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Only One Question Demands by large property owners that taxes be reduced, and a quarrel between experts, suggest that tl;ere is only one real question involved. Are public funds being spent for necessary purposes without waste? The fact that county commissioners are reducing the salaries of judges whom they do not like politically should not be the occasion for unrestrained cheers, especially when the tax rate remains almost the same with the elimination of $375,000 spent last year to wipe out past debts. It would be more interesting to discover how many precinct and ward committeemen of the political machine are being carried on pay rolls, giving most of their time to politics and little to the public. The city administration is burdened with larger interest charges, which take precedence over cost of servi*. 1/thera.be useless and duplicated jobs in the city service, they should be eliminated. Thus far, little has been suggested along these lines. It would be unfortunate were a demand for lower taxes to result in impairment of service, especially in health and park systems, which become more important in times of depression than in general prosperity. .Those who attempt to advise public officials concerning cuts should be able to show those officials that money is being spent wastefully or for projects that are not essential to public welfare. Gray Pants or Black? One thing, at least, the Mooney-Billings hearing accomplished. It destroyed the superstition that election or appointment to the supreme court bench transforms an ordinary lawyer into an extraordinary judge. When the seven justices put off their black robes of office, it was observed that each of them, like any other man, has two legs. When they sat down upon the level of the crowd to conduct the business of hearing, it was seen that they are human creatures, with faults and virtues and likings and prejudices much the same as those of other human cfeatures. It no longer was necessary to regard them with awe, and so it became possible to regard them with understanding. Instead of superior beings, remote, aloof, endowed with some mysterious quality of infallibility, they became just seven men sitting at tables. It is a most excellent thing that the people should have obtained this nearer, more intimate view of their supreme court.. It is well to understand that respect for law and justice depends upon the kind of men chosen to administer justice and interpret law. * * •* * In all that remarkable proceeding, ntyhing was more remarkable tjian the attitude of Associate Justice J. E. Richards, as displayed throughout the hearing and especially on its closing day. Mr. Justice Richards is one of the members of the court who signed the original opinion holding that Billings wai guilty and was properly convicted of the Preparedness day bombing. Observers are convinced that he still clings to that opinion. Among the evidence was a photograph Showing Mooney, wearing a light gray suit, on the roof of the Eilers building at approximately the moment when, according to the prosecution's theory, Mooney was wearing ajiark suit and was with Billings &t the scene of the explosion, more than a mile from the Eilers building. “The coat of Mooney's suit is gray,” pronounced Mr. Justice Richards, “but the trousers are black.” Two professional photographers, called at random from the courtroom, testified as expert witnesses that the trousers were of the same light gray as the coat, and merely appeared darker because they were in shadow. Chief Justice Waste, an amateur photographer for many years, agreed that the trousers were gray. “I still believe,” said Mr. Justice Richards, “that those pants are black.” * * * Fortunately, it is hardly likely that a majority of the minds comprising the supreme court of California can be constituted so that they will insist that light gray is black. Hope for justice to Mooney and Billings, or to any litigant before the supreme court, would be dim indeed if all the members of the court, once having formed an opinion, were disposed to shut their eyes, and stop their cars, and refuse to give weight to any evidence to the contrary, no matter how compelling.

Dollar-a-Year Men and Others They say Governor Young of the federal reserve board resigned because he needed the larger salary he could get outside of government service. This has revived the old discussion about the inability of the government to keep good men, in competition with business concerns. Th.t same financial reason is given for the President's difficulty in finding good men for the federal power, the tariff and other commissions. We are inclined to think this low salary excuse is worked overtime. It is important in the case of young men who are kept on a small government salary for ten years or so. Many such quit. The solution seems to be a more flexible promotion system for exceptional men. But the already successful business man doesn't have to worry about the size of the salary when he considers a government job. If he hesitates to accept a seat on the, say, tariff commission, it is probably for some other reason. Some may be unwilling to expose themselves to senate debate regarding their confirmation. Some may not want to sacrifice private investments which / they could not hold in federal office. Others know that ability and success in business may not mean success in government office. There is Henry Ford. In business he is a genius. But on a federal commission he probably would be a flop. 7!Te very qualities of arbitrary power, of acting first and explaining later, of making decisions for logical reasons without bothering about human complications, qualities which may make a great business executive, may make a poor government administrator. And often'the ablest business men lack the technical training required of a public official. The largest exporter or importer may lack the scientific knowledge and impartial temper needed by a" tariff commissioner. Even on the legislative side, which makes fewer technical demands, successful business men have not always made able senators or representatives. That is often the case. also, in diplomatic service. Exceptions are men of the Dwight Morrow type, who are serious students of government as well as business men. • That is why the hope of better federal adq^ms-

