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Does Crime Pay? That fine old adage ‘-Crime never pays” is subjecting itself to new scrutiny and it may go into the discard as just tradition or superstition of other days, especially when cnme affects public money and business. Certainly the men in Illinois who built up a fine business in bootleg gasoline found that crime was very profitable and as safe as a directorship in a bank. When state officials compromised with these confessed cnminp.'S for $20,000, the crooks escaped paymen. of about SIOO,OOO according to original figures furnished by state officials on the extent of their frauds. The public statements of officials who dealt with them was that through the simple system of misbranding their gas when brought into the state, they had avoided tax payments of several times the final compromis eof $25,000. The gas tax belonged to the people. Aside from that, the evasion made it difficult for honest dealers in gasoline to compete. These dealers suffered loss of trade. They may have been compelled to discharge employes and thus add to the unemployment. It is certain that both the people as a whole and honest business were injured by the confessedly crooked scheme. Whether these Chicago crooks who have settled for their pilfering, bribed state officials may be learned later. One thing is certain. They believed that they were doing business on a basis of bribery. If the money did not reach state officials who might have been inquisitive it was not their fault. They confessed to the chief legal adviser of the state that books of their Indiana manager showed payments of large sums to one state employe. They believed they were paying for protection for crime. It is possibly of course, that their own employe was stealing from them under the guise of bribes and that the money did not reach state employes. Perhaps the crooks found the employes too dumb or indifferent to need bribing. When caught, the chief conspirators in the robbery of the state get away by paying back a percentage of what they stole. As long as incidents of this kind happen in government it will take more than copy book morality to make young men and women believe that crime never pays. ; Os course, a legislature will soon meet. It might be a good idea to elect only those who will pledge themselves to a thorough investigation of the whole affair. They may be able to do something to restore confidence in honesty as the best policy.

Uneven Prosperity T How prosperous is America? This is a subject Os the most extensive controversy. Some picture us as already in Utopia, except for occasional insignificant depressions. Nothing should be done to disturb the balance of this best of all possible worlds. But the critics hold that prosperity is a myth. Millions are out of work, other millions are impoverished and agriculture is on its way to anew serfdom, they argue. T What is the truth? Much relevant information is contained in Professor Paul H. Douglas' new book. “Real Wages,” the product of years of patient research on the part of this scientist and his assistants. Comparing the nineties of the last century with 1926, Douglas concludes that the laboring class as a whole, including agricultural workers, could purchase about 35 per cent more with its earnings in 1926 than it could in 1899. In other words, real wages for the working class as a whole have increased 35 per cent in the last quarter century. The working class as a group is even better off than these figures indicate. The size of the family has decreased. The government is doing more for the workers. All in all. Douglas believes that the general working class is from 47 to 55 per cent better off than it was twenty-five years ago. These figures apply, of course, to employed workers, but Douglas believes that there has been no increase in unemployment in the last quarter century. The situation remains about as it was. The average for 1897 to 1926 was 10.2 per cent. On further analysis, however, the picture does not prove quite as bright as these preliminary generalizations might indicate. The mass of American workers are unskilled. Among this class there has been no such Increase in material well-being. Their real wages have increased but slightly and they suffer grievously from unemployment. Annual income of the unskilled laborer in the United States does not exceed $1,050. while it requires from $1,600 to SI,BOO for a family of five to live at the minimum of health and decency standard. Dr. Leila Houghteling studied the income of unskilled workers in Chicago and found that the income of 69 per cent of the heads of families was insufficient to support their dependents. Therefore, when we consider the plight of the American farmer and the gross inadequacy of the Income of unskilled workers, we must conclude that prosperity is still a goal rather than an acheivement. We may be better off than most of the other countries of the world. But as long as our farmers are approaching foreclosure and servility, millions are unemployed in our industrial cities, and our unskilled workers are earning less than health and decency require, we have nothing to brag about. Radium Relief Two government agencies are studying this summer the question of radium production and will report to a congressional committee in the fall. This marks progress, at least, in the effort to revive radium manufacture in this country. The United States geological survey is making an extended study of radium-bearing ores. mo6t ofjsvhich are located in Colorado and Utah. The United States

