Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1923 — Page 4

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ARE YOU KEARSIGHTED MENTALLY ? mF YOU are looking for health or happiness, take a tip from Sunnyside. The county sanitarium, near Indianapolis, is going to have a big home-coming soon. That will mean a lot to those who have escaped the death sentence of the white plague. To some taxpayers it will be another reminder of additional burdens. Sunnyside, however, has a lesson for the entire world. The event, Sunday, Sept. 23, will be unrivaled for reasons more than one. The world seeks for cures too often in the vagueness of mystery. Difficult formulas are offered for happiness, sex fidelity, health and such. Those who look far to the horizon for the truth, should read this health recipe which is put into use, Dr. 11. S. Hatch, superintendent, says, at Sunnyside: “Plenty of rest, good food, fresh air, peace of mind and common sense.” There you have it. The simplest cure in the world. Men, women and children, now healthy in body and in mind, are to return on home-coming day to Sunnyside, renewing acquaintances perhaps, but mostly as a living tribute to the institution that the people of Marion County have made possible, and as a testimonial to the formula that has made them well. ' Happiness, too often, seems to exist just beyond the golden skyline like a rainbow after the storm. Health can be regained, perhaps, in some far-away clime or by some strange potion of drugs. Divorce solution lies surely in some nr.drafted law of government or in some new creed of a church. Sunnyside shows how nearsighted we often are. Real happiness and health wait for us in our own homes and in our own if we can only realize it.

DOUBTIXG LEGION’S MOTIVES ERONICALLY, Congressman Walter F. Lineberger of California suggests that “adroitly veiled” English and German * propaganda against France is concealed in the American Legion’s ; proposal, made from headquarters in Indianapolis, for an air dis- - armament conference. Surely recollection of the way American doughboys fought i side by side and suffered with French poilus, as well as the fact that many legion posts have indorsed France’s occupation of the Ruhr, are answer enough to any such accusation. As war clouds continue to hover over Europe, nothing is : more natural than that these men, with the horrors of war still before them, should want to do all in their power to prevent a I repetition of the events of 1914-1918. The “next war,” scientists agree, will be a war of the air. ‘ Nations, while they declare themselves eager for world peace, • continue to prepare, by increasing their air forces, for just such ; a war. As long as no steps are taken to stop this preparation, made ;m “self-defense,” the world will be in danger of another such catastrophe as the World War. Surely Congressman Lineberger has forgotten of whom he • speaks when he doubts the legion’s motives in seeking some definite assurance of peace. LOYALTY TO JOB C* r ”“ OLIE CHANDLER is an engineer on the Illinois Central. __ He drives locomotive No. 1167. When he comes in from a . run Colie always lingers around the shops until No. 1167 is inspected and groomed for her next trip. When repairs are needed, Colie can’t be driven out of the \ shop with a shotgun. The story goes that he hangs around, watching the shopmen as anxiously as a mother hen with her chicks. When repairs involve an overnight job, Colie sleeps in the roundhouse within call. All this isn’t surprising, if you know anything about the average locomotive engineer and his loyalty to his job. Colie Chandler starts us thinking about the generally accepted notion that the average person works reluctantly and quits with a shout when the whistle blows. Sometimes we all act that way. But the trouble is "with * our nerves rather than a desire to put miles between ourselves and our jobs. For instance, a real dyed-ip-the-wool newspaperman never , reads the papers as eagerly as when he is on a vacation. As if " he were afraid that he might miss being in on a big job of report- ‘ ing. Work is like an old horse or an auto that has nearly served its day. The driver gets irritable at times and cusses and fumes. But just let an outsider start criticising, and you quickly learn what the owner really thinks of his steed. The owner of the most 6hot-to-pieces flivver is ever eager to boast about what it can still do. So with our jobs, drat them. We hate and love them in the same breath. Ask the man returned from vacation. BE VERY careful while inheriting a fortune. A Paris rag- * picker did it and dropped dead. MOVIE actor was hurt falling off a horse. Perhaps he was ; imitating the Prince of Wales. WIRE says gold has been found in Alaska, but it may have . been a tourist with his mouth open. BERLIN reports the tourists nearly all gone. They have just about finished the last one. ANTI-TOBACCO bugs have started again, but may get ■ smoked out. ; TEN-CENT bread is equivalent to $1.75 wheat. Wheat is • below a dollar. Only farmers know it. MORE bread is eaten than any other one thing. Chewing ’ gum and tobacco fall far below it. HOBO college is after the Bok peace prize. Bet their answer will be to handcuff brakemen. ESTIMATES place our cuss words around 4,000. Learn J them all. They will keep you warm this winter. THE LITTLE nations are, probably, observing that, if the big nations, such as Italy, can pull out of the League of Nations on any pretext, the covenant is really for little nations only.

