Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 174, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE F. MARTIN, Editor-In-Chief ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER Editor. UM A. XIAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member ot ttie Serlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the I t.it 1 I’r i >> the NEA Service and the Scripps-Paine Service. • M, aiber of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Pnhli'hed didlv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing r., W Maryland st.. Indianapolis • • * Subscription Kates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. * * * PHONE—MA in 3300.

FEDERAL JUDGESHIPS hy/}K are forced to disagree with Senator Samuel M. Ralston W | when he declares‘that, should Judge Albert B. Anderson >e promoted to the United States Court of Appeals, it would be necessary to have two Federal judges in Indiaua instead of one. The Iliekev bill, which would establish a second Federal Jourt in the State, is a political bill designed by politicians or politicians. It would create more political plums in the State. There are enough already. The Federal Court should be kept out of politics. It is one of the most important links in our judicial chain. The appointment of judges is for life. They can be removed only by Congress. The scramble in Washington for the Indiana judgeship is an example of the way politicians seek to put their political rieiijs on the bench. It is to be hoped that President Coolidge, when he makes the Indiana appointment, will disregard politics md appoint the best available man who is fitted to hold this important position. THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE SIIAT another war will destroy civilization has come to be the,common utterance of statesmen. Herbert Hoover is the latest to make such announcement with emphasis. “The world has learned many lessons from the war,’’ he says, “but none more emphatic than that its increasing terribleness will, if ! repeated again, destroy civilization/ * These gentlemen, as their kind is prone to do, place the cart before the horse. Another war will not destroy civilization. There will he no other war unless and until civilization previously has failed. A BOTTLE AND THE LAW a TIMES reporter carried an exposed bottle, presumably A*, containing whisky, through the streets of Indianapolis with comparative safety from arrest. In fact, he seemed to be more in danger from the onrush of the thirsty than from the strong arm of the law. At the least, the reaction of those private citizens who sighted the evidence of violation of the Volstead act seemed to be predominantly sympathetic rather than critical. From all of which many conclusions might he drawn. Those who would scoff at prohibition and tell us none "but a few cranks want anything or anybody to be dry, likely would loudly explain it as strengthening their argument. But do the facts of the case support their conclusion? Laughter is too often the reaction of the American {Jbople to all, hut the most heinous violation of the law. Most anyone seeing a murder committed or a brutal assault would react with horror and condemnation of the criminals. But lio.w many laugh with the criminals when -their friends buy “blue sky” oii stock - Speeders excite more mirth than they do censure. The people of Indianapolis, and their fellow citizens from coast to coast may laugh at violation.- of the drv law/hut it is aot the only law which doesn t excite proper respect. TRANSLATING THE BIBLE E A RIO I S modern translations of the Bible are being made by men who believe that a better understanding of the Book can he had if the reader is not compelled to “translate” lie King 'lames Lnglish of the generally accepted version. All ot which is very well, providing the modern translators know what they are doing and providing they do not distort the language beyond its original meaning. Nevertheless, such translations are somewhat of a shock to those who love the beautiful language of the King James version. i tie greatest difficulty with *nodern translations is the tendency not only to write the Bible into modern English, but to write it in colloquial English. For instance, Dr! James Moffat of Glasgow, Scotland, in making a modern translation turns “City of David” into “Davidsburg.” Why, in the name of common sense? There is nothing obscure about the meaning of “City of David.” “Davidsburg” sounds like the name of a tank town on the Monon. It certainly can not convey the same meaning as “Cilv of David.” SOME 5.000 BOOTLEGGERS are peddling their liquid wares in V ashington, which seems to invite sober consideration, if any. WAYNE WIIEELER estimates that there are 3,000,000 ta inkers in the country and lie expects them to decrease rapidly —if they keep on drinking, of course. IN HIE MIDSi of all the excitement, and while we were off our guard, the Department of Agriculture discovered anew i gooseberry, and got away with it.

