Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARDE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chlef ROY W. HOWARD, President. FRED ROMER PETERS, Editor. O. F. JOHNSON, Business Mgr Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers * * * Client of the United Press. United News. United Financial and NEA Service and member of the Scripps Newspaper Alliance. • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos. 25-29 S. Meridian Street. Indianapolis. • * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten 'Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. * * * PHONE—MAIN 3500.

WELCOME TO RAILROAD MEN WHEN you make a railroad journey do you think of the engineer up ahead whose constant watchfulness is making the trip safe for you? Do you think of the fireman who is shoveling bushels of coal under the boilers to keep up the steam, or of the hundreds of others who are working to make your journej a success? Indianapolis is entertaining today thousands of veterans of the Pennsylvania railroad who have given most of their lives to railroad service. These men are public servants. Their efforts have benefited every one of .us. Indianapolis welcomes them. TRIBUTE TO OLIVER P. MORTON INDIANAPOLIS citizens should be particularly interested in the tribute that is to be paid to Oliver P. Morton, Civil War Governor, at Centerville, Wayne County, Aug. 3 and 4, because Governor Morton did most of his great work in Indianapolis.\ Morton was'a man who did things. There was no quibbling with him. When an emergency arose he met it. He became Indiana’s greatest Governor and he is so remembered. Like all our leaders Morton received little reward for his services in his lifetime. The best the State can do for him now is to keep his memory alive. AN EDITORIAL FOR LAWYERS WE have in this city of ours many able lawyers. This editorial is addressed to them: Wade H, Ellis of Washington. D. C.; Charles S. Whitman of New York and Judge Marcus Kavanaugh of Chicago, a committee on law enforcement appointed by the American Bar Association, are back in America after studying law enforcement in Europe. Judging by a statement issued by Ellis, they are prepared to report justice moves much more swiftly and satisfactorily in England than in the United States. If this is all they report, your bar association is apt to yawn in their faces, for somebody has been so reporting to the bar Association for years and years. It is an axiom of present-day justice that it is the client with money that gets the delays. It is the client with money who can afford to hire lawyers clever enough to create delays. The bar association has a code of ethics, but this code hasn’t seemed to speed up justice to any extent. We’d like to offer this suggestion and ask that some lawyer in this city pass it along to the American Bar Association when it meets next month in Minneapolis: That the spirit of sportsmanship be introduced into the legal profession. That lawyers bind themselves to go no further in the interest of- a wealthy client than in the interest of a poor one. There is a certain point in most cases where the attorney knows that to seek further delay is to seek the defeat of justice. He usually recognizes this readily in the case of the poor client. Sportsmanship would only require that he also recognize it in the case of the wealthv client.

SPEAKING OF DUMBBELLS ABOUT the dumbest thing in creation is the jellytish. But in laboratories the scientists take this low form of life and perform an experiment that would interest you. Any one studying the jellyfish would decide that it has no brains at all. When it needs food, it automatically opens like a clam and stays open until something eatable drifts along into its “mouth.” Then the contact of the bit of food causes a nerve reaction that makes the jellyfish close again—all by involuntary or automatic action, the same as when you touch a hot stove and immediately withdraw without pausing to think it over. The scientists play a mean trick on the jellyfish. They put a chunk of yeast into its awaiting “jaws.” Pronto, the jellyfish closes and starts digesting the yeast. But yeast begins expanding. It continues swelling until he jellyfish is on the verge of exploding. Then suddenly the jellyfish opens up spasmodically and casts out the yeast. The scientists are convinced that this action is semi-voluntary—that the jellyfish opens instead of the yeast forcing it open. The experiment demonstrates what amounts to the beginning of thought. For, until fooled with a cargo of yeast, the jellyfish apparently never before in history opened to disgorge. According to the evolutionists, there was a time far back in the mists of history when our ancestors were as dumb as the jellyfish, when all action was involuntary, instinctive. Some accident, such as the jellyfish getting a meal of yeast, probably started those ancient ancestors of ours along the line of voluntary action. Will power began developing. So did memory. Then came a sense of curiosity, the desire to experiment—which is manifested by small children when they attempt to eat everything that comes their way and looks strange. You've had the experience of making baby spit out a button, pin, pebble or strange bug. Will power, memory, curiosity, judgment and reasoning power are the foundations of human thought—of progress. * SKELBY, MONT., is now a flag station, but it wasn't flagged soon enough. • • * SENATOR UNDERWOOD assails Harding's foreign policy. By the way, what is Harding’s foreign policy! • • • A LOS ANGELES man has just built a house from piano boxes. That’s one way of getting harmony in the home. • jm f • A MAN FELL twelve stories in a New York building and the newspaper itemizer reported that “his condition is serious.” It would seem so. at least. A PENNSYLVANIA PROFESSOR says Eve '“started things with intelligence” in the Garden of Eden. There has been a slight change since then. The modern Eve merely starts things. • • • MAGNUS JOHNSON, elected to the United States Senate from Minnesota the other day, was born in Sweden. Senator Jim Couzens of Michigan was born in Canada Senator Gooding of Idaho first saw the light of day in England, and Secretary of Labor Davis uttered his babyhood wails in Wales. Simon-pure Americans who are monkeying with the immigration laws had best be careful or they may cut off our supply of statesmen.

