Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 170, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1922 — Page 4

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When He maketh inquisition for blood, He remembereth them; not thè cry of thè humble. —Psalms 9:12. A Metropolitan Park District GRADUALLY thè rnovement to stop thè waste of public funds in hodgepodge country highway, city Street, boulevard and park extension grotta. Good, hard-surfaced country roads, wide, properly focated, connected city streets and boulevards and strategically located parks and playgrounds we have gotto have. Searcely anybody disputes this today. The trend of popular and officiai tbought is toward settlement of some definite standards which will mark an end to thè costly period of experiment ‘and piecemeal construction we are in. We are coming to realize that we have gotto have a system of country’ and city trafile arteries which will lead from somewhere to somewhere and have an eco* nomic or aesthetic reason for doing so. Encouraging signs that we are getting somewhere toward this happy goal are these: 1. The Federai Government is spending millions ripon millions in cooperating with State highway commissioners in improving interstate arteries. 2. The State highway commission is making pleasant for thè motorist dozens of trans-indiana roads in earrying out a carefully prepared pian for a complete network. 2. The Indianapolis city pian commission Is making a survey of thè city and county preliminary to preparation of a major thoroughfare pian, which thè board of public works rnay follow in its improvement and reconstruction of streets for half a century. 4. County Surveyor J- J- Griffith admitted this week that much money lias been wasted in county road con struction througli lack of a comprehensive pian, which he hoped soon would be arrived at. 6. President Bookwalter of thè city park board has announced his intention of having introduced in thè coming Legislature a bill creating a metropolitan park district, eomprising all Marion County outside thè city limits, in which park and boulevard development may be carried on jointlv by thè city and county through a metropolitan park board consisttng of thè county commissionere. city park commissioncrs and president of thè city pian commission. Many of thè larger cities have such a pian as Bookwalter proposes. His smrgestion, coming as thè latest play in thè move toward rational development, deserves oareful study by thè taxpayers.

Who Is to Blame? THE Keystone Ave. cement road, 2.82 miles in length, will be repaired this winter by thè county at a cost of $4.000, it is anonunced at thè courthouse. The road is twenty-three months old. It cost $122,000, more than $40,000 per mile. There are twenty-one holes in a strip of thè road one-half mile long. The road was built by thè S. M. Timberlake Company. The contract was let by thè county commissioners who at thè time were Carlin Shank, Lewis A. George and Joseph G. Hayes. John J. Griffith, recently re-elected, was counfy engineer in charge. Who's responsible for such waste? Cement in some of thè holes was four inches thick, where specifications ealled for eight. William Weaver, inspector for a cement association, said not enough cement was used in thè mixture in addition. The State board of accounts has begun an investigation. It is to be hoped that whoever is responsible for such conditions and waste of hard-earned money be made to feel thè full weight of his responsibility to thè public. Lots of Us Are Olafs OLAF Jansen, just over from Sweden, meets a smooth talker who sells him a Street car for SIOO. When Olaf tries to take charge of thè car, which thè smooth talker promised would make him rich quickly, he be_gins leaming that in this free country nothing is reaily free except thè air. Maybe you smile at thè ancient bunko game worked on poor Olaf. If truth were known and recognizcd. most of us are daily victims of swindles, on a smaller scale, within thè law, but equally prepcsterous. The proof is in our pocketbooks. Music a la Typewriter PROFESSOR FORTONI, aster tweive years’ work has tumed out a typewriter that copies music as an ordlnary typewriter copies words. All one has to do to compose music is to slt down at thè musical typewriter and wait for an inspiration. The correspondence school can now add a new course to their curriculum —“thè operation of a musical typewriter.'’ We suppose that jazz will be turned out by thè square mile now since thè composers don't even have to take tlie time to make thè musical cbaracters. Think of thè suffering to a composer’s favorite typewriter when he wakes up at 3 o'clock in thè morning and begins to hammer out thè blues. Every home ought to have one of these new inventions. When father arises in thè early morning and begins to sing one of his own compositions mother mgi’ softly whisper, “Say it with thè musical typewriter, dad, thè boys just carne home from thè dance and to sleep.” A pocket model would be handy. The great songs like 'he “Star-Spangled Banner” would not have to be written on thè back of an envelope. Two Reai Shipping Handicaps THE plea for ship subsidy is almost wholly based on thè claim that wages and conditions imposed by thè seamen’s law handicap American ship owners as against foreign owners. This newspaper will discuss that phase at a later time but, in thè meantime, two reai handicaps may be pointed out. Here goes: Every nation requires that a ship’s hull and its boilers and engines be inspected once a year. It is thè practice of foreign nations to provide for this inspection in a way that will not liold sliips idle and so cause losa of earning time. A British ship coming into a British port can notify •thè inspectors of boilers and thè inspector of hulls by wireless. They will have men ready as soon as tlie ship comes in and they will inspect just as much as they can while thè ship is discharging cargo and taking on new cargo. But thè moment thè ship is ready to sail, it is given a certificate for such part of thè inspection as has been completed and is allowed to proceed. This is repeated in various ports and is aceeptable if thè inspection is completed in thè course of thè year. The American System of inspection requires thè inspection to take place all at once, which means tlie drawing of thè fires under all thè boilers. The boiler inspector does bis work when and as he pleases and thè

