Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 169, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1923 — Page 4
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GOLDEN RULE MEAL krIEXT Sunday is the day when the people of fourteen nations |IN I are asked to remember 100,000 helpless tots in the Bible lands of war-torn Near East by serving a Golden Rule meal in the home. The occasion, fixed by international action at Geneva, Switzerland, will be known as Golden Rule Sunday. On the first Sunday after Thanksgiving, when most of us have fed sumptuously on turkey with cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and other delicacies associated with this national holiday, we are asked to serve in our homes a simple meal such as the children in the Near East under American care eat every day in the year. We are asked to send the difference in cost to the Near East Relief, an organization whose task is to look after these poverty-stricken little derelicts, who would have starved to death long ago if it were not for the beneficence of American people. Aside from the fact that a little sacrifice on our part means life itself for thousands of boys and girls deprived of country, home and parents, it also gives American children an opportunity to contrast their happy lot with these forlorn orphans who have endured so much suffering that they have actually forgotten how to play. It will do us good to practice the Golden Rule next Sunday and help provide for these helpless children. Senator Samuel M. Ralston is head of a Golden Rule sponsoring committee in Indiana. Near East Relief. 528 People’s Bank Bldg., Indianapolis, will supply all information if you are interested —and of course you are. TELLING GIFFORD the Governor of Nebraska to the Governor of PennD sylvania: “I am selling coal at a saving of $3.50 per ton to consumers. lam not particularly interested in your coal conference.” Says the Governor of Massachusetts, discussing the Governor of Pennsylvania: “The truth is that the Governor of Pennsylvania by action in his own State can remedy most of the coal evils of which we have just cause for complaint.” There ought to be a neat hint in these to a nice progressive like Gifford Pinchot. CURSE OF PARTIALITY ORAL suasion, dispatches say, will be resorted to by euw___ forcement officers with habitues of Detroit’s high-toned eating places, resorts and clubs. Instead of going in and yanking the aristocratic boozer out of his upholstered chair and putting him in ‘‘the wagon,” the authorities will talk to him about the evils of drink and impropriety of violating laws. This Detroit plan simply signifies that justice shall smite some violators but not all. We are glad this idea did not originate in Indiana and is not even contemplated here. Such a scheme will not work in a democracy that is a democracy. It cannot fail to provoke more general violation. Such is always the effect of partiality in enforcement. Imagine a nice, smooth, eloquent enforcement officer walking into a high-toned Detroit hotel or club and saying to the management: ‘‘Gentlemen, kindly consider that your selling of vile drink at 450 per cent profit is very wrong and setting a pernicious example. Please cease.” Then to the capon-lined ‘‘gents” in the easy chairs or ‘‘having another on me” in the club locker room: , ‘‘Abstain, I pray you! By reason of your birth, education and standing in the business or social world you should be a good example to the millions of fellows outside who are angry over rupture of their personal liberty.” Forsooth, ‘‘moral suasion,” without club and star, is almsot comie&l. Look at the world! There never before was a period where modern civilization so needed successful moral suasion, and that influence isn’t cutting a pound of ice, anywhere.
