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THE DESERTED VILLAGE the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was being pushed W through Maryland before the Civil AVar, one town refused to allow the line to come anywhere near it. “Sparks from them newfangled en-jines might set tire to our houses,” the mayor and council objected. “Anyhow it’s agin nature. If God had intended folks to move as fast as a train, He’d a made ’em with wheels iustid of legs.” All that’s left of that town today is the postoffice and cemetery. The wider-awake, newer generations moved away to live in places blessed with civilization’s advantages which railways bring. Four years ago the G. O. P. took up an attitude against the League of Nations like the Maryland village did against the coming of the railroad. It was too n'ewfangled. It was dangerous. It might set the world on tire. If it was a good thing why hadn't George 'Washington, Father of His Country, said so or our Constitution provided for one ? No-sir-ee! No good could possibly come of it! Today, certain G. 0. P. members show signs of weakening. Theodore Burton, Cleveland convention keynoter, courageously admitted “we recognize that in humanitarian and non-political matters it has accomplished beneficent results.” He demanded, unequivocally, adhesion to the 'World Court of the league covenant as “now functioning at The Hague.” He even went so far as to qualify our abstention from the league itself by saying it is not for us “so long as the league remains a political body.” It looks as if some of the villagers, anyhow, want to move a little closer to the railroad. "Will the party as a whole have the courage to do so ? Hardly. The official G. 0. P. platform went to the "W orld Court, all right, but lacked the moral courage to fol low Burton and admit the league is “not wicked.” People change their minds, but parties seldom, if ever. M hat's the answer? Consider the Maryland village. The site is still there. The name remains. And the graveyard. But the folks are almost all gone. A party which persists in refusing to recognize fundamental mistakes must eventually go to seed. The people can. and will, move on, leaving behind the empty shell—and the dead.

ALL’S NOT SO WELL “(TTj H ' the East E the East and the West is the West, and [O I never the twain shall meet.” That the Cleveland convention was a dead affair, so far as drama and excitement and uncertainty were concerned was sure. But with the nomination time passed, a distinct undercurrent has become evident, revealing the life and force of a movement of much greater political importance than those surface elements which accompany ordinary conventions not cut and dried. Throughout a vast section of this nation there is no peace, economically speaking, and these sections are not satisfied with the convention cry of “all’s well”—keep cool—let that which is continue to be—the status quo, etcetera. The two situations clash. When you are well fed, well clothed and are generally comfortable, no advice appeals more strongly than status quo advice. But when you are wet and ragged and hungry and somebody tells you to let well enough alone, you see red. Through a vast section of the U. S. A. economic ills are raging. There’s a serious trouble to farmward. Agriculture, the justly famed backbone of the nation, is suffering from spinal meningitis. Farmers by the hundreds and thousands are broke. In face of such a condition comes New Pmgland nomination, meaning industrial domination of the Republican party in convention assembled. That’s the reason why from out over the plains resentment is arising. That Is the reason for the undercurrents, the reason why the G. 0. P. campaign for 1924 is not so cut and dried after all. The East is in the saddle and the West walks. THERE ARE two million laws in force in the United States, and the law-abiding citizen is a contortionist. SOME ONE NAMED a race horse “Diogenes,” vainly hoping, no doubt, that he would get on the track of an honest man. M’ADOO IS AN ACTIVE verb—McAdoo, McAdooing, MeAdid, and, if the other candidates are successful, MeAdone. W. J. BURNS did not specify the character of the ill health that forced him to resign, but it probably was prickly heat. SPEAKING of optimism, here’s Detroit attempting to advertise itself by claiming to have “the best filtered water in the world and a lot of it,” and right on the Uanadian border, too. SEVENTY-THREE convictions in Boston for driving motors while intoxicated and only two went to jail. It is prohibition that languisheth instead of its gross violators.