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bureau of mines Is investigating new processes of radium extraction and refining. On the results of these two surveys will depend, doubtless, the action of congress next winter In approving or rejecting the Kelly bill to authorize the bureau of mines to produce radium from American camotite ores. This paper has on several occasions called attention to the fact that the bureau of mines once before reduced the price of radium by experimental work and can do so again. The first step is to overcome governmental inertia and indifference. Some advance is to be noted in this respect. There is practically no question as to existence of the ores and ability of the metallurgist to ootain the radium from them. The next step will be to convince congress that federal production of radium, to meet the universal demand of science and medicine and extend its benefits to cancer sufferers, is justified. That should not be difficult. Sufficient use for radium in government hospitals alone can be found to warrant the effort to break the foreign monopoly on this indispensable element in modern medicine.

Unseating Huston After four months of backing and filling, Claudius Huston finally is being forced to resign as chairman of the Republican national committee. Huston's departure will rob the Democrats of one of their juciest campaign arguments, and will leave every Republican congressional candidate mopping his brow in relief. But the trouble caused by Claudius can not be wiped out even by his resignation. In the first place, his record has somewhat shaken the public confidence in the much-advertised cleanup of the Republican organization. In the second place, it has created so much bitterness within the party management that the desired discipline and morale can not be regained quickly. Moreover, the President's indecision in ousting Huston is apt to encourage other party officials to defy Hoover leadership in the future. The issue, of course, was almost entirely a personal and party matter. Huston was not a government official. He was shown by a senate investigating committee to have mixed his personal and his lobby funds, using some of the latter temporarily to trade in margins on the stock market. That was essentially a matter between him and his employers. He was shown to be a power lobbyist, especially active in the Muscle Shoals fight. But he had a legal right to engage in such activity. And the Republican party had, and continues to have, a perfect right to choose such a man to head and represent its national organization. It is a question of taste. But that was the rub. A good many Republicans—indeed, virtually all of them in congress—objected very strenuously to blackening their party with the Huston brush. As for the public on the sidelines, there has been a growing curiosity: Why was a man of Huston's type chosen in the beginning? Why was he allowed to retain party leadership for months after he was exposed? Since no one who really knows is disposed to answer these questions, apparently the public will have to go on being curious until It forgets all about Huston. The mayor of a North Carolina town who was arrested for drunkenness recently probably felt it was his duty to lessen that infernally long time between drinks. Now that he has recalled Primo Camera to the Italian army, Mussolini will feel that war can begin any time. A hot weather tip from the surgeon-general’s office is to keep the spinal cord protected. We doubt, however, if women will make their frocks conform to the suggestion. Walter Damrosch says: “The radio will save family life from disruption by the automobile.” P. S.— Walter Damrosch plays for the radio. If you would be prepared for a deluge of pithy comment on weather conditions in South America, it is well to be advised that it snowed in Chile the other day.

REASON By F lan™ CK

WE used to have an old horse that would make himself into a giraffe in order to reach a weed, growing in an adjoining field —and when he was standing knee deep in blue grass. Yet that old boy was almost human, for we are all the same way. we pass by good things at home to get inferior things far off. a a a Lut a strange fellow come to town and the girls turn handsprings to get to him and let a strange girl blow in and the fellows loop the loop before her and in nine cases out of ten the home-grown persimmon is better. GROWN-UPS are the same; they gallivant around to buy things, not in it with home merchandise and in education, we send our kids to college far away when there’s one just over yonder as good or better. And when it comes to scenery we all go wrong. a a a Every year Europe reaps a golden harvest from multitudes of Americans who never glimpsed the Yellowstone; they turn their vocabularies wrong side out, searching for superlatives while going down the Rhine, when the Ohio has it beaten to a frazzle. a a a And coming closer home, Indiana people sprain their bank accounts gadding hither and yon to unreel their ecstasies before strange altars of beauty, without even taking the trouble to learn that Old Hoosierdom has a thousand places where Nature is on dress parade. a a a WE rode across southern Indiana last week, and from Mt. ernon to Madison it was marvelous all the way, marvelous and historic, too. a a a There are only one disappointment in it and that was that Wyandotte cave, our greatest wonder, is privately owned. The state should buy this bewildering creation and make it a public park. But to come right down to the point, see the glories of your own country before you seek them eslsewhere; you will .be surprised to find that right around you the Master Sculptor has carved hs masterpieces of cliff and stream, of “woods and templed hills.” a a a And as for .sunsets, the Bay of Naples has nothing on our own front door. Admiration, like charity, should begin at home. Don’t be a horse, and unjoint yojtr neck to get a weed in another field, when you art standing knee deep in blue grass! *

