Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 82, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1923 — Page 4

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UNTYING TRAFFIC KNOTS mHE city plan commission is now undertaking the readjustment of traffic in Indianapolis to do away with some of the congestion. The commission has a number of very good but expensive ideas. • One of the changes contemplated calls for a belt line around the city for transportation of interurban freight and possibly elevated lines for interurbans. The plans also contemplate the rerouting of interurbans to make their progress in the city more rapid, and the establishment of major high speed automobile thoroughfares with heavy traffic on side streets. Presumably, it would be up to the interurban companies,*to build, or at least to contribute a large share of the expense of building the belt road and the elevated tracks. With the growth of the automobile as a vehicle of long-distance transportation, the interurban business has been none too good. There is evidence that some roads are having a struggle to continue their passenger business. That they would build a belt railroad or elevated tracks now is highly improbable. The irony of the situation is that these things are proposed to make room for automobiles. The proposal for the establishment of high speed thoroughfares with slow, heavy traffic on side streets is good. This already has been worked out on Meridian St., Capitol Ave., Maple Road and similar thoroughfares. Perhaps one-way traffic on certain streets will be the eventual solution. To any one who travels on interurban cars the proposal that they be rerouted to speed them up inside the city appears to be well founded. Why is it necessary for interurbans to travel so far before they reach the station? To a casual observer it would appear they frequently travel farther than necessary to avoid congestion in the business district. CLEANING UP AROUND MARKET GAIN we are to have the block around the courthouse occupied with city market stands cleaned up. Mayor Shank says so and Sarah backs him up. They went out and looked at the street themselves and found it dirty. These crusades for clean streets around the market stands occur at- frequent intervals. Usually things are kept clean for a few days and then the affair is forgotten until somebody again reminds the authorities. There is bound to be a certain amount of refuse from market stands. Throwing this refuse into the streets and allowing it to putrifv not only makes the streets unsightly, but threatens the public health. The streets around the market should be cleaned up and kept clean.

HIGH COST OF CRIME RIME costs the American people more than three billion dol- ___ lars a year—or roughly S3O for every man, woman and child. This is the estimate by the National Surety Company, which bonds employes who handle money—cashiers, treasurers, etc. It’s only part of the real bill, of course, for it covers only the visible or reported crimes. Petty thefts, which never get publicity, never are called to attention of public officials, must mount up to a staggering sum each year. What do you think is the most costly form of crime? Stock frauds, answers Cromwell, president of New York Stock Exchange. He figures that swindling by the sale of securities costs the American people a billion dollars a year, or a third of the total cost of crime. Fraudulent bankruptcies get away with 400 million dollars a year. Based on police estimates, the national loss from burglary, larceny and general petty thefts is only 250 million dollars a year. That is amazing—burglars and other thieves getting away with only a fourth as much as the stock swindlers. Embezzlers make off with 100 million dollars a year. Forgers get the same. A fourth of this amount covers railroad freight thefts. Bonding companies’ books show that between 1910 and 1922 the losses from burglaries increased 1,200 per cent, while embezzlements jumped 500 per cent. These figures are based on money losses. The average criminal “job,” of course, involves more money than it used to. Putting it on a straight dollars-and-cents basis, and eliminating moral considerations, the theft of S2OO today is equivalent to the theft of SIOO before the war. / ■ Even thieves have to figure on the increased cost of living. A prominent expert attributes the increase in financial crimes to discontent, envy, unemployment, desire for luxury beyond earning capacity, carelessness of people whose funds are stolen, unfairly low pay, and “widespread disrespect for property rights and law, caused partly by the World War.” That last reason may be the most important one. Comparing the national crime bill with the total income of the American people, about $1 in each sls or S2O that is produced by honest effort is stolen by the parasites. FORMER CROWN PRINCE is said to foresee anarchy in Germany. That doesn’t require much foresight. •- • • THE county tax rate will be no higher. That doesn’t sound possible. • * * THE German program is said to be food and money for all. Let’s hope they have better luck than Russia. v • • NO Fall Creek bridge to be built this year—headline. Nobody thought one would be built. > • * • AT least Governor McCray is denying more pardon petitions than he is granting, and that is more than could be said of Jim Goodrich. • • • EX-SECRETARY TUMULTY is now telling how the President should be relieved of some of his work. If Tumulty did all he says he did during the Wilson Administration it is strange he is alive to tell about it. • • ♦ IF the fourteen remonstrators think that the little' wooden schoolhouse is good enough for the kids, wouldn’t it be fair for them to go back to the conditions of forty years ago themselves —kerosene lamps, clay roads, horse and buggy and celluloid collars?

