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When Watson Waves His Wand ‘‘l regret that Mr. Hoover has deemed it best to strike at party harmony by invading our State. We are prepared, however, to meet the challenge offered to Senator Watson in his native State, and we have no fear of the outcome.” That’s what M. Bert Thurman, national campaign manager for Senator Watson, said when lie learned that Mr. Hoover had consented to his name going on the primary ballot in Indiana. It illustrates very well the impudent attitude of professional politicians towarcl real Republican or Democratic government. All Hoover did was to accede to the request by many Indiana Republicans that he permit the use of his name in the Republican primary, so that the Republicans of Indiana could vote their convictions as (o whether Hoover or "Watson is the better man for the national Republican party to nominate for president. The only way it strikes at party harmony is by giving Indiana Republicans a chance to vote for somebody besides Jim Watson. Party harmony in Indiana is all right from the Watson standpoint so long as whatever Jim Watson says goes. The only way Hoover invaded the State of Indiana was by permitting Republicans of Indiana to vote for him if they preferred him to Watson. If Indiana Republicans want Watson they can vote for him and against Hoover, and Indiana Republicans will have exercised their right to vote as they please. Watson had no right to assume that onee lie selected himself as Indiana’s favorite son all Indiana Republicans had®to accept his judgment. When they made him Senator to represent the party and the State, they didn’t elect him to be either the party or the State. They made him a servant, not a master, of the State. The real issue is whether the Republicans of Indiana are to have any choice in choosing a Republican candidate for president, or whether they must be deaf, dumb and blind when Watson waves his wand. Death in the West-Bound Lane The graveyard of the North Atlantic seems to have claimed another airplane and its crew Capt. Walter Hinchliffe and a companion believed to be the Hon. Elsie Mackay, daughter of Lord Inchcape. The glimmer of hope remains that they may have come down in some remote region of the American coastline, or were picked up by a small vessel without wireless aboard, on which they might remain for days without .reing heard from. This, it will be remembered. is what happened to Harry Hawker seme years ago. This hope, however, is dim indeed. The chances are that that grim terror which seems to lie in wait for those who venture overseas along the west-bound airlanes between Europe and the North American continent, has claimed two more pioneers. First it caught Nungesser and Coli, the gallant Frenchmen. Then the Princess Lowenstein-Wetheim and her companions, Hamilton and Minchin. And now Hinchliffe and his mysterious passenger, believed to be a girl. And it all seems so foolhardy, some will say,, per. haps. Yet foolhardiness is not always a quality to be despised. All pioneers must have it, to some extent, and, after all, the east-to-west flight across the North Atlantic never has yet been done. Somebody must brave the death which all who have tried it before have met, just to find out why. Five airplanes have made the flight from west to cast; Alcock and Brown, the immortal Lindbergh, Byrd and his crew, Chamberlin and Levine, and Brock and Sclilee. But many have started on the west, ward hop and turned back, while the only three planes which actually tried it never have been heard of since. Why? Since the human brain arrived at the point where It was capable of formulating that question and others like it, millions have died trying to find the answer. We can not wholly agree, therefore, that the apparently tragic adventure was either foolhardy or foolish, since the daring adventure likely was obeying the urge of the pioneer to add to the sum of human knowledge—to find, and conquer, if he could, the strange terror that seems to camp above the Atlantic waiting for those who dare the west-boufid lanes. A Record That Is Wonderful In ten cities of the United States, the four weeks ended Feb. 25, saw not a single death due to traffic accidents. This is disclosed in a survey made public by the Department of Commerce. That is a record of which each of those cities may be proud. The time is not far distant, we believe, when a low traffic death rate will be one of the first things a city will crow about. We believe that honor roll ought to be printed. Here is the list: , Cambridge, Mass.; Canton, O.; Des Moines, la.; Duluth, Minn.; Erie, Pa.; New Bedford, Mass.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Sommerville, Mass.; Waterbury, Conn., and Wilmington, Del. Let's hope that list can grow to more than ten cities in the next survey. Husbands in Tibet have gone on strike, marched on .the capital with banners and demanded equal rights with women. It was bound to happen somewhere. An Oregon man played a horn the other day and chewed fifty sticks of gum at the same time. We don't know what murder lie was being tried for. A couple of Americans were imprisoned in Mexico for highway robbery. They should have tried to prove they were Mexican citizens.

