Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 55, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1923 — Page 4

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ERROR IN WATER FIGHT MAYOR SHANK has committed a serious tactical blunder in attempting to solicit the assistance of the Republican State organization in his fight against increased water rates. He and the people of Indianapolis will be fortunate if his action is not a serious blow to the case. The Times is with Shank and with the citizens of Indianapolis in their insistence that there be no rate increase. But we do not believe any circumstances would justify the making of the water case a political issue. Shank has been insistent that the case, if it must be heard, be placed before an impartial court of justice. That is the proper attitude. But he spoils it all by attempting to bring political influence to bear on that very court. The mayor has condemned water company officials for alleged use of influence and in almost the same breath he attempted to do the same thing. The granting of increased water rates may mean the defeat of the Republican party. Shank may see the handwriting on the wall. But this is no basis on which to make a plea for decreased rates. Water rates should not be increased in Indianapolis because it is not apparent that an increase is necessary and because the citizens of Indianapolis feel they can not afford an increase—not because the Republican party may not win the election. PEACE OF WORLD AT STAKE ENGLAND and France are at the cross roads. In recent months they have been traveling in the same general direction, though pretty far apart. Now they must either join hands or kiss each other good-by. Much depends on the next move. “It is not too much to sav,” says Stanley Baldwin, British Premier, “that the recovery of the world is in danger and that the peace, for which so many sacrifices were borne, is at stake.’' True enough, yet the ways of France and of Britain seem to lead in absolutely opposite directions. France is afraid of anew, mighty Germany, twice her size, which tomorrow would launch another invasion marking the end of France for all time as a first-class power. That oldest of all instincts, self-preservation, therefore, decides her every move. Britain, still powerful, has little fear of Germany, now or in the future. Trade, however, is her very life. And trade is in the dumps. Since the armistice she has paid out $2,000,000,000 in unemployment doles alone. A prosperous Germany, which could buy British goods and borrow British gold, would change all this. Can France and Britain reconcile their totally different points of view and once more join company, as Premier Baldwin has suggested? Or is the alliance, which Baldwin admits “has been and continues to be the main security of European peace,” to go by the boards? Europe and the world await the answer. No such crisis has been seen since 1914. If France and Britain finally and definitely split, the dove of peace, already well plucked, bids fair, once and for all, to get the ax. Keep your eye on London and Paris for the next few days.

C. OF C. PLEA FOR TENNIS THE secretary of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce has issued a statement asking the public to attend the thirteenth annual tournament for the clay court tennis championship 6f the United States. The public has not been showing a great deal of interest in the event. Why tennis is not more popular is hard to understand. In some way the impression has been spread that tennis is a “flossie” game, indulged in by persons who do not care for more “manly’’ sportts. Instead of taking an interest in a tennis tournament or playing a game once in a while, those who have sufficient leisure go out and chase a tiny ball over several acres of grass. Not that golf is not a good sport, but we would like to see some of those who play golf for exercise attempt a few sets of tennis. There are few frames that require as much physical energy as tennis. Try it once. SHOOT A MILLION IN OIL DO you want to prospect for oil, to shoot for a million? The Harding Administration is willing to let you in on what may be a good thing. A public auction is to be held of oil and gas leases on 728 acres of public lands in Louisiana. With tremendous salvos of publicity, the Administration invites you to bid. 1 Here you are offered all the thrills of expectancy. The Harding Administration prepares that for you. You’d never get the thrill if you played a sure thing and the Administration protects your interests to see that you can get it. The Administration, for instance, forgot to hold a public auction on Teapot Dome in Wyoming when the Standard Oil-Sinclair interests took over that claim at a little private conference with Secretary of the Interior Fall. But that was a sure thing. It poured oil and dollars from the start. If you’d have been invited in on that, you’d have gotten the money, but you’d never been given the thrill of prospecting. And the Harding Administration wants to protect your rights and interest in thrills. Attorney General U. S. Lesh has again served notice on the “trusts” that he is watching them. • * • The visit of General Gouraud should provide another occasion for dusting off the silk hats in storage since Marshal Foch spent a day here. • • • Henry Ford has purchased “the Wayside Inn.” Does this mean Ford sized hotel prices? * • • William H. O’Brien, possible candidate for Governor, says his visit to Indianapolis was on business. Maybe he is making a business of politics. • • • Claypool Hotel goes to court to enjoin an obnoxious visitor from lounging around the corridor. If there’s a fellow calling on your daughter and you don’t want him around get the court to “bounce” him. . _ • • • Prisoner asks Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court to send him where he cannot he tempted by white mule. A difficult request, what ?

