Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 162, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1923 — Page 4
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THE FINAL STRAW SHE other day word came from the White House that President Coolidge would not protest the return of the former Kaiser to Germany nor the restoration of a monarchy with him on the throne. Os course, nobody expected a protest —after all that was said of and done to the treaty of Versailles by the United States Senate. But that did not prevent a surge of bitter disappointment welling up in the heart of every American doughboy when he heard it. It had been against kaiserism that he had fought. The Indianapolis Times voiced this disappointment and some echo of it must have reached the President. For word now comes from the White House that President Coolidge believes the American people will sympathize with any move taken by the allies to prevent restoration of the Hohenzollerns to the German throne. Mr. Coolidge considers, it is stated, that one of the things for which the United States went to war was to drive the Hohenzollerns from the throne and to prevent such autocratic rule as had been established in Germany. Guarantees to make this sure were placed in the treaty of Versailles, it was explained, and the expectation here is that the nations party to that treaty—France, England, et al.—will endeavor to enforce the provisions contained in such guarantees. If the final straw were needed, this would be it. First we were called upon to spend, directly and indirectly, some $35,000,000.000 —or about $320 apiece for every man, woman and child in this country—to remove kaiserism from the world. Next we proceeded to kill the treaty that was to guarantee that the ideal our doughboys fought for would be carried out, and now, finally, we say, all we can do is to wish England and France well while they try to secure for us the one benefit we stood to gain in the World War. Os course, we have no right and no desire to tell any country what form of government it can or should have, whether monarchy, republic or soviet. But after we have fought a war against one man and what he stood for, we not only have a right to say that that man shall not come back and nullify our dearly bought victory, but it is our sacred duty to redeem our promise and to see to it that our soldiers have not fought and died in vain. WE ARE ABOUT TO BE PACIFIED! p“| AVID WARE GRIFFITH produced “The Birth of a Nation.” Asa consequence he appears, in his own mind, to have supplanted George Washington as the Father of his Coun try. At any rate he has decided that it is time for him to take the lusty offspring up in his arms and walk the floor with it. The baby, Griffith thinks, needs a pacifier and he’s it. “There seems to be a tendency among many people,” he says, “in various sections of the country for a change, and we want to warn them against this and stamp out radicalism. We hope to impress upon the people that they are better off today than they have ever been before. “President Coolidge and other officials of the administration have been very generous in permitting us to use Government regiments, tanks, guns and other war equipment, as well as historic battlefields and buildings and other Government property, which will enable us to portray historic scenes and other inter esting incidents much more effectively and accurately than we eould otherwise.” Nice for Mr. Griffith. Nice for Mr. Coolidge. Mr. Griffith gets some thousands of uniformed movie actors for nothing, to say nothing of thousands of dollars’ worth of scenery. When the people pay for admission to see his super-film they will have the pleasure of knowing that they have earned the privilege—twice; once when they paid taxes for the upkeep of the army and once when they paid at the door. However, if they come away pacified hy Mr. Griffith, they doubtless will be content. As Mr. Coolidge, he gets the sort of political propaganda upon which apparently he hopes to rely, spread before millions of movie fans. And it costs him nothing. The title of this film is to be “America.” For a subtitle, may we suggest, “Have Faith in Massachusetts”?
DRYING UP THE COLLEGE BOOZE [q IRE VENTING young students from drinking is still a prob--1 * I lem in education. And Indiana is no exception. Appeal of Bert C. Morgan, Federal prohibition officer for Indiana, to presidents and faculties of approximately twenty colleges in the State asking for full cooperation against the “demon rum” only brings the condition up to date. Alcohol and education don’t mix well. Drinking at college is now considered a “special occasion” indigence for “rah-rah” sports to be reserved for games, dances and other crowd activities. “Old grads” of the school, always loyal to their alma mater, are held responsible, however, for the majority of the drinking evil in American colleges and universities. At a meeting of the governing board members of State educational institutions, in Chicago last week, Junius Beal, regent of the University of Michigan, gave this slamming moral indictment during a discussion of the student liquor problem: “The alumnus is the principal cause for intemperance in our coliege. He brings liquor to the campus on gala days. ‘The impressionable young student always looks upon the alumnus as a sort of godparent and consequently accepts the invitation of the ‘old grad’ to have a little drink as a virtual command.” Indiana colleges are only typical of those everywhere. Yale University recently declared Avar on “grape juice gin.” And Yale is in our dear old-fashioned New England! NATIONAL education and veterans’ organizations designate one day set aside for Constitution day in the public schools. Might be profitable to see if any of the scholars can find the authority whereby the courts declare unconstitutional the laws they do not like. WITH six major and eleven minor presidential candidates on the floor of the United States Senate, the coming session ought to prove insignificant—no this isn’t a typographical error. “HIRAM’S my close friend,” says Henry Cabot Lodge. That’s bad. “But I must support Pjspsident Coolidge,” he continues. Ah, that's better—for Hiram.'
