Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 150, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times BOX W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. WM. A. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • * Client of the United Presa and the NEA Service • • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation*. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis 'Lime* Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St* Indianapolis • * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cent* a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA In 3500.

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

KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA electric lines furnish twenty-four-hour freight service to points within a radius of 250 miles. The same far-reaching system of transportation, through close cooperation, makes sec-ond-day deliveries on freight shipments over a distance of 350 miles.

A CALL FOR FACTS Wayne B. Wheeler sidesteps a little too swiftly the report of the Moderation League concerning drinking in 1925 compared with drinking in previous years. The spokesman for the Anti-Salooil League is satisfied with his own allegation that he Moderation League has “Juggled figures.” Will the reading public be equally satisfied when it compares the statenent of the Moderation League with the statement >y Wheeler? This newspaper does not vouch for the accuracy -f the Moderation League. It does not vouch for its ;onesty of purpose, even, though it assumes such .onesty in the light of any evidence to the con- . rary. It knows only that the directors of the league nclude such men as Elihu Root, Haley Flske, presilent Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Wm. C. Redfield, former United States secretary of'commerce. While it is customaty for professional prohibitionists to dismiss any organization that opposes their view with the that it is fostered by brewers aiad distillers, they cannot dispose of Root, Fiske nd Redfield in this manner. These three men represent a great and growing part of the population which sincerely wishes enlightenment on the uibject of prohibition. The Moderation League offers figures obtained from police records to show that in the 354 cities nvestigated there has been steadily increasing drinking among minors in recent years, and steadily increasing drunkenness among automobile drivers. “Os course,” replied /Wheeler, there are more drunken auto drivers now than formerly because we now have 20,000,00(1 automobiles compared to some thousands a few years ago. He is right in saying that the number of automobile drivers has increased. In the Moderation League’s statement, for example, ( it is found that in New Jersey the number of automobiles increased 273 per cent “between 1918 and 1925. But arrests among automobile drivers for drunkenness increased in that same period, 480 per cent. In Massachusetts automobiles increased 196 per cent in that period, while arrests for drunken driving increased 740 per cent! And so on. It is not intended here to argue the case for either tlfe Moderation League or the Anti-Saloon League. It is Intended only, first to call attention to the fact that a responsible organization, whose directors always have commanded the respect of <the American people, has made an extensive and, apparently, careful report on drinking in America, under prohibition. And that this organization, as the result of its inquiry, that drinking is stehdily increasing, not decreasing. Second, to call attention to the fact that the official spokesman for he AntiSaloon League dismissed the information offered with a contemptuous slur Finally, to suggest that some responsible body undertake to analyze these new evidences and give the country the benefit of its study. For, as said above, there is an increasingly large number of people who are coming to demand some positive knuowledge on the subject. THEY’VE GOT A LOT/TO LEARN We doubt if the Filipinos are striving earnestly enough to prepare themselves for self-government. They should have a commission, or a lot of commissions, in this country right now studying how it is done. petrolt offered a comparatively simple lessson yesterday, where the police wSre used to protect one set of delegates against another set in the State Republican convention. The Filipinos could absorb that lesson easily enough. Illinois presents a problem in government a little more difficult, but still one that any literate Filipino can understand. There the State’s biggest gas, light and power magnate has financed the nomination of the Republican party’s candidate for the United States Senate! The plain voters permitted this to be done. The problem is: Whom will this candidate represent, if elected to the Senate, the people or the power magnate? The Filipino commission wouldn’t have to‘look in the back of the book for the answer to that. Pepnsylvania is perhaps the most useful laboratory of all, containing problems both simple and complicated. There is the city of Philadelphia, for example, where the Vare machine allows the citizens to go to the polls, but doesn’t count their votes, the final tabulations always being made before the voting ends —sometimes, in the case of extremely efficient workers, before the voting even begins. There is Pennsylvania at large, which illustrates one of the hazards of self government. Mr. Mellon and his associates put up $1,800,000 to nominate their man for the United States Senate and, by all precedent, that should be enough. But Mr. Vare, spending only SBOO,OOO, somehow managed to take the nomination himself. The Filipinos could put in a lot of time ascertaining just how this came about. One thing to be determined would be why Mr. Vare’s thousands of $lO-a-day watchers were mafe successful than Mr. Mellon's thousands of $lO-Tt-day watchers. Then there is the matter of natipnal psychology for the Filipinos to study. That is most interesting of all. They could observe, for instance, the national outcry against the money spent in Illinois and in Pennsylvania and the national determination that, if the two nominees are elected in November, the United States Senate must promptly throw them out. The Filipinos could take in that psychology readily enough. But here’s one situation they might have a little difficulty with: If it is proposed to throw Vare out because he spent too much, then would Mr. Mellon’s candidate be thrown out because Mr. Mellon spent too much? Surely, the Filipinos would say. Ah, dear Scholars, not so fast. Remember Mr. Mellon i/ Mr. Mellon. Don’t assume that self-government Is entirely a matter of rules or that