IGNORANCE COSTLY TO INVESTORS Barron Declares Lack of Financial Education Is Wall Street's Trouble, By EDWARD THIERRY NEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK. July 21.—What is the matter with Wall Street? “Lack of financial education,” says Clarence W. Barron, leading publisher of financial newspapers in America. Public ignorance capitalized by u handful of crooks is responsible, Mr. Barron says, for the series of Wall Street disasters that have recently cost investors millions, sent scores of firms in bankruptcy, caused legal crusades against bucket shops, and put several spectacular operators in jail. “people who fall to get Information about investments must lose their money,” he added. "They’re to blame —not Wall Street.” Mr. Barron Is an International authority on finance, author of books on world economic problems, and head of the Wall Street Journal. Boston News Bureau, Philadelphia News Bureau, and Barron’s Weekly. Finance New Thing “Finance is anew thing to millions of people who have now for the first time money to invest,” he said. "Before the war only a few hundred thousand people were interested In stocks and bonds, but the war educated more than 2,500,000 people to be Government bondholders But the war did not educate them any further concerning investments. “Thousands qf new bondholders then became buyers of miscellaneous bonds and shares, and really believed themselves to be men of finance; yet not 1 per cent could tell you the dis ference between Standard Oil and the thousands of oil prospects quoted by promoters. Mr. Barron believes Wajll Street and the whole country will be all the better for the clarification resulting from the present purging of Wall Street. The first thing an investor should find out. he says, is the character and standing of both his broker and his banker. This is his advice: Inquire Before Buying “The time to find out about your investment is not when you come to borrow on the shares you have bought, but before you make the investment. Select a good banker and ask him how much money he will loan you on the shares you propose to buy, and you may learn something pleasantly rather than unpleasantly when you come to him. as a borrower of necessity, and learn that your shares have no collateral value with hankers. “The next thing for people to learn is neither promoters nor bucket shop men are brokers. The promoter is a man whoe-is trying to sell you something at a primary profit to himself And the bucket shop man is a gambler who takes your money and bets you will lose it—and if you win, he fails, and you lose it also.” Mr. Barron condemns tipsters and other "irresponsible public advisers” for leading astray ignorant investors of small means. “The public,” he says, “has been batted into wrong things and batted out of right onee. Along with the bucket shop man the tipster has got to go—and the public has got to know. Otherwise the wolves of Wall Street get rich quick*—at your expense.”

Indiana Sunshine

Bobbed hair isn’t a fad. but a hot weather necessity, remarks a Seymour sage, discovering from a tour of barber shops that about fifty girls, wives, mothers and grandmothers have deserted the ranks of the “lingering locks.” The swivel chair and not the beauty parlor Is the favorite rendezvous of the damsels of the shorn locks. The old chocolate soda 1s holding its own in Franklin. Exception is the college and high school “date.” Show her a menu with "Sheba’s Delight” printed on it. price 35 cents, and whatever the thing may be she orders immediately. Muncie man's been wondering why he never received answers from numerous letters he mailed. Much worWhat are Union City girls going to do? The city is partly in Indiana and partly in Ohio. Ohio just passed a law requiring girls to be 21 before a marriage iicense will be issued. Guess the Ohio damsel of 18 will sit on her front porch and say naughty little words while her neighbor across the street in Indiana orders her trousseau. General improvement on the National Old Trails road between Brizil and Terre Haute noticed since the road was paved. O. V'. Mijler and his daughter have even placed a flower box on a culvert near their home at Walnut HiU. The girl attends the flowers regularly. A Thought Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knowoth net what his lord doeth; but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.—-John 15:14, 15. • • • A FRIEND should he like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need. — Plutarch.

