Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 91, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1923 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN. Editor-In-Chief ROT W. HOWARD. President ALBERT W. BUHRMAN, Editor WM. A. MAVBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Reripps-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.

LEGION AND AIR DISARMAMENT mHE American Legion, through national headquarters in Indianapolis, plans to ask President Coolidge to call an international air disarmament conference at Washington to halt the mad race for supremacy in military airships and airplanes now in progress among the countries of Europe. France has taken the lead in this conflict which threatens the peace of the world today. She has 140 squadrons of military flying machines and intends to have 220 squadrons by the end of 1925. Included in the armament are planes which carry 75millimeter cannons, planes which can transport six machine guns and their crews, enormous bombers, special fighting ships armored with battleship steel and actual troopships of the air. England is France’s nearest competitor and in response to suggestions of its strategists has voted an extra $27,500,000 to enlarge the air armada. It has been estimated, however, that even by 1926 England will be able to send aloft only 626 battle machines to meet 1,530 that France will have ready. The creation of a separate air force by Italy, with extensive plans for its rapid development into a powerful fighting machine indicates that Italy will enter the race. Russia is employing German technicians and is using German machinery to advance toward its air goal announced by Moscow as 10.000 planes. The American Legion, composed of men who know what war is, feels action should be taken at once to stop this conflict which menaces the peace of the world before the United States is .compelled to expend millions of dollars for planes and equipment. MOTHER NATURE CONTRADICTORY ILD ducks and cranes up north are beginning to fly south ** almost two months ahead of the usual time, although we haven’t seen any of them over the monument here. This is announced by the Canadian National Railways, relaying word received from their agents. Old settlers in Ontario say that never within memory have they known the ducks and cranes to start their southward migratory flights so early. The settlers believe that an early winter is coming. Hudson Bay fur trappers report that the wild rice, favorite food of wild ducks and geese, matured very early this year. The trappers say this is another indication that winter is not far away. The weather this year has been so queer all over the world, due to the sun’s giving off about 5 per cent less heat than usual, that winter might arrive two months ahead of its customary schedule without amazing us. Spring was late in most parts of the earth. Summer came in hot waves, working double to make up for lost time. * The maple leaves in the tourist country of Ontario started turning red and yellow in mid-August, nearly a month early. That looks like an early fall, forerunner of an early winter. ■ Ojibway Indians, on the other hand, insist that all the seasons are three weeks late this year and that winter will arrive late instead of ahead of schedule. They base their prediction on the fact that in August they have had to fish 200 feet deep to catch genuine salmon trout, whereas normally they would find tnese red trout “floating” 100 feet below the surface of the lakes. The Indians figure that the salmon trout will he three weeks late in rising to spawn on. the shoals this fall. Which, say the Ojibwavs, is a sure sign of a late fall and a late winter. The controversy narrows down to this: Which is the better weother prophet, a wild duck or a deep-water fish? Both are guided by instinct of a mysterious sort that enables them to sense the weather months ahead. Even old Mother Nature seems to he contradictory this year, as confused as we who in our rise to civilization have lost the sixth sense possessed by wild ducks, salmon trout, and to a lesser extent Indians.

SOME THOUGHTS ON COAL iv/j HEN you pay your coal bill this winter and read of the ” wealthy coal miners, suppose— — You have a wife and four children dependent upon your weekly pay envelope and you are an anthracite miner and you have $38.46 in wages each week. Would you have a fair trial in fighting against the weekly grocery bills, rent bills, clothing bills, doctor bills? The editor of one of the coal papers says of the anthracite coal report: “The anthracite miners are not found to be downtrodden, poverty-strickenu slaves. On the contrary, they enjoy, if they work, incomes around $1,500 to $2,000 and upward per year, live for the most part in sanitary conditions and are ‘no longer a submerged or exploited population.’ ” The same editor, in the same discussion, sheds tears because the operators get a profit of only 36 cents to $1.07 a ton, a profit which means from $32,000,000 to $96,000,000 a year on the anthracite coal produced. Operators read this paper. They may accept and believe it, may enjoy the picture drawn by this editor. They may be consoled to think the miners are well treated and deserving of no greater consideration. They may never go into the coal fields and see the evidences of poverty, may know little or nothing of the economic treadmill on which the miners stand. They may even forget the miner is investing his life and the lives of his children and getting not. enough to pay necessary expenses while they invested almost nothing in life blood, very little in money, their investments are secured absolutely and all they do is collect. SAVE the mosquito netting. Veils will be worn this fall. CIDER is working. It is working hard. ONLY a few more shopping weeks before heavy underwear. FASHION note: Big gasoline men will wear diamonds. IT is unlawful to shoot a gasoline man unless he wears a mask. “THE EIGHT-HOT T R DAY in the steel mills? Why, we’d have to close the mills for want of labor!’’ the steel barons used to wail. Now that they’ve been cajoled into a partial trial of the eight-hour day, the barons find it difficult to find enough jobs for applicants—and the immigration bars not lifted, either! Moral —a faint heart, etc.! r