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Can you talk correctly? In a half-hour conversation, how many mistakes in English do you make? Do you say, “Accept of” when you mean “accept?” Do you say “oldest” when you mean “eldest?” Can you tell when to use the word “farther” and when to use “further?” Do you “feel bad” or “feel badly?” When would you say, “I shall go,” and when "I will go?” Everyone makes mistakes in English, but it is not necessary to go on making common mis-

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THINGS ARE NAMED FOR BUFFALO, A. Y. [There Are Nickels, Bugs Beasts and Grass, Cressy Finds. By WILL CRESS^ 1 (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) IUFFALO, N. Y., June 14. Buffalo is where you change cars for Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls is where you go when you get married; if such. Owing to the prevalence of married folks at Niagara Falls there are many suicides there. It is a wonderful sight to see all that water falling over the falls, but how much more wonderful it would be if it did not fall. The first tourist excursion to come to Buffalo came in 1679, with Conductor La Salle in s charge of the train. But as they only had stop- ! over tickets on their way through •to Celeron Park, out at Jamestown, | they did not stop long. ! The first real homesteaders came in 1792 and opened a fur store on Main St. But just *s they were getj ting settled down and beginning to • do a paying business, a lot of Engi lish rowdies came over and moved their town about six miles out into I the lake. ! Two years later the town was rebuilt and they started all over again. Mr. Pierce met Mr. Arrow and they started in the automobile business. Mike Shea started the Garden TheaI ter. Mrs. Statler began taking boarders. In 1901 the Dramatic Critics of the [ town got up a fair: The •'Pan-Amer-ican” Exposition. It, started in, kind |of fuzzy at first, but later on busi-

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ness picked up and they almost made money. . Buffalo was the end of Lake Erie, the Erie Canal and Mark Hanna's influence. Owing to their having sever miles of wharfage, several ships stop there. They can handle live million bushels of grain a day. I don't say they do. but they can. Buffalo has several nic: ponds and lakes, including Lakp Erie. It also has several nice parks, including Delaware Park, which has a zoo, a flock of tame sheep and an insane asylum in it* There have been a good many things named for Buffalo. Buffalo Bill, who used to shoot Buffalo Nickels out in Delaware Park for the United States Government, Bus falo Bugs Buffalo Grass, Buffalo Burrs, Buffalo Grass, Buffalo Buffalo during the war was quite busy. Buffah nians were very enthusiastic in their support of their country—whether it wus America or Germany. That Buffalo is a 100 pet cent American city is shown by their newspapers, among which we find: Polak YV Ameryce (Polish), Aurora und Christliche Woche (German), Corriere Italiano (Italian), Hacienda (Spanish, and also issue a Portugese edition), Dziennik dla Wszystrioh tPolish), The Xi Psi Phi Quarterly (American Indians), and they even have a paper for horses, The Horse World. Buffalo has a fine climate. Peary, the Arctic explorer, always does his preliminary training in Buffalo. I forgot to mention, this is Buffalo, N. Y., I am writing about.

Family Fun Lucky Thing Gladys (meaningly—lt’s a good thing we can’t see ourselves as others see us. Gertrude —You’re right. I know, for my part, that I should grow terribly conceited.—Answers (London). Wonderful Pose Binks—What makes you think she’s an expert at snowshoeing? Jinks—She must be. She can even walk gracefully in galoshes. Judge. Her Explanation Teacher—l ant greatly dissatisfied with your son. He couldn’t tell me the date of the death of Louis XIV. Mother —Well, you see, we don’t ever read the newspapers.—Journal Am us ant (Paris). > A Business Head Housewife (to peddler)—Get away out of here, now, or I’ll whistle for my dog! \ Peddler—All right, ma’am, but first allow me to sell you a good whistle.—Tit-Bits.

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In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, June 14.—Radio has brought anew night life into New Yt rk. It has made night owls of many men and women who were wont to seek he solace of their couch long before the midnight hour uppice Men v had not remained indoors in age an not be moved from the home fire.-. since they have become adept in p "lug the air of its winding ehaims. Among the yi oger set the “radio window” Ims become 'the vogue. Dapper young beau brummels go a calling, but instead of sitting on i. divan and muttering nothings to his sweetheart, he sits like a sphinx, with muffs clamped over his ears, robbing the air of music. The girl no longer is the 'jexUer of the stage—even when sne entertains in her own home. “Why should I go to a stuffy auditorium to hear a lecture, when I can sit comfortably at home, smoke and hear it over the radio,” commented jne jovial business man. I went to the top of the roof of my hotel the other afternoon to box with a friend —and it looked like the wire entanglements of a trench. Aerial wires for guests’ radios were stretched over every foot of space. A friend of mine from Indianapolis attempted to gain admission to every broadcasting .station in town to speak a few words into the microphone, He said he wanted his girl, “listening in” out in Indianapolis, to hear his voice. He wan tel to show her how he "knocked New York dead.” But he couldn't do it. * * • You can get your shoes shined for a penny now. Just push a cent in a slot and slick your shoes under a swirling brush. It cost me two cents the first time I tried. I had only one shoe finished when the penny’s worth of current gave out.

