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WORLD rpjHK tide of approval of the plan to hold a PACT world conference to help the world to norHOPE X maley so we can all get back on the job of earning a living in peace and security, continues to rise. Months ago. when The Indianapolis Times and other members of the Seripps-Itoward chain of newspapers suggested that President Harding should take the initiative to bring about such a conference, and outlined a tentative program, a chorus of assent welled up from every section of the country. Capitalists, labor leaders, economists, college professors, bankers, women's clubs, labor unions, clergymen in convention, State legislatures, city councils, war mothers, veterans’ associations, business men’s organizations, fraternal societies. Republicans, Democrats, people in every' walk of life, indorsed the idea. Now comes the United States Chamber of Commerce convention with its indorsement of a world conference. And they made it unanimous, pledging its 1.480 trade and local commercial organizations with a membership of 750,000, and the 14,500 persons, firms and corporations holding individual membership. “The continued economic disorder in a large part of the world is not only an obstacle to the establishment of permanent peace, elimination of unemployment and restoration of normal living conditions, but also contains the menaee of still further unhappy developments.’’ the ehamber’s resolution set forth. “There should be a solution of these problems with the least possible delay.” The chamber then declares its belief that “there should he a general economic conference of the nations interested for the final adjustment of these problems,” and binds its large membership to support the plan and do everything in its power to prepare the way for snch a conference. Further to emphasize its protest against the efforts of a handful of messbacks to isolate the United States from the rest of mankind, the chamber went on record as favoring participation by this country in a permanent, court of international justice so strongly favored by the President. Note well two things in connection with the action of the United States Chamber of Commerce. 1. This organization is composed of men from all sections of the country', and of every conceivable shade of political opinion. 2. These men voted unanimously for the conference and for the court. Politicians, they say, keep t.heir ear to the ground. No need for this now. There is an unmistakable rumble rolling across the land’which only the stone deaf can fail to hear.

HIRAM TP roarin’ Hiram Johnson, the California FIXES Senator. who eats entangling alliances alive EL T ROPE JL V to keep them from endangering his countrymen. is on his way home from Europe. "Leave Europe alone!” shouts Hiram. That’s his new slogan, or rather, his factory rebuilt old one. which was. “Leave America alone!” Hiram has been in Europe for six weeks and now knows all about ft. He’s made a grand tour of the watering places and has eaten frogs’ legs and sipped in silence at most of the resort hotels along the Mediterranean. He hasn t been to Essen, or Moscow, or Lausanne, or a lot of important trouble centers, but that’s all right. He knew all about them from the geography he borrowed from the .Senate librarian before he went to Europe, and he knows just as much now as he did then. Hiram says the hemispheres have nothing to do with each other, and when he takes ship for America, the old world and the new will be cleaved in twain, for good. That is, except for some more cleaving that Hiram intends to do when- he gets back to the U. S. A. and sacrifices himself on the altar of public weal as candidate for President in 1924. But what s a personal sacrifice, when the world must be cut in two? GUARD Ti IF ANY who think they have tortoise-rim spectaMHJR Jl/j eles are really wearing rims made of stuff EYES Jkf JL that can catch fire and burn like celluloid. Smokers with black-rimmed windows over their eyjes should be careful of blazing matches and sparks. Remember* the fate of the yokel whose eelluloid collar exploded. Ts gou don’t rare to carry combust,ibe material near your eves ask the-rffcaler, who claims he is selling yon genuine tortoise shell, if heTballow you to test it with a match. S - Be on your guard when wearing celluloid eyeshades.

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Vo'J <3 an get an answer to any question of (fact or information by writing to tbie nndianaf>o!is bureau. 132? New York, Ayi>., Washington D. C., enclosing 2 ce-flts In stamps Medical, legal, and love andfc. marriage advice cannot be given! nqr can extended research be underta*"ft*y or papers, speeches, etc., bo preparoq. ITasijned letters cannot be answdretl, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies—EDlTOß rhirint: the World War was a ehurvh and foundling home .in Parrastnick by the “Big Bertha?” • Yes, ion Maxell 29, 1918, seventy-five worsMfcypers at a Good Friday service were Vfilled and ninety were wounded, and on April 11, 1918, a foundling homo was struck, four killed and twent je-one wounded. ltd Secretary of States Hughes opposed to betting on horse races? Wfriile Governor of New York in 1908 t he forced the Legislature to pass acts declaring horse racing for stakes a pith lie nuisance (with certain exceptions! and making pool selling, booKmaking, betting, etc., misdemeanors. From what is the saying: “Whom the gods would destroy they first make niad?" In Sophocles' “Antigone" this occurs: “Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.” What was Admiral Dewey’s flagship and what part did it lake in the Battle of Manila? The “Olympia:” while within 5.000 yards off Manilla. Dewey at 5:41 a. m.. May. 1898. opened fire (from the Olympia) at the Spanish Fleet. Has the Govern men: estimated how long the country's timber supply will last? The United States Forest Service states that it is almost impossible to give any estimate on the life of our t mbej supply. However, our forests