RALSTON IS LOGICAL AS CANDIDATE Indiana Senator Is Man McAdoo or Underwood Have to Beat in Race. BY ROBERT J. BENDER (Copyright, 1923. by United News.) EW YORK, Nov. 20.—Senator Ralston of Indiana is the logiu cal compromise presidential candidate of the Democrats. In the first place, he comes from one of the uncertain States and one which, perhaps, breathes more politics over a given space than any State in the Union. Secondarily, he happens to be, at the present time, the man that everybody has decided would get the Democratic nomination after McAdoo, Underwood and others had “shot their bolt.” Down in French Lick, Ind., which happens to be a mainstay of Thomas Taggart, there have been many reports about a union of forces among Murphy of' Tammany Hall, Brennan of Illinois and Taggart of Indiana in Ralston's behalf. It will be recalled that It was a union of the Murphy, Brennan and Taggart forces that brought the nomination of former Governor James Cox at the last Democratic convention. Nevertheless, there are personal elements In the Ralston situation which are worthy of note. In the political aspirations of both Ralston and Taggart, McAdoo and his friends have payed a very prominent part. McAdoo Backed Taggart It was McAdoo that urged Taggart to run for Senator the last time he was defeated, and it was McAdoo and friends of McAdoo that supported the candidacy of Ralston when he won the senatorial contest last year, defeating Albert Beveridge. Everything considered, among those familiar with the situation, It might be assumed Ralston would get Into the fight actively only If it were demonstrated McAdoo had no chance. Also it should be remembered Taggart had difficulty holding his own delegation In line in 1920 and, this time. If Ralston decided, as head of the delegation, that he wished to throw his strength to McAdoo. any pre-arranged schedules that Murphy, Taggart and Brennan might have laid out would go by the board. “Satisfactory” to Wets. Ralston is a proponent of the League of Nations. But since Democrats generally seem to have taken the position that domestic affairs should take precedence over foreign affairs, he isn’t saying much about this. He takes no stand on Qie prohibition issue, but is “satisfactory” to those who would have a liberal interpretation of the law. He takes a stand on the Issue of the Ku-Klux Klan with a reiteration of the first clause in the Constitution having to do with religious freedom. Ralston is the man McAdoo and Underwood have to beat, because he is the man that, if neither of the others wins the nomination, Is being held to enter the breach us the compromise candidate. It is a hard role for Ralston to play. How the situation Is likely to shape up finally Hull be described In a later story.
What Editors Are Saying Rheumatism (LaPorte Argus) The most that some men lay up for a rainy day Is rheumatism. • • • Difficult (South Bend News-Times) It Is hard to sell some men washing machines because they think they married one. • • • Hammond (Lafayette Journal and Courier) "Hammond under prohibition increases in drunkenness.” says a hoad line In the Hammond Times. Since when has Hammond been “under prohibition?" • * • Charity (Tipton Dally Times) The old time Thanksgiving day had four features. A church service of thankful recognition; a feast of good things to eat: a reunion of kinsfolks: and kindly provision for the poor and needy. Don’t forget the fourth element of charity. The people who just provide for their own pleasure, and neglect the opportunity for generous acts to those who have a hard time, miss the best experiences of Thanksgiving day. Animal Facts Texas has an armadillo, insect-eat-ing animal with a stiff, bony armor all over him, that can nevertheless roll up into a ball when In danger. He can do It because the middle of his body armor is *transversedly ninejointed. Southeastern United States has shiny black grasshoppers. They’re giants, too. When the hermit crab grows too big for the clothes of his infancy, he discards them and goes In search of shell of tiny animals called coelenterate. This is not a shell. Indeed, but myriads of tiny animals that cling together in the form of a shell. Crab crowds inside and as he grows, his animal hosts are accommodating and expand his home by growing themselves, a living shell.