PROHIBITION IS MATTER OF MONEY \ Booze More Plentiful and Cheaper. However, Than Year Ago. C. A Randau, author of the following article, is a member of this paper's Washington staff. He was assigned several weeks ago to find out how prohibition is being enforced, and to report the liquor situation generally without trying to prove anything other than to present the facts. This is the fourth of a series of six articles. By C. A. RANDAU << Ol EE the baby’s new shoes, Judge. those are whisky shoes." Hardly a day goes by but Judge Addams or Chief Probation Officer Lewis of the Cleveland juvenile court are given some such evidence the elimination of the saloon has reacted to the benefit of the poor of the Ohio metropolis. The Juvenile court is allowed 50 cents per day for the families of men committed to the workhouse for neglecting their children. In 1916 the court disbursed $14,959 in this way. For the succeeding five years the figures are: 1917, $13,185; 1918, $8,560; 1919, $5,733; 1920, $2,396; 1921, $2 940. Poor Out of Luck Prohibition in Cleveland, as elsewhere, Is simply a matter of money. The man with funds can buy whisky and gin with little difficulty. The poor man cannot get beer, for, as throughout Ohio, saloons are rigidly supervised and "blind pigs’’ are limited. Just or unjust, prohibition, as reflected in the figures of the juvenile court, has made life better for the extremely poor. In New York City the number of alcoholic cases received at Bellevue Hospital has shown a decline as compared with pre-prohibition years. The records of the Juvenile court of Cleveland and the municipal hospital of New York are typical of the recent experiences at' Institutions which come very largely Into contact with the poorer classes. Sanitariums which cater to the needs of alcoholics who are able to afford "cures,” show no falling off In patronage. Keeley (.‘urea Close Keeley cures closed up shop just on the eve of "good times." as officials estimate there are today twice bp many alcohol sufferers as in 1918 and 1919. Arrests for drunkenness showed decrease in practically all of the larger cities during 1920. Instead of dropping more in the following year, the trend was upward, and in 1922 the number again mounted. That prohibition would empty the jails and prisons of the Nation was long a claim of the drys. This predic tion has not been realized. Accord lng to the latest report on "number of prisoners In penal Institutions” compiled by the United States Bureau of the Census, figures show a total of 149,909 for July 1, 1922, ns com pared with 146,161 for July t, 1917." There are more prisoners in all classes of institutions—Federal. State, county, city, chain or roadgang—than at any previous time In the history of the Census Bureau, though the ratio of prisoners to the total population was less in 1922 than In 1917, the figures being 137.2 and 143, respectively. Crime on Increase It Is true, however, the number of serious crimes committed In the United States is showing a steady increase. In this article and In previous articles of this series. I have shown prohibition enforcement is neither uniform nor effective. Instead of being more difficult to boy than one year ago. whisky Is now cheaper and more readily obtainable In many parts of the United States than It was a year ago. Nevertheless, the cost of attempted enforcement of the Volstead act la mounting each year. The Federal appropriation for enforcement Is $9,000,000 per year. This sum Is ridiculously inadequaet. The direct cost to the Federal Government, however, Is one of the minor ltVms in the general cost of enforcement. The greater part of the burden falls upon States and cities. Over $10,000,000 was appropriated by Stabs during 1922 for the enforcement of prohibition laws, and the Increased cost of policing the cities of the country added another $15,000,000 to $20,000,000.

A Thought

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.—Prov. 12:10. * * • THERE is no beautifier of complexion or form or behavior like the wish to scatter Joy, and not pain, around us.—Emerson.

