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THEY WANT TO BE ANGELS ONE out of every six automobile drivers wants to be an angel—right away. This interesting sidelight on human ambitions is gleaned from a four-year study by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad of why automobilists cross the road—without looking to see if a train is coming. For four years the B. & O., which crosses nine States, stationed observers at important road crossings to see how motorists crossed the tracks. Of the 1,834,809 who were observed, 336,937 drove carelessly, risking not only their own lives and property, but also the lives of those traveling with them. The railroad observers took the numbers of the careless looked up their addresses, and sent them postcards, warning them of the danger of careless driving at railroad crossings. Of course, not all these careless drivers will get to be angels with the aid of locomotives or electric cars. Some of them are bound to be disappointed, and some may live to ripe old ages. But in the past five years 33,309 automobilists were killed at railroad crossings. There are some 252,000 places in the United States where automobile highways cross railroad tracks. Gradually, the States are seeing to it that the more dangerous of these crossings are eliminated. It can’t be done in a year, nor in five years, at the present rate of improvement. Railroads estimate it will cost about twelve billion dollars to eliminate these crossings by bridging the highways over the railroads. Meantime, those who persist in crossing railroad tracks without slowing down, without looking both ways to see if trains are coming, or without stopping when the flagman signals, want to be angels in a hurry—that's all there is to it. STARS THE twentieth century man likes to pride himself on the broadening influences that modern inventions have into his life. There was a day when a man's voice would reach no further than his lung-power could carry it. Now the telephone carries it across a continent, and radio carries it across the ocean. There was a day when a man could travel no further in a day than his own legs or the legs of a horse could carry him. Now, he not only has trains and autos at his disposal but airplanes and dirigibles as well. But there is danger of mechanical perfection making our lives too mechanical and crowding the beauties of nature out of our lives. A man can learn more about nature in an hour's quiet walk through the woods than in a day's auto ride along crowded roads with his eyes glued to the roadway and the passing traffic while he “steps on the gas" in an effort to reach town in time for dinner. Modern life has served particularly to estrange us from the stars. Few men know the constellations and the brighter stars by name today in the way that many once knew them. For this reason. David Dietz, Science Editor of The Indianapolis Times, has written a series to tell you how to get acquainted with the stars. In it he recounts the fascinating legends associated with the stars. The series is titled “Secrets of the Stars.” The first installment appear in today’s Times. Be sure to read it. Don’t let mechanical perfections of the day, crowd the stars out of your life.

WISCONSIN is called the Badger State, and the Old Guard believes it is all of that. CARELESS use of matches is the chief cause of fires in this country; and also of divorce, it might be added. CAL says nothing and Charlie has little to say. We can see where this campaign is going to be a silence and fun act. EXPLORER Roy Andrews says the Garden of Eden is dry. What has Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler to say about that? THE MANUFACTURE of shoes during April was 4,000,000 pairs less than a year ago, and there are more fellows running. THE greatest gun in the world—67 feet long and weighing 200 tons—has just been mounted in Boston harbor. Some beanshooter. HARRY B. SMITH, sports authority, says “our champion fighters have been spoiled.” But not by contact with each other, as he will have to admit.

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YOU SHOULD LEARN OF THE STARS Dietz Tells About Acquiring This Knowledge in First Article, By DAVID DIETZ, Science Editor of The Times. r=r-|ALPH WALDO EMERSON, j I-? great American poet and phil*i Josopher, once observed that if a man were permitted to gaze at the stars only once in his lifetime, he would spend years preparing for that one wonderful glimpse of the night sky with its golden array of twinkling stars. Emerson was right. If we could see the stars but once, we would

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THE SHEPHERDS OF OLD WERE MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE STARS THAN WE ARE TODAY. THIS IS ONE OF THE PARADOXES OF MODERN LIFE.