INCOME OF FARMER IS $lO LARGER Estimate of Expert Is Based on Prospective Sales of Crops This Year. BY GEORGE BRITT NEA Service Writer HICAGO, Sept. 17.—The average farmer’s son may be able to take his girl to town to a show one more time this winter than he did last. The farmer's daughter may have ’***'-, an additional new frock. provided Their father, if St .gtjtffc. -''- • he happens to be I mm I one of 111080 rar ° jjj. specimens wh o average, will I have about $lO more to spend i sPj for each member INllik W&f of h 1 b family Araral tlmn when he . Jrl sold his crops l last year. MOORHOUSE Sales Are Prospective The announcement is based on estimates of H. W. Moorhouse, director of research of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The estimate deals only with prospective sales of farm products and reduces to a fourth or a fifth a previous computation which was based upon department of agriculture figures for the value of crops. Incidentally it is the first detailed prediction ever issued of the gross cash income from sales, of farm produce. Sales for the last crop year aggregated $8,479,000,000, Moorhouse reports, and for the present year, the forecast is $8,710,000,000, a gam of $231,000,000. "The billion-dollar estimate would ir dicat e corn alone would bring $000,000,000 more than last year." ex •plains Moorhouse. "That assumes that the entire crop is sold as corn at July 1 prices.” Com Is Higher The gain estimated in the farm bureau figures is accounted for in probable increases in the value of cotton and of dairy and poultry products. Corn is expected to bring in more cash. Cattle and tobacco will bring about the same; wheat and hogs, less. The $231,000,000 estimated gain in income is to be divided among approximately one-fourth of the popu lation of the United States—that proportion deriving Its income from agricultural pursuits.

Indiana Sunshine

Testifying that his wife used the baby’s nightgown to dry the dishes Immediately after taking It from the baby, John Terrill, Columbus, asked fer a divorce. The family cow staggered through the barnyard, fell over a couple of gates, and flnajly brought up dizzily against the side of the barn. Green Jenkins, Washington, called the veterinary surgeon, who told him that Bossie had found a gasoline can, drank the contents and become “lit up.” At a 12-ye,ar-old party at Greensburg, where all the guests were required to come dressed as kids, Mrs. Mary Ketchum, 81, proved to bo the best "youngster.” Refreshments consisted of all-day, suckers, ice cream cones and animal crackers. Milton Hazel, 62, Bloomington, foiled the third attempt of a boisterous crowd to take him and his bride for a charivari when he dispersed the fun-seekers who called at bis home at the point of a shotgun. A pygmy hippopotamus found in Liberia has been brought to the winter quarters of the American Circus Corporation at Peru. There have been five of these dwarfs in captivity, al! of which have died with this one exception. They are the glze of a hog and the rarest animal in captivity.

A Thought

He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity.—Rom. 12:8. OHAT which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.— Seneca. Superstition All rats left the ship Abner Cobum before she sailed from Seattle to the Alaskan Ashing grounds. An old-time sailor would have said the ship was doomed. But the Abner Cobum made her trip North and returned to Seattle safely. That’s tho way with most superstitions when we put them to the test. However, sunperstition is based on precedent—on the law of averages—and it does no harm to keep one eye open. The idea about it being unlucky to walk under a ladder probably originated with a painter droplng his can of paint on a pedestrian. San Diego has the prize optimist. Pie says: “I don’t care. I forgot to get a smoked glass, anyhow,”

Heard in the Smoking Room

*<],. _ jES,” said the immigration offlI Y I cial who was going on his L— 1 vacation up-State from New York, "many of the arrivals at Ellis Island have funny Ideas of this country. I recall the story of the young Irishman w>o arrived on these shores a short time ago. He was met by friends and they started out to give him a touch of American life. After various little trips about the big city, one of the friends took Pat to see a baU game. It was a long contest and

