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Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men! Psalms 107:15. A Ticket Taker George a. dean is dead. Likely no one in Indianapolis ever heard of him. For thirty-five years he stood behind a barred window in a Chicago & Northwestern depot and sold tickets. His was monotonous work. And answering questions and meeting the temper outbursts of an endless file of customers requires genius, patience and a wide understanding of human nature. Dean kept it up for more than 10,000 days, and did a good job. He goes into eternity without fame or wealth. But he was a good and useful citizen. He achieved a real success. Civilization is carried on the shoulders of millions like George A. Dean. Unemployment: Germany vs. U. S. THE number of unemployed in Germany has dropped to a level probably never before equalled in modern times During July, only 19,900 Germans were receiving unemployment relief from the Government. In a population of sixty millions, only one German in 3,000 is unable to find work. No other country can show so extraordinary a record. Unemployment in America has recently been estimated at nearly five millions, a proportion of one in twenty-two. This mark of German prosperity is not merely a surface indication. German exports are constantly advancing to higher levels. The fall of German currency is the basic factor in the situation, by allowing Germans to sell abroad cheaper than their sound money rivals. But, the energy and enterprise and business ability of German financiers and traders must be reckoned among the reasons, too. Almost every financial expert in Europe, during the past two years has predicted a collapse of German prosperity. But, the bubble doesn't burst, at least inside Germany. The Germans have great difficulty in finding gold to pay their indemnity abroad, but within German territory prosperity exists without gold. All precedent has been overthrown by that condition. Many Germans believe precedent will continue to be defied, but the political economists declare economic law in the long run will have its revenge and will send Germany crashing to the ground in dire poverty. It is impossible to be certain of anything in this situation except that a large redistribution of wealth has occurred in Germany. If that redistribution can be stabilized, Germany may cover the prophets of evil with confusion.
Doing the Haitians Good THE State Department issues a statement to the effect that it looks now as if we shall take our marines out of the island of Haiti. Roaders will remember the revelations recently made as to the disgraceful things we have done there, and the protest made to the President. TVe went into Haiti during the Wilson Administration, for military reasons. It looked as if a German base were about to be established there. And then things began to happen. Certain Americans who know how to make money out of tropical concessions wrung from semi-civilized peoples looked upon Haiti and licked their chaps. Lending such governments money is a good game. Grabbing their lands is another. The Haitians did not want the money offered, and they have a barbaric system of keeping their lands in the hands of their own people. But the business of doing the Haitians went on. Concessions were obtained from a puppet government we set up, and the same puppet government consented to borrow some two and a half million dollars. How much of it found its way or ever will, into anything of advantage to the Haitian people has not been stated. Now among the things which the Haitians will agree to in order to get rid of our marines, is the recognition of the bond issue. Whether or not the land grants will also be confirmed is not stated; but it may be assumed that they will. Land monopoly is the legitimate successor of chattel slavery, and has equivalent oppressive effects. With these things confirmed, the predatory interests may assert that we have done the Haitians, and done them good. But can any real American fei anything but shame over it?
Love Is Strong Complex Emotion Which Inspires Various Desires
You can get an onswer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times. Washington Bureau. 1322 Sew York Are . Washington. D C.. enclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal and lore and nfarriage advice will not be given. Unsigned letters will not be answered, but all letters are confidential aud receive personal replies.—EDlTOß. Q. —What is love? A. —Love is a strong complex emotion or feeling inspired by something as a person or a quality, causing one to appreciate, delight in and crave the presence or possession of the object, and to please and promote the welfare of that object; the yearning or outgoing of the soul toward what is apprehended or regarded as good or excellent from any point of view or in any relation. Q. —Where was the city Philadelphia mentioned in Revelations? A. —This was a city in Asia Minor, situated in the valley which runs inward from the Gulf of Smyrna .about seventy-five miles east by south of Smyrna. The city was founded in the second century before Christ. Philadelphia was the head of a district In which Christian churches were established very early. Philadelphia bore a conspicuous part in later history, figuring as a bulwark against the Turks. Q. —Can a truck pull a load easier on a trailer than if the load is on the body of the truck? A.—ln general, a truck of given capacity can carry its load easier on the body of the truck than on a trailer. hut this answer might vary under different conditions of road surfaces or in taking into account loads in excess of the capacity of the truck. Q. —What are clouds? A.—They are composed of minute particles of liquid water or ice, a sort
of water dust. Unless borne up by a rising current, they settle slowly through the air, hut on reaching a stratum of uiuaturated air again evaporate. Clouds, generally speaking. are the condensation of water vapor in the air. When near the earth It is called fog; at higher altitudes, clouds. Q. —How may leather be glued to metal? A.—One formula is to melt together equal parts asphalt and gutta percha and apply hot under a press. Q. —What is meant by the expression. “Needs must when the devil drives?” A.—Our interpretation is that it is used as an excuse for doing things contrary to one’s natural disposition or conscience because of pressure of adverse circumstances which may be attributed to the devil. Q. —What office in the Navy corresponds to the office of chief of staff of the Army? A. —Chief of naval operations. Q- —When was the Sherman antitrust law enacted? Where can one get information about cases instituted under it? A. —In 1890. One can get from the superintendent of documents, Government printing office, Washington. D. C., for 10 cents (remittance should he by money order) "Federal Anti-Trust Laws With Amendments; Lists of Cases Instituted by IT S.” Q. —Where did the expression. "Every man meets his Waterloo at last,” originate. A.—Apparently In a speech bv Wendell Phillips.