look forward to the sight with keen j anticipation. We would want to i know the names of the brightest stars. We would want to know the way in which the stars .are grouped into patterns or const,jllationß. But because the wondrous panorama of the heavens is spread out j for us e\’ 1 y cloudless night, we give very little thought to it. The shepherd watching his flocks by night In centuries gone by was far more familiar with the stars than most of us are today. This is one of the paradoxes of modern life. The modem astronomer is busy pushing out the limits of the universe. His telescope reveals to him stars ■ that must always remain invisible to ! the naked eye. He sees stars which the ancients did not know were In existence. By combining the photographic plate with his telescope, the astron- j omer makes long time exposures of nebulae and star clusters which bring out a wealth of detail about I heavenly objects which the ancients never dreamed of. But while the astronomer has i bean extending the limits of the uni- | verse, many of us have been re j stricting the limits of the universe for ourselves. In fact, we have almost crowded the universe out of our lives. We hive found the lights of the! city so bright that we have lost | track of those marvelous lights which hang above the city. We have forgotten the stars. This is unfortunate. For if we ] eliminate acquaintance with the ' great heavens overhead from our lives, we have permitted one of life's richest treasures to slip through our finirers Th jp .-••' thinker, Carlyle, once ex-la ir/u Why did no one teach me the constellations when I was a child!" Carlyle realized that he missed something in not knowing the stars und constellations by name. Yet the knowledge is easily acquired. And once acquired, it adds anew richness to the great outdoors. It makes! intimate friends out of those twinkling, dancing points of light we call stars. Around each constellation and around each star which has been named, there have grown wonderful legends, some of them older than w ritten history, wonderful tales of ancient gods and heroes. This series is being written with a two-fold purpose. First to tell you how to find the stars and constellations. Secondly, to tell you some of the Interesting legends associated with them. • Next article: How the constellations originated. (Copyright, 1924, by David Dietz)

Tongue Tips Senator M. L. Bowman. Iowa: "Labor’s real*hope for progress lies in its ability to cooperate with the farmer.” Miss Marcella Baring, rancher in Rogue River country, Oregon: “I’ve never been one to rave about the great open spaces and out where the west begins and ’.hirgs like that. Blit I’m never comfortable any place else —away from the hiils and decent 1 dir. And. besides, it’s darned profitable.” Dr McCollum. Johns Hopkins University: "The people who have achieved, who have become large, trone, vigorous people, <vho have the best trades in the world, who ; are progressive in science and every activity of the human intel- | leet are the people who have used ■ liberal amounts of milk and its products.” Mrs. Ruth Gerth, home decorator: “Fads and fancies in furniture and decoration produce an undesirable effeebt on our families.” Warden James A. Johnson, San Quentin prison. “Youth responds as rapidly to good influences as it does to evil ones. The parents of the country build the prisons and people them with inmates.”

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Trail Blazing Bv HAL COCHRAN ’Tis a very -wise son who will willingly take the advice that his father hands out. It’s given, of course, for his own future’s sake, and he benefits greatly, no doubt. It’s easy for age that’s experiencefilled to give worthy pointers to youth. A lot of good thoughts can be quickly instilled if the elder just deals in the truth. There's a right and a wrong on the pathway of life, and the wrong way’s too easy to go. A tip often heads off a session of strife if youth’s told the things he should know. It’s natural that sons kinda look up to dad. An idol's the way he is known. By saving his son lots of humps he has had. he can purify seeds that are sown. So, listen here, ere you are a man, my hunc-h is you'll be mighty glad if you will just take all the tips that you can, and the kindly advice from your dad. (Copyright, 1024, NEA Service, Inc.)

