M f V WDER HERMAN. NEW TURK, March 29.—A dead man : ei town on the map. This feat has been accomplished through publication of a scries of letters writ tea by the late O. Henry, short story writer, to Miss Mabel Wagnalls, daughter of the publisher. The collection is called "Letters to Lithopolis.” Miss Wagnalls lives In the old New York made fa in or n by O. Henry, In Gramerey I’ark not far from Madison Square But she takes her summer vacations In Lithopolis, Ohio. "It's a real place,” she said, “but don't look for It from any railroad train window. It Isn't there. “Lithopolis stands alone, a little distance from Columbus, maintaining an aloofness, an exclusiveness, that is unmatched by any other cluster of frame houses radiating around a one-block trading area of one-story shops “There arc ,Vio Inhabitants 1u Lithopolis Their 208 houses are kept In repair, but anew house is never added. People never move to Lithopolis, but they can't help being born there. "There are more graves than house* and people.” In 19U3, when O. Henry was still an unknown quantity. Miss Wagnalls wrote him a letter to find out whether he was related to a branch of her family Sb? asked If lie were man. woman or wraith. Ife answered- and the reply was forward'd to Mu-s Wagnalls at Lithopolis. This is the autobiography lie sent: “Texas cowboy. Lazy Thought writing stories might bo easier than 'busting' bronchos Caine to New York one year ago to earn bread, b *!or, Jam, j(nd possibly nsparagus that way.” The name Lithopolis appealed to O. Henry. It stimulated his imagination. He began to writs about Us people. statements or generalities. As it left the room one man remarked to another. "For yenrv w • have been decent in this matter and have received nothing but promises. Now we are going to do a little string arm stuff, although we don’t like to do it.” REQUEST TO COLLECT FUNDS FOR 111 *>l \. Tho request of Mrs. Louise Billman, assistant State director of the American Friends Service Committee, for permission to solicit funds for Russian relief In the public school, was refused. The action was taken in accordance with a resolution of the board, readopted, last year, after a multitude of complaints had been received regarding the collection of money in the schools for the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital fund, and which la to forbid solicitations of money among school children. E. F. Graff, superlntei Jent of schools, announced the following appointments: Elementary—Paulino Morton Finney, Agnes Evans Lucas, Helen Balz Moore, Mrs. Forest Waehstetter. Zenis Pritchard. Irma Kitt, Winifred l’ellett. History—Emmerich Manual Training High School —Erna Oehlkuck. stenographer In superintendent’s office, Vera Maple. PUSS IN BOOTS, JR. By DAVID CORY. By and by the robbers went to bed, but first they tied Puss with a stout cord to ft ring In the wall. Os course, ho couldn't get away, neither could he sleep. Toward midnight tho twinkle-twinkle star looked through the window-pane. It seemed To say to him, in a strange sort of twlnkle-twlnklo tone: “Though you think I’m but a star Up abovo the world so far, With my little golden eye, Looking down from out the sky,

By GEORGE McMANTTS.

New Witticisms of O . Henry Excerpts from “Letters to Lithopolis" written by O. Henry, short story writer, to Miss Mabel Wagnails: 1 have more respect for a man who brands cattle than for one who writes pieces for the printer. In Texas the folks freeze to you: in New York they freeze you. There ought to be a law reserving literature for one-legged veterans and widows with nine children to write. Men ought to have the hard work to and ought to read the stuff. I do not know a concerto or a legato from a perfecto or tomato but l can recognize success. Before the pianola was Invented the piano was a real Joy and convenience In homos where nobody could play it —they're so handy to pile old magazines on. N J “The best character In town," Miss Wagnalls says, "was the tombstone lady. When other girls were embroidering monograms on fancy work to be sent to the county fair, she was fracing letters on enduring stone, destined for display upon tho hill top. She knew the tombstone business from the ground up and from the surface down. "She is gono from Lithopolis now—moved somewhere. But tHe place goes on Just the same —except that they oil tho streets occasionally.”

T can see so many things. Fleet of foot and swift, of wings. Someone come to bring you aid, Listen, and be not afraid.” Just then the pretty girl stole into tho room. She whispered to Puss to keep quiet. Then untying the rope she opened the door. oh. so softly. "Make haste, for any moment my brothers may awake." she said. “Thank you, thank you," said Puss, and softly tiptoed away. When he glanced back, he saw her still standing in tho doorway with the light of the little star upon her face. By nnd by the stars disappeared from the sky, and the moon went to sleep in a cloud nnd the yellow sun came up the eastern bills. Old Dame Trot came along with a basket of eggs for market nnd the Man in the Moon came hurrying back from Norwich. If it hadn't been for a stray moonbeam he never would have got back to the Moon. Puss Junior heard Little Boy Blue blowing his horn, and the song of the cook in the early morn, and the soft, sweet twitter of Jenny Wren and the cheery calls of the workingmen. “Heigh-ho!” cried Puss Junior. “I am ready for breakfast, but where shall I find it?” “I'll give you some of mine.” cried Little Jack Horner, and he broke oft a piece of his Christmas pie and handed It to Puss. “We were ail up so early this mousing that mother didn’t have time to get our regular breakfast, so I’m eating pie. You see, father had to go to town with a load of apples and he went early so as to get home before nightfall.” “How I wish I had a glass of milk 1” sighed Puss. “Oh. that's easy," said Little Jack Horner. “Come to the dairy with me,” and Puss did. And next time you shall hear what happened after that.—Copyright, 1922, David Cory. (To be Continued.)