CONGRESS NEEDS SOLID MINORITY DECLARES RQOSE Kentucky Congressman Says Opposition Is Essential to Progress. ADDS STEADY PRESSURE Smaller Group, Hampered With ‘Steam Rollerism,’ Seeks Strong Comeback.
In response to the general question as to what is the matter with Congress, and in view of the extraordinary number of members of both branches who for one reason or anot ter are voluntarily leaving the House and Senate, viewpoints have been sought of the spokesmen involved on all sides. Representative Meyer London. Socialist, New York, who plans to leave Congress this year, recently gave, voluntarily, his view that Congress needed a stronger minority—a left wing. Herewith is an article by Representative Arthur B. Rouse, Kentucky, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee. and a spokesman for the existing minority, who says that what Congress needs is a “reasonable minority’’ to admit of effective minority cooperation. By Representative Arthur B. Rouse, Kentucky, Chairman Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Copyright. 1922. by United News. WASHINGTON, -Aug. 29—We need a strong minority at all times, and in the present Congress that strong minority is the Democratic party. But it is hard to attempt to do anything with a strong minority unless there is a reasonable majority. Opposition is necessary in all discussions: it becomes of Inestimable value when it is intelligent and organized. This is the function of the minority in Congress. The greater the intelligence of an organization the more progressive shall be the laws finally enacted. Firm Influence Needed However, unless the “steam roller" methods of the present Republican majority give way to a progressive, constructive. legislative frame of mind, the minority cannot be effective. Although the minority may he hampered by steam-rollerism, and effective criticism is denied, it can nevertheless contribute a steady pressure by which attention may be focused on certain legislative needs which otherwise would be ignored. In the present Instance that is what our Democratic minority has done. Have Made Good At the President's request wo have come back to Washington after the six weeks’ recess, and urged upon the House the necessity of acting on certain measures which the Republicans would like to pigeon-hole indefinitely. Furthermore, in our attempt to exerUse the true and worthy function of a minority we have responded to the President's request in proportionately greater numbers than the Republicans. Os course the Democrats are not always going to be the minority party. In fact, that role may soon fall to the Republicans. Without viewing the situation in the light of absolute partisanship. I venture the opinion that a Democratic majority would never succumb to the dilatory tactics which have characterized the present Administration party.
