Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1924 — Page 3

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PEAR RIPENESS NOW PLACER ON SCIENTIFIC BASIS Pressure Tester Has Been Invented by Oregon Professor, By y i. A Serrtce CORVALLIS. Ore„ Sept. 9. —Picking pears has been put on a scientific basis. No linger will this fruit ripen before it reaches the consumer, nor will farmers have to any loss on this aoeo'unt. A device known as a “pressure tester” has been invented by Prof A. E. Muroeek of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, here to make pear culture an accurate agricultural science. It does, in a sure way, what farmers have long been trying to do in a haphazard manner—tell when the pear3 are jus*, right for shipment. Professor Murneek based his invention on the definite theory that the resistance pressure offered by the pear at its widest diameter is the most accurate measure of the fruit’s degree of maturity. It consists of a plunger, which when forced into the pear at its largest diameter, registers the pear’s pressure resistance on a scale. After thousands of experiments with adl kinds of pears, Prof. Murreek las completed a table of pressure limits indicating when each class of pear is ripe for picking and shipping. For example, he has found that harvesting of Bartletts should begin when the pressure indicates ar. overage resistance of thirty-five pounds. The lowest limit at which it is still safe to pick Bartletts is at twenty-five pounds, but the lower the pressure the closer must be jthe shipping point. Only freshly picked uninjured fruit should be taken for testing by this method. To overcome individual peculiarities each lot should consist of ten to fifteen specimens. They should represent an average condition of the orchard or a particular section of it. This method of testing pears is now in use in several fruit-growing districts of Oregon and Washington, and it has been found highly satisfactory. It may extend to the practice of picking other fruit than rears. Vivid Eye Popular LONDON, Sept. 9.—A “brighter eyes” movement is on foot in London. The distinguishing mark of its devotees is a pair of spectacles with rims of the most vivid greens, oranges, heliotropes, light blues or scarlets. “Spectacular spectables” is the slogan of the bright-eyed pioneers

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ADVERTISEMENT Our First Defense Test September 12, 1924 It is the privilege of every American to take part in the Defense Test. It is the patriotic duty of every young man between 18 and 81 years of age to enroll himself in some unit of America’s Great Citizen Army for Defense Test Day, only; no obligation for future military service. The following unils of the Organized Reserves, United States Army, have been allocated to Indianapolis and will be raised in this city should an emergency ever arise: Units and Commanding Officers for Defense Day

84th Division Headquart'TS and Medina Detachment —Lieut.-Col. John B. Reuolds. AS-ORC, 28 S. Meridian St.. Indianapolis. Headquarters. Special Troops— Capt. Audrey G. Holieraan. Inf.-ORC, 3011 Park Ave.. Indianapolis. Headquarters Company.- Special Troop*—Capt. Audrey G. Folleman. Inf. ORC. 3011 Park Are. Idianapolis. 84th Signal Company—-Capt. Clarence G. Shriver. Sig.-ORC. 952 N. Dearborn St.. Indianapolis. Service Company. Number 309 First Lieut. Chas. J. Gregory. QMORC. 30 S. Pennsylvania St.. Indianapolis. 84th Division Military Poliee Com-pany—-Capt. John M. Satter. Inf.ORC. t‘l9 Berkeley Road. Indianapolis. Headquarters. 167th Infantry Brigade—Major Arthur C. Newkirk, Inf.ORC. 127 W. Twenty-Eighth St.. Indianapolis. Headquarters Company.’ 167th Infantry Brigade—Major Arthur C. Newkirk. Inf.-ORC. 127 W. TwentyEighth St.. Indianapolis. Headquarters. 334th Infantry Lieut -Col. Ct as. O. Warfei. Inf.-ORC. 974 Middle Drive. Woodruff Place. Indianapolis. Medical Detachment. 334th Infantry—Capt. Cyrus W. Rutherford. Inf.ORC. 408 Penway Bldg- Indianapolis. Headquarters Company. 334th Infantry—First Lieut Joseph C. Di*settr. Inf -ORC. 1300 Beecher StIndianapolis. Service Company 334th Infantry— Capt James R Law Inf.-ORC, 1214 E. New York St.. Indianapolis. Howitzer Company. 334th Infantry —Capt. Claude M. Ewing. Inf.-ORC. City Trust Cos.. Indianapolia. Headquarters. Ist Battalion. 334th Infantry—Major Chas. S. Bushman. Inf -ORC. 331 E. Fifty-First. Indianapolis. Company "A.” 334th Infantry— Cap!. Edgar C. Sites. Inf.-ORC. t>l4 Hume-Mansur Bi&r.. Indianapolis.

