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OUR been having queer weather lately in FREAKY \\ I most parts of the United States. And we CLIMATE V V may be in for a queer, unseasonal summer. The weather bureau in Washington reports that 1922 was the sixth year in succession with temperatures generally above normal east of the Rocky Mountains. Since nature in the long run keeps the average yearly temperature finely balanced, the reaction front these six abnormally warm years may be an abnormally cold year. Will it come in 1923—a cold summer? A cold summer is due, but probably not until about 1926, in line with the climax of the “fifty-five-year cycle.” Go back two cycles (110 years) from 1926 and you have 1816, “the year without a summer. Snow fell and ice formed in July in many of the northern States, and seed corn in 1816 sold as high as $4 a bushel,” Herbert J. Browne writes in Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent. Brown quotes from the diary of Charles Peirce of Philadelphia: “August. 1816—Cheerless and cold. Northeast rains. Ice one-half inch thick. Indian corn frozen.” While 1816 was extraordinarily cold, it was merely one of the “summerless years” that come periodically. The Black Sea and the Dardanelles have been frozen over within recorded history. And in the year 1384 even the Adriatic froze. One thing that helped make 1816 very cold. Browne writes, was the explosion of a huge volcano in the Dutch East Indies in 1815. Fine volcanic dust spread through the atmosphere all over the earth, excluding much sunlight the following year. 1816. There was. of course, no such catastrophe in 1922, and that will help keep the summer of 1923 normally warm. Another thing favorable to a warm summer this .vear is the fact that the Arctic Ocean, which has a tremendous determining influence on our weather, has been exceptionally warm this winter. Freakish conditions in the northland are reported by the American consul at Bergen, Norway. He says the cold water fish have flocked northward. Ice caps in the arctic are retreating. In Greenland glaciers are melting and exposing ground that had been covered by ice always within the memory of the oldest inhabitants. The scientific evidence, 'coupled with precedent, indicates that the summer of 1923 probably will be a warm one, and that the weather will even itself up by sending us a cold summer about 1926—though possibly sooner. A TIME T- "T"AVE you nearly twice as much money in the FOR WISE I — l bank as you had in 1914? The average SAVLNG X X American has. Savings deposits in 1913 totaled 7.000 million dollars. Now the figure is close to 14,000 millions. Some of that war boom money was salted away by the plain people. How much? Apparently, at least 7.000 millions. However, the buying power of the dollar has been practically cut in two, so in effect we’re no better off than we were before the war —except for the wise who will keep their savings until low prices again bring the dollar's buying power to par—sl now will equal $2 latei, in buying power. * WHO ARE A MONO the manv things the public would like GAS CO. I\ to know about the Citizens Gas Company is OWNERS? X X the identity of the owners. The company started a mimber of years ago as a semimutual organization. Stock was peddled to gas consumers and sold in small lots. llow manv of those original stockholders still .j m ° own their shares? Chances are they are few in number. It has long been known that the large utility interests found themselves in an uncomfortable position in charging high rates in other cities while gas was selling in Indianapolis for 55 cents and 60 cents. Then the Indianapolis gas rate started going up and the owners of other gas utilities rested easier. Now the management of the company is to be taken over by Clarence L. Kirk, present manager of the Indianapolis Water Company. In his capacity as manager of the water company Kirk has been representing large Eastern utility interests.

