Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 309, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ISOY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-lloward Newspaper Alliance * * * client of the United Press and the NEA Service * • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily 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 2500.

No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana.

A BEVERIDGE TEST ' “The only remedy for foolish and hurtful legislation is to choose our lawmakers with greater care and judgment. It all comes down to that in the end. "If we continue to elect professional politicians whose chief concern is re-election, we shall continue to have bad laws and stupid laws and an increasing number of them. “Such politician-legislators count on stolid party inertia to give them the so-called ‘party vote, and strive to .get additional votes from those who clamor for the passage of unworkable laws as the price of their support; and thus to secure re-election, which is all that such men care about. “Or they will take orders from special interests who furnish campaign funds, and support nonpublic measures, often without knowing the meaning or effect of those measures. “Indeed, legislation by the paid agents of evil and secret forces —-which I once called ‘the Invisible Government’ —Is worse than that by the tools of the little groups insisting on the execution of fixed ideas. “An open demagogue is better a bought-and-pakl-for puppet who performs when his concealed owner pulls the strings.” Here is warning Issued by Albert J. Beveridge, former Senator from this State, in his address to the lawyers of three States. It was a general warning, but if it is to be of use, it must be applied by the voter to the specific poli-tician-legislator when lie appears and asks for nomination or election. If you were to apply the test in Indiana at this time, what name would first suggest itself to your mind? Your are right, of course, and fortunately there is written into the records of the Government sworn testimony which may serve as guide to support your more than suspicion. During the two years that Senator Watson lias not held public office, he sold his services to an organization which was intent upon obtaining special legislation of a sort that would be capitalized into real dollars. His activities were so bold and so unusual that a select committee of Congress made a very lengthy investigation, a chapter of history known as the Mulhall investigation which had for its purpose a disclosure of the secret influences and agents which dominated legislation in Congress. Watson, then testifying before this committee, swore that lie had made this bargain: “My agreement with these gentlemen, as I recall it, was for a SSOO retainer and $250 a week and expenses while I could be of service to them. He had just left his seat in Congress. He immediately returned as the paid agent of special interests. If you doubt your own judgment on the matter of the propriety of what lie did, take the record of the select committee, composed in the majority of members of his own party, who made this report: "The committee questions the propriety of one who has been a member of Congress and attaining a personal and political influence capitalizing that influence in pressing legislative proposition upon Congress for hire by personal contact and personal efforts with members, as was done in this case, and we confess to a feeling of regret that upon any question whatsoever Its merits, a lobbyist for it should he able to say as Mr. Watson said in this case (p. 2571), "[ had various members*of Congress coming to report to me about how their delegations stood.” That is the record of Watson written by members of Congress. It reveals his statesmanship of which so much has been said. It discloses him as a man who capitalized the trust imposed in him by his neighbors, as soon as he no longer could obtain office. Read once more what Senator Beveridge, known for his ideals of public service, lias to say of the secret agents of selfish interests. Read what a committee of Congress says about Watson. if you apply the test laid down by Beveridge, what must be your verdict on Watson?

LET’S FIND THE FACTS There is one member of the Senate subcommittee now considering bills to amend the Volstead act toward whom this newspaper looks with some hope. That member is Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. Senator Walsh opposed the holding of the hearings just concluded. A practical sort of person, he knew that the present Congress is not one that will vote to make the Volstead act less stringent. For that reason, he believed the holding of public hearings would be a waste of the Senators’ time. Since, however, Senator Walsh is a reasonable as well as a practical person, it is unthinkable that he has not been impressed by the evidence laid before the committee. Senator Walsh’s well deserved reputation as a statesman rests on two outstanding qualities. One, of course, is his moral courage. Another —though this may sound contradictory—is his caution. The man who has led more than one forlorn hope to triumphant victory readily qualifies as courageous, but, at first thought, hardly as cautious. Yet Walsh is cautious. It is his caution that has given him his pre-eminent place on the Democratic side of the chamber. The man who stormed the very citadel of entrenched privilege, who ripped through the wire entanglements of wealth and political power surrounding Teapot Dome, who destroyed two members of a President’s cabinet and put two of the Nation’s wealthiest men on trial in criminal court, is really a cautious man. The man who fought the Department of Justice, with its complete control over the machinery of the law, fought it from Washington to Montana and hack again, and fought it successfully, to win the vindication of his younger colleague, is a cautious, not a reckless, foolhardy man. There is a cool brain behind his courage. Walsh has courage, born of a passion for justice. He hap caution, born of a passion for facts. The latter quality has been as much responsible for his success as the former. • For every stirring campaign in which Walsh has enlisted has followed long, careful, painstaking investigation of the facts by himself. Walsh, as a member of the Senate subcommit-

