Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 153, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE E. MARTIN, Editor-ia-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President t'ELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBOIIN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Srripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • Client of the United Press, . the SEA Sendee and the Scripps-Paine Service. * • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos. 214-220 W Maryland St.. Indianapolis * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • * * PHONE—MA in 3500.

HEALTH BEGETS DIVIDENDS |DD the name o| Dr. Maurice C. Hall to the roster of A heroes. Experimenting in the United States Bureau of Animal Industry with a chemical to cure hookworm in animals, he risked his life to find out whether or not his cure might be extended to man. The chemical, carbon tetraclilorid, was successful when administered to dogs, but killed rabbits. Dr. Hall did not know what effect it would have on man, but he swallowed a dose to see. It proved to be a safe cure and has been used with great success, especially in tropical countries where the disease is prevalent. There is another significant phase to tiie story of the liook"orm cure. The United States Department of Agriculture, reporting on an experiment made with employes of a mining company, all afflicted with hookworm, says: '‘Beginning two months after the treatment, the average output of ore per man per day increased 25 per cent. This increase in efficiency was not explained any other way. “Although the manager of the mine did not give all the credit for the ensuing increase in ore production tb the hookworm treatment, he did not hesitate to give it much of the credit.” The difference the treatment made in the comfort of the man. in the happiness of their homes, the health of their children, the welfare of their souls, was not important enough to mention. But the increased ore output was important. That’s why, in a few years, every employer is going to see to it that the men and women working for him are well He is going to pay doctors to watch his workers and keep them well because it will pay him to do so. Some day greediness for gold is going to result in ap proximately perfect health for all of us! # BACK TO “NORMALCY” B]V ;bc time this appears the early voter will have expressed _____ his choice and the late voter will be hurrying to the polls. The tumult and the shouting are about over. Now let’s get down to business. The theory that campaign years necessarily moan bad business is mostly bunk. The theory ifself is responsible for any slowing down there may be. But now that millions upon millions of words have been spread upon the atmosphere and the show is over, let’s ern to work. Nothing serious will happen regardless of who is elected President today. A PUBLISHER AND HIS TRAVELS HERE comes to the desk of the editor an interesting hook. | just published by Brentano’s, “Forty Years in Newspaperdom.’’ the autobiography of Miifon A. Mcßae, formerly business head of the Scripps-Ifoward chain of newspapers, known until Mr. Mcßae retired as the Seripps-Mcßae Newspapers. Mr. Mcßae talks of the founding of literally dozens of newspapers as fond grandparents tell of the incidents surroundintr the births of their children and their children’s children, and tells of his contacts which brought him into intimate relations with scores of the promient men and women. But Forty ear? in Newspaperdom” is a misnomer for this book. Mr. Mcßae was a business man and a philanthropist as well as a publisher, but it is as a traveler that most readers will remember him from his book. In sixty years, he has visited almost every land on the face of the globe and he has brought, back and recorded briefly in his autobiography his outstanding impressions of the peoples he studied during these numerous and varied globe-trottings.

DOC ABBOTT of the Smithsonian institution says the coming will be a long, cold winter, because our solar radiation has been short. With old Sol, Col. Boreas and the coal barons against us, what’s the use?

Family Fun Bootleg Breath "Algy called yesterday. He said he would like to call poppa some names but he hated to waste his breath. Poppa told him It would be a shame to waste his breath. Ho told him to have it boitled."—New York Mercury. For the Children “Drop around, my man, and let us see your face once in a while." "Thank yuh, sir. but I’m afraid yer wife doesn’t fancy ine." "Oh, that’s all right: It amuses the hildren.” —Chicago Phoenix. Daughter’s Chum "When I came out the audience simply sat there open-mouthed." “Oh. nonsense! They never yawn all at once."—Goblin.

Your Name and Its Meaning

Do you know what your name means? Do you know from what language it comes? Do you want to pick an appropriate name for the baby? Do you know how surnames came Into use In human society? Are you seeking an appropriate name for your home, your canoe, your club, your pet dog or cat?

Names Editor, Washington Bureau Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin NAMES AND THEIR MEANING, and enclose herewith a cents in loose postage stamps for same: NaTn * St. and No. or R. R. City ......., v ., State ....... I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times.