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SCIENCE -BY DAVID DIETZ—-

The Sun Is a Hot, Self-Lum-inous Globe of a Size Which Staggers the Imagination. THE sun shines so brightly in the sky that no eye can gaze upon it. A Belgian physicist who forced himself to look into the sun for twenty seconds, blinded himself permanently by his experiment. Mankind always has, perhaps instinctively, realized the importance |of the sun. But it has taken mod- ! ern astronomy to give us a true I picture of the glory of the sun. Modem astronomy teaches us that the sun is a hot, self-luminous globe of a size which staggers human imagination. The diameter of the sun is approximately 110 times that of the earth, 864,100 miles. To build an object as large as the sun out of globes the size of the earth would require 1,300,000 such globes. The moon revolves around the earth at a distance of 240,000 miles. Suppose that the sun were a hollow sphere, and that the earth was placed at the center of it. The moon would have plenty of room inside the sphere to revolve around the earth. In fact, the moon would be only a little more than half-way from the earth to the sun’s outer surface, for it would be 432,000 miles from the earth to that surface.

Model THE earth revolves about the sun at a distance of 93,000,000 miles. | A small model will illustrate the Relationship between the sun and earth. Suppose that the sun were represented by a globe one foot in diameter. A small seed approximately one-tenth of an inch in diameter placed at a little more than one hundred feet from the globe would represent the earth. “Light, which travels at the rate of 186,000 miles a second, takes eight and cne-third minutes to go from the sun to the earth. A railroad train, running at the rate of sixty miles an hour, would take 175 years to reach the sun, while the fare one way, at the rate of 4 cents a mile, would be $3,720,000. Because the sun is so much larger than the earth, the force of gravity would be much greater upon the sun. A person who weighed 100 pounds with a spring balance on the earth’s surface, would weigh more than a ton, about 2,790 pounds, upon the surface of the sun. But, of course, it would not be possible to conduct any such experiment upon the surface of the sun. For the surface of the sun is not solid, but gaseous, and at a tremendous temperature. Surface temperature of the sun is 6,000 degrees on the centigrade thermometer, the one in use by scientists. On the Fahrenheit thermometer, the one in ordinary use in this country, the sun has a surface temperature of 10,000 degrees.

Rotation THE sun rotates upon its axis just as the earth does. This fact has been ascertained by the observation of sun-spots. Just as the earth rotates upon its own axis in a counter-clockiwse direction, so does the sun. By counter-clockwise, a motion in the opposite direction to that of the hands of the clock is meant. This is the general motion of the solar system. A3l the planets revolve about the sun in a counterclockwise direction. Observation of different sunspots, however, give different rates of rotation for the sun. The answer to this riddle was first pointed out about 1860 by Carrington, who showed that sun-spots travel fastest at the equator of the sun and slower to the north or south of It. In other words, the equatorial region of the sun is revolving more rapidly than the regions to the north or south of it. This extraordinaiy state of affairs is possible only because of the gaseous nature of the sun’s surface. Many authorities today believe that the sun is gaseous through and through. E. W. and Mrs. Maunder, British astronomers who have made a careful study of solar rotation, analyzing records of the Greenwich observatory from 1879 to 1900, give 24.65 days as the period of rotation at the equator. Twenty degrees from the equator, it is 25.19 days, while 30 degrees from the equator it is 25.85 days.

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BERNARD SHAW’S BIRTH July 26

ON July 26, George Bernard Shaw, noted British critic, dramatist and Socialist, was bom in Dublin, Ireland, where he spent the first twenty years of his life. His formal education over in his fifteenth year, Shaw got his first job as clerk In a land agent’s office. He soon tired of this, however, and decided to go to London to devote himself to a literary career. His first venture into print occurred there when he wrote a letter to a newspaper crticising a lecture given by two American evangelists. This was perhaps the earliest expression of the satire which he thereafter directed against certain social conventions, educational institutions and conventionalized ideals. As hack-worker and writer of unsuccessful novels, Shaw lived for nine years in poverty. But his fortunes began to mend when he began to write criticisms on art, musical and dramatic subjects for London newspapers. Asa critic, he championed unpopular but finally victorious causes. An ardent Socialist from youth, Shaw also wrote important articles on Socialism for propaganda magazines. Shaw’s plays, ever satiric, are considered clever, witty and pregnant with ideas. One of them, "Candida," is said by critics to be the best comedy since Sheriden. Also among his best plays are “Arms and the Man” and "Man and Superman.” In 1926 Shaw was awarded the Nobel prize for Liters - *****