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ANARCHIST OPPOSED TO BOLSHEVIKI Emma Goldman, in London, Raps Russian ‘Red’ Regime, By MILTON BRONNER, NEA Service Writer (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) • ’l ON DON, Nov. 29.—“1 am not I M J homesick for the United t States, if by that you mean the government which rules the United States. But if you mean many of the warm-hearted people who live in the United States, then I am prepared to answer your question in the affirmative.” There was a ring of defiance, mingled with a touch of in the reply made to me by a woman getting on past middle age. And you will, perhaps, be surprised to learn that it was Emma Goldman, who was introduced at a highbrow banquet here the other night as “’the most famous woman revolutionist in the world—a woman who has suffered and given her all for the ideas and ideals she held dearer than life or liberty.” She’s Homesick Try to conceal it as she may, Emma Goldman is deeply homesick for America. She feels herself a woman without a country. She uprooted herself from Russia, tiie land of her birth, when she migrated to America. She was uprooted in 1919 again when our Government tieported her back to Russia. Ko\iet Russia disappointed, embittered and disillusioned her, She got away as soon n.y she could. She tried Sweden, Germany. France, but none satisii* and her. Now ah- is living temporarily in England. Her pre-occupation with the United States crop- out constantly in her talk. Site refers to herself ns an American.” She speak t of New York as ‘ home." site says proudly that her people gave America doctors. lawyers, thinkers. Come see “Red Emma,” th<* firebrand revolutionary, as she appears

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! m London. She is surrounded by books. On the table is a spray of white lilacs sent h r from southern • France. Before her is a samovar I with hot tea. Kh*' is dressed tit simple black ainl Wears a blue shawl. Her brown hair is graying, but her blue eyes still Hash lire. If you didn't know who she was, you would take her f*>r a grandmotherly body. | “What do I want to do iri England? In tiw first place I want to ! read quietly in the British Museum I and prepare data for a book i have in mind concerning women and th* ir part in creative revolution, in the back of my mind, too, I have a plan for a little volume about the r 0.--t modern Russian writers. One of them Alexander Blok, was not only the greatest poet, of tiiis era; lie was I starved to death by the Soviets. Wants to Lecture “And the big tiling I want to do is to lecture on Russia as it is today. ! If I take the platform 1 am giing | to attack the Bolshevik! ruthlessly. They are not the Russian revolution. They are tiie enemies of the revolution. They misrepresent the revolution. Soviet Russia has substituted the tyranny of Trotsky and Kamoneff for the tyranny of the czars. “In place of the cruelties of the Okhrana, the dreaded secret police i of the czars, we have the dreaded cruelties of the 7he-ka, tiie Soviet police. If anything there is less liberty of thought in Russia now than there was in the days of the czars.” “If I came back to America I would most certainly try to take up nty life where I left off. I would write. I would talk. But there would be some changes. Life and actual experience have taught us revolutionists something. You see, none of us had ever been in a real revolution. ’lt took actual experience in Rus sia to teach us what we had forgotten—that it is easier to destroy, to tear down, than to build up. In Russia the people tore down the old monarchy. But they have not been able to build up the new thing of which they had a vision. Tho Bolsheviki Intervened.”

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Dramatist jJe Edith Ellis, San Francisco dramatist, has become Edith Eilis, actress and theatrical director. Other playwrights and producers have recognized her genius in staging drama, and she has just finished the stage direction of Flunk Egan’s “Starlight,” which is to be Doris -Keane's starring v< hide next season. In New York By .IAMES W. DEAN NEW YoRK, Nov. 29.—Prof. Lionel C. lb-no is in town. Professor Reno stands on street corners and tells p. iplc how to improve their memo! ;e.--. For instance, you u ■ itld like to memorize the radio c.dl 1.-tt*rs of the bigger -tat,or- throngi: at o.e country. Study tin- ii 'f-. - : -i .-shod. “Use a.'-.-ociation." -ays Professor Reno, ‘'an,l make a pi: of some sort and toe as many word- as you haw i iters." Thus you would remember KFSG of T.cs Angeles by thinking “Ki- sing Fifty-Sc ven i hr;And for WEAK of New York you’d say to yourself. “\\ in re iAc-ry American Fights.” in Butte, M oit., there Is K'ntfin KFAB. Naturally you'll ah' sa-

