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The Lame Duck Parade Defeat in the primaries of five or more United States senators and more than a score of representatives revives Interest in the Norris lame duck amendment, which has been pending for several years. The congress which meets in December will include a large number of members who have been repudiated by the voters—in many instances on clearly defined Issues. They will legislate for thirteen months after they have been voted out of office. The evils of the system which permits this are apparent. The will of the voters is not made effective. The powers that control congress, particularly In the house, are able to manipulate votes of the lame duck members through the bestowal of political rewards. / The Norris amendment to the Constitution would correct this. The President would take office immediately after election, and newly elected members of congress would take their seats in the session immediately following their election. The senate three times has voted to submit the proposal to the states, and there is little doubt that it quickly would be approved. But in the house the ruling oligarchy always has sidetracked it, because it would deprive them of one of the chief means of keeping the lower chamber in subjection. It is to be hoped that Norris and the senate will persist in efforts to have the change made. Public opinion finally will force Speaker Longworth and his associates to let the house put the question up to the voters. The League Looks Up One of the gravest charges brought by critics against the League of Nations is that it is led by the nose by the great powers. Those charges have been damnmg because often they have been true and unanswerable. Too often Prance, Britain or Italy hes used the league as a catspaw. Too often the powers have blocked the league's work in order to save their own skins. Therefore, the rejoicmg of league friends over its first major victory in a clash with Great Britain. The issue was the report of the league’s mandates commission severely criticising British rule in Palestine, scene of Arab-Jewish riots and massacres. The British government had not only made a counter attack against the commission's stinging report, but had seemed to question the right of the league body to criticize a power exercising a league mandate. If Britain had got away with such effrontery it virtually would have been impossible for the league to answer the standing charge that league mandates only are a camouflage for exploitation of colonial peoples by the great powers. By voting to accept the critical report of the mandates commission the league council has helped to assert the independence and dignity of the league as a responsible International institution.

A Prospectus of Religious Liberalism Liberalism In religion has been chiefly—to vary an ancient adage—old wine in new bottles. It has given us some new words and phrases, but the same old attitudes and programs persist behmd the labels. The liberals contend in one breath that the Old Testament is mans creation, and in the next they preach from it with a fervor and assurance only compatible with the dogma that it is the very Word of God. They admit that Jesus was only a man and then insist upon following him as though he were a part of the triune God. The Rev. Dr. Lon R. Call of the West Side Unitarian church of New York City has, however, just set forth a prospectus of religious liberalism which is all tnat it purports to be: “Every race and every nation has had glimpses of the truth. We want the Bible to become known among men as a natural book, written under natural circumstances, because we believe that it is valuable, because we believe that it is such a natural, such a human book. Wc want the values in the life of Jesus conserved for us by propagating the facts which substantiate our contention that He was strictly a human being. “Some of the things we want as liberals which are relatively new: We want anew emphasis upon freedom of belief in pulpit and pew. We want a new conception of God that will harmonize with the conception of the universe as we know it through modern science. “Many of the churches have gone on preaching a conception of God more in harmony with the world of Moses than the world of modern men. We want to use modem science as an ally with religion m bringing in the good life. We want to base religion in bringing in the good life. We want to base religion, not on Ignorance, but on knowledge. We modem liberals want to be unhampered in our choice of guides to lead us into the future. "I speak for modem liberalism, 1 think, when I plead for less censorship and more freedom in the matter of speech, with more confidence that mankind will choose the best road into the future without any of them being closed to exploration by the authority of the censor. “Finally, we modern liberals want to face the industrial problem and solve it if we can by using the machinery we have to better the condition of men in general. We would preach and apply a social gospel which makes man the end of all material endeavor." This is a forward-looking statement with which any man. however scientific, heartily can agree. And it is “constructive," thus escaping the threadbare charge of "purely destructive criticism." The only serious problem is to find any large group to whom it will appeal and an agency through which it may be promoted effectively. Concerning Lawyers Here and there the bar associations of various states are trying to put their houses in order by disciplining ihe ambulance-chasers, the shysters and crooks of the legal profession. Like the man who fails to see the woods because of the trees, they all have overlooked the real menace to their ancient and honorable profession, the law. This is the abuse of the courts of America, flagrant m such cases as the Sacco-Vanzetti and Mooney - Billings scandals. The former has. unfortunately, died with its victims. The latter is very much alive. It is a lamentable commentary upon the American bar that the lawyers of this land, the dignity and honor of whose calling have been dragged in the dust by the California spectacle, are silent and unaroused. When justice can be made ttu instrument of class hatred, something very rotten is happening to the law. And this thing has happened in California. If the law becomes worm-eaten by such scandal,