In New York By STEVE HANXAGAN NEW YORK, July 7 Wh.it would you do if you had >2,000,0ca? So would I. I'm sure! Yet, I know a man here in New York, who h is $2,000,000 an-! leads the most drab existence you can imagine. He doesn't even keep office hours or mix in any business to help while away the hours of the day. No oftener than once a wook does he, at night, leave the apartment on upper Broadway which, with his aged mother, he has occupied for thirty years. When but a hoy in his teens ho was left an income of $25,000 a y tr by a doting grandparent.. He spent it lavirfhly in an tinsuccessful effort to have a ‘‘good time.” Twenty years ago his father died and left him an added, fortune. The father left the widow an even larger estate. For twenty years this man has not remained away from New York longer than twelve days at a time. ' He was fearful lest sharpers prey on his mother's assets. His daily routine is golf in the ; morning, lunch with the same crowd ; of men at a mid-town hotel e >ch noon, rhe afternoon spent watching i the ticker report of the stock mar ket, in which he never has invested a cent. Each evening he dines at home. One night each week he calls on a girl he has known for years. Ho la single. Perhaps you have the impression by now he Is a tightwad. lie isn't. But he Is a masculine old maid! He has one failing. About twice j each year he falls Into a periodic drinking spree. It usually lasts three weeks, ending In a hotel suite ! with two nurses anil a doctor at- j tending him. # This one beats anything seen or I heard about New York today. It is offered by a belle of Galesburg, 111., returning from a vaca- j tion. “The Innovation in Galesburg,” l she relates, "is the modern milk man who hauls his cow around jn a i truck. He goes to the front porches j of the homes on the main residential j street, gathers the milk bottles and j milks the cow in front of the house.” j It would require several cows to j the block if this system were fol j lowed in crowded New York. May Be Heiress

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Five-year-old Marie Theresa Corby o? Dayton, Ohio, isn’t a bit excited over the fact that she may be declared heiress to $4,000,000 in a few days. She is playing with her dojis while lawyers are fighting to get the money for her. The estate in question was left by Thomas W. Corby, eccentric Detroit millionaire. Corby’s divorced wife contends Marie Theresa was the millionaire’s child. Corby left no will.

ROMANCE IN MAIL DELIVERY Cross Continent in 26 Hours —Used to Take Three Months, Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are. ASHINGTON, July 7.—To the Lord a thousand years are I but as a day, the Bible says. To the Postoffice Department of I the United States three months have become as twenty-six houfis. Which isn’t so had for a comparison be- | tween divinity and ordinary mankind, especially when you consider i that the postoffice has achieved its ! record in the course of some seventyi six yetrrs only. The story of transcontinental mail development in the United States is a romance of accomplishment. In 1848 a San Francisco resident had to wait three months to get | news' from New York. In 1024. if |he wants to put a eommunication too private for transmission by wire i into the hands of his New York i partner, he can do so in twenty-six | hours. The miracle of speed was acTneved ! little by little. Went by Steamer First mail from Atlantic to Pacific ! coast traveled bv Reamer from New ; York to the Isthmus of Panama and j from the Isthmus of Panama to San I Francisco. The trip took three j months. But the West demanded progress. In 1860 the biggest single step in securing fast mail service was taker. | with establishment of the pony ex ; press between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Cal. j A letter then traveled by train fiom New York to St. Joseph, where riders seized the mail pouches and sped westward with *hem. At Sacramento, where the ride ended, ’he mail was put on a riv-er boat for San Francisco. The entire trip took approximately twelve days. Then by Rail Th next chapter in the story was written in 1869 when the last j spike was drivirg in the transj continental railroad connecting East ’ and West This made possible delivery of mail ir. seven and a half days. Two days of the seven were taken up in reaching Chicago from New York. It was not until 10or. that the first through special mall train. New York to San -Francisco, was inaugurated. 'litis was the next step forward. It reduced the previous times to ninety hours, or three days and eighteen hours from coast to < oast. In 191S air mail first became a reality. Ah planes took mail deposited late in the day in New York and flew with it tc Chicago, where it was put on the overland train which had left New York the day : before. This cut the transcontinental i me to eighty-three hours On July 1. 1924. the story was i sought up to date. Years of ex pertnient with night flying and of 1 reparation of beacon lights and i ight landing fields culminated in •a 'ahlishnunt of twenty-six - hour n ill s a-vice between coast and coast. The end of the story is riot yet. But the other pages lie In the un-ieveali-1 future. Tom Sims Says This weather makes people so lazy they take short-cuts when they go 'out walking. The screen drawing the biggest crowds now is the tly screen. Most of the June college graduates are still Just doing something until something turns up. Every now and then you see an auto so old it must be almost paid for. The honeymoon is over when she learns salads are not food. A girl who thinks a man comes to hear her Instead of to see her is lb i able to die an old maid. Women will not be men’s equals Until you can slap one on the back j and borrow a dollar. An ideal husband is the man every I wife coqjd have married but didn’t, j Trying to stop something usually starts more. It doesn't matter In the least, but maybe potatoes have specs because their eves are bad. Bnwlegged girls swim best because j they stay in the water most. Save up all your old alibis. They are valuable. You can sell them to the presidential candidates. When a Uttie man starts an argument with a big man it usually ends by the big man calling the little man a big liar. What the farmers need is a weedeating insect.. There would be a peach shortage if you didn't have to pee; them.