i soda to with Ilutte, "Keeping Free j And Pretty." Os course, you may have ti ft ysevci) girls ii: Los An -**!•••, and kept free and pretty in Butte, but—did you ever see an American tight In New York? An American fighting in New York would find himself greatly outnumbered by t lie foe. * • * Os all the varied publications that pour in upon a surfeited reader. | not the ie.ist interesting of lie group • is “The Spaghetti News,” an infant tn the journalistic wildernests of Gotham. Mr. Gugfiticoi, (tic esteemed editor, gives in the current number the proper directions for eating spa ghotti. Writes he, “Tt Is no longer a difficult task tn eat spaghetti properly, for the only thing about it is tn turn a portion of spaghetti around the fork and then merely bond lii** head and swallow the delicious morse] “First: Tiie mouth must be wide open. “Second: Tt must be eaten while the spaghetti is hot.” With the ritual thus simplified your correspondent will strive once more to eat the delicious morsel in the approved manner. Heretofore he has had considerable difficulty in winding up the spaghetti even when backstopping the fork with the spoon and in keeping his mouth wide open until a forkful has been pitched in and trampled down under the eaves. • • • Cap Higgins, Hie artist, drove in from Jersey and stabled his car in an uptown garage that overlooks the Hudson and the Jersey shore. The man who took charge of the car was about fifty and has lived in New York all his life. Higgins made some casual remark about his ride through Jersey. “You know, I guess Jersey’s a nice place, all right.,” the garage man remarked. “I’ve heard a lot about it and I been intendin’ to go over there some day, but I ain’t just got around to it yet.”

WASHINGTON IN NEED OF B UILDINGS Valuable Documents in Flimsy Wooden Structures Endangered, Timex Wnxhin<rton Bureau, t.l!! New York Are, rrrt] ashtngton. Nov. 29.— govnXl eminent documents worth , y -1 millions and other Govern inent documents considered priceless are housed in flimsy wooden buildings, subject to destruction by rats and with the danger of total loss by lire hanging always over them. Government employes work in barn-like structures that are hotter than brick kilns in summer and colder than outdoors In winter. Government executives have to coordinate the activities of employes scattered all over the city of W’ash- ; ington, with a resulting loss of efll- | ciency. I Government rents to private land- ! lords in the national capital total j $079,307.r,2 annually. Wherefore it is believed that a bill, appropriating $50,000,000 toward the construction of new Government buildings in Washington is likely to be passed by Congress during the next f- w months. It was prepared by the Public Buildings Commission and introduced last spring. The sso,Ooo,(i(mi would be spent in the course of five years, not more than *10,000.000 each year. Sentiment in Congress supports the project ! and it n;av be that the long consid- ; “red plan of unifying all Government j department buildings in Washing ; t<jn may soon be under way.