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tratidn probably does not depend upon luring business men into technical government jobs. It depends rather upon building up a competent cceps of government experts—such as Julius Klein in commerce, Nelson Johnson in diplomacy and Parker Gilbert in finance. / Good intentions, general intelligence and success in other fields are no longer sufficient qualifications for the key federal posts. , Bessemer City The management of the American Mills Company at Bessemer City, N. C., thought they “had to” cut wages. But their employes didn’t believe they were under any such necessity. Other mill owners corroborated the employes’ view. So the employes struck. Strange, but the management discovered, after all, that it did not “have to” cut wages. In fact, it soon became apparent to the management that it “had to” put them back. Reduced wages are bad for business; they only make depression worse. Better not to operate than to operate on reduced wages, for the mill running at reduced wages only takes itfhat business there is away from some competing concern too enlightened to reduce wages. Other industrial managers well may take the lesson of Bessemer City to heart, and, when they are te’mpted to reduce wages as the easiest way out of their difficulties, recognize that the "necessity” for doing so may not be as impelling as they first think. Sober second thought may convince them that the thing to do is to avoid a course which may cost them the confidence of their employes and break the fabric of national prosperity. Lon Chaney’s Contribution Lon Chaney never was one of those movie actors who quicken the languid pulse of the highbrows. No wordy essayist ever wrote articles for the roughpaper magazines expatiating on his art. Visiting novelists never went out of their way to write >him up as they wrote up Charlie Chaplin and Emil Jannings. But Lon Chaney, nevertheless, was supreme in his own field. Asa character actor he had no equal. His list of accomplishments in the days of the silent films was extraordinary long, and it just had become evident, before his death, that he was going to make an equally good record in the talkies. Most important of all was the fact that he gave good entertainment to millions of people. He probably furnished more exciting thril’s to more different men and women than any other man in America. The movie world will miss him sincerely. His place will not be easy to fill.

Baseball Is Still Flourishing Every year or so some calamity howler arises to remark that big league baseball is dead, or at least dying. And every year, regular as clockwork, something comes up to prove that there is a great deal of life in the old game yet. The latest bit of evidence in rebuttal of the calamity howler is contained in the recent attendance figures at Wrigley field, Chicago. When the Cubs finished their series with the Dodgers and the Giants, they had set anew attendance record for baseball. 'The good old days at their liveliest could not match the enormous outpouring of fans that visited Wrigley field this summer. Baseball, obviously, is a long way from death or the danger of death. As long as it can continue to produce thrills and hot competition it will remain what it has been called—the great American game. Now that the head of the Chinese National army has offered troops money rewards for capturing certain cities, you may expect his men hereafter to talk in terms of their cash surrender values. / Now if Tom Lipton were entering a golf tournament instead of a yachting contest, there might be a crack somewhere about his canny tea to cup play. To an addicted tea drinker like Betty Nuthall, English tennis champ, what’s another cup more or less? A New York doctor says that an occasional drunk adds to the length of life. Rather a staggering statement.

