Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1925 — Page 4

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Coal in Two Countries EN a hotel at Atlantic City anthracite operators and miners are having their biennial haggle over wages and working conditions. The operators are fighting to retain the ex- , tremely comfortable profits they always have had. The miners are fighting for the best wages they can get in payment for their exceptionally dangerous work. A strike seems imminent. In "West Virginia the operators and miners in the northern soft coal fields are on the verge of violent war. Picket lines are estab- . lished. Strikers and strike breakers are living in barracks. Searchlights from the coal tipples sweep the surrounding mountain sides at night. Courts are working, overtime. In the southern soft coal field of the same State, operators are merrily making hay—or money in quantities that could be baled like hay. They have no dealings with unions. They pay lower wages and reap the harvest when trouble occurs in unionized districts. Kentucky and Maryland operators are situated somewhat the same. In Ohio, Indiana and Illinois there is about 50. per cent production, with the spectacle of many idle mines and many idle miners. Western Pennsylvania operators, party to the agreement that has kept the peace in those three States, are flirting with a plan to break this peace in the same way the northern West .Virginia operators have broken it, through repudiation of the wage contract. At Swampscott President Coolidge is daily considering Federal intervention in the anthra- . cite situation or daily not considering it, ac- , cord’ng to which correspondent you happen .to buieve. That, in a broad way, is the picture presented by the coal industry of the United States at the moment. Over in England they have had a coal crisis and disposed of it for the time being. • With the miners unable to accept any lower wages and live, the workers in other industries, particularly transportation, agreed to join in a general strike if the government failed to prevent a wage cut. The government has prel vented this cut by authorizing a subsidy of , $59,000,000 a year to the coal operators to enable them to pay the miners a living wage. The British government’s investigations it that the operators actually could not pay living wages without assistance from ‘ the taxpayers. It granted the subsidy, well knowing that it was moving directly toward nationalization of the mines. Every observer, radical or reactionary, agrees this is so. The example set by England may cause some hard thinking in this country. It may result in a cessation, for instance, of the nicely ivritten but meaningless public statements from Atlantic City, Avhile the operators settle down to look the whole situation in the face for the first time. The anthracite x operators are not in the situation of the British operators. They are making money and lots of it. The case of the soft coal operators is not so simple. Many of them are not making money at the present time, no matter hoiv much they have made in the past. There are more soft coal mines than the country needs. The condition is one of pretty general demoralization. The solution of the American situation is hard to foresee. Some of the operators will doubtless continue to make a lot of money. - Some will not. Some of the miners will make ■ a Irving ivage. Some will not. But, generally

Outline of Evolution

CHAPTER 6 The Origin of Trouble i '•¥ • Sm - ] HE world had been very peaceII ! ful ui> to this time ’ but n ° w a Li. J great change was ahead. Woman was about to make her ap- ■ pearanve. What a different world it would be had there never been any cause for this chapter, i.•• But, anyway, there was, and each j year thousands of young men continue to feel that they can't be happy ' her, and it's a waste of "breath to warn them that they won’t be happy with her. • As I have previously explained, , our first ancestor was a very quiet, -.small, unassuming and unattractive ■creature that floated around on the . shores of t .e primordial seas and 'perhaps liveo on the atmosphere un- . 'til some more sustaining food developed. i . . It is hard to picture in your mind a one-celled creature .of the neuter gender—and perhaps the closest modern approach is the young fel- . Jews sometimes seen on the stage in aesthetic dancing acts. ' ’ But there came a time when this , first ancestor grew dissatisfied, ■ when it was no longer content to ‘.exist as a microscopic blob, but to be something better and livelier and go places and take on .pirs with the neighbors. The logical result, of course, was i ‘lthe development of Woman. We now have a Mr. and a Mrs. Blob. Just Vow this came to happen ,1 cannot' say—it was a mystery, like ■the. the county road contracts. Probably Mr. Blob didn’t