Heard in Smoking Room

THE man from the far east was disgusted. He had been in Los Angeles on business, and, that done, he decided to take a side trip to Portland, Ore., In order that he might see Mt. Hood before returning East. After two full days on the train, he arrived In Portland only to find one of those famous "Oregon mists” prevailing and the beautiful, snowcapped mountain was Invisible. “Hard luck,” said the man in the middle of the smoker’s seat, “but not quite so hard as that of a man In our town. This man Is an ex-prize fighter. He was very anxious to witness the Dempsey and Carpentler fight. He tried his derndest to raise money enough to cover all his expenses, including railway fare, but he failed to get more than enough to pay his admission to the fight arena and have a little left for eats. Nothing daunted, he started to beat his way to Jersey City on freight trains, rideing blind baggage, etc. As I recall it, lit was arrested once on the way and fined $lO and costs for heating his way on a train, and he had other mishaps such as being thrown oIT the cars by freight crews. He was about ten days making the 1,500 miles to Jersey City, and he arrived there the d”* of *bo fight, sore, soiled and

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

A Pantoum of T ransportation By BERTON BRALEY HO hum! ho hum! this train is slow, From town to town it seems to creep, We never will arrive, I know; There now, my leg has gone to sleep. From town to town we seem to creep, I wish that baby wouldn’t yell. There now, my leg has gone to sleep, Heavens, how those bananas smell! I wish that baby wouldn’t yell, Gosh, there’s a cinder In my eye! Heavens, how those bananas smell! We’ve stopped to let a freight go by. Gosh, there’s a cinder In my eye! No, I don’t want those cheap cigars iVe’ve stopped to let a freight go by; I wish they’d ventilate these cars. No, I don’t want those cheap cigars, I don’t want fruit or chewing gum. I wish they’d ventilate these cars, The service on this line is bum. I don’t want fruit or chewing gum! Great guns, it’s only half past four! The service on this line is bum, I’ve got to sit here five hours more. Great guns, It’s only half past four! Is that kid gonna yell all day? I’ve got to sit here five hours more. I’m sure my hair is growing gray. Is that kid gonna yell all day? We never will arrive. I know. I’m sure my hair is getting gray. Ho hum! ho hum! this train is slow! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

TOM SIMS SAYS: ABOUT the only thing worse than working this hot weather is just loafing around. • • • Some day some confidence man is going to organize a company for canning condensed water. • • • Two men in Baltimore went to jail for bringing home the bacon. They stole two hogs. • • A man escaped from the Atlanta, Ga., pen, but maybe they can catch one to take his place. • * • Just about the strangest thing we have seen lately was a good looking efficient stenographer. • • • Believing what a bootlegger says is dangerous. The sidewalk may jump up and hit you. • • • Just before a man’s wife talks him to death he hopes his worst enemy is her next husband. • • • Weather is so hot during July it leaves us no time to cuss the poor street car service. • • • A race between a couple of f at men on a hot picnic is almost as funny as the human race. • • • Cincinnati man who wanted a street car to detour around his auto will recover, doctors think. • • • You don’t see many pictures of girls playing tennis because they don’t play in bathing suits. • • • A secret is what you tell someone not to tell because you promised not to tell it yourself.

Indiana Sunshine

Arthur Meeks, Muncle business man, was telling a usual fine fish stcry. Including exceptional size and weight, difficulty of landing and the "gaff’ that only disciples of Izaak Walton concoct. The story was Interrupted by loud laughing of his father. Martin L. Meeks, who, when he subsided, explained that the fish were all weighed by a man with a famous pair of scales. Once they were used to weigh a new-born babe, he said. The scales registered twentyeight pounds. Brown County, faQied as Indiana’s illiterate county, is shown by figures recently compiled to have the smallest per centage of illiteracy among the group of counties In Us section. Today a switch of cypress, planted by Joshua Trueblood at Salem while on a horseback trip from Virginia In 1816, is a giant tree.

pennileSs. He hurried out to the arena and begged officials, first, then patrons, to pass him Inside. He was a member of the profesh, he said. Nothing doing. Time for the fight to begin arrived. He could hear the cheers of the crowd Inside as the prl icipals entered the ring. He could hear the clang of the bells between l eunds. He became frantic. Finally, someone took pity on him and let him go In. Ten days after the fight, he reappeared in the old, home town looking considerably the wrose for hard wear. Os course, his cronies gathered round to hear his report of the fight. He told them only of his sad experience while beatlijg his weary way over the 3,000 miles, going and coming. ” ‘But. tell us about the fight,’ they Insisted. ” ‘Fig ht,’ he said, 'I didn’t see no fight.’ “ ‘Whaddye glvln’ us? Didn't you see that fight?’ “ ‘No,’ he replied, sadly. ‘I had just got in and settled In a good seat when 1 had to turn and spit. When I looked back at the ring, Carpentier was down and out an’ the referee was ccuntlng. I didn’t see nary a blow struck!’ "

