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Indiana At Her Best This city today is host to countless thousands who come to what has become a great international event. There is something more than a race or a contest at the Speedway. It is the annual reminder that all civilization depends upon transportation and especially speed of transportation and that Indiana has always been a leader in the new means and methods. This State has had a glorious history and is destined to have an even greater part in future triumphs. , Its A'ictories have been record, not alone on battlefields, where men die, but in the peaceful pursuits and accomplishments where men learn to live more fully and completely. There is something significant, perhaps, in the fact that the head of the great Speedway race was this Nation’s most courageous ace during the World War and that Capt. Eddie Riekenbacker, once the idol of those who admire daring and courage, is now turning these same admirable qualities toward changing Avhat Avere once implements of Avar into the vehicles of peace. These auto races are watched by automotive engineers not alone for neAV devices of speed, but for more safety. Just how much they have contributed to the development of the auto, now the universal means of transportation in this country, Avill never be accurately estimated, but it is not small. It is a mistake to say that this Nation or this day is dedicated to the God of Speed. It is dedicated to greater opportunities for experience and fuller lives. Indiana is proud of her great auto contest. It is proud that here in this State is kept alive the desire for greater things, better things. *> Indiana, at her best, leads in encouraging ! the perfection of mechanism in a mechanical age and in developing courage Avhen life, in its complexity, is in too great danger of becoming standardized. * Shooting by Dry Agents Rather more sympathy than necessary has been wasted on bootleggers who have been shot down in resisting officers. Yet the fact remains that the prohibition agent or policeman who is too quick on the trigger is a menace to the community. In Michigan recently a prohibition agent saw a man on a river in a rowboat. He called to him to stop, and shot when the man failed to do so. The man Avas killed. It developed that he was an innocent man and had not heard the officer’s hail. The dry agent was sentenced to prison. Friends of the dry agent asked Governor Fred W. Green for a pardon. Governor G een refused, saying. “I have no sympathy for officers who shoot first and find out about it afterward. . . . Just because somebody doesn’t jump at an officer’s command is no just reason for the officer to start shooting. There is altogether too much of this deplorable practice going on.” Congress Makes a Record A tired Congress adjourned yesterday. For almost six months it had labored faithfully, often withont the full appreciation and support of the country. Despite some notion to the contrary, these Representatives and Senators work when in Washington; they certainly have worked this year. In this session there has been less partisanship, perhaps than customary in campaign years. Though the total authorized expenditures of $4,600,000,000 established a record for peacetime, most of the increases Avere required by rising costs of a growing Nation and emergency legislation, such as Mississippi flood control. It was not a pork barrel session. Major accomplishments include, in addition to the flood control'act, tax reduction, postal rate reduction, German-American war claims settlement, a SIOO,000,000 public building program, increased appropriations for agricultural extension work and reforestation, a merchant marine act, and a $20,000,000 salary increase for underpaid Government employes. Congress tried to meet the farmers’ demand for relief by passing the McNary-Haugen bill, providing a revolving fund and equalization fee for marketing surplus products. The President vetoed the bill as unconstitutional and fallacious. This paper shares many of the Coolidge objections to the measure, though it believes that agriculture has as much right as manufacturing and chipping industries to special protection. We think the farmers now will be driven, and properly so, to equalising their economic status with the rest of the country, by lowering the protective tariff on industries no longer infants. The revenue act is a good one. For this much of the credit is due the President. He stood out against demands of the Democrats and the United States Chamber of Commerce for a tax reduction of more than $300,000,000. Perhaps the Federal budget might have balanced had the revenue cut exceeded the $222,000,000 provided by the new act, but this was the safer figure. In a campaign year when Congress and the President are subjected to unusual pressure for pork appropriations and excessive tax reduction, there was danger of a Federal deficit, which now is passed. Os equal importance, the tax law leaves sufficient margin for continued rapiq retirement of the public debt. To burden future generations with the costs of the war would be as unsound financially and morally. Congress did well to remove the automobile tax, on the pledge of manufacturers that the entire saving would be passed on to the public. Thanks to the progressives of both parties, the Administration failed in its efforts to abolish the inheritance tax. Congress is especially to be commended for its

