Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1923 — Page 4

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A LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA * 4 WONT take those farmers too seriously,” a political leader L* aavises our Washington correspondent. “They planted too much wheat this year and they can’t sell it—that’s what’s the matter with them.” All right, Political Leader, but how about this letter which just came in from a friend out in California? He says: “Farmers are sore, even in California, this year. It’s a canners’ year, with canners’ prices. The bumper crops are having hard going. One man in Hanford advertised he would not pick his apricots at all. He said the public was welcome to come and get them, but please don’t break the trees. “The hell of it is that with a market price of $25 a ton for apricots and some selling for less, apricots in this town cost 15 cents for half-green, undersized fruit. Something’s wrong!” Do you take that seriously, Political Leader? DODGING—MORNING, NOON, NIGHT [~T N 1917 there were 2,076 automobile accidents in this country; I 1 [1,083 persons killed and 3,000 hurt. In 1921 the killed were 1,259, injured 3,976. So far in 1923 some 978 killed and 3,011 injured in 2,221 accidents. If the average is maintained, there -will be 700 persons killed in 1,400 additional accidents before the year ends. During last May, the New York Central Railway—just one road, mind you, loaded 21,244 freight cars with motor vehicles numbering 106,120 —an average of 817 carloads a day. There are 12,588,949 motor vehicles in the world and 10,500,000 are in the United States. No wonder we are dodging, morning, noon and night. The situation seems to be growing beyond traffic law control. It is going to be more difficult of modification in the future than now, as the above figures indicate. Thus it is up to the mere plodding pedestrian to save himself in one way or another, if he can do so. He may be compelled to buy a flivver himself on the theory that that would be* the best gamble for life he could make. Or he may think of another plan for safety, but he will be gambling just the same. It has come to that. It may be a crude and impossible proposition, but fortune surely awaits the genius who will invent suitable armored apparel for pedestrians. These suits, of necessity, must be strong and yet light and airy, and they must be capable of protecting the bodies of wearers when knocked down and run over by automobiles. Such or similar suits would secure to pedestrians the privilege of the last and best laughs, which they do not live to enjoy now. Come, genius, the world is honking for you!

BIG FAMILIES BECOME FEWER SHE Ormsby quadruplets, who became nationally famous as dime museum attractions in 1902, still are living. It is s£id by authorities that this is the only case of all four members of a quadruple birth surviving into maturity. Their mother, Mrs. Josephine K. Ormsby, is farming at the outskirts of Chicago. She was 26 years old when she married Charles Ormsby, plumber, in 1894. Her children came as follows: 1895—A boy. 1896—Twins. 1897—A girl. 1898—Twins. 1899—Triplets. 1900—A boy. 1901—Quadruplets Fourteen children in seven years! The quadruplets consisted of three sons and a daughter. They packed the dime museums for a couple of years and thereby brought considerable wealth to their mother. The birth of a baby girl to Mrs. Mary J. Barton of Kellyville, N. H., recently made her the mother of twenty children at the age of 45. You don’t often hear of such big families in our generation. In grandfather’ day, a family of twenty children would not have attracted much attention, for a perusal of the average family Bible will disclose that five or six children were considered a small family in Civil War times and, while offspring totaled twenty only occasionally, twelve to seventeen children were not at all uncommon. Big families are getting fewer as the years slip by. The mother of twenty children is almost as much of a curiosity in 1923 as the Ormsby quadruplets were in 1901. There’d be plenty of twenty-children families, however, if the economic pinch were not quite so tight, though Lemuel R. Barton, farmer-father of the big New England family, says he finds its as easy to take cate of twenty as of five. Proudly he points out that if every family had twenty children our communities would have a great increase in population. They certainly would. There are about twenty million families in America and if each had twenty children our population would be around 440 millions—four times as big as it is now. However, we’ll have that population, and more, in time. TEACHERS WANT the minuet dance back. It will never do. They dance hours, not minuets. • • • OSHKOSH, (Wis.) man raises about a million frogs a year; not, however, to get the hops. • THESE ARE the days when it is time to go home just before you get settled down to work. • • • OUR MARRIAGE rate is increasing, perhaps because bowlegged girls are wearing long skirts. • • • GOSHEN (Ind.) man traveled 2,997,000 miles. He was a mail clerk, instead of hunting a drink. • • DOCTORS THINK a Toledo (Ohio) man is crazy because he likes to work too much. We think so, too. • • WHAT’S IN a name? Professor Schmack of Paris has invented a machine to measure kisses. DES MOINES (Iowa) safe blowers made $3,000 in a few minutes, but it isn’t steady work. • • * AMERICAN WOMEN use 10,000 tons of talcum powder every year, but less gun powder. • • • WHO REMEMBERS last winter when the ice man was a total stranger?