GOITER Du on. n. 11 i!isunn SlEfigiSsiii DE very fear of goiter may be the H direct cause of 41 onoor This is because y B the thyroid gland •r 1 ’ ctfjk Is affected easily V / by fear, worry and other strong emoi tions. A goiter is an enlargement of the thyroid gland. , or a condition of undue activity on its part. The thyroid gland is located in the lower part of the neck and a certain amount of secretion is necessary to promote good health, while an excessive supply causes many bad symptoms. The best preventive of goiter in those inclined to be afflicted thus is rest under medical supervision, and the banishment of nil worry. lodine KfTective In the first stages of goite-, iodine should be given. It has been found that people living at sea level are free from goiter symptoms, there being sufficient iodine in the food to permit the proper functions of the gland. If the goiter has progressed to a more serious stage the whole system is poisoned—the heart usually first, then the liver, kidneys, and so on. Some rules for goiter patients are: Avoid all excitement or irritation. Get an abundance of rest. Go to bed early, sleeping long hours and taking a midday nap. Sleep in a thoroughly ventilated room. Eat and drink nothing that irritates the nervous system. Eat slowly and chew thoroughly. Avoid foods that are difficult of digestion. Eat but little meat. Do not eat it oftener than throe times a week and then only a small portion of beef, mutton, chicken or fish. Drink plenty of milk, also great quantities of water, making sure that it is absolutely pure. IF YOU ARE WELL BRED You remember that second marriages call for conservative wedding ceremonies. Any elaborate decorations or a large number of attendants Is out of place. The bride does not wear white, carry orange blossoms or wear a veil. This applies also to third, fourth and subsequent marriages. Veils Many novelties in veils are shown. Heavy embroidery, silver or gold insets and colored borders vary the appearance of these very feminine accessories.
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Prohibition Leader Declares U. S. May Wait Years Before ‘King Booze’ Passes
By E. M. THIERRY Timet Staff Corretpondent NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—How long do prohibition leaders think it will take to make America dry? “Twenty-five years,” says William H. Anderson, State superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. Anderson, though a State leader, is the most militant prohibitionist in the country and he admits he has the hardest job in the wettest State in what he calls “liquors’ black belt”— New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In an interview he made these predictions: “Within five or six years we will have broken the political backbone of booze and checked all serious efforts to change the dry law. "Within another five or six years the bootleggers will he so generally in jail or In terror that the Volstead act will not be broken any more than other laws are. "After that it will take fifteen years for complete education of the people, especially those of foreign birth or extraction respecting the nature and effect of alcohol to the point where prohibition will no longer be either an Issue or a problem.” Will Require 23 Years Anderson thinks prohibition really will be here in 1947. Perhaps earlier —but 1947 is his conservative estimate. "Magazine straw votes don’t bother us.” he said. "Nor does the growing agitation for beer and light wine.
Northcliffe’s Aversion to Supremacy of Rich Shown in Published Article
"Lord Northcliffe claimed to be one of the few newspaper proprietors who made his money out of newspapers, and the rest he regards as interlopers. He was not prepared, ho declared, to accept in his own business of producing newspapers the dictation of shipping kings and cotton kings and coal and cocoa and 0.l kings.” The above quotation is from an article in the English New Statesman, that was reproduced by the late Lord Northcliffe in his pamphlet, "Newspapers and Their Millionaires." published early in this year, shortly after the publisher’s return from his world tour. The pamphlet in turn was made up laregly of newspaper articles by Northcliffe in which he attacked the members of the London Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, comprising practically all the big London dailies, including his own. for their concerted attempt to drive down printers wages The argument was spirited, and was on two grounds, first, that ]
Workers and Employer Unite in Mutual Benefits Plan Devised by Executive
By F. if. THIERRY Timet Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug 29.—“ What is industry doing to help Its men overcome life’s five major hazards?” Harold A. Ley. president of the Life Extension Institute, ought to know, for it was he who originated a system of insurance plus health service among the employes of the contracting firm of which lie also is president. "Scores of industries have copied the plan,” said Ley. ”1 have preached it as the germ of a sound economic plan that brings worker and employer closer together In lndusttv*-and saves money for both.” Increasing- numbers of employers are adopting group plan lrysurance, he says, and coupling it with a keepwell campaign. “Mortality in middle life in industry was increasing when the Life Extension Institute was organized ten years ago.” said Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, medical director of the instditute. “The work span, or period of maximum productivity In industry, Is from 20 to 42. It ought to reach to 60.” Urges Campaign "Get employes intc-ested In keeping well," he says, “and in their own good health both employer and employes will draw dividends. Worry and fear will vanish, for the hazards of life will be minimized. “Examinations of thousands of men in industry by the institute show that 50 per cent of employes have some