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splendid record in facing basic economic problems of the Nation, such as the encroachments of the power industry, the maladjusted coal industry, unemployment resulting from mechanization of all industry, misuse of injunctions and denial of civil rights in labor dsputes, and effort of some men of great wealth to corrupt elections, bribe public officials, and steal the Nation’s resources. These problems are not to be solved in a day. But it is gratifying that the elected representatives of the people are investigating, and in some measure finding solutions. This in the face of all the special interests crying “Government ownership is Bolshevism,” and “these investigations are bad for business.” These much maligned inquiries revealed: “A contemptible private steal” by oil men in the Continental Trading deal, some of the $3,000,000 profits being used by Harry Sinclair of Teapot Dome illfame as a concealed contribution to the Harding campaign deficit, and some going to Robert W. Stewart, still chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana. Charges of illegal leases of oil companies in the rich Government Salt Creek fields of Wyoming. Political corruption in Illinois and Pennsylvania primaries. “A reign of terror”, by State and company police, aided by anti-labor injunctions, in the bituminous strike fields, and a seriously sick coal industry, with too many mines and too many miners. A nation-wide propaganda system of public utility and power corporations extending through schools, colleges, clubs, press and Legislatures to control the country and its basic resources in the interests of predatory Avealth. Asa result of these investigations: A seven-year fight to retain Muscle Shoals for the people through Government operation of that power project has been won—unless the President vetoes the bill. The Boulder Dam bill was put through the House and is in position to be taken up by the Senate in December. The country nas been awakened to the need of additional legislation to safeguard the constitutional civil rights of labor, which probably will be provided by the next sesson of Congress. * A bill is being drawn for modified Federal regulation of the coal industry. Provision has been made for continuing the investigation of the Salt Creek oil leases, of public utility corporations by the Federal trade commission, and of unemployment, as a basic for remedial action in the next session. If every succeeding Congress does as well, this country need not despair of representative government.

A Problem in Antiques A New England woman has brought suit against an antique collector. She charges that he induced her to sell him, for $3,000, an antique table, when he knew at the time that the table was worth $20,000. If she wins her suit, antique collectors everywhere will quake in their shoes. The whole game is finding a valuable antique and inducing the owner to sell it for a fraction of its value. The antique collector who, stumbling on a Sheraton highboy in a New England farmhouse, voluntarily told the owner what it was Avorth before offering to buy it, yet is to be discovered. \ Court Costs, $40,002 Pride, it was remarked long ago, goeth before a fall. Evanston (111.) police the other day arrested a Mrs. W. F. Primley, wife of a Chicago broker, for speeding. She protested that her time was worth SI,OOO a, minute and that she needed to hurry to complete a shopping trip. 1 But alas! The judge'before whom she was arraigned either didn’t believe her or else wanted to inflict a terrible penalty on her. He fined her only $2; but she had to wait forty minutes before her case was called. Using her own figures, her appearance in court cost her $40,002. /

David Dietz on Science.

Columbus and Compass

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THE most important fact about the specific behavior of the compass needle was discovered by the terror-stricken sailors who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his voyage of discovery to the New World in 1492. Up until that time, it generally was assumed that there was an attraction between the north star and

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compass and corrected navigation charts. These early charts of the Mediterranean coasts were knowro as “compass charts.” This was because they were oriented by the compass. All bearings from one port to another were given as compass directions. All this was based, of course, upon the assumption that the compass always pointed exactly to the north. This assumption had become widespread because in Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the deviation of the compass form the true north was very slight. Asa result, whenever slight variations were noted, they were inscribed to faults in the construction of the compass. But when Columbus sailed across the Atlantic, he came into a part of the earth where the magnetic variation was pronounced. On Sept. 13, 1492, as Columbus’ own diary told, the compass varied a whole point to the northwest. The diary goes on to say that the seamen were terrified, but did not tell Columbus the reason. Later on he discovered what it was. The next day the compass was found to be correct. Most authorities have assumed that Columbus tinkered with the compass, changing the position of the compass card in order to allay the fears of his men. Columbus notes in his diary the behavior of the compass on his subsequent voyages. Therefore, he must be credited with two great discoveries about the compass first, that it does not point exactly north, and second, that the amount of variation is different in different localities.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Strange as It May Seem. Wall Street Is Inclined to Believe That a Majority of the 50,000 Stockholders in the Standard Oil Company of Indiana Will Support Stewart and Indorse His Shrewdnesst.”

