Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis- Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-in-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President. ALBERT W. BUHRMAN. 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 daily 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.

STATE’S PURE FOOD LAWS # SHE State of Indiana has charge of the enforcement of the pure food laws, yet at the State farm 190 are reported to be ill and the illness is reported in plain words by an investigator of the food and drug department to be due to insanitary conditions. Such a condition at a State institution is a blot on the fair name of the State. The Governor has declared he “will not stand for insanitary conditions one minute.” The Governor is right. The food and drug department should see that the farm is cleaned up and kept clean. The State owes a duty to the inmates of that institution even if they are prisoners. RED BLOODED HELP FOR MUSIC ’’p HE day of civic organizations merely passing resolutions * favoring a certain thing and then forgetting all about it, is a thing o£,the past. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce is putting some redblooded support back of Avorthy civic movements. The membership of this body has been notified that the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Avill give three concerts next season under the direction of Ona B. Talbot. * The Chamber of Commerce goes farther than merely telling its members of this musical enterprise. It informs them that orders for season reservations may be made through the secretary "of the C. of C. musie is as expensive and as dangerous for its sponsors as grand opera. Leading business and professional men of Indianapolis by being members of the finance committee and the board of directors of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Society of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Association has made it possible for the booking of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Appreciation of symphony orchestral music often is the result of years of training and study, but there are hundreds of patrons of symphony concerts, who, although they do not understand the technical side of such musicr'love and enjoy the beauty of such concerts. % Various organizations, realizing the civic value of orchestral concerts here, have not only indorsed the series but have actually become guarantors and season seat holders. Indianapolis needs orchestral music, although we have to rely upon organizations of other cities to supply us with it. Some day this city will have its own symphony orchestra. It will take years and widespread public support before this dream is realized. Indianapolis is no longer a “town.” but a city throbbing with advantages which few cities possess. The greater Indianapolis must be an “all-round” city.

RIS FIRST $ SHE elder John D. Rockefeller’s first business deal was unearthed in connection with his 84th birthday recently. John D. was born four miles from the village of Richmond, N. Y. He was reared on a farm, tramped six miles to the little red schoolhouse and slept in an attic through. whose roof the snow sifted in winter. That old house still is standing, hewn from logs and fastened together by wooden pins, as was customary in the old days when iron nails were very expensive. John D. saw a wild turkey hen in the By patient stalking, he finally found her nest. He carried away her young ones, took them home and fattened them. Late in the year he drove his flock to the village ana sold them. The money! He put it in the bank, of course. One day afterward, while digging potatoes, young John D. leaned on his hoe and began thinking. It occurred to him that he had to till the soil several days to get as much money as his “turkey fund” was paying him a year in interest, and for which interest he didn’t have to work a stroke. John D. withdrew his money from the bank and invested it in turkey hens. After that, it was just a matter of multiplication. From his turkey venture, the elder Rockefeller learned a lesson that shaped his entire business career. During his lifetime he has made, as profits, more than a billion dollars. He could not have made anything like this huge amount by his own personal direct efforts. That he did accumulate a billion was principally due to his causing money and other men to work for him. Too sensible to be jealous of having able supporters around him, he early acquired a reputation for hiring the most competent men available —and paying them so liberally that no other employer could lure them away except in relatively few cases. If you work for money and save it, money will work for you. If you work for money and save it, you will be able to hire other men to work for you—able to collect part of what they create, for your own personal holdings. The Rockefeller fortune was built up mainly on these two simple principles. The first SI,OOO in the bank is the hardest—and we are apt to become discouraged while accumulating it. But, the more you save, the easier money comes. WHAT WOULD a water hearing be like if all the figures werfe in marks instead of dollars? • • WHILE THE BANKERS are meeting in Indianapolis it might be well to determine whether the price of bread has any relation to the price of wheat. * • • • GOVERNOR TOWNER informs the Porto Ricans that “it is a most happy thought that your children are American citizens —the most desired gtad the most valuable political status in the world. 7 ’ Now, let’s go out and tell that to the Filipinos. • # • AN EASTERN doctor says we must confine our kisses to the napes of the women’s necks or the health of the nation will be undermined. If he is right, the bobbed-hair craze isn’t so bad after all. • * • MAGNUS JOHNSON says he was misquoted* He is learning fast. That is always the recourse of a politician when he gets in bad. • • • • * - v FIGURES in the water hearing indicate the Indianapolis Water Company overlooked valuing its rve when it listed its