hull inspector may. or may not be working at thè same time. The effect in practice is that thè foreign ships do not lose an hour of possible working time for thè purpose of inspection, while American ships lose about a month a year out of their earning time. It is this loss of time imposed by arbitrary, bureaucratic rules under executive sanction, that handicaps American ship owners to thè extent of nearly 10 per cent of their earning possibility. Again, all thè other ships in thè world have a formula for measurement of tonnage which is different from thè American measurement. Every time a ship goes into port it must pay fees and dues of many sorts based on tonnage; every tinte a ship goes through thè Panama or Suez canal it must pay tolls based on tonuage. The American niethod of measurement rates an American ship which may be exactly like a foreign ship at from 20 per cent to 30 per cent greater dead weight tonnage than a foreign ship is rated. That means that it must pay in all sorts of dockage, towage, clearance and other fees, as well as all canal tolls, from 20 to 30 per cent more than thè foreign competing ship has to pay. The excess tolls and charges are paid to foreign governments and foreign officials and are in thè nature of a penalty imposed by this government unnecessarily and without reason upon ships owned by Americans. Here are two handicaps which, if thè friends of subsidy are correct in their statement of its amount, would alone, if removed, make subsidy unnecessary. And thè beauty of it is that thè benefìts would go, at no expense, to all American ship owners instead of thè favored few who would get subsidy. Protection for Home Owners ■1 rHAT is Mayor Shank going to do with thè city W zoning ordinance? It was unanimously passed by thè city eouncil last Monday evening. He has until thè end of next Wednesday to sign or veto it. Should he fall to act In this period thè measure would be technically vetoc-d and would have to be passed again by thè council to become a law. The mayor announced immediately aster passagc of thè ordinance that he was going to study it long and carefully before aeting on it. In his study it is to be hoped his honor will not lose sight of thè fact that thè greatest demand for a city pian has come from thè small home owner, who has seen thè properties of his neighbors, or perhaps his own, halved in value by erection of an unsightly grocerv store. a cheap apartment, a garage or other unwelcome intruder flush with thè sidewalk next door. The zoning ordinance will give a majority of thè folks who toil for j’ears to win ownership of property thè same protection from commercial encroachment which thè man of millions obtains by buying and build ing in a costly, highly restricted addition.

No Like Money? No Sense 4N Eastern woman "insists upon giving away thè money that comes to ber as fast as she can get it.” So a petition is filed in court to have a jury esumine her to see whether she's “all there” mertally. Have we money-mad people actualij’ reached thè point where thè mentality of a person with an aversion to money is questionable? Where does sanity end and insanity begin? Best answer was thè Irishman’s: “Everybody’s out of step but me.” Permit Usto Say li. G. Wells lost in politics. He should let Wells enough alone. Mexico is making faces at us because we haven’t noticed her. „ A baby borii in New York was five feet tali. It was a giraffe. The big appiè crop we reported recently is a big cider crop now. Speaking of Southern chivalry, George gave his seat in thè Senato to Mrs. Felton on the first daj’. We hate to mention unpleasant things, but income taxes are due again ten days before Christmas. Russia is making autos. When people begin to get on their feet they want to get off their feet. When a prize fighter’s condition is not O. K. it is often K. O. if you know wbat K. O. means. Hitling the ground is much easier than hitting a golf ball because the ground is so much larger. Football baeks aro very forward young men, if you care for such things. Perhaps fat men make the best salesmen because they have the bulge on’the slender salesmen. What's in a name? Maine National Guard cavalry has a Major Gallup. If we got everything we wanted there wouldn’t he room to put it. Faint heart nevcr won fair lady but fat-head has. Lise is ups and downs. If there w r ere no downs how could there be ups? TOM SIMS. There She Blows! IBy BERTON BRALEY 'vi, got a cold in my head. Aehoo ! , My uose is excesslvely red, Aehoo! My eyes they re running and so is my uose. I blows aud I sneezes and snoezes and blows (And that's ungrammatical verse I suppose), But—l've got a i-old in uiy head. Uve pot a oold in my head, Aehoo! My epirits are heavy as lead. Aehoo ! l m not ver.v siok, but Uni far, far from well. I've lost both my scnseg of tante and of smeli, Aud lise doesn't seem to me awfully swell, When I’vc got a cold in my head! I've pot a eold in my head, Aehoo ! A cold l'm unable to shed. Aehool I've tried all the remedies folks reeommend, I've taken prescrtpUons and dopo without end, From any more medicine, heaven forfendl Though I've pot a eold in my liead! I've pot a eold in my head. Aehoo! And all of my intellect's fleti. Aehoo! • My work it. a task that f eaniiot set through, I don’t care wbat statesmen or diplomata do. For all I can think of—Aehoo! —is—Aehoo! — That I’ve pot a cold id by ’e-d, Aehoo I I’ve pot a cold Id by ’edl (Copyright. 1922. NEA Se rvlce)