BRING SHIPS TO FARMS IS PLANNED St. Lawrence Seaway Offers Great Development for Interior of Nation, By HERBERT QU T CK O 1 PPONENTS or the St. Raw rence seaway—the deep water i chapnel between the Great I>akes and the ocean—say over and over again that ocean-going ships will never come into the lakes, no matter heuy deep the channel may be. Many people believe this—but It is reality nothing but propaganda for the New York bottle-neck which Is strangling the prosperity of the Interior. People who really believe this propaganda should study what is going on on the lower Mississippi. New Orleans Is Example New Orleans is far up the river, but the big ships go there—so many of them that It is one of our greatest ports. And all the way up to Baton Rouge the banks are lined with great oil, sugar and other plants, each with Its own docks, at which huge oceangoing ships load and unload all the time. It Is a long inlet of the sea. If there were five great lakes to b% reached by going further, and cities like Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Duluth, Ft. William, Toronto and all the others on the lakes, the Mississippi would be a huge seaway which would dwarf the Partama. Canal. And that is what the St. Lawrence will be when opened up. And if we do not join Canada in opening It up, Canada will do It herself. Canada Offers Opportunity She offers us the chance of our national life, a partnership In a great seaway which we need worse than she does, and immunity from discriminating tolls all through the future. If Uncle Sam doesn't accept the partnership. Uncle Sam is a fool. And the interior of the continent will be condemned to transportation slavery forever.

What Editors Are Saying

Toner (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) An Indiana editor writes this paper soliciting its support for the gubema torial candidacy of Edward Toner of Andersen, basing his plea on the flat and foolish proposition that Mr. Toner Is entitled to it because he is a newspaper man and his own personal friend. If Mr. Tone*- has only these attributes to commend him, God save Indiana from any rule by him. Gasoline (Tipton Times) The reduction In the price of gaso line ordered by the Standard Oil Company will he taken advantage of by the people without any feeling of compunction on their part If the Standard succeeds in eliminating a few competitors the public will probably face an advanced rate after the fight Is over. Rates (Frankfort Crescent-News) The appeal of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company to the Federal Court for interference in the Indiana rate hearing! does not have the appearance of an honest desire to have rates based on facts revealed at hearings especially provided for such cases. Rate making by telephone experts Is ar> Involved process, purposely so, it is believed so that the average man cannot understand the manner In which rates are arrived at. ‘Car (Lafayette Journal and Courier) A lot of people are engaged Just now In the pleasant process of “feeling out” President Coolidge on the world court issue. So far the “feelouters” have not got much beyond the point where “silent Cal.” just kept on keeping still.

Observations

It would cost $12,000,000,000 to abolish all of the grade crossings in this country, it lssaid. That’s entirely to high a price to pay for we poor humans, isn’t it? Where there is a thirst there is a way. It has been so very warm at Atlantic City this season a number of bathers sought to cool themselves by actually going in the water. Issuing thost German marks in trillions will undoubtedly ruin the regular wall-paper business in that country. We got even in one case at least. One of those British lecturers complains he “caught” the gout In this country. We regret to say it, but the taxpayer leads a double life. Also Is he the ultimate consumer. A New York paper says the subway conditions in that city "are a disgrace to a civilized community.” Wonder what civilized community is referred to. When they refer to the German crown prince’s coup they probably mean the one he is confined In.

Heard in Smoking Room

OME fine golf links were visible from the smoker window and ■ Sterling of the Oklahoma News, sprung this: “Little Jimmy always did so well out on the golf links at Lincoln Park. That boy was the perfect caddy. And all the other caddies wondered. “ ‘Wot’s this guy got we aint?” they grumbled. Which worried Jimmy about as much as the „regulation against one-piece bathing suits worried the blind man. “Jimmy didn't have time to worry. He had more customers than he could take care of. As soon as he came In with one golfer there were a dozen more to take him out. And