A'WHITE HOUSE ENIGMA K Y/} HAT will President Coolidge do about the World Court 1 |W| As the time draws near for the President’s first message to Congress, we seem to read between the lines of Washington dis•atches a distinct note of uncertainty. Right after President Harding died, his successor announced he would stick to the Harding policies. White House spokesmen let it be known that this “went” for foreign as well as domestic affairs. It was known, too, that two or three of the leading lights in the Cabinet he fell heir to favored the court, and the fact that they remained in the Cabinet was taken as additional proof that there would be no great change of policy. The other day, however, a delegation from the Federal Council of Churches, representing millions of citizens, including thousands of Indianians, called on the President to present an indorsement of the late President Harding’s recommendation that the United States join the World Court. Just what had happened was a private matter, but the impression gained ground that pretty much all the satisfaction the delegation received was about the same as the fellow got from his uncle in reply to a letter asking for a loan: “Letter received and contents noted.’’ Next year is presidential election year. Mr. CJoolidge, no doubt, would like to succeed himself in office. The G. O. P. is notoriously split on American foreign policy and the isolationists are already in the field with a candidate, Hiram Johnson of California, who will run in the Indiana primary. Will President Coolidge play politics and straddle the fence? This is regarded as extremely likely. Tipsters in Washington whisper that he will mention the World Court in his message to Congress, saying the late President Harding’s recommendations are already before the Senate for such action as it may sec fit to take. And let it go at that. Just leave the World Court baby on the doorstep of the Senate, in a non-committal, neutral sort of way. Will he do that? Or will he make good first impressions that he would back up the Harding-Hughes plan to make this one slight move in the direction of a still distant day of a warless world ? His message to Congress the first week in December will jtelL
FIRST LADY TAKES PART IN POLITICS Mrs, Coolidge Does Bit in Serving Tea to Prominent Guests, BY RAYMOND CLAPPER T'nited Neics Staff Correspondent ASHINGTON, Nov. 28.— Mrs. W Coolidge is setting out to do —her bit for the gTand old party by inviting women prominent In Republican politics to the White House tea table. This is the newest quirk injected into the serious business of politics by the granting of suffrage to women. Presidents always have qsed White House luncheon and dinner Invitations for the purpose of cultivating friendly relations with influential political personages. More than one wavering politician has been pulled off the fence by a well-timed invitation to lunch with the President. Harding found this a congenial and effective method. Coolidge has used it, though it does not come so naturally to him. Mrs. Coolidge CTiarming Mrs. Coolidge, a woman of charming personality, was called into service and complied willingly. Arrangements for the first “political tea,” held Monday, were made through the office of Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania. There were three guests at the tea —Mrs. Barclay Washburton of Philadelphia, daughter of the late John Wanamaker, vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican committee, and woman member of the national committee from her State; Mrs. Mary Flynn Lawrence of Pittsburgh, daughter of Bill Flynn, one of the old-line Pennsylvania bosses and herself a political power among women of western Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Worthirgton Scranton of Scranton, a large contributor Y) Republican campaign funds and an active Republican work er in northern Pennsylvania. Secretary Arranged Party They were Invited to Washington especially to have tea with Mrs. Coolidge, and were taken to the White House by Senator Pepper's secretary, who arranged the party. President Coolidge looked In on the tea for a moment, and then went riding with Ambassador George Harvey. This Pennsylvania function takes on especial.significance because of the probable candidacy of Governor Pin chot. Mrs. Washburton was one of the Pinchot leaders In the gubernatorial fight a year ago. The PepperReed forces In Pennsylvania, who are trying to smother the Pinchot presidential boom, are seeking to wean some of the influential women of the State away from the Governor. The tea party Monday fits in admirably with this program.
What Editors Are Saying
Uniform (Kendalville News Sun) A campaign will shortly be put under way by the National Motorists Association which deserves wide support, concerning, as it does, the unifying of automobile legislation in the various States. The lot of the motorist will be much easier. The work of police will be facilitated. Conflicting laws would disappear. And the bugaboo of tourists—learning statutes anew as State borders are passed—would quickly vanish Action (Muncle Evening Press) Messrs. Taggart, Brennan and Murphy having arranged the next presidential nomination and platform for the Democrats, there is no reason why the lataer should not begin their campaign immediately. Preference (V/abash Star) The beautiful old hymn said “Scatter seeds of sunshine,’’ but too many people prefer to distribute drops of moonshine. Annual (Goshen Daily News-Times) Sunday schools should prepare for the annual bumper crop of pupils at •the next four sessions. Refreshing (Washington Democrat) Among the gaieties to relieve Frankfort, Ind., from boredom nothing is quite so refreshing as a so-called blue law crusade. It makes everybody love everybody so. Climate (Marion Leader-Tribune) Hoses are still blooming in Indiana, and it's the last week in November. Still people will go to California and Florida for their climate. Shame on them!
A Thought
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. —Luke 16:10. mHAVE seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.—Paley.