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Older Workers Lose Most Time

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hrxela, the Health Magazine. MANY factors that control accidents are obvious. For instance accidents are more likely to occur at the time when workers become most fatigued. They are more likely to occur when operations are speeded up beyond the normal speed. Automobile accidents occur more frequently on the days when the most drivers are circulating and when most amateur drivers are circulating. In a recent investigation by Albert F. Stevens it is indicated that in industry the age of the injured worker is a definite factor in the

IT SEEMS TO ME "£*“

HER word is “toasted,” filled with one-mile walks and teeth that don’t decay. I am thinking of an old lady who wrote me a letter at the radio station. She said that she had been stone deaf for years. The silence was not broken until the radio came along. Then she found that by the use of a headset she could hear the sounds transmitted over the air. And she added that ever since she has spent the greater part of her day tapping into the only pool of audibility which may be reached by her. She added a little wistfully, “I

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—l have been reading the war between the commissioners and the Indiana World War Memorial commission. I am in favor of Marion county’s commissioners stand in not buying the churches. It would be unjust at this time to burden the taxpayers of Marion county The commissioners are correct in not spending the money. They are more loyal to the taxpayers than are the war memorial commissioners. Their refusal to spend this vast amount of money proves this. The attitude of the war memorial commissioners proves to the taxpayers they care for no one but themselves. At a later date, these same war memorial commissioners will ask the state to donate them several million dollars to finish their work. Our Indianapolis citizens today are taking their own lives because they have no employment or money. Better donate the unemployed and hungry people of Marion county a little money, to keep body and soul together, instead of burdening the taxpayers to buy these churches just to satisfy the memorial heads. No country can stand when the churches must give way to the war heads. We need more religion and fewer war heads. The whole world will be better off. I commend the commissioners’ stand in not assisting the removal of the churches. I am in favor of never removing them to satisfy the war head. GILES MOORE. Editor Times —It is the usual thing in political life to accuse the officials of spending too much of the taxpayers’ money, so it is rather amusing to use who are not taxpayers in Marion county to see that the opposite view is the case in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Star is abusing and threatening the three “tried men, and true,” who as commissioners of Marion county are trying to keep from spending more than one and one-half million dollars cf the county’s money to tear down the First Baptist and Second Presbyterian church in Indianapolis. These commissioners evidently are working for the small taxpayer who does not dodge his taxes and is unorganized, as against a rich and organized body which planned the war plaza in front of its cathedral for space to form dress parades and march. It seems to have every one compleely subdued, except these brave commissioners. War memorials are the popular thing just now, and the whales are swallowing money, so new ideas take hold slowly. The fact remains unrecognized, therefore, that, unplanned by man, there stands In Indianapolis £ monument to the outlawing of war, coming to comple-

Speaking of Tree Sitters!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

number of accidents and in the severity of the accidents that occur to him. For some years there has been a tendency to avoid the worker of advanced years in occupations of great strain or hazard. A safetyminded director has this fact in mind when he selects workmen for special positions. To determine the facts, Stevens studied five thousand cases of accident in relationship to the severity of the accident, the time lost and the age of the person concerned. Out of 1,711 cases of cuts and lacerations, 6,219 weeks were lost, the average weeks per case varying from 2.5 for those between 15 and 19 years of age to 9.7 for tho.se 65 years and over, and representing a defi-

feel that I know Amos n’ Andy and Floyd Gibbons and Will Rogers better than the members of my own family because they can talk to me without writing things down on slips of paper. You see listening in is the only thing which makes •tie feel not deaf.” tt tt Pall in Time ALL this has provided an escape for the old lady, but an escape into such a curious land. This must be, of course, a world with much of the bones and blood strained out.