These units Mill be assembled on September 12, 1924, and will march in the parade ta be held m the ’afternoon of that day, so the people may visualize the part that Indianapolis would take in the event of a national emergency. Citizens of military age who desim to take part in this, our Country’S First Defense Test, will check the unit they will march with in the parade, sign the slip below and forward it to the Chief of Staff, S4th Division, 503 N. Meridian St., Indianapo'is. * (Name) - (Address)

MY OWN STORY LA FOLLETTE CLASHES WITH RAILROAD BACKERS IN SENATE By ROBERT M. LA^OLLETTE —

“MY OWN STORY" Is an exclusive newspaper version of one of the treat autobiographies of modern times: La Follette’s own story of adventures in politics as written by himself in 1912. together with an authorized-.narrative of his experiences in the years since thenSYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS After years spent In fighting the political bosses in the House of Repreeentativae and later as Governor ot Wisconsin. La Follette is elected to the Senate in 1905. In the Senate he realizes that he is regarded as a crank and a disturber of the peace. Here, as in Wisconsin. he finds the machine politicians combating progressive legislation. In a speech before the Senate he sets forth the defects of the Hepburn-Dolliver bill designed to adjust the railroad rate situation In offering an amendment for the valuation of railways, he demonstrates conclusively the over-capitaliza-tion of the railroads of the country. And yet. when the roll was called, my amendment was beaten 40 to 27, the only Republicans voting for it being Burkett, Dolliver, Elkins, Gamble, La Follette, Warner. I offered nine amendments in all to the railroad rate bill. Eight of them lead the endorsement of the Interstate Commerce Commission, an unprejudiced body. No argument ever was made on the floor against their merits, either at that time or since. Coming heme on the street car one day, I wondered how far they would go. And I took a tab out of my pocket and outlined an amendment to the effect that any Federal judge should be disqualified from hearing, trying or determining any case for the regulation of railway rates against any road in which he was a stockholder, or whose bonds he owned, or upon which he used free passe a And that amendment was lost. 40 to 27. There were only three Republicans who thought that a Federal judge ought not to own stock in a riad and then hear, try and determine a case involving its interests! Formerly, record votes on delicate questions were’ always avoided in the Senate, if possible: but I had a purpose in thus committing the Senators on these phases of railroad control. I wanted to show exactly where they stood and why. During the summer which followed I made a speaking tour that covered nearly all the States from New York to California, and everywhere I went I used these roll-call records of the Senate. I have no doubt that the proof which these roll calls furnished of the true attitude of Senators served to retire not a few of them. There were twenty-four "standpat” members-of the Senate at that time (1906) who were not there a few years later. New Bill At the beginning of the next session (1907) I determined to press forward with constructive railroad legislation and I introduced a bill providing for a comprehensive valuation of the railroads as a basis for establishing just and reasonable rates. I submitted the bill before its introduction to the Interstate Commerce Commissioners and had the benefit of their advice and sugges tions. After introducing it in the Senate I tried for weeks to get a hearing

Company “B.” 334th Infantry— Capt. Milo D. Burgess. Inf.-ORC, 11 Maple Court. Indianapolis. Company "D.” 334th Infantty— Capt. Samuel J. Mantel. Inf.-ORC. 3914 Central Ave.. Indianapolis. Company “M.” 334th Infantry— First Lieut. Chas. B. Davis. Inf.-ORC. S. Ritter Ave. and C.. I. tc W. R. R.. Indianapolis. Headquarters. 159th Field Artillery Battalion—Col. Robert L. Moorhead, FA-ORC. 18 E. Vermont St.. Indianapolis. Headquarters Battery. Ts9tb Field Artillery Battalion—lst Lieut. Georgo C. Spiegel, FA-ORC. 2220 N. Alabama St.. Indianapolis. Headquarters. 326th Field Artillery—Maj. Sidney S. Miller. FA-ORC. 1308 N. Alabama St., Indianapolis. Medical Detachment, 326th Field Artillery—Second Lieut. Jay A. Thompson. FA-ORC. Apt. 12, 3608 Balsam Ave , Indianapolis. Headquarters Battery. 326th Field Artillery—Capt. Donald M. McLeon. FA-ORC, 20 W. Twenty-First St., Indianapolis. Service Battery. 326th Field Artillery—First Lieut. George T. Purves. FA-ORC. 5261 Carrollton Ave.. Indianapolis. 84th Division Air Ser-ace —Ma) Colin A. Campbell. AS-ORC, 2933 N. Talbot St., Indianapolis. 309th Organized Squadran—Major D. E. Cross, A. S.-ORC. 322 Downey Ave. Motor Transportation Company, No. 336 First Lieut. Harry A Metzger. QM-ORC Apt. 909 2035 N. Meridian St.. Indianapolis. Ind. Motor Repair Sectton No. 318— First Lieut. Fred W. vtuerl. QM-ORC. U. S. Veterans' Bureau. Indianapolis. Motorcycle Company No. 309 First Lieut. Novella H. Cartinour. QM-ORC. 933 N. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis. Headquarters, 309th Medical Regiment—Col. Larue D. Carter. MedORC. 1820 E. Tenth St.. Indianapolis. Service Company. 309th Medical Regiment—Capt Ray L. Smith. MedORC. 718 Medical Arts Bldg., Indianapolis.