C. W. SOCIETY OF ENGLAND SPANS GLOBE Nothng in America Compares in Scope to Cooperative of Britain, By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Writer EONDON, July 28. —In America we think we know something about big business enterprises, but it is doubtful whether we have anything in our country which excels or even approaches the farreaching activities of the Cooperative Wholesale Society. In the first Instance they at once established buying agencies all over the world. Today the concern has Its own purchasing depots in all five of the great continents, and it has its own fleet of four steam vessels and ten lighters. Factories Numerous The first factories were very small. Today the C. W. S. studs England with its plants. It has nine flour mills with an annual output worth over forty-five million dollars. The other things it manufactures for its retail societies are provender and oil cake, biscuits, crackers, candy, cheese, margarine, lard, bacon, preserves, pickles, vinegar, yeast, cocoa and chocolate, drugs and chemicals, tobacco In all its forms, all kinds of cotton and wool textiles, hosiery, rope and twine, clothing and underclothing, corsets,) boots and shoes, leather, furniture/ hardware, bicycles and motorcycles, brushes and mats, soap, paint, saddlery and harness, trunks and bags, chlnaware, books and printed matter and bottles. Has Its Own Farms Tea is such a universal beverage in Great Britain that the Cooperative Wholesale Society soon Jieeame convinced It w;ls uneconomical to buy from planters. Today they own jointly 5,706 apres of tea lands In Ceylon, 26,765 acres in south India, 17,449 in Assam, making a grand total of 49,920 acres. Learning by experience that 't paid to do its own farming, the C. V\ S. gradually purchased big farms all over Great Britain. The Cooperative Wholesale Society today employes over 33,000 persons, exclusive of those who work for It overseas. Its salary roll is over twenty-six million dollars per year. What Editors Are Saying Safety First (Muncie E renin g Press) Three young women of Indianapolis have been attacked within the last few days by men In automobiles and almost every day somebody Is held up and robbed by highway bandits somewhere near here. When you are driving In the country at night and an attempt is made to stop your car, the safest policy Is to “step on It.” It is true the person accosting you may be in distress, but it is better to allow him to find some way out of his trouble tljan to be held up and perhaps assaulted and robbed. Women especially should be careful not to accept offers to ride from strangers even though the latter may be accompanied by women. And never stop at night to pick up a tire lying in the center of the road. That is another favorite ruse of hold up men. You may he badly In need of a tire or of the money which selling the tire would bring, but you would better let 1U lie where it is and come back at daylight to see if it is still there, than to lose your pocketbook and perhaps your car at the hands of bandits concealed near the road.

Easy (Bluffton Evening Banner) By a very careful pruning system Republican leaders found two thousand of their number who were willing to sit in a meeting at Indianapolis yesterday and pledge undying faith and loyalty to the grand old party. It was Clyde Walb day, and the way those boys Impressed Clyde with loyalty and one thing an’ other was good for sore eyes. But Clyde must remember that Governor McCray can turn out two thousand State employes for a Republican function and then not cripple the service for the day. Science Recently the close study of glands became noteworthy In the medical profession. Many of the results expected of various gland operations have been far below expectations, but the general study of the subject seems to prove that the chief organs in the problem of prolonging human existence are the ductless glands. Very little Is known about glands, but it is certain that they are of vast Importance. Operations have been performed on rats in Vienna, stimulating the interstitial gland and giving a rat, showing signs of senile decay, renewed life. Even failing brain and mental faculties were revived. These results, of course, need further testing to see whether they apply to other animals besides rats Dr. Evans, University of California, found that he could inject the fluid of the pituitary' gland Into the thyroid, in cases Os goiter. In rats, and cure the disease. Science has made Aierely a beginning in the study of glands, but it is probable this line of research will have a great deal to do with increasing the length of human life. Bobby Posts Uncle "Some day, my boy, you may be President.” “Cut out the jollying, uncle! Ma tells sister the same thing.”—Judge.