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The Country Wins Common sense increases in the United States Senate. Tuesday afternoon, by a vote of 48 to 25, the Senate passed Senator Norris’ bill for Federal manufacture of power and fertilizer at Muscle Shoals. The bill now goes to the House. The degree of common sense in that body remains to be seen. When the world war ended, the Government of the United States had on its hands one of the greatest power projects in the world, that at Muscle Slioals. It had been built for a three-fold purpose: The development of power, the production of nitrates for explosives and the manufacture of fertilizer for the farmers. Immediately the question was raised, what to do with it, now that the war was over. The simple and obvious answer occurred to some persons, among them Senator Norris: The Government having spent many millions of the people’s money in constructing the plant, it should operate it for the people's benefit. Avery different answer occurred to men in the power business. Turn it over to us, they said, and let us operate. Don't let the Government get into business. Quite a number of concerns urged their claims on the Government in this connection and soon tlic subject was smothered under confusing arguments. Suddenly a light appeared. Henry Ford announced that he would take over the Muscle Shoals plant, under certain terms. Hooray, said the people, if we can't have it ourselevs, let’s let Henry have it; he's the people’s friend. Well, Henry probably is the people’s friend, all right, but the terms he offered for Muscle Shoals constituted the biggest bargain of his long and successful business career—the biggest bargain for Henry. One man saw this fact. Senator Norris, long-time admirer of Henry Ford, went to war against the Ford proposal. In time he succeeded in making Ford’s terms understood by the Senate and the people of the country and Ford withdrew his offer. No other member of the Senate, probably, could have done this. Norris succeeded because he had the confidence of the American farmers, the very class Ford's undertaking was supposed to benefit most. Followed then one scheme after another to turn the great project over to this or that private interest. Norris fought them all down. Practically all were designed to appeal to farmers, emphasizing the fertilizer possibilities and minimizing the power possibilities. One after another Norris debunked these proposals, revealing the purpose behind them. The purpose, he knew', was power; fertilizer in most cases being put forward merely to give the proposals a better smell. Norris’ long campaign came to a triumphant end Tuesday, so far as the Senate is concerned. Muscle Shoals is saved to the people. The Senate has decided against giving it up. The House cannot, alone, give it away, even if disposed to do so. And chances are the House will not be disposed to do so. The common sense of the situation surely has begun to dawn on that body, as It has on the Senate and the country at large. Levine’s Idea Charles A. Levine says he is building a giant airplane with a 180-foot wing spread and seven motors, to engage in regular commercial trans-Atlantic flights. There is many a slip between blue print and completed product, and his proposed plane may not be ready as soon as he thinks. But that sort of thing is coming beyond doubt. The airplane, for all tlic pessimists, will very soon be an important factor in long-distance commercial transportation. Nothing is more foolish than to say, “It never can lie practical.” Remember, it is less than thirty years since one of the most eminent scientists in America “proved’’ conclusively that airplanes never could fly at all. One out of every six automobiles is driven by a woman, a statistician tells us. We don’t know who the statistician Is, but he’s all wrong.

