Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1926 — Page 6

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LET US HOPE Let It be hoped that the three Negroes who will serve sentences for stealing SBO,OOO worth of whisky from the Federal Building entered the Jail on Monday chastened in spirit and conviced of the enormity of their crime. Avery high authority had announced that the theft of this whisky from the custody of the Government constituted a “shameful” incident. But the manner in which the case is closed does credit to the great heart of this Nation which ever holds mercy of highest importance and of greatest value. These men who confessed to taking away the whisky which the Government had taken from a very wicked distiller and who confessed also to selling it to wicked men who sold it to wicked citizens who drank it, were sentenced to prison on Saturday. One of them must spend four months in the county Jail for hjs part in this conspiracy. Another must spend six months in the same jail for his criminality. The third, who finally confessed to taking the larger share, must eventually go to Leavenworth for a year and a day. Sentenced on Saturday, the harshness of the law could not contemplate the spectacle of these three men spending Sunday behind bars. So in that fine spirit of mercy, which should always animate the hearts of men, they were permitted to go without guard and without bond until they could settle their private business, take farewell of their families, spend a Sunday at home, before entering * she darkness of the prison cell. They are there now, behind bars, so it is reported. , , They, and all others, should profit by this extension of a kindly mercy. It proves that society is not the harsh and punitive force, ruthless and heartless. Consideration should beget consideration. ; Those to whom it is extended should reflect, if ever again tempted to steal SBO,OOO worth of whisky, that they owe it to society to show consideration for its laws and its courts and its rules. • All other citizens should also learn from this the great lesson of duty to the law and,to society. - A tolerant and kindly order deserves-tolerance and kindliness. Mercy has ever been the mother of goodness. \ THE PHILIPPINE “GRAB” Filipinos hotly accuse Congressman Robert L, Bacon of New York of planning to “grab” the richest part of the Philippines for American rubber growers. Representative Bacon has just introduced a bill in Congress which would remove the immensely rich islands of Mindanao, Basilan, Paliwan and the Sulu group from the Jurisdiction of the Manila government and put them directly under Washington. This is desirable, says Representative Bacon, Who visited the islands last year, “to protect these defenseless and unarmed, though proud and self-re-specting” Mohammedan Moros agains tthe Christian Filipinos. Filipinos smile Ironically at this and observe that the Moro territory happens to include the very regions which the United States Department of Commerce last year pronounced good for rubber. If ever the Islands are given their independence, they add, America thus retain the richest lands and turn over the dregs to the Philippine republic. There is something to be said for their contention. The picture of Moro conditions painted by Representative Bacon is not exactly fair. Theer were only some 400,000 Mohammedans (Moros) in the Philippines, according to the census of 1920, though other Pagan tribes would bring the total up to about the figure—B7o,ooo—used by the able yourfg Congressman. The Moros are racially of the stock as the other Filipinos, that is to say, Malay. The difference between them today is that after three <jgnturies the Spaniards were able to tame and Christianize the other 10,000,000 natives, while the fiercer Moros stood . them off and retained their Mohammedan faith. Representative Bacon gives the impression that when it came our turn to deal with these people, we quickly made them our friends. Says he: “Present conditions are in sharp contrast with those obtaining under the beneficent administration of the Moro provinces by Generals Wood, Bliss and Pershing in the decade between 1903 and 1913." To'be historically correct, “the beneficent-admin-istrations” of these three American military men were characterized principally by almost constant warfare. General Pershing’s reputation up to the world war was won chiefly fighting the Moros, and it was not until 1913, on the little mountain of Bagsak in the. Sulus, that he finally broke the back of their resistance. . * Thousands of fanatical Mohammedans, men and women, were killed in that battle and Pershing was much criticised because of the women. Yet, he was in no wise to blame. The Moros of both sexes look and dress so much alike that they certainly could not be told apart from the American lines. The Moros today still go on tile warpath against Christians whenever they can get together sufficient arms. The most “beneficent” thing Generals Wood, Bliss and Pershing did in Mindanao and thereabouts, was to disarm the bulk Os the natives. It is perfectly correct to say the Mohammedan Moros and Christian Filipinos are hereditary enemies. But so are all Christians the hereditary enemies- of the Mohammedans—whether they are Spanish, Christian, Filipino, American or other. If we wish to retain the Philippines we should say so. Let’s not beat the devil around the stump. We don’t fool anybody by it, not even ourselves. IMPORTANT CITIZENS Scientists are generally a peculiar lot. They tend to be so wrapped up in their particular investigations that they fail to keep abreast of the times in other respects. They wear out-of-date clothes, frequently become absent-minded, fail to keep informed about important things like baseball standings and prize fights and the current plays and songs. Sometimes they almost seem out of place in this alert, up-to-date civilization of ours. But oddly enough they are the most important men in the world. We have shiny radios and purring antos and brilliant electric lights and iceless refrigerators and moving pictures because of the work of

