Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1923 — Page 4

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

RALSTON’S “MUNICIPAL GUARDIANSHIP” yfI'UNICIPAL guardianship” is the term used by Boyd M. iVI Ralston, former candidate for mayor of Indianapolis, in describing a somewhat new plan of utility ownership he has outlined to the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Ralston would have the consumers of a utility product own the stock, preferably each subscriber to own a share, and the city to exercise paternal guardianship over it even to the extent of controlling stock transfers. The city would operate the utility and the consumers would own it, with certain restrictions. The restrictions are the important point. When the Citizens Gas Company was formed, it was to be something of a mutual organization. Stock sold from door to door. Then along came interests which bought up the stock from the consumers. Now the ownership of the gas company is little different from that of any public utility. Admittedly, Mr. Ralston’s plan would eliminate a recurrence of this situation. Mr. Ralston presumably would have the city operate a utility. He says nothing about the stockholders having a vote. Therefore, on election day, persons who do not have stock would have as much to say about operating tjje utility as those who do. Os course, the stockholders stand a chance of collecting a profit, if any. Asa whole, Mr. Ralston’s idea seems to differ very little from a plan of municipal ownership. INDIANAPOLIS TRAFFIC REGULATIONS THERE is a lot of good common sense in what Miss Maurice J. O’Connell, winner of The Times traffic contest, has to say about traffic regulation in Indianapolis. The suggestions have the added advantage of not including any radical changes in regulation. Much of the difficulty in traffic regulation is due to the fact motorists are not acquainted with traffic rules. Miss O’Connell’s suggestion that they learn them is well taken. Os course, motorists can not be expected to keep up with regulations if they are to be changed over night on an average of once or twice a month. Miss O’Connell suggests no parking be permitted in the downtown congested district and that no parking be permitted on Meridian St. from St. Clair St. north to the creek during rush hours. This brings up the old problem of where cars are to be parked. One suggestion is that street cars be looped around the congested district and that the mdidle of Washington St. instead of the outer edges be used for parking. This suggestion, however, has met with much opposition in the past. Widening of Meridian St. also is suggested. This may have to come eventually, but when it does it will be an extremely expensive undertaking. Many of the larger cities, the streets in most of which are not as wide as those in Indianapolis, have found one way traffic regulations successful. Capitol Ave. and Meridian St. are the main arteries, to the north. It might be well to make one street a north traffic street apd the other a south traffic street. Traffic in Indianapolis runs much slower than that in many large cities. This is due to some extent to the fact that the police department insists on slow driving, but extremely slow traffic often is due to the fact a slow driver gets in the middle of a street and holds up everything behind him. Miss O’OConnell’s suggestion that slow traffic stay next to the curb contains real common sense. A rule of this kind should be enforced as strictly as the rule that cars must stop before crossing or entering boulevards. There is nothing mofe-aggravating than to be compelled to crawl along Meridian St. during the rush hour behind a slowly moving truck. Incidentally, dozens of trucks can be counted on Meridian St. at almost any time. One wonders if they all have permits to use a street that is supposed to be used for passenger vehicles only. Horse sense can do a lot toward straightening out traffic jams.

OSTRICHES AND POLITICIANS STRANGE birds, these politicians! The Indiana type is no different from his brethren in Ohio, Maine or California. We laugh -when the ostrich buries its head and thinks it is safe from approaching catastrophe. But isn’t it just as funny when a politician buries his mind under the praise of friends, and squats ostrich-like in his office until a public upheaval bowls him over and out? Saw one of those upheavals in Minnesota! Republican leaders are “amazed” at the election of Magnus Johnson, one of the people, to the United States Senate. The President is “chagrined,” so say dispatches from Alaska. Just as if Minnesota folk lacked the right to differ with the powers enthroned by them! And Democratic leaders rejoice! They think that by some hocus pocus they will be richer by this popular discontent! Maybe they will, and maybe they won’t. ‘ What difference exists between the two parties, anyway? Folks are asking that. And justly, too. To a few earnest Democrats, their party may differ from the Republicans. It may be more liberal, more a party of protest. But to the politicians today :n power, the party, be it Democratic or Republican, is merely a vehicle to power. It is time for one party or the other to change that. Chances that the Republican party will do it are almost nil. Chances that the Democrats will do it are a little better and that is more than nothing. This is the chance of a lifetime, if ever there were one, for the minority party leaders to cease being phonographs and to set forth some ideas for fulfilling the will of the people. Now is the time to put coal in the cellar if*you can get prices in the cellar. • * • European nations can’t get peace with each other by trying to get a piece of each other. * • • The ambitious amateur thinks the golf course hasn’t enough holes so digs a few himself. • • • Too many people’s idea of a good time seems to be too many people’s idea of a wicked time. • • • Some people making long summer trips are wished success going, but not coming. • • • A bee or not a bee, that’s the picnA question.