Thirty Million Tourists BY BRUCE CATTON

An automobile association estimates that some 30,000,000 Americans will tour the country in auto- : mobiles this year. That one sentence, as well as any statement that \ could be made, represents the difference between I modern American civilization and all others. Thirty million people—more people than lived ini all of France at the time of the French Revolution ’ —roaming about the country in carefree vagabondage! J Thirty million people vacationing, wandering across I prairies and deserts, through cities and over mountains, getting recreation in the open, widening their - horizons! The earth never saw anything like this before. There have been nomadic nations. The great plains of Russia and Siberia knew tribes of roaming horsemen, who pitched their tents in the fall a thousand miles from the place where spring had found them. From the land-locked Caspian Sea to the Carpathian Mountains they roamed endlessly; now and then they swept on past the Carpathians and overrun Europe with fire and sword. But those peoples roamed of necessity. Their migrations were caused by economic conditions; the search for fresh pasture lands drove them on. The American nomad roams for the fun of roaming. No necessity drives him. The open road calls him, every summer, and away he goes—to return, a few weeks later, brown and fit, ready for another year on the same old job. This is a highly significant fact; the automobile has done something more important than make Henry Ford a billionaire. To eacß American it has brought anew kind of freedom, anew kind of patriotism. Is that too strong a statement? Contrast the lot of the average American today with the lot of his father. A generation ago many men lived out their lives without leaving their home county. Their travels, unless they were fairly well to do, were limited to hurried business trips. Today the man who has not enjoyed the open country of half a dozen neighboring States is a rarity. No longer is it a proud distinction to have been across the continent. This is sure death to provincialism and sectionalism. It means a wider patriotism. The man who knows the beauties of the whole American countryside can not help having a deeper, truer love for his country than if he knew only his own neighborhood. The American is no longer a transplanted European. Among the things that have set him apart, nothing is much more important than the automobile.

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The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times; I am a retired farmer from Brown County. I never was in a large town in my life until I came here to live, and I am not here only to live, but also to learn. I always have longed to know something about science, and since I came to town I have read everything that I could get on the subject. The thing that has puzzled me most was the suggestion that all children of the age of 10 years undergo a mental examination, as a means of eliminating crime. But if by mental examination our scientists could determine just which ones criminally are inclined, then the question arises as to what steps could be taken to prevent the danger, for they couldn't kill a child just because they did not like the way he acts or the way he answers their questions Neither can they bring a criminal charge against him till lie commits a crime. So w f e have our scientists and our D. D.'s and our LL. D.’s all claiming to understand tlic natural law or the law of nature. And yet they read in Genesis. 30th chapter, how Jacob became wealthy b? peeling strips of bark from poplar poles and putting them in the watering troughs, to attract the attention of the prospective mothers among the herd of cattle and the calves came all spotted, streaked and striped. And so I am not almost. but altogether, persuaded that if the streak on the pole made a streak in the cows mind and the streak in her mind made a streak on her calf, that the same law that told the calf what his mother had been thinking about before lie was born, often tells children the thoughts of their mothers before their birth. So may God direct the minds of prospective mothers and keep their thoughts clear of crime, that through and by this alone they may both elevate and safeguard the coming generation. O G. WHIZ. Editor Times: Some time ago an article appeared in The Times in regard to the increase of crime, written by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who now has complete supervision of all Federal penitentiaries and also is assistant attorney general. Her observations are all sound logic as to the increase and causes of crime, but I wish to come to the defense of men, especially our young men. “Woman,” she said, “arc no more criminally inclined today than they were a generation ago. But men have increased in criminal tendency.” Let us look at this increase and see if we can tell who is responsible for it. It is greater among our boys from sixteen to twenty-two. They are more easily attracted by the charms of the opposite sex at that age and they begin to look around for a girl, and they usually are attracted by the scantily clad, painted flapper, who always is looking for someone to show her a good time. But that takes money. Dances, shows, suppers and joy rides cost money. Many of the boys are not out of high school and those who are, 90 per cent of them, are earning no more than legitimate expenses. One of the first questions that will be asked when you start out for a good time, will be: “Have you got anything on your hip?” And you can't be a real sport unless you have it. It is easy to get if you have the money. But money you have got to get, if you commit robbery to obtain it. And the auto you w'ill have to get in the same manner. You may not intend it that wav. but sometimes you do not get it back on time or meet with an accident. Autos at sixty miles an hour arc too slow for some flappers now, they want to fly to get a thrill. So I wish to add three more reasons to Mrs. Willebrandt’s for the increase of crime: <1) The automobile, <2> the hip pocket flask, and (3) the sports loving flapper. A CONSTANT READER.