Heard in Smoking Room

(One by an Oklahoma Man.) THE Pullman smoker was rolling along toward Tulsa and therehad been much talk about “hooch." when Starling of the Oklahoma News told this one: It had been raining for a week. The two oil men. weather bound in the hotel, solaced themselves on corn whisky They averaged a quart a day—each. "Might as well be as we* inside as outside,” they said.

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SIMS | - - - Says FATHER says son resembles his side of the house, but neighbors say he resembles the outside. •’ * * * Just about every investigation reports that living is so high because things cost so much. • • • It takes two to make a pair, but only one to be a peach. * * * Some marry for better or worse. Some for target practice. •• • • Speaking your mind is fine, if you mind your speaking. • • • It makes a girl mad when her fellow steals a kiss, and madder if he doesn’t steal it from her. • • • Women, can do lots of things better than men. No man can talk with a mouth full of hairpins. * • • Latest news from Wall Street shows too many shady dealers are making clear profits. • • • Clouds are formed by hot air, especially war clouds. • • • A Virginia boy who thought he could rob a man, and get away will be 50 before he gets away. * • • There would be more perfect gentlemen in the world if some didn’t consider them perfect bores. • • • None of these European statesmen yelling for another war were shot in the last war. #* • • He who laughs first laughs most often.

Grist O’Gotham Written by a Man Who Views New York from the Outside.

NEW YORK. July 21 —Farmers aren't the only ones who rise or fall on pranks of the weather. City folk sometimes are as vitally affected in the region of the pocketbook by unfavorable weather. Coney Island concessionaires. in particular. These little stallkeepers. vending hot dogs, orangeade, etc., pay fabulous rents for their cubbyholes, and it Is a saying among them that if they can’t make a clean up on the Fourth of July they might as well quit for the season. It rained torrents last July 4. and the night before. Asa result one small thoroughfare off Surf Ave. contained twelve concession stands suddenly gone out of business for the season. • • • Little lessons in Gotham slang: A hard-boiled customer In a Sixth Ave. drugstore disdainfully refused the pile of silver handed out in change for a |5 bill. "Folding money’s what I want.” he said. “Gimme folding money. No hard stuff for me. I like to fold up my roll so'a I can feel it.” • • • Absinthe is the rarest and costliest liquor handled by New York bootleggers. Champagne is cheap and common in comparison. A Broadway bootlegger quotes absinthe at S6O a bottle —one quart, not a case! Absinthe is prohibited in France, so it is “dou-ble-bootleg” manufactured illicitly abroad, smuggled out of the country, and smuggled into this country. • • • It’s "Standing Room Only” at Broadway's daily outdoor concerts. Crowds line the curbs of Tin Pan Alley—in Forty-Seventh St.. Just west of Broadway—and listen critically, cynically, and sometimes enviously. For many have been among the performers trying out their voices—and the public, ear—with some new popular song, hot off the presses. It isn’t much entertainment for the entertainers. It's Just work. But the hangers-on, idly curious, don’t mind —unlees the voice is too had Parting By BERTON BRALEY We two have been comrades together In seasons of stress and of strain. We’ve wandered in all kinds of weather. The sun and the wind and the rain; * But now—well, old pal, you must leave me. The time of our parting is here. And though it should properly grieve me, I find I’m not shedding a tear. I still look at you with affection. Remembering gratefully how You’ve given me comfort, protection, * But still, I am ditching you now. For daily the sky’s growing brighter And though you’ve been sturdy and true, I want a compnion who’s lighcer, Ants gayer and smarter than you. Old pals, though all right in a measure, Grow wearisome after awhile, And I find a good deal of pleasure In those of a different style. A straw, at this season, is more apropriate estyle in a hat; Goodby to you, battered Fedora, I’m leaving you perfectly flat! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

The hotel clerk remonstrated with them. “Aw, dry up!" they advised. The seventh day one of them came stumbling down the stairs. “My pardner’s gone blind—blind as a bat. The corn’s got him!” he screamed in the lobby. “How do you know,” demanded the clerk. “How do I know? Listen. There’s elephants and tigers and rhinos and snakes walking all over his bed and he can’t even see them!”