Buildings Planned This is the plan that contemPlat- . am-dig Other things, lining : tin- south side of Penn, vlv mia Ave. f ein the ' apitoi t 0 the Tre ury I'apartment, with government buildings. The government now owns or ntrol- ill the land along that side ■ . rhe hi: Oiric street from the prop. ■ iii.- Gear back to the Potomac River. Most of the buildings now ■km in the dozen blocks facing t .0 a>. ..- ire old and few of them <‘ ’it " ' ve. Very little i:**w i a lit'. : h's been done in many ' -one t-> the government's purI illy to ufih/e the q. -e. \\ h tic' v :de mail, green all the v. ,r ai••and. b-'v. -n the contentt ■ ! n* v. !o. .nr ird the rivar, - - I-m > of < lassie arohl- ?• th. r . 11.1 '• - on is expected • U shit ■■ -i most beaut.f'.l ' t 1 ;n world. 1! \-.-r, the reabz,i*;..n of that dr*-mi will 1 :• *t r* ult front the ex p-vdr i.re of th*. s '• • >r *i n*iw be '!"■ it stun is Wi-o ! f*.r It, cons'l ucMon of b I- -o I • • t: •• J ir. . a of I'd* •• IK - • le, with pa 7 * 0 .no 0 t !;e !Il la ■ • i;.* i.t of J |. • a-.., (>!■■ n* • 1 A id-i'-g riff;.-. . * .111 I 1* ■■ *-f TANARUS! D p r’.mont . f Ar.ri < til' I- !it".. a r:• tm! ~r - ■•hiv.-s ■•hiv.-s lini! !"ig, the 1 n-p -.run* nt of Cnmtiierco. the Department of T. hot- and th * It *, state Cnnur,. r. e Cotnnti—;->n. at-,,l certain o*her in*leI- !• ! ’ ■ in. t • .• • .1)1 hi ■ts not tu w 1,,* * :•• and- lit ,! 1- How n in;- If y. of t“. . are •. | „„ : n. Most on Atomic I is I•’ *.•>. ,-d t t sotnc 0 f the ■•if ■ W t I :la,n,;s Would lie '• and to t> • iv -oie, sin, ,* tiio ! I' • 11 ’•• t of J: : tlie ili partn nt < f Coiiutiercn and tiie Departn- • - ~f 1. a■: .'i tless would b, rg ii ii worthy of structures along rial lines. Some of the other 1 :i - 1 Could be 10, all ! on le-s ! * -P sites and could be of \> ry - *i.j■ 1• ■ !■• c -n. 'I s is tbe idea ,>f • •> ’o- : and • co- I'm ion, a ! os of Ho: <■ nd Set, tie mern- . , dir- ,-tiy im*-i c-a-d in the Mti>Some notion of the present situation in Washington is given by the case of th,, Department of Agriculture. It is now spread over fortyfive buildings in the District of Cos hiinbia, of which twenty-eight a r€ . rented from private owners. The annual rent bill is HS2.SSO, but the greatest loss to the Government Is believed to be in efficiency. Some of the buildings are mere shacks. The department’s activities would be concent rated in ono location under the m-w building )i!ans. One of the other numerous examples i '’at of the Internal Revenue Bureau. Handling papers and records repn opting billions of dollar a it is housed in nine separate building. . scattered over one and or,.- half square miles. Seven-tenths of its space is in temporary build imrs of > on e-nproof construction. A lire might mean an appalling loss. Facts The first monarch to own n prl rate airplane was the King of Spain. A three-hlnded rudder is undergoing tests on n German ship. A penny-in the slot automatic elevator is anew Invention. A mechanical page turner has been invented for use by armless readers. Dresses are bought hy the pound and bread by the yard in Japan. Londin taxicabs arc not heated in winter. Whales are plentiful along the const of Oregon. Four fifths of the world’s oysters art produced by the United States. A volcano on the Island of San Salvador serves as a lighthouse. The town mail carrier has been elected mayor of Arundel. England. Hand-writing may betray ill health The Island of Oahu, one of the Hawaiian Islands, is without sign hoards. The blight has seriously damaged the European potato crop In recent years. An old barroom and tavern has been converted into a church seating 300 persons in Elkton, Mich. Two royal tombs from the Valley of the Kings will be erected in Field Museum at Chicago. There are sixty kinds of birds in the Southeastern States that feed on the boll weevil. Hubby’s Way Out “I believe that a man and his wife should hang together.” “Yes, I suppose that would be the best way out of it.”—Film Fun.