speaking, the public will continue to pay more for coal than the cost of production justifies. It always has. ' Aping the English li-j-TjUE Prince of Wales had no sooner put his | I I foot on American soil tt a i our democratic citizens were aping his turned-down hatbrim, his shutfling walk and the drape of his baggy pants. Our naval officers have aped the British uniform and, having aped his Sam Broivn belt and slacks, our army officers are preparing to ape the cut of the British tunic. And henceforth our army airmen, with their turned-down coat collars, patch pockets, belts setved snug around the waist, embroidered insignia and overseas caps, could Avell be mistaken for their fellows of the It. A. T. All of xvhich is perfectly all right. They ’re a natty-looking bunch, the British. But Avhy can’t Ave ape them in some of the more important things—statesmanship,.diplomacy and preparedness, for example? Not their imperialism, for avc don’t Avant that; but their continuity of policy and purpose, their thoroughness and their forethought. They think a century ahead, not merely of the political expediency of the moment. Parliament has just appropriated $283,000,000 for neAv cruisers. Britain sees a neAV armaments race beginning and has no intention of being left behind. She has serA'ed notice on the Avorld and sundry that neither at sea nor in the air does she intend to be at a disadvantage. This Britain has done in the very face of President Coolidge’s second arms limitation conference Avhich he hopes to call soon. If the conference is called, Britain will come prepared to trade all or part of her $283,000,009 Avorth of brand neiv Avarships (still on paper, _ though they are) for some advantage. If there is no conference, her natioonal defense remains intact. That is statesmanship. Ready, whichever way the cat jumps. Our position is altogether different. On the eve of inviting the other poAvers to Washington, we naively notify everybody that no matter what others may do we, at least, will not increase our armament. Which leaves us Avith nothing to trade on, nothing to give up in exchange for Avhat Are propose to ask the others to cede. Britain’s strategic position is perfect. She is like a poker player xvho has contrived to let his opponents see four of his cards, all clubs. As he calls for one more he may hold a royal flush or a mere bob-tail. But that is Britain’s secret. Our cards are face up on the table. We haven t e\ T en a pair of deuces to draAV to and everybody knoAvs it. We can’t even bluff—and that’s 90 per cent of successful diplomacy. It does seem a pity that about the only thing British we can successfully copy is the cut of their pants. Standard Oil Company of Indiana has just declared a dividend. Are xve to expect another boost in the price of gasoline? # # m A lIOOSIER just returning from Florida tells of mosquitoes so big they can stand alongside a quart bottle and drink out of it. # # # SPARKS of Avar flare in Balkans—headlines. Let s hope there is no poAvder keg in the neighborhood.

understand, either, but one morning he awoke to find that he was no longer the lord of the universe and that he couldn’t wander too far from shore without giving explanations. And pretty soon there were a lot of little Blobs and the seas began to get crowded and they needed traffic cops and blue law’s and reforms. Now v/e are approaching modern times —only some millions of years ago. (Tomorrow —The First Undertakers) Prisons To The Editor of The Times: I feel it my duty to congratulate your paper upon the editorial article in your colums of July 31st headed “No More Room in Our Prisons.” It is very serious that three of our Federal prisons have nearly a 200 per cent increase since 1913, compared with the fact chat England and Wales (as reported by United States Consul) since 1914 has closed practically one-third of their prisons. This fact surely is proof that the Volstead act should be modified. A temperance law based on common sense wdth reasonable personal liberties permitting mild beer would increase contentment and almost put an end to bootlegging and materially relieve the growing dangerous. Socialism.,-, jl George J. Marott.

A Thought V hat? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?—l Corinthians 6, 19. * * * SHESE limbs; W’hence had w r e \ them—this stormy force, this life blood with ita burning force? They are dust and shadow— j a shadow system gathered around j our me; wherein, through some j moments or years, the divine essence is to be revealed in the flesh.— Carlyle. Tom Sims Says Make a mousetrap better than thy neighbor and all the cheese salesmen j will flock to thy door. We were anxious to see the first signs of summer and we will be just as anxious to see the last signs. Wouldn’t it be fine to beau Eskimo’s hubby and sit around the* house on a big cake of ice. If brevity were the soul of wit you could chuckle yourself to death at a bunch of bathing suits. Some men have gotten along so well in business they have to wear their coats ail day. One improvement in modern cooking is wife hits hubby with a can opener Instead of a rolling pin. Flying around too much isn’t guaranteed to make you an angel. People who live in bathing suits should not eat too much.