Heard in the Smoking Room
f V*) FELLOW can get a lot of I I pleasure out of auto touring, t ,r *j If he will but rid himself of worries. I have a friend who tours considerably and about the only thing h£ thinks of is the speed limit and how to avoid judges. He approaches a town with great care and very slowly. Once inside, his question Invites no response as to which Is the best hotel, where Is the nearest garage, or which Is the beet road. No,
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UNUSUAL PEOPLE Girl Checks Up on Aliens
ft ii \F!A Service r-pn an FRANCISCO, Nov. 20. I S I Aliens who run afoul of the law 1- I have an alert young woman to cope with in their efforts to escape justice. She Is Miss mm Alma Myers, assistant United : States district at’SSslji* torney for the C ' jillS southern division '* M t * le nort hern + district of Callfor..VW' ylspg nia. Her specific duty Is to act as . < counsel for the JSr Immigration servIce. And as such she has been studying immigraMISS MYERS tion laws and others relating to foreigners, with a view toward checking up on aliens in her district. Her most immediate problem Is that of Chinese smuggling. Miss Myers has established a good record during her six months as district attorney, her superiors say. She came to this office with a reputation for success from two years of private practice.
QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS
You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times - Washington Bureau. 1822 New York Ave., Washington. I). C„ enclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What Is the co-efficient of the radiating efficiency of aluminum as compared to copper and cast Iron? According to the United States Bureau of Standards, it all depends on how it is used. The efficiency of copper or aluminum paints, as used on house radiators, which are convectors of heat, is about 20 per cent less than rusty Iron. The emlssivity (power to emit or radiate) of copper and aluml num Is only about 30 per cent of rusty Iron. Can an engagement ring be given for a birthday or Christmas present? It Is very poor taste to do so. What Is the Dreyer treatment for tuberculosis? A treatment recently advocated and tried by Professor Dreyer of Oxford. England, In which a vaccine of tubercular bacilli, prepared in a special manner, is Injected under the skin. It has not been tried out very extensively in this country as yet. What system of filing Is used In the Government offices in Washington? Each department has developed its own system according to its special needs. The War Department, for instance, uses an elaborate system of decimal filing and cataloguing; the Congressional Library another, and so on. What is the origin of "burnsides" —whiskers on the sides of the face with a clean-shaven chin? They were named for General Burnsides of Civil War fame, who trimmed his beard in this way. What kind of eyes have in- > sects? All Insoots have a pair of compound eyes, although simple eyes may be present also. The compound eyes project on each side of the head as convex, immovable structures. There is only one pair, although each eye may be partially divided. The compound eye consists of a great many similar ports—each a complete organ of vision, but requiring the surrounding elements to form the whole image. Each of the many elements of the eye makes a small Image, so that the whoje Is a mosaic of separate contributions, which combine in a unified visual Impression conveyed to the brain. Flies have- several thousand of these eyes. Which King of England was It who said he was thankful he had a judge who would enforce the law. and a son who would obey? Henry IV. The son was afterward Henry V. What Is henna and what Is It used for? A preparation of leaves of an oriental shrub or small tree used In dyeing the hair. It imparts a reddish color, and is said not to Injure the hair. How many persons died from Spanish influenza during the epidemic in 1918-1919? The estimate is 548,452. How much water will a cisteixi six feet in diameter and seven feet deep hold? 48.4704 barrels. What was it the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina? “It’s ad long time between drinks." What is the annual immigration quota from Italy? 42.057. Has opera ever been written In English? Yes, Henry Purnell probably laid the comer stone of English opera. His opera was entitled “Dido and Aeneas.” The first grand opera In the United States was “Leonora,” by W. H. Fry.