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Is it true that the works attributed to Shakespeare were realty written by Sir Francis Bacon? There Is a story, largely discredited now, that Sir Francis Bacon was the true author of the Shakespearean dramas. This contention is based on the (1) unlikelihood that a moderately educated boy from Stratford would develop so much genius and display so much knowledge as the dramas show: (2) The feeling that the knowledge we possess of Shakespeare's life is a strangely meager record to be left of so great a man. and is also insufficient to identify the man front Stratford with the author of the dramas. These arguments are answered, however, for first Shakespeare was about as likely to develop genius as any other boy horn iu England in 1564; and the learning shown in the dramas is neither more extensive or more exact that wonld be possible for any man with a fair education who kept his eyes and ears open and mingled with people, and The Interloper By BERTON BRALEY VOtTVE grot it all planned, what you do with your life. Bow singly, you'll plunge in the beat of the strife Without being- hampered or bound by a wife." And wrest your success from the midst of the throng. And then—then a girl comes along! A girl come along! And your heart sings a song. Without her you feel that the world would go wrong: Touil know how it is when a girl comes along! YOCVE wanted to travel, to rovp and to roam By mountain and a-alley and over the foam Without any family waiting at home. And marriage, you think, is “a chain and a thong.” And then —then a girl comes along! A girl come along! Oh her magic is strong. And you'll settle down with the home-keep-ing throng. For that's how it is when a girl comes along! YOtTRE sore and discouraged, you're down on your luck. You're lost all your pep and your vim and your pluck. The crowd seems to trample you deep m the muck:! You cannot stand up at the clang of the gong. And then—then a girl comes along! A girl comes along! Just a girl from the throng. And courage comes back to you. vibrant and strong. You rise up again, a man among men. For that's how it is when a girl comes (Copyright. ISKB. NBA Service. Inc.)

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read good books; and moreover, the quality of his learning Is not of the academic type. It may also be said that meager as is our knowledge about the life of Shakespeare, It is still more extensive than about, any other Elizabethan dramatist, except Ben Johnson. The Bacon theory was ne.ver taken very seriously, except by a small group of students. What was the world’s raw silk production in 1921-1922? It is estimated at 59,437.000 pounds. How far is the Hudson river navigable? Up to Troy, six miles above Albany, or for about 150 miles. How can one use a spool for blowing bubbles? Dip one end of the spool in the liquid and blow through the other. What is the record for throwing a baseball? At Cincinnati. Ohio. Oct. 10, 1910, Sheldon Lejeune of the Evansville (Ind.) Club of the Central League threw a baseball 426 feet 6' 4 inches. How many radio stations are there in Italy? About sixty.

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COUZENS DECLARES OUR NATIONAL ILLS LIE IN CONGRESS Michigan Senator' Says Solons Dabble in Everybody's Business but Own, By JOHN CARSON. Times Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, April 21—Congress must begin reforming by reforming Congress, according to Senator “Jim" Couzens of Michigan. After weeks of study of conditions in Congress and the duties of a Senator. Couzens is convinced that most of the disease in our system of government lies with Congress. Couzens began to study his job. He vyanted to know what his duties were, lie got the Congressional Library to supply him with books on the subject. But the books and doctrines enunciated did not apply to conditions as he found them. “To my mind, the constant dabbling of Senators and Representatives in everybody's business besides their own is one of the worst phases of the sltpation down here." he said. “The chief function of a member of Congress, in actual practice, seems to be trying to influence the course of the executive branches of the Government and almost always against the real public interest."

RESULTS OF TRIP SATISFACTORY TO C. OF C. PILGRIMS Courtesy Crusaders Return From Three-Day Journey. Members of the wholesale division of he Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce are well pleased today with tlie results of a three-da> countesy crusade into seven Illinois towns, which ended Friday night with a dinner at the Elks 1 IaII in Paris, 111. Nearly one hundred business men w ho embarked early Wednesday at Indianapolis returned Friday night. Tho itinerary included Danville, T rbana. Champaign, Clinton. Decatur, Mattoon and Paris. By special request of the Covington (Iml.i Chamber of Commerce. a shori stop was made at the town. Parades were staged at practically a'l stops. Dick Miller, presi dent of the City Trust Company, was official spokesman. Shank Joins Crusade The crusaders were met at Mattoon by Mayor Lew Shank, who made the principal address at Mattoon and Paris. The keynote of Miller’s address was that the trip was not an attempt to sell Indianapolis products, but to acquaint the people of the neighboring State with the type of business men that is found in the Hoosier capital. The mayor accompanied the era saders to Paris, where the delegation was met by representatives of the Paris Chamber of Commerce. Following a tour of the city, and visit to the retail district, lunch was served in the Elks' hall. Don Goodman, a mem her of the Paris Chamber of Com merce, presided. May or Talks Taxes The Rev. John Codd, pastor of the United Brethren Church, welcomed the pilgrims. “Your business methods are the kind that win out,” he told the Indianapolis men. Mayor Shank, responding, discussed taxation. "Your taxes are the cheapest things you've got.” he declared. “The $1,310,000 that 1 saved last year will be forgotten. But if I put across the beauti ful lake we are contemplating, they will remember mo for years to come." CREDITORS GET 75 POT. Gay-Lord Receiver Satisfies 75 I’er Cent of Claims—Stockholders Lose. Creditors of the Gay Lord Clothing Company of Indianapolis were paid 75 per cent of their claims today by C. M. Ewing, receiver. The lease on tlie building at 36 E. Washington St., formerly occupied by the company, was sold Friday to Sidney Seidman of Cleveland, Ohio, for $65,000. It has eighty-eight years to run. Stockholders of the defunct company will receive nothing, it was said.