out-of-date, "back number” gentlemen who putter about in laboratories. They, in fact, are the ones who have turned us into a hustling race of go-getters and given us the tools to go-get with. Furthermore, according to David Dietz, science writer, the whole world is going to go to pot in a century or so from overpopulation unless the scientists devise some new ways of getting food, fuel and transportation. If they succeed, he says, everything will be lovely; if they fail everything will be terrible. So don’t waste any sympathy on the retiring, modest gentlemen who immerse themselves in laboratories and refuse to come out and play with the rest'of us. All in all, they’re about the most important citizens we have. SIGN BOARDS IN HEAVEN A 14-year-old girl from California is received with acclaim into a New York pulpit by a pastor who calls her "the most extraordinary person in America.” The reasons for calling her that are because she is able to mouth the exhortations the revivalists use, and because she had a "call to serve God.” The girl’s call came when she set off at the age of fflne to try for a Job in the movies. The door open when she arrived at the place where she was to seek work. This she interpreted as a call to the Divine service. The door had jammed on hell and the movies. Many men and women wept and prayed with her. - Up in a clearing in Minnesota a group of people stand and pray solemnly for a sign from heaven. The group asks for some direct, outward manifestation of the presence of Divinity. Nothing unusual happens. Sinclair Lewis stands In a pulpit in Kansas City and calls upon God to strike him dead, and takes out his watch to give the whole thing a dramatic touch. We are seeing a great deal of showmanship in religion, and wonder sometimes v is there will be any signboards In heaven. THE YOUNGER LA FOLLETTE If the spirit of “Fighting Bob” La Follette hovered over the United States Senate chamber Sunday during thto services honored his memory something more than the eulogies of his former colleagues gave him cause for gratification. Presiding over the memorial session sat his son, invited to do so by the Vice President. His presence there brought to every mind the special splendid manner in which he has lived up to the rare opportunity bequeathed him by his father. For the younger La Follette has been a good Senator. As the months have passed and his capacity has revealed itself, opinion has steadily that he will prove a worthy successor to a great man. The spirit of the immortal La Follette might well have been proud. Many a man gets cold feet because his bank Locount has felt a draft. If we didn’t like soup, so well we would, grow a mustache. Swimming is such splendid exercise. We spent a iay at the beach and came home with our eyes tired. Most of us steer clear of cheerful people because sooner or later they try to sell us something. A little grease on top of a pond kills mosquitoes, md yet they seem to thrive on fat people. About time for the thermometer to bestow a few honorary degrees. A woman carries almost as much trash in her handbag as a man does in his pockets. Smoking a pipe makes a man think. It makes him think it’s lit when it’s out The boss may think a fellow works late when he only stays at thd office because he needs some stamps. i l Education is appreciated most by those who haven’t any education. / w If you are lonely and want some neighbors to call just start to take a bath.