upon it before the committee, but was wholly unable to do so. To illustrate the futility of the Hepburn law as passed, it is worth noting tl*it the railroads began almost immediately to raise their rates, and they accompanied these raises by a systematic and costly campaign of publicity to make the public believe that the advances were necessary. But in spite of this, dinring the years 1907, 1908 and 1909, at number of large meetings were held at which shippers, manufacturers and producers protested against the raises. And in 3910 the next railroad legislation which really got beJore Congress was. the so-called commerc

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court bill, though the establishment of a commerce court was only one of its provisions. That hill as it came from Attor ney General Wickersham with the approval of President Taft was. in all the history of railroad legislation, the boldest betrayal of public interest ever proposed. If it had been passed as intro duced it would have lost to the people all the ground that had been gained in the long struggle with the railroad corporations. Th* bill as it was originally presented practically took all the power away from the Interstate Commerce Commission, deprived it o ( the right of employing counsel to defend its own orders and transferred all that authority to the attorney general’s off ire. It bestowed upon the railroads much larger rights in contesting before the courts the orders of the commission than they had ever had before, and cut out, root and branch, the right formerly enjoyed by outside interested parties and communities of appearing and paying their own attorneys to aid in sustaining the orders of the com mission. i tion of railroad questions back into

Hospital Battalion. 309th Medical Regiment—Maj. Donald L. Miller. Med-OKC. 911 N. Meridian St. Indianapolis. Medical Supply Section No. 309 Capt. Fred L. Bosnian. Med-ORC. 2330 Kenwood Ave.. Indianapolis. Medical Laboratory Section No. 309—Capt. Harry K Langdon. MedORC, 3369 Broadway. Indianapolis. NON-DIVISIONAL GROUP V Army Headquarters and Medical Detachment—Mai. Myron M. An-drews.lnf-ORC. 3055 N. Meridian St.. Indianapolis. V' Army Special Troops-Headquar-tera and Headqufters Company—— Maj. Paul Y. Davis. Inf-ORC. 1100 Hume-Mansur Bldg.. Indianapolis. V Army Artillery Headquarters— Maj. Frank L. Parrill. FA-ORC. 219 E. Full Creek Blvd., Indianapolis. Headquarters and Headquarters Battery. 199th Brigade, Anti-Aircraft—Lieut.-001. Bowman Elder. CA-ORC. 801 Hume-itahsur Bldg.. Indianapolis. V Army Engineer Headqusrtres— Major James B. Steep. Eng -ORC. 205 Majestic Bldg.. Indianapolis. V Army Signal Service Headquarters—Capt. Paul It. Brown, Eng.ORC, 3207 E. Sixteenth St.. Indianapolis. Evacuation Hospital No. 18—Col. C. B McCullough. Med-ORC. University Club. Indianapolis. 811th Ordnance Company—First Lieut. Dorin D. MoCleary, Ord-ORC, 2115 Ashland Ave.. Indianapolis. 387th Air Ship Co.—Capt. Clarence R. Spaan. AS-ORC. 2023 Ashland Ave.. Indianapolis. 404th Pursuit Squadron—Capt. Kenneth E. Griffith. AS-ORC. 120 % N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis. General Hospital No. 102—Lieut. Col. John R. Newcomb. Med-ORC. 4402 Washington Blvd.. Indianapolis. Hospital Train No. 39—Lieut. Col. John W. Sluss, Med-ORC. 3430 Salem St., Indianapolis. Hospital Train No. 68—Maj. C. E. Orders, Med-ORC, 3934 Central Ave.. Indianapolis. Veterinary Hospital No. 37—Maj. C. B. Jackson, Med.-ORC. 603 HumeMansur Bldg., Indianapolis. General'Hospital No. 25—Lieut. Col. Harry S. Osborn. Med-ORC, 1717 Prospect St.. Indianapolis. Stateion Hospital No. 4, Capt. S. H. Caraway, Med-ORC. 1810 Montcalm St.. Indianapolis. First National Defense Day Committee—Fred A. Sims, chairman. Seventh district. Executive Committee Robert J. Aley. Hilton U. Brown, Fred C. Gardner. Fred Hoke. William J. Mooney. Samuel E. Rauh. Frank D. Stalnaker. Elmer Stout. A. M. Glossbrenner, chairman: Evans Woollen. Sr., treasurer. Next Thursday’s issue of this paper will tell you where to assemble for the parade.