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His Slogan Is “Plant Trees”

By NEA Service \ BERLIN, Ohio, Sept. 17.—Here’s I(j I President Henry Churchill King I 1 of Oberlin College, who says: “Celebrating the centennial of Arbor Day in 1972 by planting trees now is a program in ——'■*—which Oberlin College and her former students | \ may well have a -gjp Oberlin College ' V ''' '> has called on all ’ * lEri her sons an.d -jßw daughters /■ throughout the % •• *O3? world to join the *** jir tre e-p lant in g army, to plant a I W tree, or trees, and register them with the American KING Tree Association at Washington. The college has graduates in every part of the world, including Siam, China, India and Turkey. The representation's especially strong in New Enffiand and the Middle West. The plan's to have "Oberlin Elms" planted, in honor of the Oberlin elm on the college campus—an elm which w r as there long before Oberlln’s first log cabin was built in 1833 —on elm In the Hall of Fame for trees, with a history the American Tree Association Is compiling.

(5bM SIMS | -/- -/- Says So many people are wearing glasses. In a few generations bales may be born with them. • • • Many golfers keep their clubs at jome so neighbors will know where hey are going. • • • When a young couple bragged ibout their new machine twenty years ago it was a sewing machine. • • • Bread is the staff of life. Wheat is so low and bread so high it seems to be a crooked Btaff. • • • Every now and then someone you haven’t missed comes up and tells you he Is back again. • • * The bustle is coming back. Also, the hustle and bustle. • • • Scratching a bite irritates the jkin, also the biter. • • • Books on eitquette are still in demand, although reading them is considered bad etiquette. • • • It is cheaper to move than to keep your grass cut.

Hunt the bright things. With so many worms in peaches there may be none left for chestnuts. • • • • A detourist tells us the speed limit is often one mile an hour. • • • Nice thing about hot weather is lothing else matters much. • • • The young ladies are tanning their hide now. Next, winter they will be hiding their tan. Animal Facts American museum of natural his tery has a photograph showing nearly a score of eels climbing a vertical ledge to get over the Columbian River falls at the Dalles, Oregon. Clung to rocks with their sucking mouths and worked steadily upwards by sidelong motions of their heads. Scientists estimate that the human body contains a billion times as many microbes as there are people on the face of the earth. Colony of beavers has lived near Avigrnone, France, for 800 years, during which time generation after generation made their homes out of mud In the banks of the Rhone, there being no trees for the purpose during all those centuries. Recently a Polish nobleman bought the colony and moved them to his timbered estate. They at once began cutting down trees with their teeth and building dams and houses of the logs and limbs, Just as their forefathers did more than 300 years ago. That's instinct. U. 8. biological survey has nearly 300 men who have nothing to do to earn their salaries but hunt. Last year their bag of varmints Included 77,000 coyotes, 2,287 bobcats and GB7 wolves. Atomozes, the substance In the white of a hen’s egg, are precisely of the same elements and in the same quantities as the atoms In a rattlesnake’s venom. Explanation Is that nature has placed the atoms differently. Herb Quick asks what’s a dozen antelopes comparesd with one dairy cow; the old utility argument against preserving Interesting things. But cow’s can’t live on rocky mountain sides, or on semi-desert lands, or In our national forests, or In useless marsh areas, while the wild things can. Preserved, they are a wonderful pleasure to millions of people who can escape to the great outdoors, and that Is pretty nearly as profitable as milk and beef.

sundown came. Suddenly there came the boom of the sunset gun on Governor’s Island and the startled Pat flinched as If he were at home on the ould sod and an election shindy were on. Tremblingly he said to his friend, 'Mickey, dear, what was thot noise?’ " 'Sun’s gone down,’ growled Mickey, who was intent on the game. “Pat was bewildered. He mopped the sweat from his forehead the while he thought Intently. Then he said: “ ‘Mickey, mon, she goes down with a bang here, don’t she!’ ’’