MORALE OF REPUBLICANS CRUMBLING headers in Washington Agree Chance of Harding’s ReElection Is Slim. By JOHN CARSON Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. July 23.—The morale of that part of the Republican party remaining In Washington has gone. Call it "sour grapes,” the “buck ague” or anything you wish, or just ascribe it to an ability to discover a silver lining—the fact is, Republican leaders in Congress are now insisting a Democratic victory in 1924 will benefit the Republican party. “They can’t do any more than we have, and the result will be a reaction against them,” insisted one of the most prominent Republican Senators. "I think a Democratic victory in 1924 will result in burying the Democratic party. We’ll get a favorable reaction before 1926.” That- Is just evidence of the mentai slant of the Republicans. Invariably they agree the chance for re-election of President Harding Is very slim and It will be less as the months roll around. Other Factors Hurt Party To this lack of spirit is .added various other factors which have hurt the party organization and especially hurt it so long as the President is regarded as the party leader. These factors are: Growing dissatisfaction Within the President's Cabinet. It is now known the Cabinet members upon whom the President leaned most a year ago are irritated and discouraged. One resignation is not an impossibility. Concern among the Senators and Representatives over their own political future. Unmistakable tendencies are noticed among Senators to look out for themselves and this attitude of “every man for himself” is about the peak of party disintegration. Leader Is Needed

Within the last two days I’ve had one Senator, a stalwart Republican of the old school, tell me that the country needed a “Roosevelt, or a Wilson.” “But this man Harding is not that, and he can’t be changed," he continued. “He's not strong now when we need a strong man. He's weak and he's flirting with this and that In an effort to develop strength, whereas he should have stuck to the policies of the first year of his Administration.” Someone of the newspaper correspondents with the President suggested Mr. Harding was "talking too much.” Immediately that became a cry with the Republican Seimtors. “Preaching out there In the West.” exclaimed one Senator with evident derision. "Why didn’t he think about practicing those things he's preaching about during the first two years?” These are just suggestions of a spirit within the party which is ominous for the President. And most remarkably, it is the spirit within the Old Guard and especially the liberai Old Guard of Eastern States It Is development of a feeling that the President began playing "Ohio politics" a few months ago in order to save himself and his State The belief the President had returned to the dictation of Attorney General Daugherty and cast aside the advice of such men as Secretary of War Weeks and Secretary’ of the Treasury Mellon caused this resentment. With this going on. you might say the party should get rid of Harding. But the fart is. it is conceded Mr. Harding will be the party nominee If he wants it —and it is agreed now he wants it and the only question is his courage in facing the probability of defeat. Alternative Is Wise The real reason why there Is no suggestion among the conservatives to get rid of Mr. Harding is that the other alternative is regarded as worse. With Mr. Harding out of the race, the conservative fear the presidential possibilities of a Pinchot, a Kenyon or a Hiram Johnson. They’d rather have a Democrat win the presidency than have this type of a Republican.

A Thought

He that gathered in summer is a wise son; hut he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causetli shame. —Prov. 10:5. • * ♦ RAGS will always make their appearance where they have a right to do It.—Johnson.

Science

One of the greatest inventions of man is the microscope. Thirty or forty years ago every boy tried to produce snakes by putting horse hairs in a glass or bottle of water. Many country people believe to this day that eels can be grown by putting horse hairs in a pond. The microscope destroyed these and many other similar ideas, when It overturned what is called the doctrine of spontaneous generation. That doctrine taught that lifeless matter was suddenly converted into living matter. For example, a dead carcass was supposed to breed insects 'and maggots. The microscope revealed the hitherto unknown world of cells from which every living thing is composed. Small bits of matter, such as a grain of sand or a spoonful of water, are now known to be composed of many small units. In a similar way the bodies of all living things are built out of these units.