Heard in Smoking Room
mHE smoker from Neodesha, Kan., was talking. "Down in our country, we have some funny folks, if T do say it who shouldn’t. One old fellow could not b made to believe in the telephone. H* insisted that it was all nonsense far any one to claim a voice could be heard over the wires for a distance of even fifteen miles. Well, his wife went to a neighborly id town, recently, jon a visit. The old fellow made up | his mind he would confound the supporters of the telephone by trying to
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UNUSUAL PEOPLE Typist Helps Come-Back Bo XEA Service ERKSNO, Cal., Nov. 28.—C. D. Le Master, wealthy young lumberman, gives his former typist, now his wife, credit for his return from poverty to his former position of wealth. Fr a nc i sco and || started work road baggage hour. His stenogLE MASTER That inspired Le Master to work his way up until today he is head of a big lumber concern. Le Master has been honored even further by being elected to the highest post the world's lumberman can give one of their own—Snark of the Universe of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, the International lumbermen’s fraternity, of which the late President Harding was honorary member.
SIMS y -/- -/- Says OATS are nice animals. They J get in bad by not bathing, but ‘ ,J you never hear goats kick on the food. Goats will eat tin cans, dynamite, bride's biscuits or what have you? Then eat a shoe for dessert. A goat In Aurora, 111., ate two sticks of dynamite and may become the Aurora Borealis soon. Imagine being chased about the yard by a goat full of dynamite. What could be more trying than trying to keep a goat full of dynamite in a peaceful humor? Why not take this Illinois goat who eats dynamite and let him butt a nice fat bootlegger? What could be nicer than feeding a bill collector on dynamite and then throwing rocks at him? Goats will eat dynamite. Why not start feeding the stuff to people who are always butting in? Wouldn’t it be too awful If somebody fed football players dynamite? Rating dynamite will ruin a goat's health. It will make hln very thin and several miles wide. What will happen to a goat who eats dynamtte? Why, he will butt once and nothing else butt What's left of a goat that eats dynamite is the goat’s goatoe. Biggest example of a goat that has been eating dynamite is Germany. France has Germany's goat. She feeds it od dynamite. And kicks it about. Look out, France! They milk goats in Franca,, but Germany’s goat has gone dry. Franca, is after England's goat. Would have it already only England says she hasn't any goat. France even wants Italy's goat. But she can’t get that goat. Italy's goat belongs to Mussolini. When our own government gets the taxpayer's goat she always returns it just before election. Bootleggers have the people's goat. But they don't feed it dynamite. Sell the people dynamite instead.
Family Fun
Easy “Oh, Mr. Jones,” said Miss Dash, the other day, ”1 saw an advertisement saying that you could furnish you home by soap premiums. Every time you buy a piece of soap you get a furniture certificate. I am going to be mau-ried, and do you think I could get alt my house furniture that %vay?’’ “Why, yes Miss Dash." replied Mr. Jones. ”1 had a friend who got all the furniture for rs six-room house that way. The company only had to send him furniture for one room: the other five rooms were full of soup.” —Judge. Ills Ijisi Shot “Then our engagement is off?" “Yes. and I shall return all your love letters." “No. Better keep ’em. You're getting along and may never receive any more, you know.’’—Boston Transcript. rutting Tommy to Sleep “There now, I've read you the whole story of the ark and you must go to sleep.” “But what would have happened if Noah had sent out a sea-gull?”—Hu-morist. Dad Is Clever "What’s the Idea in running up to Now Haven every week-end, Isabel? I suppose you have some end in view?” “How clever of you to guess, dad! But he’s not an end now: he's a quarter back.” —Judge.
