Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 106, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1926 — Page 4
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PUBLIC BUSINESS * The grand jury, or some other public body or official, should be Interested in the revelation, made n the Times today, of the peculiar purchase of trucks by the county commissioners. When trucks cost the peoplo of the county SI,OOO more than was paid by the State highway commission for a similar truck, it may not be unreasonable to inquire the reasons for the transition. Such an inquiry might open up for public view more interesting facts concerning the disbursement of the county funds. The little matter of the voting machines bought from the son of one of the commissioners might be investigated with some satisfaction to the public. It is true that the former grand jury suggested that further inquiries he made into the matter, for the law, unfortunately, does not look with favor upon the letting of contracts, especially at fancy prices, to relatives of officials. This truck purchase beems so peculiar that it should be explained. > Buying a truck ought to be a rather simple transaction. Many business men buy trucks. They go about It in much the same way. And they generally go through about the same motions. They get bids from those who sell the sort of trucks they want. They select a truck that will do the work they wish done- And then they get the best possible price. Theoretically the two majority members of the county commission who voted for this purchase did the same thing, but they finally did something that to business men would be unusual. They paid, according to the records, SI,OOO more for each of six trucks that they could have purchased a similar truck guaranteed to do the same work. Why was that extra thousand paid? And perhaps it may develop that it is really more than a thousand dollars on a truck and that careful business practices would have saved even more than that. Is there some reason why the people’s money should be treated differently than private money? The grand jury seems to be the proper body to discover the reasons and explain the business practices of this hoard. The people should have at least an explanation for that thousand. STILL BOOSTING RAILWAYS’ * CLAIM
* Fifty billion dollars! What’s that? Somebody making a bid for the United States? Not a bit of it. It’s what the Wall Street Journal says It would cost to construct the railroads of the oountry today. On other words, It's what that publication estimates the railways are worth. In announcing this figure the Wall Street paper says: , I “The total is staggering.” It’s worse than that, it’s paralyzing. The last time the wealth of the country was added up its total value was only three hundred and twenty billions of dollars. It’s little higher now. The railroads, according to the New York financial publication, represent a sixth of all of the wealth In the country. Perhaps someone will think the Wall Street Journal is having a little joke? Not a bit of It It says that it plans to prove these figures. It probably can. Already smart figuring has raised the total value of thirteen billion, where the late Senator La Follette placed it, to the thirty-five billion, argued as the true value by railway lawyers in recent hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission. -What’s a few billion more or less to a good calculator. Where the final value of the railways is fixed, however, means an enormous amount to the American people- For every dollar of valuation added, the public will have to pay higher freight rates. Let the figure be fixed at fifty billion dollars, instead of twenty—the tentative figure being used by the Interstate Commerce Commission—and there will be the basis for more than doubling the present railway rates. Such rates directly affect every person in the country. In the settlement of the question of railroad valuation, now under consideration, the American people have a tremendous stake. From the standpoint of dollars involved the question of collecting European debts is almost trivial in comparison. . The latest entry In this controversy is the fifty billion figure of the Wall Street Journal. There will be others. Upon the figure which wins will depend everything from the price of the baby’s shoes to the cost of battleships. t WELL, MAYBE JAZZ IS ALL RIGHT! There is far more truth than bunk in the old saying that whatever is worth doing is worth doing well. \\ hen Roger olfe Kahn decided a short time ago to embark upon a career as jazz band leader, he immediately encountered the opposition of his father, Otto Kahn, the well-known banker and opera patron. The father stood for music in its highest, most esthetic form. The rebellious attitude of his son was a keen disappointment. Otto Kahn did everything lie chuld to discourage the lad. And now Roger, at 18, has ten orchestras bearing his name, is making a lot of money and has decided to buy a night club in New York. And his family, according to the boy, seeing that he Is in earnest about his career, has relentedThere is nothing had about being a jazz orchestra leader. Nor is there necessarily anything lowbrow about it, particularly if you are a good one. Roger Kahn seems to have demonstrated that he can succeed in his chosen business better than in any other one, and it is quite sensible on the part of the father to withdraw his parental opposition. The case is somewhat similar to the career of a youth named Yoelson, son of a rabbi, who incurred his family’s displeasure by announcing he had chosen a stage career. For years there was an estrangement. Then, when it was demonstrated that the boy had chosen the career that he seemed above all others, to be fitted for, the relented. The boy Is known to millions today as A1 Jolson