tion about the time of the Kellogg treaty to outlaw war; it is composed of the two churches and the war memorial; the churches dedicated to God and preaching the message of “Peace on earth, good will to men,” with the dear dead which the monument honors. F. W. WEBB. Franklin, Ind. Editor Times—l supposed we were living in a country dedicated to the inalienable right of its citizens to live in liberty and in pursuit of happiness. * But it seems to me that we workers, or those of us who look for work, have been deprived of such privileges and completely lost our liberty. After I’ve walked from one factory to another the most of the day, looking for work so I might earn a little bread money, and after seeing there’s, no possible chance of obtaining a job, I go to the corner of Washington and Alabama streets. There I wait patiently for some transfer truck to come along and give me a few hours’ work. This I’ve done several times, thinking that so long as I obeyed the law I had a right on any street in the city. But- today a policeman told me he’d show me who was boss. Said he’d lock up the whole bunch of us and our crime consisted of looking for a job, trying to earn an honest living. That should not be an offense against the laws of a frep nation. Our civil rights have become a mockery. Os course I left the corner in preference to going to jail. I had a grandfather who fought in 1861 and a cousin in the Spanish-American war and a brother in the World war. I thought they were fighting for liberty instead of slavery. Police have robbed me of all that they fought for. Twelve years ago Uncle Sam wanted me. I was willing to go. Today, nobody wants me. I am not wanted on a job or even on the streets of our city. Where shall I go? CHARLES BURTON.

Daily Thought

Thus saith the Lord God: Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing.—Ezekiel 13:3. We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is sufficient to arouse and J satisfy us.—Pascal Which are the leading wheat producing countries of. the world? The United States,*Canada and Russia.

nite increase from the youngest to the oldest. The same observation was true regarding bruises and contusions, fractures and amputations, sprains and hernias, and Indeed all other accidents, except burns and scalds. Just why burns and scalds should vary from all other types of accidents is not explainable, but probably merits some study. It is barely possible that older men are more careful regarding working with corrosive acids, fire, hot liquids and metals, and that this may explain the unusual situation. The study brought out the unquestionable fact that for all injuries, except for bums and scalds, the older the injured person is, the longer in general will be the period of his disability.

Ideals and opinions expressed In this column are those es one of America's most interesting writers and are presented without retard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naper.—The Editor.

I should think the sugar ration would tend to pall in time. One might prefer even the loneliness of science to a constant gospel of good cheer. As yet the troubles of the world are but dimly touched on by radio. To be sure, one gets the news flash of hundreds killed in an earthquake or of five dashed to earth from the sky when an airplane buckles. But not much gets said of more continued and enduring catastrophes. Even the hint of tragedy has in it the quick and not unpleasing touch of something played on a stage. Such things as prey and press on mankind in twenty-four-hour stretches are almost entirely ignored. Even the most faithful of radio fans might keep up with all available programs and never know of things like slums and sweatshops and breadlines. This is the best of all possible worlds with not another planet even running second if the announcers are to be believed. nan Keep on Swinging EVEN the depth and darkness of the night constitute no more than a happy device whereby the crooner may seek sweet arms of love. There’s nothing on the air but love—love of Sally, and your neighbor. Every voice, even though it be employed In nothing more than the brief announcement of the correct time, drips with honey and kindly consideration. I should think that the old lady, who is resident in radio land, and even some other casual visitors might, on occasion, cry out for bitter truths, harsh verses and soured mandolins jangled out of tune. And this opinion comes from one all coated with the same treacle as his fellows. I, too, have smiled down the long miles which stretch away from the microphone and vapored cheerily. Nor have I ever failed to promise any oppressed spirit who wrote inquiringly the perfection of tomorrow’s jam. Keep on swinging, take a nice cut at the ball and in the end will come salvation and the fair rewards. * n n Make Us Be Gay THAT I have said in essence, not once, but many times. How do I know that? The truthful answer is, I don’t. Yet there is much to be said for us who serve as slaves to the studio. It is not easy to throw off the imaginary obligation of furnishing no words but those which may be comfortable. The mail is filled with letters from those who have sought out altitudes and dry climates, invalided folk are fans, and many from the vast aqpy of the distressed and sore at heart say, ‘make us be gay.” Yet slowly I come round to think that in good cheer sftfich Is unflagging there must be overtones of panic and despair. We can’t be as good as all that, even the stricken may want to catch the echo of some familiar sign by which they can be reassured they are not the solitary owners of *a peck of trouble. Indeed, the old lady confessed as much. “One night,” she said, “you sounded quite despondent Please do it again. I’m a little sick of cheerfulness” (Copyright. 1930. by The Time*)