PULLMAN VOTERS CAN ELECT FORD Flivver Riders Will Cast Ballot for Him Anyway, Writer Believes, By LOWELL MELLETT, Staff Correspondent. TyTj ASHns'GTON, Sept. 17. —If I yy wanted to take the trouble I could elect Henry Ford President. It would be one of the easiest things I ever did. . How? By going out and getting the Pullman vote. What’s the Pullman vote? The vote of every person over 21 years of age who ever has had to ride in a Pullman sleeping car. That includes nearly every qualified voter in the United States, and practically all the others ride In flivvers and would vote for Ford anyhow, they say. So, by properly approaching the Pullman vote, I'd make Henry's election nearly unanimous. All Henry would have to do would be to promise to make sleeping accommodations on American trains as good as they are in such less civilized countries as England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Chile, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. You know what you get in a Pullman car. It is really tpo terrible to talk about in polite society. Women Bear Wrongs The women have borne their wrongs in this matter in comparative silence. They have thought it couldn’t be helped. What would happen if Henry Ford came forward as their emancipator to tell them our present sleeping car conditions are not necessary and never had been necessary? Wouldn't the women Just about gcout and wreck all those traveling torture chambers —ail the Monongaheias. Escanopoiists, Paranoias, Exzemas and others of the pafentiful names? There is no sound reason of public service that prevents any important railroad system In tills country from having its own sleeping cars. If each big system had been competing with others in this regard during the past half century. America would have shown the world progress in train service comparable to the progress It has shown in automobiles. But early in its history the Pullman company saw the great advantage of monopoly. So it let influential railroad directors In on the game and found it easy to make exclusive contracts with the railroads which these men directed. Date Bark to Civil War Consequently, while in other countries steeping cars have been perfected step by step, we still have the abominations that wore flrpt put on wheels shortly aftr the Glvil War. The Pullman Palace Car Company was first incorporated In 1887. Since then Its stock dividends have totaled one hundred million dollars. Doesn't it look like Henry’s gresit opportunity?

Family Fun

Cheer Up Miffles, whose social bulls are notorious, found himself at a party talking to a melancholy looking little man whom Millies did his best to cheer lie Indicated n lady of more ; than usual lack of beauty and said. | ”11 - avens, who do you suppose that j hideous old dame Is?” Os course, the I melancholy little man said, "That’s | n.v wife." Miffles had done it again. | but Ms kindly heart, went blundering on. inspiring him to say: “Cheer up, old man, you ought to see mine."—Argonaut. For tho Family Doctor "Doctor, I“ve known you so long now that, it would be an insult for me to pay your bills, so I’ve arranged a handsome legacy for you In my will.” “You don't mean it—l am Overwhelmed—by the way, Just let rne j take a look at that prescription j again.”—Boston Transcript. NY lUie Con vie ted “Why do you think it was Willie who broke the window?” ! “When he went to bed he said his prayers without my having to remind him.” —Judge. Daughter’s Rescuer “You may not remember me, sir, j but two years ago, at the shore, I j rescued your daughter from a watery | grave and you made me a present i of $1,000.” 1 “Yes, Indeed, young man, I recall i you perfectly. What can I do for jyou?” j “I merely dropped In to inquire whether sho had learned to swim yet.”—Chicago Journal. Ho Knew His Pad “Now, Johnny, which would you rather have your father promise to ! give you—a silver w r atch or a gold cne?” “A silver one, ’cause I’d think he meant it then.” —Jewelers’ Weekly. Delayed Ancestry "Did any of your ancestors come over on the Mayflower?” “No; but I understand one of them ran for the boat and Just missed it.” —Boston Transcript.

Science

Most of the inventions In present- | day warfare are presumed to be new. However, most of them are old In the sense that they are developments and improvements of old Ideas. The most startling of all inventions in modern warfare Is poison gas. This Idea was advanced by H. G. Wells over twenty years ago In his book, “The War of the Worlds.” The use of a deadly heat ray by, the Martians is also described. The latter Is not yet in use In warfare, but Its development Is not Improbable. An automobile for use in warfare was offered to Napoleon. The motive power was steam. It was a crude affair compared to the automobiles of today, but it worked. Napoleon decided against It, and the automobile Industry went back to sleep for another century. A practical telegraph, through a system of signals, and towers on hills, was in use at that same period. The balloon, the pioneer aircraft, was in operation about the same time. The submarine was invented, in Action, by Jules Verne, many years ago.