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S*OM SIMS I | Says B'' "lEEN reading so many European war rumors lately we forgot and saluted a street car conductor. * * * One Sunday was so quiet in Berlin they had only two outbrfeaks. * * * Chinese are worrying the British. Can’t solve the Chinese puzzle. " * * • Secretary of Treasury Mellon is in Paris. He knows his business. Left the treasury at home. * * * Big dynamite plot found at Cologne. It wasn’t sweet of them. * • • Mussolini continues being the savior of Italy. His name continues to sound like a wrestler. • * • Keep away from Athens. Girls wearing sleeveless dresses there are smeared with tar. • * • Bank 107 years old has closed in Vienna. It found the first 100 years the easiest. • * • Geneva women are trying to protect children from wicked movies. Leave the children at home. • * • Dr. Laws got mad in a Stockholm church. Laid down the laws. * * * Hindus and Moslems claßlrr The Hindu, as you know, when he has no clothes makes his skin do. • • * More bad luck for Europe. One out of every four U. S. senators are studying Europe. • * * Improvement in America reported. New Yorker whipped a man for singing, “Yes, We Have No Bananas.” • • • Babe RutlPtried to catch a burglar, but only caught him out. • • • San Antonio (Tex.) golfer played 19 hours. Hope he found it. • • * Louisville (Ky.) man was arrested for spanking his wife. Bustles, however, are coming back. • • • Some men will shiqe. One made SB9O shining shoes in Sing Sing. • • • Sailor kicked a Los Angeles cop on the nose. In other towns this is considered back luck • • • Detroit ice man had four wives. Strange thing is all were his. • • • Printer arrested in New York is supposed to have three wives. Re '.ease him for punishment .

Editor’s Mail The editor is wllhajr to print views of Times readers on lntereftlnf subjects. Make your comment brief.! Sim your name a an evidence of rood faith. It will not be printed if you object.

To the Editor of The Timei Wonder what kind of names and how many I shall be called if I am allowed publicly to say I fall to see the consistency in our Governor hallowing the day of our deceased President's burial, and falling at the 600mile race crisis. Those old heroes who made our glorious republic possible were lgnomlnously turned down! They paid the supreme penalty of citizenship in the agonies of a fraternal holocaust and their surviving comrades were brushed aside by cries of “Big Business” and “Everyone observes the day in his own way.” Then, of what value are official proclamations? Must this time of sor row be embittered by thoughts of what might have been? Yea. verily.' And how come? RAY ALLEN.

Animal Facts

How would you like a nice, thick, juicy slab of whale tall for today’s dinner? Urn! It’s a delicacy In the far east. If It were not for the prejudice against whale meat on this continent. the British Columbia Whaling industry could furnish us with about 100,000,000 pounds of perfectly good meat at 12)4 cents a pound. As it Is, much of the whale meat now caught goes to waste, although some of it is cut Into cubes about 12x18 Inches, frozen and shipped to Japan, where there is a good market. Whale meat is as palatable and nutritious s,s mutton, it is said. Outside of the meat, a whale weighing sixty lons, will yield six tons of oil, three tons and a half of guano and 300 pounds cf whalebone Its meat will amount to three and one half tons, and the whole fish Hill bring About SI,OOO In revenue. The richness of fish life In our fresh waters is amazing. Chas. H. Townsend tells the Geographic Magazine that the United States has a smaller area than Europe, and yet it has 585 species of fresh water fish while Europe has only 126. Illinois alone has 150 species and New York 141.

A Thought

He that saith I know him. and ke.epeth not his commandments, Is a liar and the truth is not in him.— 1 John 2:4. mHE finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is asrumed. —Emerson.

they tipped him by the dollar. Jimmy got the dollars. The other boys got the dimes. “Finally they held a council meeting with Jimmy. “ ‘Look here, fellow,’ the spokesman told him. ‘Y’ got to let us in on your stuff. We don't compete with you any more. They all want you to carry their sticks. How come? How come? “ ‘lt's a birdie,’ replied Jimmy. ‘They like me because I know my arithmetic. See.’ “ ‘Wot d’y mean, y' ’ your arithmetic?' “ ‘Simple,’ said Jimmy. ‘I know how to add up four and seven and six and get 11."