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INDEPENDENT PACKERS FORCING PROPOSED ‘BIG FIVE' MERGER

By Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—D0 you wonder what’s going onbehind the scenes in the meat paeking industry? A new condition brought about by numerous small independent packers operating on an economical motor truck basis in their immediate communities is affording stronger competitìon than “the big five” with their expensive refrigerator car syetems and branch houses are able to withstand. This is what well informed men

Teli ing It to Congress

Ajiplicable Today Dr. Warren wrote “Ten Tbousand WoYds a Year.” When Tittlebat Titmouse became a candidate for Parilament, his candidacy was carried on hy a very distinguished lawyer by the name of Oily Gammon, who w r as of the great flrm of Quirk, Gammor. & Snap, who were the originai inventors of the lawyers’ phrase, "Admit nothir.g, w.-iive nothing, deny everything. When the time carne to run Tittlebat Titmouso, who up to that timo had nevcr had any virtues of any description, but who later, when he was elected Parliament, was fourul to be able to imitate the crow of a cock so perfectly as to represent a rallying cry qf his own party very much in the House of Commons, Oil Gammon announced Tittlebat’s election platform was to pass a bill "to give everybody everything without taking anything from anybody." Senutor Williams (D), Miss. Money First 1 believe that the Government should conrider its obllgations as private parties consider their, and so long as the Government owes money, and particularly when it owes it to Its own people who have bought its bonds with money earned in thè sweat of their faces, that it fs due to the maintenance of the honor of the Government that those bonds be taken up as quickly as possible, Senutor New (R), Inà. Wlio’H (ìet thè Slilps Under a subsidy bili, as the bill 1 now framod.'the ships will be sold to the big fellows in the business now. There will ho no wide distribution of ship ownership In tlie United States. The provjsions of the bill, feeding into the treasuries of these ship operatore millions of dollaro will encourage the tontlnuation of lnefficlent method and c-xtravagance that exlst in American shipping now. Philllp Manson. president. Pacific A- Eastern Steamship Co. What Crop Fat A 100-htishel crop of corri in grain and silk will take out of the soli 148 i pounds of nitrogen, twenty-three ì pounds of phosporus ariti sevority-one | pounds of potassium. In 1909 corn, | wheat and oats. three cerea! crops In the grain alone, took from the soli 2,965,000,000 pounds r.f nitrogen, 608,000,000 pounds of phosphorus and 873,000,000 pounds of potasslum. K. F. Bnwer, American Farm Bureau Federation. Tiinuned With Seal An attrae ti ve suit of mustard-ool-ored duvetyn is made with a very narrow skirt and a lìaring coat. The ooat is trimrned with many lnch banda of scal fur and neal buttons.

Miss Van de Grifi Makcs Rounds of New York Theatrical Booking Agencies

This i* the acconci of a *crlc* of nix (orice of Josephine Van de Grifi deBcriblnß how gne. poslns as a country Ciri ought to get on thd stage in New York.

By JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT NEA Service Staff Writer NEW. YORK, Nov. 25.—The most immediate aid that comes to tho Service ot tho young woman in search of a job In Now projt? agers and Prortght away. The Travedere’ Aid at c*. the Pennsylvania Railroad station ' \ 'Sif had been very . •* fL y j klnd in the niat- ' ,eros lodging, Jr mentis, advlce and ir * si? T"vijA pure unalloyod MISS VAN DE , . , GRIFT friendship. But I had learned nothi.ng definite as to how I was going to get on the stage. To the Travelers’ Aid at the Grand Central Station I put my query in somewhat different fonti: “Do you a list of reputatile theatrical agencies?” The lady at the desk didn’t. but she thought I might get such a list at tho Theater Guild. Selccts Agencies There in a. little crow’s nest I fornai a girl, pluntp and pleasant. No, the Theater Guild ditìn’t have such a list, but from the telephone directory she seiected two agencies that she assured ine were all righi. I then had recourse to the telephone hook myself and made a list of some thirty or so theatrical managers and agencies. The list began imposingly enough with David Belasco. It ended with Sani Scribner, producer of burlesque. Then began a heart-bx-eaking tour of the agencies. J would poke my head through a door, hopirg vaguely that a producer or a manager, sltting inside, viuld tbserve that I had a certain s xirituelle cast of countenance, would hcp from his chair and say: “Ah, the very type I’ve’ been looking for,” ahd bear me off to triumph. Instead, I would fine! a score or more people sitting in chairs about the wall. They would look at me critically and then relapse into their own introspections. Aster a while, when the chairs were all filled and a number of us were standing, a bobbed-haired blond would

here say is “the why” behind the proposed Armour-Morris merger which is due to be followéd by other mergers until “the big five” passes into “the big two” with J. Ogden Armour and Edward F. Swift as the heads of the two gigantic concerna. The big packers, all of whom are said to have lost money last year, insist they must get on a cheaper basis immediately by cutting down overhead. Needless duplication of numerous branch houses, hauling of half-filled refrigerator - cara at pres-

Interest Centers on lowa Colonel in Washington By Ti’m Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—"What’s this fellow Brookhart like?” That's what everybody’s asking in Washington now. Interest is centering in thè quietmannered lowa colonel, because many seo in him a. possible leader of the progressive group in Congress. Quiet-mannered? Yes, he is that, but he ha a way of saying things which may one believe that he means business. •'lt's quito truo that the farmors elected me,” he says. “That's exactly what happened. I’m a farmer myself. We live a littlo way out of Washington, lowa, on a twcnty-elght-acre fami, where I raise pigs. keep cows and chickens and do a little generai farmlng. ,Stick by Program “1 have come here to do certain things and 1 intend to stick by my program and work hard to put tt over. "You know what my platform is, don’t you? A repeal of the EschCunumns law, a reai Bol(!iere’ bonus law. paid for my war protiteers and peacetime gambiera in tlie commodlties produced by the farmer and a complete destruction of ’Newborrylsm.’ 1/OoUs Encouraging "Pari of my work is alroady accomplished.” he said. “I had been in town only one day when Mr. Newberry resigned. As for thè rest. things look extremely encouraging." Senator Brookhart is a short, heavy-set man in his flfties. He dres.sos plainly. He is clean-shaven, bushy-haired, with bold features. His sndle ls one of the nicest things about him. He says, by the way, that he isn’t the “long-haired brainstorm” that some of the papera have made him out to be. His looka beare him out.

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come ouv and say, "Nothing today. No, l’m sorry, but thero’s nothing today for any of you," and we would all get up and filo out. This happened again and again. At tho managerial office lt was no bet-

Then began a heart-breaking tour of the agencies. ter. No, Mr. Belasco and his whole staff were away. He wouldn’t be doing anything for several months yet. Mr. Cohan had a couple of shows in rehearsal, but tho casts were all filled. In six weeks there might be something No, So-a.nd-So’s shows were all closing—he’d had rotten luck, he wouldn’t be doing anything until aster Christmas. Every One Kind i marveled, thougb, at the kindness every one manifested. At the Packard agency there was one whom they ealled Miss JVlason. It was a nleasure to be turned down by Miss Mason. "No, dear, nothing for you today;” “l’m sorry, dear, but you’re too tali for the part.” “No, nothing today, dear. If you’d only been here three days ago.” “Oh, Mr. Gordon, how are you aster j’our iUness? No, there’s nothing today, but there might be something next week. I’U bet you know.” It was Miss Mason who sent me in to an inside office to be registered by Mr. Packard. Mr. Packard was well set up and a little gray and he had nice eyes. I felt I liked Mr. Packard, although

ent high railroad rates and the attendant overhead expense must be cut out, it is explained. The little independent packers, whose numbers are increasing, have brought about this change. They can do business cheaper because they draw from and sell to nearby patrons ( thus eliminating the long freight hauls. Trucks Cut Cost The motor truck method of transportation, instead of the branch house, affords them a much more economical means of distribution.