the hands of the attorney general and the courts. Before the progressives in the Senate began an attack upon the Hepburn bill he made a speech reviewing the acts of Attorney General Wickersham|in the New Haven Railroad cases. The dismissal of these suits, which had been brought oefore Mr. Roosevelt left the White House,was almost the first act of surrender to the interests on the part of the Taft Administration. In my speech I showed the strength of the Government’s case against the New Haven merger, yet the first act of the Taft Administration, through the attorney general, was to hand over all that great section of New England to the New

ilaven Railroad, which had acquired control not only of all means of transportation by rail, but had bankrupted or bought In practically all of the steamship and trolley lines. That whole speech was specifically aimed against that provision of the law which gave the attorney general exclusive power in connection with the prosecution of cases. It was aimed to sound a warning in the ears of the Senate when we came to consider the question of lothlng t?Te Department vs InstUe with the so’e power of saying the final word with reference to litigation between the people and the railroads. Nice Speech And I think my speech had much to do liy preventing the adoption of this provision of the law. The reception of my views by the Senate in 1910 was markedly in contrast with the reception given in 1906. In the fight made on the President’s railroad bill Senator Clapp and Cummins took very active parts. Senator Cummins, particularly during the earlier weeks of the contest, was almost constantly in the debate. The entire progressive group carried the burden of the contest ngaipst the admlnlst -atlon hill, and so strong and so effective was their attack, and so reasonable their arguments, that the Administration Senators on the floor were compelled to abandon entire sections of the bill to avoid the humiliation of being overwhelmingly voted down in the Senate. Several sections of the hill were put forward in the beginning under the guise of reforming abuses in watering and over-capitalizing railroad properties. These sections, under the mask of preventing overcapitalization, were, in fact, designed to legalize every dollar of the milroad capitalization of the country, and under cover of ingenious phraseology would have made possible unlimited railroad stock-jobbing for all future time. Mr. Taft, in an interview published in Outlook Dec. 2, 1911, takes to himself credit for the railroad legislation as it finally passed. As h matter of fact, the fangs in this bill as | originally introduced were, with the exception of the Commerce Court provisions, all drawn by the fight of | the progressives. It is scarcely possible to speak of the course of the administration upon this legislation in temperate lenguage. I wish in this place to refer more briefly than the matter deserves to another fight I made in which I had to meet the railroad interests as they had entrenched themselves in the Interstate Commerce Committee. The Railroad Brotherhood of Engineers, Firemen and Trainmen, a remarkably intelligent body of men, had long maintained a very efficient and faithful legislative representative, Hugh Fuller, at the national capital, but they had found it impossible even to get a record vote on important measures in which they were Interested. No bill in their interest relating to hours of service or liability of the employer for negligence was .permitted to get out of the committee. I took up the matter of an employers’ liability law and atte'-ij: 2d in 1906 to have it adopted as an amendment to the Interstate Commerce act. Failing in this, by an unexpected move I got a bill before the Senate where I could force a record vote. Now, no Senator wanted to put himself wrong with the railway employes, and so after fencing for delay I finally got it passed with a roll call. \ This law, having been held unconstitutional by the JS-tipreme Court (by a vote of 6 to 4), I introduced another employers’ liability bill in the next session, and had it referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, instead of the Committee on Interstate Commerce. The bill was reported out by Chairman Dolliver, was passed and is now the law. (Cqpyright, 1924, NEA.Service, Inc.) (Continued in Our Next Issue) t Side Safety Lights Safety lights of all kinds have been coming out lately, for attachment to the left running board. They permit the oncoming driver at night to tell the exact point of clearance for his car.