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Ask The Times You can get an aniwt-r to any qu * lion us Im t or information by wriUng to The Indianapolis* Tuu* a Wa^nm*;:on • I.i . : .N v Y 1m t*- T> C.. inch Vnp in ptciini-* for reply Mtil?* i. !• -ai a;ul marital aiivt *• cannot ...\ v> ?or • • I :t. AT ottu*r *r.D wi;: i ,r---tonal re;>'y tD 1 -t be .insa •< ! AU kttcra are cui.lidcn* What is nr ant by Chin, se , totlgs" i Organizations with an element of j sec re y, of i:rotl)-s of ('nine--* f-*r , ’tvitual pr*'tecti"n a: i -r-ist.ine.-. I Basically, they arc of a . mmer 1 ■ har i,the igi n.—'-rs i- * g eng |g, -l in -s and th-y me tliuri\.i! trail ' as-ocia’ on*. This rivalry • ' hr,- * eg' into op n •Aarfar** when ng. -.slor.s by one • •- agrim-t a; • :li, r, consisting of , unfair emir :Ai! prin'Roes, lK*y- ■: ru . tom cause i for off.-i.so. Ti.a i ■■ . < in tiie Fuit* ,i cu• a• e “c.’.cs ,-t wic rorg ini:s. ir--. in. tii- .r main h*'a.!q i trin Sii in.-i,ai and Fci. •*. ( a, rd branches exi-t in other nations ! • •. i*-s th** Unite,l S'atcs. | TANARUS tlmi-e a gland that affects the growth of human beim -? Y< . the pi: :i t. 11 y pi u;d, a little r : :|| to In I. . r tha a 1 • It is ;:• it : on tlie f! ir . f : - si, ill. • 'll- - 1 ■ io\v the le ::i. If it - too ,v :ve it ’in in, • * c :ms; if • •• |:i!.'t:v* i ip'Ugii dvvart's are jt and :cv! \Vlio was the “Old Lady of Threads ml needle St*, eef,'” This is tiie nickname applied to rile Rank of Er,.;!.i! t. What are the Klein marl '• T A collection of Greek sculpture ‘■mainly from the Athenian i’artl ‘ ,oiil made by Lord Elgin at I wlc h ■ are now in :hc 1'.:.; -ii Mu-■rum. Hmv did the word ’ Yahoo’ or:.;inate? The Yahoos in Siv '.f' 's "i, . . Travels” are leutcs in tiie form of men, hence the word liar been applied to a rowdy, brutal man. What is tho Zodiac? An imaginary belt in the heavens, divided into twelve equal parts of 30 degrees each, wnh a sign for each part. The first six or summer signs, the next three autumn signs, and tho last three winter signs. Who was Uncns? A Mohii an chief it: Cooper's “The List of tho Mohicans.” What are the meanings of the names Baldwin, Anselm and Theron? Baldwin, courageous friend; Ansi hit, protection of God; Theron, a hunter. What is a rissole? A savory mince inclosed in a thin batter paste and fried. Who was Di Vernon? The heroine of Scott’s “Rob Roy." When was tea first introduced into England? Authorities contlict. However, fvpys, in his famous diary, records j on Kept. 25, 1650, that he had for | the first time drunk a cup of tea. Who was it who defined civiliza tion as “A process of making life more complex and subtle”? Frederick O’Brien. Who Invented the violin? There is a tradition that the first stringed instrument with a bow like a violin was invented by a king of Ceylon, some 5,000 years ago. This cannot, of course, be substantiated. There are, in India today, players of an instrument with two strings which is known as the rehek. which instrument found its way lo Europe about the ninth century, A. D., and became popular in Italy. In Italy the violin was first perfected, and during the sixteenth century took approximately the form in which it is now made. What peoples first used flowers at funerals? Possibly the early Egyptians were the first. Flowers have been found in tombs over 3,000 years old. Who was Sarah Gamp? A bibulous sick nurse, a character in Dickens’ “Martin Chuzzlewit.” In the language of flowers what does the verbena mean? ‘‘Pray for me.”

TREASURY PREPARES FOR BONUS \: 'ney VvT! Be Deposited and Payments Made From Interest. T • IV/jv/ it: ton Sue tu, /■.G Arte York Are. , . and AKHIXGT >X. Nov. 29.— The Vy first steps toward the acJ cumulation of the *4.000.000,i wiiifili the rnit,d K: it*s Governt will ’ 1 i in !’*., to t v tne -udd:*-rs' Linus will le tak*'n by tin. Tr- m y nti T ■n. 1. On that dot * the Treasury will pay a- ■ up into a spci ;a! l-iutus ! s ci I wl.a !i will yield Interest at the • of 4 per coot annually. Each , > . . a-, f.g tiie mxt twenty • e.i, *!,.• Treasury will m; ke a like :n< !-f ’1 this fund. The total paywill thus amount to 52.000,--Kl The int re-t. compoandcd . • A-, v 11 d.'tilde the tor:U and i '• V- e -i. • 1 t.iit s ,s • • l."\v tho Treasury .1 p • and 1" 1 : IV'f* :mg funds ■ t •!. j. t into another ;rc • beiv.g work out. When t'• >n- -• s passe l the bonus bill, it - ci 'i!at> I that Jl'O'.OuO.OoO should be -,-t aside for the lonus each year, | ! ut di i n*>t t: ike any appropriation, j• n- ~f the fi:--t net -of the new Coni gr< j itji" Ito be the making of s-:.-b an appropriation for the cung jo-ar. .May Buy Bonds Tl.* bonus bill .'icq a ins a provision the Ti-a-cv sh.ll purchase v *“ this • rinual appropriation of - UiO.eOO.GiO Got, l ament bonds plying 4 per cent interest. At present tin re ar>> no such bonds available at i par. All Government securities are selling at prices that yield considerably under 4 pi r cent, the actual yield of Treasury bonds and Liberty bonds being from 3.36 per cent to 3.96 per cent. Treasury officials are convinced that a m w bond issue on a -t per c*-nt basis would immediately sell in the open market at a considerable premium nnd that the Government would be unable to buy back the re quisite quantify that must be set I aside according to the terms of the I bonus law. j The feature of the law which is. giving tlm Treasury the greatest, concern is the provision that the bonds must lie offered to the public for subscription. Were it not for tins, the Treasury would be able to print ono single bond for $100,000,000 bear ing 4 per cent Interest, place ii in a : safe deposit box and call the transaction closed for one year. May A sit Repeal A-suggestion which is now receiving consideration *s that tho treasury arrange wit it a group of bankers to .subscribe to the issue of bonds and to resell them to the treasury without profits or commissions figuring in the deal. While the purpose of such an agreement would lie to save the Government considerable money, it is feared that front a legal standpoint the agreement with the bankers would constitute connivance tp circumvent the law. Unless a way out of the present difficulty is found during the next few weeks, it is probably that the tiensury will ask Congress to repeal the provision that the bonds placed in the bonus fund must be offered to the public and repurchased in the open market. A Thought Keest thou a man diligent in his business? lie shall stand before kings.—l’rov. 22:29. * # * Business dispatched is business well done: but business hurried is business ill done. —Bulwer-Lytton. Baby’s .Yiiility “Good gracious! Does your baby always cry that way?” “Oh, dear, no! He has quite an extensive repertoire. This is only one of his lighter performances; he reserves his heavy work for 2 a. m.” —Christian Advocate.