Tin* Honeymoon Train Before the train entered the tunnel he said: "Sweetie, this tuunri cost over a million dollars.” When the train emerged from the tunnel, she remarked: "Honey, it was worth it!” —Whiz Bang. Dad’s Luck O. K. “I’m sick of walking the floor all I night with this kid." | "Ought tt> be glad you don't live !In Alaska, where you'd have to do in six months at a stretch.”—American Ix-g!on Weekly. Why Dad Wears His "Y'ep, I had a beard like yours once, and when I realized how It made me look, I cut It off.” "Wal, I had a face like yours once,. and when I realized that I •couldn’t cut I*. off, I grew this beard.”—Film Fun.

All of these things are covered in our Washington Bureau's new bulletin on NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS. Practically every first name in ordinary use In the English language today is listed, defined and its language derivation given. If you want a copy of this bulletin ft'.! out the coupon below und mail .i s directed:

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—Copyright, Harris & Ewing. Eamon i><; Valera, Irish Republican chieftain, was arrested by Ulsterite officials as he entered the town hall at Xtwry to address a political meeting. Next morning, however, he was placed on a train and sent back to the Free State with the warning not to enter the north again.

In New York NEW YORK. Nov. 4.—An auctionroom on the west side. Remnants of another auction sale on Broadway. Cheap tinsel. Negroes, Greeks. Italians, all horny-handed sons of toil, there to see aid wanting to buy nothing. "Eleven dollars I am bid for this. W) y, gentlemen. If you were to melt the gold on this one piece alone. this sugar bowl, you'd get that much in gold. And I’m offered eleven dollar- A fifteen-piece china set, handpainted, inlaid with gold—and I’m offered 'leven dollars. "Why, gentlemen, that's an Insult, 'leven dollars. You couldn’t buy one piece at that price. T>o I hear more? Ei'-ven dollars once, eleven dollars twice, eleven dollars, third and last -why, gentlemen, that's a shame, a crlm - to sell that fine merchandise at such a price. Ain't there a man In-re who would say more? Who will say twelve dollars? Twelve dollars. who will say twelve dollars? If you havi n't go' the cash, leave a deposit <>v it and we'll hold it thirty days for you. 'Levon dollars once, 'leven dollars i woo—"ELEVEN AND A HALF!” "That's tin spirit, gentlemen! Now who sa> s twelve? Who says twelve? ’Leven dollars and a half once, 'lovi-n dollars and a half twice, < •• ■•’) dollars and fifty cents—•a-’ and id to that gentleman right there!" \'d "th’.t ntlonian right there" s! ivos a lai'oused hand into the greasy p .-10-t of his threadbare

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UNDER THE SHAIKHS’ OF TOWERING APARTMENT BUILDINGS ON RIVERSIDE DRIVE, LOGGERS WITH HOBNAILED BOOTS AND PIKE POLES TEETER OVER THE WATER AS JK THEY WERE IN’ THE NORTH WOODS. THEY ARE SORTING i d’T BID ING AND TIMBER FROM RAFTS AT THE BASIN OF THE CITY DOCK DEPARTMENT.

| thousers and pays out the better | par! id his week’s wage for a set of ’china "inlaid with acid-proof gold.” And the young man in tho silk shirt and tailor-made suit picks up “a genuine French bri;ir. smoked amber smoking set, consisting of four pieces, two pipes, a cigarette holder and a cigar holder, all trimmed with genuine 14-karat gold, cost ten dollars to manufacture, and there’s the tag on it to prove It,” to another man who came to look and not to buy, for $4.50. The fellow who bought this did it because the auctioneer told him he I didn’t know a bargain when he j saw it. • • • For seventeen years Wallace L. ! Conner and his wife lived In a modj esf apartment in Brooklyn. They lived quietly, having no anto and refraining from social extravagances. Conner has just been arrested, charged with forging drafts. He was | manager of tho Sumner Savings : Bank and tried to dress the part, ilia salary was SI,BOO a year, or less than .$3 5 a week. A Thought Whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abun- ! dance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even Riiat he hath.—Matt. 13:12. * * • [Abundance consists not alone in materia! possession, but in an unco veto us spirit.—Selden.