CONTEMPT OF COURT IS ANALYZED Power of Judiciary Steadily Extended to Know No Jury, E. T. Leach, author of the following article, is editor of the Birmingham Post. Leech has encountered contempt of court in the course of his duty as editor of printing truthful news and .has been sent to jail by the offended ‘judge. He has made an extensive study of contempt of court and writes authoritatively. By E. T. LEECH THAT case of Editor Carl C. Maout in New Mexico, who was fined and sentenced to jail for daring to print the facts regarding the us# of public funds by a political ring in thip State and who was later pardoned by the Governor, calls atten tion again to that twentieth century judicial “lemon,” contempt of court. What is this thing, contempt of court? Back in the beginning of things judicial, contempt had Its growth in the old common law in the desire to protect the. court and to punish those who dared defy Its decrees. Need Still Exists A logical and necesssary need, and one which still exists. It prevents defendant or spectators from cussing his honor, interrupting the proceedings of his court, or refusing to obey its decisions. This is direct contempt. But somewhat later there was horn a little brother —indirect contempt. And it is this little brother, now grown Into a lusty youth with a punch like Jack Dempsey, who has lately taken the center of the stage. Indirect contempt applies to things happening outside the presence of the court, such as saying unkind things' about the judge, ridiculing him. expressing flack of belief in his integrity or judicial fitness, commenting on his judicial conduct, etc. —and particularly it consists of printing such things. Power Extended In one case after another, the power of courts to punish these things has recently been steadily extended. Each new case carried the court's power a step or two beyond its predecessors. Until, with the growth of its sister power. injunction, courts have practically been able to shut off discussion of both their own conduct and of vital public matters under pain of punishment for contempt. Contempt is the one thing of monarchists origin which has thrived during the recent era of king-hunting. It had its origin back in the time when a judge was the king’s servant—and the king could do no wrong. And since the king could do no wrong, hence there should be no valid criticism of or* opposition to him. And if there were summary trial and execution should he the result. Hence contempt cases know' no jury; the prosecutor and the judge are one and the same man. and truth Is no defense. For instance, imagine Editor Magee convincing Judge Leahy of the truth of the charges made against the latter’s court! What a chance!

Laughs

Masterpiece A certain painter is confined tin an asylum. To persons who visit Eim he says: * “Look at this; ft is my latest masterpiece." They look, and see nothing but an expanse of bare canvas. They ask: “What does that represent?” “That? Why. that the passage of the Israelite! through the lied Sea.” “Beg pardon, hut where is the sea?" "It has been driven hack." “And where nre the Israelites?" "They have crossed over." "And the Egyptians?” "Will be here directly. That's the sort of painting I like—simple and unpretentious.”—Art Record Where Mother I^osl There’s 50 cents missing from your pay envelope, how do you account for it? That n what I was docked the day I van late because I forgot to kiss you and came back —Judge. One by Grandpa “Grandpop. what kind of time did the stage coaches make in the old days?” r “It all depended, son.” “On how dry the roads were, I suppose?" "And how dry the driver was.”— Louisville Courier-Journal. For the Family Dentist A young dentist had enlisted in the Navy and ran across an officer, a former patient, who had long owed him a bill in civilian life. Pay day was a long way off. so the ex-dentist ventured to suggest the outstanding matter. % Instead of offering to pay. the officer becamb insulted and threatened every punishment known to the U. S. N. on charges ranging from insubordination to treason. •“See here, sir,” Interrupted the former mo r manipulator, “I only asked you a c /II question. There’s no need to gn h at me—and with my own tr ‘th, too.” —American Legion Weekly^ Science Recent experiments in rain-making, through a scientific method of dropping electrically charged sand, have uroused new discussions about the atmosphere surrounding the earth. It is seldom realized that the atmosphere everywhere contains dust in suspension. These dust particles are what make alb the coloring in the sky. The particles become smaller and smaller until those found in the upper air are exceedingly minute. They scatter the blue light-rays from the sun and thus cause the sk; to assume its color. The experiments in rain-making have aroused much interest, some scientists taking them seriously and others claiming that while the methods are greatly advanced, still the principle has little more merit than the old plan of shooting cannon at clouds.