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whose funeral is it? Surely that of the lawyers. Yet while they remain complacent, It Is left to ministers, newspaper writers and social workers to cry out their protests. This lawyers’ lack of pride in the law's honor has been sensed by many jurists, who see in it a danger to the entire body politic. “It is not pleasant to contemplate,” said Justice Royal A. Stone of the Minnesota supreme court, “what might now be the state of the world had the students and practitioners of medicine and surgery and of the physical sciences been so much the slaves of slandpattism during the last century as have the members of the American bar.”

Flexible Immigration If the state department’s announced proposal to enforce more strictly the existing immigration laws as an aid to employment is carried out against European countries in the same way as present regulations are enforced against Mexico, there probably will be less tinkering with our immigration quotas when congress meets again. The President’s request that existing laws be examined to determine whether immigration legally can be decreased illustrates that Hoover, with Secretary Stimson and his assistant, Joseph P. Cotton, again are approaching a difficult problem in a sensible manner. True, the state department s announcement puts the President on record as favoring the proposal advanced in congress last spring to cut immigration quotas in half. But that, fortunately, didn't get very far. When the clamor against the flood of Mexican immigration began to be heard everywhere the state department, about a year ago, started strict enforcement of the existing law. The result has been a remarkable decrease in Mexican immigration; a decrease so pronounced that the necessity of affronting Mexico with further restrictive legislation is obviated. It seems reasonable to hope the new program for more closely watching the immigration from quota countries eventually will bring the same relief. We must keep the good will of foreign nations—for selfish trade reasons if for no other. We probably shall have to come in the end to an outright flexible quota system to fit the constantly changing economic conditions in this country. In effect the state department’s latest experiment in administering the present immigration law is an approximation of the flexible system. Parasites on Charity For reasons which they probably don t understand themselves, many rich men salve their consciences by contributing money to community chests. They recognize a certain responsibility to society by making such contributions, but hire somebody to assume the responsibility for them. Hundreds of millions of dollars are contributed in this country every year to the amazing number of charitable organizations kept going by community chests. • . , , Asa rule, the leading citizens of philanthropic impulses who administer these chest funds get no monetary compensation for their unselfish work, but there is a vast army of salaried professional charity workers who make their living spending this money. In an investigation of organized charity in one of our biggest cities a few years ago, it was discovered that out of every dollar contributed by well-disposed citizens for charity, 75 cents went to salaries and administration expenses and 25 cents to charity. If the people of this country only knew the vast extent of the army of parasites who make their living as salaried charity workers and spenders of charity funds they would be astounded. A survey of hired charity workers and the w'ay the money goes would make a tremendously sensational story. Add to the millions of dollars contributed to charity what it costs in taxes to maintain various national, state, county and municipal institutions, where food, clothing and housing are provided for defectives, and you might have some idea of how we could insure the entire population against unemployment. The biggest waste in this country is the idleness of citizens who want jobs and can’t get them. Our biggest job is to stabilize work and eliminate poverty with all its attendant evils.