BRITONS OWN BANKS AND INSURANCE \ ' Coopefative Societies Extend Activities Outside Retail Field, By MILTON BRONNER SEA Service Writer EONDON, July 30.—Perhaps no more significant development in the cooperative movement in England ever took plfice than when it entered two branches of activity which seemed very remote from the job of selling groceries and clothes—the banking business and* the insurance business. By the very nature of things the retail cooperative societies were competing with privately owned grocery and clothing shops and the Cooperative Wholesale Society was competing with other big wholesalers and manufacturers. The thought came to the leaders in the movement that if they put their money in ordinary banks and if their members insured in ordinary insurance companies, they would thereby be giving financial ammunition perhaps to the very people and business 'con cerns who were interested in their failure. In Principal Cities The, Cooperative Wholesale Society therefore created a banking department in its business. Today .it has main banks in Manchester, London, Newcastle and Cardiff and 700 retail cooperative societies act as its agents and depositaries. It does not do business with the outside world. cepted depositors are C9operative retail societies and their individual members, trades unions and friendly societies, and workmen's clubs and similar organizations. Today the concern has $87,500,00(1 in current deposits, subject to checking out, and a similar amount on deposit accounts, subject to withdrawaf after from fourteen days to six months notice. It has accounts of over 1,000 retail cooperative societies, 8,400 trades unions, trades urion branches and friendly societies, 3,100 with workmen's clubs and 4,400 individual accounts. Accounts subject to checking out on demand draw interest computed each half year after ascertaining the profits. Insures AU Coiners' • Owing to the laws the Cooperative Insurance Society was not formed as a branch of the business of the Cooperative Wholesale Society, but as a separate company. Four-fifths of its stock is owned by the C. W. 8. and the other fifth by the Scotch Wholesale Cooperative Society. These two great organizations also elect all the officers. Unlike the cooperative bank, the im surance company does business with all comers. It writes all kinds of life insurance policies, as well as fire, accident anji employers' liability.

Family Fun

Logic A. very green young woman decided to start a poultry farm. She bought a hen and a setting of eggs, and having no knowledge of poultry she wrote to a farm Journal asking how long tfle ,eggs would take to batch out. The editor replied: “Three weeks for chickens and four weeks for ducks.” Some weeks later she wrote to the paper. “Many thanks for your information. However, at the end of three weeks there were no chickens, and os I did not want ducks I took the hen off." —Ijoston Trans. Father’s Political View “John! John! Wake up’ I’m sure there are robbers in the house.” “Robbers in the house?” he muttered sleepily. "Absolutely preposterous. There may be robbers in the Senate, Mary, but not in the house. Absbrd!”—American Legion Weekly. \ Little Willie at Prayer “Have you said your prayers?” asked Willie’s mother. “Os course,” replied the child. “And* did you ask to be made & better little boy?" “Yes, and I put In a word for you and father, too.” —Ex. Sister Won’t Like This "Let me kiss those tears away, sweetheart,” he begged tenderly. She fell Into his arms and he was very busy for a few minutes. But the tears flowed on. “Can nothing stop them?” he asked breathlessly. “No,” she murmured- “It’s hay fever.” * Points Made by Poets Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend. Before we too ihto the dust descend; Dust Into dust, and under dust, to lie, Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and— sans end! —Fitzgerald.

A Thought

The eyes of the Lord are In every place, beholding the evil and the good. —Prov. 15:3. * • • T — HE Divine mind Is as visible in its full energy of operation on ■ ■-.J every lowly bank and moldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth. —Ruskln.

Heard in Smoking Room

ON a train going east from Cleveland to Pittsburgh and —... beyond, the men in the smoking room drifted into a discussion of chivalry. One man asserted that the women or today, with their uncanny ability to shoot deadly weapons and to employ dextrous and forked tongues, were doing much to destroy th* old-time chivalric attentions that men, of a natural habit, were wont to extend to the skirted <sex. Chivalry, he said, still lives, but it is strained to the breaking point. '“That reminds me," said the man in the easy choir,” of the brief story