The Old Farm Ain't What She Used to Be

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You can get an answer to any question of (act or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 S Y Avenue Washington. D r , in, losing 2 cents in stamps M'dical. legal, love and niarriaee advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers speeches, etc be prepared Unsigned letters cannot be answered, hut all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor How can one preserve leatherbound books? Place the book, hack up. oh a smooth topped table, coat the back of the hook with a high-grado vaseline, rubbing it well into the grain of the leather with the bare hands. Then treat the sides and edges. Do not get vaseline on the paper. Use small quantities of the vaseline at a time and rub in well with a flexible, firm stroke When the first application is absorbed, apply another and rub as before. Then place the book on a shelf to dry. It will take possibly forty-eight hours. Then rub off all surplus grease. This work should be done in a well-lighted, airy place. It is better to do It in the summer when the windows are open. What is the extent of the building shortage? It cannot be precisely measured. Various estimates indicate that at the beginning of this year the building deficit represented about two y* ,rs normal construction, which would cost, it is estimated, approximately $2,000,000,000 at pre-war prices. What makes water look milky white some times when it flows from the faueet? Air in the pipes. How much money is in circulation in the United States? $4,705.923019. Is rice grown in any of the Western States? Y'es. since 1912 it has been grown In California. The 1922 crop there is estimated to have a farm value of more than $9,000,000 In 1919 the value of the crop reached the high mark of $21,042,000. Is any gold produced in Montana now? Yes. in 1922 a total of ,80.145.62 fine ounces was produced. Is the height of buildings restricted in London? Ves, eighty feet from the pavement to the celling of the top stbry is the limit. This is a concession of twenty feet from old standards. Has a monument ever been erected to a hog? A monument has been unveiled In Blue Bell, Warren County. Ohio, to commemorate the birth in 1850 of the Poland-Ohina bred of hog—an American breed. Do plants cat insects? The ordinary diet of green plants consist of salt of various metals, such as nitrates. * phosphates, sulphates, etc.; water, which they absorb from the soil, and carbon dioxide, which they inhale from the air during sunlight. There are a number 'of species of carnivorous plants such as sundews, fly-traps, pitcher-plants, bladderworts and butterworts, however, which, in addition to this ordinary diet, do have a variety of devices for the allurement, capture, imprisonment, digestion and absorption of Insects. Which is the deepest oil or gas well ever drilled? The Hope Natural Gas Company well at Fairmont, W. Va. The depth is 7,579 feet. It proved to he a dry hole. * Have-any bastard children ever become famous? Yes, for example William the Conqueror was the natural son of Robert le Dlable and a peasant girl of Falaise. The poet, Virgil, was a bastard. The Bastard of Orleans, JeAn Dunois, a natural son of Louis due d-Orleans (brother of Charles VI), was one of the most brilliant soldiers France ever produced. Points Made by Poets If thou can’st Death defy, If thy faith Is entire. Press onward, for thine eyeShall see thy heart's desire. —Bridges.

‘You Pay’ — Even war chickens come home to roost. President Poincare issues his "no quarter” declaration, financially speak - | ing. at Senlis and France wilj force j echeption against Germany of the bill | presented at Versailles. Senlis marks the farthest advance of the Germans in the World War and aiso the spot where the Germans dishonored themselves after the manner of barbarians. At Senlis they butchered hostages. At Senlis they put civilians in the line of French tire so they might be slaughtered by their own friends. Sympathize with beaten Germany all you may. you have to admit a ; feeling of "the eternal fitness of j things” in France declaring at Senlis “You pay!" r —. * From the Referee’s Tower By ALBERT APPLE Colors The German near-monopoly of the world's dyestuffs, used in coloring, has been broken —temporarily, and probably permanently. American makers now are producing nearly ninety-four out of every 100 pounds of dyes used in our country. These two facts summarize the hundreds of columns of befuddling news and comment about dyes which for nearly nine years you have been reading—-or skipping? *r ‘I" T Hidden A lot of the German chemical patents, seized during the war, proved “unworkable." So testifies a chemist In the lawsuit resulting from the seizure and sale of these patents. This has been common knowledge in the chemical industry'. The Germans patented just enough to prottet their processes, and left unmentloned enough details to keep their secrets hidden. For instance, in the case of a dye involving sixteen steps in the manufacture, they’d patent only three steps, and any one using the patent would have to work out the other thirteen. It is whispered among' chemists, some of these patented formulas were misleading to the extent of being more apt to produce an explosion than the desired results, when compounded by outsiders. -I- -1- -IPests Gypsy moths, threatening destruction of New England trees, are doomed by the billions. Maj. H. C. Strauss, Army aviator, operates a dirigible balloon that sprays poison fatal to the moths, while non-in-jurlous to people. One of the extremely few good results of the war. It is prophetic of how man will battle pests, especially insects, in the future. In Texas they're trying the same thing against rattlesnakes. The boll weevil probably will be exterminated eventually by poison gas. -I- -I- -IDanger While fishing, Fred Peterson, farm hand, is drowned in one foot of water near New Milford, Conn. It may not have occurred to most of us. but it is entirely possible to drown in a bathtub. We associate the drowning danger with deep water. Hazard has to exist in an extreme degree before we pay much attention to it. That’s why so many are Injured in auto accidents while flirting only faintly with danger. Os course, there are more smash-ups at high speed, the same as more drownings in deep water. -I- -I- IWheat A world grain expert figures there are 50,000,000 more bushels of wheat available in the lealing countries this year than in 1922. Since the world Is not apt to eat that much more wheat, it is rather obvious that the slump in wheat prices has been partly due to this surplus. Overproduction is the termer's chief problem.