.JULY 26, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Russians Believe in Communism as a Means to Prosperity. THE most important fact thus far brought out by the Fish committee in its probe of red activities is that Amtorg, the commercial agent of Soviet Russia in this country, has obtained credits totaling SBO 000,000. That fact shows the difference between Communism as practiced in Russia and Communism as we know it here Communism in Russia is a strictly business institution, devoted to the purpose of rehabilitating a nation. Work, production, and improvement, from a material standpoint, are its primary objectives. It sets little store by the political windjamming which we take so seriously. It permits no opposition party, much less genera! agitation. But that L the side of it we fail to understand. nan Viewpoint All Wrong THE average American interprets Communism in the light of street parades and soap box orators. To him it ts just another wild-eyed theory which attracts bums, malcontents and fanatics of every description. He can not think of it as an economic system which is developing business enterprises like Standard Oil, General Motors or the Pennsylvania railroad. To his way of thinking, it is a philosophy of idleness, an alibi to loafers, an excuse for disturbance. Trained to abhor state control of every kind, and to believe in the superior efficiency of private enterprise, the average American can not believe that Communism has succeeded in organizing Russian industry. “What could such a bunch do?” he asks, recalling the tirades he may have heard at a street meeting, the bedraggled demonstrations he may have seen. Besides, has not his government—the greatest and most perfect on earth refused to recognize the Communist regime, and hasn’t a secretary of state said Russia was an economic vacuum? u tt * Ignorance Blinds Us ONE need not sympathize with Communism as a political theory to realize the monumental ignorance which is responsible for the average American’s attitude and which has led him and his government to make such gratuitous blunders. One need not sympathize with Communism to understand the folly of turning our backs on a great nation simply because we do not agree with the form of government it has chosen to adopt. The truth is that we have been blinded by a few agitators, have permitted ourselves to misconceive what millions of people are doing in Russia because of what a few hundred have done here. Undoubtedly, Russian leaders are out to overthrow capitalism, but they are not fools enough to suppose it can be dene with pamphlets and parades. That josh is designed for home consumption, for the express purpose of keeping their own followers in line. Their real campaign, however, is based on economic strategy; on the development of huge enterprises, on ruthless efficiency, on highly disciplined mass production, on the very same theories of big business which our own captains of industry are trying to put into effect. tx a a They Mean Business WE can well afford to dismiss the nit-wit propaganda, the noisy disturbance, and the cheap publicity stunts which characterize Commuism in America as of no consequence. What we can not afford to ignore or underestimate is the competition which Russia one day will provide in the field of foreign trade, and in which she will enjoy certain advantages. The Russians believe in Communism, not as an abstract theory, but as a means to prosperity. That is why they put up with conditions we would regard as intolerable, and submit to a discipline we would resent. That is also why they can be depended on to put such energy into their work as will bring results. There is just one way that we can meet Communism on the larger battle front, and that Is by showing the old American spirit, by keeping one jump ahead of the game, by striving for the things that count, and ot getting excited over a lot of political balderdash.

Questions and Answers

When did the Titantic sink, and how many lives were lost? It sank on Sunday, April 4, 1912, and 1,517 lives were lost. How is the waste from passenger air ships disposed of? It is disposed of at the end of tiv trip. If it was thrown overboard it would be necessary to release gas to compensate for the loss in weight. Loss of weight is very important, and is a subject that is carefully studied by the commander of an airship. What is the address of Sax Rohmer? Levada de Santa Luzia, Funchal, Madeira. What state has the nickname Sunflower state? Kansas. What does the name Lucretia mean? It is from the Latin and means gain. Who takes the part of Seth Parker in the radio feature of that name? Phillips H. Lord. Are all United States employes exempted from the income tax? All government employes, with the exception of the President and the federal judges, are subject to the income tax. What is the address of Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett? 81 Singer street, Astoria, L. I. What is the airline distance from Denver, Colo., to Los Angeles, Cai? 828 miles.