WHEN THE WHEAT IS BEAUTIFUL By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Over the Southwest, day and night, there sounds the hum of the threshing machine. The plains, are utterly beautiful.. The vivid green of young corn, the gold of ripe wheat, and the odorous purple of alfalfa blossoms. There Is something especially glad about the harvest season. When one drives over the country and looks at the shocks of wheat like small golden tents set in mathematical precision over the yellow stubble, one gets, somehow, a sense of consummation. And if the casual onlooker receives this impression, how do you think the farmer must feel, he who has plowed the sod and sowed the grain and watched the rains and winds and sunshine visit his precious fields? For in a farmer's life there Is many a “slip ’twixt cup and Up.” So many times his wheat looks full and fine when in thirty minutes a hail storm may come and ruin it utterly. So many many times his corn stands high and beautiful when the searing South wind can wither it if) a day. If each of us could live through only onte such period of suspense while crops are maturing, in which the farmer dwells every year, we could better appreciate the toil and fear and hope that goes from a human heart into one crop of grain. What days of worry and what nights ‘of dread make up the lives of so many of the men and women '.who produce our foodstuffs. If we could only comprehend this fact, we might be more anxious that the agriculturists receive a larger share of our wealth and more of the luxuries which now go so persistently to parasites and nonproducers. You women who have servants and conveniences and who lounge about leisurely In luxurious rooms, should ponder while the harvest is on upon those sisters of yours Who are cooking and washing for harvesters and who., toil each day for longer hours than the men put In, that the wheat may be saved —the wonderful wheat that feeds us all. 1 And there are many of these women who will Inevitably see the crops fa,ll far short of expectations, wtfo must lay aside their hopes for twelve months apd contemplate another Year of toil and anxiety hel re their fields will again be ripe for the reapers and their dreams come true.

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Tracy Oh What the Boys Will Do With That Treasury Surplus.

By M. E. Tracy. President Coolidge has nearly four hundred million dollars on hand. Unless Congress Interferes, he can double the amount in another year and have nearly eight hundred million dollars. No wonder that he is wary about urging tax cuts. The longer he waits, the bigger they can be, and the more political they can be made. The fact that the treasury surplus bears out Democratic contentions Is of small consequence, compared to the way the boys are planning to use It to bear out the Republican program for 1928. -I- -I* -IThe Queen Approves Queen Mary of England has approved the modern girl, but that Is in line not only with the rest of us, but with the ages. The world has always approved Its modern girl, and probably always will. * No matter what form the eternal feminine tkkes, or how it chooses to express itself. motherhood and young men must bow In approbation. There Isn’t much left when these two forces combine, except bachelors, cynics and fathers whose noses are too close to the grindstone for them to see, or realize what Is going on. •!• + + Remember J, Johnson The New York boxing commission has decided that If Dempsey won t fight Harry Wills, he can’t fight anybody In the Empire State. Is this a victory for clean sport or for the colored boxer. Remembering what happened when Jack Johnson won. It is rather surprising how anxious some authorities are to force such another possibility. It is more surprising that they should imagine it will do pugilism any good. + 'l* -IShall We Forget? They paraded the streets of Atlanta—the lame, the halt and the blind. They represented only an Infinitesimal fraction of the millions that were mangled, and they were seen by only an Infinitesimal fraction of the well and strong. What helps more than anything else to make war fascinating is that we hide Its horrors and forget Its tragedy. Except for formal assistance, we turn our backs on the maimed and the dead, losing all sense of value In the waving of flags and the rehearsal of brave deeds. No history has yet been written to faithfully recount the cost of war. + -I- -I* Too Optimistic When he says that A1 Smith will sweep the country two years hence with prohibition and the World Court as the chief issues, you have no other choice but to put Judge Olvany down as a confirmed optimist, jor as having lived in New York too long to appreciate the sentiment and feeling of his own party. An anti-World Court plank by delegates who cheered Wilson when he fathered the League of Nations, and a wet plank by delegates who come from the dry South and the men of Smith after the bitterness of two years ago—how can any one figure it that way? I am for modification of the Volstead act, but I do not expect the Democratic party to come out for It In 1928, or the Republican party either. Such vital changes of opinion as that would represent do not come so rapidly. We have a long debate before us and we might as well recognize the fact. We might as well recognize the fact, too, that we need a long discussion to alter our liquor laws and not make them worse. -!- -I- -ILet’s Debate It I have said that prohibition as ordered by the Volstead Act has made liars and hypocrites of 'some of the best of us. I will go a little farther now and say that rabid opposition to it is not Impressing the bulk of the people very favorably. There is one thing that the wets will have to give up before they can hope to make headway and that is the Idea of proposing any scheme that makes possible the return of the old order.. There Isn’t the slightest chance that the Eighteenth Amendment can be repealed during the life of this generation. There is hardly more chance that the Volstead Act can be repealed leaving the Eighteenth Amendment inoperative. The best that can be hoped for is limited modification and that will have to be thought out carefully a"<l stated unequivocally to meet the approval of necessary numbers. A. few large cities, but particularly New York, are In a mood to go much farther than the rest of the country, and have i>ermltted themselves to be deluded by their own emotions. The rest of the country remains not only to be reckonel with, but to be sold on the idea of re-writing a law which hasn’t Irritated It so much, no matter how poorly that law may have beo.l enforced. What is the area of England and of the British Empire? What percentage of the population of the British Empire tires in England? The population of England is 35,678,530; Its area is 50,874 square miles. The population of the British Empire is {41,595,965 and its area is 13,406,103 square miles. Thus the British Empire has about twelve times as many subjects outside as there are in It. -