MOVIES, NOT BULLETS, TO BRING PEACE Organization Plans Pictures to Reach Brotherhood of Man, By HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer ASHINGTON, Auf?. 27.—Shoot|Y)D Ing pictures instead of bullets, I to insure a lasting world peace, is the plan of Katherine A. GileV president of the Brotherhood of Man Foundation of Washington. In this battle of celluloid films against cellulose powder Miss Giles hopes to enlist the support of the mothers of all nations. “It is their sons who fight, it is they who suffer. Why should they not unite against war?” she demands. “War and preparation for war is not the way to peace. They have never brought peace, and they have never kept peace. What peace did the last war bring? Only hates, jealousies, passions to provoke new wars’ “Wisdom brings brotherhood; brotherhood brings understanding: understanding brings love and tolerance and love and tolerance bring peace. “This understanding of man by man, of the Jap by the American, of the Russian by the Greek, of every people by every other people, can be biought about in no other way so effectually or directly as by the medium of the motion picture. Proposes Fund "The motion picture speaks a universal language. Any eye can read, any heart translate the message of the film. No other contact so intimate and direct can be established between peoples; no other medium can so eloquently and forcefully express what is, after all, the great fact of existence—the oneness, deep in their hearts and purposes, of God’s people everywhere, whether they be known as Christians. Buddhists, Mahometans or what not ’ Miss Giles proposes a fund for the production of such pictures—pictures to preach the oneness of mankind, the futility of war and the beauties of peace—to be raised by the motKets of the world through the Brother hood of Man Foundation, which has been Incorporated under the laws of Delaware. Under its Charter the foundation would be empowered to pro duce and dl3tribu‘e pictures A first monumental picture entitled "Reality.” In which the author seeks to get under the skin of all peoples and lay bare the fundamentals that move universal hopes and deal res, already has been prepared by her. Officials of the Vitagr&ph Company estimate its proper production would cost between $200,000 and >250,000. In order to keep clear from All possible commercial entanglements, however. which wdght hamper the most effective use of such films, she hopes the foundation will be enabled to finance and produce the films themselves. Any wealthy pacifist desirous of letting his dollars break Into the movies need look no further. The Brotherhood of Man Foundation will welcome him! "Why Fight?” Miss Giles’ appeal to the mothers of the world for support in her campaign is strengthened by the fact that her own son. now 20. would be listed among eligible “cannon fodder" in any new war. “Os course in time of war we’d fight. All of us would!” she declares. “But why fight? The fighting doesn’t settle anything. Whatever. If anything. Is settled Is settled by a group of men in conference about a table, anyway." Patriotic? Os course. But patriotism, she contends, may be expressed as effectively and more helpfully in peace than in war. When the late war broke out she renounced her title of Baroness Von Olantz, acquired through a marriage with an Austrian nobleman, resuming her maiden name. Black-haired, dark-eyed, with boundless energy and enthusiasm, she gives the impression of one who will have peace even if she mjlst fight for it. Indeed, she openly announces her willingness. even her determination to fight for peace. But not with bullets or poison gas or bombs. She’d use moving picture films.

Science

The American Medical Association and the National Health Council have started a campaign urging every man, woman and child in the United States to be examined physically once a year on their birthdays. All physicians will receive a plan for the purpose of systematizing the examinations. There have been many plans even for compulsory physical examinations. These have failed, but a plan urging voluntary examinations meets with increasing favor. Opposition to anything compulsory along this line Is supported by certain able scientists, especially those familiar with psychology and sociology. They point out that compulsion in any course of conduct never should be used until education has failed and that intelligent cooperation is essential In all plans for public health. A Thought The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. —Prov. 14:18. , • • * P' RUDENCE is necessary ingredient in r.ll the virtues, without 1 which they degenerate into folly and excess.—Jeremy Collier.