REASON by fr “ k

IT'S customary to value the life a fellow has lived by waiting until he dies, and then if he leaves a wad of money, no matter how he got it, he is enrolled as a success, but if he quits the world as empty handed as he entered it, no matter what burdens he has borne, he is shoveled under as a failure. n n n But the financial yardstick, always brutal and unjust, is particularly so when you consider the case of Charles Ruggles, aged 84 years, who has just been gathered to his fathers at Manistee, Mich. n an MR. RUGGLES never married, which has nothing to do with the case, since many of the best people who ever breathed air have handed the water pitcher to Cupid but in his 84 years he devoted himself entirely to the acquisition of coin. n n n He was a lumber baron; he owned forests everywhere and before the grim reaper annexed him, Ruggles has become many times a millionaire. So he now goes into the glittering volume of “success/’ but from our standpoint he was a worse failure than the gentleman who sells pencils on the comer. '\ * n n . * f Ruggles lived alone in a joint over his lumber office cooked his own meals and made his own bed; he did this for some sixty years and in all this time he adopted no poor child, educated no boy or girl, insofar as his friends know, never had .but one adventure in human nature. th£ sponsoring of a man with whom he later fought. n n n ALL these years, living alone in a nest over his office, he was piling up money for which he had no use on earth; he was not doing it by cultivating the soil, but by cutting down trees to get millions he did not need. If this be jrcatness, then we should crown cannibals. nan He has now gone over the great divide and several forty-second cousins will come forth and center upon Manistee, Mich., and for years the heirs, genuine and otherwise, will fight over the dead man’s millions, the lawyers not overlooking an opportunity to lay something aside for a rainy day. n n n Poor old Ruggles! With all his millions he lived and died a pauper, for he never had a human contact he did not suspect; he thought everybody was trying to rim him. How poor be was alongside the common man with little cash but with folks who are fotfhim.

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

College Students’ Careers Are Shaped Largely by Accident, School President Asserts." ACCIDENT rather than aptitude is shaping the careers of most college students, according to Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, •president of Antioch college. „Dr. Morgan, directing courses in the summer session at Columbia university, believes that the time is here to apply the findings of science to the methods of operating colleges. The degree of attention which the college young man arid woman give to a subject depends mueff' more upon the skill with which it i# presented than upon the supposed interest in it which the students brought to college, he finds. The business of higher education, Dr. Morgan contends, therefore is to help students to escape from accidental, commonplace interests .to those of permanent value. * "At the present time student interest is probably the greatest single force in determining the curricula of our colleges and universities,” Dr. Morgan said. "An institution may endeavor to guide and modify student interests as a mother tries to educate the appetites of her children, or it may cater frankly to them, as the manager of a cafeteria caters to the tastes of his customers; but nowhere in America can a college or university safely ignore those interests.”

Inheritance. DR. MORGAN believes that educators need more information to enable them to distinguish between true biological inheritance and the influence of social and physical environment. \ Asa means of arriving at fundamental knowledge in this field, he suggests a comparative study of the Negroes of the United States, and Africa.

purpose of vthis survey would be to determine how far their interests, customs, and habits are governed by heredity and how far they are governed by the influences of their environment. "Differences of capacity and of interest which seem almost universal to a race or to a nation can not be accepted too quickly as being inherited biologically,” he says. "Eve^y‘one has observed or has heard of the minor strain of pathos in Negro character. It generally has been assumed to be inborn, yet we are told that this trait is absent in Negroes at home in‘ Africa. "The Negro race in America furnishes such an unusual experiment for the study of the nature of interests, customs, and habits that a comparison of the Negro in Africa and in America, by qualified technical psychologists, may make great contributions toward distinguishing the effects of biological inheritance from social and other environmental influences.” u u 11 Environment DR. MORGAN believes that highly specialized interest on the part of students is due chiefly to environment and past experience rather than inborn traits. He believes that-a complete lack of interest in so#ne particular subject is also due to the same influences, rather than to some innate inability to cope with the subject. “Without doubt the college teacher sometimes discovers variations of capacity and interest which are inborn,” he says. “A student shows remarkable capacity in physics or rare ability for English expression; another has a discriminating musical ear. But we are strongly inclined to overrate these inborn traits or to misinterpret our observations. “We are not justified in attributing mental traits to biological inheritance unless we understand them very thoroughly. "It is the business of education to help students reconstruct their interests and bring them into harmony with enduring values. "Fine proportions should be the' aim of the student and of the college. It is not enough that wr teach students the subjects the: want; we must interest them in the subjects that are essential to optimum living. "It is the prime business of higher education to help the student to escape from these accidental, common place interests and to help him to interests that will secure for his living and thinking, unity, depth and enduring significance.”