Song Writer Hints There Must Be Many a Morris Chair at the North Pole

By Walter D. Hickman Oh, these song writers sure are clever chaps. AniJ now comes the thought from one that the north pole must be a great place for the sheik because the nights are six months long. And, oh, boy, another heavy thought, said sheik sure would want a Morris chair that wouldn't wear out. Such sweet sentiments you will hear in anew tune of the hour called “Tonight’s My Night With Baby.” It has been .hinted that a critic should feed upoh only the great symphonies, but I am here to tell you today that I like this little jingle called “Tonight's My Night With Baby.” Probably I like it because 1 heard It first played by Isham Jones and his orchestra on a Brunswick record. The arrangement Is nifty and has that needed dance quality to put It over as a favorite. Orchestras have personality, you know, and this generally starts with the director and ends with the director. You can’t see the conductor on a record, but you can easily hear what he accomplishes through personality and ability. Although this record is made for dancing purposes, the record has the vocal chorus with its inspirational thought about the north pole and tho Morris chair. The instrumental development of the chorus is a winner. On the other side of this Brunswick you will find the Jones orchestra playing "At Peace With the World,” one of those quieting numbers. Harry Again You knojv that I do not generally like the work of Harry Snodgress, the pianist, who built up popularity over the air when serving a prison term. That is not the reason I have not liked his work. His personality nor the fact of his prison experiences did not enter into my personal verdict. I have thought that his artistry did not warrant the acclaim which he received. But since appearing In vaudeville to a profit, his artistry has Improved, if I have the right to Judge it on a phonograph record. Have Just played his new Brunswick record, containing “The Prisoner’s Song” and “Land of My Sunset Dream." Snodgrass actually makes “The Prisoner's Song” one of rare and haunting beauty. Here Is beautiful playing and at times it sounds inspirational. A good buy. Oh, yea, you can get the new fox trot craze, "Valencia” on an Okeh record. Okeh sent me this record by post haste. It is an odd Spanish like affair, built along march lines, but having a free fox trot tempo. They claim that this number is going to be a big hit if the song pluggers and the song protectors have their say about it. And in this case, I think they are probably right. WEESNER TO PRESENT PUPILS IN RECITAL At the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, Clarence M. Weesner will present his pupils in a dramatic recital tonight. / Program follows: * PART I. ‘‘GREENWICH REVIEW.” B.v Clarence M Weesner. Scene—Roof garden on Evlsee Hotel. Paris Tim—Any cTenint. _ . —-Cost Torch Bearers /- * w, • Lillian Friefre. Eunio Brenner Candle Flame . . ... Ernestine Walker Bellboys Paul BecbtoM. Billie Moss Proprietor Leon Levi Hostess Mary Margaret Hill Balloon Man Clem Rtnert iSSSfctle.' W Bofeby srinla Marcua. Maxine Ferguson. Grace Chambers Paris at the piano. PART 11. “BEFORE THE CURTAIN.” (a) Helen BonneU. (b) Jean Foley, PART 111. “THE HERd ENTERS." —Cast— Anna Emeettne Walker Ruth Florence MeShane Hafrold Clarence M. Weesner M*. Carey Helen Hill Entire production designed and executed by Clarence M. Weesner. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Cheating Husbands,” at English’s; “Outward Bound,” at Keith's; Lottie Mayer, at the Lyric; "The Unknown Soldier,” at the Palace; Tom Brown and his orchestra, at ' the Circle; "Lady Windermere's Fan.” at the Uptown: “Say It Again,” at the Apollo: “Monte Carlb,” at the Ohio; "‘The Johnstown Flood," at the Colonial, and “Hands Across the Bordar,” at the Isis. RAIL TUNNEL CAVES IN One Man Killed; Another Probably Fatally Hurt. Bu United Prct* HARRISBURG 111.. June 22.—One man was killed and another probably fatally Injured as the result of a cave-in at Tunnel No. 1, near Ozark, Johnson County, on a little used cutoff of the Illinois Central Railway. News of -the cave In, which occured late yesterday, was made known here today when Cecil Talton, 22, was brought to a local hospital where little hope is held for him. Raymond Tolllson, 24, Sparata, Tenn., was Instantly, killed. Robert Wortucker 18, Grand Tower, Ills., received minor injuries. ST. LOUIS FORCE BIG Mayor Indicate* He Favors More Police for City. Mayor Duvall today pointed .out that St. Louis, where he recently -attended a convention, has three times as many policemen as Indianapolis, although it is only twice as large. His statement was of Interest as indicating approval of the proposed addition of 100 men napolis police force. The board of safety will ask for the additional men in its 1927 budget. SEEK HEADQUARTERS Humane Societies Plan to Establish State Office. A proposal to establish permanent State headquarters with direct handling of complaints in Indianapolis will be considered at the convention <% the Indiana Federation of Humane Societies at the IJncol n, Aug. 6, 6. according to W. P. Hargon, Indianapolis, State president. , The body also will formulate plans to obtain a part of dog taxes for the various societies over Indiana. : : ' . sr'i

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran '

THE HUM O’ THE MOWER The hum of the mower is filling the air. There’s grass to be cut o’er the land. The wheels of the mower are off on a tear. The man of the house is on hand. A whizzing along on the wide spread of green till light of the day* time is dim. The sharpened up blades quickly cheer up the scene, and put all the landscape In trim. First this way, and that way; then back to the start, - a-layln’ the taller growth bare. The click of the mower cuts grass blades apart and whisks them haphazard in air. The great out-of-doors, when it’s all said and done, looks fine, when it’s carefully dressed, and each little lawnmower that’s properly run helps nature to dress In her best. • • • The three personal pronouns are he, she and It —hubby, wife and the baby. • • • When a fellow retires he often keeps on doing nothing but talking about his work. • • • A year-oM dog can walk twice as well as a yenr : old baby, which isn’t unusual. The purp has twice as many legs. • • • His Sweetie weighed three hundred pounds. .‘‘Let’s take a row,” he said. But, when she stepped into the boat. They took a swim instead. -• • • The Professor of Logic knew he laid his hat somewhere *ln the room. 'Twasn’t to be seen anywhere, so he .finally decided he must be sitting on it. And he was. • • * Some mothers who want someone to take care of thejr children, make the mistake of applying for a governess, when what they need is a lion tamer. • • • Sometimes, when a girl marries, the fortunate man is her father. • • • FABLES IN FACT THE ORATOR WAS MAKING WHAT HE THOUGHT TO BE THE BEST SPEECH OF HIS LIFE PERIOD ONE OF THOSE SENTIMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMA AND YET HE DIDN’T SEEM TO BE GETTING ACROSS WITH IT PERIOD FINALLY COMMA BETWEEN BREATHS COMMA HE ASKED HIS WIFE HOW IN THE WORLD HE COULD MOVE HIS AUDIENCE COMMA AND HIS KIND WIFE SUGGESTED THAT HE PASS THE HAT PERIOD. (Copyright, 1926. NEA Service. Inc.)