POISONING LAW VIOLATORS Government chemists, we are informed, expect soon to perfect anew formula for denaturing alcohol, which will dgfy efforts of bootleggers to redistill the industrial product for beverage use. \ The nature of the formula is not revealed, beyond the fact that It will be “guaranteed sure death” for any one who attempts* to tedistill and drink it. * The new formula probably will be In use In three months. It will replace existing formula which calls for the mixture, of creosote, gasoline, wood alcohol, benzol an<j other poisdhous substances with grain alcohol. • '* Thus we may soon expect an enormous increase in deaths from poison liquor, beside which the 700 deaths In New York City last year, and the fortyfour recent deaths in territory near Buffalo will be insignificant. It is not to be expected that this “sure death” alcohol will be kept out of the hands of bootleggers. Thet have been accustomed for several years to redistill enormous quantities of alcohol denatured under existing formulas, and no one can believe their trade will die overnight. •Meanwhile, millions of gallons of this "recooked” alcohol, as the bootleggers call it, are being sold for beverage purposes. This is,not guesswork; prohibition officials admit it. This alcohol, 'while fairly palatable in most instances, is seldom completely free from wood alcohol oi’ other poisons. According to J. W. Quill in, chief ihemjst of the bureau of itr.ernal revenue In New York, It* lp “not Immediately harmful, but sire death eventually to any one drinking It.” The head of the New York prohibition office is quoted as saying that efforts at “redistillation are sure to prqduce alcohol only partially free from highly poisonous adulterants." Thus we have it on authority of officers of the Government that hundreds of thousands of citizens who regularly drink bootleg liquor are being slowly but surely poisoned and that an attempt Is being made to make denatured alcohol still more deadly. What will be the effect on public health ten Or twenty years hence? Will men now in their twenties and thirties pay with their lives or with broken health, when they should be In their prime? And not in isolated Instances, but by the hundreds of thousands? This is not argument against prohibition nor an effort to frighten any one. It is a recital of facts, which surely challenge attention. While we argue prohibition pro and con, we need not lose sight of the things that are going on around us. You may say, as do some reformers, that law violators deserve whatever they get. Or you may call it murder, as does Senator Jim Reed. That won’t help matters. While we are spending millions and more millions enforcing prohibition, we might set aside a few dollars for a scientific study of this wholesale poisoning and its social and economic effects.
THE BUS WINS FAVOR Anew economic factor lias entered transportation in the last decade. It hath grown from nothing at all to a carrying system of 60,000 motor passenger busses, with 7,500 companies controlling the lines. Talk about competition! There never was a time when a railroad faced such competition as these 7,500 companies are offering today. And that’s not figuring in the tsucks, which for short hauls, have the railroads backed into the roundhouse. But the railroads have seen the power of this new carrier, and rather than fight it, they are adapting the motor to their own use. The truck and the bus in many cities are being used as auxiliaries, the railroads Realizing that their field is the long haul. The figures are somewhat bitter, representing losses to the railroads figured in millions of dollars. Thus, in 1924, the steel lines took in 200,000,000 fewer fares than in 1920- This has .brought the roads to a full cognizance of what they have to fight. They are fighting this battle of competition with the very weapons that took their fares and their freight charges—the busses and trucks thepiselves. * Once, a “party" was. where children went and acted like grown-ups. Now, It’s where grown-ups go and act like children. Landlords lead a hard life. Tenants have so much Inducement to commit suicide when the rent ccmes< due. , m Cleveland school is to teach women how to vote. Can’t be done. Been trying to teach women for years. A bomb with a time fuse makes an excellent alarm clock. f Never count your socks before they are matched. BE KIND WITH YOUR EYES By MBS. WALTER FERGUSON It is a pitiful story, that tale from Washington about the deformed young man who, imagining that all passersby were casting curious glances at his misshapen form, ran amuck, and tried to vent his rage upon some women Who went by him, laughing. The most of us are entirely too careless qf the feelings of others. We will let our eyes stray and fasten themselves upon the person who looks odd. We do not have the sympathy to refrain from a steadfast regard of that which seems horrible to us. Naturally tho imagination of one who has been afflicted with a twisted body, might be easily Inflamed. Can we wonder that he should be sensitive to every act, or that he might believe that all who looked his way were jeering at his ugliness? Life is terribly cruel to sueh as these. Their days must be one long agony ot fear and shrinking, their nights one sore regret. The person who would laugh at their misfortune is unworthy to be called human. One must even pity them delicately, those poor, halting mortals. The sight of their burden should teach us kindliness a fid should also awaken within us a thankfulness that fate has seen fit to deal with us more gently, that •we have healthy bodies, A sturdy frame, energy, symmetry, vitality, health are the greatest blessings or life. There can be no doubt that those possessing them value them too lightly. We seldom give thanks for our most precious possessions. • * • It is never well that we undervalue cripples. Some of the greatest minds of this world have been harbored in weak and sometimes deformed bodies. It is possible for man to transcend The physical. Those who are thus afflicted fend'who are yet able'to find life sweet and work pleasant and Jiumariity kind, have reached the Ultimate in spiritual development.