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Church Blights Love of Abelard

T TER Uncle Fulbert, canon of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, sent Heloise for many years to the convent at Argenteuil; and there, falling in love with the books in the library, she became the brightest student the nuns had ever had. When he learned that she could converse in Latin as readily as in the crude French, which was the language of the people, Fulbert took pride in her, and brought her to live with him, thinking her too learned to waste in a nunnery, surely some rich lord would marry her, and restore her to the high rank from which her mother had fallen. And so Heloise. lovely and learned and seventeeen, came back to Paris and heard of Abelard. And now let the philosopher bare his own heart: There was in the city a certain young maiden by the name of Heloise . . . who, while in face she was not inferior to other women. in the abundance of her learning was supreme. . . . Seeing in her. therefore, all those things which are wont to attract lovers, I thought it suitablejo join her with myself in love, and believed that I could effect this most easily. For such renown had I then, and so excelled in grace of youth and form, that I feared no refusal from whatever woman I might dream worthy of my love. He did not know that already she had gazed upon him from afar, with awe and admiration, and that his fame made her long to pass from the Latin poets whom she read so fondly to the great philosophers whose names filled the mouths of the students that she met. Picture her, then, on that breathless morning when the Canon introduced Abelard to her, and announced that the great teacher would now live with them, and tutor her in literature and philosophy. Perhaps she loved him from that day. He read with her such \ :ts of Plato and Aristotle as had survived the coming of the barbarians, and they played merry games of matching quotations from Ovid and Horace and Virgil. He was 30 and she was 17; was it not just the age which Aristotle had prescribed for mating, in order that the intellect of the man might equal the intelligence of the woman? “What more need I say?” says Abelard. e a tt Tt'IRST in one house we arc JE united, then in one mind. So. under the pretext of study, we abandoned, ourselves utterly to love, and the study of our texts afforded us those secret retreats which love demands. And so, our books lying before us, more words of love than of letters rose 4o our lips, and kisses were more freouent than speech. . “Oftener our hands went to each other’s bosoms than to the page. . . . And the more this pleasure occupied me, the less leisure could I find for philosophy and my school. Most tedious was it for me to go to the school or to stay there; laborious likewise to keep daily vigils of study and nightly vigils of love.” We shall never understand this love if we think of it in terms of our current (or reefint) moral code. Abelard was aiming at the priesthood, as the only road to advancement for scholars and philosophers in his day; and marriage would have closed this door in his face. Heloise understood, and never wished for marriage; she wanted him to be great and reach the heights, and it would be enough for her to have his love. It is a strange romance, in which the woman, already enciente, rejects the offer of the man to marry her. “And if,” she writes to him, “the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine. ... I call God to witness, if Augutus, ruling over the whole world, were to deem me worthy of the honor of marriage, and were to confirm the whole world to me, to be ruled by me for-

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ever, dearer to me and of greater dignity would it seem to be called thy strumpet than his empress.” Therefore, he does not exaggerate when he tells us how long she argued against their marriage: She asked me, what glory she was like to have from me when she made me inglorious, and equally humiliated herself with me. What a penalty this world would be entitled to exact from her if she took from it so bright a lantern; what maledictions, what prejudice to the church, what tears of philosophers would follow such a marriage. How indecorous, how lamentable it would be were I to dedicate myself. whom nature had created for all mankind, to a single woman, and subject myself to so base a condition. . . . For what concord is there (she went on) between pupils and serving-maids, desks and cradles, books and distaves, pens and spindles? Who, too, intent upon philosophic or sacred meditation, can endure the wailing of children, the lullabies of the nurs's, the tumultuous mob of the household? . . . Remember that Socrates was wedded, and with how sordid a case he first purged that stain on philosophy, that thereafter other men might by his example be made more prudent. tt m n BUT suddenly the Canon, obtuse before, understood tlic whisperings of the students in the town. *belard's lectures since love had won him from philsopliy. Abelard, accused and denying, was banished