tee, has had to listen to an overwhelming mass of conflicting statements concerning condition resulting from national prohibition. He has heard men of the highest repute and of unimpeachable motives relate their reasons for thinking some change must be made. Able, through long experience as a jurist, to brush aside as chaff much testimony from professional wets and professional drys, he surely hasn’t been able to do the same in the case of other witnesses. And it is inconceivable that what he has heard has not convinced him that prohibition is a matter that should be investigated. Mayor Dever of whose earnest efforts to enforce prohibition along with the other laws in his city have not been challenged, reports himself baffled at every turn by conditions resulting from this one law. That situation must have appealed to Senator Walsh’s understanding. He is interested, as a public man, in many important issues, foreign and domestic, political, economic and social. He finds himself caught continually, however, between the forces that want prohibition and the forces that don't, both forces so concerned by their feelings as to have no views on matters which he must regard as, after all, more important. He must recognize that, while it remains unsettle-!? the prohibition question is a destructive element in national affairs. Mayor Dever offers a solution. It is one that ought to appeal to Senator Walsh. “What is needed," said Mayor Dever to the subcommittee, “is patient, courageous, intelligent, tolerant study of the whole problem. We must have such a study and we must act on it, to avert chaos.” * • • We have said we believe this suggestion will appeal to Senator Walsh. We hope it will and for this i reason: Senator Walsh is the man to offer in the Senate a resolution providing for such an innvestigation, an I investigation that will be non-partisan and unbiased, an investigation that will lie thorough and complete. This said because it is usual for the Senator offering such a resolution to be named on any committee ap-' pointed. And Walsh on such a committee, whether chairman or not, would guarantee the thoroughness of the investigation. Let's find the facts. - This newspaper holds a different view of prohibition from that-now held by the Montana Senator. But it would welcome the facts uncovered by a com- ! mittee headed by himself. And it believes the in-! telligent, reasonable people of the country, who must , be the majority, would do the same. On the facts, so found, a safe course for the country can be charted.

MONKEY WRENCHES FOR MEXICO , Since that day nearly a year ago when Secretary of State Kellogg grabbed a thunderbolt out of a clear sky and hurled it at unsuspecting Mexico, we’ve heard a deal, pro and con, about this southern neighbor of ours, particularly con. I he reason Is we have with us always a little but loud chorus of “interventionists,” who sing high or sing low according to the way the baton twings. And the Kelloggian gesture of 1925 warning Mexico to watch her step or take the consequences, gave this chorus both its cue and its key. it has been singing ever since, with all Latin America looking on with misgivings and attendant animadversion. Seeing the trend,,and inundated by conflicting propaganda, a committee of Americans decided to visit Mexico and investigate for Itself. Among those who went along were former Governor William Sweet of Colorado, Rabbi Epingliam Frish of Texas, Rev. John Herring of the Federal Council of Churches, and Albert Coyle, representing American labor. Returning to the States the committee made its report. Boiled down, it read: “Hauds off Mexico." President Calles, the committee says, is doing his best to improve the material, spiritual and eco nonib' welfare of his people, Americans cannot realize the magnitude of this task because conditions in our country are so different. There is no need to go into details of the report, in substance it asks the United States to be patient and give Mexico a chance. She has a big job on her hands, is doing pretty well, considering, and bids fair to do it even better if we will chip In with a little help, now and then, instead of monkey wrenches.