QENATOR WALSH brings his oil probe to a close with one of the most scathing reports ever written. Though offering no recommendation, he points out that the probe paid pretty well, since it enabled the Treasury to collect $2,000,000 in taxes, while it only cost $14,000. He might have added that it enabled the Government to recapture its oil reserves, and that though no one has been sent'to prison, those involved have been treated to such a dose of the spotlight as will discourage others from trying anything of the kind for a good long time. This is one case in which the Senate did its work well and courageously. So, too, the Supreme Court acted swiftly and sternly in the protection of public interest. The conspicuous failures occurred in the jury box. It now remains to be seen what “business” has to say. a a a Stand for Honesty The oil scandal raises an issue that belongs to “business” and that “business” cannot evade. Those responsible for the drift of organized industry and finance are squarely confronted with the question of whether “business” shall be governed by a sense of common honesty, or whether it shall develop a technique which permits of lying, stealing and plundering the public under certain conditions. This question is brought vividly to light by the struggle now going on between Col. Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of directors of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Stewart is one of the four men who organized the Continental Trading Company and who stood to make $8,000,000 by the simple process of buying crude oil and turning it over to companies which they represented at a profit of 25 cents per barrel. The company was dissolved when this paper deal was less than half completed and when only about $3,000,000 had been realized. Stewart, Sinclair and O’Neil turned their share of the boodle back to the companies they represented when the pressure became too hot. Besides this, Stewart told two stories to the Senate committee which were so divergent that he has been charged with perjury. John D. Rockefeller, Jr„ who owns a good-sized block of stock in the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, and who is recognized as a leader not only in the oil industry, but in the Nation’s business, believes that such conduct should be openly repudiated. His request for Stewart’s resignation having brought no results. he is reported as doing what he can to force it. This brings the drama to a paradoxical climax, with the man of vast inherited wealth standing for decency, while the self-made, get-rich-quick product of twentieth century opportunism champions the code o£ shyster tactics. Strange as it may seem, Wall Street is inclined to believe that a •majority of the 50,000 stockholders in the Standard Oil Company of Indiana will support Stewart, and indorse his shrewdness rather than Mr. Rockefeller’s stand for honesty. 000 Sure Way to Lose Prosperity has certainly taught us how to gamble, Rnd not only how to gamble, but how to like it. We are satisfied with 5 per cent so long as it represents safety, but we are not satisfied with it to the extent of sacrificing the opportunity to make a killing. Men who enable us to make a killing look pretty good, no matter how they do it, and we can generally find a way to give them the benefit of the doubt. As between plain honesty and double dividends, the latter represent a temptation which it is hard to resist. People who are making money find it very eashy to compromise with their conscience, but while a compromise with conscience may seem fine for the moment because of what it brings in, it never fails to represent a loss in the end. 000 Threat of Bolshevism Business, like every other human activity, has nothing to stand on, nothing that will guarnatee its permanent success, except that sense of justice and fair play, without which no code or institution can survive very long. Let business degenerate to the level of gambling, to a technique which winks at perjury, deceit, fraud and corruption, and it will soon go the way af all flesh. Col. Rebert W. Stewart, Harry F. Sinclair, Edward L. Doheny, Albert Bacon Fall, William J. Burns and all the others who were mixed up in this disgraceful oil cas<? have furnished the excuse for more effective Bolshevist propaganda than has come from Russia since the revolution of 1916. Those men in whose hands has been placed the control of American wealth and industry have it within their power, more distinctly than any one else, to make this country red. All they need to do is abuse tions to the limit, disregard public interest, forsake the precepts and maxims of the fathers which were designed not only to make a decent political system, but t- sound social order, go back on that support of sane Americanism which would rather take a loss than lie, and substitute jungle rule, which is none the less jungle rule because it wears fine clothes and sits at mahogany tables.

the compass needle and that the compass always pointed exactly to the true north. Prince Henry of Portugal, known in history as Henry the Navigator, had previously done much to stimulate vogayes of discovery. He founded a naval college, fnade improvements in the