Nature The whole plant of vanilla grass has an odor like the vanilla bean. In northern Europe It Is strewn before churches, the feet of the congregation tramping it, causing it to yield its fragrance. This custom has given it the name “holy grass.” Baskets and mats are made from it by the northwest Indians. Pillows stuffed with it are said to induco sleep. Seeds of certain weeds will germinate after lying in the soil for thirty years, and it is said that those of Indian mallow have remained dormant, but ready, for over fifty. A Thought Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.—Prov. 3:27. * * * They serve God well who serve His Creatures.—Mrs. Norton.

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BUNK BOYS GO BIG ON BOARD WALK Famous Summer Resort Is Called 'Realm of Not a Chance.’ By WILL ORESSY (Copyrigh', 1924, NEA Service. Inc.) rLANi: ;cn v. v j., July ;. —Atlantic City is where 1 ■- Easter starts and lasts 594 days. Before Atlantic City dressed up, in five miles of board walk, and put on style, it. was just plain, old- i fashioned Abeseon Beach. Absecon Beach was located on the l seaward side of a low. sandy island, off the coast of New Jersey. ten j miles long, half a mile wid- and In ! its most mountainous regions piercing the clouds at an elevation - if' seven and a half feet. The Island originally belonged to old Abner Secon, and he used to use It to scour knives with. But the i

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folks kept coming over more and more to bathe on Ab. Secon's Beach, and finally some Philadelphia folks ran a railroad to it, and Atlantic City was born. As the beach was the only part of the island anybody could walk on without snowshoes, ttyey had to build board walks. And then, as everybody v on the island had to either go id swimming or stay on the walk, they had to keep extending it. Until today it is the biggest planked area in the world. Five miles long and fifty feet wide. And here, every day in the year, and most of the night, you can find the poor folks walking and the rich folks either riding in the wheel chairs—or pushing them. The shore side of walk is lined with hotels, boarding houses, stores, moving picture shows, garages, hot-doggeries, song-pluggeries, hair-bobberies, peanutries, doughnuteries and all sorts of auction rooms. In these auction rooms you can buy anything from a full-dressed flea to a stuffed Siberian musk ox; from a Persian prayer rug to a pair of brass knuckles. In these Stores, Auction Rooms and Temples of (Not a) Chance, that "Gentlemen’s Agreement" we had with Japan has been obtrusively violated, for there are enough of them right there on that one street to exceed the entire stated quota.. The most popular place of amusement at A. C., or anyyhere else, is YOUNG SPEAR. Young Spear, the original founder, was an Indian Chief of The Sadwa Tribe, and the husband of La Belle Pocahontas, the Indian Lady Barber who so successfully, and historically, shaved the Smith Brothers. Os late years the spelling of this resort has been changed to Young's Pier. i It is an iron pier, extending out almost, but not quite, to The ThreeMile Limit. Upon its broad spaces can be found about every form of amusement by a Congressional Investigation and a Swedenborgian Church Service. t

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Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of i.ii: or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 15 12 New York Ave.. Washington, P. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Ad other questions will receive a personal rep'y Unsigned requ- sts cannot be answer, >l. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Is there a bird in Texas that runs as fast as an express train? There is a bird in that State known as the "road runner” hut it does not run as fast as ;m express train. It sometimes runs on the railroad tracks at some distance ahead of the trains but is forced t<> get off the tracks and fly before very long. When and where will the 1924 Olympic games be held? They are being held in Paris. France, now. They opened January 24, 1924. and will close July 27. of this year. Why did the French National Assembly meet recently at Versailles to elect a president instead of at the capital, Paris? Because the constitution of France fixes Versailles as the place for the National Assembly. The reason for this was that near the time of she adoption of the constitution, Paris