South B*nd Tribune Professor Irving Fisher of University says prohibiton is at least eighty-five per cent successful. The “failure of prohibition*” has been enormously exaggerated, he believes, and prohibition’s good results will increase as time goes on. Furthermore the benefits derivable from it at the present time are too great to countenance nullication campaigns, the noted economist holds. “Sobriety means productivity,” Is the way he puts it. Every well known economist in the country was invited to express any opposition on economic grounds at a round table on prohibition held under the auspices of the American Economic Association in St. Louis a year ago. While many opposed prohibition for other reasons not one was willing to oppose it for economic reasons.” Professor Fisher adds -that all open-minded students attribute part of the nation's prosperity to prohibition and though no statistics are available he estimates that part to be about one-fifth. That estimate is conservative enough. The economic benefits of prohibition can not be given in exact figures but their existence can not be denied. Prohibition, as Herbert Hoover said recently, is a great experiment. Much unpleasantness is outweighed by obvious benefits. Kokomo Dispatch At the eleventh hour Indiana has been given the assurance of an exciting race for the presidential preference in the Republican primary. Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce in the Coolidge administration, lias entered the lists against Senator James E. Watson. It now remains to be seen who is the “favorite son.” While those Republicans who are opposed to the “peanut politics” of “Our Jim” might have secured a stronger candidate to put in the field against Watson, especially in the rural districts, the resentment against Indiana’s senior senator is so evident and so outspoken, there is little doubt that Hoover will be able to give an excellent account of himself

from the Canon's house, and Heloise heard with terror the stern command. that she must never set eyes on him again. She could not bear it: she wrote him a note, proposing their flight together; and the next day they were riding, as fast as her condition would let them, ,to his brother’s home in distant Brittany. Leaving her there, at her own request, he went back to Paris, to fight his way to place and dignity. But the Canon was enraged, and let it be known that he would have the philosopher’s life in penalty for the theft of her who had been dear!er to him than anything in this world except his meals. Abelard went to him, half in pity . and half In fear, acknowledged his I violation of trust and hospitality, and offered to marry Heloise, if the Canon would consent to keep the marriage secret in order that Abelard might enter the priesthood. The Canon, careless of the Canon law. agreed; Heloise, leaving her infant son, Astrolabe, in Brittany, came home, protested that she would ne'er be married, yielded at last and then found herself prac- | tically imprisoned in the Canon's I home. At Abelard's suggestion she took j refuge with her old teachers, the nuns ot Argentueil; and there she ; waited, hoping that her lover would come. “I wait for thee,” she said; “it may be two or three years; no matter; I shall wait, and my heart will not lighten till tidings reach me of thy ordination." iGopyrißht, 1928. by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

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and may even trim the veteran solon right on his own stamping grounds. Certainly, interest in the presidential campaign in Indiana will perk up now, and be a live issue from here on to the primary election day, May 8. While Hoover, by his entry into the Indiana campaign, will incur the hatred of the Watson machine, he will lose nothing by that, for he already has stepped on the toes of machine politicians when he entered the Ohio primary against that State’s “favorite son.” He has everything to gain, therefore, and nothing to lose by his entry into the Indiana campaign.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: * Love Is the Oldest Religion in the World; It Has Not Only Remained, to See a Hundred Religions Come and Go, but It Was Here Before Any of Them.”