are being used up by logging operations and forests fires about | four times as rapidly as they are bei ing replaced. What is carbon monoxide? A colorless, odorless gas. that liquiies at 190 degrees G, and is almost insoluble in water. It burns in the air with a blue flame, forming Carbon Dioxide with the oxygen. It is exceedingly poisonous, the inhalation of a single quart being sufficient to cause death—the Carbon Monoxide combining with the red coloring matter of the blood, and preventing it from carrying the necessary oxygen to the tissues. What is the distance from Cape Cod to Greenland? Approximately 1,660 miles. What is stucco made of? A combination of pure white plaster and glue applied to a prepared surface. Gypsum, finely powdered and calcined, is mixed with glue and isinglass to imitate the whiteness of marble, the veinin.g being reproduced by coloring of metallic oxides, and the whole polished with pumice stone: then with tripoli, charcoal, and linen: with felt, tripoli. and oil. and finally with pure oil. until a perfect stirface has been formed. On what day of the week did July 8. 1896, fall? Wednesday. When did Corbett defeat Fitzsimmons. where, ami in how many rounds? At Carson City. .March IT. 1897, in fourteen rounds by a knock-out. When was George Barr McCutciieon horn? Julv*‘26. 1866. £ , *'

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HOSPITAL IS PLUM FOR POLITICIANS | Efficiency or Relief for Veterans Not Considered in Site, | Here is the fourth of the series of articles on the United States Veterans' ; Bureau. written by C A. Randan of this paper s Washington Bureau. Bv C. A. RANOAU. WASHINGTON. May 17. What’s a hospital? A place I where the sick and wounded I are Riven medical attention, you say. But not always. A hospital may 1 also be a political plum. Anions the hospitals operated by j the United States Veterans’ Bureau j there are several of the plum variety. For instance, take the hospital now being erected at Camp Custer, Mich. This hospital was “given” to ex-Sena-tor Townsend of Michigan last, year | when he faced a hard light at the i polls. It was thought by the Admin ; lstration that the ex-soldier vote in ! Mlcliigan could be captured in this way Selected Near Chicago District No. Sos the Veterans' Bu- : reati comprises the States of Illinois. Michigan and Wisconsin. A hospital for N. P. cases (neuro-psychiatric or mental) of this district was selected near Chicago. where specialists could bo called into consultation when oc caslon demanded. The veterans’ bureau officials agreed ■ upon a site, on some Government prop- ! erty. The Federal board of hoepitali- ! zation, the board headed by General j Sawyer, approved the selection So far. no plum. Then came poll ; tics. Senator Townsend requested that the hospital be built in Michigan. Waving aside till the considerations such as central location, transportation facilities. and nearness to specialists frequently required in the treatment of the mentally deranged. President Harding granted the request of his friend, the Senator. Is Artillery Range It so happens that Camp Ouster, or part of it. is used each year for an ar tillery range. Veterans’ bureau doctors have pointed out that insane men. shell-shocked veterans, etc , ior’t react favorably to the accompaniment of bombardtnents. So the range is to be put out of commission by the bull,ling of the hospital, which in turn, according to expert opinion, should have been built on the other side of t.ake Michigan. l*p to the present the bureau has had an average of 27,000 patients in Its care. While waiting the completion of the new hospitals, many veterans have been treated in private hospitals, but i it is expected that hv the summer of 1924 only those who cannot be moved because of the nature of their illness will remain out of Government hospitals.