talk to his wife. He went to the telephone office and arranged for the call. Finally, connections having been secured, the old fellow yelled over the wire, ‘Hello, Jane.’ Just at that moment a bolt of lightning, such as we have in Kansas, hit the wires, entered the telephone offioe and knocked the old fellow to the floor. After a dazed moment he got up, rubbed his head and sheepishly said to the operator: " ‘By gosh, that wuz Jane all right.* **
ROMANCE SURROUNDS ‘RUM’ HERO Captain Kidd of Offshore Booze Traffic Handsome and Picturesque. By HARLAN S. MILLER United News Staff Correspondent TTI EW YORK, Nov. 28.—Four \ years passed before the Vol- — stead era produced a hero. The business of smuggling liquor into America remained about as romantic as the clock and suit trade. But William F. McCoy has emerged from the Atlantic Coast fogs as the handsome, glamorous, soft-spoken, well-educated and prosperous Captain Kidd of the offshore rum traffic. Picturesque and distinguished—that's Bill McCoy all over. Six feet tall is the owner of the “Tomaka,” seized beyond the three-mile limit by Federal • officials; well-dressed, 40, perfectly manicured and with a Harvard accent acquired on the Florida C Ist. If this does not throw sufficient romance about Mr. McCoy—well, he has $60,000 or- $70,000 in currency stuffed carelessly in his pockets when American law reached out, six miles or so Into the high seas, . where Brittania used to rule the waves, and seized him and his yacht of British registry. Proud of Citizenship Proud is McCoy of his American citizenship. He is proud, too of the expert gunnery of the American Navy, that sent four shells skittering across the water so near the Tomaka her British crew was fanned into a faint spell. But McCoy is proudest of all because he has been earning several hundred thousand dollars a year bringing whisky to the Jersey Coast from Nassau without, he is convinced, breaking uny American law. For he insists all his operations were kept well beyond the thn-e-mile limit; that no American law operates against his business out there: that ho was anchored six and a half miles from shore when accosted by the Coast. Guard cutter Seneca, and was thirteen and a half miles off shore when the Seneca's guns finally turned him around. Two years ago McCoy and a brother were building yachts for the Vanderbilts, Carnegie and their ilk at Daytona. Fla. Then hie father and mother died In quick succession. When his pet bulldog died a few weeks later, McCoy took to the deep sea liquor trade, to occupy his mind, he explains. He chartered yachts from a British company at Halifax, in which he owns stock; filled them comfortably with liquor and chartered them t > wealthy men who wanted r moist ocean journey, or to men who wore not wealthy, but wanted to become so by reselling McCoy’s whisky. He paid $lB for a case of twelve bottles at Nassau and sold it off the American coast for $22 a case. With this whisky selling for $9 a bottle in Times Square, there was plenty of profit left for McCoy’s ambitious cutomers.
"Wasn't Breaking Law” “All this time I scrupulously avoided doing any business in American ; waters,” he related Monday. "Most !of the time I was from six to ten miles out. I wasn't breaking any law. Why, I told the American consul at Nassau what I was doing. I wasn't ashamed of my business. I had a right to sell whisky, good quality, full | count in every case, on the high seas.” Such an atmosphere of good-will surrounded McCoy in court, so much good will e<xtided toward him from the | prohibition agents' smiles, that ex planailons seemed in order. One of the agents vouchsafed them, in a whisper. McCoy, it appears, was living at Nassau a year ago when Peter Sullivan, one of the aces of the customs service, was sent there with Mrs. Sul- | llvan, to leant what he could about | the other end of the liquor route. Nassau’s booze merchants soon were i aware that there was a menace to their prosperity. To McCoy’s ears came news of a plot to poison the Sullivans with some liquor they would be permitted to sample In line of duty. McCoy told Sullivan all about the plot. To protect him and his wife, he sheltered them in his own house for three weeks. He allowed Sullivan to investigate everything he wanted to, even the McCoy booze business. When the time oarne for the to leave, he escorted them sitfely to the pier while the less urbane rum runners scowled. McCoy was a little gad Monday because it was reported that he had allowed some of his crew to use rough language to the Federal agents, and to tussle with them. “I wouldn’t let ft. British crew do anything disrespectful to American officers," he protested. “Wo didn’t say anything threatening.” Argument Over Money There was an argument Monday about the ?68,000, all in a bundle, that a Federal agent had taken away from McCoy. His counsel, Col. Thomas B. Felder, demanded It be returned. The agent declined. “I’ll send you to jail if you don’t give it hack.” cried Felder. Here McCoy intervened. "You were only holding it for me, weren’t you, Mr. Knapp,” he said to the agent, smiling whimsically. The agent passed the package of money back to him. That's the kind of a follow McCoy is. Just a good-natured, lawabiding citizen, but the most romantic rum rew has produced.
Tongue Tips
Mary Garden, opera singer: “These grand opera stars who lose their Jewels, their Poms, their husbands, and their tempers; these impressarios who tear the air full of holes in artistic rages; these fat tenors who all but burst blood vessels in fits of picturesque, foaming anger, are not temperamental. They are just plain crazy.” .Sir William Orperi. English artist: “Beauty is born in a painter’s brain. It is no more dependent on the age which he lives. Tt was Gainsborough, I think, who said that a slaughtered cow painted by Rembrandt was a far more beautiful work of art than any of Raphael’s Madonnas.”