Heard in Smoking Room

“Going out of Helena, Mont., one afternoon there were only three of us in the Pullman —a young couple and myself. I finished in the dining car a few minutes before they did and came back to the smoking room. “Presently the young couple came to the smoking room and the young man asked if I objected to the young lady smoking. I didn’t.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

- ] I Says Here and there you hear a war vet saying they don’t need a bonus, ind maybe he doesn’t. * * *. An optimist is a man who takes his overcoat to a summer resort. * * W If you buy your Christmas presets from a mail order house, it is time you ordered them. • • • In this auto age, the hen may cross the road because she Is despondent over bad health. '* * * Germany evidently wants to wait until the war is over before she pays for the thing. ** * • Now and then you hear of a stream being dragged for someone who didn’t ask if it was deep. • • * Take your razor camping or some one may mistake you for a brush pile and burn you. • * * When two famous people marry the paper always tells you whose former mates they were. * • * It’s about equal. The crowd swamps you in town and the swamps crowd you at summer resorts. # * • Yes, we have no cold weather. • * * The results of nine presidential straw votes show we will have nine Presidents next time. • • * These are the days summer boarders get corn on the ear eating corn on the cob.

Indiana Sunshine Not only cats but mules lead charmed lives near Campbellsburg. Three horses were killed when lightning struck a bam belonging to Ell McCoy. A mule escaped. Onions with the flavor of white grapes are being exhibited by John Powojl, farmer near Vincennes The “fruit” has the tint and the shape of onions. It tastes and Is bunched like grapes. The County Farmers’ Association and the Fair Association at Lafayette are having a squabble over the annual county fair. The fair folk want carnival features while the farmers are opposed. An opossum visited a garage at Columbus the other day and the mechanics experienced a thrill and a half-hour chase before It was captured. Company "C” of Rushvllle, a unit of the 151st Infantry, Indiana National Guard, received special recognition at Camp Knox as being the best drilled company in the outfit. Twenty two hoboes w<|re rounded up in the B. & O. Railroad yards at North Vernon by railroad detectives. The men were placed on an east-bound train and told to “keep going.”

Family Fun Mathematics A woman, no longer In the blush of her first youth, was trying to overcome the reluctance of a little girl to retire for the night. “Being 6 years old,” she said, “you should go to bed at 6. When you are 7 you may stay up till 7, and when you are 8 you will not have to retire till 8.” The child gazed thoughtfully, with a mental arithmetic look, at the kindly face, with its crown of gray hair, and remarked: “Then I suppose you never go to bed at all."—Toronto Globe. How Divorce Starts Divorce Report—" Mrs. Snyder told the court that her husband hit her In the bakery and broke her gas range."—Ex. A Youngster’s View A little colored boy, clothes removei| was splashing around to his heart’s content in a public reservoir. “Hey! Come out of that, you young rascal!” shouted the keeper. “Don't you know that the people in town have to drink that water?" The youngster dived under, came up and Innocently replied: “Oh! Dat’s all right mister; I ain’t usin’ no soap.” —Boston Trans. One for the Family Lawyer Cop—This man Is a lawyer by day and a burglar by night, yer honor. Justice—Which was he arrested for? —Judge. She Danced With Father “Isn’t the floor nice?’’ “Yes, try it when you get tired of my feet!”—Film Fun. IJfctle Willie’s Answer "Willie,” asked the teacher, “what was It Sir Walter Raleigh said when he placed his cloak on the muddy road for the beautiful queen to walk over?” Willie gazed about the classroom in dismay, and then, taking a long chance, replied: “Step on it, Kid!” —American Legion Weekly. Why Father Quit “So your hußband has given up smoking. That needs a pretty strong will, doesn’t it?” “Well, I’ve got one!”—London Mail.

“We had Just got three cigaretets going when the porter poked his head in and said: “ Scuse me, miss, but ladies isn’t s'posed to smoke in dls hyar room.’ “ ‘Who the said I was a lady?' she replied. , “The porter scratched his head and gave it up."