THE REFEREE By ALBERT APPLE PRICES r=g-— —> Jim Patten, the wheat king, is asked to explain T H why the farmer's buy*ng P ower a fourth I less than before the -4* war. Patten's explanaLA 'JitSA tlon is that industrial t_ I jjr' jy- W ages are fixed artiAPPLE ficially, while the farmer's income is regulate,d mostly by natural competition. You have always been told by economists that Wheat is the barometer or regulator of general prices. Something has gone wrong with that system. There is anew price regulator. It is soft coal. PLANETS Magician Thurston has an interesting now theory about Mars and other planets, which he believes are "inhabited by beings, physical or spiritual, who are similar to us in mentality." Thurston suggests that messages received by mediums at seances are not from the dead, but telepathic communications from the super-people out yonder among the stars: If you disagree, how can ycy prove that Thurston is wrong? CHINA Sun Yat-sen, leader of South China, announces that the north and the south have buried the ax. He says the civil war Is ever. The Chinese may be slow, but it doesn’t take them half a generation to settle their fights. They know when they are licked, and take their medicine without haggling. Most of the white man’s international troubles ar> due to refusing to admit the truth. The white statesman usually plays to
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There isn’t one chance in 100 of the Volstead act being changed.” Qualifying, he added: “But if it is changed—mark you, It will only be temporary." Consumption of alcohol has dropped 10 or 20 per cent compared with pre-
newspaper printers were skilled workmen, who labored under great strain and were, therefore, entitled to good wages; second, tigit the London publishers were enormously wealthy men who had made their money In other businesses than the newspaper business, and had bought newspapers simply as hobbies, or for private political purposes. Favored High Wages Some pungent paragraphs from Northcliffe’s articles are as follows: “While I was traveling around the world * • • there arose a movement of which I was not informed for the reductions of the wages of printers • • • by the newspaper owners' combine. On my return I heard about the matter. I then set about makirg inquiries as to the financial condit:on of the public press and the status of the printers themselves. Asa lesult I let it be known that on the newspapers With which I am concerned theer would be no reduction." "A representative of the combine;
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TTAROI.D A. LEY serious trouble and are below par; not that they are likely to die right away, hut unloss their troubles are corrected, their lives, and their work-
the galleries. He keeps the corpses of troubles exhibited on ice instead of burying them. LEARN A WORD TODAY Today’s word is—FLUX. It’s pronounced—flux, as spelled. As ordinarily used at the present I day, it means—flowing, unstable, inconstant.; undergoing change; in process of fusion; in a liquid state, usually through heat. It comes from —Latin "fltixum,” to flow. It’s used like this—“ Largely due to the effects of the war, economic and many other conditions are in a state of flux, practically throughout the world.”
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A-HEM! By United Prrts LONDON, Aug. 29.—A mathematical analyser has reduced “theater noises” to a science. He claims that during the average London performance there are among the audience 5,000 noises, made up as follows; 250 coughs, 320 throat clearings, 10 sneezes.
prohibition days, Anderson estimates. The number of drinkers, he thinks, has decreased almost as much. “I haven’t any illusions about congressmen and legislators,” he said. They’re honest if they vote according to the sentiment of their constituents. "Politicians and the public generally will eventually get it through their heads that anarchy is the only alternative to enforcement and observance.” The Anti-Saloon League will be necessary, Anderson says, through most of —perhaps all—of the twentyfive years necessary to make prohibition prohibit. “It will cost more, too,” he said, "because we now have two jobs, where we formerly had one. These are: first, to hold the law by electing dry congressmen and State legislators: and second, to enforce the law by organizing the public to get behind the regularly constituted local enforcement authorities—back up good officials, jack up the others. "We are pushing a three fold plan: First, community enrollment for enforcement through the newly formed ‘Allied Citizens of ing every one to take a definite stand either for or against law and order; second, enacting an enforcement or--' dinance in every community: third, applying the ‘Yonkers Plan,’ where enforcement is lax, by cooperating with officials if they will enforce the law, or focusing publicity upon them if they won’t.” Anderson says New York State already has 250,000 members of the Allied Citizens of America, and the