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Judge Orders Husband to Pay Court and Win Her Love,

By ROY GIBBONS NEA Staff Cerrespondent Chicago. April 21. —Facing John 11. Dudley here is the most unusual problem of courting that ever confronted a lovelorn swain. For it's up to Dudley to woo and to win his own legally wedded wife. That sentence has been imposed on him by a Chicago court. If Dudley's wooing wins—then wife, homo and happiness will be his. And if it fails—Mrs. Dudley will be allowed unrestrained to live at the home of her parents while Dudley in loneliness fries his own breakfast bacon and longs for the life that might have been. (low It St a'led A few days ago Dudley and Helen Peterson. 13. felt the hire of st>ring. went to Frown Point, Indiana's Gretna Green, and were married. But within a wek married life irked the youthful bride. And Dud ley found himself alone in his lit tie flat. Straightway hastened Dudley into court. Helen's parents, he de dared, were holding the bride in communicado against her will And the husband demanded .1 writ of habeas corpus. Came into the court the bride and her parents, Mr. and Mrs David Petersen, aecompanied by the sheriff. "I don't love John as a wife should,” the hride testified ”1 hadn't intended marrying him at all But It was a nice day and 1 was passing his house on my way iy work, so 1 thought I just itop in and say hello.' "And he said, 'Let's get married!' It was such a nice day. 1 didn't feel much like going to work. So we went to Crown Point. I left him of my own free will a week later." Then Helen’s mother broke In' “Tho marriage tvan not the act of God." she interpolated. "Helen will get rid of her husband as quietly as possible and go awey as a mis slonary. "fn dismissed," announced Judge Sfthath. "T don’t l>el|eve this girl is being held against her will So T am not going to issue any Writ. And then—- “ John. It is spring and love is in the air Start courting your wife all over YOll may send her lowers and randy and take her to tho theater "Be gentle. Try the romance of Shakespeare Caveman tactics will not do Consider yourself a lover and not a husband. T give you one month In which to pay your court. "Then come hack here, both of you. Let me know then how you feel about the situation." And now Dudley’s playing Romeo.

Three Michigan Counties Are Stirred by Poison Mystery

By NEA Serrior J WILSON, Mich.. April 21.—A poison mystery has aroused public feeling to tho highest pitcli in three otherwise quiet Michi ' can counties. Mrs. Marjorie Kuhn, 41, Jackson, is held in the Hillsdale County Jail under a charge of first degree murder in connection with the death, allegedly by strychnine poisoning, of Zelon Lake, 32. Jackson. After lake's burial. Ills brothers became suspicious his death was not the result of natural causes. The hotly was exhumed and State chemists declared analysis showed the stomach to contain strychnine. The accused woman denies any responsibility for lake’s death. But she admits, according to the sheriff, she Wits in his company twenty four hours before his death and that she prepared food for him. of which, site insists, she ajso partook. One of tho deepest mysteries in the ense is what the motive for the alleged killing could have been. Lake was not a wealthy man.