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You can get an answer to any Question of fast or information by writing to the Indianapolis Time*’ Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C., enclosing 2 cent* 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. Ail letter* are eoniidenUal.—Editor. tVTiat is, collodion and what axe some of Its uses? It Is a solution of guncotton In ether and alcohol. It Is used for corns and callouses. Ara ex-service men exempt from paying Income taxes? No. What railroad has tracks entirely across North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific? The Canadian Pacific is the only one. Outside of his fellowmja.ii, what is the most dangerous living creature to man? The mosquito, as more people die each year as a result of its bite than by the ravages of any other animal. The Cobra snake of India ranks second in the number of people killed, but this Is largely due to the super stitious character of the natives of India, who are afraid to kill the snakes. The animal which has the ugliest, most ferocious disposition Is the principal buck of a herd of deer. When should tulips be planted and how deep in the ground? Tulips should ba planted in the fall, about four Inches deep lu the ground. Where do three States meet? At Harper’s Ferry, the States of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland meet Just what is water? Water is a chemical compound of hydrogen and oxygen, formed by the union of two volumes of the former with one of the latter. Pure water Is colorless, tasteless. Inodorous. What is a plum cot? Anew hybrid fruit produced by crossing the plum with the aprtoot How much does it cost to stop a train? F*rom 30 to 60 cents. What are “ships’ eyes”? The two hawse pipes on each side of the bows of ships. Through these pipes the anchor cable of the ship passes. The Chinese used to paint blocks of wood on each side of the bow of the ship to resemble human eyes, and It is probable that the name has clung to the hawse pipes for tills reason. Is there such a word as “foots” in the English language and is it correct? There is such a word, but not as the plural of foot One dictionary defines foots as settlings or sediments, as of molasses or oil; another defines it as a conformed plural of foot in the deflected sense of sediment.
How much did the United States pay for Alaska? 17,200,000. Are there any birds which live to be a hundred years old? It Is claimed that crow-s, ravens, parrots and swans attain this age. What are the commonest birds In the United States? The robin and English sparrow. Have all the Popes had their headquarters at Rome? No. the seat of the papacy was at Avignon, France, from about 1306 to 1377. How are old Rewspapers made into fuel? Soak the newspapers In plain water until they are a soft pulp. The water Is then squeezed out with the hands and the paper made into balls; these pulp balls are then set aside to dry and when thoroughly dry and hard * hey make an excellent fuel. What are the "Waters of I*ethe?” Lethe was, in mythology, one of the five rivers of hell. The name means “forgetfulness,” and one who drank of Its water* forgot all of his former states, both Joys and pains.
Changeless BY BERTON BRALEY Love lives, though all else passes, The empires and the kings May fade like last year's grasses And other withered things; But love undying springs In hearts of lads and lasses, And youth forever sings “Love lives, though all else passes." War rules the world a season. The clutch of gold Is strong. We know the rule of reason But know it not for long; Amid the pulsing throng. The toiling, striving masses. Still sounds this changeless song, ‘‘Love lives, though all else passes.” Dust of the desert covers Troy, Babylon and Tyre, But memories of their lovers Still thril our hearts with fire; The conquerors expire, Silent their drums and brasses, But we know, heart’s desire, Love lives, through all else passes! (Copyright, 1923, NBA Service, Inc.)
Indiana Sunshine
Rollovers in the occult received a severe jolt at Tipton. "Ghosts” were supposed to be haunting an old house. When police went “spirit” hunting they arrested six men who were playing poker in the old structure. William Craft, lately arrived from vSoviet Russia, was found by railroad officers walking down the tracks near Logansport In shoes that had no soles. He spurned all offers of the detectives to give him anew pair of shoes. "These were good enough in my own country,” he declared. An exhibition of fancy needle work at Mulberry brought to light the "craziest quilt.” It wras made of 9,372 pieces. The Miami County Historical Society will preserve as a public shrine the plot on which Frances Slocum's home stood. She was kidnaped by the Miami Indians from Wilkesbaxre, Ta., in 1776.