I came to see me. He said: 'The wages are preposterous. Some of these men have motorcycles and side cars; more than one of them drives a motor car.’ Why shouldn’t they?’ I replied. ‘lf | American printers are able to own I ; cars, why shouldn’t ours? British newspapers are just as prosperous as j at any time In their history.’ The re-! plies were vague and unsatisfactory.” A representative of other publish- i era said to Northcliffe: “But you are a member of the Newspaper Proprie- i tors’ Association, and one of your representatives Joined with the others in the reduction of wages movement.” “I said.” wrote Northcliffe. “that he, the Mysterious Mr. X referred to. | might have troubled to send tne a, wireless before he took a step lnvolv-j ing the welfare and home comforts jof hundred sos f,uni lies. He is young and he has not traveled much os yet.” Flayed Millionaires The London Daily News had printed ' attacks on Northcliffe for his stand. Os that paper Northcliffe wrote:
ing value, may be seriously affected in one. two or five years. Outlines Plan "My advice to employers, based upon my own experience as an employer and as originator of the svacin many industries t.se in copoemtion with the institute, is that health service, insurance and pensions should not he given as outright gifts. People don't want things that they con get free; they will benefit only from things they want badly enough to buy. "Put the welfare plan on a 50-50 basis, and do it through a Mutual Welfare Association run by the employes themselves. "This is the plan many industries have put into practice: group life insurance and group health and accident insurance as written by the various insurance companies, and a group health service such as given by the Life Extension Institute, to be paid for Jointly by the employer and the employe. /. combined pension plan can be added later, but should be limited to tnose who Join the Mutual Benefit Association. How System Works ¥ Twenty-five cents a week contributed by f he employe and 25 cents contributed by the employer will buy a 81,250 life insurance policy, a health and accident insurance policy paying 810 a week for twenty-six weeks for any sickness or accident occurring outside the scope of the workmen's compensation laws, and a health service which gives each member a thorough physical examination yearly. “This plan Is used for persons earning up to 81,000 a year. Fifty cents a week, for persons earning up to 82,000, will provide $3,000 life insurance, S2O a week health and accident insurance, plus the health service. For persons earning over 82,000 the life insurance policy is $4,500 and the health and accident payments S3O a week on payments of 75 cents a week. Benefits Derived "The hub of the whole thing is that there is no charity about it, but a 50-50 payment, that 75 per cent of all employes go into the scheme, and that it be operated by the employes .themselves. Employers benefit because they need only get 1 per cent increased efficiency out of employes who are well and happy in order to pay their share of the expense of the plan." The Loree plan of compensation, though somewhat similar to that originated by Ley, does not cover health service. It also provides for unemployment insurance for employes who keep in force two of the three classes of insurance .life, health and accident) at the rate of sls weekly for Six weeks. We Will Help You to Save Safely Jfletcfjer fe>abtnQfi! anb Crust Cos.
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enrollment campaign is just beginning. “When the light is turned on all decent people will come In,” he said. "There are prominent bankers, lawyers, manufacturers and even a few preachers, who by opposing prohibition, have placed themselves in the same category with frowsky-whiskered anarchists. When they see that through ignorance or prejudice they have lined up with the criminals, they will come in out of the wet.” IT’S MUTUAL W B/y BERTO.V BRALEY HEN He and She agreed to wed. According to Dan Cupid's whim. Her friends say, as they always said. “I don't see what she sees in him!” While his friends tear her limb from limb. He's made a blunder, they aver. And so they say. with acrid vim, I don't see what he sees in her!” GTTE hasn't any business head.” If “He's much too fat,” or else “Too slim,” "Why didn't she take Bill instead?” "I don’t see what she sees in him!” And his companions, dour and grim. Greet ail her ytions with a slur. And sirh, while tears their eyes bedim, "I don’t see what he sees In her I” 4 F]\/TY dear, her senses must have Bed. IVI He isn't in the social swim." a-'-*- “Her future fills me full of dread.” "I don’t see what she sees in him!” “She has no style, "She isn't trim," "This marriage ought not to occur." "Poor Jack”—or Mike or George or Jim—— "I don't see what he sees in her!" Envoy THEY'D cry, were he a seraphim. “I don’t see what she sees in him !*’ They'd sigh, whateer her character. "I don't see what he sees in her!” (Copyright. 1922, NEA Service)
“Well, the Cadburys are the chocolate millionaires behind the Daily News and Star, and their printers should be able to afford side cars.” About the Daily Chronicle he wrote: "It is a political organ supported by millionaires, and millionaires who millionaires who support political organs should not be. and in this case are not. mean to work people.” Speaking of the Westminster Gazette: “My friend. Lord Cowdray’s top”—Northcliffe said. “I told Lord Cowdray (Sir Weetman Pearson) that his newspaper is about as good ns my first oil well and pipe-line establishment would be. Looking at it reminds m eof a man playing golf for the first time.” ”1 am sure,” he wrote, “that if the millionaires will go and look at the production of their newspapers they will not want to reduce wages. The strain on the editorial and mechanical staffs is about as much as Ljman beings can bear. I have done some of the work myself. I know.”