Ask The Times You ear get an answer to auy question ol : iot br information by anting to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps lor reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a per- ■ sonal reply. Unsigned requesm cannot be answered. A.l letters are confidential.—Editor. Who was the greater, Faraday or Franklin? Faraday was one of the most bril Hunt experimentalists that science has ever known, and to him must ha given the credit for much that electricity has accomplished. Franklin’s discovery of the identity of electricity and lightning was of great importance. It is impossible, however, to say which man was the greater. How can I keep starch from sticking? Mix about one tablespoonful of laid to one quart of starch. Who were the Submission Men? Those who opposed the War of 1812, and desired peace at any price. What does tariff for revenue only mean? Belief in a fiscal tariff merely—that is, a tariff that shall provide revenues for the (government without attempting to afford protection to domestic industries.

What is the origin of the word jingoism? During the war between Russia and Turkey, English sympathy wts most strongly with Turkey am’ hostile to Russia. A song became popular, the refrain of which was: “We don’t want to fight, but by Jingo, if we an—and got the .ships, we’ve got the men, we’ve got the money, too.” From this arose the name jingoism as applied to the war feeling against Russia. The term has, however, come to mean in politics any advocacy or national bluster. What is a “blue nose”? A name colloquially given to an Inhabitant of Nova Scotia. What is the recipe for Hungarian fruit roll? Make a pie dough. Rol> out and spread with melted butter, raisins, currents, chopped apples, nuts, shredded citron. Cover well with brown sugar, and sprinkle with cinnamon and the grated peel of a lemon. Roll up the dough. Lay in a buttered baking pan. Rub the top well with melted butter and let bake until brown. Seeve with a sauce. How may a covering for a haystack be made waterproof? Take any coarse fabric, steep it for a few hours in a strong aqueous solution of alum, dry, and coat the upper surface with a thin covering of tar. f

HOW’S YOUR VOCABULARY THESE DA YS? Even Man Who Writes Dictionary Can Hardly Keep Up,

Try These If you want to find out whether you are up to the minute in word usage try to l , define these terms: Autodyne Intarvin Binet Age Kalastrum Blah Milline Bonnaz Monotrcl Cardioscope Neutrodyne Charmeuse Oireachtas Clostrophobia Potentiometer Coagulen Skyography Cobh Soulism Colorum Synura Eskimo Pie Telautogram Glaswegian Vitamin Heterodyne Zlrcite