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BIRTH OF HOLMES August 30

ON Aug. 30, 1809, Oliver Wendell Holmes, famous American author and poet, was born at Cambridge, Mass. At 20, he was graduated from Harvard and at once entered the law school of that institution. Finding the law uncongenial, however, he soon transferred to the medical school. While a student there he wrote and published "in a Boston paper his well-known poem. “Old Ironsides." which proved time an effective piece of propaganda against the proposed breaking up of the famous frigate. Constitution. After he received his degree Holmes studied in Europe for two years and returned to practice medicine in Boston. In 1838 he became professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth college and ' - 1847 to 1882 held the same chair _ Harvard. * His only important contribution to medical science occurred in 1843/ when he established the fact tkat puerperal fever is contagious. His widest fame, of course, is as a poet, a wit and a man of letters. He was nearly 50 before his literary reputation spread beyond Boston. It then happened when he wrote for serial publication in the newly established Atlantic Monthly his “Thfc Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,” witty, serious talks about Boston life. His most famous novel is “Elsie Venner,” and among his most popular poems are “Old Ironsides," “The Chambered Nautillus” and “The Wonderful One HoeyShay.”

Another Endurance Flight Contes to Earth

Chemical Analysis Vital for Acidosis

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of tbe American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN its advance into the unknown, scientific medicine has taken advantage of the work of the chemist for determining exactly the acid condition of the human body. The technical methods are extremely intricate end oan be performed only by laboratory investigators and chemists who have had special training. They reveal definitely the exact extent of the acidosis from which the patient may be suffering and indicate also the nature of the treatment that must be used to overcome the condition. Obviously, when acidosis occurs in diabetes or in Bright’s disease, attention must be directed to improve the work of the organs that are weak; namely, the pancreas and the kidney. The work of the pancreas is im-

IT SEEMS TO ME by h ™ d

EVEN though it may cost me votes, I must admit that I don’t care much about cats. But my objection is not the familiar one that cats become attached to a place rather than to a person. Still less is my disaffection based on the traditional criticism that they are wholly self-seeking and merrahary. People seem to hold it against them that they never jump into rivers to save babies from drowning and that they, will accept cream from anybody who comas along. And they don’t bark at burglars. In fact, much of the campaign against cats is based on the fact that they aren’t dogs. This is asking a good deal. Dogs are more demonstrative, but also the greater-hypocrites. Anyhow, I’m perfectly willing to meet any cat half way on the proposition 'hat we look at each other .coldly and from far corners of the room. Nor am I one to condemn any feline because she seems to be an opportunist. I use the pronoun "she,” because it has been my experience that every cat in any-

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Editor Times—l am mailing this to you, knowing it will be given to the proper authorities. The children of this neighborhood (from Sixteenth street to Nineteenth street, and from Bellefontaine street to Park avenue) are greatly in need of some place to play to keep them off the street. They have been very annoying with the little airplanes this summer and they cause children to dart out in the streets, besides endangering passing motorists. The children have to have a place to play and surely a city of this size should furnish them one. Why not utilize the school grounds for summer playgrounds and appoint boy scouts in relays to look after the children?' All children can not have the opportunity, during summer vacations, of going to parks every day.. We feel they would have much better protection to have a playground than in the streets. Many children of the city are supplied with playgrounds. Let’s try and have places for all of them. .Safety first. A TIMES READER. Editor Times—ls the good housewives of Indianapolis would throw the bones and meat scraps from the table into the alley or back yard, these nourishing tidbits could be picked up by lost or stray dogs, which would keep them going until they found homes, or were rescued by the dog pound truck. A week ago a forlorn little puppy appeared at the kitchen door, attracted by the fragrance of beefsteak cooking. It slowly was starving to death. I put it in the basement and fed it regularly until the dog wagon came for it. The very next morning I saw a stray collie in front of the grocery where I trade begging so hard for some of ihe meat that was being unloaded. And who knows but that this . kindly foresight also might prevent ribies ? /’RIEiJD TO ANIMALS.