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PREDICTS NEW ICE AGE ON EARTH IN 20,000 YEARS

Ity David Diet/. M'i Service Writer mHE world will be In the grip of another great ice ago or glacial epoch in 20 000 years. That is the prediction of L'lsworth Huntington, famed geograpi. •*, explorer, and research associate of Yale University. * Dr. Huntington has recently been conducting investigations to find’out if daily variations in the sun’s output of energy might not be caused by the positions of the planets. Then, it occurred to him that longperiod variations in the sun might be caused by the positions of the stars. Dr. Huntington believes that the planets influence the sun by reflecting part of the sun's electrical radiations back into the sun. The stars, of course, would affect the sun by the influence of their own radiations, for the stars send out light, heat and electrical radiations just as our own sun does. Scientists agree that one of the most likely causes of a glacial age would be a falling off in the energy radiated by the sun. Such a falling off might take place

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

NO INCREASE IN PRISON POPULATION mNDIANA’S prison population is less than it was eight years ago. The daily average of inmates in the State’s four adult penal and correctional institutions in the year 1924 was 3,296, according to official' reports recently published. In 1917 the daily average in the four institutions—State Prison,

Woman’s Prison,, Reformatory and State Farm was 3,321. Right there is a large part of the answer to the crime wave that now afflicts Indianapolis and other Hoosier cities — and keeps police chiefs and sheriffs picking fretfully at their coverlets o’ nights. A dozen • crimes of viol-

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ence against persons and property arc now committed in the State to one eight years ago. Burglaries, hold-ups, bank robberies and automobile thefts have become ordinary incidents of the day like the rising and setting of the sun. Some of the perpetrators are caught and brought to trial —as large a percentage as eight years ago. Peace officers and police are just as active and efficient now as then, neither better nor worse. But despite the increase in crimes, criminals, arrests and trials, fewer malefactors actually served time, for their misdeeds in 1924 than in 1917. Soft humanitarianism may decry imprisonment for offenses against society as barbarous. But it is fear |of punishment not moral homilies that restrains prospective criminals. The surest way to reduce Indiana’s crime wave is to swell Indiana’s prison population.

A LASTING MONUMENT IDWARD RECTOR, native Hoosier, for many years a i prominent lawyer in Chicago, who died the other day, will need- neither granite shaft nor marble tomb to perpetuate his memory. In his lifetime he built a better, more lasting monument. He was one of the greatest friends and benefactors of DePauw university. To that institution he gave more than $1,0d0,000 in buildings and scholarships. Be Pauw university may crumble to dust, the tooth of time may gnaw the buildings he gave the institution, but the scholarships he established will form an imperishable monument. Because of his generosity, hundreds of young men, poor, but ambitious, will get college educations and perhaps opportunities for broader, more useful lives, which otherwise might be denied them. Rich men occasionally die —like ordinary folks—and leave stately sums to charity, hospitals, art and whatnot. Such philanthropy is commendable. But the man who invests in young people, who makes it possible for many youths to obtain education, makes a permanent contribution to the beterment of his country. His monument lives. INDIANA’S SWEET TOOTH ARLES O. YOST. State Isl apiary inspector, predicts J that the honey crop in Indiana this season will not exceed 4,000,000 pounds, because of adverse weather conditions. This season's output will be about half a normal crop. But Indiana's sweet tooth won’t suffer because of the shortage. We have sugar. From the Garden of Eden to the eighteenth century honey was an important human food product. It formed the principal source of sweetening that the human palate craves. The psalmist who sang of a land “flowing with milk and honey” pictured the acme of fat Jiving. No luxury-loving Greek nor epicurean Roman emperor ever tasted sugar—the staple commodity cf every American cross-roads grocery store. Only within the past century has sugar become plenti-

if the sun was subjected to the bombardment of electrical rays. Accordingly he asked two t well known astronomers, Dr. Schlassinger of Yale and Dr. Shapley of Harvard, to help him compute the courses of the nearest thirty-eight stars for the last 70,000 years and the coming 70,000 years. The calculations show that five of these stars reached their closest to our sun 25,000 years ago. That was the time when the last ice age took place. The calculations show further that seven of the stars will reach their closest positions to our sun sometime between 17,000 and 34,000 years in the future. That is why Dr. Huntington predicts another ice age In 20,000 years. M 1 ”—"I AJ. F. S. FOAVLER, in a lecture to the London Zoou. logical Society, reported that a European catfish in the private aquarium of the Duke of Bedford is now 50 years old. This however, is believed to be an unusual age for a fish. Major Fowler gives these figures as averages: carp, 13 years, gold fish, 12, brown trout, 6, herring, 4.