Heard in Smoking Room

“Yes,” said the fellow whose cigarettes filled the smoker horribly, “education sometimes pays. There was Jim Catro, a fellow who could barely read, who needed some of It. He had played the Tiajuana ponies all winter and had just money enough left to take him back to lowa, One night he looked his last few dollars over and resolved to go home, but all night long he dreamed of hats—hats, big and little, red, white and blue, everywhere. Jim woke up I’ery early with his mind full of hats. ‘A oure tip on that first race,’ said he to himseX So,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(£)OM SIMS I l Says Old debts would be easy to pay if it weren’t for the new ones. / * • * Almost time for the friend to return the lawnmower and start borrowing coal. * * * Some like corn on-the-cob and some corn-on-the-hip. • • * One thing you have that is hard to get is a phone number. * • * Fewer babies are born in summer. We don’t blame them. * * • The only cure for freckles and sunburn will be out soon. Very reliable. It Is winter. • • * If the farmers don’t get help soon this will become the land without a country. • • * Hot weather knickers will be cold weather kickers In a few weeks. * * * Difference between movies and vaudeville is In movies the audience does the talking. • ♦ * First sign of fall is when the frost is on the pumpkin and the shock is in the price. • * • A wise man never stands out in the rain or tries to. open a can with a pocket knife. • • • Shoe dealers are against this fight for lower gasoline prices. * • • Wheat prices are so low the grower has his bushels of trouhle.

Indiana Sunshine

Skinney, Slim. Freckles and ail the gang are going to attend the picnic Frankfort Rotarians are giving for all the boys of that city Aug. 29. It is an annual event. The home of Clare K. Vance, pilot of one of the planes in the air mail sei vice’s first test flight of night fly ing, la at Logansport. Vance is plan nlng a coast to coast nonstop flight lr. a plane of his own designing In twenty-two hofirs. # Any one want any fleas? Accord ing to reports a regular “Coxie’s army” of the little pests have invaded over a score of houses in Marion lately. The Insects are so savage in their attacks that residents have appealed to the board of health for a way of riddance. Since Police Chief Eversman has been in office at Richmond hut two automobiles of the entire number stolen from that city were never accounted for. Since the beginning of the present year forty-one have been recovered. The largest average yield ever produced by a member of a boy-’ potato club In Jackson County was raised this year by Clyde May. Reddington, when he produced an average of bushels to the acre. Firemen at Oreensburg were deluged under a shower of catsup and mustard while fighting a blaze. Chemicals that were thrown into the blaze caused the jars to explode.

Animal Facts

Bird censuses covering a period of seven years indicate that there is a little more than one pair of birds to the acre of farm land in that section of thp country lying north of Maryland and the Ohio River and east of the great plains. The Chinese are very fond of fish for food and for fun. They raise them in the house and in tha garden for fun and in their ponds for food. In nearly every home of any standing you will find fish In the garden and fountain and in the house in beautiful globes. In some families of wealth they have special servants whose sole duty Is, to raise and attend to the goldfish of the establishment. With such care goldfish live eight or nine years and grow to two or three pounds in weight. In the families of great wealth they have gardens made to represent rivers and mountains and lakes and forests. In these pools and basins the fish live in paradise, their only duty being to look pretty. Os the food fish, some they raise really In captivity in the small ponds to he found on eVery farm, and some they catch wild in the rivers and lakes or off the Seacoast. In the spring the farmers buy the tiny mites of fish from peddlers at about $1 a bowl and plant them In their ponds. In a. year or so, after being fed and watched with care, they are netted out and sold as the poultry are, alive. Gum Americans spend $1,000,000 a week for gum, according to a trade report by the National City Bank. This is a very conservative estimate, we are told by the janitor of a movie theater who has to scrape gum wads from their parking places underneath the seats. However, it is good news for dentists and doctors

he got the day’s card and ran his eye over the entries for a hat horse. “Sure enough, Jim’s eager eye soon caught ‘Hateras’ and, in an hour, every dollar of his was down on that entry. “At the track. Jim saw his nag among the also-rans, and turning to Tom Carleton, sadly said: " ‘Never a tip for me again. my money on that hat horse Hateras, and him last! Doggone the doggone fool tips, anyhow.’ “ ‘Hat horse!’ roared Carleton, ‘couldn’t you regd? Sombrero wins!’ ”