THE INDIAN AI'OLIS TIMES

fgoM SIMS I Says NE might even say about the O President’s job these candidates don’t want nothing else but, ** * $ Here’s summer half gone and none of the returning vacationists have their ears fVost-bitten. ** * • Alaska wants to be a state, but doesn’t owe enough mc%ey yet. i• • • “Girl of Nineteen Gone ” —Head line. That’s too many’s girl. /•• * Maybe Europe could arrest her statesmen for disturbing the peace. * • • A Los Angeles man's wife has left him eight times; not once, we’ll bet, being on pay day. e * * Tfxas is fighting boll weevils with airplanes, much to the surprise of the boll weevils. • • * A wild man is reported near Steubenville, 0., or it may be a stray big league pitcher. • • • What’s in a name? About $5,000,000 gold will be gotten from a ship which sank off Ushant. * * * Former senator is being sued for breach of promise, but not, m one would think, by voters. ** • • “Ten Days of Grace Enough.”— Headline. Not the Grace we know. I 4 * * * Hungary reports a bumper wine crop, which may bumper few heads. • * * Every day now more trouble is being mixed in the Ruhr basin.

What Editors Are Saying

Hey, Lew! (Frankfort Crescent News) That's old stuff that Mayor Lew Shank pulled on the utility commission; what does a petition signed by 80,000 Interested people amount to before a utility pommision that knows how jobs are held and from whence their bread and butter comes? -I- -|- -1- . Swimming t (Lafayette Journal Courier) We are in the season of careless diving, swimming hole Btep-offs, boatrocking tragedies and canoe-upsets. Each day brings Its stories of divers Injured by striking head first upon hidden rocks; of beginners getting beyond their depths and of boating parties plunged into the waters of hazard and death. Everybody ought to draw a timely lesson from the news reports of vacation time. Everybody ought to learn to swim and at the same time become firmly grounded In the idea of safety, sanity and thoughtful care while in or on the treacherous waters of summerland. . I- -I- -J; Jonnsomsm' (Muncie Evening Press) Up to date the names of about twenty Republicans have been suggested as possible candidates for the nomination of Governor of Indiana, which Indicates that Republicans have faith that there will be little serious Magnus Johnsonlsih In Indiana next year. Zowief (Richmond Item) Every now and then, some State official comes around Wayne County to preach respect for the law. All well and good. But sometimes, when we hear these lovely and beautiful talks, w 9 feel like talking back. We'd like to ask: Why talk to us? Why not go back to Indianapolis? The one place where the work of our courts should be most respected and obeyed is In the office of the chief executive of Indiana, surely. If it’s anywhere In this whole State. If the work of our courts, in following up these persistent violations of law, is to be made a joke by that big pardon mill up at Indianapolis, what's the use of trying to preach to us? The law is enforced In this community. right along. Go back to Indianapolis and try to have it respected, there!

Science

Gre’at Interest has been aroused recently by injections of adrenalin into the heart thereby bringing back to life persons whose hearts have stopped beating. Without oxygen a human being cannot exist. Oxygen Is taken In through the lungs from the air and is then carried by the blood and furnished as fuel to the cells in all parts of the body. Some parts of the body, when deprived of oxygen, take longer to die than others. The brain and nervous system deteriorates beyond repair if fresh, oxygen-bearing blood is cut off for twenty minutes. Therefore adrenalin, to be effective, must be administered before damage has been done to the higher brain centers. Any other administration of it merely means bringing back a chrome sufferer for a second lingering death.

I read In the Youngstown Telegram the other day. It told of a woman who was exasperating In many ways. Her husband was a born courtier. They clashed recently and the woman goaded the husband to desperation. The latter, however, clung to his life habit, and choked down* his wrath and the feeling that gall and wormwood and sulphuric ac)d were none too severe to adequately tinge his remarks. With a superhuman effort he said to his aggravating wife: “ ’Sweetheart, if you were not the light of my life, I surely would bust you In the nose,* ”