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proved by the giving of insulin and by changing the diet. The work of the kidney is improved by the use of sweat baths, which eliminate materials through the skin and by a change in diet so as to throw less stress on the kidney. In every one of the conditions in which acidosis develops, attention must be given to the water exchange and it must be seen that the patient has a sufficient amount of water to take care of all factors mentioned in the discussions of water. There exists also the possibility of correcting the acid state to some extent by the use of foods that tend more toward the alkaline side. There are many foods which have valued for this purpose. They include particularly peas, oranges, potatoes, peaches, cantaloupe, celery, carrots, beets and lima beans. There ar6 other foods which tend particularly toward the production of acid. Among them are bread, eggs, meats, w oysters, oatmeal and ripe.

body’s house turns out to be a potential mother if ybu keep jt around long enough. Biologists may assure me that I am in error, but all cat maintainers will support my contention. There’s much to be said for opportunists, fur-bearing or otherwise. Evito among human beings many delightful friendships are those which we form with agreeable egoists, Yoi\ always know where you stand with an opportunist. He is as convenient as a slot machine. Put in a penny and you will get almost a penny’s worth in return. You must allow him some margin of profit. tt tt tt Swearing at Cats AND a first-class opportunist is a very sensitive person. Living his life through the sharpness of his intellectual perceptions, he is quick to understand your* moods, and avail himself of them.. Right here is where the cat falls down. She simply is incapable of taking a hint. Shout at a dog, “Get out of here!” and he generally will leave the room as soon as you repeat the command and add a few curse words. He gets the impression that you don’t want him around. The color and tone of profShity penetrate to his intelligence. But not to cats. Swearing at cats is useless. So inaccurate is the feline ear that “Nice kitty” and “! & ! 1” seem to sound just alike to her. Coming back suddenly from Connecticut, I found a large cat, a perfect stranger to me, lying in the middle of my bed. Evidently she had come from the penthouse roof through an open window. I spoke to her sharply and urged her to be gone, but the animal paid no attention. I tried pantomime and indicated by means of gestures that I was anxious for the cat to get out of my bed. Indeed, there were sound effects included in this performance, for after pillowing my head upon my hands, I did imitation snoring so that the cat might grasp the fact 1 was anxious to go to sleep. Brandishing a cane was no good. Finally I threw a slipper, but only over her head. A direct hit from a slipper cf mine well might be fatal, even to an animal with nine lives. As yet my fury was less than murderous. All I wanted was undisputed possession of the bed. a f Moronic Maltese SLOWLY there percolated into the mind of the moronic Maltese the notion that I wanted her to move away from where she was. She crawled under the bed. That w T as all right by me. As long as I can have the top of the mattress the whole world may beat a pathway to the space beneath the slats. Yet though this cat eventually got my idea, she did not retain it. For when I went out to the living room, library, workshop and studio and remained av;ay five minutes she jumped back into the middle of the bed. And through tlje entire performance all over again. But this time I couldn’t find the slipper I threw water instead, and this was a volley fired in anger. It missed the cat and caught the Billow. Twice more within the evening

If severe acidosis is present, the person must be kept absolutely at rest and care must be taken to see that he is kept warm. The opposite condition to acidosis is alkalosis This occurs very rarely and usually because the person has been taking too much alkalis or too much baking soda or bicarbonate of soda to overcome what he thinks is an acid condition. Many people, who suffer occasionally from ulcers of the stomach or from hyperacidity, take immense quantities of soda for the correction of the condition. Obviously alkalosis easily can be controlled by cutting down on the amount of alkalis being taken both in the form of drugs and foods. When alkalosis is due to excessive breathing, such as rarely occurs in hysteria or nervous diseases or other disease, the patient may be given air to breathe which contains an abnormally large amount of carbon dioxide until the system is brought under control.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column a**e those of one of America's most interestinir writers and are presented without rearard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

the cat came back. Finally, I had to take her all the way down the front hall and slip into the elevator before she could follow me. With just a little more tact the animal might have obtained “for herself if nbt a good home at least lodging for the night. It isn’t the morals of cats which annoy me, deplorable as they may be, but their downright stupidity. Even a kitten ought to be able to grasp the fact that I am a man of iron will and that when I say '‘‘Scat!” I mean “positively.” tt a Not Much Silence SPEAKING of cats, I might as well confess that the lighthearted vow which I made just after my vacation is beginning to grow a little heavier on my hands. Only a week ago public assurance was given by me in this space that certain matters having to do with a body called C-ngr-ss would not tSkP mentioned. So far it sterns to me that the spirit of the pledge has been faithfully maintained. And I anticipate no backsliding in the future. But bear with me if you will, for there have been days and there will be others in which I would quite possibly prefer to get after candidates rather than cats. (Copyright. 1930, by The Times) <