he asks what Is the speed limit thereabouts. The past summer he drove slowly and carefully Into a western Missouri town with his pet query uppermost in his mind. Driving up to a filling station, he asked the old and bewhlskered man to tell him the speed limit for that locality. “ ‘Well,” said the old fellow, ‘the speed limit here is eighty miles an hour, but there'.? dem few of ’em can make **
ORGANIZED FARMER IS NECESSARY Herbert Quick, However, Says Any New Bodies Are 'All Bunk,’ This is tho second of a series of eight articles on the farmers’ troubles written by Herbert Quick for the Indianapolis Times. Mr. Quick was former editor of Farm and Fireside and is himself a West Virginia farmer. This article is on “Farmer Organizations." BY HERBERT QUICK R~ —~ ECENTLY I came across a copy of The National Leader, u the organ of the Non-Partisan League. With this issue it goes out of business. It is almost wholly devoted to the advertising of anew farmers’ organization promoted by A. C. Townley, who started the Non-Partisan League. The new organization Is called the National Producers’ Alliance. It seeks to enroll farmers, rural bankers and country merchants. The Leader says “the National Producers' Alliance presents a plan of organization which will work.” It is not to be political. It is to be purely economic. This is a reversal of Townley and Non-Partisan form. It starts out with the truth that farming as it is now conducted does not pay. It proposes to make it pay by getting the farmers to hold back their products just as the manufacturers do, until they can get their price. Promises Many Tilings Mr. Townley’s association promisee among other things to enable the farmers to: Determine the cost of producing their products. Publish for each other and to the world the average cost of such products. Market the stuff In an orderly way and refuse to sell for less than this cost plus a reasonable profit. Apply this scheme in wheat, for Instance. A farmer would demand, say $1.50 a bushel, and through the organization would hold the crop back until he got it. If there Is a surplus, ns Is now the case, he would sell two- ! thirds of his crop and hold one-third. All the others would do the same. On the fourth year, if the demand did not I increase, he would have one full year’s crop on hand, would shut down his , wheat production and “take a vacation." living on the surplusses of the former three years. Is All Bunk Ail this Is bunk. The merchants and bankers will never join such an organization, and if they did it would merely stimulate the foreign producers to come in and sell bushel for bushel and pound for pound as the American held his stufT off the market. Mr. Townley’s Producers’ Alliance would charge each farmer $4.50 membership fee. and $2 per year dues. But why form anew one? We have the Orange, the Gleaners, the Fanners’ Alliance, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Farmers’ National Council, and others. The American Fann Bureau Federation, which was created under government aid some years ago with the intention It should be harmless, and which has got away from the government bureaus-—-and into the hands of some other politicians—needs a lot done to It yet; but it Is the best plan In existence along linos of nation-wide organization of farmers generally. And then we have /ill those organizations formed along lines of singlecommodity production, like the great Cotton Growers’ organization, Raisin Growers, the Citrus Growers, the Prune people, the Grape Growers, the Dairymen’s Associations, The Butter and Cheese people and tho like. On i Organization Ahead And Mr. Gray Silver of the American F rm Bureau Federation Is ahead of Mt. Townley with his scheme for the valorization of wheat. Ahead of him because Mr. Silver already has the greatest of such fa.rm orgajHziitions behind him. He proposes to hold back as much wheat from market as is necessary—he mentions 200,000,000 bushels—so as to bring the price “up to the cost of production-” Alas! The plan Is unsound In that the farmer does not possess a natural monopoly as does the railway. The stars in their courses, the acres of five continents, conspire to beat any such scheme. Wheat in North Amer lea comes Into market now in a long season, beginning with the Texas wheat /and ending with that from faroff northwestern Canada. How long Is that season? It extends over some three months—even if the wheat is “dumped” at thrashing time. And in the world’s market it meets the wheat from India, Australasia and Argentina which, if “dumped,” comes in in another long season exactly six months from ours. In fact, the wheat from Al berta—the last of ours—does not precede by many weeks the first of the crop from the Southern Hemisphere. The natural conditions prevent any very effective "dumping” of the world’s crop.