WATER LEVEL DECLINES IN GREAT LAKES Will Chicago Become Sterile Waste and Deserted City as Result? By NEA Service MILWAUKEE. July 14.—Imagine a sterile, impassable desert or salt marsh in place of the blue sweep of the Great Lakes. Or imagine Chicago as a slain ghost of a city, poisoned by waste from its own factories and homes, and famished for lack of the water which gurgles tantallzlngly upon Its beaches. There you have the two extreme nightmare conceptions of what might happen, depending upon the possible settlements of the long-pending Lawsuits over the city’s diversion of lake water for sewage disposal. The attacks are designed to curtail or stop the taking of water from the lake. Lake Water Flushes Canal Chicago, in January, 1900, began taking lake water to flush its drainage canal to the Illinois River and sweep along Its waste. A permit 'from the War Department allows the taking of 4,167 cubic feet of water per second. As the city grew larger, Chicago increased its intake until It amounts to approximately 8,800 cubic feet. A final maximum of 10,000 cubic feet is desired. The level of the Great Lakes has been declining for several years. In January, this year, It was approximately a foot lower than when the city began taking the water. * "Quite simple," say opponents of the Chicago plan. ’’Chicago Is stealing ah the water. She is Interfering with water works of other lake cities, damaging navigation and spreading injuries clear to the St. Lawrence River. She'll drain the lakes dry If we don't stop It.” "All wrong,” asserts Chicago. "Natural causes have produced the lower water. Adjustment of our withdrawal volume reached a constant rate long ago.” Court’s Help Asked In the Federal Court a decision now is awaited on the injunotion suit of the Government to limit the city to its permitted 4,167 cubic feet of water. In the United states Supreme Court another suit brought by the State of Wisconsin seeks a similar injunction. Wisconsin has appealed to Michigan. Ind., and Minnesota for support.

What Editors Are Saying

Pigs ("Marion Leader Tribune) Terre Haute is getting aristocratic in a way Marion can hardly understand. That city refuses to permit a pig to be hauled through the streets between 8 a. m. and 10 p. m. • • • Mayors' Salaries Richmond Item Anothey Instance of Inadequate pay, here In Indiana, may be seen in what the average Indiana city pays its mayor. It's about what was paid years ago, when the coat of living waa only a fraction of what It Is today. Yet In the past ten or a dozen years the duties of the mayor of the average city has been piling up more and more. It’s absurd to regulate the pay according to the population of a olty today. • • • Liquor (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) Governor McCray Is eternally right in his refusal to call the Legislature of the State In special session to patch up the State's anti-liquor laws. While It Is unfortunate that many of the teeth have been taken from the law. so long as we have the Volstead act we can very well worry along until the next regular session when the necessary repairs can be made. There is always danger of Injecting a lot of rubbish at a special session and the Governor is wise in not taking any chances. • • • Mufflers (Decatur Dally Democrat) Isn't there a law against operating an automobile through the towns and cities with the muffler opeft? Looks as though a few "pinches” will be necessary to recall to numerous drivers there are any laws. One of these days a serious accident will pccur and then the officers will be criticised unless they make a real effort to stop speeding, corner cutting and other violations of the laws.

Laughs

Couldn’t Lose I like that umbrefia stand, but I don’t think It is worth $3. Why, madam, the very first umbrella that Is left In It may be worth more than that.—Boston Transcript. Mother's Polished Floor "Don't be afraid, lady,” said the floor polisher. “Why, the last place I polished up the floors every one ip the family broke a leg."—Judge. Father’s Old Weakness "So you heard me speak at the dinner • last night?” "Yes; I was up In the gallery." "What did you think of my speech?” "Oh, It reminded me ever so much of the time you were courting me, Henry.” ‘‘Really? How so?” "Why, I thought you never would come to the point.”—Yonkers Statesman. N Mother Advisee Father So you really think a massage machine will reduce my waist. Where can I get one? I Jes’ saw a steam roller go down the street.—Boston Transcript. Father Advises Mother “I have invited several Army offl cers, and I am anxious that the occasion shalj be something unique and appropriate. I don’t want anything commonplace, like a 6 o'clock tea, or a pink tea, or a violet tea.” "Well, why not make It a beef tea?” —Washington Star.