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Tracy “i Clemenceau IVJakes the Job of Poincare More Difficult,
By M, E .Tracy Clemenceau’s terrific letter, though addressed to President Coolidge and designed as an appeal to the American people, will produce Its most important effect in France. , It is Poincare who will feel the blow —Poincare, with his carefully worked out program and his apparently safe majority in the Chamber of Deputies. As I said the other day, he is not out of the woods yet, and will not be until the debts are ratified. Clemenceau, speaking with the weight of a grand old man, fi national idol, has made this extremely difficult. His biting words will not only be received as balm by the Socialists, as justification by every Frenchman who does not want the debt pacts approved, no matter for what reason. Possible as it may be for us to see the lack of logic In Clemonceau’s scathing arraignment, the average Frenchman \yill read It as the gospel of his fondest wish, and in that lies its power, whether for good or eviL -I- -I- -I- ---! A Queen’s Designs It is still the tribal law of mobt countries that titles descend through the male line. If a girl marries a duko, she becomes a duchess, but if a man marries a duchess, ho does not become a duke. That explains why so many of our rich daughters, and so few of our rich sons, marry into noble families. Queen Marie of Rumania, inveterate matchmaker and of democratic leanings, to let her tell It. seems in a mood to change the fashion. At all events, she Is heading west with her daughter, Ileana, and the impression prevails that her object is to find an American husband — rated AAA by Bradstreet. •I- -I- -I- % Too High for Edna Mrs. Wallace Hopper finds the venture of buying a coat of arms too expensive. She left for Paris last June, expecting to marry the Due de Chatre. He is the head of an old family and has the right kind of pedigree, but writes Mrs. Hopper to a friend: “They wanted too much settled on the Due. It’s the old story. French families always expect a dot. The older the family the bigger the dot, and ‘dot’ in French means ’dough,’ just as it is pronounced.” -I- -I* -IRed and Redder What it la all about, nobody seems to know, but there is trouble in Rus sia—trouble right at the top and among the few who rule. Dzerzhinsky is dead, Zinoviev has been expelled and Trotsky la reported jn revolt. The issue is between those who would be red and those who would be redder, but who is which remains the puzzle. The latest report has it that Trotsky represents the extremists while the State machine, guided by Bucharin And Stalin, prefers moderation. Why they are quarreling is not so Important as la the fact that they are quarreling. The strength of Bolshevism has consisted not In its doctrines, but in the solidarity of the small group that ruled. Let that solidarity be broken and the regime will crumble like a house of cards. •I- -I- -IWill Farmer Stay Hitched? This country Is quite harmonious in believing that the tariff is responsible for most of the farmers’ difficulties but when you ask why, the harmony resolves itself into a hodge-podge of discordant opinions. Some say the farther is in bad because he hasn’t a tariff and some say he is in bad because other people have too much tariff. Some say that he needs more protection and others say that other people need less. In order to save the farmer, for the Republican party, he Is carefully trained to the idea that protection is fine and that he would be all right if he could get a share. When he tries to get a share, the votes are invariably lacking, and he Is told that the East doesn’t understand. ’ •* I wonder Just how long the farmer will stand for it. •I-!• -I-
Medical Saviors A narrow, dirty street, filled with culsh, kids and coolies; the cholera comes, striking: swift and sure, like lightning:. , ' Mothers weep only to turn sick and die with their sobs. There are no hospitals, no doctors, nobody to do more than what is absolutely necessary, and not all of that. It is some task to bury 1,000 a day, even in such a populous city as Shanghai, and that is what the neople are up against right now. Twenty thousand white foreigners, living in their own clean, sanitary quarter are unafraid, but can do little but look on in helpless pity. We have more money to save heathen souls than heathen bodies. No Wonder they continue praying, to the “dragon king.” What else is there for thepi? When they are shown that science can really help', they will abandon their superstitions. The medical missionary Is the one who offers arguments that cannot be answered, the one who spreads a gospel that the veriest pagan can understand. How can shhte be removed from woolen garments? Sponge the garment thoroughly with hot vinegar or ammonia (one tblespoon of ammonia or vinegar to one quart of water). Cover with dampened cloth and press on right side. Remove cloth and brush.