KLANSMAN Glad Paper Used News of Acquiftal of Fellow Members. i To the Editor oj The Timet I have been a reader of 5-our paper I for several years and have noticed j now and then a slam or boost for the "Knights of the Ku-Klux Klan.” I wish to thank you for the publishing in your paper of Saturday the I item regarding the acquittal of the j thirty-five members of our wonderful I organization by the California jury. A. KLANSMAN. To the Editor 0/ The Timet The growing practice, by "unknown parties,” of pulling spikes from railway tracks, In view of the many dangers to the innocent public, is highly ! reprehensible and the offenders should |be sought out. prosecuted and sen- : tenced well up to the limits of the law which governs such conduct. Not only in Indianapolis have such tricks been pulled—similar acts have taken place at Gary, Evansville, and even in the State of Tennessee. Again the public.suffers. Engineers claim rolling stock is in such a condition as to multiply the perils of labor thereon. Then why. if labor presumes organization, is it necessary to aad to these perils, and. furthermore, include the every-day citizen in the casualty lists which are bound to appear soon? Assuming that organized labor, as a constitutional body or bodies. has had no part in such outrages, why, again, is it not able, with its familiarity with railway conditions, to discountenance all such felonious acts and unite in as strong a body against such? EVERY DAY.
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AUG. 29, 1922
EDISON OFFERS ■ CONGRESS PLAN Os BJPKINJ Inventive Genius Describes Experiences in National Capital in Point. FINDS MANY COUNTERFEITS Lots of Fellows Running Details of Government, He Says, Are Not Genuine. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 29.—Thomas A. Edison, inventive genius of the century, has offered a "scientific billmaking plan” to Congress. This was learned by the publication of Edison’s testimony on the Muscle Shoais, Ala., power and nitrate projects, before the Senate Agricultural Committee. "I worked in Washington during the war,” the aged inventor told the com- : mittee. “I found out after a while that a lot of those fellows that were running the details of this Government were false; they were not the real thing; they were counterfeits. "Draw up Ske'Hon,” He Advises "I am surprised that you don’t draw your bills differently,” he continued. "Draw up a skeleton of bill and specify the initial thing yJ® have to do, and when that Is done you will find out what the first step costs. "Now, go ahead and continue it on by supplement, so you will know the progress of all your legislation and make them show up between each supplement. You would have saved five or six billion dollars here and you would not have got a lot of these inefficient people. "It comes in sections and each time they come for more money you make an amendment to the act. "Let them have it, but they have to show up. “Under the war administration nobody had to show up. You will have it showed up by and by. Always Have Rudiments "You should always pass a bill that contains just the rudiments of the entire bill,” Edison urged, “then you have the first start, the instrumentalities you start with to make that thing function, and spend several million dollars “When you have got through the first stage let them come to Congress and get the additional legislation to go ahead a little further, and when you have got through an examination of what has been done you will know it there is anything rotten in that, because you will see how all the money has been spent. “But the way you do it now you make the bill and quit and never.hear anything, and you try to get some Information and you don't get any at all. They double-cross you all time.” UNUSUAL FOLK K>i SEA Service LONDON, Aug. 29. —John Syme was once a London police inspector, •% was for defending His superiors said it was because of his unjust attacks :■ A •w .* ;* speeches, wrote a •psa A ||:| number of pamphX Pf J lets an< * L ied many '% BL/ f / ways of getting the sort of aeSYME tion he wanted, but failed. Then, to attract attention, he decided to throw a brick at the king. Brick in hand, he waited outside of Buckingham palace. This got him locked up. He went on hunger striko and was released, started king hunting again, was again locked up and again released. This has gone on for a long time. Syme is at liberty at present, and by the king’s express request, too. Home Secretary Shortt says the police would be only too glad to let him alone if he'd promise to quit trying to slug the king with a brick. For Young Girl An evening coat of white rabbit skin is tied at the waistline with a wide satin ribbon. A white ermine wrap is banded and collared with a wide border of mole.
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