150,000 RAIL EMPLOYEES REMAIN OUT Bv Timm Special WASHINGTON. May I?.—More lhan 150,000 railroad rimn are still out on strike nn fifty one major railroads of the country, according to an estimate furnished ty labor leaders to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Members of the I C. C. are now investigating the “excessive expense" of the fifty one so-called "hard-boiled” roads which refuse to sign the Baltimore agreement ending the shopmen's strike generally on American railroads. The commission is making its Investigation to find out whether or not the war against the shopmen’s union Is responsible for the financial conditions of a great many railroads as revealed in monthly reports of earn ings to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Although the I. C. C. is making this investigation primarily from the financial standpoint, it is regarded here as virtually an assumption of the powers of the Railroad Labor Board with headquarters in Chicago. The Labor Board, it will be recalled, was unable to end the disagreement betw-een the shopmen’s union and the railroads. And the board itself is now one of the principal bones of contention in the effort to find a way out of the railroad dilemma. At the present time, both railroad labor organizations and the railroad executives are denouncing the Labor Board and are demanding its discontinuance. The Administration has Board be combined with the I. C. C., end although this was not authorized ty Congress, the I. C. C. has already stepped into the field of the Labor Board In its present investigation.

Mussolini Is Galled Cave-Man Statesman

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, NKA Service Writer ROME. May IT.—Call him a Svengali, a hypnotist, an egotist, a - dictator, what you will, bui Benito Mussolini has saved Italy and he has saved King Victor Emmanuel HI. Some call this son of a blacksmith, now premier ana dictator of Italy, a Napoleon. Some call him a bluff. But today, after several months' trial, none denies he has done a good job But for this bold “upstart.” as his enemies call him, this man who once dug ditches n Lausanne. Switzer 1 ind. for a in" il ticket. Italy toda> would very probabl.x be ir. Russia’s stakes and Victor Emmanuel just another king in exile. Briefly, here’s the who, what and why of if : After the war Italy started to go to j

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British 'Volstead’ Declares 'Beerage' in Empire Must Go. By MILTON BRONX ER VEA Stuff Cerreeponrtent lO.VDON. May 17.— I "The sign of the beer can and the whisky bottle Is all over the Conserv ative party which Is now it. power in Great Britain. This i true, in a lesser degree, also of the Liberal party. Kven the Labor party, the party of the workers, is not without Its ad viMVit.es of booze. ”It is no wonder that the peerage of Britain has been called the beer age. It might also bo called the whlskyage.” It. was Edwin Scrymgeour. Eng land's “Volstead." who was speaking. He is a unique man In British politics He is the only out-and-out “dry" ever elected to Parliament as a straight out prohibitionist candidate. He is the only person In all the long his lory of Britain who has ever introduced a bill calling for absolute prohibition For years he was jeered at by Secotch politicians as a sort of political joke. But this “Joke" ran lust election In the Scotch industrial town of Dundee and head'd the poll, besting the great Winston Churchill, who has been in a half-dozen Cabinets, by over 12,000. He is a little man going gray, and speaks with a decided Scotch accent. “People often tell you Americans that Britain will never go dry as America has done That is simply ridiculous. The sentiment for prohibition is growing all the time.” he says “The trouble has been that people do not fight for out-and-out dryness They fight for so-called temperance measures. Every so-called temperance measure is cowardly because it Is a compromise with the liquor traffle. “You Americans tried that and found It lacking. That Is why you Anally ‘went the whole hog,’ as they say In your country. “I realize fully there is the most tremendous propaganda both In your country and mine to prove that prohi bitlon has been a huge failure in the United States buts don’t believe it. “So 1 introduced my short, snappy little bill for prohibition. It takes two small pages. It declares the inherent evils arising from the production im portatiou and sale of aleoholie liquors are Intolerable and that all so-called regulative legislation has been a failure. “It therefore decrees that all manufacture. sale or importation of liquor shall cease and provides heavy punishments for infraction of the law. [ know the bill won't ever see daylight, but it is the first step in the, battle to make Britain a dry country. \V. R. C. Condemns Cigarettes Rv I nited Preen MT'NCIE, Ind., May 17. —Resolti tions condemning the growing habit of cigarette smoking among school girls and women were passed by the Women’s Relief Corps of Indiana in session with the Grand Army En camprnent.

pieces. Class hatreds sprang to life. Unemployment became a menace. Prices were high and money was scarce. Bolshevism menaced the country and a communist revolution seemed impending. Disorder was everywhere The Italian government seemed powerless. Tt did nothing. From the Italian point of view the government's foreign policy whs supine. Stagnation at home and abroad. About this time, In Milan, the blacksmith's son, Mussolini—now by sheer hard work and self education the editor of a small newspaper called the “Popoln d'Ttalia.” founded the first “Fasci.” These Fasci spread all over the country, largely made up of ex officers and demobilized soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of men were soon enrolled under the Fascfft banner.