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What Editors Are Saying

Minnesota-lndiana (Lafayette Journal-Courier) Indiana Republicans, in their Stat* love feast at Indianapolis, ought to be able to obtain illuminating reports from all sections of the Commonwealth as to the political trend and as to the possibilities indicated by the Minnesota senatorial election. The party workers, rallying from the' various districts and counties, should be prepared to talk intelligently and frankly of conditions as they find them. If the restlessness which found expression at the polls in Mimesota is general: if the radical movement shows in Indiana a growth at all i similar to that found in the election -eturns in the Northwest, the worki ers ought to be informed and should • be able to discuss not only what is | going on, but what is to be done by 1 the G. O. P. to educate the publia( and to stabilize the political situation. It is evident the Republican party is called on to meet radicalism wherever it appears in force. -1- T -!- ‘Fisherman * (Marion Leader-Tritune) The death of Dr. J. C. Adkins removes from Marion one of the com munitys best known citizens. Dr. Adkins lived in Marion for forty-eight years. He came here from Indianapolis many years before the days of the great gas boom, and saw the city grow from a small place. He was active for a long time and took a prominent part in community affairs. Probably his greatest interest, however, outside of his profession, business and his family, was his Interest in fishing. Dr. Adkins was a great fisherman. He loved to fish. He was interested in the conservation of fish and cham pioned a great deal of the legislation on the statute books of the State. For many years he had a cottage at Tippecanoe. Os all of his life work Dr. Adkins will best be remembered as the friend of the finny tribe, because it was for them that he worked energetically, and while he loved to catch fish, he took even greater enjoyment in protecting them and in preserving the sport in its higher and most elevated aspect. Animal Facts Ed Craig. Reynolds, Neb., called a ! veterinary for his sick cow and surgical operation disclosed that she had too much iron in her system. Stomach contained baling wire, rivets, several spikes and a cupful of shingle nails. “Rastus” said the judge severely to prisoner charged with failing to proride for his family, “the evidence is that you keep fourteen dogs at your house." The prisoner; “Yas, you Honuh, but I couldn't ask mah fambly to eat dogs, yop’ Honuh!” Most interesting member of United States rabbit family is the cony, whose soft long fur has been going Into so many ladles’ winter coats of late. He's also called the pika, also “little chief hare.” Master Coney, is a ventriloquist and a haymaker. You may think his odd little bark or bleat “eheh” Is coming from under a stone a few feet away, but never mind— lts only his voice that’s there. All summer long he works and sweats In the mountain valleys of the West, cutting 'grasses and other plants that are to make dining a pleasure to him. When dried by the sun, he carries them to his home in some rock slide and stacks them neatly outside. One “stack” in New Mexico contained thirty-four different plants. Everybody who knows a coney likes him. He Is the size of a small guinea pig. Editor’s Mail To the Editor of The Time* When we- began to go to school we had to learn our A, B. Cs. If on every corner In the downtown section you had those letters printed. A means always, B means be. C means careful —we would be learning them over and would be saving lives. C. J. TRAUGOTT, Travelers’ Protective Association Clnbrooma. _