SCOTS ASK RAPER HOW TIMES ARE Other Questions of Interest to Kilted Cousins Are ‘Ford’ and ‘Prohibition,’ BY JOHN W. RAPER “Most Anything” Man of The Cleveland (Ohio) Press. Now Visiting With Oar Second Couning In Scotland. „ LASGOW, Scotland, July 28. ]f- There are two questions every 1 man you meet in Glasgow is certain to ask you if you talk to him more than two minutes. If he is a merchant or salaried man, the first question he asks is, “How is prohibition working in America?” His second question is, “How are times over there?’’ If he is a wage earner, machinist, street car conductor, salesman, bookkeeper, hotel porter, teamster, no matter what, he reverses the question and asks about “times.” The merchant or salaried man, or the tourist, or men who are around hotels frequently and meet numerous Americans, don’t know what to believe about prohibition. Many traveling Americans tell them: “Can’t work, can’t work. Never will. More drinking than ever before. Every home has a still. Doctors and druggists are all bootleggers. Men running after you to sell It to you. Coming in from West Indies in shiploads. Simply rolling over from Canada. Boys and girls drinking. More arrests than ever before for drunkenness. Sure to be repealed, sure.” One Way to Advertise It makes a splendid Impression on a Scotchman and adds so greatly to his respect for the United States Government and its citizens! Liquor interests over here are flooding the country with tracts against prohibition, telling what a failure it has been in America and making wild statements that would startle even the most ardent American wet. Scotchmen don’t know what to believe. tel! you they expected there would be difficulty In enforcing so revolutionary a law and are not at all surprised that it isn’t rigidly enforced. Most of them ray they expect It to be enforced rigidly in time. About Henry Ford Then there is a question that is easily third in frequency. It is this: “Is Henry Ford to be your next President?" Everybody is astonished when I answer. “I don’t know.” "Why, we supposed that question was as good as settled," everybody says. “Haven’t your leaders agreed yet?” You can see the Scotchman knows almost as mtteh about American politics as the American voter does. Back to prohibition: If anybody cares to lose anew hat, I’ll wager with him that Scotland Is dry one of these days, probably within ten years. It is astonishing how many prohibitionists you meet, and you can see how the prohibition movement has developed exactly as it did in America.

Editor’s Mail The editor Is willing to print views of Times reader* on interesting: subjeets. Make your comment bnef. Sign your name a* an evidence of rood faith. It will not be printed It you object. Bright Lights To the Editor of The Timet Why not have stickers printed from the form of your recent editorial “Hogs and Gentlemen," in which you flayed the auto drivers who do not dim their lights on the road at night? I for one would be mighty proud to put one on my windshield. Conditions are so exasperating that I do not care to drive at night. When one Is blinded every few minutes it takes the pleasure out of driving. ED HUNTER, 2317 N. Meridian St. •I- 'l' -ICarpenters’ Action To the Editor of The Time Carpenters' Local Union No. 75 In regular meeting July 26, severed its affiliation with the Central Labor Union of Indianapolis. TJie Central Labor Union was organized as an Industrial body and as such the carpenters were proud to cooperate In its activities to promote the best Interests of the working class of citizens, but realizing that it has ceased lately to function as an unbiased Industrial organization we are of the opinion that to remain longer a member of the C. L. U. would only jeopordize the neutral position which the carpenters feel should be the dominating principle of all industrial bodies regarding questions other than those affecting labor. JAMES W. LEWIS Recording Secretary.

Revenge By BERTON BRALEY You’ve shown me your albums of pictures containing Five hundred diversified scenes, I’ve nodded and smiled while you kept on explaining Exar y what each of them means; I’ve limped every building and 1 iwer and steeple And even pretended, somehow, To like all your snapshots of quite unknown people, But —I’VE got a camera now! I’ve heard of each view that you took, how you shot it, The why and the where and the when; I've heard of your lens, just how cheaply you got it, Again and again and again! You’ve told me the weather conditions surrounding Each picture you've taken, I vow; I’ve borne the whole thing with a patience abounding, But —I’VE got a camera now! And I shall fill albums with people whose faces Are quite unfamiliar to you. And I shall take pictures of all sorts of places Exceedingly boresome to view; I’ll show them to you, and I’ll babble of lenses, Till weariness crinkles your brow; I’ve listened to all of your kodaking frenzies, But—l’VE got a camera now! (Copyright, 1923, NBA Service, Inc.)