By ALEXANDER HERMAN. NEA Service Staff Writer xt EW YORK, June 14.—How’s At your vocabulary today? Is it up to the minute so that you know what “Myobist" means? Or are you several months behind in the “Scoffiaw” period? New words are coming into our language at the rate of about 2.500 a year—and even the man who writes the dictionary has trouble keeping up with them all. He is Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, managing editor of Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary and author of many books on word usage. "Americans,” he says, ’’are the greatest linguistic pirates of ajl time. In the matter of acquis tion of our speech we are governed by no law. We take what we need of other people's longuage—whether they like it or not. “Asa result, we hold the key to a universal tongue, tljat some day perhaps will dominate the eartfi.” Among recent additions to our lan gunge, nvhich you should know, if you want to be up to the latest in linguistic style. Dr. Vizetelly points out, are: Svaraj: From British India. Term that stands for its “Sinn Fein” movement which- Is trying to estab lish cultural and political development under native influence. Jitney: From the French "jetton” —a piece of stamped metal used as a counter in card playing of reckoning. An English expert agrees with this origin, but claims that Its cor ruption in our term for a 5-cent piece, is due to th>- cockney of the 1 London East-Enders who applied it. to their small change. Hooch: From Alaska, where it | was a modest word used in full hoochinco. by the Alaskan Indian to; describe "a very strong distilled liquor made from yeast, flour, mo'.as j ses and sugar, one glass of which | is said to contain more ’kick’ than a quart of any other ordinary intoxi eating beverage made —whisky in eluded." Fkscisti: From the Italian, derived' from the Latin “fascia”—something! that binds togeih r. Now the term ;s applied to that body of Italians who are united to oppose the revolu ! tionary tendencies of the supporters, of Sovietism in Italy. Bolshevik: Frofn the Russian “hoi she” which means "the greater.” , In the derivative terms such as "Bolshevism” the genius of our language has discarded the ”k" and simplified the term. Mah Jong: From the Chinese; game that Is becoming one of America’s favorite indoor sports. There are 3,000 pieces in the original game—and each has a name. When the full game l is popularized here, there will he 3.000 additional words to our tongue—some of which have already caught on—Fungi Chow! etc. Among other words that have become part of our language recently are those derived from - terms of science. Radio itself has contributed some 5.000 words. And the science of aeronautics about half as many. “Myobist is the latest word which is being tried out. It is a word coined from the M. Y. O. 8., initial letim-H of “Mind your own .business” —anfl is the antynom of a busy body. But it. too, will have to stand the test of time before we can put it into the dictionary.” Ilis Purpose He—What time should I come? Voice Over the Phone—Come after supper. “That’s what I was coming after." —Tit Bits.

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KING NOT OPPOSED TO LABOR Monarch and MacDonald Government Are on Good Terms, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS yTJ HAT does the King of EngVV land think of his labor government? And what do the Laborites think of the King—now that they’ve sampled one another a few months? Mrs. Philip Snowden, clever wife jof Britain’s crippled, hut brainy. • chancellor of the exchequer, tells us [in “The Spectator.” j At first, she admits, there was an | impression that the Labor party was a revolutionary body "bent not merely upon the destruction of the socia. and economic order, hut upon the overthrow of the monarchy." Now. he says, people know better. "Unless it could he shown that the monarchy is responsible for the exiistenc* of poverty." she observes, "and is an obstacle to its removal, iit would be a waste of titno and effort to direct agitation to the abolition of the monarchy. And that can not he proved because it is not true. “The social contrasts and economic injustices of our time are not due to the form of government, but to far deeper causes. In democratic under either constitutional monarchies or Republicanism, the same economic conditions exist. ’For forms of government let fools contest. What,-V-r is best administered is best.’ ” Mrs. Snowden finds the British monarchy in many ways preferable to a republic because the king is entirely outside party while a president is the creation of, and dependent upon, partisan politics Anyway • Out of Politics “The strength of the monarchy in Great. Britain,” she avers, “lies in its strict aloofness from political partisanship. Any serious departure from this impartiality would quickly discredit the crown and lead to an irresistible Republican movement which would command support from men and women in alj parties. “In the recent political revolution, the King," she goes on to tesify, “has shown that he has no political bias and that he has no more personal likes and dislikes for the labor party and labor government than he would have for any other party placed in power in a constitutional way. . "On the contrary, he has shown punctilious care not to give the x least ground for suspicion that the labor government was regarded by the King and his court as being, from the point of view of the constitution, in any way different from a liberal or a conservative government.” So much for the king’s attitude toward labor. Now for labor’s attitude toward the king!

King Is Fair “To the credit of the Labor government it must be said that they have not made the task of the king diffiuU. They have accepted all the constitutional usages. They | have regarded the king as the con-j stitutlonal head of the nation.” In fact, the people as a whole seem to have behaved well during this unprecedented political revolution in England. “I have often heard it said in days gone by,” Mrs. Snowden says, “that a Labor government would never have fair play, because it would be sabotaged by the court and tlje permanent civil service. “These fears have proved to be public have been fair. Eevrywhere, downward, throughout the civil service, the Labor government has had nothing but fair play. Press and publis have been fair. Everywhere, indeed, there has been a disposition to give this new political experiment a fair chance.” A