ful, cheap and universally used--although it appeared in Europe two or three centuries earlier as a rare and costly drug prescribed as medicine. Nevertheless, honey, though now ousted from its position as an essential food, is still an esteemed delicacy, and commands a high price and a ready market. Honey produced by Indiana bees last year brought the farmers of the State approximately $2,000,000. So a shortage in this year’s crop will take real money out of Hoosier pockets. , Despite the use of sugar the bee is still an important member of society. One irascible bee imprisoned between the farmer’s shirt and his person raises only blazing bumps and smoking blasphemy. But a few hives of bees in the farmer’s orchard labor manfully to raise the mortgage. THE MOTORIST’S GREAT DANGER O’ NLY seven Hoosiers were killed and a dozen injured i__in automobile accidents Sunday. A fairly uneventful weekend, but the record showst that railroad crossings and careless drivers were on the job as usual. Almost every Sabbath is an interesting and profitable day for Indiana morticians and hospitals. Many Hoosiers, on the Sabbath, instead of spending the day in rest and meditation on spiritual matters go out and meet eternity face to face at a grade crossing or under the wreckage of their automobiles. A few months ago an explosion in a coal mine at Sullivan cost the lives of fifty-one miners. It was the greatest mine disaster in the history of Indiana. The-State was appalled. Public officials and technical experts studied every phase of the catastrophe hoping to devise safeguards to prevent a. repetition of the disaster. Yet In a dozen summer Sundays more persons lose their lives in automobile accidents on Indiana highways than in the State's greatest mine disaster. The weekly toll attracts hardly passing notice. 1 Scarcely a single one of these fatalities is due to the failure or defect of the - automobile mechanism. Almost every accident proves the mechanical perfection of the motor car and mental inperfections of Its driver. No automatic safety devices at grade crossings, warning signs at dangerous points on the roads, nor speed laws and driving regulations will lessen the accidents. Foolhardy drivers will continue to Ignore them all—until something haprens and they are spewed all over the highway In complete devastation. The motorist’s greatest danger is not on the highway, but in himself. He alone can make Sunday driving safe.

Over the Phone By Ha! Cochran At'"" LOT of the gossip and news that is known starts out on —I Its rounds o’er the wires of the phone. When business, or pleasure or any old thing, we’re achin' to tell, we give borne one a ring. “Well, how are you, kidlets, and how have you been? They tell me you've taken to bridge. Do you win? I'm using massages to clear up my brow.” It's mother who’s doing the talking right now. “Hello, this the boss? Well, I'm absent today. I’ve got an old headache that won’t go away. You’ll have to /orgive me for slippin’ a cog.” You know who that is—why, it's some one’s steno<”. "Yes, this is youi sweetie. I've waited your call. Remember your promise last night, ir the hall? You said if you loved me, you’d gladly confess.” s The voice of the modern day flapper, I guess. "Hello, there, friend wife! I’m delayed at my work. You know you’d object if you thought that I’d shirk. I’m buried in letters away out of sight.” And father is missing from supper that night. The messages come and the messages go, and they bring quite a flock of the things that we know. There’s gladness and sadness, in all sorts of tone through the chatter that flows every day on the phone. (Copyright, 1925, NBA Service, Inc.) Two can live steeper than one. Many a good beau plays second fiddle. % Many a hard-boiled egg gets cracked.

W* WELL I SEE THEY’RE I SUPPOSE I MIGHT JO/N IN THE ITO CUT DOWN THE SUPERTAXES INSTEAD 4§ O-IEERINf! IF MY INCOME FiqURE. lOF WIPING OUT THOSE HANG-OVER H LOOKED LIKE THE NEW YORK CENSUS I JarZls? WAT’IL <sive US I BUT AS .T .S >T MEANS LESS ro. Mt, I little fellows as much relief, | THAN A PARACWTfe DO6STO A H AS A BOX OF SNUFF* WOULD BE , l lt t -‘LA J