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Lloyd George Lauds Turks (Continued From Page 1) I could name. This is what he wrote a few days ago: "The records of the conference present an even mono marvellous series of concessions and surrenders. What was frayed before is threadbare now. The Allies have whittled away their own rights with a lavish hand in the cause of peace. The figure that the European delegates are cutlng In Lausanne and the agents of the concessionaires in Angora —all alike representatives of the West—has been rendered undignified as much by the manner as by the matter of their worsting.” Since those distressing words were written the powers have sunk yet deeper Into the slough of humiliation. Turk No Longer Trusted In order to gauge the extent of the disaster to civilization which this treaty implies, it is only necessary to give a short summary of the war alms of the alUes In Turkey. The experience more especially of the past century had demonstrated clearly the Turk could be no longer entrusted with the property, honor or lives of any Christian race within his dominions. So a series of agreements were entered into in the early months of 1915 between France, Russia and ourselves by which the greater part of Turkey, with Its conglomerate population, was to be partitioned at the end of the war. Cilicia and Syria, were allocated to France. Mesopotamia to Britain and Armenia and Constantinople to Russia. Palestine was to be placed under the joint control of Britain and France. Arabia was to be declared independent and territory carved largely out of a desert —but including some famous cities of the East, Damascus, Homs And Aleppo—was to be constituted into anew Arab state partly under the protection of France and partly of Britain. Smyrna and Its precincts were to be allotted to Greece If she Joined her forces with those of the allies In the war. The Straits were to be demilitarized and garrisoned.

When Italy came into the war later on it was stipulated in event of the partition of Turkey being carried out In the pursuance of these agreements, territories in Southern Anatolia should be assigned to Italy for development. In the main the distributed regions were before the war being cultivated and developed by a population which was western and not Turanian in its origin and outlook. This population, represented the original inhabitants of the soil. Treaty Modi flee Policy I have set out shortly what the war polisy of the allies was in reference to Turkey. The Treaty of Sevres considerably modified that policy in many vital aspects. Bu that treaty Constantinople, Cilicia and Southern Anatolia were left to the Turk. Armenia was created into an independent state. There were many objections which could be raisod to the original proposals of 1916 as It might be argued they contemplated handing over in Cilicia and Southern Anatolia populations which in the main were Turkish and Moslem to Christian rule. But In substance the modified plan of Sevres was sound, and. if carried out. would save conduced to the well-being of millions to be liberated by its terms forever from Turkish rule. I have explained the why and the wherefore of Sevres. But why Lausanne? It is a long story. A compound of shortsightedness, disloyalty, selfishness and pusillanimity amongst nations and their statesmen. And more than all, fate happened to be in its grimmest mood when dealing with this problem. The Russian revolution eliminated that great country from a solution of the problem on lines of protection for the oppressed races of Turkey, and cast its might on the side of the oppressor. President Wilson was Inclined to recommend the United States should undertake a mandate for the ians. Had he succeeded what a different story many yearn to come would also tell. His health broke down and America would have none of his humanitarian schemes. Sonnino Leaves Quirinal Then came the departure of Sonnino from the QulrlnaL With him

went for a momentous while the old dreams of Italian colonization, which in the past had done so much to spread civilzation in three continents. His successors were homelier men. I have Btill my doubts whether they served Italy best by the less adventurous and more domesticated policy they pursued. But whatever decision, the time for action has passed away and unless and until there i£ another break up in Turkey, the chance Italy lost since 1919 will not be recovered. Then there was the French check in Cilicia, and negotiations at Angora with Mustapha Kemal, which were both single-handed and underhanded, for the allies were not even Informed of what was going on. This was a fatal step, for it broke up the unity which alone would enable the western powers to deal effectively with the Turk. This unity was never fully recreated. The last fatal change was the Greek revolt against Venizelos. It is often said he is the greatest statesman thrown up by the race since Pericles. In all he has undertaken he has never failed his people. Disaster has always come to them when they refuse to follow his guidance. When King Alexander was killed by a monkey, the Greeks were called upon to decide between Constantine and Venizelos. Their choice was ruinous to their country, and no greater evil can befall a nation than to choose for its ruler a stubborn man with no common sense