Fairy Princess of Today Gets Her Wrong Prince

By Walter D. Hickman. Love may be the most beautiful state of life or of dreams. A modern -?jjrl may be lifted to the realms of fairyland through a great and beautiful experience of love with a man possessed of Intelligence. dreams, faith and hope. Such a girl was Such a man was Colin. You will meet these two pathetic characters in Sylvia Thompson’s “The Hounds of Spring,” published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, and selling for $2 a copy. I detained my copy for review from the Book Shop at L. S. Ayres & Cos. of this city. Zina and Colin were In love—living in that land of beautiful and impractical dreams which some day might become the land of continual reality. Then war came. Colin went to war. Zina turned to the labor of keeping a garden on her father’s estate out of London. Somehow she had faith that Colin would return, but— The British war office announced that Colin was among the missing. Despair dragged Zina out of her haven of dreams and hope. Fear entered her vry being. She was alone without love. ♦ She wo3n’t strong enough to dream alone with a memory. So she froze up with fear. Her memory box became a tomb. Another man entered her state of living. A divorced man of station. Zina did not love him. But she married him. She played the grand game of creating a household of makebelieve. She became a mother of the son of the man she married. played the game. Zina suffered while the nations of the world started rebuilding themselves after the war. Zina should have been at peace with the world, but love coffld not enter her state. Just One Love Zina had but one love affair —that with Colin. Her present husband, matter of fact man, could not climb with her to that great hunting ground of dreams. In her heart was a tomb, that of Colin. And then as she was play-

* Play Golf? Can you play golf? Or do you play, anyway? Or would you like to play? In any case —even if you have only tried it once—you know something of its possibilities of humor, ' grim and gay. These aspects and many more are revealed anew in “The Duffer's Handbook of Golf,” written by Grantland Rice, the golf expert, and illustrated by Clare Briggs, the cartoonist. “If at first you don’t succeed,” says Mr. Rice, “try looking at the ball.” , “He who swings and lifts his head will say things better left unsaid.” “Never Vnind about hitting It a mile. If you do. you won’t.” Mr. Rice gives other helpful tips from'such famous players as Jim Barnes. Walter Hagen . and Bobby Jones, and Mr. Briggs’ cartoons mirthfully portray 1 the duffer's joys and sorsowa. The book will be published in June. ($3.50.) .

“Outward Bound”

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Alan Floud

“Sailors’ superstitions defy the age of ( reason,” says Alan Floud, one of the important fhembers of the cast of “Outward Bound,” at Keith’s this week. “They still cling to old beliefs in portents of good and bad luck, despite modern ways. “Any one who has seen ‘Outward Bound’ will recall the line In the first act where Mrs. Clivlden-Banks asserts that a sure sign of 111 luck is to have a minister aboard on a sea voyage. ••’* “This recalled to me an actual Incident reported in the papers recently where It was claimed that the sailors aboard the West Campgaw, a tramp steamer, attributed their misfortune to hymn singing by two preachers working their way to Europe as cattle mon on the vessel. "Both of the offending clerics, according to the story, got fair warning that singing hymns was Just tempting the devils of the deep. They persisted, apparently. Result: Forty-eight hours of ensuing gale and fog In the region Infested with ’ Icebergs.” How much land not under enltl* vat ion In the United States Is capable of being tilled? The following estimated has been made: Humid land not requiring drainage, mostly In pasture and forest at present, 23f> million acres; sub-humid land, mostly In pasture at present, fifty-two million acres: seml-arid land, mostly In pasture at present, 116 million acres; land requiring drainage, seventy-five million acres; Irrigable land, thirty million acres;’ other improved Innd mostly In pasture, 100 million acres.