ELECTRIC LIGHT SIZE OF WHEAT GRAIN INVENTED Many Wonders in New Science Museum at Washington, Times Washington Bureau, 1.122 Ncio Yorlc Are. By RUTH FINNEY WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Did you know that a beam of light exerts a pressure on whatever it touches? In fact, the sun light exerts a pressure of 100,000 tons on the earth every day, and hence on each of us. No wonder we’re tired in summer. Also you may not believe it when told that an electric light has been invented big enough to make a light two thousand times as powerful as any globe in your home. That another electric light globe no bigger than- a grain of wheat has been perfected, and Is used by surgeons inside the body while operating. And you are pretty certain to scoff loud and long when told it is now possible to create frogs by artificial parthenogenesis —in other words for a female frog to reproduce both male and female young without assistance from a male frog. Believe it or not ss you like, but all things can *be si en at the new building of the National Academy of Science and National Research Council, here in Washington. Dedicated to Science The building dedicated "To Science—pilot of Industry—Conqueror of Disease —Multiplier of the Harvest —Explorer of the. Universe —Revealer of Nature’s Laws —Eternal Guide to Truth”—fs a storehouse of scientific marvels made slmjiJe enough for a child to understand. In rooms opening off the main au ditoriurr, of th building, apparatus has been installed Illustrating simple and abstruse principles in the realm of physics. Beside each instrument is a card explaining what it is and telling how to operate it. Any visitor, even the rankest layman may turn a switch and control the mysteries of sound made visual, of measuring fight, of the earth’s magnetism. No “Hands Off” Signs There are no "Hands Off" signs. The Tolks down at the Academy want you to play with these things and learn about them. The whole story of science is told in the words carved into the wall of the academy’s central auditorium: "Hearken to the miseries that beset mankind. They were witless er-c and I made them to have sense and he endowed with reason. Thougl. they had eyes to see they saw in vain. They had ears but they heard not. Like to shapes In dreams throughout their length of days without purpose they wrought all things in confusion. They had no sign either of winter or of flowering spring or of fruitful summer whereon they could depend, but in everything they wrought -without judgment until such time as I taught them to observe the rising of the stars and other settings. Aye, andnumbers, too. chiefest of sciences, I invented for them, and the combining of letters, creative mother of the muses, arts wherewith to hold nil things in memory. Twas I and no one else that contrived the mariner’s flaxen-winged enr to roam the sea. If ever man fell ill there was no defense hut for lack of medicine they wasted away until I showed them how to mix soothing remedies wherewith they now ward off filtheir disorders. Hear the sum of the hole matter —Every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound.

DEVIL FISH NEW FABLE DELICACY Dept, of Commerce to Introduce New Food. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—N e w England housewives are soon to be offered anew food embellishment for their tables. It will be advertised “fresh, frozen octopus.” The octopus, or devil fish, which abounds in the deep sea. is a common article of food in Naples, Italy and at the Department of Commerce today it was announced that an attempt was to bo made to introduce and popularize it ip this country. The first shipment is now on its way from Naples to New York. In Italy it sells for 15 cents a pound. The tentacles of the octopus are the part liked best, according to report, and when sliced crosswise they resmbie small white rings. Pried in deep olive oil, they are served in a mixture of fried shrimp and fried cheese and taste something like American scallops. BRONZE HOPE CHESTS Latest Thing to Be Placed on Market—Cost 5350. BOSTON, Sept. 9. —Bronze hope chests, the vei*y latest novelty to appear on the market, offer the young man a most beautiful and permanent gift for his fiancee. They are made exactly like the regular cedar chests and are lined with cedar, but the exterior is solid bronze, decorated to suit the boyer’s fancy. They attracted much attention at the recent Associated Sign Crafts’ exhibit, here. They can be had for a mere $350 or upwifrd, but the durability of the gift which can be handed down from generation to generation makes it practicable—also the fact that the chest is fireproof.