Sunspots, Atmospheric Conditions and Radiation Discussed by Scientists, By HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, May 17.—Remarkable weather, this spring, isn’t it? very unusual! Like to know what’s causing it? Well—- “ The temperature of the earth de pends upon the heat we receive from the sun," says Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and director of the Astrophysical Observatory. "For several years the sun s heat had not fluctuated much until November, 1921, when the monthly values began to decrease. By October, 1922, the values reached a level 3 per cent lower than before the decrease commenced. Since then they have continued on this low level. That Freak Weather “How about It?” I asked Dr. Charles F. Marvin, chief of the United States Weather Bureau, citing Dr. Abbot’s observations. “Is the aun cooling off? Is that responsible for this freak weather?" “Is the weather due to the apparent variation in solar radiation, or is the seeming variation In solar radiation due to the weather?” Marvin continued, drawing from his desk a bunch of intricate graphs and charts, “I am not yet, ready to accept the theory of variation in solar radia tlon as a basis for weather forecasting. Measuring the sun’s heat, is a very difficult task. Many atmospheric con dltions, clouds, dust, etc., tend to distub the accuracy of the measurements. But look at these charts—running hack over many years. They indicate that as the methods for measuring solar radiation have Improved, and as better equipment and !<etter stations for observation have been obtained, the apparent variability of the sun’s heat has' diminished. Effect of Eruption

“Following the eruption of Kauunl In the Aleutian Islands a few years ago, the variation in apparent solar radiation was so great that readings finally were discontinued. Volcanic dust mounted high Into the air—far above the level to which any moisture ascends. Observations taken by the Smithsonian Institution in Algeria showed the presence of the volcanic i dust even there —half way round the earth. This volcanic dust sometimes remains in the upper atmosphere for i two or three years, and, of course, is an element In atfecting the passage of the sun’s ruys. “Well,” we suggested, “how about suns [jots'’ Maybe they're to blame for the weather. Maybe they'll give us another year like 1816. when there were frosts ;U1 summer." “Ah-h-h!” -aid Marvin, apparently scenting another unpopular weather bugaboo. "Sunspots! ’“Well, in 1815 —which is known as the year without a summer—we were In a period of maximum sunspots. The old sun was pretty well spotted titat | year. Therefore, many (isvc said, the cold summer. “This year w<- are in a period of j sunspot minimum. If we say the sun j spot maximum in 1816 caused the cold of that year, and now say this year’s cold is due to a sunspot minimum, we ;*re attributing exactly the same result to exactly opposite causes. “My advice to the public—particularly to farmers and others whose acrtivitiejß are directly affected b.v the weather —Is, don't worry The sun Isn't going to grow cold on ue right , away. Neither are its spots o, la k of spots’ likely to effect us seriously ' "Is in to be a hot or cold summer?" : 1 asked. "No one knows, and there is no way jto tell," Dr. Marvin replied ! “The weather depends on the ! weather!" Pragmatism By BERTON BRAJ.KT (As the fnir-minded man ourhf to talk, whether he does or not.) your piece without restrtetam. va lam open to conviction. Spill vi.ue ..oM'i,*, ~ .o I,v or rour Hellenic; It you vn any new invention | Which you'd bring to my attention, In m.v eyes you'll find a svtnpal botic gleam I will nover show derision Os the man who has a vision. I won't preet him with a pharaaaic smirk; All I'm asking" yon to show Is, (All I clearly want to know is Will it work: HQANACEAS sociaJmtn- ■ Bolshevistic, anarchistic. Revolutionary doctrines which yon spout, j I am glad to hearken to them i And with friendliness I'll view them If you'll show me how yon plan to work 'em out; Heaven knows the world’ s your debtor If your scheme will mnke it bettor And will lead us out of chaos and of murk. But whatever your sustention. I must ask my little question. ‘Will it work?’ it tlllll.l. it work'? I* That's the query which yon cannot rightly shirk I I’ll be glad to aid your mission In improving your condition a If you'll brush away the doubts that in me lurk; For the people are the jury Ami- —like me—they're from Missouri. And the chorus which they chant is. Will it work ?’ " (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