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WILL U. S. CONTROL WEATHER? Scientists Debate Possibility of Making Wind and Rain. Tim** Wnshinaton Human, Icnv A etc York Are. ASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—Con\U gress may have to vote on ■■ . how much rain shiUl be allowed each part of the country for the next season. States that don’t stand in with the Administration will be punished —droughts or floods, depending on tiie locality. Oldest Inhabitants will tell of actually remembering electric storms in the heavens. Cliildrert reading of the time tiie Shenandoah was blown from her mooring mast by a strong wind will say, "But why did Congress let the wind blow, that hard? Was it some more graft?" All of which will happen—perhaps—if the newest invention to control the weather proves effective. Dr. L. Francis Warren of Harvard claims a device of his by which electrically charged sand Is sprinkled down on clouds ’from airplanes will disperse clouds of produce rainfall, and opens the way *o dpminatlon by man of the heavens. An electric storm was stopped by this method last July, he asserts. With plenty of money and jx-rfeeted facilities, almost anything can be done, he believes. But up at the United States Weather Bureau they laugh politely behind their hands. Man never has controlleld weather and never will, says Pruf. W. ,T. Humphreys, mcteorol.ade.il physicist of the Bureau, although attempts have been made by magic, by religion and by science from ; i native times down to the pi. . day. Over in Esthonia. wi’hin iin last hundred years, when it got t<■•> dry to suit, the natives, they'd s.-nd three men out to a “sa. r<-! grove." All three cllml.ed tall trees. ime would light tire brands and wave these around, an ! th>' was *h lightning. One would at a > or drum, and that was 'he thunder. One would pour water {• : a sprinkling can. and that \\ the rain. And sometimes t storm would follow, nrd sometime-: i; would not. Some other folks got th<- notion that their dead could n ike 1: > an if they wanted to. They trb-.l beseeching the dead. TANARUS ; 1 maligning them. They t id t! v ag rooks at the graves it wo Id so annoy the gh sts that rh-j vi!i send a rain t.> drive the rock throvv”rs indoors. They fried digs- m: up bodies and cutting off their heads as punishment f<> the t who had failed to send them rain. And sometime.- - a .•■term mild f-dlov. ", 1 sometimes it would m ’ More religious people decided was up to their saints to come

through with necessary moisture. If prayers and threats to the various images brought no results, they tried passing decrees formally taking away sainthood from the delinquent one. Or, in other places, they immersed their priests to suggest the idea of wetness to the gods. Or they took frogs, primitively connected with water and rain, and spunked them. And if that didn’t work, they hung them, | mouths upward, and left them to suffer, supposing they would pray to their rain gods who would send rain to relieve their favorites. And sometimes a storm followed and sometimes It did not. The moral of all this, according to Professor Humphreys, is that when airplanes go up with electrically charged sand, sometimes a storm will follow, or clouds be dispersed, and sometimes it will not. Professor Humphreys believes that airplanes can sometimes dispel light clouds simply by riding through them. Ho believes that if enough airplanes went up with large enough quantities of sand, they might be able to dispel a fog, but such an operation is too expensive to ever be practical, he says, and small quantities could accomplish nothing. Laboratory methods of producing and checking precipitation have been successfully worked out, but Humphreys believes it will always be impossible to perform them on a scale vast enough to affect nature. Meanwhile, Army aviators are experimenting with the sand invention. They hope to be able to remove fog from harbors and landing ’fields, at East.