Washington Crossed Big River of Ice but Constance Took a Ride in a Sleigh
By Walter D. Hickman • Washington used a boat to get to victory, but It remained for Constance Talmadge to ride in a Blelgh to land her victory. This you will see In a strangely named comedy called "The Duchess
of Buffalo,” which has the featured services of Constance Taltnadge.The fact is that this comedy might have been called “The Woman Who Wasn't the Grand Duchess" or “When a Grand Duke Acts Like Santa Claus.” You will guess that the scenes are laid in Russia when* a grand duke had some standing. It has been decided that Constance must from now on have a chance to
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use those “naughty” eyes of hers, and she certainly uses ’em for all they are worth in this light little comedy, which has been placed in a rich setting. 'lt is safe to say that Constance Talmadge is a past misti%ss of the art of projecting naughty but innocent comedy in front of the eye of the camera. She has those eyes, that twinkle, that dash and even that mouth which popular song writers rave about. "The iAichess of Buffalo” is at times smart farce and then romping comedy with Miss Talmadge. Tulllo Carminati and Edward Martindel doing most of the polite comedy. Constance as usual is her best In the polite flirting scenes. She wears the gowns and seems to have a fine time of it while all dolled up. Here is an audience picture which affords polite comedy a little above the average although the story Is a slight little affair. Constance has that trick of lifting up even small little situations to the level of high comedy. This Carminati is a dashing sort of hero who shows off well in a Russian uniform of the old days. Seems to have the makings of a comedy idol along polite lines. The picture has been mounted in fine taste. Some of the scenes, especially the banquet scene is most elaborate.
The cast Is as follows: Marian Duncan ..... .Constance Talmadge Lieut. Vladimir Orloff. .. .Tulllo Carminati Grand Duka Gregory Alexandrovich JMward Martinde] Grand Duchess Olga Petrovna. . Rose Dlone Hotel Manager Chester Conklin Commandant Lawrence Grant Maid Martha Franklin Adjutant Jean De Briac One of the biggest hits of the bill is the comedy organ solo of Dessa Byrd. She is playing this W'eek "Hi Ho the Merry O,” a comedy song with a lot of lmprovlslons. The audience Is Invited to sing, and when I was present so many people were singing that one would think Miss Byrd was giving a singing lesson. Here Is a jolly one and one of the big hits of the bill. On the stage this week is heard the U. 8 8 Leviathan Orchestra. They seem to run to specialty numbers. The bill Includes a news reel and other events. At the Circle all week. •I- -I- -IREAL MUSICAL EVENTS LISTED AT THE APOLLO There Is lot of good music in the air. Meaning that the musical program at the Apollo this week Is of un-
usual lntereet. We do not hemenough of the harp. This week the Apollo is presenting Pasquale L. Montanl harpist, in three numbers. He opens with an jmprovision of his own. then goes into the pretty "My Wild Irish Rose” and closes with a famous sextette with the assistance of Emil Seidel and his orchestra and Lest-
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er Huff at the organ. Montani knows his harp, getting volume and sustained melody from this instrument. He is an artist. Lester Huff this week Is playing a little travesty number on the organ, called "Twenty Years from Now” In which he predicts girls will not walk back twenty years from now, because they will be riding in airplanes and 1 will carry parachutes. Just a travesty, but it gets over well. I found much to enjoy In Lester Huff's organ recital yesterday beginning at 12:30 noon and lasting) about thirty minutes. He played four numbers on the organ and Montani was heard in a harp solo. These Sunday noon organ recitals are something new at the Apollo and have such merit that their popularity should grow. The movie feature this week is a melodrama of circus life, called “Bigger Than Rarnums,” and has the services of Ralph Lewis, Viola Dana, George