More Watchful Waiting on the Mexican Situation

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Lloyd George (Continued From Page 1) today: "It Is a land of immense possibilities In spite of the terrible neglect of Its resources resulting from Turkish misrule. The Turks cut down the forests and never troubled to replant them.” If Palestine is to be restored to a | condition even approximating Its ancient prosperity It must be by settling Jews on its soil. The condition to which the land has been reduced by centuries of the most devastating oppression in the world is such restoration is only possible by o race prepared for entimental reasons to make and endure sacrifices for the purpose. War Reduces Numbers What is the history of Jewish settlement in Palestine? It did not begin with the Balfour declaration. A j century ago there were barely 10,000 Jews in the whole of Palestine. Before the war there were 100,000. The war considerably reduced these numbers, and Immigration since 191S has barely filled up the gaps. At present timorous rate of progress It will be many years before it reaches 200.000. Jewish settlement started practically seventy years ago. It started with Sir Moses Monteflore's experiment in 1854 —another war year. From that day lit has proceeded slowly hut steadily. The land available was not of the best. Prejudices and fears had to be negotiated. Anything in the nature of wholesome expropriation of Arab cultivators, even for cash, had to be carefully avoided. Tho Jews were therefore often driven to settle on barren sand dunes and malarial swamps. Everywhere the Jew cultivator produces heavier and richer crops than his Arab neighbor. He has introduced into Palestine more scientific methods of cultivation, and his example Is producing a beneficent effect on the crude tillage of the Arab peasant. It will be long ere Canaan becomes once more a land flowing with milk and honey. Possesses Advantages Palestine possesses in some respects advantages for the modern settler which to Its ancient inhabitants were a detriment.

Its one great river with its two tributaries are rapid and have a great fall. For power this Is admirable. Whether for Irrigation or for the setting up of new industries, this gift of nature to Palestine is capable of exploitation Impossible before the scientific discoveries of the last century. The tableland of Judea has a rainfall which if caught in reservoirs at appropriate centers would make of the "desert of Judea” a garden. If this were done, Arab and Jew alike would share In the prosperity. Hundreds of thousands ought to be visiting this sacred land every year. Why are they not doing so? The answer Is—Turkish misrule scared away the pilgrims. Those who wen* there came back disillusioned and disappointed. First Chance in 1,900 Years The settled government gives the Holy Land Its first chance for 1.900 years. But there Is so much undeveloped country demanding the attention of civilization that Palestine will lose that chance unless it Is made the special charge of some powerful Influence. The Jews alone can redeem It from the wilderness and restore Its ancient glory. In that trust there is no Injustice to any other race. The Balfour declaration is not an expropriating but an enabling clause. It is only a charter of equality for Jews. Here are Its terms: "His majesty’s government views with favor 4he establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object. It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewigh communities In Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews In any other country.” 1 This declaration ikas subsequently indorsed and adopted by President Wilson and the French and Italian foreign ministers. Ask No More The •Zionists ask for no more. It has been suggested by their enemies that they are seeking to establish a Jewish oligarchy in Palestine that will reduce the Arab Inhabitant to a condition of servitude to a favored Hebrew minority. The best answer to

that charge Is to be found in the memorandum submitted by th 6 Zionist Association to the League of Nations. “The Jews demand no privilege unless it be the privilege of rebuilding by their own efforts and sacrifices a land which, once the seat of a thriving and productive civilization, has long been suffered to remain derelict. They expect no favored treatment in the matter of political or religious rights. They assume as a matter of course that all Inhabitants of Palestine, be they Jews or non-Jews, will be in every respect on a footing of perfect equality. They seek no share in Government beyond that to which they may be entitled under the constitution as citizens of the country. They solicit no favors. They ask, in short, no more than an assured opportunity of peacefully building up their national home by their own exertions and of succeeding on their merits.” This is a modest request which these exiles from Zion propound to the nations. And surely it is just for It to be conceded, and. If conceded, then to be carried out in the way men of honor fulfill their bond. There are 14,000,000 of Jews In the world. Is It too much to ask htat those amongst "them whose sufferings are the worst shall be able to find refuge In the land their fathers made holy by the splendor of their genius, by the loftiness of their thoughts, by the consecration of their lives and by the inspiration of their message to mankind?