COUSINS IN BRITAIN KICK ON TAX, TOO Same Complaints Heard on Labor, Coal and Like as in U, S, By JOHN W. RAPER mN ENGLAND: Sit around and listen to a crowd of Englishmen or Scotchmen talk and think you are back in America. The conversation goes like this: “Business is taxed to death. It’s the high taxes that cause stagnation.” “I wouldn’t mind paying the taxes if I thought the -money were spent wisely. But most of it is wasted. We might as well burn it up.” “Labor is crazy. Just as soon as things get going, what happens? A strike.” “Well after all, can you blame them for strlHng? They’d never get decent pay If they didn't.” “The railroads are to blame. Rates are so high business Is handcuffed.” ‘But look at the wages the railroads pay. Rook at the high cost of every supply. Look at coal, for instance.” “Yes, coal is too high. The miner and owner have combined to rob the public.” Dropping into Leeds direct from Scotland, the Englishman's speech seems almost American. But the next day the ear has been attuned and the dialect is prominent. There are almost as many dialects as neighborhoods in England and nowhere are there so many strange ones as in Yorkshire and Lancashire. Remember Barlow Knife? Did you ever hear of the Barlow knife? Probably not. Ask grandpop, he knows. The Barlow was a type of jack-knife found in nearly every American boy’s pocket up to about 40 years ago. when apparently it disappeared, at least from many sections of Ohio. I ran into the Barlow the other day at the W. & S. Butcher factory in Sheffield. This firm began to make cutlery In 1725 and though it is a stock company now, the founders’ descendants are still interested. For a century its razor, called the “Wade & Butcher,” was the prize blade In America. Ask grandpop about the razor. The Barlow knife is so ancient that nobody knows how It received its name, but it is believed It was named for Edward Barlow, a master cutter in Sheffield in 1653. Quick Lunch Sheffield Is the “farthest north” quick lunch operated by a company that covers London pretty well and operators in some of the northern cities. These lunch rooms have a fine reputation for quickness. I saw four straw hats in Leeds on one day and eight in Sheffield on one day, though the weather was quite warm. _ Hotels, large and small, close their doors at 11 or 11:30 p. m., and If you are locked out you ring a bell and walk upstairs to your room. Elevator shuts down for the night. Next: Britieh railroads queer to American eyes, but do their big job well.

Science

Heart disease is now one of the chief dangers to people of all civilized countries, especially the United States. The heart action above or below normal generally Indicates a bad condition. However, a person with a very slow heart, provided this is not the result of some defect, has every yhance of living to a great age and has ability to endure mental and physical hardships. This heart action indicates endurance and lack of “nerves.” The most noted historical example of this condition was Napoleon. His heart averaged only fiftyseven beats a minute, while normal Is 72. Napoleon often asked Constant, his valet, and others to listen to his heart. They never were able to detect any sound or movement. His physician, Corvlsart, had difficulty In counting it. Among other peculiar physical and mental traits, probably due to his slow heart action. Napoleon was able to sleep at will A more recent example was Battling Nelson, a pugilist noted for great endurancefl whose heafT average was around sixty when he was champion. Prof. Mlchelson, the American astronomer who Invented the interferometer. which measures the diameters of stars, has found the diameter of Arcturus to be 20,000,000 of miles The circumference of this star Is, therefore, nearly 63,000,000 of miles. The earth's circumference Is roughly 24,000 miles. A railroad train speeding at sixty miles an hour without stop would cover 1,440 miles a day. Td travel clear around Arcturus at the same speed would take, therefore, over 310 years. A bullet traveling one mile a seoond would require five years to go all around the star. From the University of Minnesota comes) anew way of Identifying cows —the or > absolutely certain method, it is sa. 1. On the same principle as flnger-p ints, they take Boss’ noseprint. The cow's nose has numerous fine rid .es and patterns of high lights and solid spaces. No two cows have precisely the same nose-print, so that identification is as positive as the Bertillon finger-prints. The cows of Minnesota are rapidly being noseprinted and other States are arranging to establish the system. Fliers Germany, having consolidated its ct-runercial aviation companies into two big combines. Is arranging international air service in every direction. She has finished delivering air material reparations, as required by the peace treaty. This leaves her free to concentrate on her own air lines. To dodge allied Intervention, some of the German plane manufacturers are building their factories In other countries. This is industrial news. Later It may be military. When Sister Marries "Would you marry a man to reform him?” “I suppose I shall have to—there Isn’t one of them that suits me the way he is now!”—London Opinion.