[ The big idea behind the movement j was to fight the “negative,” to com hat the lethargy which bad settled down over those who otherwise should have been leading the country, and at the same time to check the rise to power of the lawless element, daily growing bolder. Now Mussolini, with "all the .Fasci" at his back, called Rome to task. Rome laughed. Rome had not the slighest idea of the power at Mussolini's beck and call —the power of hundreds of thousands of plain, but determined, citizens intent upon one thing, that neither a do-nothing, weakling govern meirt or a bunch of communists and uiarchists should ruin their beloved country. But Mussolini was ready. His j “Black Shirt” army had been thorough ly organized—infantry, cavalry, aviation, medical, ambulance and all, in-

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DK CHARLES G. ABBOT ANTI-CAPITAL BILL PROVES BOOMERANG British Socialist Shows He Doesn't Comprehend Land Question, By HERBERT QUICK Times Staff Writer PHILIP SNOWDEN is a prominent 80, iolist and a member of the British UorUament. Ho has introduced a bill in Parliament wnich is called the. “Anti-Capitalist Bill," which, it is scriousl} urged, shows again the inveterate inability of Socialists to comprehend the land question. He proposes to give the land owners of Britain 5 per rent government bonds for their lands and let them go on owning the improvements. I should like to have them take the farm on which i live on the same basis. If I owned a great sky-scraper In New York of Chicago or Ix>s An geiea. I think I should like the same plan just as well. Is Not \uli-('npitalistic T? is not an anti capitalist bill at all. It proposes to convert lands, occupied and unoccupied, improved, partially improved and unimproved, into fixed capital with the iieopie taxed to pay the in teres t. if the landowning classea have good sense they will pass' the Snowden bill. Asa matter of fact, the Government now nationalizes lands year by year In bits. They nationalize it by taxes. The owner is forced to buy It back out of the Government's dutchr* by his mntial tax payments. The r,nv,Tiim nationalized my farm •■> the tune of c urly < ti)n last spring, and will do the some next year. Owe Government I Ami Value 1 feel that 1 owe the Government the annual value of the bare land every year -the value of ail that, human labor has done to increase it j blng left out of the calculation. For leaving out all that labor has done on it. the ret of the value has been created !>\ society, and I believe justly belongs to the public. When Snowden wants to do some-1 thing really basic and defensible on the land question, he will step taxing improvements, and take all the. j economic rental of the land every j ear. The value of lands will sink to the ' value of their mprovernents. in c-ity '■ and country. Bands for farmers anrt city-dwellers will be cheap for homes | Rnd farms; and the annual tax ori j land-values will enable us to get rlu i of the taxes on trade and human industry which now crush us. Intel-urban Kills Couple rv r ini eg Special RICHMOND, Ind., May 17.—'When their automobile stalled on the tracks of the Dayton & Western Traction Company. Mr. and Mrs. Chester K. Gafford, Coleman, Texas, were killed instantly. Their bodies were carried 200 feet. Sing Cuckoo There are twenty live clock factories in the Black Forest, Germany. Grandfather clocks are still popular, but wooden cuckoo clocks seem to head the list.

cluding even the women's corps— and only awaited a signal from “il Duce." The signal came—in a jiffy. The famous “march on Rome” began. Without firing a shot Rome was j "captured.” The old-guard govern j meat fell and Kitij Victor Emmanuel \ asked Mussolini to fee his premier. Since that day Mussolini has been j dictator. He swept parliament out of j his way with a brush of his hand so ; he might not. be hampered by it for j months. He disbanded Nitti's mili-' tary police and created a new’ one. He began firing useless State employes and trimming expenrrs. He cut down the budget and increased the national income. You may not like the way he saved Italy. He literally ltf< :ked her back to life. He used caveman methods.