IT IS EASY TO TRAVEL IN LONDON Traffic in British Capital Is Well Regulated by Police. By JOHN W. RAPER. I' "I N LONDON: This Is an easy city in which to get around. There are three traffic systems; the subway, the motor bus and street cars owned and operated by the city government, of no great mileage and of not any Importance in the Londoner’s life, and subway and motor bus. The aubway system is well planned and efficiently operated and Is the best meaps of travel for any distance. But the motor bus is the thing. Last year the motor busses carried 847,000,000 passengers. They cover completely every part of the city where there la a natural flow of travel. No matter where you wish to go you can reach the point by bus. While the bus is a solid-tired affair that gives you a shaking, it is the handiest thing in the world; you can sit on top iu the open and you cover ground with surprising speed. The drivers have a skill that is almost uncanny. Traffic Handled Eaaily A traffic Jam in London Is something worth seeing. I have been In two, one. In the Strand and one In the Whitechapel district. In each I could see that for at least half a mil? the street was solidly packed with vehicles. Busses alone were thickly jammed that It did not seem possible there could he anything else In the streets, but they were only a small part of it. Not only Is the efficiency with which London traffic is handled astonishing, hut likewise the quiet, easy manner in which it Is done. The police direct it without making any fuss of the job. You never hear anybody bawled out. If a policeman has anything to say to a driver he does it quietly. It isn’t often that he has to say anything. Everybody obeys with the Alacrity of a soldier. Once in a while you hear a driver yell out somethin? to another one. but It’s never a row. Nobody Gets Peevish Tn a jam nobody becomes Impatient or peeved! Everybody waits calmly, knowing that something that couldn't he prevented has tied up traffic, and that Just as soon as they possibly can do It. the police will have the line moving. Accidents are rare. In the midst of tightly packed streets you wilt see men and boys on bicycles and men and boys with push carts, without the slightest fear of being run down by a bus. taxi. auto truck, delivery rar or passenger auto. The pedestrian is careful, of course, but he doesn’t have to wait for a signal that permits him to cross a street. He goes when and where he pleases, alert and watchful, and know ing the drivers are the same. It will be a great day for the undertakers when the London driver acquires the American chauffeur's skill in bumping off pedestrians.

Family Fun

Wanted to Travel It was a hot Sunday in May. In a little room on hard wooden benches sat forty wiggling, little humans. The hot sun poured through the windows, the teacher’s Inexperience added to her heat. The lesson was the separation of the sheep from the goats. Calling on her imagination the teacher described vividly the wonders of Hea ven and the horrors of hell. Ruth, aged 4. on the front bench listened, enrapt, her eyes growing larger and larger. “Ruth,” ended the teacher, “where would you rather go, to Teaven or to hell?” “I’d like to see both places,” replied Ruth. Teacher, hastily: "We will now sing a hymn.”—Judge. IJttle Ted's Schooling ''An' 'ow are you gettin’ along at school now, Ted? What are yer learnln’?” "Uncle, I'm learning reading, writing. sums and things. Oh. yes, and religion, too.” $ “Gracious! Religion?” “Yes, but different from Joe’s. I'm taught that we all come from Adam. Joe's In a higher class, and he’s taught we all come from monkeys.” —Sydney Bulletin. When Wife Is Lost “So you lost your wife last month? Wasn’t it a terrible blow?” “It wor a regular tornado She cleaned out everything In the house before she eloped.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Pohnny as a Reader "Johnny,” said his aunt, “did you enjoy the book I sent you on your birthday?” “Hnln't? looked at It yet.’’ “Why, how is that?” ” ’Cause ma said I’d have to wash my hands when I read it.”—Boston Transcript. One for Dad’s Typist “A fine typist you are! Call yourself a typist, and don’t know how to put a ribbon in a typewriter!” “Don't Paderewski know how to tune a piano?”—Film Fun. Observations ——■ A Texas judge has decided the husband Is the property of the wife. Old s-tuff. The woman had decided that way long, long ago. Great snakes! Here’s a paper that says statesmen are "returning from Europe full of views.” They get that way if they persist. The man who invented the first moving picture camera never got anything out of it but a memory. Retributive justice, or what? Mellon intimates that those Europeans kinda cut him, when he mentioned their debt to us. A French scientist says a fish has reason, but he doesn’t tell us whether it is a good one or not.