WHAT EVERY MAN KNOWS B.V Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Society women are going into the professions, says a pessimistic news dispatch. Yet why deplore anything so progressive, so sensible’as that? • We are beginning to relinquish the idea that leisure and luxury for women is the acme of happiness. When we shall have dropped it entirely we shall be a more contented sex. All current fiction, all plays "and movies, all newspaper stories, all fairy tales, infer that woman’s sole desired goal is marriage with some rich and gifted man and a life of perpetual idleness. This is one reason why so many splendid business girls still sometimes look with distaste upon their work while they dream of being social leader of the country club set. Never,' until they reach that envied position, do they realize how overestimated it may be. Women, like men, were born to be happy at their jobs. Once these included only the tasks, of home; today they encompass all the arts and crafts. The very fact that women nre daily deserting their social routine to take up something which calls for real work is sufficient proof that the inanities of life always pall and that good strong effort is more fascinating than the frivolities. For no matter how we may strive for the aim of “nothing to do and nothing to worry about,” we can never get away from the fact that work is the finest thing in life and that idleness is its most woeful curse. Women who have been thrust into Inane existences by circumstance and prejudice are getting their eyes open at last. They are coming to comprehend dimly that there is more real satisfaction, more thrill, more wholesome enjoyment in the daily grind of work than is ever to be found in teas or receptions or bridges. When all women grasp the truth of this—a truth which most men have always known—we shall have fewer bad marriages and women ■will glean something finer from lii'o than they ever have had before.

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Abe Lyman Will Step From Brunswick Record to Dance Floor for One Night

By Walter D. Hickman A noted Brunswick orchestra, the Abe byman Orchestra, will step from the record on to the dance floor. Meaning that Lyman and his hot hooffing melody orchestra will play for a dance at Riverside Dance Palace Thursday night. Lyman, although closely associated with Brunswick records, has appeared In Cocoanut Grove, the Ambassador Hotel, Bos Angeles. Cal. In Chicago he has been heard over the radio and appeared for many months at the College Inn in that city. Lyman’s new Brunswick record Is called “After I Say I'm Sorry” and "Shako That Thing.” The “thing” music Is one of those mighty hot dance things which makes a man forget the time of day. To some peoplo this number, when sung, may have n dash of scarlet In it. I rather took to this tune and oven the lyrics when I first heard this number. I.yman has a mighty warm arrangement of this number. Am told by those interested in 1 scattering Brunswick records in every home that Lyman's "After I Suy I'm Sorry” is one of the best sellers in Indianapolis just now. Anyway, Indianapolis will get a chance to see Lyman and his orchestra Thursday night manufacture this hot dance music which has made him and his organization famous. Brunswick announces the following Lyman records in addition to the one I have called special attention to: "Nothing Else To Do” and "Too Bad.” “Tenderly” and" Let's Talk About My Sweetie:" "Pretending" and “Everybody Stomp;” “Mighty Blue" and “That’s All There Is;” “King a Song" and “With You, Dear, in Bombay;” "Could You Care For Me” and "Somebody Tells Me That One Is You;” "You're the Certain Someone” and “Sally's (Jot the Blues:” "I j Want You Bad, < >id Pal” and Cocanut Trot;" “When I Was the Dandy and You Were the Belle” and "Any Way the Wind Blows;” “Romany Days" and “A New Kind of Man;"