ing life's game without love, Colin returns. He had not been killed, but was a shell shocked prisoner In Germany. | The mere sight of Colin released the tomb In her heart. IJfe blood surged again over the barren fields of her soul. She loved only Colin. Always had loved him. She was a mother and a wile. But she loved only Colin. TJiere must be a release for her to romp again In the land of dreams although _her practical surroundings would be comparative poverty. So Zina stepped again into the land of her dregms with Colin, leaving behind her the price of her new happiness—a son and a husband whom she did not love. And that In brief Is the base story of ‘‘The Hounds of Spring.”

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You can set an answer to nnj Queellou of tact or Information by writing to The liKlimiapolta’ Ttmee Washington Bureau 1323 New York Are.. Washington D C. Inclosing 2 cent* In stamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be riven nor can extended research t> undertaken. All other questions vHII receive a personal reply . Pollened request* cannot be answered All letters are con Oden llal .-y-Editor, What Is tho origin of tho name Morrill? Several origins aro assignod. One dorlvos Itgfrom Muriel, a first name moaning myrrh (Hebrew). Another makes It a French form mining’ swarthy, like a Mot *. Where did the custom of carrying heavy blirdeng oil the head originate? il probably originated with aborigines. That method of transportation was necessitated by the oondb. tlone under which they lived. Their routes for the most part were narrow paths thrugh dense forests and entangling undergrowths impeded their steps. Moreover the porters were often menaced by hidden enemies. It was neoesssry therefore to carry burdens In such manner as* to occupy the smallest possltye eral space, to be least liksly to injure them in case they fell and to be most quickly * rejected It they were attacked. The method fitting those necessities was on ‘the head. The practice Is still maintained by numerous peoples who have learned that It Is the least tiresome mode for transporting loads. Where Is the Muir Glacier? In Altftfka, about 120 miles north by west of Siyta on Olscler Bay. * The surface area is about 360 square miles. Nine branches contrlbuts to the main trunk, which flows at an average rate of seven feet per day, an dduring the month qf August expels 200,000 cubic feet of Ice into the hay dally. It has receded twentyfive miles In the last century. Who was the sculptor of the bronze tigers nt Nassau Hall, Princeton University? They were modeled by A. P. Proctor arid were given to the college by the class of 1879. How old is lloot Gibson, the movie actor, and Is (hat his real name. Is he married? His real nnrne Is Edward Gibson. He is 34 years old, and Is married. What Is the record swim on I<akn Erie? It Is held by O. A. Walker, Peleo Lighthouse. He swam from On tarlo to Lorain, Ohio, s dlstanoe of fifty-three miles, in 20 hours and lfr minutes, Aug. 1, 1923. Can you give me the address of the Boys’ Club Federation? 3037 Grand Central Terminal Bldg., Now York City.

I have not attempted to Introduce yjp\i to the many other character* who march along llfe’a hlghwny in this story. Would like to tell you of John Renner, the son of Edgar Renner and Cynthia, Here 4a a blond lovable lad who went to war and paid the price tylth his own life. John probably will llngti* In my memory longer than the other characters In thla really great story of England before, during and after the war. I firmly believe that "The Hounds of Spring” la a great story, broad In Its human understanding, powerful In Us conception and masterful In its dream power. One of the books which should be on the rending list of every earnest thinking adult.