Heard in Smoking Room

AIjOT of lawyers were present in the smoker and the talk had gone on to damage suits, when a gent connected with Forbes Mazagine told that a certain electric specialty company had just acquired a funny damage suit. The petition against the company was filed by a woman and read: “Plaintiff alleges that this defendant represented to her that this range would not become heated on the up-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(?JoM SIMS | Says

Nice thing about a porch swing is it never has a puncture or runs into a ditch. * * * Keep looking up and you will learn the sky is the limit. * * You are not getting old until you leave the swimming hole before it is time to leave. 000 Value of a kiss depends upon the law of supply and demand. * * ♦ It is estimated a great many people get fat loafing around trying to keep cool. • • * Wouldn't it be funny if everybody believed everybody? • * * Lots of birds think they are wise as owls because they are always hooting at somebody. * • * * Quite a few married men carry their religion in their wife’s name. • • • Some people have to brag about their ancestors because they have no descendants to speak of. Everybody should talk as well as they do loud. * * Most weather-beaten man in this town is the weather man. ¥OO Ninety per cent of the men hunting trouble are single. • • • What the United States needs Is a serious reformer shortage.

Indiana Sunshine

Teachers and pupils of the old district school No. 5. near Elwood. are making plans for the annual reunion to be held July 29. at F’leenor Grove. The 1923 graduating class of the Crawrfordsville High School has announced that It will purchase three sections of bleechers to be placed on the auditorium stage, as a class gift to the school. A reba| of SI,OOO to farmers of Bartholomew County was announced by the farm bureau. The money, saved through coopqerative buying, will be equally distributed to members. Rare specimens of Indiana Indian relics was presented to the Miami county museum by John Reynolds. 72. Peru, a lifelong devotee of the relic habit. W. D. Colvert. 80. farmer near Franklin, planned to spend his recent birthday In his usual manner, attending to his farm, but his activities were Interrupted hy visits from about 150 friends who called on him luring the afternoon and evening. Work on the new Lawrence county Speedway to be constructed near Bedford Is under way. Eighty acres of ground along the Dixie, highway were purchased. The grandstand wll l seat R,OO.

Family Fun

Impossible The auctioneer was endeavoring to dispose of a stock of cigars. White was among the listeners, and having sampled this particular line, was not quite In agreement with the auctioneer. “Yes,'’ said the auctioneer, "these cigars are absolutely without equal in this country today. In short, gentlemen, you can’t get better; whatever you do, you can’t get better.” White was unable to restrain himself any longer. “No, you can't get better.” he broke in. "1 smoked one last week and I haven't recovered yet.”—Milwaukee Sentinel. One for Him Who Sells You Coal . Bill Jones drove a coal wagon. In the course of work he delivered a load of coal at the house of a citizen with whose cook he was acquainted and was greeted by her warmly after tho coal had been unloaded. Bill's boss wondered what had become of him. as time passed, and called at. the house. He found Bill In the kitchen. "What are you doing here?” asked the boss. "I thought I went with the coal.” "Why?” “I was weighed with It.”—Judge. Road to the Doctor Doctor: “Didn’t I tell you I'd have you on your feet soon?” "You bet; since I've paid your bill I’ve had to give up my car!”—Film Fun. Sister’s Y’oung Feller "What is your reason for wishing to marry my daughter?” “I have no reason, sir; I am in love.” One on the Landlord Landlord: "I’m here after the rent.” Tenant: "You’re wrong. I’m after the rent—you’re ahead of it.”—-Amer-ican Legion Weekly. When Brother Buys I'd like to see something cheap in a straw hat. Clerk: Try this one. The. mirror is on your left.—Boston Transcript.

per surface of the oven. That plaintiff relying wholly upon this defendant’s representation, placed her bath tub in the kitchen near the range. “That, upon emerging from the tub, plaintiff’s foot accidentally came into contact with the soap upon the floor and she was thus compelled to sit upon the range. “That, although she arose therefrom in all diligence, she discovered she had been branded 'H-47.' ”