Greeks Rout Turks Before the advent of Constantine, Greece, with no aid and little countenance from the powers, was able to hold the forces of Mustapha Kemal easily at bay, and even drive him back. In encounter after encounter the Greek army, led by men chosen for their military gifts, and sufficiently well equipped, inflicted defeat after defeat on the armies of Angora. But with Constantine came a change. In the Greek army courtiers were substituted for soldiers in the high command. French, and ; Italian public opinion, remembering I the treachery of Constantine during ! the war, altered their attitude toward the Greeks, who had elevated him to the throne in defiance of allied sentiment. Indifferent powers became hostile. Hostile powers became active. Final catastrophe began with a heroic but foolish march of the Greek army Into the defiles of Asia Minor, followed by the Inevitable retreat. It was consummated when Constantine, for dynastic reasons, appointed to the command of troops in Asia Minor a crazy general whose mental condition had been under medical review. The Greeks fight valiantly when well led, but, like the French, once they know they are not well led, confidence goes, and with confidence courage. Before the Kemalist attack reached their lines, the Greek army was beaten and In full retreat. With the attack came panic: with panic, the complete destruction of what was once a fine army. With the disappearance of that army went the last hope for the salvation of Anatolia. That the history of the East, and probably of the West, should have been changed by the bite of a monkey is just another grimace of the comlo spirit which bursts now and again into the pages of every great tragedy. Only Remains Saved All that could be done afterwards was to save the remnants of a great policy. Western civilization put up Its last fight against the return of savagery into Europe when, In September and October of last year, British soldiers and sailors, deserted by Allies and associates alike, saved Constantinople from hideous carnage. The pact of Mudanla was not Sevres, but it certainly was better than Lausanne. From Sevres to Mudanla was a retreat. From Mudanla to Lausanne is a rout. What next? Lausanne Is not a terminus. It is only a milestone. No one claims this treaty Is peace with honor. It is not even peace. If one were dealing with a regenerated Turk there might be hope. But the burning of Smyrna and the cold blooded murders cf 130,000 Greeks In the Interior prove the Turk Is still the same. To quote again from the correspondent of the Times at Lausanne, “all such evidence as can be obtained here confirms the belief the new Turk is but the old, and the coming era of enlightenment and brotherly love In Turkey, for which it is the correct thing officially to hope, will be, from the foreigner’s point of view, at best humiliating and at werst a bloody chaos”

SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1923

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can get an answer to any question o£ fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 N. Y. Avenue. Washington. D. C., lri.osms 2 c-enta 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 aU letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. Can you give me the origin of the expression “by bell, book and candle?” The ex-communication by bell, book and candle was a solemnity belonging to the Church of Rome. The officiating ecclesiastic pronounced the formula of ex-communicatlon, consisting of maledictions on the head of the person anathematized, and closed the pronouncing of the sentence by shutting the book from which it was read, taking a lighted candle and casting it to the ground, and tolling the bell as for the dead. What do the letters “Se” on k picture mean? The letters “Sc,” or the abbreviation "sculp.” stand for the Latin word “sculpslt,” which means “He engraved.” Is linen marked with the bride’s maiden name or her married name? The bride may use her own discretion in this matter*. Linen is usually marked with her maiden name, silver with her married name, although either is correct. A reader of this column asks for toothsome suggestions for picnic lunches for summer outings. A bulletin on tnis subject will be mailed to any reader who write* for it to our Washington Bureau, inclosing a two-cent postage stamp. How many pounds are there in a bushel of apples? Forty-four to fifty. How many school children complete the grades and go through high school? According to the U. S. Bureau of Education, out of every 1,000 children who enter school, 634 reach the eighth grade, 342 enter high school and 139 graduate from high school. What percentage of men and women Uve to become centenarians? It has been estimated that out of every 1.000,000 people bom, about sixty-eight men and 241 women roach the age of 100. How much money Is In circulation In the United States? $4,705,923,399.

Observations Os every dollar paid for anthracite coal, the operators get 50 cents, the railroads get 25 cents, the retailer gets 25 cents and the ultimate consumer gets stung. France seems to have the refusal of about every diplomatic question that arises in Europe nowadays. If we get Mr. Harding correctly* he favors seeing America thirst. Mississippi is shipping goats by the hundred to lowa,, for use in gland operations. Now, what in thunder has got to ailin’ those lowana? Or, is it just a back-swash of the gland fad wave? Federal Judges at Los Angeles are granting injunctions against the Arizona minimum wage law. Why not? No Judge likes to be reversed by the United states Supreme Court. A Thought Therefore shall a man leave Ids father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall Ik* one flesh.—Gen. 2:24. • • HEN I said I would die a bacheVv * or ’ 1 not tWnlt 1 should I- I live till I were married.— Shakespeare.