a rule applying to one person necessarily applies to another. No, President Coolldge Isn't going to throw' Mr Mellon out of his cabinet. Any Filipino commissions that come to study us might as well know that in advance. Fall, Denby and Daugherty, but not Mr. Mellon. Well, not to digress any further, if the Filipinos wish to fit themselves for self-government, this United States of America, in this year 1926, is the place for them to come. IT’S A SAI) STORY, MATES “The last days of the proud clipper ships, that for half a century bore the commerce of America upon the oceans, are here ” So writes Max Stern from San Francisco. "Like once noble dames, now shabby genteel, the members of the Pacific coast s fleet of the romantic eighties, are making a sorrowful procession into a fate worse than oblivion. One by cue they are being sold into the movies to end their days in fake sea battles and fake pirate raids.’’ It Is a sad story. But Is the story of the fate of these stout, sailing ships any sadder than that of the Vgreat American merchant marine built by the Government during and since the war. Modern freighters and great passenger liners that gave our country an ocean tonnage to challenge all the world, they lie now on the auction block for someone, anyone, to buy. The clipper ships have gone because they outlived their time and their usefulness. Our great merchant marine Is going because they are fitting too well Into the times, because they are becoming too useful. They are beginning to pay back the people’s money. They are about to prove that the Government—despite its unwilling servants—can operate fleets successfully, with profit to itself and great savings to shippers. And that must not be permitted.* As one organ of'ttae private shipowners sug gested, if this success is allowed, next we will see other public utilities operated solely for the people. Sad, but romantic, the fate of the old windjammers. Sad, and morbid, the fate of our modern merchant marine.

THE FLOUR MILLERS The District of Columbia Supreme Court has decided that the Federal Trade Commission has no right to demand books ana correspondence of American flour millers. ,o decision has been hailed in some quarters as a. “rebuke to the commission’s meddling with business.” Perhaps these commentators hare forgotten that the commission before the millers wens to court, had dug up enough evidence to indicate brazen disregard of the anti-trust laws. In the commission's own words, a preliminary report presented “extensive documentary evidence already obtained relating to alleged violations of the anti-trust laws, and indicates cons-' us attempts to violate those laws.” ' For Instance, the secretary of one miller’s club wrote to another to ask how they handled price settling and received a reply which read in part: “Send information (of the price level desired to be maintained) to the members. Use blank stationery and I would not put any name to It. This can be understood among your members. I think you would have a considerable task to convince the Department of Justice of your innocence. One refy important feature is as little information In writing as possible." N „

MAYBE HENRY THOUGHT OF THAT Ail sorts of interpretations have been placed on Henry Ford’s announcement that he Will-make the five-day week standard in his shops. Here’s an angle that hasn’t been brought forward : "• People who work only five days a week have more time to ride_around In motor cars—Fords included. If the five-day week should become standard, increased use of autos might result. It s just possible that Henry may have thought of that angle. ' The auto industry hasn’t reached the saturation point, but a car which drove into an Ohio rive* has. Some children are Incorrigible. In Alabama, a county school burned the first day. It takes two to start a fight or a family and too often there isn’t so very much difference. A checkered career leads to a striped suit.