QUEST I O N S Ask- The Times ANSWERS

You can let an antwer to any question of fact or Information by writing to the IndianapolU Time* Washington Bureau, 1322 N. Y. Avenue Washington, D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps. Medical, legal, love and marriage advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken, or papers, speeches, etc., be prepared. Unsigned letters cannot be answered. lat all letters are confidential, and receive personal replies.—Editor. What are the possible byproducts of sweet potatoes? Starch, potato flour, dehydrated po- ; tatoes, sirup, alcohol, vinegar, breakfast foods and various kinds of feeds. Why is the police patrol spoken of as the “Black Marla"? The story is that in Boston, during Colonial days, a gigantic negress by the name of Maria kept a boarding house for sailors in one of the roughest sections of the city. So great was her strength that the lawless element stood in awe of her, and whenever an unusually troublesome person had to be removed to the station-house, the services of “Black Maria” were called for so frequently that “send Black Marla" became a synonym for the removal of prisoners to Jail. What is the Rev. Billy Sunday’s address? Winona Lake. Ind. What Is the average speed of the Twentieth Century Limited? Sixty miles an hour. Where Is the U. S. Battleship Virginia? In the Boston Navy Yard. She was put out of commission in 1920. Whom did the Mormons believe lived in America a thousand years before Christ? They believed the fl-st inhabitants were the Jarsdltes, who came directly from Babel. They were supplanted by Tareslites from Jerusalem. The principal nation of the second race were called Neophites Who was called the “Swamp Fox”? Gen. Francis Marion. Who was Qunntrell? William Quantrell was a guerilla, who devastated Lawrence, Kan., and extended his operations through western Missouri and eastern Kansas and Kentucky. He was killed In Kentucky In 1864. What Is the regulation size of boxing rings? Are there different sizes for professional and amateur rings? The A. A. IT. rules provide tha* in all boxing competitions the ring shall be not less than sixteen feet nor more than twenty-four feet square. New York State athletic rules say that the boxing ring shall be constructed in a manner satisfactory to the commission, and shall not he less than sixteen feet nor more than twenty-four feet square. What President twice received every vote of the Electoral College? George Washington. What was the maiden name of Columbus’ mother? Susanna Fontanarosa. Kindly give me Information concerning the seven notes, do, re. mi, fa, sol, la, si, do. These are the names of the notes used In the singing scale. The names) are said to have been invented by Guido d’Arezzio (horn about 990). after certain initial syllables of a monkish hym to St. John. The note “do” was formely called "ut.” How old was Buffalo Bill when he died and in what year and month did he die? He was 71 years old. Born Feb. 26. 1846, and died Jan. 10, 1917. Is It correct to have second helpings of food at a formal dinner? It is never correct to ask for a second helping, but the host or hostess may offer them. They should never insist on the guest taking a second helping, the guest may accept or refuse with a polite word. Is it well to shampoo the hair with borax? Borax is somewhat drying, but with this exception it proves a satisfactory shampoo for ligh thair, as It gives It a fluffy appearanoA and brings out the color.

No Strike in This Mine

A Non-Wander Song By BERTON BRALEY I do’ wanna wander, I do’ wanna go, I like things as they are—just so! I gotta job I kin hold for life, I gotta home and a darned good wife, Maybe I’m rusty, maybe I’m slow, But I do’ wanna wander, I do’ wanna go. Gotta bit of money, just a small amount, Tucked away in a bank account; ; Rollin’ stones don’t get no moss. Not, at least, that I’VE run across; Guys that's restless, let ’em pack an’ blow, I do’ wanna wander, I do’ wanna go. I like things just the way they are, I got two babies an’ a flivver car That’ll take us any place we please. But I don’t hanker for r o seven seas! I wanna watch my youngsters grow, I do’ wanna wander, I do’ wanna go. I’ll get stuffy, and I’ll get fat? That’s MY worry, lemme tell you that! You; like travel, go ahead and hike, Staying home is the thing I like! Them’s my feelings, do you get me, bo? I do' wanna wander, I do’ wanna go! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) J Referee’s Tower By ALBERT APPLE Baseball The champion bull fighter of Spain —Enrique Robles. professionally known as Chicorrito—spends his vacation in our country and gives this description of a baseball game, the first he ever attended: “The people made much noise and I could not understand way they should be so excited. A few men wearing very dull clothes—nothing like the brilliant costumes of our bull fighters—were running around and throwing a little ball and trying to hit it with a stick. It was very uninteresting.” That sounds like comment by a Man from Mars. Bug The boll weevil can be .practically wiped out by aeroplanes scattering calcium arsenate in dust form. So claim some of the bug experts at Uncle Sam’s agricultural experiment station. Tallulah. La. They have successfully attacked boll weevils In this way in limited acreages. The I on costs a dollar an acre. Valuable scientific progress. of course. But it starts us pondering, what may be accomplished by poisonscattering airplanes in future wars. We are progressing mechanically faster than we are morally. Like giving a savage a high-power rifle before he can be counted on not to use it recklessly. Joking? With the twelve-hour day doomed in the steel industry, an eight-hour day is boomed for farmers. Its backer is L. L. Cosline, writing in American Agriculturist. You can imagine .the howl that would go up from city folks if farmers began organizing to reduce our food supply hv curtailing their labor to eight hours a day. Bosses We seem not to be in the toils of “Big Business” as much as we Imagine. Joseph W. Roe, president of the Society of Industrial Engineers, studies the last census and finds that of the 290,105 manufacturing establishments in our country, only 1,021 employ more than 1.000 wage earners apiece. And 235,884 manufacturers employ fewer than twenty apiece. Half of the American engaged in manufacturing are employed by concerns with from twenty to 500 men on the pay roll. Our most dangerous near-monopo-lles are in distribution, not production. Coolidge President Coolidge is a football fan. an all-round gridiron expert, and has been since he was a senior atAmherst, in 1894. Parke Davis of Princeton furnishes the information. Football includes the entire science of warfare. Napoleon and Foch were, in effect, quarterbacks. A brain trained irt football strategy—and in that m ' der form of warfare, politics.