SATURDAY, NOV. 29, 1924.

Tom Sims Says Georgia has 310,732 farms, some of which are not mor ! gaged at all. Yellowstone National Park has about 3,000 kinds of birds, but New I'oik City has around seven million. We didn't even know a friend of curs was married until the'other day |we saw him carrying a n umbrella. ■ An elephant con--times about 2'"’o pounds of hay a day, which is why i his waist line is disgraceful. Fiasco, in six letters, means a fail lire, and comes from an Italian word i ?>;•• n ng a flash, which is a comet- ; bence. | In the old colonial days sugar cost ; 75 cents a pound, but please don't let your grocer see this. I Tiie first monarch to own a pri- | va*<‘ ■ >:: i !.• t.• • w.ts the king of Sp it, 1 1 Liters going up in the air without them. There are tie statistics on the subject, but Congressmen have more sense than !s generally suspected. The jig-saw puzzle, in six letters, is bn cm:,ing more popular, proving the jig is not up. - ’ paid for on the i in.-: ,I'nioi:' plan in southeast Africa, h\ in t - Unit l States. Tn Japan, dresses are bought by : :he pound ami broad by the yard, and you're one yourself because this really is true. (Copyright, 192 4, NEA Service, Inc.) Science S“a wafer, one ot the mysteries "f nature, may he concentrate 1 in -'“'li a way as to pi* serve its mineral ingredients and used on tiie table in the same manner as pepper and safi. This plan has boon advocated by a number of scientists, and, with man’s increasing tendency to goiter and certain other diseases, it is reasonable to believe that it will ha worked out. It is already being done to a certain extent in the mamt- | facture of a table salt containing | iodine front the sea. , A certain amount of iodine is ; necessary to insure people against j goiter. Much of the iodine, originally in the soil, has passed into rhe sea, and man—all animals, in sact —no longer receive a sufficient amount. The soil is constantly being robbed j by the sea not only of iodine but of ! other ingredients necessary to man, and there is no corresponding proc- ; ess by which minerals are carried from the sea back to the soil. So i man will have to make much greater use of sea water, some day, than he i is doing now. From the earliest times sea water has been used as a medicine and it |is known to be helpful in certain eases. i Scales By HAL COCIIKAN What a funny little story to the world at large would leak; what an interesting secret it would be, if the scale we all are weighed on had the power to up and speak and would tell just what it sees, to you and me. Every day it gathers pennies from the people who would know whether they have gained or lost a pound or two. Folks walk up and drop the coin, wait a minute, then they go. It's a little tiling we all are wont to do. Kome one knows they’re rather hefty, so they diet for a while. Then they’re anxious just to see what luck they've got. They are aiming at reducing so's to be in proper style, so they up and drop a penny in the slot. Someone else is rather skinny so they, bat and sleep a lot ere they watch the indicator swing around. When it-hows they still are thin-like they will claim it’s tommyrot and they’ll look until another scale is found. It’s a cinch, when folks are weighing, that emotions have their swaying and expressions come—they're either strong or weak. Ko I say, and not in jesting, ’twould be rather interesting what the scale could tell if dhly it could speak, Copuriaht, HH, NEA Service