THE FAMILY TIE —By Mrs. Walter Ferguson-

•) If you do not believe that the family is a necessary safeguard for both Nation and individuals, read about the gangs of homeless Russian children who now flock by thousands through the streets of Moscow, addicted to drugs, drink and all other Jorms of dissipation. Russia, you remember, started out to release the individual from responsibility, and hoped to create another Utopia by having the government look after everything. She is now in a most dreadful state of chaos. Men and women have been allowed to marry as often as tlkey pleased by merely asking for divorces. This to many persons is supposed to be the acme of human happiness. Make divorce easier they cry, make marriage easier. Let everybody have his freedom and do as he pleases. Well, they have tried this out in Russia, and there are more miserable men and women there to the square inch than any other place on the globe. Women find themselves deserted by husbands of a few months. Men watch their wives go off with other men and can do nothing. Cfffidren are abandoned and roam the country like wild anirruils. No government can ever take the plafce of home either for man, woman or child. The family spirit is as old as humanity, and the ages have proved that it is the only safe way to live. In Russia, because men and women have been allowed. to shift their responsiblity to the state, there are social problems that it will take generations to clean up. The evil which is being done by this blow at family life, will take ages to eradicate. Russian children of today who are left at large can only grow into criminals. Those of us here who are jumping about, yelping for individual freedom and divorces and trial marriages, and contending that just as well be raised in boarding school, would do well to think about Russia and her dreams. In this country, too, the family is becoming a weaker unit. Freedom for everybody is beginning to be the watch 'cry, and that cry has always preceded .chaos since the world began.

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Thousands Spent to Improve Keith’s Theater

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Artists have done over the curtain (left) at B. F. TCeTlh’s to thatch the expensive decorations in the auditorium. The right hand side boxes and wall decorations are shown in the picture to the right. ,

With an expenditure of over $40,000 and with bills still coming in B. F. Keith's, now looks like a new theater. It required more than seven weeks to give this theater its new dress. Roltare Eggleston claims with pride that he now manages a brand new theater. When a management starts improving it means that a lot of money is going to he spent. “An example of expenses is shown," Eggleston states, “when It is known that just one large chandelier cost $2,500. and the canopy rep-

Tracy Think, a Moment, of the Families of" Those Trapped Miners,

By M. E. Tracy __ Ironwood, Mich., is making good stories for the front page this week, but at the expense of heartache and backache. They’re down there on the eighth level of the Pabst mine, forty-three of them, blocked off by thousands of tons of rubbish and shut up in a cojd damp chamber, without food or light since last Friday. It makes interesting reading for millions who have nothing at stake, but what about the little community that knows most of those men by their first names, the wives who may be widows next week, the laughingeyed tots who can’t understand why Daddy doesn't come home any more? -I- + -IMoving Day October is moving day In New York, though why. nobody seems to know. People don't go out of toVn, or come into town, but just change places, and nine times out of ten they fail to better themselves by doing so. You can’t explain the thing on any other basis, save ‘.hat of fad, custom, habit, a sort of grand climax to summer restlessness. The New York Telephone Company has already received orders to change 65,000 phones, and the gas companies will transfer more than 70,000 meters. Experienced moving men say this Indicates that at least 100.000 families will change their places of residence. -I- -I- + He Climbs Java Man, the missing link, or plthecanthropos erectus, as you prefer, has been given better standing in the jruman family by the discovery of a perfect skull which he left behind some milleniums ago. Hitherto, his appearance, place in the line and scientific value were made rather doubtful by the fact that they had to be reconstructed from a thigh bone anti some teeth, but an entire skull makes It possible to say quite accurately what Java Man looked like, what intelligence he possessed and .where he tits, , We are hearing more about our ancestors with the spade than from written records, which is humiliating because it suggests that some of them couldn’t write. •I- I- -IWrong Judge Five members of the New York Baseball Club were arrested for violating traffic regulations the other day. They’ sought to protect the sport by giving assumed names, but the judge was a fan and knew them. -I- -I- -IOne W,ay to Clean Up Chicago is becoming optimistic with regard to her gang war. She feels that it has about run its course, and clinches the argument by declaring that there isn’t anybody left to do the shooting. The leaders are either dead, or in jail, though mostly dead, and their followers are too demoralized to carry on. There have been seventy-five killings within the last two years, and they were net among th rank and file, as the elaborate funerals prove. >. Chicago’s underworld has made Itself leaderless, which ig, one way to get rid of an underworld. -I- -I- -I* The Red Devil The Northwest is suffering from the worst forest fires it has experienced since 1910. Lack, of rain is not only responsible for their breaking out, but for the fact that they cannot be •brought under* control. Thousands of men have been fighting them for weeks with every known device—airplanes, trenches, pumps, wet blankets dragged over the ground, and backfires. outside the lumber and pulp how great the dam-