SIR CONAN DOYLE TO LECTURE HERE Notnd Author to Give Spirit Impressions, Next Tuesday evening in the Murat Theater, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will present his illustrated lecture, “Recent Psychic Evidence," under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. Kir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose investigations of .life after death have aroused worldwide interest. Is revisiting this country for a lecture tour, which will take him from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. He has arranged to speak in most of the larger cities, when lie will discuss “Death and the Hereafter" and “The New Revelation.” About thirty years ago Sir Conan, who is now in his sixty-fourth year, became interested in psychical research. He studied the evidence and personally experimented with spiritualism long before he proclaimed himself convinced of its truths. One of Sir Conan’s first investigations in the early days was a haunted manor house in Lancashire, which he visited with two members of the Psychic Research Society. The mansion was inhabited by a widow, her daughter and only son. Curious noises were heard, and on the second night Doyle got to work. After the household had retired, he

Court Edict Forces Man to Woo Own Wife After Youthful Bride Leaves Him

MRS. HELEN DUDLEY

Goveniment Credit to Farmers Is Provided Under Federal Acts

By HENRY C. WALLACE. Secretary of Agriculture. IT H E agricultural credits act does not in any way interfere with the functioning of the War Finance Corporation. The life of the War Finance Corporation was extended for the very purpose of making sure that there should he no restriction of credit facilites to the farmer during the period required to build up the machinery necessary under the agricultural credits act. Tlie TVar Finance Co-poration has ample funds and nothing has been done to limit its work. The agricultural credits act provides for the establishment of a Federal Intern,ediat 1 credit bank In each of the twelve Federal land hank districts. These new hanks will he managed by the directors and officers of the exist intr land hanks. Each ha* a cap! tal of $5,000,000 and therefore can begin loaning as quickly as tne organization ran be perfected. These interroedate credit banks are authorized to discount and purchase notes given to banks for agricultural and livestock purposes. Also they can make loans direct to cooperative associations on the basis of warehouse receipts or mortgages on livestock A local hank which has loaned money to its farmer customers for agricultural purposes and tins taken

MRS. MARJORIE KUHN AND ZELON LAKE.

searched the house carefully, and with his usual thoroughness, sprinkled Hour on the lloors to catch footsteps, tied fine black thread across the stairs, locked up communicating doors, and then posted his two companions in convenient places for observation. He himself sat In a kitchen doorway and looked out into the hall. About five minutes after midnight the whole house shook with a gigantic crash. Sir Conan says it was as if someone had dropped a cement barrel from the roof into the central hall. In an instant the watchers darted off to find —nothing. It remained an inexplicable mystery. During his present lecture tour Kir Conan is discussing all the important phases of spirit phenomena, and Is presenting a remarkable series of photographs which show the results of recent investigations. Among these are pictures of the much discussed ectoplasm, emitted by certain mediums, which occasionally takes human forms. Automatic writing, crystal gassing, spirit photography and a number of other topics serve to make these lectures fascinating. SECRET INVESTIGATOR CALLED AS WITNESS c Bu United Press ST JOSEPH, Mich., April 21. Francis Morrow, government investigator and “under cover man” at the Bridgeman communist convention last August, will take the witness stand Monday In the trial of Charles E. Ruthenberg, aocused of violation of the Michigan syndicalist act.