had been the center of many disturbing occurrences, and had been twice fyesieged, once by the Germans and once by French troops, as the city was held by the communists. It was considered important that the National Assembly should be as free as possible from disturbing influences. Who holds the world’s ski jumping record? Onders Haugen, who won the Norge Ski Club tournament at Cary, 111., on January 19, and at Dillon, Colorado, Feb. 29. 1920, established anew record with a jump of 214 feet. Who was Genghis Khan? A Mongol conqueror who lived 1162-1227. \ Is Mount Fujiyama a dormant volcano? When was the last eruption? Yes, it is dormant; last eruption December, 1707. What are the largest steel producing cities in the world? Pittsburgh and Chicago. . What are "field employes” of the Government? Those not employed in the Government departments in Washington but who are stationed in various branches of the service throughout the United States. How long are the Thames and Severn rivers? Thames, 215 miles; Severn, 210 miles. What is the official name for an X-ray operative in the Government? Laboratorian Roentgenology. What should one do for plants infested with white flies and green bugs? Spray them with a mixture of 1 or 2 teaspoonfuls of nicotine sulphate to a gallon of water with Va ounce of soap dissolved in it. What is the address of the National Association of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers? 6723 Dittman St., Tacony, Philatielphia, Pa.

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WHO MAKES UP DEFICIT IS QUESTION Committee Fails to Find Out Who Makes Up Campaign Losses, Times Washington Bureau, 1 22 Sew York Are. ASHINGTON. July 7.—Who | yy I makes up the deficits in these 1 .1 $1 5."00,090 national ejections? When former Senator Kenyon of lowa and his committee, probing the 1920 contribution to both major po- • llflcal parties, finished their labors, j deficits were reported by both sides. The Democrats had a deficit of : $300,000, which paled into insignificance compared with the huge sl,600,000 shortage reported by the Rej publicans. - 4 { The committee found out from whe re each dollar of the rest, of the money had come, but never did. establish whose generosity was responsible for restoring the balance. ■'Who I’onys l|V?” , It is yet to be discovered how this deficit is made up and who does the “ponying up.” The committee headed by Senator Borah of Idaho is going to pay particular attention to this in the investigation of the campaign contributions for the coming election. The Borah committee is not scheduled to make its report to the Senate , until Dec. 5. This will give them a full : unth after election in which to determine how large the deficit is and how it is paid up. Borah stated today that the committee intended working up to the j last minute before reporting their findings. | The Kenyon committee failed to make any recommendations to the j Senate except to state that Congress ought to pass remedial legislation, i owing to the fact that the resolution . under which they acted did not proj vide for such procedure. To Make Recommendation "This committee intends to make definite recommendations to correct i any bad conditions that it discovers j existing,” Borah stated today. He said that just as soon as the campaign gets under way in earnest public hearings will be held in Chicago to probe any contributions to either party that seem significant. “Although probably no more meetings will he held until after the Democratic convention closes, the committee is virtually in session as it is subject to the call of any member," Borah stated. Circumstances surrounding contributions will lead to the donors being subpoenaed before the committee to explain their act, whether the amount is large or small, the Idaho Senator said. Family Fun He Was Right “This will hurt me more than you," said the father, as he turned Johnny over his knee. As the youngster had boarded up the seat of his trousers, for once father was right.—Judge. One for the Doctor “Oh, doctor, this telephone message says that old Mr. Gotem, our best patient, has been blown up by the explosion of a ton of dynamite.” “Maybe not all loss, Miss Secretary. Have his monthly statement ready for him when he comes down.” —Scripps-Paine Service. Too Cheap for .Sister "So Freddie proposed to you on a postcard. Did you accept?” . "No: do you think I’d marry a man who didn’t care 2 cents for me?”—Film Fun. Husband Stubborn "Are you sure you used every argument with which to convince your husband?” “Absolutely. There isn’t a whole dish left in the house." —Szcutek. Wife’s Birthday Policy “D’ye know you’re growing quite handsome, John’” “Yes, Mary; it’s a way I havs when it gets anywhere near your birthday."—Ttd-Bits.