resents a cost of $4,250 and the electric sign amounted to $2,700.” And a now* drinking fountain in the men’s room cost $62, and just the making (not the material) of the draperies cost $787. So the ladies may have quiet charm in their reception room, a needle point lace seat cost $225. And four other chairs cost $65 apiece. A total of $3,950 was spent on new scenery and some oil paintings have been Installed in the foyer. Anew system ot heat registers has improved the ventilation. A large amount of money has heon spent, hut B. F Keith's today in its new dress ts a beauty spot.

age is. or how K' may affect life unless stopped. Forest fires, in spite of all that j has been done to check and prevent | them, are still destroying more trees I than man. , - -|- -|- -|- “Lookee,” Judge The first American to fly over the Andes, Lieutenant Doolittle, did so i with both ankles In plaster casts. He had broken them several j weeks previously, hut refused to give up the attempt. I offer this for the thoughtful con- ; sideration of that Pennsylvania judge who decided that the loss of a big too incapacitated a man for work. -I- -I* + I Intelligence Governor Smith has more sense j than the majority of Democratic leaders, especially in New York. Realizing that the party must stand for something, that it couldn’t hope to get anywhere by Just being against things, he forced the State convention to adopt a declaration In favor of joining the ’World Court. He had a tough time doing it, too. for, running true to form, most of the boys were opposed. The Democratic party has fed on opposition so long that when there Isn t anything else to he against, It will repudiate Its own policies. That, more than any other on v factor. accounts for its weakness tc'dav, aul Governor Smith has enough j statesmanship to see it. ( His move will he put down as a bid ifor the 1928 nomination, of course, but that doesn't rob it of Its intelligence.

T~ Another Bible Review

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Try this test to determine your familiarity with the Bible. The following questions are all taken from the Bible. Write your answers and check them with the correct list on page 16: 1— Biblical scene does the accompanying sketch portray? 2 Who was ATiraham’s first born? 3 Who were the parents of Esau and Jacob? 4 Who watched over Moses when he was a baby and placed him in a basket on the edge of a river? —Who was the first king of Israel? 6 For how many pieces of silver was Joseph sold into slavery by his brothers? 7 Who eommandeth the death of Jezebel? ‘ B—How many years did it take Sol*mon to complete the building of the temple? 9 How many generations separated Abraham and Jesus? 10— What caused the death of Annanias? %

BULB PLANTING TOPIC g* Garden FTower Society Meets at Central Library. Methods of planting bulbs were explained by Paul Smith in a talk Tuesday nfght at a meeting of the Garden Flower Society at central library. Peonies were discussed by Floyd Bass. Harry Dietz talked on “Lillies.” John Gruelm&n, manager of the Wayside Gardens, Mentor, Ohio, will speak at a meeting Oct. 20.

STUMP ASSAILS WATSON Bu United Prett DANVILLE t Ind., Sept. 29.—An attack on Senator Watson and principals of the Republican party was mac'e by Albert Stump, Democratic senatorial candidate, in an address before Danvillf voters Tuesday night. Stump repeated the charge made by Claris Adams last spring that Watson's thirty years- in Congress was “a demonstration of sterile statesmanship.”