MONDAY, AUG. 27, 1923

What Editors Are Saying

Elephant (Lafayette Journal and Courier) A New York man gave his daughter a baby elephant as a wedding present. The husband of the girl ought to draw on the man for peanuts for the big baby. Slemp (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel) The fact that Mr. Slemp, President Coolidge's secretary, has been able to procure elections and re-election for a number of terms from a strong Democratic Southern State should be sufficient proof that he is not such a bad sort of a fellow as our Democratic friends represent him to be. Prices (Alexandria Times-Tribune) Gasoline has declined in price and telephone rates have been raised. We who don’t own an outo, but have telephones, are inclined to weep. Those who own both auto and phone, don’t know what*to do. whether to weep or smile. They get It coming and going. Licken (Frankfort Crescent-News) We ca/i not see cf what interest it is to the public to be told that New York City consumes 734,900,000 gallons of water daily. What we want statistics on Is the number of gallons of licker consumed daily. 1 Bribes (Clinton Clintonian) About next year when the campaigns get going, some of the politically ambitious will find they don’t need any four-wheel brakes. Agnostic Old Bob Ingersoll was an„ agnostic —believing it impossible for the human brain ever to know the truth about the nature of God and the ultimate future of the universe. He began his revolt against, the Christian religion when he was, 8 years old, an extremely young age for the kind of defiance. The first eight years of childhood shape our whole lives at least 50 per cent. It’s queer that it never occurs to so-called radicals to direct their propaganda at children, the coming generation, whose minds are flexible. Instead, the radicals waste their time or. grown-ups whose Ideas and brain processes have become set like cement. Odd . An old married couple in Kochi, Japan, recently attended their own funeral, which they decided to hold before their deaths. This is real news —something that probably never happened before. After the ceremony, the old couple banqueted the "mourners,” and said that the funeral had given them a new lease on life. In the last analysis, life is a preparation for death. It’s a journey between two mysterious stations. Brick A brick weighs quite a bit and should be manufactured as near as possible to the place where It Is used In building. So something is radically wrong with our “system" when three million bricks a month are Imported into New York City from foreign countries. That’s what has been happening this year. “Shortage of bricks’’ is a poor excuse. Te we can’t even make our own bricks, the outlook for American industry is rather sad when it comes to commodities requiring more intricate manufacturing skill. Faraway Buffalo Bill, riding a camel, !a pictured on the cover of American dime novels translated and printed in Italy. Another cover shows Hill In a gondola, rescuing a fair damsel from a burning Mississippi River steamboat. A third has Bill at bay in a canyon, flanked by African lions and tigers. The Italians are “eating” this sort of stuff. Their dime novel taste runs to Buffalo Bill and Nick Carter. Some American ideas about Italy are equally ridiculous. The fxraway always is pictured distortedly. That’s why wars are possible. Radic and airplane will bring more interr ational understanding and good feelirg than a million diplomatic conferences.