Questions and Answers

Who was the richest President of the United States? George Washington was the wealthiest President in proportion to the value of money and property at the time. President Harding was the wealthiest President of recent times. Was the tomato ever considered poisonous? _ Formerly it was called “love apand was commonly considered poisonous. \ From what university did John D. Rockefeller Jr. graduate? He received his A. B. degree from Brown university in 1897. Who wrote the words and music of the song “Ben Bolt”? The words were written by Dr. Thomas Dunn English; the music

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AUG. 30, 1930'

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Movie Will Present foi\ Posterity a Faithful Record of Our Times. THEY have buried Lori Chaney, but not so completely as would have been the case had he lived in good old pre-movie times. What is there left of a Booth, ai\ Irving, or even the divine Sarah, save a few clippings and a few imi-’ tators? - Their reputations still survive, to be sure, but outside the profession it 1 is rapidly shriveling to a mere master of names and dates. Lon Chaney will be obliterated by the same inevitable laws of mortal--ity. but it will take longer. Instead of playing before one or two generations he will play before ten or twenty generations. Generations yet unborn will see him hobble through "The Penalty.’’ or “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,'* with the same feeling of intimacy that we have known. tt tt e Saved' by the Movies THE printed page and still picture furnish little more than a record of abstract ideas. To make those ideas real, the reader, or observer, must reconstruct them in his own mind, and this he can not do without adding the color of his own peculiar prejudices and personal background. The movie, especially when accompanied by sound-reproducing devices, offers a far more faithful and comprehensive record. If the art of printing has worker! such wonders in the progress of civilization, what can we not expect from the silver sheet and sound record? tt tt tt Napoleon on Screen WE think of movie, phonograph, and radio as just three moie toys for our amusement. That is because we have not been in possession of* them long enough to realize the greater service they one day will perform. What would we not give to see Napoleon on the screen, much,less to hear him talk, or Caesar, Socrates, and other giants of bygone ages? That will be the privilege of future generations with regard to our, own times. From books we learn that Henry Clay’s voice was "the finest musical instrument of its day,” but we do not know how it actually sounded. A hundred years hence, people will not have to imagine what Coolidge's nasal twang was like, or hew Hoover looked when walking about.. tt tt tt Medium of Knowledge DURING the last twenty-five years we have seen people turn from the legitimate theater to motion pictures by droves. Snobs argue that this is mainly due to cheaper prices and lower tastes, tut that’is silly. The movie has made possible a more vivid translation of human ideas and activities. In the end, it will do for history what it already has done for the , drama. In tile end it is going to become a very serious medium of knowledge, and information. tt it it Schools Fall Behind CONSIDERING the stupendous part movies have played in revolutionizing the entertainment field, cne wonders why they have not received more attention from educa-_ tors. Why is the school so far behind ' the theater? Why arc libraries not providing a place for films and sound records? If children can get more out of watching a movie for ten minutes than out of an hour's reading by way of enterainment, why can't they get more by way of sti|dy? If we can preserve a lot of non-' sense by means of films and sound records, why can’t we, and why won’t we, preserve things of greater value? u a tt We will, of course, and it requires no straining of the imagination to realize that we will. The revolution that has taljeii place in the theater is bu£-a warning. If Greece had been blessed with phonographs, we wouldn’t be trying to present an impression of Demosthenes through cold type. We would be putting on a rrcord and listening to his voice. If there were a movie to go with it, we would have little left to guess about. Any one can go on i with theory from here.

by Nelson Kneass. who adapted it from a German folksong. It was first sung in a play in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1848. How many persons are employed in the federal civil service? How many of these are employed in the city of Washington? Employes in the federal executive civil service on June 30, 1928, numbered 568,715. Os these, 61,388 were in the District of Columbia and 507,327 were employed elsewhere. Daily Thought We are saved by hope.—Romans 22:40. Hope is a fight diet, but very stimulating.—Balzac.