Editor’s Mail

To the Editor of The Times: It does not take an extra good memory to remember the gigantic array of legal talent mobilized to do battle with the gas company, or the weeks of front page reasons In our newspapers why an increase would be utterly impossible, and after a careful perusal of all of the facts, no sane man could see how this increase in rates could be permitted. But it was; also the telepnone company and the street car company—that snapped Its fingers In the city’s face and refused to pay for its franchise contract, and sold Fairview Park, which was to have become the property of the city of Indianapolis at the end of thirty years. “Will Silently Disappear” After this comedy has been carried on long enough to satisfy the water company that all Is clear, the city’s legal array will silently disappear and the Increase will be announced and we will pay without a squeak and the water company will still own the canal and the city will still build the bridges over It. The valuation upon which it secured its Increase will be completely lost when the tax assessor gets there and they will hurriedly make up another from memory and forget two-thirds of it. How sweet; Hold your head over, "Ultimate Consumer." You are due for another swat In the neck. Don’t be lulled to sleep by the sweet lullaby that the city's legal department Is singing. Just remember the 100 per cent gas increase; just remember the 200 per cent phone increase; Just remember the 75 per cent street car increase, and remember that before the gas company got Its Increase the experts demanded 600 British heat units until the poor gas company could hardly stagger under the load. Now you can hardly light the darn stuff. “Now You Give Up” Before the phone company got its increase you could get your party after two or three calls. Now you give up after an hour or two of con : stant pleading with the operator, when she sweetly tells you, “I am trying to complete your call. What number are you calling?” So far we have only been compelled to drink lime and lodine, but wait until the rate Is Increased, and I will wager a used tire against a doughnut that we will drink her straight out of White River —sewers, swlmmln’ holes and all. W. H. JACOBY, SR., N 514 E. Walnut St. Points Made by Poets The moving finger writes; and, having writ. Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit Shall Jure It back to cancel half a line. Nor all your tears wash out a word of It. —Khayyam

SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1923

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You can ret an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Tiraee Washington Bureau. 1322 N. Y. Avenue, Washington, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. What ancient people are known to us as the first nation? The Egyptians. What is the most densely populated island in the world? Manhattan. Who are the Zyrians? A Finno-Ugrian tribe, numbering 30,000, living by hunting on the headwaters. of the Dvina and Petchora Rivers in northern Russia. What are truffles? A The truffle is a genus of fungi growl ing underground. The common truffle is of a fleshy fungous structure and roundish figure, without any visible root; of a dark color, approaching to black, and studded over with tubercles, and varies in size from that' of a large plum to that a large potato. It is much sought after as an ingredjent in certain high-seasoned dishes. There being no appearance above ground to indicate the existence of the truffle, dogs are trained to find this fungus by the scent, and scratch It up. What is a trilogy? A series of three each of them in a certain -sense complete in itself, yet bearing a mutual relation to each other, and forming but parts of one historical and poetical picture. The term belongs more particularly to the Greek drama, where three tragedies, connected in subject, together with a humorous piece, were performed in immediate succession. How is “Elizabethan” pronounced? The word is pronounced E-liz-a-beth-an, with the accent on the second syllable, not be-than, with the accent on the “he.”

Observations

In the realm of big business, It is becoming difficult to decide whose is the greatest greed. Wall Streets's or' Dempsey’B. It is reported Wall Street has thirtythree ways of fleecing a lamb, but why? Once over seems to be enough for the average lamb. Your own skin Is the best bathing suit, say the medics. Now keep an eye on the beaches. Anew paper “of char%cter” is to be started In New York City, and It is thought its $3,500,000 will sustain It. It may, even In New York.

Science

In most sections of the West lizards are common. They scurry across ranch trails and over and under plies of rocks with remarkable rapidity, A dog or cat in a llsard community Is a very busy animal. It will spend most of its time chasing lizards which It rarely catches. Because of this occupation of the ranch dog or cat and because lizards without any tails frequently are seen, it is commonly supposed the dog or cat sometimes grabs a lizard by the tail, Just as it Is disappearing in a rocky recess, thereby severing the tall from the lizard’s body. Asa matter of fact the lizard himself severs the tall. He is liable to he caught by the tall; therefore nature has given him one that Is specially constructed as to vertebrae. It can he broken off by the lizard by a muscular contraction. Later the lizard grows another. There are nearly two thousand i known species of lizards. They variy greatly. The large “mountain lizard® looks ferocious and is commonly su® posed to be poisonous, but 'ike isl lizards, with one exception that livH in Mexieo. it is harmless. A