AMERICAN ‘HICK’ SEES SCOTLAND Philosopher Given 'Razzberry’ and Reminded He Is Foreigner, RAPER LETTER Nd. 2—ln this communique, Correspondent Raper tells why he's a hick in a strange land, although visiting with our hospitable cousins on t'other side the Atlantic. There’s some fun in Raper's letters, considerable sense, and a flavor of ordinary, everyday things that he finds different abroad. By JOHN W. RAPER Cleveland Press Philosopher and Genial Cynic Now "Visitin’ ’Round” With Our Ancestors, Cousins and Such, in Great Britain. GLASGOW, Scotland: Here I am, a hick in a strange land. And a foreigner. The Scotch aboard the ship told us Americans we would not he foreigners in Great Britain; that we would be Americans, much different form being foreigners. But official Britain reminds us pleasantly enough that we are aliens. An immigration officer came on board down the Clyde, five or six hours before we reached our Glasgow dock, and all passengers were Instructed to pass before him in line, that he might examine our passports. As we formed In line, a ship steward sang out, "British subjects will be examined first,” and when we half dozen Americans dropped out, two or three Scots, who were returning from a tour of the North, gave us the well-known American “razzberry.” To the rear, you aliens! Foreigners last!” they called out. The Scotch I learned on the boat, have a way in theis razzing that enables you to laugh with them. But it was a reminder. We are foreigners. The Immigration officer read my passport two or three times as carefully as though It was the first he had ever seen. Then he asked: "How long do you expect to be hero?” *1 told him about two’months, whereupon he gave me a card, upon which were instructions regarding registering with the police in case I remained more than two months, and handed nie a debarkation ticket, remarking pleasantly, "I hope you have an enjoyable visit in Great Britain.” Tells All His Secrets At the hotel I wus reminded again that I was a foreigner. I signed a printed form, wrote down informat'on as to my citizenship, birthplace, age. residence, street and number, profession, reason for being in Great Britain, my destination and address by which I could be reached while in the country. But American or foreigner. I am doubly a hick. I have been In Scotland only an hour, half of which I have spent walking through down ton'll streets of Glasgow and standing on the corner watching the parade. ! I am a hick. 1 wear a soft hat in Mead of a cap or stiff hat. as the n& j lives dc. My trousers are creased —i not any too well creased for Cleveland but here they are conspicuous, the only creased pair In sight. The! cloth Is smooth, instead of being a shaggy tweed and absurdly light In weight compared to the •‘summer" clothes that I see now and then on a i Scot, though mine is winter weight at home.

My shoes are winter shoes at home, heavy ones, you woqld say, hut in Glasgow they are light. Botn es them together will weigh no more than one Scotch shoe of the s.una size. And their style is wrong The prevailing style !s a square toe. something like the box-toed hoot or shoe that was popular in the United Stat ss in the early eighties. Wear Tight Collars My collar is too tight. It Is not tight at home, hut should be three sizes larger, perhaps four. There should be room enough between my collar and the neckband of my shirt to drop a golf ball. Then, too, I am wearing a heavy overcoat, and incidentally shivering ail over. A few Scotchmen are wearing light raincoats, hut only a 'ew, A few have- sweaters under their coats, hut more walk along with under coats open, and no vests. Scores of hoys wear short pants not much longer than trunks, and short socks, as far below the knees as the pants are above. Girls of 6 or 8 years are dressed In French socks and skirts of summer material, not more than 12 Inches long, for all the world like a little American girl on a July day. But 1 notice that mother, who Is with daughter, wears a coat, furs and woolen stockings. Keep to Left Traffic keeps to the left. I have known that rule for years hut I always look to the right. I expect to be bumped In the eye sooner or later by a taxi. I keep staring at the chimneys and the chimney tiles on these three and four-story Glasgow skyscrapers, when I am not staring—not too Impolitely I hope—at pedestrians. While I am rubbering at the chimneys I hear the roar of something over the stone block pavement. There Is a rattle of machinery. Turning away from the chimneys. I see a strange choo-choo car coming up the street. It choo-choos past me and I watch It. openmouthed, until It is out of sight. Anybody would know I am a hick. Verily, I am a hick, and In a strange land. mm* NEXT—Oddities of a Scotch “temperance hotel” attract Mr. Raper’s comment in his next article, the tiny “lift,” and the mammoth room key, and a bright Glasgow girl clerk who subdues a Chicago traveling man.