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TOM SIMS SAYS: THE best way to pack a suit case is to let your wife do it. ' vNNw It is considered proper to /fl >’•" swat a fly on its head, but never swat a / WfyW fly cn a stranger’s head. I Graduation dresses are harder to \ YA / make than graduation addresses. •Screen doors may be hung properly by firing a man to help you and then l-rtiA you helping him. x HolLow out a rolling pin and fill it with lead. You will be surprised when it hits your husband. • * m Never let the baby have matches. Babies and matches cost money. • • • I he children s clothes will stay clean several days if you keep then off the children. • * • Have you seen the new earrings that reach the soulders, abd keep the ears from flapping? a • * A beautiful little dancing frock may be made by cutting down a one-pieee bathing suit. * • • White lawn dresses are cool, but make work for the laundres>es. • • • Pictures will hang much straighter if you always hit the nail and miss the finger nail. • • • Vfter being pickled, twelve New York cops were canned.

AROUND the: world in five: minutes

Hot, Arc tlw> Mighty Fallen Paris reports most brilliant first night o' the theater season, when Ciboulette, ' by Marquis Robert de Flers and Francis de Oroisset opened. Repeated calls of ‘Authors,” “Authors ’’ flnt.lly brought from the stag© this announcement, “They are not here, the.* have gone to the movies.” India’s Portia Born of royal blood but preferring to he known as Miss Tata. India’s first woman lawyer will soon begin practicing in Dim bay. Municipal Movies The city of Bergen. Norway, owns and operatis seven motion picture theaters, six of which are open every day from ;■> to 11 p. m , and one only on Saturday and Sunday evenings. These are attended annually by a million and a half people Most of the films are American. German. Danish and Swedish fiims enjoy les ser demand. Einstein Explained Germany Is going in for educational films Natural sciences, technical subjects, travel, play and sport have been put in the movies. tAtely a picture has made to explain the complicated and difficult Einstein theory of relativity. Money in Rabbits Buy a baby hutting, daddy s gAne a hunting for to set a rabbit skin to

Wholesale Tie-Up of Building in New York Threatened by Unions

Bv United V rtf * NEW YORK May 17—A Wholesale tie up of building construction in Greater New York is threatened June 1. Forty-four of the seventv seven locals in the old building trades couti ell have approved a general strike on tha.t date unless granted wage Increases. The action precipitated a crisis among construction circles, which have already witnessed the postponement. of J 100.000.000 worth of building because of high materiaJ and labor costs. Eighty, thousand workmen were represented at the meeting of the council Wednesday. The men ask a collective agreement for a year and a general increase of-SI a day in a letter to the Building Trades Employers’ Association. By mutual agreement a conference will be held Thursday.

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wrap baby bunting in—if that’s the way it goes—means something in Australia. Nearly J 5.000.000 worth of rabbit skins were shipped from Australia last year. More Kidnaping The Shantung silk crop is a failure, private advices relate. Bad weather and diseased silk worms are blamed. Weil, they can always fail back on the bandit business. Kidnaping is a safe. conservative enterprise —in < 'hina. anyhow. Bandits’ leisure Honrs Golf, tennis and other sporting goods are in demand in China. Nanking, Chinkiang and YVuhu on the Yangtze, each have a nine-hole golf course. Tennis is played pretty much all over the country. Even bandits seem to relax sometimes. Knickers in Shanghai Interest, though not disturbance, is manifested at the increasing tendency of girls m Shanghai to wear knickers. Hide and Skin Game Argentina shipped 3.002,797 dry ox hides. 4.145.258 salt ox hides. 253.714 horse hides, 1,368,452 calf skins and a lot of sheep and goat skins during 1922. Germany was the world's largest buyer of dry ox hides. Which would indicate she is not yet broke. The United States was the largest general customer Which would seem to mean some shoes are still made of leather.

Leaders in the employers’ association have declared repeatedly agreements must be made between the individual trades and their respective em ployers, and it is not believed they will assent to a collective agreement-. Union officials assert that between 2.800 and 3,000 painters are on strike. They demand a continuation of the five-day week and a basic pay of sl2 a day. They have been receiving $lO and a $2 bonus. The union scale ts $9. It is estimated more than 150 buildings are tied up by the WalkoutUnion stone carvers, the “artists” of the craft, also struck Wednesday, demanding an increase of $2 a day over the present scale of $8.50. After tying up work on a. $6,000,000 apartment house, fifty striking plasterers returned to work. They are said to ha.ve asked sl4 a day and compromised later.