Animal Facts
The California murre makes no nest. It lays but one egg, dropping it down anywhere and leaving it. Nature shapes that egg so it will not roll straight, but rather swing about as a top. Tho birds have a habit of gathering in large numbers on a sheif of rock where they leave their eggs in large numbers. These eggs are of varied colors, no two alike, and once laid, they make the rock on which they repose resemble a flower garden in full bloom. It Is claimed that birds have ears that hear when human ears fail. This fact was discovered during the war. It is said in England that, during the Dogger bank naval battle, pheasants 261 miles away from the scene of action, showed great excitement and ! “shrieked themselves hoarse,” while other and smaller birds were terri- 1 fled. At the same point not a sound was heard by human ears. Edgar E. Rich, living at Eastham, on Cape Cod, has a little yellow hen to which he ctnttded the responsibility of hatching four black geese eggs, and she did herself proud. BJie not only hatched them, but she brought her odd children to maturity in fine shape. The <?eese are full grown now, but have they abandoned their little yellow mother? Not at all. Every night they gather about her and nearly smother her with their size. Before they sleep they quack their love for her and she replies with happy little clucks. The newt is a little lizard-like amphibian and it possesses a remarkable power to rfcstore any and sundry limbs It may, in the course of life, lose. But, it has now been discovered, that if fed liver, that power is taken from the newt. So, keep liver away from your newts if you want them to do their stuff as nature provided.
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Tobacco Chewing To the Editor of The Times Discussing a scientific experiment in which it is said the odor of a billygoat has high therapeutic value in treatment of lung and throat troubles you say, “Think of lying in bed with a blllygoat's cold feet and waking up to cough in an odor that could be used as a disinfectant in a soap factory.” I ask: How is It a woman can stand the disgusting breath of a to-bacco-chewing husband? D. LAYDEN. Through Streets To the Editor of The Times Instead of spending money to destroy Meridian St., the “show street” of Indianapolis, and uproot nearjy two miles of beautiful shade trees, and THEN have but a "one-street” town, would it not be better to build two or three bridges across Fall Creek and have several “through streets” to the north side? E. W. H. Pedestrians’ Rights To the Editor of The Times I have been reading of many accidents in the city where many have died and others are crippled. There is only one way to avoid all of this and that Is to strictly enforce the Jaws of the State. The law says ten miles per hour between East and West Sts.; the same between North and South Sts. The average speed Is forty miles. That is thirty miles above the limit. The law says fifteen miles Inside the city corporation lines, but the speed is from forty to ninety miles per hour. The State law says no vehicle may pass a street car while loading and unloading passengers anywhere in the State, and if I understand it right Indianapolis is in the State of Indiana. The law also states all vehicles shall keep four feet from the outside rails of the street car tracks. I was crossing New York St. at Pennsylvania and a taxi passed me running forty miles per. I said “ten miles per la the limit.” The traffic officer looked at me and said nothing. He knew the taxi was exceeding the limit by thirty miles, but he is "gagged.” He can't say anything or he has no job. I have a, right on any street or road ! in these United States and I demand that right. Any one who thinks he will deprive me if it may have, a sorehead for a few days for I am prepared. J- A. DONDONO.
Science
One of the greatest mysteries of science seems to be on the verge of solution. This is the deciphering of the ancient Maya language. The Mayas inhabited Yucatan and Guatemala and had a highly developed civilization. Their descendants in Yucatan speak a, strange dialect that has only a few words of Spanish. A close study is how being made of the spoken words of this dialect in an attempt to find the key to the written words of the ancient Mayas. Many remarkable stone writings of the Maya language have been discovered in the ruins of ancient cities in the Yucatan wilderness. The Mayan calendar is superior to all others and their culture, as shown in architecture and similar works, seems to have been equal to that of the Egyptians, in many respects. It is possible that their civilization was far older than the Egyptians. Present-day Mayas have evolved a peculiar form of government, having practically seceded several years ago from Mexican rule. This government Is socialistic in many ways. For centuries the Mayas were slaves, down to the days of Diaz. During the different revolutions they reverted to anarchy. Out of this grew their present government, which preaches cooperative tatM holding, popular universl ties, pacifism, birth control and equality. Sister Kissed “Did that young man kiss you last night?” "Why mother, you don’t think he came away out here just to listen to our phonograph.’'—Judge.