Dad’s Own Little Crosswords Puzzle

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Ask The Times i You tan „>*l ,i)i dimwi-r to nay .jtutioit of Id t or iiforiieitiou by writing to ;.. ..4* l-.te lulls W*4h:aWto:i Bures.;, l!"J .St.-a Yhik Ave. Wa*nm.t . !) tv, tnokung 2 cents in Htsui) - tor r-nly. -Itiiiii, lc<al and niaritoi ativu-o cannot be given nor ■ a cjl ; rt-ea.- -h t>-- undertaken, j A other .uem, vtni; revive * ler•onsl rrp’> fMWli cannot U- .otsotr-.! All letters are coalmen till - -Ktlitor. Is the "Daddy Hong I/cgs" a spider or a member of some other i 1 trich ..f the Insect family? It is a m -mbor of the opilionine or pholangidean arcahnids. sometimes called "harvestmen," and is closely related to the spider family. When a father has a son of ex fe lly tho same name, does the 1 it her add "Sr." after Ids name and the "on "Jr"? I’si),illy the father does not use the "Sr." after his name. The ordiI nary custom is for the son to use ; "Jr.” t.dtr. his name, anil thus there is a distinction between father and son without the necessity of the ! father using the term "Sr." Who wrote "The Fairchild Family’’" Mary Martha Sherwood. What does the expression, "No l two people t ,ui ever see exactly the sum rainbow" mean? ( Th it something which may be exicoednigly pleasing to one person may ! leave another cold and unmoved. Please explain Just how the un-assisit-d triple play was made by W.unbsgnnss in the OlevelandFrooklyn game In Cleveland in I 1920? ' There bang a man on first and second base, next batter knocked a hard line drive Just within reach nt . Wambsganss; both runners on bases, | thinking the ball good for a hit 'left their b;isos at the crack of the bat to advance; Wambsganss, who i caught the line drive on the, ily, | touched second base, putting out 1 tho man who had Just left that base, !and then touched the runner who was advancing from first base. _ i By ,what Presidents were Chief Justice Taft, and Justices McKenna. Van Devanter. Brandeis anti Sutherland of the United States Supreme Court, appointed? Chief Justice Taft appointed by President Harding: Justice McKenna by President McKinley; Justice Van Devanter by President Taft; Justice Brandeis by President Willson; Justice Sutherland by President Harding. What do the names Irene, Gladys and Esther mean? Irene, “peace;” Gladys, ''brilliant;'* i Esther, “good fortune.” Why are locust trees not used I for making floor boards? Because the wood is entirely too I knotty and defective. Is Longfellow buried In Westminister Abbey, England? No, but a bust has been erected to his memory. Where and when was Sarah Bernhardt, born? Paris, Franco, Oct. 23, 1945. How much pension is a widow of a veteran of the Civil War entitled to, and does it depend upon the amount which was drawn by her husband? It is Bf>o a month, regardless of the amount of pi nslon drawn by the husband. Where and when was Jesse W. Fell, the man who nominated Lincoin, born? In New Gordon Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Nov. 10, 1808. How did the word “halcyon” originate and what does it mean? It is Greek, meaning “peace, happiness.” Has colored snow ever fallen? Yes, In Greenland and elsewhere, notably In the mountains In southern Europe. The usual color is red or green, the coloration being due to the presence of minute organisms known as Protococcus nivalis. A yellowish deposit has also been precipitated from snow, which examination has shewn to be the pollen of pin* trees./

POWER CUT A TTRA CTS INDUSTRIES United States Factories Are Moving to Canada, t imes Wnstun !t<m I’urrau, l.tti V, *r York Are. ASHINGTON, Nov. 4. —lt yyl i*n’} just housekeepers who I L—J are attracted to Canada, be* j cause electric power there is gov* i ernment-mnde anti cheap. According to the Department of ; Commerce, 900 American man- ; tifacturors have established branch | factories in Canada, ! “Cheap power,” states Consul General Halstead at Montreal, "has been ala re e factor in attracting them. This lias especially affected paper manufacturers.’’ The United Slates, in fact, has been playing a -"tar role in the postwar industrial development of ,<’anuria. One-fourth the capital ini vested In Can i ban Industries Is United States money. About two- : thirds is Canadian, j United States investors hold ap ■ proximately 80 per cent of the capital shares in the pulp and paper business of Canada, and control tho nickel anti asbestos production there, as well as many of tho timber products. Canada has developed 3.227,000 horsepower of her total minimum poI tential 18,200,000 horsepower. Tho Depa.rtment of Commerce points out what tills means to the manufac- | turer of electrical goods who seeks a I market not too far away nor too j complicated. j It is suggested that though Canad- ! lan manufactured electrical goods j were valued at 844.497,268 in 1921, I and the business has been growing ever since, hero is a field which manufacturers of electric goods in the United States should not overlook. The contrast in the rates paid for electricity In the United States iand Canada Is apparent when one | realizes that 334 kilowatt hours cost j the housewife of Ontario $3.56 and j one In Washington, D. C., $23.18. Know Indiana How did tho State seal originate? It simply appeared in 1522 from ,no one knows where. The ConstiI lution in 1816 gave the Governor a i right to list, his own seal until a State seal was adopted. A later Legislature authorized the Governor to adopt a design, but there is no record to show the present seal, held by some historians to be utterly meaningless and absurd, was ever adopted by Legislature. In 1895 Legislature resolved to adopt anew design, but nothing was done about It and the buffalo with "its head down and tall erect" still adorns the papers of State. When was the first Statehouse built? 1832-35, The present one? 1877. Where did the State offices locate on first moving to Indianapolis? In Marlon County courthouse. Nature The ability and habit of parrots to talk led them to be made pets of by even the ancient savage people of Indian and Africa. The Romans In Nero’s time, too, thought much of them and brought them back to Rome from those countries. Chris topher Columbus, on his first expedition, toted back some parrots, and thus Introduced them Into Europe. In the old Roman times the price of a slave and of a parrot were about the same. Scientists on the little observatory on the rim of Kilanea volcano in Hawaii are able to warn people in the vicinity of danger in plenty of time for* everybody to beat it to safety. They predicted this year’s *v*ra eruptions In 1913.