JOHN 11. DUDLEY

their notes for the loans can discount these notes with the intermediate credit banks, it is not necessary that the notes so discounted should have back of them chattel mortgages or warehouse receipts. The int-rmeni-ate banks can give terms of credit ranging from six months to as much as three years. The United States warehouse ;ict has an important relation to the new credit system. It provides a permissive system of licensing warehousemen by the secretary of Agriculture. At the present time there are 350 licensed cotton warehouses, 227 licensed grain warehouses, 20 licensed wool warehouses and 62 licensed tobacco warehouses The licensed capacity for cotton is now sufficient to store at one time about one-fourth of a nominal cotton crop, and for wool about >ne sixth of the annual clip. Originally the law limited licensed warehouse commodities to cotton, wool, tobacco and grain. On Feb. 23 tho law was so amended as to remove the limitations, and under the present law the secretary of agriculture can license a warehouse for the storage of any products which he considers would constitute sound collateral. To get the full benefit of the pro visions for marketing, credit farmers should see 10 it that the warehouses in which they expect to store their products on the way to market are licensed under the Fedora} law. Ample credit can be secured on all farm products stored in Federal licensed warehouses. This makes it possible to market farm products in a mope orderly way and to avoid flooding the market and depressing the price. Flying Ambulance I'AUIS. April 21. —When an invalid became ill here and needed to be transported to her physician In England, an airplane was quickly rigged up as a flying ambulance and rushed tlie patient aoross the channel. She will recover.

Ralston Sends Garden Seeds to Fair Voters By T Special WASHINGTON. April 21. Senator-elect Samuel M. Ralston has accomplished one of his senatorial duties. He has looked sifter his free garden seeds. The Senator-elect has a very efficient stenographer handling details of his office work in Washington. She was interested, of course, in doing everything pos sihle for the Senator. She remembered that he might have some free garden seeds and sho want after them and got them. Ralston did not overlook the bet when she insisted on sending them to Indiana constituents. But Ralston knew a trick about the game. He did not send them to men. He sent them $0 women. Great is the woman suffrage law.

Doing One’s Duty as He Sees It

“Animals have no pretense Vetling thetr Indifference. They don't overeat or whine. Label all things “yours" and “mina." Never vulgar, avaricious. Sentimental, auiwretitious. Never snobbish, vengeful, vain. Pleasure they accept, and pain. Vice is unknown, tilth abhorred They do good without reward. - ' By SAM T. HUGHES NO DOUBT of it at all. The more the professional zoologist and the amateur Investigator observe the lives of the lower order, the more respect they have for animals. They learn every day t hat some of our strongest impressions about this and that creature of the field, the forest and the air arc truthful fabrics of folk-lore or superstition or ignorance. Enos Mills found that the grizzly was a great big, lumbering gentleman when he was not threatened or scared. Yet science, in Its pre-twentieth century igonrance pinned the latinized name “horribilis” onto this fine fellow. Hornaday, the greatest of boo di-

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TOM SIMS SAYS: GUM arabic may be used for cleaning old straw hats if you can’t exchange them at some / Spiders. I'rogs and lizards are found l in cargoes of bananas, indicating they \ It is considered quite a feat to paint, up old furniture without painting up a **7 , house.. v * • Pekinese dogs date back more than a thousand years ago. but are very small for thair age. • * It is best to boil things in steaming hot. water, because cold water does not boil. • • • If you ever meet a rnan without a country tell him there is one in South Africa without a man. • * * A drop of glycerin makes a cake rise rapidly. Nitroglycerin does the same, but never use it. * * • Goldfish breeding is a big industry in Italy, and they seldom turn out to be brass. • • * Wettin" nails before driving keeps you from cracking plaster, but not from cracking your thumb. • • * Borax is good for removing dandruff, so borax may be related to our head-scratching Senator Borah. • * ♦ Spring is time for lambs to gambol, but a lamb who gambled in Chicago lost the hank’s money. • • * We had about as soon walk with a corn as with a walking stick.

Spooning and spoofing not only sound alike. • • * Being handicapped by skirts, some men find it easy to beat a woman to a street car seat. • • • Tell her she gets better looking every time you see her and she wants you to see her often. • • • Be careful with a toothbrush that wears out quickly. Some one may be using it by mistake. • • • The reason so much scandal is made is because there are so many eager to carry it. • • Weeds make a splendid garden. They grow quickly and never have to be watched over. When you see ;i man's face all scratched up now you never know if it was a cat or earrings. Give a man enough ropes and he will smoke himself sick.