IN INDIANA

RIGHT HERE

AN EXPENSIVE CHICKEN Madame Paderewski, wife of the famous pianist, lias just paid S3OO for a Hoosier chicken, a White l Wyandotte cockerel. The bird will be shipped to the Paderewskis' estate in Switzerland, where they are engaged In chicken raising on a large scale. Three hundred dollars for a single fowl! That sounds like restaurant prices. We knew we had some expensive chickens In Indiana. hut we thought they were on city streets not down on the poultry farms. Is any chicken worth $300? Probably not for ala king or ala Maryland purposes. Perhaps so, for breeding purposes. Like breeds like, according to the old axiom. But It doesn’t — not exactly. It Is because some individuals are better, stronger, more productive or more immune to disease than their progenitors, and transmit these desirable characteristics to their offspring, that poultry, cattle and plant breeders are able to develop improved strains and new varieties. The sort of chicken that sells now for S3OO is nothing like its distant ancestor that was in the ark. By scientific breeding it has become an entirely different species. Is that evolution, oh what?

A RAILROAD PROBLEM Protests against the proposed abandonment of tho line of the Central Indiana Railroad, the Midland, between Muncle and Waveland Junction, will be heard Monday by the public service commission at the request of tho interstate commerce commission, For fifty years the Midland, whlMi strays uncertainly over the Hoosier landscape, has been operated at a loss. It has slunk dejectedly from receivership to receivership. The present owners, the Big Four and Pennsylvania, unable to make it pay operating expenses, want to tear up the tracks and quit. But sixteen thriving Indiana towns and villages would be deprived of shipping facilities if tho line is abandoned. Grain elevators, brick plants and other Industries would be left high and dry. Doubtless tho shippers’ protests should have weight with tho Interstate commerce commission, but why should the owners of an unprofitable railroad be compelled to keep on losing Phoney? Y'et even the money-losing branch line railroad can’t die without permission of the Commission. So here Is a nice, knotty little railroad problem. To abandon or not to abandon. Perhaps the Jovian intellects at Washington can solve it to the satisfaction of both sides. But if you are an ordinary citizen and want to keep from growing old try operating an unprofitable branch line railroad in these highly regulated days.

OUT OF • NOTHING Cancer, says a French scientist, is due to an abnormal form of mildew. This bacteria of other diseases such as typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis, claims this investigator, are derived from animal and vegetable mildews. All animal and vegetable organisms in his views are nothing but highly developed mildew. In scientific language mildew is any ascomycetus parasitic fungus of the order of perisporiales. Horrid creatures, aren’t they? But they are not as imposing and large as their names. They are just the simplest Hying cells. So now science says that though you may bo an upright, industrious domesticated Hoosier, you are essentially only a glorified chunk of mildew. But that isn't the worst of it. Physicists say all matter Is com-

Beautiful Act With Circus

One of the most beautiful acts on the entire program of the Sells-Floto circus and Buffalo Bill Wild West Is that the "All Equine Marble Models" in which half a dozen white horses are among the principals. The remarkable training of these animals leads one to marvel as to just how far It Is posible to go in the training of horses. Each one in this act is handled by a young woman, two of whom are shown above. They are Misses Mildred Aylesworth and Helen Young, expert horse- “ Mandalay” and “Sweet Little Y'ou." You will find nearly all of Lyman’s records most suitable for dancing. He knows how to manufacture the music that keeps the feet moving. Columbia is making much out of

By GAYLORD NELSON

posed of atoms. An atom consists, according to them, of a positive charge of electricity with a number of negative charges circling around it. The only difference between an atom of gold and an atom of mush Is In the size of the positive nucleus anti the number of circling negative charges. And electricity is nothing but energy. So an atom Is simply a small piece of nothing with a streak of ambition in it. And we are made up of atoms. Oh. for the good old days when men were men.