The Messenger By HAL COCHRAN What’s ir. those envelopes under your cap. you lad In a messenger’s suit? What sort of messages have you on tap that are making you hurriedly scoot? Flashes of business and weighty affairs. Wires of just greeting and such. Missiles of love when real sentiment flares or maybe a wire that’s a “touch.” You are the lad who is telling the world of the things to be told in a burry. Into your business, through I wires you are hurled, and the job : keeps you all in a flurry. ’Course you don’t know what each - message may say,_but you ever must ; carry the load that tells of a birth |nr a passing away that is flashed j o'er the telegraph code. When things an? Important enough for a wire, they’re bound to be thrillers. indeed. Y’ou keep flames of interest in all things on tire as you make people sit up and read. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Sendee. Inc.) Tom Sims Says Trees have their limbs bare in winter and covered in summer, differing from women in summer only. No woman is an old maid until she dresses like one. Our greatest kick against the scenery in autumn is we run out of adjectives. Well, they claim a man in Vienna has forty-two wives, so all we can ! say is he wins the loving cup. A man who took a drink in Peoria, II!., woke up in Miami,- Fla. Anyway, he was lucky to woke up at all. A Springfield, (Mo.) girl of 19 married a man of S5, and lawyers claim \ he is crazy, while we claim she is. Twelve wore jailed for tarring and feathering a Maryland girl, a case where-fine feathers mode sad birds. It’s a strange thing, but no nvattei now an election comes out, the country never goes to the dogs. Utah woman killed her husband on their honeymoon, instead of putting up with him for a while. Some people go hungry for fear of biting off more than they can chew. The trouble with owning a grouchy look is you seldom get a ! pleasant one. One meek as a kitten may grow j up to be a wild cat. Cold weather makes some people j feel so good they work. Going to church Is cheaper than j subscribing for fashion magazines, j Science The British air ministry is offer- ! lng every possible encouragement and inducement to make the English a race of flying men. Elimination events for the light plane and glider meet of the British Empire are to be held soon at Lympne, Kent. Credit marks are to be given for low speed as well as high speed. All machines must, jhe two-seaters with dual control and; tho flight must be made at a uni-! form height of twenty feet above ; the ground. Tiie object of the meet; is to influence the treasury depart- j ■ "nt to buy large quantities of light chines and donate them to clubs nil various organizations. This is expected to increase interest in flying, and, with a larger number of persons using airplanes. Important improvements in the cheap, light nia-! chines are probable. One reason for the British government’s interest in such matters is that the airplane lias entirely destroyed the protection England once enjoyed through her fleet and her location. France’s supremacy In the air la a constant threat.