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T rom the J Referee’s Tower By ALBERT APPLE Cal Calvin, 14-year-old son of President Coolidge, has been spending his summer working on a tobacco farm near Hatfield, Mass. A newspaper reporter found him carrying dinnerpail, sweating in the broiling sun as he bundled tobacco leaves and hung them on drying racks, and riding eight miles each way to and from work on a bicycle. Such a picture of the son of the ruler of the greatest republic in history is a comforting reminder of our system of democracy in which the humb’est of us has a fighting chance to rise to the very tip-top. The democrauc outlook is not quite as comforting in some other directions. $3,50 Young Calvin, son of President Coolidge, has been getting $3.50 a day for his vacation work on a Massachusetts farm. Twenty years ago it was a rare boy who made more than $1 a day during vacation. A lot of us can recall mowing lawns ten hours for 50 or 75 cents. The modem boy doesn’t know it, but he has a relatively easy existence compared with youths of the previous generations. And, *on the average, it’s just as true of grownups. Vice Presidents Six Presidents of the United States have died in office and been automatically replaced by their political running mates, the Institution known ase Vice President. This means that the chances are one to five that the Vice President will become President by the accident, death. Isn’t it time to stop Joking about the vice presidency and take it very seriously? Escape A Memphis construction supervisor, W, O. Denkmann, fell from the tenth floor of a building, struck the pavement on his head —and lived 39 hours. We recommend this remarkable case to hypochondriacs and neurasthenics who live in constant fear that extraordinary care must be exercised to keep them alive. Few of us are wanted on the other side of the grave as much as we fondly Imagine. No? Ford, manufacturing close to two million machines a year, exported only 95,087 passenger cars and- trucks In the first six months of 1923. Nevertheless, Ford seems to be quite prosperous. It makes us wonder if, after all, foreign trade —despite its great importance—is quite as vital as we sometimes think. If all other countries disappeared, the United States shortly would be running its business along as usual. Twelve When steel mills get on an eighthour day basis, oil well drilling will be the last of the great basic Industries still clinging to the twelve-hour day. Drillers and tool dressers in most of our leading oil fields work twelve-hour "towers,” or shifts. It’s hard work, too—enough so to make the average city plan feel like a loafer. The city man, however, Las something more tiring than hard work or long hour&t-high nervous tension, which is just another name for needless rush. Oil well crews thrive on twelve hours a day. And they seem to like It. More pay, for one thing. Then, too, wells usually are drilled next door to nowhere, with a few diversions available for spare time. And when one well is finished, the drillers and tool dressers can have -<* vacation before tackU'.g another The face that somebody still Is working twelve # hours a day jvill impress many employers aa being the eighth wonder of the world. Gasoline Wall Street gossips about the rumor that Hugo Stinnes. Germany’s industrial genius, will invade America with his loose change. The possibilities in gasoline should appeal to him. In some parts of Oklahoma and Texas gasoline Is selling as low as 9 cents a gallon at the wells and refineries. To transport It to American consume** costs from 9 cents a gallon downward Mostly downward. - ' '

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On the Peak By BERTON BRALEY Once in a while to each mortal There comes a glorious day, When he can happily chortle, "Trouble, get out of my way. I’m full of ginger and vigor, See how my wings are unfurled! Am I the WORKS? I should snigger! Sittin’ on top of the world!” v Once in a while naught can touch you, You’ve got the number of fate; Sorrow and sadness can’t clutch you, Gee, but such moments are great! When all the heavens seem tender. All of the flowers dew-pearled, When yeu’re a King in your splendor, Sittin’ on top of the world! Once in a while you’re a wonder, Anyway, that’s how you feel, You are a marvel, by thunder! You are the star of life’s reel. Maybe your thrill is soon ended, Then to the depths you are hurled, But, while it lasts it is splendid, Sittin’ on top of the world! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

Anew strictly Hoosier variety of apple has lately sprung into prominence. It is the "Turley,” a variety originated by “Uncle Joe” Burton at the Purdue University experimental orchard at Mitchell. It Is a large dark- red apple, akin to the Wlnesap. While a chautauque program was in progress at Elizabethtown fire broke out and threatened the town. The program was changed, the Chautauqua goers formed a bueaet brigade and the flames were soon extinguished. The fighters In an all-colored boxing bout at Muncle were all ready to begin exchanging swats when someone remembered that gloves were to be used. So It was necessary to delay the fight thirty minutes while some one went after the mlts. Cheer up, glris. Watchful waiting is bound to bring result*. Edna and Ella Thorndyke, maiden sisters of Mishawaka, aged respectively 70 .tnd 60, were recently married on the same day. With the aid of the services of the prisoners at the Wayne County Jqll at Richmond the entire building Is being repainted at a cost of S4OO. The lowest bid on the job by contractors was $1,400.