A PRISON COCKTAIL

One convict is dead and three others are In a serious condition in the Ohio State Penitentiary us a result of drinking a soap solution purloined from the prison laundry. With the soap solution, which contained wood alcohol, and fruit juices salvaged from cans taken from the prison kitchen refuse, they mixed a prison cocktail of power and authority. The concoction must have l>een a tasty beverage with a fragrant bouquet. Ugh! Hut they drank it with avidity. It had the kick. And the kick is the thing. Wets, damps and personal liberty advocates argue loudly that, if wholesome beverages of small alcohoioc content were available, most drinkers would be satislied. There would be marked decrease in the consumption of hard liquor and poisonous concoctions. They stress the theory that intoxication is not the aim of most drinkers. They drink for refreshment, conviviality and to gratify the palate. The theory sounds plausible. But what of the eager thirsts that, since prohibition has Interfered with their accustomed Jolts of regular liquor, have turned joyfully to lemon extract, hair tonic, varnish, canned heat, anti-freez-ing compounds, gasoline and distilled solutions of rubber boots? Are they drinking for refreshment., conviviality, and for taste? Will fellows who guzzle cocktails fabricated from soap solution and garbage be satisfied with light wine and beer. ENDLESS CHAIN SELLING SCHEMES Sale of gasoline or oil coupons under an "endless chain selling scheme” is within the control of the State Securities Commission, holds Attorney General Gilliom. So anofher glittering plan to separate Hoosiers from their money strikes a snag. The free gas and oil coupon plan which has appeared in Indiana is simple. The concern promoting it offers to give an individual a coupon book good for $9 worth of gas and oil for payment of $1 in cash. All the purchaser has to do is to sell three of the dollar certificates to three other persons, each of whom must sell three certificates to three friends. Then the original $1 investor gets his $9 book free. Very simple and easy. Who hasn’t three friends to whom they can sell coupons? But it’s not so easy. The concern promoting the scheme isn’t giving anything away. If none of coupon purchasers fell by the wayside, starting with a single customer, at the fifteenth link of the endless chain coupon purchaser would have paid $21.523,329 to the company and would be entitled to gas and oil to the value of $7,174,449. There would be over 7,000,000 purchasers of coupons. And Indina only has a population of 3,000,000. If you want free gas and oil don’t seek It by trying to beat a geometrical progression game. You might better- shoot craps* or drill your own oil well. Occasionally Lady Luck permits you to win at those gamea.

women. The same young women api*ear in charge of two of the thirty dancing horses later on the program. Other young women who appear In “All Equine Marble Models” scene are Misses Golden Caress, Rose Collier, Anette Hosford and Edna Jenney. With the circus also is the famous “Poodles” Hannaford, noted riding comedian in the world. The circus will be here FYiday.

the recent desire of the public for familiar tunes. They are releasing these now with recognized artists in the "singing cast.” Columbia’s new list of such tunes include: “You'll Be Surprised." “I'll Never Get Drunk Anv More." VivaU. Klley Puekett. “The Boston Burglar." "The Orphan Girl. Vocals Ililey Puckett. "My Mother's Oit Red Shawl.” “Down on the Kami." Vocals. Vernon Dalhart "The Prisoner s Song." Ain't Ya rVir-on Oof Tonight?" Tenor solos. Vernon Dalhart. . r - k of the Shenandoah." “Stone Mountain Memorial." Tenor solos. Vernon Dalhart. "The Engineer's Dying Child." “Senteneed to bite Behind Those Gray Walls." Vo i AI Crnver. "The Unknown Soldier's Grave." “My Little Home in Tennessee.” Vocals. A1 Crnv<r. "The Death of Flovd Collins.” '"Little Mary Phagen." Voenls. A! Craver. Indianapolis t lieu tors today offer: "Silence” the lterkell Players at English's; “Mitzl'’ at the Lyric; “Rhythms of Dance Lund” at the Palace; Roy Cummings at Keith's; Get Married” at the Ohio; "Beverly of Graustark” at the Apollo; "Sandy” at the Colonial: "With Sitting Bull nt the Spring Lake Massacre” at the Isis; “Mike” and Francis Renault at the Circle, and burlesque at the Broadway.

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THE VERY IDEA!