Observations

“If you can’t say it, whistle it.” In Boston a free clinic employs whistling as a help to those affliched with impediments of speech. Amarillo, Texas, has decide I street cars are has-beens. It declines to renew the franchise of its street railway company and calls on motor bus concerns to make bids for use of the public streets. Forty States have capital punishment. Twenty-two use gallows, 17 use electricity, and in Nevada, lethal gas. Canada, at least, is grateful. It will give an annuity to Dr. F. G. Banting, discoverer of Insulin, large enough to permit the doctor to devote his life to medical research.

How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth

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What Editors Are Saying

Spirit (Alexandria Times-Tribune) There are not enough willing help err In the average small city to put anything big across. It is too true that whenever & civio enterprise worth while is started, the load falls upon the same few’ w’ho bear all the burdens of voluntary contributions in such cases. If ALL the citizens would hejp In proportion to their means, no civic or community enterprise would fail for want of support. There Is nothing like comuntty spirit backed up by sensible liberality to make a town or city the envy of the envied. Liquor (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) Announcement by George R. Winkler, central Indiana group chief of the Federal prohibition department, that the campaign against liquor law violations In this city Is to be continued until Ft. Wayne Is thoroughly Cleaned of the disreputable dives %nd the miserable bootleggers Is an encouraging hit of information, for it is very apparent that Mayor Hosey and his police department have no Intentions of enforcing the prohibition law. They are “agin” It and they don’t care who knows It. Memorial (Lafayette Journal and Courier) In erecting a memorial to Indiana soldiers on the plaza site at Indianapolis. the artistic values and the enduring beauty of the monument should not be cluttered up with any so called utilitarian adjuncts w’hieh might in future years detract from or make a standing mockery of the original purpose of the structure. If it Is feasible to provide headquarters for patriotic organizations adjacent to the memorial, well and good, so long as those offices or office buildings do not have the effect of spoiling the sentimental and artistic effect. The monument is to stand for generations. Human organizations and their headquarters come and go. A monument to World It :ir soldiers raised as headquarters building for an existing organization or oganizations, might fifty years from now or 100 years hence be found occupied and used for commercial purposes, or by groups utterly different from those to whose use it first was dedicated or offered. It is wise to divorce the utilitarian from the memorial Idea. The monument must be a monument and a memorial for all generations and not alone for the one that gives It form and substance.

Animal Facts

Wisconsin is worried about its muskellunge, “the tiger of the fresh waters. It is being fished out and is near extinction there. Muskie fry cannot be hatched as can the eggs of bass, trout, pickerel and pike, and the adult fish cannot be netted because of obstructions in the lakes and rivers It inhabits. So it must be left to increase in its own home or it will disappear forever. Wisconsin is thinking of establishing a closed season of several years in order to restock its streams with this greatest fighter of all fresh-water fishes. If you want, to kill cougars and bobcats, go to the mountain districts of Arizona. The ranchers will welcome you, and even will they give you gasoline and oil for your autos, if you stick around and kill off the predatory beasts. One lion killed means many head of stock saved in a year. If y ever saw & "jumping mouee” you have sharp eye(j, because, although there are many from New England to California, they do all their visiting around at night. Fpr is a dusty yellow and they have long hind legs and feet, just like the kangaroo, so they can jump fast instead of run. Jumping mouse has pouches in his cheeks and he carries his food home in these h\ndy valises. He likes beechnuts best. He sleeps all winter doubled up like a ball of fur, and if you carry him in where it’s warm he will awaken and be lively as In summer. Take him back to his nest and he’ll drop to sleep right away.

TAKE A LOOK By BERTON BRALEY We read in myths and fairy tales Os how the mountains and the vales. The woods and lakes and dewy’ dales, Were much frequented By hamadryads slim and fair, And nymphs of pagan beauty rare, Who were encountered everywhere In forests scented. And there is much mythology Regarding ladies of the sea Who, in a manner hold and free, . Vamped many sailors; Their garments w’ere exceeding sheer (According to the yarns we hear). They didn't give much work, I fear. To ladies’ tailors. Where are those nymphs and dryads, too, Who roamed the forest pathways through? Where are the sirens of the blue, Blue ocean reaches? "Where are they now?” the poet cries. It is a cinch to put him wise. He merely needs to use his eyes Upon the heaches! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