— Weekly Book Review ■■■■ Main Street Dude in ‘Tattooed Countess’ Beats Paul in ‘Three Weeks’ at Love Game

By WALTER D. HICKMAN r—n MAIN STREET dude of high A I school age plays rings about i•**■! the juvenile Paul in Elinor Glynn's "Three Weeks.” You will meet Gareth Johns, just turning 18, in Carl Van Vechten s "The Tattooed Countess.” Gareth is the Main Street rival of Glynn’s Paul In "Three Weeks.” Gareth did not frolic on a bed of roses with a queen, bus he did cut up with an elderly woman. Countess Ella Nattatorrini, who was tattooed on her left arm. Elinor Glynn’s Paul was led astray like a young lamb. Not so with Van Vechten’s Gareth. Gareth was a wise boy of the Main Street of Maple Valley, lowa. Ho had had at least one fling at the great open spaces of romantic misadventure before the Countess returned from Europe to her home in lowa. The Countess was "fed up” on European life and she came mighty near hitting the social rocks because she was not too careful in selecting her gentlemen friends after the death of her husband. So the merry tattooed Countess, 50 years of age, arrives in the quiet town of Maple Valley. Then things begin to happen. Main Street society did not approve of her cigarette smoking, her low-neck gowns, her tattooed decoration on her left arm above the wrist and of many other things. It will be remembered Van Veehten wrote that queer hunk called “The Blind Bow-Boy.” So I rushed with numerous other to the hook shop of the L. S. Ayres Company and obtained a copy of "The Tattooed Countess.” It will be a best seller very soon, -whether it deserves it or not. It is published by Alfred A Knopf. A Wise Bird Gareth was a wise bird for his years. His father could not understand his craving for romantic adventure. But his mother did. Gareth had an affair with Lennie* Colman, a middle aged school teacher. These two would f a hiking in the fields together and ere would dream of the great open but gay spaces beyond Maple Valley. This continued until the Countess sailed into town. Lennie discovered that the red-headed Countess had actually traveled the route which she and Gareth dreamed about on their hikes. Then and there Lennie had a rival. Those who are looking fot‘'spice' and smart travesty will firm it in 'The Tattoed Countess.” There are many smart moments in this book. At times it is wild hut always smart.

Every Parent Loves his children \ Tonight, daddy, take a package of WRIGLEY’S to the kiddies. Mother, too, will appreciate it Doctors and dentists say that WRIGLEY’S helps to keep the teeth clean and the mouth wholesome and sweet It is an aid to digestion, too, so convalescents are given WRIGLEY’S to stimulate stomach action and for its antiseptic effect lipon mouth and throat WRIGLEY’S after smokes cools and refreshes*

This book is for the adult who does not take too seriously all that is written. Approach this book in the spirit of tantalizing fun. You •will laugh at

Cousins ■ ' Copyright l Harris X Ewing * I Lord and Lady Mountbatten, cousins of King George, are accompanying the Prince of Wales on his trip to this country and Canada. the nonsense of the aged Countess kidnaping the small town He is no virgin, that she knows, but he vamps the old countess Just the same. And he goes trotting off with

her when he was supposed to be entering a university in Chicago. Main Street Training Gareth is wise enough to know that in time he will have to acquire another rich female companion because the flame of spring and winter “love” does not continue together for long intervals. So Gareth is wise enough to be prepared to jump to another countess when winter sets in. Some of the small town touches and characterizations have been done in splendid fun, even with a touch a strict realism. Here is jolly fun and to the sophisticated mind it is not "dirt” but tantalizing nonsense. Will not recommend the book. It Is up to you whether you want to meet Gareth and the Countess. Might remark that this book is selling rapidly all over the country. Dress Slasher Busy LONDON, Sept. 9.—A maniacal dress slasher, armed with a long, skewer-like dagger, has inspired ter ror into women visitors at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. The roadman has been ripping women’s dresses, then hiding the dagger in his coat, running away and losing himself in the crowd. Police have been unable to stop his attacks. In Big Demand The September Bookman lists the following twenty books as the ones for which you will have to wait your turn at the libraries: Fiction "So Big.” “The Able McLaughlins." “Told by an Idiot.” ’The Home-Maker.” “The Plastic Age.” ‘The Interpreter’s House.” "Old New York.” "The Call of the Canyon.” "Heirs Apparent.” "Lummox.” General “Life of Christ.” "My Garden of Memory.” "The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page.” "The Dance of Life.” "Etiquette." "Galapagos.” "The Outline of History.” "Right Off the Chest.” “The Outline of Lierature.” “The New Decalogue of Science.”