MARCH 29, 1922.

ARCHDEACON IN REHEARING PLEA Wakeford Delivers Petition Containing 60,000 Names. LONDON, March 29.—Former Arch-* deacon Wakeford, who was relieved of his charge, following a hearing at which he was convicted of spending a night at an iiiß with a young lady he met in a cathedral, today delivered to the homo office a petition signed by 60,000 names, requesting anew hearing. The petition will be forwarded to the king, who alone has the power to grant a reopening of the case. . A young woman recently declared she was the mysterious woman involved, in the case, and largely cleared the ex-archdeaeon’s name. She had kept silent from fear of her fiancee, she said. Washington Briefs Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, March 29.—Americans who favor a professional diplomatic service rejoice at the nomination of William Phillips, Cnited States Minister to the Netherlands, as Under-Secretary of State. Mr. Phillips fits ideally into the responsible post of Secretary Hughes' righthand man. Native of Massachusetts. 4A years old and Harvard graduate, he served the diplomatic apprenticeship as private secretary to the late Joseph H. Choate when the famous New Y'ork lawyer was ambassador to Great Britain. From 1917 to 1920 he was Assistant Secretary of State, and for the last two years has been American Minister to Tha Netherlands and Luxemburg. The appointment of Leland Harrison of Illinois aa Assistant Secretary of State, Is another recognition of a “career” man, Mr. Harrison having been associated with the diplomatic service continuously since 1907. President Harding "is being strongly urged from Canada to include a visit to Vancouver, British Columbia, en route to or from Alaska this summer. Its proximity to Seattle, Its intimate affiliations with the United States and particularly Its connection with Aiaskan affairs make Canada's great port and railway terminus on the Pacific particularly anxious to entertain the President. During Sir Auckland Geddes' present visit to British Columbia. the Ambassador will be asked to bring all possible personal pressure to bear upon Mr. Harding to include Vancouver In his Aiaskan itinerary. Vancouver’s population is about 200.000. IS hopes one day to rival Seattle and S/n Francisco as a Pacific coast metropolis. The Far Eastern services of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company give the port great importance, and as the terminus of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern railways Vancouver has long been one of the foremost transportation centers In North America. To Increase the supply of competent teachers of medicine is the object of a new fund of SIOO,OOO provided by tha Rockefeller Foundation and the general education board. For that purpose "fellowships In medicine” are to be created. Those receiving awards will be known as Fellows in Medicine of the National Research Council, whose headquarters Is In Washington. To qualify for appointment as a Fellow, a candidate must bava the degree of doctor of medicine or doctor of philosophy from an approved university or preparation equivalent to that represented by one of those degrees. Only citizens of the United States or Canad will ordinarily be appointed, although the fellowship board Is authorized to set aside that provision in exceptional cases. The fellowships will be open to both sexes. At a largely attended banquet in Washington the other night the presiding officer introduced an innovation that will be appreciated by all baseball fans who have learned to practice and revere it as an attraction. There had been two or three rather long-winded speeches following a somewhat Gargantuan feast. The company had in consequence been seated continuously for more than two hours. Suddenly rising, as if to announce the next post-prandiai spellbinder. the presiding officer rejoiced all hearts by saying: ••Gentlemen. It's the seventh inning. Let's stretch.’’—-Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.

Unusual Folk

KENNEDY*, N. Y., March 29.—This village, southwest of Buffalo, claims it has the only womau Justice of the peace — In New Y'ork State. She’s Mrs. Gertrude A. Williams. Running on the Prohibition ticket in 1919, she defeated the regular male candidate who was running for re-election after having held tha Just ice Williams has conducted a number of trials, holding She has never missed a meeting of the town board. “Enforcement o t the eighteenth amendMrs. Williams ment has brought more cases before local Justices' courts than were tried in any ten years before,” Justice Williams says. .4 THOUGHT FOR TODAY I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection.—l Corinthians 9:26-7. I ill strive to raise my own body and soul daily into all the higher powers of duty and happiness, not in rivaiship or contention with others, but for the help, delight and honor of others and for the peace and joy of my own life. —Joljrh' Ituskin. /

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