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Right Here In INDIANA

By Gaylord Nelson

OBERT H. BRYSON, postmaster, reports that the receipts of the Indianapolis | postoffice are growing. In October the total was $378,936.59 —an increase of 13 per cent over the same month last year. It is also an increase over September which was greater than the corresponding period a year ago. Some people in this city write letters besides “Old Subscriber,” "Vox Populi” and "X. Y. Z." For if the local postal receipts for last month were invested in two-cent stamps, | placed end to end, the paper ribbon ! would reach from here to St. Louis. That’s why statisticians and letI ter carriers grow stoop-shouldered. Letters are nuisances. We hate to j write them, and many of those we reI ceive are not thrilling. But the pos- | tage stamp is modern society’s most 1 powerful tool. Today we vote for President, who i doesn’t take office until March 4. i Because when the Constitution was | adopted returns seeped in slowly, due ;to poor mail service. Now a man j in San Francisco transcribes a burning thought and a mail plane delivers it in New York while it is still glowing. The mail service has immeasurably speeded up life and commercial Inj tercourse. j It makes possible much of the l productive business of the Nation ! and most of the divorce and breach-of-promise business. So postal receipts are important for they are the pulse beats of prosperity. Interest ; fH’l HE Fletcher Savings and I Trust Company and the Peopie’s State Bank withdrew from the Clearing House, Nov. 1. The association rule limiting tha rate of interest on savings deposits caused the resignations. The question of interest rates on havings deposits is important to many frugal persons. To them a dollar, not drawing Interest, is a slacker. And a savings account permits | their dollars t<. associate with secur- ! ity and interest in congenial comi panionship. Interest for the use of money is so i customary now that one thinks of the practice as always existing. The j Babylonians und Egyptians knew ! and used the device. But there was Ia time in the middle ages that the | Christian church forbade it. Some J sects do yet. Wealth during those dark centuries dwindled instead of increased because of the ban. And when a gay Antonio found himself pinched for funds he vis:t>-d Shylock. For Shylock's law, while it prohibited hirn lending money to a brother for interest, didn’t forbid exacting it from a stranger. He followed his statute. Impecunious Gentile noblemen felt the steel in those I days. But now in a more enlightened age interest is welcomed in the best of i families. For the dollar hard at work in shirt sleeves makes more wealth. A dollar loafing in a cracked teapot makes burglars. i ' Elopers ri DETECTIVE, notified by telA ephone, picked up a couple of •* H youthful lovers, aged, 16. j when they arrived at Union Station | yesterday morning from Terre ; Haute. They were eloping. Every day or so pairs of eloping ! turtle doves are plucked either at Union Station or the Traction Terj initial. For romantic Lochinvars still per--1 form. And the lure of an elopement | gets the lovers. j A couple of days ago JeffersonI ville police stoppexi, at the request ' of the girl's father, the marriage of ! a man 84 years old with a girl of ( 14. They had eloped from their Ken- | tucky home. The almost-bride was ! the old man’s granddaughter. One Kentucky family tree nearly I became a brush pile. > ; The determined Lochinvars no ' longer lope out of the West on ! spavined horses. Nor toss the damsels across their saddles, like sacks : of meal, and away into the night ! while indignant fathers fill the vicini ity with buckshot and expletives. But they_ still find a way in Indiana. especially down In Clark County. For that county ranked ! third in tho State in the number of j matrimonial ventures launched In ' 1923. And many counties exceed it in population. ! Marriage may he sodden and stale, but an elopement is piquant romance. Tt will occur whenever Cupid collides wfith hard facts. Barrel I |-- 1 I ARL RADER of the Atlantic I r* I and Pacific Tea store, FairI I field Ave., had his head thrust into a barrel Saturday night scooping out crackers when a bandit entered the place. He was ordered to maintain his cramped position while the man robbed the cash register and es caped. The bandit arrived at an inopportune time. Had the clerk expected robbery he would have been erect and watchful. Which wouldn’t have prevented tho hold-up. While the store’s work would have been neglected. Most blows? of fate come at awkward moments. We all long to peer into the future to see w’hat's coming. It's a common trait. So fortunte tellers, crystal gazers and other quacks have clients and lucrative business. But it is just as well man has devised no way to pierce one second beyond the immediate present. If he knew’ exactly what would happen the next minute or next week life would lose its pungency. It would be cut and dried —perhaps terrifying. He would lie so engrossed in the approach of late that the realities of daily living would receive no attention. He accomplishes more with his head stuck in the barrel of his usual tasks than expectantly watching for JCata to come down the otreet.