B r FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE- Iff THEN STOP SATISFIED 1 yOU CRITICIZE THE „ BRAVINO SO j ITMAT WE SMALL COUNTRV LIKE A WOMAN MUCH AND SAID I | THAT WBj I 1 CRITICIZES HER DAUGHTER- SHOW A LITTIE SATISFIED- I AWE QOINqTO GET J A -4 YOU’RE NEVER J V icVmnrrf CONTENTED 1 OUT THAT DOESNTI SATISFIED.' y. M "" # MAKE: MB

‘How Do You Do’ Girl and Eleven Other Radio Stars Have Splendid Variety Act

By Walter D. Hickman |—=“| OMETIMES a city can be “kidded” into doing something and it may work this’ time. Kdna Salomon, known as tho original “How Do You Do” girl, is saying “How Do You Do" to Indianapolis this week. Sho is one of the radio stars who are appearing in one of the most

unique and satisfying vaudeville acts before the public today. She “kids” the old town on tho courthouse and maintains that old King Tut knew thiis building and allows that it probably came over on Noah's Ark. Miss Salamon, it is claimed

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by those who know their radio, is mighty popular on the air. To ftie she is a remarkably fine specialty artist who knows how to put over a tropical song. I know she is an accepted hit on the radio and she is equally as successful on the stage. Miss Salamon is presented this week at the Lyric with the Twelve Radio Stars, composed of men and women who have become famous over the air. Here is a wonderfully fine collection of talent. These people are not false alarms. I am sure that a radio star fits in much better on the speaking stage than many movie actors who attempt to brave public appearances. The man who mounted this hadio act is a mighty fine showman. He sells this act every second It is on the stage. Individual talent combined with splendid directorial ability makes this act one of the real variety sensations of the day. "Ukulele” Earl is a comedian who handles a wicked "uke” with topical songs. It is hard to get the act going after he does his stuff. Among the others, present and every member of this organization is specially talented) Includes John Sullivan, Irish tenor; Esther Joy, known as Michigan's swdetheart; Miller and Rainey, comics; Tranger and Georgette, novelty team: Jom O’Hara, Florence Frey, soprano soloist; Paul Earl, announcer, and Nobel Watson, operator. The use of a loud speaker, rigged up in the auditorium proper, gives this act an added novelty touch. And they know how to handle lights. It certainly is good to see vaudeville using lights properly. I know that I haven't gone wild, but I am so enthusiastic over the talent of these radio stars that I shout from the housetops: “Don't dare to miss this vaudeville treat.” And the remainder of the bill also discloses some real talent. Bernet and Clark have an eccentric comedy offering which is full of surprises. Both members of this team know the value of individual material. Splendid funmakers. The Hawaiian quartet is just what the name implies. The Four Wordens, a family act, do some dancing. Louis and Frieda Berkoff have been at the Murat with the Greenwich Village Follies. A highly trained team in certain lines of stepping. At the Lyric all week. •I- ’l’ I* I/JOKING OVER NEW FACES AT PALACE There are lots and lots of nut acts, which mean a vaudeville act performing a certain kind of more or less insane hokum comedy. But the nuttiest and one of the funniest of them all is at the Palace the first half of the week. It is done by Charles Wilson, who bills himnelf “The Loose Nut,” and an unprogrammed assistant, who is still nuttier. They hand out the sort of comedy that makes the audience almost cry for’more. Versatile, too. Wilson playo* the violin while the assistant nut stopped the show with a comedy dance and struma the ukelele. You can’t help liking these boys. Olliene Terry and company offer a neat and pretty dance v.evue. The

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Esther Joy They call her in radio language “Michigan’s Sweetheart.” She Is In person in a great act at tho Lyric this week.

company of four girls dance well In unison while Miss Terry offers some interesting special tie®. Elsie Clark lias a good routine of comedy blue songs and knows how to sell them to her audience. The Five Petleys, one of them a real comedian, present a fast aerial turn. Jack and Claire McMahon open the show with an exhibition of rapid fire bag punching. ' Tho movie feature is "My Wife and I,” starringllreno Rich. At the Palace today and Wednesday.—(By Observer.) •I- -I- -IBERK ELL PLAYERS DO MIGHTY WELL IN MYSTERY When the current season of the Berkell Players is over at English's the public will include “In the Next Room,” among the best entertain' ment that they have given. In the first place, two sets which would have done credit to a touring