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Now the Song Writers Find Scandal in 1 The Life of Little Red Riding Hood

By Waiter D. Hickman There comes a day when somebody spills the “beans'' about our beloved characters in fairy and Mother Goose yarns. You know .the “truth” came out about Helen of Troy In book form. And now the song writers are after our dear sweet little Red Rid- ! ing Hood. So much so that the i title of a song reads as follows: ■ “How Could Red Riding Hood Have Been So Very Good and Still Keep the Wolf from the Door?” Got acquainted first with this new nifty on a Brunswick record as delivered by the Y'acht Club Boys. The song writer declares that the youth of today is questioning a bunch of these Mother Goose fairy tales. The song writer says it to melody that Little Red Riding Hood couldn’t have been so very good because she had no mamma and papa living hut that her basket was filled with food. And also about the wolf being in the bed of Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmamma with a sunbonnet on—well that Is questioned. And also—Red Riding Hood, dressed in loud colors, and although she was a sweet little girl, she went romping through the woods. Burlesque and travesty have been on the stage for years. The big revues have used this type of song for seasons and now it Invades the phonograph record. I like a nifty laugh quite often, and I admit I get quite a kick out of playing this recor® The lyrics are rather rapid, that I admit, but it is a lot of fun^ The Yacht Club Boys do a mighty good job putting over this light little burlesque jingle on a Brunswick record. On the other side, you will i And “Every Little While”*with the | Yacht Club Boys doing the honors. Dance Records Have been asked to list in review some new dance records. This time I will use a Columbia list, at follows: “Ace in the Hole” E. Gr-PMi Orchestra. -4 Cud of Coffee. ' aeo KeUmun onlies■‘AdqrnMe.” Clieuuot Club Eskimos. A Little unxalow." W. C. Polls* Orchestra. Mwars” Cllcuot Club Eskimos Rambqola. 1 rati! Spt-eht Ori h'gtra. _ ‘'Behind the Cloud*. Harry Roger's Syncopatora. “Birdie. 1 ' Markel and Hie Orchestra "Black Bottom." H. La Lanin Orchestra. “Black Horse Stomp." Markel and HU Orchestra. "Blinky Moon Bay.” Paul Ash and HU Orchestra. “Blue Bonnet—You " Tpana Tronbadors. "Blue for You.” Charles Fulcher Orchestra. “Blue Rhythm.” Hal Kemp Orchestra. "Blue Room." Fred Rich Orchestra. " Rfcakin' the Leg." Warners Seven Aces. "But I Do—You Know I Do.’ Paul Ash Orchestra.

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Bye Bye Blackbird " Leo Reisman Orchestra. “By the Waters of Minnetonka.” Art Kahn and HU Orchestra. "Cabaret Echoes." Parent!’s Syneopators. “Carolina Stomp.” F. Henderson Orchestra. "Cherie. I Lore You.” R. Gorman Orchestra. "Chinese Moon.” Leo Reisman Orches“Chinkv Butterfly/' Cliquot Eskimos. "Clap Halids !” The Georgians. "Cliquot...: Clicquot Club Eskimos. "Cossack Love." Ipana Troubadours. "Could I?" Little Ramblers. "Deep Henderson." Bufßtlodian*. “Don t Wait Too Lo ng.'Jr Eikins Orchestra. “Don t Wake Me Up." T. Lewi? Band "Dreaming of a Castle." California Ramblers. "Dream of Love and You." I.eo Reism.an Orchestra. "Drifting and Dreaming." Ted LewU and His Rand. “Drifting Apart.” . Paul Speeht Orchestra. "Everything's Gonna Be All Right. Ipana Troubadours.

MR. FIXIT “No Dumping” Sign Has No Effect,

Let Mr. Ftxlt present your case to city officials. He is The Tunes' renreeentalive at the city hall. Write him at The Timea. "No Dumping,” ns a warning, has little effect tin those who dump rubbish ba(® of Milburn St., it would seem from a letter Mr. Fixlt has received. D|AR MR. FTXIT: I live in the 1800 block on Milburn St. There was a sign “no dumping” on the levee hank of Milburn along Fall Creek, hut people have done away with this sign and are dumping all*kinds of rubbish there, also in the alley hack of Milburn, making It impossible to get back to my garage. TIMES READER. Don’t get into the dumps about this. An investigation will be made at once. DEAR MR FTXIT: Taxpayers in the vicinity of Maple Lane ami Emerson Ave. solicit your heip in getting the street fixed. There has been a hole in Emerson Ave. for two years. It Is constantly growing larger and the writer knows of two accidents there this summer. TAXPAYER. Mr. Fixlt always is eager to tackle one of these historical complaints. You will have relief soon. Complaints concerning the alley hack of 1501 N. Chester St. and 2900 block on S. New Jersey St. are being taken care of.