■By Hal Cochran HIKING

A bit of real hiking is much to my liking. It does one a whole lot of good. Right out in the air, where the spirit is rare. If you haven't tried It, you should. Just put on old clothes. Go where each hiker goes and drink In of nature's rare scene. Get mud on your shoes, ’cause there’s nothing to lose. It’s fun —if you know what I mean. Go plodding along on the lilt of a song and imagine you’re feeling just great. Os course, if you’re aching, while lengthy walks taking, just call it the working of fate. Such a stroll, after all. If you answer the call, is whatever good fun you can make it. But, If offered a lift in a car, as a gift, just use your good judgment—and take it. • • * W<snan in Edgeworth, R, 1., celebrated her 100th birthday by continuing her daily stunt of taking three teaspoons of whisky. The last few years have been the hardest —to get it. ♦ * * It’s unforunate. in the touring season, when everybody in the family wants to go—but the car doesn’t. * * Teacher—-Now. give me a sentence using the words wooden shoes. Pupil—Wooden shoes let me go j home early today? * * * His bat was in position and He took a healthy swing. He lilt a foul that hit him back— Oh, hear the birdies sing. * * Absent Minded—The fellow who couldn’t find a certain corner ’cause he was standing on it. • • • A girl who is fired for kissing her employer can usually get another job if she tells why she was fired. * * When a traveling man eats crackers and milk you can't tell whether he's on a diet or commission. * * * He took his wife out golfing and Their game was really sad. The Mrs. couldn’t drive a hall, So drove her husband mad. • * * When you want a booze prescription filled, don’t tie up to a dry doc. * * • FABLES IN FACT • ONCE THERE WAS A LITTLE BI.T OF A FELLA WHO HAD AN ARGUMENT WITH A GREAT BIG GUY PERIOD BUT COMMA DID THE SIZE OF ■THE BIG GUY SCARE THE LITTLE FELLA QUESTION MARK I SHOULD SAY NOT EXCLAMATION MARK THE LITTLE FELLA TOLD THE 810, GUY JUST WHAT HE THOUGHT OF HIM COMMA AND WHEN THE BIG GUY STARTED TO TA LK BACK < '< >MMA THE LITTLE FELLOW JUST HUNG UP THE PHONE PERIOD (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

APRIL 28, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can cet an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1.T22 New York Ave., Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical. legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Where ami when was Eva Tanquay, the actress, born? Did she play on the stage when a child? She was born in Marbleton, Can ado., in August, 1878, and began her stage career in early childhood. How many walnuts can lie gathered front an acre of trees? What is the average yield per tree? The yield is estimated at from 800 to 1,000 pounds per acre. Under the best conditions it may r mount to as much as 3,000 pounds per acre. The average tree bears seventy-five pounds. How big is the universe? The diameter of our universe is estimated by Dr. Harlow Shapley of Harvard to exceed twelve quadrillion miles (twelve followed by fifteen zeros). Who was the first wife of Theodoro Roosevelt? Alice Hathaway Leo, the daughter of George Cabot Leo of Boston, Mass. Where are some of the largest railroad centers in the United States? | Four of the largest railroad centers in the United States are Chicago, New York, St. Louis and Toledo; thirty-three railroads enter Chicago, fifteen enter New York, twenty-four enter St. Paul and sixteen enter Toledo. What country had the largest army at the beginning and end of the World War? Great Britain. At the time of the famous “Boston Tea Party” in American history was tea sent to any port except Boston? If so what was done with it? ' When the British Imposed the famous tax on tea cargoes were sent to New York, Philadelphia, Charleston and Boston. The colonists in America opposed this tax, which was regarded as a direct infringement on their rights. The inhabitants of Charleston unloaded the tea and stored it in damp cellars, where it soon spoiled and could not be used. In Boston Harbor the famous “tea party” occurred and tho tea was dumped into tho harbor. How much land is controlled by tho United States Forest Service? 158,395,056 acres. From where does the name “Holdridge” come? It is of Anglo-Saxon origin and is a place name meaning "hollow ridge.”