From the Referee’s Tower

By ALBERT APPLE Bets The first bets on the coming presi dential election are offered in Wall Street. An unknown gentleman, who apparently Is connected with the Safety First movement will bet you $2,000 against $40,000 that Governor Smith will be the next rent-free tenant of the White House. Another offer is SI,OOO against $3,000 that Ford will be elected If nominated, either by Republicans or Democrats. Easy money. Ford Henry Ford visited the historic Massachusetts tavern, built In 1656, that inspired Longfellow’s "Tales of a Wayside Inn.” The guide gave his ballyhoo c<bout the ancient hinges reuted to ward off evil spirits. Henry listened patiently. Then while the rest of the crowd moved on, he remained behind to examine closely and learn whether anew set of hinges would work better. This trait is what gives Henry a chance at the presidency. John Rodger Dolan reports that he is not having much luck with his Rockefeller-for-President Club, started as a backfire to check the Ford movement. Dolan says he can’t understand this. Inasmuch as Rockefeller has proved himself Ford’s equal as a business genius and organizer, and in addition has always paid his average employe as much as Ford pays, not to mention that John Is half a billion dollars or so ahead of Ford in contributions to charity. Waiting The undertakers’ association of Long Island, N. Y„ urges the board of alderman to reduce the auto speed limit. ’’This will not affect our business, we’d rather wait for them than pick them up,” says J. C. Brophy, secretary of the association. It would do many of us considerable good to pause occasionally and ponder that our activities here on earth are rapidly taking us to an inevitable destination, the frock-coated gentleman who is patiently waiting until It Is our turn. Most people act as if they were going to he here forever. Shorter Americans, as a race, are becoming shorter in stature. So claims Dr. E. P. Millard, spinal expert. He blames It partly on school seats that cramp the growing child. Dr. Millard is crusading for cushioned seats for school children. Anew idea and worthy the serious consideration of school boards. Pupils might have less "fidgets” and generally better nerves and concentration if they didn’t have to sit on oak boards. It is impossible to spand too much for comfortable chairs and beds.

MONDAY, JULY 23, 1923

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You can get an anßwer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times 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 persona! replies.—Editor. When will the next presidential election be held? Nov. 4. 1924. Was (here an authentic Queen Semiramis? According to Herodotus there was a Semlramis, Queen of Babylon, who lived in the first half of the eighth century, B. C. Who wrote the words of the song, "The Gypsy Trail”? Kipling. What kind of writing paper should a man use for his private correspondence? A strictly conservative style, white or gray or granite paper, large in size, 5%x7%, or 6xß. or s*ixßt&. Os what is cocoa made? Os what is chocolate made? Cocoa is made of the dried and powdered seed kernels of the cacao tree, i hocolate is a paste made of cacao seeds, roasted, ground and mixed with water and sugar. When did the Iroquois Theater fire occur and how many lives were lost? Dec. 30, 1903; 575 lives were lost. How many women are enrolled in medical schools? In 1920 there were 888 women medical students. How many warships are therein the United States flee*? 295. What causes jelly to crystallize? Either it cooked too long or there is too much sugar used. How long after desertion is a deserter in time of peace liable for prosecution by the War Department? Three years after date of deserlon. What are the meanings of the names Hilda and Chloe? Hilda: A lady of rank. Chloe: A green herb. 'What is the Indian population of the United States? 340,917. Who are the United States consular officers in Rumania? Hon. Ely E. Palmer. United States Consul at Bucharest, and Hon. Richard B. Haven, United States vice-con-sul at Constantza.

How can I chemically destroy tree stumps? Bore holes two or three inches apart around the trunk, and fill them with saltpetre. If left for some time this will rot the stumps. How many combinations of two teams in different leagues can be made frm five baseball leagues of eight teams each? 640. YYhat is the professional bicycle record for one mile? One minute, four and one-fifth seconds, motor paced. YVhat kind of weather do they have in Costa Rica? Temperatures are quite high all the year, with little variation. Rainfall comes most heavily during summer ar.d fall, and is greater in the northeast portion than in the southwest. Good for the Country Two years ago the Government struck olf 3,342,000 victory war medals to be given to those who participated in the great conflict. At this time, after two years, there are remaining at the capital as unclaimed 2.119,000 of chose medals. It isn’t a bad sign. A year age the American Legion was working hard to find employment for thousands of ex-soldiers. Now, apparently, there are at least 2,000,000 and more who are so busy with peaceful pursuits, well-meant baubles of war In forest them not at all. That’s good tfor ths country.