CARS DRIVE TO LEFT IN SCOTLAND Choo-Choos Burn Coke as Economic Answer to High-Priced Gas, BY JOHN W. RAPER Gr— JLASGOW, Scotland—Let’s take another walk around the Glasgow streets apd see the sights. But watch the traffic when crossing a street or be bumped by a left-handed taxi. Here comes one of these strangelooking choo-choo cars, blowing smoke out of a pipe on top of the cab. They are called steam wagons and burn coke. \ They are-the answer to high-priced*; gasoline. I expect to see them in the United States one of these days. They don’t make much smojte, very little in fact, and run along, at a good speed carrying a load and sometimes one or two trailers. ■ The street cars are double deckers, and creep slowly. They seem short and top heavy, but folks tell me they never heard of one tumbling over. On the side of the cars are woigls In big letters showing the cars £tf-e owned and operated by the city of Glasgow. It’s remarkable how many horses you see in the Glasgow streets—more In an hour than you will see in Cleveland in two days. And fine big animals they are, too—nearly as big as elephants. You spe scores of old-fashioned black drays, drawn by one horse, and the two-wheel park which was passing out at home in the late seventies. * Cute Little Autos Now and then you will see-the cutest, sweetest little automobile that a 10-year'old boy or girl could dream about. Some seat two. some only one. I believe two longshoremen could carry one across the street. Here’s anew one. Motocycle with a'"bathtub attachment that has a top. It isn’t much larger than a twins' perambulator at home. It's a. taxi, rate 35 cents a milt j You 1 can’t help'noticing the policemen in Glasgow's downtown streets. I am told most of them are Highlanders. Glasgow folk call them “oatmeal mountains.’’ If there are any more courteous men In the world I should like to meet them They make a Cleveland policeman appear like the worst kind of a roughneck. They are not only polite and obliging, but, when not pressed by duties, extremely affable. But v-u-r-r-y bad boys In a rnlxup. ‘Keep to Left’ Signs over the sidewalk, suspended from buildings to the lamp and other posts at the curb say, "Keep to the Left.” But nobody pays the slightest attentmn -to these signs. Pedestrians keep to the right. le~ding me to wonder if it is not natural to keep to the right instead of the left, and if the rule for left-handed driving is not wrong. It’s worth the price of admission to see the girls hop on and off the street cars. The cars have open platforms and it makes no difference to the majority of the girls whether the cars are moving or standing. They are on and off like boys at home. Look at the'.r feet and you have the answer. The sensible shoe Is the rule. You see some French heels but not many. American Names One thing that will startle you Is the number of American names you xvill see in street advortisments and in shop windows A name on‘a store across the street is that of “5-and-lO-cent" mau in America. Over here It Is a “8d and 6d" store—three pence and six pence, or In Scotch and English talk, a "thruppence and six pence" store—ordinarily about fi and 12 cents In our money. NEXT: ft’s a wild Sunday in Scotland when the lads and lassie*, go crazy about ice cream.

Indiana Sunshine

Reaching into his pocket to get a nickel to pay for a sandwich, Robert Urbans, of Columbus, dislocated his arm. Two facts are learned— : it doe* not pay to reach for money, and sandwiches cost a nickel In Columbus. 'Tadlson county deserves a gold: medal. Estimates being prepared on Ihe of that county for the coming year show no Increase over 1923. * Local horseshoe fans are practicing for the big Hancock County Horseshoe Pitching Tournament to be held Aug. 21 at the county fair. At one of the busiest corners in Washington several large handfuls of nails were picked up. Whether or not they were put ther intentionally for automobile tires is not known. Although he was buried alive for nearly an hour, Henry Lynch of Ft. Wayne escaped serious injury. A sewer and ch caved in, completely submergin': him, but he was rot injured. Love s lane near Franklin, a famoui retreat is now under the eye of the : iarshal. He says there’s to be no mere petting parties under the sturdy Old oaks. Miles of pennies are to help build the Presbyterian Church at Brazil. Contributions of a foot of pennies are asked and a cardboard container to hold sixteen pennies side by side op exactly one foot of coins, will be given to contributors. 1 Accommodation Arizona desired to raise her tax on gasoline 2 cents the gallon. "Oh, certanly!" said the Standard, Union, Texas .and Rio Grande companies, accommodating like, and the price of gasoline to consumers is now 2 cents more. V Economic experts maintaining taxpayers can’t raise themselves by their bootstraps have another guess. The Family Doctor Errs Did you ever make a serious mistake In treating a patient? Only once. I s cured a millionaire In three visits!— jSidge.