Speculators Take Hand The farmers ought to be able to hold back their products as they must do to bring about an absence of "dumping.” When the sidetracks in the small stations are congested with cars of any farm product; when the storage facilities in the small towns are filled and shipments are necessary to make room for the stuff coming in from the farms; when the railways are struggling to handle this glut of freight; when even terminal storage Is glutted; then It Is a buyers’ market. Then the speculator gets hold of the commodity—say wheat —and the farmers get trimmed. It is to prevent this that these various holding schemes are put forth. And this ought to be prevented. The farmers should have the power to prevent it. Just how far they can get j this power into their hands through any scheme, save unmortgaged farms owned by themselves, is doubtful. It is the tenant farmer who has to have money now, it is the mortgaged farmer who must have money to pay interest, it is the farmer living right close to the line of bankruptcy, who is hard to get into such a scheme. Hard, because he cannot come into it. Mother on Politics "Huh! Women in politics! Makes me sore; I don’t believe in pettioo&t rule." “Calm yourself. We don’t wear ’em any more.”—Judge,
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ZToM SIMS • -/- -/- Says
EWS from Christmas. It will be \ here Dec. 25. Mail packages __U early so you can get an answer. How about books for Christmas? Don’t give dad a check book, or mother a cook book, or Bill a school book. About a dozen sets of new false teeth would make a swell Christmas gift for a gossiping neighbor. Don’t forget the cook this Christmas. If you don’t give her a present she will give you indigestion. A cup of sugar would make a wonderful Christmas present for a neighbor who borrows too much stuff. Why not give the ice man a Christmas present? Something for scraping mud off his feet would be nice. Don’t forget the milk man. He likes Christmas presents. We suggest a big bucket for watering milk. There’s the plumber. Buy the plumber a Christmas present. What about a million memorandum books? And there’s the grocer. He’s human and enjoys Christmas. Give him a nice payment on your grocery bill. Remember the barber this Christmas. Give him some liniment for rubbing his tired jaw muscles. And the butcher, get him a Christ, mas gift. A few extra bones to put in the steak would tickle him. Why not give your wife a nice, soft rubber rolling pin for Christmas? Give the bootlegger a Christmas present of a few new customers. His old ones are all worn out We know what taxpayers will give politicians for Christmas, but can’t tell because we don’t cuss. A nice little booklet containing a dozen silver-plated wrong numbers Is a swell telephone girl gift. Don’t forget the cat this Christmas. Make the cat a present of a few real fat. milk-fed mice.
A Thought
See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which Is good, both among yourselves and to all men.—l Thess. 6:15. N r ~~~~ EVER let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by l_—J evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.—Soutljey.
Observations
"The hand that rocks the-cradle Is the hand that rules the world.” So, whore does Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont get that stuff about men having made a mess of running something they don’t and haven’t run? When the bear gave up the idea of cold storage he had no thought, no doubt, of what might be done with eggs. An Indian tribe ha laid claim to a part of Chicago, which Is proof enough that civilization has touched tije red man ever so lightly. Congress may prove to be so bad that it will wring a few words from the President. Who knows? A newspaper assayist has felt called on to write a long article on “Subtle Schemes for Safe Cellars— How to Remove the Curse of the CoaJ Bln and the Anguish of the Ashes and Make the Furname Room a Heaven Under Earth.” A careful reading of It falls to discover that It suggests anything to annoy Roy Haynes, as was confidently' expected. The limelight Is so grateful to Massachusetts that It is now claiming tha squash championship, in addition. FORDS FOR RENT] Drive Yourself —All Models No Red Tape. New Central Station WALTER T. BOYER CO. 38 Kentucky Ave„ IX 7686
Aladdin’s New “Lamp!”
Baby-Talk By BERTON BRALEY The language that a baby speaks, Before it learns the words, Is just as universal As the chirping of the birds. And be the baby yellow, black, Or red or brown or white, It speaks the selfsame language Os each other tiny mite. The language that a baby speaks That all the babies use. And ’mid the Babel of the world That funny baby tongue Is music loveliest of all That’s ever played or sung. And funny little bubbling sounds Is made of gurgles, coos, The language that a baby speaks, When it is very small. Is language no interpreter Could ever get at all; Yet ’round about the seven seas And in a thousand lands, The language that a baby speaks Each mother understands! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Indiana Sunshine Prior to his election as clerk of Jasper County, Robert A. Mannan, while campaigning met a spinster living in the northern part of the county. As candidates sometimes do he made her an election promise. “When I get to be clerk find some one you like and I’ll give you a marriage license free.” Recently the spinster appeared at his office with a blushing gentleman and recalled Mannan’s promise. The official grew weak in the knees, but 5 aid for a license ad presented it to the happy bride. When thieves broke into the office of the Southern depot at Francisco they obtained no loot except a supply of calendars. Asa paying proposition these were evidently not satisfactory as they were found scattered along the railroad right-of-way the next day. They probably were afraid they would get an additional supply of time from the judge. Why not an armored tank? In asking for a divorce, Paul Ramsayer, Tipton, alleges cruel and Inhuman treatment, asserting that it was not safe for him to enter his home without a baseball mask as his life had a habit of throwing anything at him that came within reach.