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QUE3T I O N 8 Ask— The Times ANSWERS You can set an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Tunes Washington Bureau. 1322 N Y. Avenue. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stumps. Medical, lepal, 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.—Editor. What are, the populations of Junt iu, Sitka and Cordova, Alaska? Junea, 3,058; Sitka, 1,175; Cordova, 955. Os what disease did Napoleon I die and where and when? Cancer of the stomach at St. Helena, May 5, 1821. What was the "Prince Imperial’s" name and how did he die? Eugene Louis Napoleon, known as the Prince Imperial, the only son of Napoleon 111, was killed by a party of Zulus in the Zulu war in South Africa June 1, 1879, while out with a small party. He was serving with the British forces. How many natural bridges are there In the United States? What are the dimensions of the one in Virginia? There are more than fifty natural bridges of considerable size in the United States. Os these the best known Is the celebrated Natural Bridge, in Rockbridge County, Virginia. It has a span of ninety feet, and Is from fifty to 100 feet wide. The thickness of Its crown is about forty feet and Its arch Is 215 feet above the stream. A public road passes over It.

Wha’t does “In hoc signo vlncea” mean? 1 "By this sign thou wilt conquer." What stAdium has the largest seating capacity of any ball park In the American League? The Yankee stadium. New York | City; seating capacity, 65,000. What is Victoria Cross’s real name? Vivian Cory. On what day of the weak did Dec. 30. 1897, fall? Thursday. Who was the first officer In the United States Army to hold the rank of full general? George Washington. Was any President of the United Slates ever impeached 7 Yes; Andrew Johnson. What is the proper way to Introduce two men? The usual form Is "Mr. Brown, Mr. Jones.” A young man Is presented to an older man, a bachelor to a married man. Those without official distinction are presented to Senators, Judges, Governors, etc. What causes stars to twinkle? Twinkling Is due to the slight Inequalities of density and motions of air through which light passes, causing deviations and Interferences of the rays. What Is the speed of the earth I In Its orbit? The mean velocity of the earth In Its orbit is 18.50 miles per second. What are the poisonous snakes found In the United States? Rattlesnakes (of which there are numerous kinds, including ground rattlesnakes and massasuaga), copperhead, cotton mouth, coral snake and harlequin snakes. What Is the cause of thunder and lightning? Plashes of lightning are enormous electrical discharges. The thunder that accompanies lightning seems to be satisfactorily explained by the fact that the electrical discharge In forolng Its way through the atmosphere heats the air and the vapor lying in its path to a very high temperature, causing a very vllolent expansion along the whole length of the flash. The result Is a very steep expression wave, or, what Is the same thing, a noise. What color is ambergris and of ■what use Is It? , Ambergris Is gray, marbled with blackish. It Is used In the manufacture of perfumes.

At the End of His Rope

Rover’s Nose Is Out of Joint Bv BERTON BRALEY They’ve got anew puppy at our house. And nobody cares but me! It’s little and red, with no fur on its head, Or anywhere else that I see The folks think it great, but I’M here to state I’m darn if I wholly agree. They’ve got anew puppy at our house, It whines and it howls all the time; [f I did that trick I’d be punished right quick As if I’d commute 1 a crime; But this little brute —they say, “Ain’t he cute?” Without any reason or rhyme! They’ve got anew puppy at our house < It isn’t so’ much in my eyes, But Master and Missus, they seem to think this is A sort of a family prize. Since that Is their view, I must fall for it, too, As any dog WOULD who was wise! They’ve got anew puppy at our house. And I’m a bit lonesome and sad. But maybe I’ll play with tills puppy some day And then I won’t find it so bad. Since those I love best like this new little guest. I’ll wiggle my tail and be glad! (Copyright, 1923 NEA Service, Inc.)