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ERASMUS found England in strife over the introduction of Greek into schools; the antediluvians were as slow then to take it up as they are now to abandon it. Erasmus fought for the new-recov-ered tongue, and brought out, as one charge in the battle, an edition of the Greek New Testament, Avith a French translation into Latin. His translation did some damage to dogma, but his notes did more; they mourned the decay of “primitive” Christianity” and appealed for a return from dogmas to good works. The theologs got wind of this new storm; the abbot of the monastery to which, in strict discipline, he belonged, demanded that he .return to silence and obedience of the monastic life. He appealed to Leo X, who sided with him handsomely, and when sortie priests sent to the Pope a petition that Erasmus be condemned as a heretic, Leo, who was a scholar, courtier, gentleman, and everything but a Christian, expressed his opinon of the petition by paying for the publication of Erasmus’ “New Testament.” He offered the scholar a bishopric as a haven against such squalls, but Erasmus said: “I would not change my freedom for the best bishopric in the world.” Nevertheless, he was grateful to the pope’s magnanimity, begged him to cleanse the Church of the doctrinal and moral abuses that were weakening it, and looked to him to effect a peaceful reformation. It was while he was staying at the house of Sir Thomas Moore that he wrote his little masterpiece, “The Praise of Folly,” as a volley of little shafts against the “theological mosquitoes” who harassed him. He begins with a quiet satire of grammarians and logic-choppers; passes in slightly higher key, to miracle mongers, pardon-peddlers, inventors and gourmands of fantastic saintly tales, worshipers of shrines and images, sellers and buyers of indulgences; he tells merrie tales of the merrie monks; he scorns the priests who drew dividends from superstitition and stupidity, and does not hesitate to denounce cardinals and popes; most of all, he impales the theologians, who waste the time of the world in quiddities, incomrehensibilities and ridiculosities, while the church they pretend to love rots to pieces under their myopic eyes. He concludes mercifully: to err Is human, and only Good is wise. 000 A few years later Luther pinned his theses to the church door in Whittenberg, and began those cracks of thunder which were to split Christianity into fragments. “The waking out of a long sleep,” said Erasmus, joyfully. “In this part of the world I am afraid that a great revolution is impending. It came too soon for him, and too violently; he loved the battles of the mind, and not the heavy fisted war that Luther made; he wrote to Luther counseling moderation, but Luther answered by counseling bravery. Luther was a German, Erasmus was i European; the cleavage of the continent into nations did not appeal to the scholar who lived in the international of the mind, and preferred the unity of an imperfect “Universal” religion to’ the clash of a thousand sects that would multiply like dividing protozoa. He feared the replacement of dogma with dogma, of intolerance with intolerance, of iniallible church with infallible Scriptures; he wanted emancipation to come peacefully, through the gradual spread of knowledge and the slow rise of general intelligence; any liberation that came faster than these would be superficial and vain. He saw some princes siding with Luther, others against him, and predicted civil war. He corresponded with both parties, hoping to bring them to moderation; but Pope Leo and Sir Thomas More begged him to denounce Luther, and he had to refuse; Luther’s friends, Meianchthon and Ulrich von Hutten; begged him to support Luther, and he had to refuse; he said frankly to both groups that he approved of Luther's demands, but would never support

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the violence of his speech; these duels, he thought, should be fought with rapiers, and not with cannon. Luther replied that Erasmus’ dogma-less religion was impossible; “Christians require certainty, definite dogmas, a sure word of God.” Erasmus wondered whether one dogma was much better than another. 000 HE proposed to Leo X that the Pope should call a free an untrammeled council of all parties to the dispute, pledging himself (the Pope), to refrain from interference; Leo refused, then hesitated, then began to agree; by which time it was too late. N By putting himself between the warriors, Erasmus received most of the blows; the rebels denounced him as a trimmer, the orthodox reviled him as the worst heretic of all, the fount of the stream which was about to inundate the church. A prelate with a reputation for treating his guests to poison invited him to dinner; “he insisted so much, ’ said Erasmus, “that I declined.” The orthodox being in pow6r in Louvain, where he was living, he fled to Basle, hoping to find there a religious and a political neutrality. But the Reform broke out in Basle in time to greet him; he describes it:

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The name and address ol the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times: Why is it permissible for a few men to force the daylight saving plan on us? The majority of the residents of Indianapolis expressed their disfavor of the plan—then a few men passed the bill over the veto of the Mayor, and the plan arbitrarily is forced upon us. Who is going to be the “goat” of this idea? Why Mother, the hardest worked member of the family now. Os course, it doesn’t matter if Mother has to arise an hour earlier and get Father off to his work—then when the school children arise get an extra breakfast for them. Oh, no! If we possibly can do anything at all to make Mother’s lot harder, let’s all get busy and pass some more wonderful bills. “Man’s work is from sun to sun, woman’s work is never done.” Had they said “Mother’s work is never done,” it would have been so true. Now with our new plan, Mother can arise, get just as many breakfasts as is necessary to send members of her family to work, or school, according to the different schedules of time the different members of the family must observe. And again in the evening, some will be home by standard time and some by daylight savings, for their dinner. And this is a free country, where we can do as we desire. No, I’m not one of the Mother’s who will have the extra work to do, the extra breakfast to get, and the extra hour added to my already overflowing work-day. But I have a Mother who will have just that much more work added to her burden. AND I’LL TELL THE PLAT WORLD I DO NOT LIKE IT. A DAILY READER. Editor Times: What’s the row all about, anyway? Why can’t we have peace, at least until the next war breaks out? Why couldn’t we let the clocks alone, so that everybody would 'know what time it is, and then everybody would be happy? A lot of us folk like the enjoyment of the daylight saved by daylight savings time, but we like also to know what time it is without stopping to figure it all out, especially when we are in a hurry to catch a train. Uncle Sam and the railroads are not foolish enough to. upset their schedules by meddling with the clocks—why should citizens be “penny wise and pound foolish?” Practically all business is conducted and consummated at least one hour after opening hours in the morning and one hour clos-

Smiths and carpenters were sent to ren\ove the images from the churches. The unfortunate saints were cruelly handled. Strange that none of them worked a miracle to avenge their dignity, when before they had worked so many at the slightest behest. Not a statue was left in church, niche or monastery. The paintings on the wall were whitewashed. What would not burn was broken to pieces . . . Not a saint stirred a finger. In 1532 the pop> asked him to arrange a peace with Luther, and offered him high emoluments. He refused to try, except on terms which the pope considered as radical as Luther's. At. the same time Melanchthon, from the side of the Reformers, begged him to come to the diet of Augsburg to effect a conciliation. All Europe looked to him to bring peace to a tom world; the Reformers began to speak well of him, the pope offered Mm a cardinal’s hat, which he refused. But when the time came to go to Augsburg his health had broken down, and he could not stir. Suddenly, in 1536, he died. Europe as a reality died with him; thereafter it was but a name. (Copyright, 1928, WO Durant) (To Be Continued)

ing hours in the evening; so let the individual offices and businesses determine by a majority vote whether they will open and close an hour earlier; but FOR GOODNESS SAKE let the clocks alone! (The suggestion of a business woman, now a Hoosier, but formerly a Chicagoan.) Editor Times: If a man’s life has been of such value as to merit a memorial, and that memorial has been created to perpetuate his memory, does it not seem that the memorial should be placed where it may, at least, be seen? In our State library, which is most creditable, under efficient and helpful management, but taxed to the utmost for space, arc to be found meborial busts of Lincoln, Henry Clay, Sutter, Judge Neal, Thomas A. Hendricks, Governor Ashbel P. Willard, Daniel Voorhees and a plaster cast of a death mask of Lincoln made at the time his body lay in state in the old Statehouse on April 30, 1865. These are memorials to men of character, outstanding in the history of the State and Nation. On account of the crowded condition of the library, many of these busts are stored from public view. On the second or main floor of the Statehouse are many vacant niches, built purposely for this style of statuary. Why not fill these vacant spaces with the memorial busts in the library? They would at least be restored to view, at the same time giving the needed space to the library. MRS. L. D. OWENS.

This Date in U. S. History

May 30. 1498—Columbus left Lucar on his third voyage. 1539—De Soto landed at Tampa Bay, Fla., with 900 men. 1775—Congress adopted the force about Boston as the nucleus for a Continental army. 1854—Kansas and Nebraska organized as territories.

Daily Thought

But the -lay of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.—ll Peter 3:10. WE are all approaching that dread tribunal. However diversified our paths, they all converge toward that common center. —Richard Fuller.