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You iso get aa aoiwer to an? question of tscl or information by writing to the Indiauapoli* Times Washington Bureau. 1322 N Y. Arenue. Washington, D. C . Irv.osinr 2 cents in stamps Medical, lega,. love and marriage advice cannot be giveu, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papeis. speeches, etc . be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. Where are hyenas found? The most typical and at the same time familiar forms of the hyena, known as the striped hyena, is found ranging from Abyssinia and the Libyan Desert, eastward to India, where it is eorm**on throughout the open country. Two other species are exclusively fqund in Africa; the spotted hyena inhabits nearly all Africa south of the Sahara, and hunts In packs. Is courageous and ravaging. Its unearthy, coughing cry is one of the most terrifying of animal utterances. The brown, hyena is found on both sides of Southern Africa near the mast and often on the mountains. Remains of hyenas have been found in Europe as far north as England, and are, of course, found in Asia, but none has been discovered in America. What breed of dogs are know as "toy doys"? Pekingese, Japanese spaniels, English toy spaniels (King Charles. Prince Charlefe, Glenhelm, Ruby); Pomeranian. Skipperke. Terriers (Yorkshire. Maltese, toy black and tan. toy bull): toy poodle, Brussels Griffon, Chihuahua, Mexican Hairless and pug. What is the recipe fcrr Roman Gnocchl? Melt \c(ip of butter, cook (4-cupful cornstarch thoroughly, and then cook of flour in the butter, add 2 cupfuls of milk gradually, cook three minuets, Stirling constantly, add the yolks of 2 eggs and % -cupful of grated cheese. Pour into a buttered, shallow pan and cool. Cut Into squares, place them on a platter a little distance apart, sprinkle with % -cupful of grated cheese and brown In the oven. The proteld value of this dish is equal to that of 44-pound of average beef, the fuel value that of I*4 pounds. Which has the warmer summer, the Arctic or the Antarctic regions? The summer Is warmer and longer In the Arctic regions, according to Science Sendee. The Arctic summer has a mean temperature well above freezing point, whereas In the Antarctic the temperature is everywhere below 32 degrees Fahrenheit during the three summer months of December, January and February. Does a married woman sign her own name or her married name to a letter? A married woman signs herself, “Mary Scot*.’’- not Mrs. Charles Scott,” In social correspondence. In business she may use this form, “Yours truly, Ellen Scott (Mrs. Charles Scott)" How hot does the water in a natural hot spring become? Hot springs, in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes near Mt. Katmai Volcano in Alaska reach a temperature of about 1200 degrees Fahrenheit. According tc Science Service, hot springs range all the way from this temperature down to that of some of the warm springs in the mountains of Virginia which are only slightly warmer than the annual mean temperature of that region. What is the biggest animal? The sulphur-bottomed, or blue whale, which reaches a length of 90 feet or more, and whose weight approaches 70 tons. What Is incorrect In the sentence, "He came in last of all?” The sentence Is got grammatically incorrect, but the prepositional phrase “of all" Is not necessary. If he Is last, he Is necessarily last of all. Avoid superfluous words. Can you explain the morning of tawing? This is a leather manufacturing term. It consists either In dressing the skins in antiseptic materials, eo ai to preserve them from decay, or treating them with salts that fasten upon the fiber and present them from agglutinating and bo drying as a horny mass."

Following in Daddy’s Footsteps

On the Porch By BERTON BRALEY The evening air is soft and fair And everybody somehow has a Desire to flee outside and be At ease upon the cool piazza. Inside the house the lights burn low. Up in the trees the night-birds coo, Ha nmocks are swinging to and fro, And lovers sitting two-Aid-two. * Oh, mother knits while father sits And smokes his pipe or his cigar, And young men's feet along the street Lead where the pretty maidens are; Music, soft laughter, seem to flow, The front gates click as gates will do, Hammocks are to and fro, And lovers sitting two-and-two. Dad ends his smoke, the older folk Rise to their feet and say “good night,” And young romance will have its chance With only twinkling stars for light And youthful hearts are all aglow With wonder that is ever new. Hammocks are swinging to and fro, And lovers sitting two-and-two. , ftopyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Grist O’Gotham Written by a Man Who Views Nexy York from the Outside. NEW YORK, July 30.—East Side kids may soon have a real jail as a playground: George Gordon Battle, president of the Parks and Playground Association, has started g. movement to transfer all the prisoners from the famous Ludlow street jail to the House of Detention and turn the big court yard of the historic building, erected by “Boss" Tweed in 1869, into a neighborhood playground. This will mean the end of the Alimony Club, for the old Jail In Ludlow street, between Grand and Broome Sts., has been the abiding place for many years of those husbands, coming and going, who have defaulted in payment of alimony imposed by the courts. Several years ago a movement to sell the old place met so much'opposition that the plan was abandoned. The Alimony Club’s protest was based on the old Ballad of Ludlow Jail:

," 'Tis sweet to camp within these walla And dodge the irate frail, To miss her squawk and sternl^balk Her reaching for your kale. Aye, this Is bliss that prisoners miss In any other jail.” • * * Penny divers of the tropics—ebony urchins whose boats cluster around Visiting ocean liners and who dive into shark-infested harbors after coins thrown from the rail—have some professional brothers in New York. Penny chasers amuse spendthrift passengers on New York Central trains that halt sometimes along the elevated structure in upper Park Ave. Down on the sidewalk the youngsters perform all kinds of antics to attract attention—and pennies. AVhen the passengers shell out there is a wild scramble for the flying coins. • • • Motorists have anew mark to shoot at. They can't miss traffic cops now. Anew uniform has been tried out — white cuffs on trousers and coat sleeves and white shoulder straps. The first one was at Broadway and Seventy-Second St. It's not a brand new Gotham idea, though. Boston traffic cops wear white straps over the shoulders and crossed forward and aft to the waist, like the Minute Men of 76. Cause and Effect Announcement of Increases in the price of gasoline are being made in various parts of the country. That's what comes of the acceptance, by several little children in the East, of John D's buffalo nickels. Unless we organize the babies against that sort of thing, and instill in their minds the great need of rejecting the proffered benevolences of the old gentleman, we must ®p e <U to pay. That’s flat-

MONDAY, JULY 30, 1923

From the Referee’s Tower By ALBERT APPLE-

Weather Holland has been sweltering in the hottest weather it has had since 1887. The heat wave struck other European countries at about the same time. Only a few months ago many scientists were predicting that 1923 would be “a year without a summer.” It certainly looked that way during the cold, lath spring. * But summer is on*the job. as usual. It is typical of conditions and situations generally in our nervously apprehensive world. We are constantly fearing a calamity or crisis that never arrives. Most of our troubles are imag-inary-—nightmares of fear. T -I- -IDanger Lightning recently killed eleven Americans' in twenty-four hours. In the same time the heat ended the lives of twelve. Still* ail of us are afraid of lightning, while few fear heat. Lightning has the better stage getting and most of us are easily swayed by the theatrical. 4 Danger and fear affect us in peculiar ways. The most dangerous thing in the worlh is the slipping ladder. More accidents result from it than from any other cause. Repeatedly we have camplgns for more care In the matter of autos and fires. But did you ever heard of a Safety First campaign in the use of ladders? -I- + + Lightning The most terrible force in nature—lightning—destroys 312,000,000 worth of property a year, according tc the National Board of Fire Underwriters. This, however, is less than a fifth as much as the yearly fire loss In dwellings, not to mention destruction by fire outside our homes. Lightning is not preventable, though lightning rods are of irreat value In protecting us against it. Yet we fear lightning, have deep respect for it. On the other hand, we have only a surface fear of fires, most of which are preventable. -I- -I- -IDuplicated Where is Cleveland? Twenty-five states each have a city bearing this name. There are 22 Buffalos, 14 Denvers. 7 Detroits, 6 and 2 Chicagos. Also 17 Berlins, 12 Moscows and 18 towns named Paris. In addressing mail, be sure to write the state as well as city or town.

Animal Facts

How would you like to fondle a rattlesnake? Mrs. Grace Wylie, curator of a Minneapolis museum, has thirteen of them that literally eat out of her hand. She says a rattler is acutely sensitive and possessed of a highly organized nervous system, and that's why it is possible to make friends with him. She has been experimenting and she has proved that no tonly are the snakes susceptible to kindness, but they can be forcibly fed while in captivity. She feeds her snakes hamburger steak once a week anti they like it. She puts a little ball of the steak on the end of a stick, pushes it against the mouth of the snake, and, gulp, it's gone. At first she had to pry the mouths of the snakes open, but now they take their steak when it is offered. Frequently she holds the snakes in her hands and gently strokes them. \ Reforesters have a problem. They don’t know whether to kill' all squirrels, chipmunks and mice or not. These animals are said to destroy tree seeds.as fast as they are planted. On the other hand, the little cusses do a job of reforestation that is quite as complete, if not more so. as the foresters do. They gather tree seeds and store them in one place and bury them in another. Result, the seeds germinate and up come tree spouts. It is known'that there are instances where 4Q.000 stand of Douglass fir seedlings to the acre have developed on iurnt-over land, due to seed fcurrßl by the animals before the fire.