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St. Mary’s was a leading church in the downtown district. This pieture shows it Just before the steeple was removed and it was turned

Mellon Has His Man Friday in Person of Col. James Drake, Salary $40,000

By 'lime* Spulai WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. —Woodrow Wilson hai! his Colonel House; President Harding has his Ned MeLoan, and Daugherty his Jesse Smith. “Uncle Andy" Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, has one, too. He’s Col. James Frank Drake, known affectlonately hy intimates aa "Mellon's eyes and care.” Falthfnl to “Uncle Andy” Middle-aged, medium height, blonde hair, sllghtly baici; blue eyes, keen as a fox, deep, rich, musical voice, faultless dresser, aristocratic, exclu sive, used to pushing buttons; elegant suite at a fashionable Washington hotel; reputed salary of s*o,ooo a

our conversation was liniited to datali I had given weary times before; That I was Huldah Benson, 23, five feet four inches tali, that my hair was blonde and my eyes were gray. “Anj r experience?” said Mr. Packard. “Nona,” I said sadly. “Would it help any if they knew I could play thè piano?” “It might.” said Mr. Packard, "how much do you weigh?" “A hundred and forty-flve pounds in my coat.” "Well," said Mr. Packard, "that may not be a dlsadvantage, you never can teli where the llghtnlng will strlke.” I took courage. On the way out I met Inez. The next story will be a talk -with Incz, the girl who tried to come back. Owner to Stand His Own Losses B’i l niled News NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—From now on the owner will stand thè loss lf somebody runs away with his “celiar.” The National Surety Company, who writes more theft insurance than any other company In the country, will not lnsure. any bonze, according to their new poiicies. Marriage a la Mode The custom of having all bridernaids dress alike at a wedding had is origin back in the primitive days when evil spirita were supposed to attend wedding cereinonies and see how much trouble they could stir up. So the bride and bridegroom always were surrounded by friends of their own age and sex, similarly dressed, to make it more difficult for the spirits to single out the happy couple and carry out their evil designs. Painted Velvets Paintod velvets are shown for evening wear and made into charming negligees for tho hcqse. Usually thè velvets aro delicate in tone and the colore applied are of the soft pastel shades. Large flower patterns are most popular. Black and Whlte Black velvet hats, ermine trimrned, are the favorit.es now in the shop windpws. Black fur jackets are worn with white broadcloth costumes and white fur coats are frequently seen With black velvet oulfits. The blacic and white combination has replaced the all-black idea of a season ago.

Balanced against the claim that merger the “big five” into the “big two” would reduce millions in overhead expense to the savings of the consumer is the charge that the same change would reduce the buying competition in the cattle industry to the danger point. The new era in the paeking industry has followéd the big increase in the raising of more cattle closer to the centers of population, and the graduai decrease in the supply from the distant western ranges.

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year; thinks the sun rises and sets when “Uncle Andy” does. Drake became one of “thè Mellon boys” in 1919, when he resigned as Lieutenant Colonel of Ordnance in thè Army. His first job was that of confldgntial man and advisor to the Mellon. in oil mattare. Professionaily, Drake is an oil engineer. But “Uncle Andy” saw that Drake was too smart to be wasting his talenta entirely on oil, so Drake carne to Washington about the time that Mellon became secretary of the Treasury to keep the chief informed on what is going on. Not on Public Payroll Drake is not on the public payroll—he couldn’t afford to be; and any way what’s a $4t),000-a year salary to the Mellon of Pittsburgh, who control