Nancy Miller of Seattle goes through the rites of conversion to Hinduism to marry the maharajah of Indore. To us the ceremonies of Hinduism seem meaningless. We sense no spirituality in the sacrifice of rice balls one has cooked. Likewise, we do not understand or appreciate why Hindus feel the same way toward the ceremonies of our religion. It is just another illustration of that weakness common to all man which Robert Burns cried out against when he said, “Oh. wad ■some power the giftic gie us to sec oursels as others sec us.” Love Is Oldest Religion In this particular case, love obscures religion. Wrong though it may be, one cannot help feeling that it was a Hindu, rather than Hinduism, who moved tlic young lady to change her faith Even so, the incident was a thousand parallels. When it comes to influence witli the majority of those under thirty, and some who will never sec thirty, j or even forty again, Cupid has a ! way with him that must make [ oilier gods envious. Nor does this look so strange I when lie remembers that love is the | oldest religion in tlic world, that | it has not only remained (o sec a j hundred religions come and go, but that it was here before any of them. tt tt tt Takes Hindu Name Among other requirements to bc- ! come a Hindu. Miss Miller had to ; change her name. She is now Devt Sharmista. Her family and friends, I especially the grandmother who is j with her, will remember her as i Nancy Ann. but the East with its age old abstractions, its transcendentalism and its impersonal philosophy, takes little account of such western frivolities. Nancy Ann belongs to twentieth century America- Hinduism demands something of greater antiquity, something that smacks of custom and creed that were mature long before Columbus sailed toward the sunset, or even Christ was born. a a a Trader Horn With Us Hinduism lias nothing on us when it comes to changing names, ! though we do it for different j reasons. Our Bryans, w'ho were once j O’Briens, our Martins, who were 1 once Martinis, our Barnstons, who were once Barnsteins, and our j Smythes, who were once Smiths, j only to mention some of the milder alterations, represent practicality, rather than reverence. Just now we have a Horn with us—" Trader Horn” who was christened Alfred Aloysius Smith, who attached himself to the former name for on better reason than that it looked w'ell in print. Only a few years ago this “Trader Horn” was glad to get enough to put his feet under the table three times a day by selling gridirons, egg turners, biscuit cutters and similar knick-knacks to the housewives of Johannesburg, South Africa. Under such circumstances, tlic name of Smith, or even that of “Zambesi Jack” did as well as any other. But when a lady found his memories interesting, peruaded him to w'rite them down, whipped them into shape and made them available for publication and sale, a ►.more romantic appellation seemed desirable. n tt n Keeping Records Straight A man can make one name as well as another, can be christened as Cohen and become famous as Reilly. There is very little in a name, though publishers and moving picture producers seem to think otherwise. What you do with It tells the story and as a general proposition the one belonging to your family is the best. It certainly is the best fo>' the purpose of keeping records straight. Though some names are changed as a mere matter of preference or to get publicity, more are chang i so that records cannot be kc; straight. * m * Deceit of Snobs You can forgive the criminal for this because deceit, pretense and dis guise are essential to his trade. Bu‘. when it comes to taking anew nani< because dad wore overalls or mother took in washing, or because It promises to open doors where sham aristocracy resides, the thing deserves nothing, and generally draws nothing but contempt. The thief’s alias is eminently respectable compared to the snob's It speaks well for this country that so few people have found it desirable to change their names: that all of our Presidents, most o! our statesmen and the vast majority of our famous men and women in every walk of life have not thought new names necessary either to win success or to Kcu," its laurels, but have been content to exalt those that came to them in the natural way. How can I clean a small hat made of ribbon? If the hat is made entirely of ribbon with no buckram or wire frame merely wash it by squeezing in gasoline. If it has a frame use a soft brush and gasoline or any commercial cleaner. What was Protagoras? A Greek sophist of Abdera in Thrace, who lived in the fifth century. B. C. He wrote a book in which he denied the existence or a Supreme Being, which was publicly burned at Athens, and Us author banished from the city.