O'Hara and Ralph Tnoe. Many of the scenes have been taken under a real big top. The plot of the story concerns the efforts of a circus manager to have a wire act do a high walk without a net. of course it nearly ends In a tragedy. The story is not new, that is it •didn't appeal to me as such because most of the situations have been used before. Even a fire scene was resorted to for another thrill. The hill includes a news reel and other events. •mat At the Apollo all week. -I- -I* -IGILDA GRAY IS NOW A MOVIE STAR AT OHIO The name of Gllda Gray Is well known by those who go to the theater. She was known as a dancer with the Follies for years, then as a specialty artist In dance In the larger movie theaters. She has now gone Into the movies. Her first venture Is "Aloma of the South Seas,” a South Seas melo-
drama closely related to “The Bird of Paradise.”’ "Aloma'’ has been
.seen in this city on the stage and at the time I thought that it had the makings of the movie. It was chosen for Miss Gray because it gives her a chance to do several South Sea Island dances. Personally I am not "wild” over this sort of dancing. I know that it has been highly profitable upon the stage for this dancer. “Aloma” as the movies has
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some very beautiful scenes from a photographic standpoint. Some are of rare beauty, especially those at the very beginning of the picture. The supporting cast is interesting, as it includes Percy Marmont, Warner Baxter, Julanne Johnston and William Powell. The so-called nightgown scene has been rather toned down in the movie, although it was one of the “high spots” on the stage. Asa play, “Aloma" was never a knockout, although I recognized that It had certain box office qualities. And the movie has this same quality. The art director had a whole lot to do in making “Aloma” what it is. "Aloma” belongs to that modern school of what may be called the "shimmy melodrama.” or the play of wiggles. And there are plenty of the melodramatic wigsrles in this movie. Miss Grab’s strength, of course, rests in her dancing, that is, if you like thii sor'. of prancing. I do not become enthusiastic oyer it. But as a movie, “Aloma” will demand attention. The bill includes a comedy and other events. At the Ohio all week. -I- I -IPLEASING DOG MOVIE ON VIEW AT COLONIAL For those dog lovers who eagerly wait for a Rin-Tin-Tin picture, “A Hero of the Big Snows," at the Collnoal. will prove to be a most pleasing surprise. Along with Rin-Tin-Tin Is his most favored dog friend, his mate, Nan-
nette. And between the two of them I think Nanis somewhat the better looking of this famous couple. There are three cute little puppies in the picture, but as to whether they belong to Rin-Tin-Tin and his mate I cannot say; anyway, they are beautiful little youpgsters and think any ' dog would be proud of them. It sounds rather
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odd to name human beings as support for a dog, but in this picture it is so. Alice Calhoun and Don Alvarado are the principal human actors in the picture and carry their parts well, but the real bits of the story are left to the dog, as they should be. The story is of the far north and
How to Swim—No. 19
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The back stroke is a resting stroke.
By Lillian Cannon The back stroke, in my opinion, is largely a resting stroke aad should be used often as such. Because the whole face is out of the water all the time, one has opportunity to breath more fully than while 3wlmming forward. Also, one floats a large portion of the time and there are moments when no effort Is being made at all.
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Movie Verdict CIRCLE Constance Talmadge does some nifty flirting in “The Duchess of Buffalo.” COLONIAL—The Observer found much to enjoy in “A Hero of the Big Snows” with Rin-Tin-Tin. OHlO—Another example of the wiggle melodrama is 'on view. This ftime it is Gilda Gray In “Aloma of the South Seas.” t APOLLO “Bigger Than Barnums” is a melodrama of circus life with plenty of the "meller”- in it.