68th Congress Remains Under G. 0. P. Majority by Slight Margin

QUKSTIONS WNWKRKI) You can ge t aa answer to any question of fact or Information by wrltins to tlie Indianapolis Times Washinirton Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. inc'oslng 2 cent in stampa. Medicai, legai and love and marriage advico cannot be ai\-<n. tnsign-d lettera cannot lm answered. but al! ìetter are confldentlal, and receive personal replfe. Although the bureau does rot require it, tt will assure prompter replica lf r-ader will confine questiona to a single subject. ivrlting mora than one letter lf answcrii on v irlous subjects are desired. EDITOR. Q. —What w : Il ba the party ellgnment in tho S'xtv-Eighth Congress? A.—As mattvrs now stand, there will be 225 R >publlcans, 207 Democrats, one Fanuer-Labor, one Socialist and one Ind.pendant in the House of Repres°ntati i es, and In the Senate, forty-two Demo rats, fifty-three Republicans and or e Farroer-Labor. Q. —What are the meanings of the following names” A.—lnez—pure Winlfred—lover of peace. Melicent —sweet sniger. Antonio —! nestimable. Roland—fame of the land. Peter—a r.jck. Reginald—3trong ruler. Eric—richji brave, powerful. Q. —What is tli ■ fortieth wedding anni versar yl A. —Tho ruby wedding. Q. —How many building and loan associations are there in tlie United States? A. —According to the latest figures available (1921), 1,633. Q. —What kinii of man was Frank Gotch, heavyweight Champion wrestler of the world? When did he die and of what dxsease? A. —As a man f Gotch was a “solid Citizen” of Humbolt. He was director of a bank, president of the Street car company and head of an automobile business. His estate was rated’ as

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NOV. 25, 1922

Fear of Future Causes French Military Spirit By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Terror of what tomorrow might hold in store for her alone lies behind the so-called “militarism” of Franco. Aeres of drivel have been, and now are, being written about France’s “mailed fist,” and her alleged mad desire to dominate Europe as Napoleon I. once dominated it. And the coming of “Tiger” Georges Clemenceau, France’s victory premier, has served greatly to increase the acreage. It does not alter the fact to state that most of this drivel comes from people who have either never been in France or who only paid brief visita to that country’. The seeds of misunderstandings have sown just the same. The truth is, America never misunderstood France quite so much as today. I know of no country in the world less militaristic than France. This I say aster living tweive years in that country—before, during and aster the great war. The thing so many superficial observers take for French militarism 1 féar—fear lest the stili powerful Germany come back some day and wlpe France off the map. Doesn ’t Hinder Kokomo at All By United News NEW YORK, Nov. 25. —The little New Jersey town of Secaucus extends the hand of.sympathy to Keokuk, Kokomo, Kalamazoo, and Hackensack. Secaucus knows, too. how it feels to be jibed at and jested about by thè ever-merry vaudevillians of the one-two-three, and the sensation hurts. Therefore the Secaucus town council has been requested by a group of citizens to change the name of the place to Clarendon. "The town is suffering from tlie vaudeville ridicule of its name” said Fred Gurtell, one of the leading citizens. “Thousands of people who might want to settle here don’t even look into our possibilities because the name suggests nothing but cheap humor."

| some hundred big oil, Steel, coal, ! aiuminum and railroad equipment ! concerns and banks with a capitalizal tion of some $800,000,000? The whole Mellon family is pulling to have “Uncle Andy” make good on his job and one way to help is to have Drake hanging around. The Mellons think Drake is a wizard when it comes to judging men. So Drake, private Citizen, looks over many of the applicants for big job in the Treasury Department and passes judgment on them. Mellon doesn't make very many appointments without Drake's O. K. , Mellon likes Drake's direetness and “punch.” They frequently dine together and the door of the Mellon private office is never closed to the younger man.

$500,000. He died Dee. 16, 1917, of uraemic poisoning. Q. — Are lottery ticket. of foreign eounti-ies allowed the use of the mails in the United States? A. —No. The postraaster generai has noti si ed all countries that it J# against the United States postai reerulations to senti lottery tickets through the United Sftues mails. Q. —Do all the States of the United States have compulsory birth registration laws? A.—Yes. Q. —Can shellflsh bore holes in hard rock? A.—Yes, the Science Service says there are some species of shellflsh which can do this. The Pholads, which are bivalves related to our oysters, chisel their way into the hardest schists, as well as softer rocks and inud by means of the tooth like edges of their shells. They enter the rock when very small and continue to cut a tunnel in the Stone as they grow These tunnels are their homes and their tomba, as they become much larger in diametei than the entrance made into the rock, so they can never get out. Q. —Who was Hugh McCulloch. whose portrait appeare on the S2O national currency bank notes? A. —An American flnancier, bora at Kennebunkport, Me. In 1863 he was appointed comptroller of the currency with supervision over the national banking system which was ealled into existence by the law of that year. In March f 1864, he succeeded Fessendan as secretary of the treasury at the request of President Lincoln and held that position until March, 1869. He died in 1895.