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Again this week it is Tommy Evans who walks away with much of the honor of fine acting. His French count characterization is done with charm and ease. I tell you that this man is nn actor of much ability. To’ my way of thinking he is one of the most satisfactory actors we have had In stock since I have been telling you about shows. Alexander Campbell comes through with some highly convincing work. F.dythe Elliott does some good emotional work, mighty satisfactory. This woman certainly knows how to dress and how to wear ’em. Milton Byron has lot to say and do in this play. Satisfactory. Nearly forgot to tell you that A1 C. Wilson, who has lot to do in the first act, gives a performance of charm and strength. The cast is as follows: Park* Robert Bt. Clair Lorna Webster Etlythc klliott l’htlin Vanline Al C. Wilson .fame* Godfrey Milton Byron Borer* Larry Sullivan Felix Armand T-'miiiv Kvsns Inspector Giady Alexander Campbell Simmomls William V, Hull Julia . . . ... IdabeJlr Arnold Mme. De Charrlere Marv Hill Colonel Pirxott At English’s all week. • • • SEASON OPENS AT THE BROADWAY The Broadway reopens this week with anew policy. The present pro-

gram consists of a miniature musical comedy and feature movie with three shows dally. Mary Brown ahd her Tropical Maids are presenting the musical comedy end of the performance, Miss Brown Is a clever comedienne and Doc. Paul, featured with her, is a capable comic fur this sort of show. A peppy chorus helps speed tho show. Tho performance Sunday night was absolutely clean. If they stick to this sort of show they should bo able to build up a good audience In Indianapolis, "Virtue's Ilevolt,” Is tho movie. Bill changes Thursday. (By Observer,j •I- *1- -I’ Other theaters today offer: “Night Life in New York,” at the Apollo; “Mor Hater From P*rta," it tiu< Circle: “The Teaser," at the Colonial; "Pretty Ladles,” at the Ohio, and "South of tho Kquator,” at the Isis.

Stage Verdict Lyric—ln presenting tho Twelve Radio Stars the Lyric has one of the finest variety novelties before tho public today. Palace—The entire bill stacks up ns good entertainment. English’s—The Berkell Players find “In the Next Room” a highly interesting vehicle. Well acted and splendidly mounted. Brondwayi—Now In its first week of anew policy.

Ask The Times You can fat an answer to any quo* tlon of tact ur information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Wash Inton, D. 0.. Inclosing 2 cent* in stamps (or rrply. Medical, legal ami marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended reeearcli b undertaken All other question* will receive a per ■ona! reply. Unsigned request* cannot be answered. 411 letters are eonßdeo tlal.—Editor, Os tho total number of mala population of the Unltod States, how many nro married or have been married? According to the latest available census figures, of the 36,920,663 men and hoys In the United States over fifteen years of age, 12,967,565 were single, 21,849,266 were married, 1,758,808 were widowed, 235,284 were divorced and for the remaining 110,240 the marital condition was not ascertained by the enumerators. Did Darwin teach that man was descended from a monkey? No. The belief offered in 1844 by Darwin nnd several other Brltlah scientists was that study of various biological, fossil, nnd other data, collected by them, indicated that reptiles wero developed from fish, and birds from reptiles; that all nature develops in an orderly way, everything moving from a simple to a complex state. That is. Instead of each of thousands of kinds of animals, Insects, birds, fish and reptiles being made separately, they, came into being through gradual changes. Scientists of this school held nlfto that man took part in this general scheme. Darwin said that sclent lfio facts indicate that man's nearest kin was the Old World monkey. But he added, "we must not fall Into the error of supposing that the earthly progenitor .of this whole elmlnn stock, Including man, closely resembles existing apes or monkeys. What evolutlort shows 1* thnt the five great vertebrae classes—the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphlblane and fishes, are descended from one prototype—probably a fish " Is there any estimate as to the number of common pins used annually In the United States? How many factories are engaged in making them In this country? More than 20,000,000.000 pins are used in the United States annually or about 200 per capita. Ten large factories are engaged in their manufacturer. Is Martha Finley, the author of the Elsie Books, still living? She died In 1909.

company has been used. Eddie Eddie, who designs tho sets, has a nice regard to good taste. The fact is he designs sets which corresponds to the idea of the location of the story. The furniture has also been chosen In good taste, in fact the show is well dressed this week. Give the Bcrkell Players a chance, meaning a play with merit, and they will do well with it.