Family Fun
Impossible It was bedtime for 4-year-old Jack, but the little fellow wanted to stay up later. His aunt, who tipped the scales at nearly two hundred pounds, said: “Why, Jack, think of me—l am every so much older than you, and I go to bed with the chickens!” Jack looked at her great size, and remarked, "Well, I don’t see how you ever get up on the roost!"—Judge. Read This to Grandma It was the,dear old lady’s first ride in a taxi, and she watched with growing alaim the driver continually putting his hand outside the car as a signal to the traffic following. At last she became very angry, “Young man,” she said, “you look after the driving and watch where you are going. I’ll tell you whi n it starts raining!”—Argonaut. Harold’s Halloween "Harold, last night at midnight, when I looked In my mirror, guess whom I saw! You!” “My goodness! And I was just getting into my pajamas!”—Judge.
&Go* IT WILL BE A WHOLE LOT EASIER To Make Others Happy This Christmas if You Start Planning Now By you paying a deposit on the article we put it in the safe and you may pay each week. This makes your Xmas buying easy and you have the advantage of an early selection, which is always the best. By Christmas you have the gift paid for and get the advantage of the lowest cash price. Hundreds of satisfied customers take advantage of this plan every year. J. P. MULLALLY, Diamond Merchant STREET FLOOR
TUESDAY, NOV. 20, 1923
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To the Editor of The Timet I usually board a West Washington street car at Washington and the Belt railroad about 6:30 a. m. Last Thursday the car slowed down to about ten miles an hour, but did not stop for the crossing. The conductor opened the doors, and two others besides myself ran and caught it as it was in the center of the railroad. At Richland street an elderly man was waiting. The motorman almost stopped and the conductor rang the bell and opened the doors. The man started to reach for the imitation of a handle. The car started, the conductor closed the door, pinching the gentleman’s fingers and almost pulling him down. At Harding street the motorman stopped long enough to let two men hop on, then started, leaving a woman standing in the middle of the street with about five automobiles facing her. Without Usual Signal. At Bloomington St. the car stopped to let one man on and started without the usual signal from the conductor., Five others had to run to hop on at California St. Two men, an elderly one and a young man, waited until the car slowed down enough to let the young man jump on and left the other , standing there. You also must have your 5 cents or 7 cents in change or you get bawled | out from the conductor. This morning this car hit an old i man at Bloomington and Washington j Sts., then when he boarded he was I bawled out for standing close enough to the car to catch It as it flew past. If you want to get on a West Washington car safely, you have to get on at the car barns, as the car stops there so the employes can run Into the barns and get some more pennies and see who won the last game of cards or checkers. Give 10-Cent Fare. Give the car company 10-cent fare, then stop riding their cars, for when the car stops you get off and are left standing between the moving car and a flock of autos. When you ride a bus it stops at the curbing, you get off and don’t have to worry about dodging the autos to get to the sidewalk. If the busses are handled carefully like the suburban busses are now, they will be a great help to the public, and I believe it also will keep them here if our city is to expand and give its residents the public service It really desires. E. F. SPRY.
Science
The oldest living creatures in the world are the Galapagos turtles. They are now nearly extinct and science is closely guarding the few that remain, mostly in zoos, in a dozen different cities. The reason is because they have extraordinary immunity to disease. If science could find what it is the turtle's blood that kills disease germs it would be able to apply this knowledge to the human race. Several years ago. it was thought that great progress was being made in these researches. The World War stopped them, because international association of scientists was necessary on account of the number of turtles that could be used being very small. Since the war the turtles have practically become extinct. The Galapagos Islands are off the coast of Ecuador. The turt/es, once numerous, have been hunted for their meat and shells and for the oil that was boiled from the fat. Some of them now in captivity are known to be several hundred years old. When full grown they weigh nearly 1,000 pounds.