MAY 30, 1928

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

MEMBERS of Congress were rushing home from Washington today to fix up their political fences and prepare for the midJune conventions. There was the customary disagreement over political effects of the session just adjourned, with discussion centering on probable campaign results of the farm relief veto and of power investigations and legislation. A majority thinks the electorate is pleased on the whole with the $222,000,000 tax cut, the provision for the Mississippi flood control, the public building program, increased salaries for underpaid Government employes, and postponement of the big navy project. Many members spoke of the favorable shift in public sentiment regarding the formerly maligned congressional investigations. This applies to probes of public utilities propaganda, the coal strike, antilabor injunctions, unemployment, campaign expenditures, the money and cotton markets, as well as the oil scandals. There has been an almost complete cycle of public interest, indifference, hostility and renewed interest and sympathy with the purposes of these investigations, it was said. 000 IN view of the coming conventions and campaign, the representatives and Senators are most concerned about justifying their records on the disputed issues of farm relief, political corruption and giant power, including the Muscle Shoals and Bouler Dam bills, and provision for Federal Trade commission investigation of public utilities. Both advocates and opponents of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bills are fairly well pleased with results, and both groups expect to profit. That bill passed both houses by large majorities, but was vetoed by the President as unconstitutional and fallacious. The Senate failed to pass the measure over the President’s head. Many admitted in private that they considered the bill unwise, but voted for it under farm pressure and with the conviction that a presidential veto would prevent it from becoming law. Farm State members of Congress will use the veto as a political weapon against the administration. The Lowden-Dawes group will try to use it to prevent nomination of Herbert Hoover. The McNary-Haugen bill will be the war cry of thousands of farmers Avho plan to march upon the Kansas City convention to force such a farm plank into the platform and chvice of a farm candidate. At Houston the Democrats, who divided their votes on the bill plan to make political capital of the Republican split. But the Coolidge-Hoover group believes that, taking the country as a whole, the administration is more popular as a result of the veto. It counts upon support of non-agri-cultural States, and believes that j some farm sections at least share the Coolidge opposition to this par- | ticular brand of panacea. I These political leaders point out that the rebelling farm bloc, though important, will be a minority fin the convention and election. 000 SOME Democrats are eager to have A1 Smith, prospective candidate of their party, stress the power issue in the campaign. His record in fighting the power “trust” as Governor of New York, coupled with reveltations of the Federal trade commission inquiry of na-tion-wide propaganda activities of the “trust” in schools, colleges, clubs, the press and legislatures, gives the Democratic party the popular issue for which it long has been seeking, they say. This situation will be influenced by further probing of the commission, which is continuing its investigation, and by the President's action on the Muscle Shoals bill. As the climax to a seven-year fight against the powor lobby, Congress, under leadership of Senator George Norris of Nebraska, passed the measure providing for Government operation of the Muscle Shoals plant through manufacture of cheap power and fixed nitrogen. The same bill saved the Cove Creek dam site, above Muscle Shoals, for the Government. The President has not signed the bill, and its status is in doubt. A A’eto would furnish additional ammunition for the progressives and Democrats in their campaign fight againts the Administration. In line with its Muscle Shoals and power investigation victories, Congress won, at least in large part, its long struggle for Government construction of a dam across Boulder Canyon. After the bill went through the House, its passage was blocked by a minority Senate filibuster. But it ivas placed on the Senate calendar for December, when its final enactment is assured, according to its advocates. 000 WHILE most of its members are busy with private affairs and politics during the summer and autumn. Congress has provided for some of its work to continue during the repess in preparation for the second session next winter. Among the investigations, which will go on, are those relating to: Campaign expenditures, cotton exchanges, unemployment, Salt Creek oil leases, the S-4 submarine disaster, the Vare-Wilson Pennsylvania senatorial contest, and the Federal Trade Commission public utilities inquiry ordered by Congress What is the , meaning of the names Cleopatra and Minnie? Cleopatra means celebrated. Minnie means remembrance, memories of love. AVhat is the address of Miss Helen Wills, tennis star? Write Helen Wills, Berkeley, Cal. What was the average yield per acre of corn in Indiana for 1926? 36.5 bushels. What is the correct pronunciation of the word Rio? Ree-o.