Family Fun

Indifferent Traffic Cop: “Hey, youl Didn’t you hear me yelling for you to stop?” “Ohj Was that you yelling? I though that was somebody I had Just run over.”—Dry Goods Economist. After Marriage ‘Maude’s fiance stutters quite a bit, doesn’t he?” “Yes, but It doesn't matter. After they are married they won’t have a thing to say.”—Boston Transcript. Why Sister Canned Jack “W r hy did Jess break off her engagement with Jack?” “Somebody told her that people who live together grow to look alike.” — Judge. Like Father's Pedigree “Rlchleigh Is having a geologist look up his pedigree." “You mean a genealogist—a geologist’s work is nothing but rocks.” “So Is Rlchleigh’s pedigree.”—Boston Transcript. A Slam at Dad "I’m running around all day trying to get something for my wife.” “Did you get any offers?"—Judge. At the Family Picnic ”Oh, dear me! Bobby has eaten a green caterpillar!” “You should caution him not to eat anything In the country that Isn’t ripe.”—Judge. Father Had Plenty “Where have you been so late?” "To a lecture.” "Huh?” “And It was very poo* I don’t care to listen to another one.”—Kansas City Journal.

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THURSDAY, AEG. 16, 1923

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You can set an answer to any ques* tlon of fact or information by writing: to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 K. Y. Avenue. Washington, D. C., Inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legai, love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered, but all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Edttor. How many Presidents besides Harding died while in office? and what did they die of; and where s are they buried? Five. William Henry Harrison died, of bilious pleurisy at Washington, D. C., burled at North Bend, Hamilton County. Ohio; Zachary Taylor, of bilious fever, at Washington, D. C., buried at Springfield, near Louisville, Ky.: Abraham Lincoln, assassinated at I Washington, D. C., buried at Oak i Ridge cemetery, Springfield, 111.; James A. Garfield, shot at Washington, D. C., died at Long Branch, N. J.‘, burled in Lake View cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio;’ William McKinley, assassinated and. died at Buffalo, N. Y., buried at Canton, Ohio . How did the Atlantic Ocean get Its name? It was named for the Greek word meaning “the sea beyond Mount Atlas,” but It is not known by whom It was named. On what day of the week did July 17, 1901, come? Wednesday. _ i What pronunciation of Spokane Is preferred? While Spokaln and Spo-kan are both used, Spo-kan seems to he preferred. How are United States gold and sliver certificates secured? Gold certificates are secured dollar for dollar by gold held in the Treasury for their redemption; sliver certifiI cates axe secured dollar for dollar by standard silver dollars held In the Treasury for their redemption. How are Federal reserve bank notes and National bank notes secured? By United States Government obligations. and a 6 per cent fund for their redemption, required to be maintained with thi treasurer of the United States in t old of lawful money. Hals any 1 esident Pro Tem. of the Senate, which office waa eligible prior to the Succession Act of ever reached the presidency? No. The nearest approach was In 1868, when Johnson had succeeded Lincoln, and as President would have been disqualified had the Impeachment trial gone against him. Had this occurred, Senator Wade of Ohio, who was President Pro Tem. of the Senate, would have been Chief Magistrate. It was this situation that culminated in the Succession Act of 1886. How long do alligators live? About 100 yeere. Which Is the way to put away white silk so that It will not fade? Between sheets of dar!i blue paper. In a dark closet. What Is the lifting power of helium? A cubic foot of this gas will lift one and one-tenth ounce*. What Is the price of perfect blue white diamonds? At the present time, from SSOO to $750 a carat. Is Indian hemp grown from or from seed? From seed. What Is the nationality of Anita Stewart? American; she waa bora In Brooklyn, N. Y. How many bank failures were there In 1921, and what were the total liabilities? 888 failure*; liabilities. $167,849,555. What were the betting odds on , the Dempsey-Willard fight? The first betting was 8 to 5 on Willard. The day of the fight It had slipped down to even money, and some of Dempsey's backers made him a slight favorite. When do you use, "compare with,” and when "compare to”? “Compare with” Is used when we note the points of Ukenees and differ- > ence. We compare one thing to another when we wish to show that the r first Is like the second, as In "He compared the shape of earth to au **-" . _