What Editors Are Saying

Ruhr (CrawfordsviUe Journal) Passive resistance in the Ruhr Valley may soon be a thing of the post. Possibly Germany has awakened to the fact that such action is not assisting in settling the question of reparations on a basis that would not Impose additional burdens on themselves. • • • Noise (Vincennes Sun) Noise, even In a condition of healthy nerves, Is shocking to the nervous system. It’3 a marvel that people In civilization are as sane as they are, considering the thousands of blows or shocks that reach their nerves dally in the form of noises. • • • Desirable (Marion Leader-Tribune) The great immediate project of President Coolidge seems to be “smoothness” in government—a most desirable quality. It Is his opinion that, to quote from the dispatches, "the country needs primarily at the present time a feeling of stability, confidence and reassurance and the knowledge that things ar egoing on smoothly.” • * * v ' Autumn (Muncie Evening Press) Let’s leave the benches In the parks this year until extremely cold weatner—what do you say? The most beautiful season of the year Is Just ahead and many delight to walk among the turning leaves and over the velvety carpet of the browning grass in the cool days of autumn, and, walking, like to sit at times and contemplate the beauties of nature as she begins to don the bright robes of autumn. • * * Depression (Frankfort Evening News) All over the country there Is a feeling of depression. No one feels Just certain of his footing. There is no panicky demonstration, but just an evidence of extreme caution. We have been riding so high that It has become evident that the retard must be put Into our merry song. • • • Spanked (Decatur Daily Democrat) There is still hope that the country Is not going to the bow-wows. Marie Price, the 15-year-old Ft. Wayne girl who has been getting a lot of notoriety recently, and who was billed to appear on the burlesque stage at Cleveland, has been spanked and sent home.

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To the Editor of The Times The traffic problem in Indianapolis has again required the services of a traffic expert from another city. In the opinion of some councilmen, as well as others, employment of an outside expert has met with opposition. Regardless of where this expert is from, he must recommend changes and plans for the betterment of handling traffic and for the saftey of the pedestrian. Indianapolis has progressed wonderfully in the last two years in going forward toward larger cities traffic handling plans. Heretofore, in drawing up traffic ordinances the merchants and street railway heads have been allowed to demand the parking of automobiles and routing of street cars to their satisfaction and trying to keep the congestion and business cn two or three downtown corners. With the enormous traffic, of both automobiles and street cars that we have here in the city, we must have ordinances that will provide a channel for the traffic to move in and not devote time for a satisfactory parking plan whereby the downtown employe can drive his car down to work in the morning and use the streets for his garage.

The one and one-half hour parking limit must go. The looping of all street cara on two important corners should be abolished. The south side people are objecting to Virginia Ave. cars not being able to touch Washington St. It seems ; as If everybody has been drilled to make a plea for all traffic to get near | or on the three important corners on ! Washington St., (Pennsylvania, Meridian and Illinois). That was why the no left turn had to be enacted on some of the principal comers In the | congested dlstriot. If the city had ! more one way streets the handling of I traffic would be made easier. When ! you refer to other cities using this ! method, we are told that Is because their streets are so narrow. I refer to New York City for Instance, which has hundreds of one way streets, and they are as wide as N. Meridian St. from the eight hundred block an | north. I would suggest that Meridian St. j be made a one way street from Georgia St. north. Illinois St. Is to be widened and resurfaced and it could be made a one way street to handle southbound traffic. East Washington St. is burdened with the bulk of east end and Irvington traffic. New York St. being so narrow and rough that the majori ity use Washington St. East Wash- ! ington with the heavy trafflo it handles should have no parking from Southeastern Ave. ea3t. Thirty minute parking limit in the congested district and flat to the curb with a strong enforcement of three feet In front and three feet In back separating a reasonable distance for parkers to get in and out. The latter part of the aforesaid sentence has never been enforced In Indianapolis and that Is the reason the public has objected 1 to this method of parking. The skip-stop system of street cars should never have been abolished here. The system Increased the speed of service and it would also speed up the vehicle .traffic if used now. Pedestrian traffic should be made to walk with the signal In the downtown area and provision should be made f->r tw r o lines of traffic to move at all 'times downtown and with the repairing of street car tracks pavement, so that the crossings would be smoother, traffic could move much faster. VERN H. EARLE. Valuable (Richmond Palladium) School and home are linked by the parent-teacher associations which supply the contract that had been lacking. Parents should join these tions and become active in the discussion of the various problems that come before them. The school authorities have found that the associations perform a valuable service in suggesting improvements and carrying out practical movements