AROUND THE WORLD IN FIVE MINUTES

Rough on Lover-. Love letters are not safe in the.Tapanese postoffices. Recently in Kobe, letters have been opened and when found to be "ardent communications,” the writers have been victims of blackmail. Chinese Want Bath Tubs Tienstin, China, is demanding more and more American ;plumbing supplies. Eldorado Mexican oil is still going strong. In 1922, In the Tampico district, 280 well3 weer drilled, of which 145 were producers. eighty-nine were dry and forty-six salt water wells. Total production of oil in Mexico in 1922 was 156.712.000 barrels. Homes a La Kama! Rebuilding of Smyrna is contemplated by an Ottoman company being

Bavaria Is Whirlpool of Plots and Political Propaganda

By 808 DORMAN ! NEA Service Camera Correspondent MUNICH. April 21.—Political propaganda is getting to be one of the coding indutsries of Munich Babaria is a crazy-quilt of political plots and publicity; with mystery man Hitler a disturbing factor. with General Von Ludendorff dominating another group, with people talking monarchy and Fascist!, and with former Crown Prince Rupprecht close by, this German state is a whirl pool. Finding out what the people think is a difficult matter. You hear curses for France, and appeals to America, | dismal prophecies of ruin and other forecasts more cheerful. To get one viewpoint 1 talked with , Hr. Von Knilling. prime minister of i Bavaria. I cannot vouch for the acI curacy of his interpretation of public opinion in South Germany, but this is what he says:

rectors, at nearly 70 years of age, will tell you that you’ll find the description in the above rhymed lives absolutely true when you have lived with animals a. long time and studied them with thoroughness. And with sympathy, without which there is never real study. Animals are not vengeful; it is only the way we look at them that makes us think they are vengeful. We fancy that many animals overeat, but that la ignorance. What seems like overeating to us is only satisfaction of the demands of bodies constructed'differently from our own bodies. Brother Four Leggs eats only' enough, when he can get that much, to satisfy his own personal works. To humans it appears that weasels kill birds and rabbits for the sake of killings Quite true. Nature built him as he is for a providential reason. Before man, the destroyer, planted himself far and wide many small animals

organized in Paris. “Turkish style” will be required for the houses. Tourists Miss Soda Fountains Would American ice cream find a ready sale In Italy? There is nothing like It to be had there at present, though there is a variety of ice cream like the "French parfait,” Call It a Spade You can’t sell a shovel in Argentine unless you put the word “Excelsior" on the label. Several dealers were not able to dispose of their stock until they had humored their customers in this way. Then the shovels found a ready sale. Grocery Passports German grocers Ixave to have licenses and theee must bear photographs for identification purposes.

“If France realizes her aim—to an nets the Rhineland and permanently occupy and exploit the Ruhr—it will mean the establishment of French dominance in Europe. "This policy, if carried out, will weaken Germany economically to such an extent that the Gerfnan peo pie will be doomed to political destruction and ruin.” “The unanimous passive resistance of the German people.” he says, “wUI cause the collapse of the French In tentions, provided the people In the unoccupied area remain as firm and determined as their feilows in the oc cupied territory'.” Former President Wilson's fourteen points remain uppermost in most German minds. Dr. Von KnilUpg says, and he hopes eventually for some sort of American help in solving the Franco-German problem.

and birds would become so over populous that a balance was necessary or they'd have covered the earth and polluted it with their starved, diseased corpses. If the weasel killed only to satisfy his hunger, a rabbit or two, or a bird or two at a time, would be sufficient. Consequently, in its wondrous foresight, nature invented in him an instinct to slash right and left and drink blood. That's why you’ll go out to your li'.tle old hencoop of a morning and find twenty or thirty chickens lying around dead with teeth marks only In their throats. The weasel and such animals are merely doing their duty as they see it. Duty is the keystone of the lower world. Birds and beasts never fail to do that. In the upper animal world, on the other hand, we creatures are too superior to do our duty even though we see It. Tsn’t It because we are eo snobbish that we think we are above nature?