Tin Types By HAL COCHRAN Just look through the*’ album, that famous old album that mother and dad used to keep. You'll laugh till you cry at what catches the eye. View the pages and “read ’em and weep.” Ah. ihose were the days when the tin types were made and your parents were proud as could be. They stood to be snapped, rather solemn and staid, and the pictures are funny to see. Dear Mom in a dress that was puffed at the sleeves. Old-fashioned is al you can say. But time has not changed her; she firmly believes it was better than gowns of today. Then Dad in a derby that perched on his head and a coat that was up to his waist. A haughty Beau Brummel is what people said, for in those days such things were in taste. Together they stood; olden sweethearts. you know. The queen of the day and her king. Such tin types, it seems, after all go to show just what changes time's passing can bring.

Tom Sims Says The only safe side to any argument is the middle. Nothing can take a man off his feet like seeing a comfortable chair. i One of the great reasons for wanting to go somewhere is not being invited. Following in someone else’s foot- | steps will never get you ahead of I any one.— Bathers are in favor of permanent i waves at all beaches. A success is a self-starter and a I failure a self-stopper. It’s the radio's fault when a man stays at home, and says he has been church. The rich girl can well pick daisy petals and say, “He loves me; he loves my money.” Driving a wife or a horse too much tnay make them throw a shoe. One thing a lot of people have an easy time getting ahead on is loafing. It must be awful to be a neighbor’s child, because they never will amount to anything. Trouble is brewing In some countries while brewing is trouble in America. Hot air and cold feet are usually pals. Every man Is boss in his own home—when the family is away. Money may not go any farther, but you can, if you get any. It’s a good idea to see things as you travel along, .for life is a oneway street. Nicest thing about being a man is you don’t have to stay home after washing your head. A Thought He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread.—Prov. 28:19. * * * T*' ' OIL and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked ■- together in a kind of necessary connection.—Livy.

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CONGRESS TO WORK WHILE IT CRUISES ■ Legislators Will Hold Hearings While Sailing Seas, [ Tima Washington Bureau, 1J22 Sew York Ave. xy r ASHINGTON, June 14.—The yy unique spectacle of a “float—ing Congress” will be presented this summer when the House committee investigating the Shipping Board goes abroad for a month's probe into foreign losses. In order not to lose time the committee has decided to hold regular hearings on board the liner George Washington after they leave New York for England on July 4. The general manager and the traffic manager of the Shipping Board will testify en route. As far as members can ascertain the sessions will mark the first time in history that a regularly delegated congressional committee has ever conducted official hearings on the ocean. Cargoes Larking Although some criticism has arisen regarding the foreign jaunt, members of the committee point out that the major portion jof the $43,000,000 operating deficit of the Shipping Board last year was due to lack of foreign cargoes and inefficient office management abroad. “At present we are losing on the average something over $25,000 per voyage on our freight vessels,” Admiral L. C. Palmer, president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, operating unit of the board, testified re* cently before the House committee. Palmer attributed these losses laregly to the fact that the export tonnage carried from the United States in fleet vessels was three and a half times the tonnage brought back from Europe.

Contracts Costly Representative Davis of Tennessee, a member of the committee, says the present system of permitting managing operators to make their own contracts in foreign ports for stevedoring, tugs and supplies, is costing the Government other millions of dollars a year. A survey by T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the board, show r ed that the board was paying 35 cents a ton for water when 7 cents w r as a fair price; that stevedoring charges were often more than a dollar a ton too high; that wharfage cost from $250 to S3OO a day when $l5O to S2OO should have been paid, and that many operators had subsidiary companies which did repairing on their ships, after which the operators charged the Government big pricrs for it. No such suivey has been made in Europe, but members of the House committee predict their probe will disclose graft of even greater proportions. Tongue Tips Dr. L. K. Williams, president national Baptist convention: “The Japanese immigration bill is looked upon with suspicion by the negroes. They fear it contains the gern.s v of a violent type of race antipathy and sounds like the rush and roar of a mad, rising tide of color.” Margaret Gaston, English writer: “Almost always we loOk down on people whose pleasures lie in opposite directions from our own.”