shows Rln Tin Tin as a friendless dog who Is taken up by a young fellow who has lost all his personal pride and ambition. The dog awakens the young man to a realization of Just what he has become and brings him out of ft. The dog also is the instigator of a very nice love match between his master and the girl who owns the beautiful female dog which he has taken quite a fancy to. As in all of his pictures the training pt Rln Tin Tin stands out as a brilliant example of what can he done with an intelligent animal like this. Personally, I am one of the fans who like him and you may think I am a bit enthusiastic, but 1 believe all I say about him, and that’s that. On the stage is a capable trio in the persons of Wedge, Van and Wedge. Their offerings consist of songs of the popular types and are done ir a pleasing manner. All three of these people, two men and a woman have personality and know how to put it over. Floyd Thompson’s Entertainers, the Colonial Orchestra, offer several good numbers and feature tho solo work of the different members of the orchestra. Included on the bill are an Arthur Lake comedy and news reel. -I- -I- -IOther theaters today offer: “The Mountain Man,” at Keith’s; “The Bridal Suite,” at English’s; Bailey and Barnum, at the Lyric; "Courting Days,” at the Palace. “The Unknown Soldier,” at the Uptown, and “The Millionaire Policeman,” at the Isis. What is the meaning of the name Alice? Princess. What is the derivation and meaning of Zachary? It is of Hebrew origin and means "remembered of the Lord.” How do fruits rank In food value, and what special purpose do they serve in the diet? While fruits have a low food value, they are Important In the diet as regulators and tissue builders. They are composed of from three-fourths to nine-tenths water, sugar, cellulose, acids, salts, with either a small amount of protein and fat or none. The mineral salts, calcium, phosphorus, lime nd iron are necessary to the body tissues. The cellulose of the fruit furnishes non-lndigestl-ble bulk which must be taken into the stomach to regulate the bowels. The acid stimulates the appetite. Certain fruits also supply Important vitamins.
Care should be taken to drill oneself thoroughly in the resting idea while doing the back stroke so that a long swim can be frequently broken with Intervals of rest. It Is also tremendously useful If one has to rescue someone from drowning. By swimming on the back, a person can be dragged along with a minimum of effort. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)
AUG. 1926
Questions and Answers
You can tret an anrwer to any questlon. of tact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1,322 New York Are.. 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. Is them a sure way to rid a house of insect pests? Fumigation with hydrocyanic-acid gas is the best-known method of t controlling all kinds of household 1 pests, Including bedbugs, moths, etc. It kills speedily and effectively, Tho gas, however, is deadly to human beings If breathed In concentrated form and it should he used only by careful and well-informed persons who understand the element of danger as well as the excellent features of the gas. How long have finger bowls been used ? Finger bowls are one of the more ancient table utensils. The early Greeks and Romans always washed their hands before and after eating generally at the table. Small bowls for this purpose, with a flower or two In the water to make it fragrant, were passed to the guests. In Egypt guests were welcomed by a servant, who washed their hands before they were received by their host. Sometimes the washing process w'as repeated two or three times during a meal. The ancient Hebrews had hand-washing ceremony. The mo<*| em finger bowl probably speared in the fifteenth century at the court of Louis 11, King of Sicily. It. was the custom there to wash the hands before leav.ng the table. Pages brought in silver bowls of scented water for the purpose. From this court the custom ppread to other courts and was quickly adopted by the wealthy and luxury-loving world. Today it is an accepted form at formal dinners. What silver coins once minted and circulated in the United States have been discontinued? Trade dollars, twenty-cent pieces, half-dimes and three-cent pieces. The coinage of silver dollars was discon tinued in 1904 and resumed in 1921. How can the claws of a parrot he trimmed? When the bills and claws of the parrot become too long, they may be trimmed with a nail clipper. If con ditions permit plenty of climbing and gnawing on wood, the hill and claws will stay In good condition without trimming. Are Cabinet officials provided for in the Constitution of the United States? The only clause in the Constitution that can be construed to refer to the Cabinet is Section 2 of Article 11.. * which authorizes the President to “require the opinion in writing of the principal officer of each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices ” That these ofcers shall constitute a Cabinet rests wholly upon usage and custom and not provided in the Constitution.
When should peonies be planted? What kind of soil to they require? Plant in August and September in a rather heavy soil, which must be very rich. Plants should be three feet apart and file crowns not more than three inches deep. In how many States is apple blossom the State flower? Arkansas and Michigan. How are ordinary crackers made? Into a half-pound of flour rub a tablespoon of butter, a little salt and enough cold water to make a dough that can be rolled out. Roll very thin. Cut to the desired shape and bake in a very hot oven until a pale brown. How can clothing be cleansed in gasoline? Souse the garment up and down in a bowl of gasoline, rubbing lightly the very soiled places. Wring 'it out and hang in the air to dry. Keep the gasoline away from fire. Sometimes Ivory soap is used with gasolln^. What are the leading religious serfs in France and Scotland? f In Scotland, Presbyterians, that t being the national church. France is largely Roman Catholic, but there is no state church. What is the population of Chftna and of the world? The estimated population of China is 375,000.000, and of the world, 1,-1 748,000,000.