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You run gi t an AM Don cl ic i ,ir i ifiu ni : . ■ In ' C. 2 for reply Medical. iclvii-c , auieM i,|. Uiren 11.4 rocer. 'i In- un Iprtakei vA* niie-tion? will rcitivr a f \ ii - ■** ■: All letters are eonlidciitiallF?.-*tjb;s From what stones ljj'tVvy?, made? made fruni^^^H shells. What is tlie meaning “ataraxia? >-■ Freedom from passion; ness; stoicism. G|jH What is (lie boiler Stanley Steamer auto? can they go? Under running pressure In. I .' Steamer carries 600 12'; miles an hour is about est speed. 9H How many locomotives in the United States? Iwj It is estimated that there 150 in use in 1926. Where was Ricardo Cortew movie actor, born? WTiat present address? SI Born in Alsace-Lorraine, fB Christie Hotel, 6732 Hollywood I* Hollywood, Cal. i Sept. 19, 1599. His address

Fallin Down." Little RambJert. W "Five Foot Two." Lanin's Red Heads. ■ ‘Fond of You." H. Reser's Synconators, M , ‘For Heaven's Sake." Ipana Trouba. ■ doura. ■ "The Girl Friend.” California Ramblers, l “Give Me Today." California Ram* 1 biers. I “Go Get ‘Em Caroline.'* Warner’s Seven J Aces. M "Gond-Nlfrbt.” Ipana Troubadours. a Gypsyland.” Ipana Troubadours. C “Hello. Aloha I" The Radiolites. ■ “Here Comes Malinda.” Little Ram ■ biers. ■ "Here Comes Emallne." Buffalodlans. ■ "Hero In My Arms." Loo Reisman Or*. 1 cnestra. i "Ht-Didd!e-Dlddle." Ted Lewis Band "Hl-Ho the Merrio.” Knickerbockers. “Hobo's Prayer," Art Kahn Orchestra. "Honey Bunch." Paul Spccht and Orchestra. "Horses." The Georgians. "Hot Henry!' The Little Ramblers. ’ "How Many Times?" The Radiolites. "t Found a Roundabout Way." Ipana Troubadours. I "I Love My Baby.” Little Ramblers. "I May Be Dancing." Leo Reisman Or- I chestra. "I Never Knew.” R. Gorman Orchestra. "I Never Knew How Wonderful You Wore." Leo Reisman Orchestra. “I Want Somebody to Cheer Me Up.’* Ross Gorman Orchestra. "I Wish t I Was in Peoria.” Ted Lewis and His Band. “I Wonder What's Become of Joe?" The Little Ramblers. r Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight." The Knickerbockers. "I’d Climb the Highest Mountain.” California Ramblers. ** * B Indianapolis theaters today ofieri Eddie Leonard at Keith’s; "Capers of 1926” at the Lyrlcj Lockett and Page at the Palace; "The Strong Man” at the Circle; “The Flaming FVontler” at the Colonial; "Blarney” at the Apollo; "The Combat” at tho Uptown: “Hold That Lion” at the Ohio; "French Models” at the tual, and “The Texas Streak” at Isis.

NEW RUBBER SOURCE African Tree Yields Good Sap; Company Is Formed. Bv United Brett CAPETOWN, South Africa, Sept. 29.—A rich new source for •bbber has been found here. It has been discovered that the African euphorbia tree yields a sap or latex of a j quality comparable with that of para rubber. A South African company has been organized to exploit a vast Jungle near East London, said to number more than 80,000,000 trees. The average tree yields throe* pounds of latex. Attompts at vulcanizing are said to have bfeon quite satisfao.; tory. Stress is laid on the faot that la*, hor is plentiful in the East London ' district, and that he region is frail! from fever.