REASON by ™ s ck

EXPERTS in various places now are getting ready to fondle the glands, climb the family trees and explore the environments of beasts who have comrr.ited horrible crimes against children. If we had our way, we would hang the whole crowd end investigate their mental condition afterward—if at all. tt tt tt If this be barbarism, then we should like to become a charter member of the Protective Order of Barbarians. We frankly avow we have more respect for twenty feet of rope than for fifty million miles of red tape. Drive the tapeworms out of the American courthouse! a a tt NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, who strolls apprehensively up and down the ramparts of Liberty, looking for storms which threaten the ship of state, informs us that the time has come to prepare to meet Communism, when only yesterday he admonished us that the only way to be saved was to kill the fatted calf for Mr. J. Barleycorn. tt tt tt Mr. Butler would have us avert the red menace by including our multi-millionaires to assume a more benevolent attitude toward the crimson brothers. This means that Mr. Rockefeller should play golf with them, Mr. Vanderbilt should take them yachting and J. P. Morgan should invite them to go grouse shooting in Scotland. * tt it MR. BUTLER has bats in his belfry, for Uncle Sam has many more serious problems than the reds, among these being the woodpecker, the English sparrow, and the corn borer. In fact, the man who has a speaking acquaintance with just one or two of his onions knows that this red ranting is merely an effort to hinder the advance of Just liberalism in our government. tt tt The only thing Uncle Sam has to do is to keep the faith with his own folks and then he can continue to retire at night without looking under the bed for any Bolsheviks. If Samuel only could arrange for laws to be enforced against rich as well as poor and for a system of taxation that would make the holders of intangibles walk up to the captain’s tent and settle, there would be little discontent. tt a tr We’ve just deported another batch of criminal aliens, but all will be bootlegged in again as they were in the first place. While the army ts resting we should use it to patrol the borders and keep undesirables out.

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—-

Tin Can Island Will Be Capital of Astronomical World During Oct. 21 Eclipse of Su't.

FOR 93 seconds on Oct. 21, Niafou island, better known to sailors as Tin Can island, will become the astronomical capital of the world. The island is picturesque, though not of a sort calculated to attract the tourist trade. It is five miles long and three miles wide. Its chief crop appears to be volcanic craters. These are thirty in number and fairly active. An eruption in June, 1929, destroyed one of the two native villages which decorate the island. The island, which lies in the Pacific ocean, is part of the Tonga archipelago. It is southeast of the Samoan islands and northwest of the Fiji islands, lying about midway between the two groups. It is 1,150 miles from Niafou to New Zealand. Niafou suddenly has become so important to the astronomers because there will be a total eclipse of the sun on Oct. 21. The track In which the eclipse will be visible swings diagonally across the Pacific ocean, missing all of the larger islands. However, it swings right across Niafou. U tt tt - Tin Can Delivery NIAFOU earned its nickname of Tin Can island from the fact that steamers do not ordinarily stop there. Mail and stores are thrown overboard in tin cans and picked up by the natives with small boats. One hundred fifteen boxes of scientific instruments now are on their way to Niafou. These, you may be certain, will not be thrown overboard in tin cans. They will be landed with all the care that Uncle Sam’s navy can lavish on a task when it decides to do a good job. These instruments will be used by the astronomers in observing the ninety-three seconds of eclipse, provided, of course, that they are lucky enough to get a cloudless sky. The eclipse expedition represents a joint venture of the United States naval observatory and a number of other scientific institutions. A member of the expedition will be Dr. T. A. Jaggar Jr. of the Volcanic observatory of Hawaii. His interest is not in eclipses, but in volcanoes, and he is seizing the opportunity of studying the craters on Niafou. The expedition will be under direction of Commander C. H. J. Keppler, who has headed similar expeditions for the navy. Its members will Include Professor S. A. Mitchell, director of the Leander McCormick observatory of the University of Virginia.

Professor Mitchell is a veteran eclipse observer, having traveled tens of thousands of miles during the course of his experiences. a tt tt Einstein Tests FjANS of the eclipse expedition include another test of the Einstein theory. This test will be made by Professor R. W. Marriott of Swarthmore college. „ The Einstein theory, it will be remembered, leaped into prominence as a result of the eclipse expeditions of 1919. Einstein had predicted in 1915 that photographs made during a total eclipse would show the star images near the sun shifted out of their normal positions. The brighter stars, of course, become visible when the sun’s light is blotted out by the disc of the moon. The World war was in progress in 1915, so there was no one with sufficient time at his disposal to organize an eclipse expedition and test the prediction. After the armistice, however, the time was ripe. Two British expeditions, one sent out by the Royal observatory of Greenwich and the other by the Cambridge observatory, made the test in 1919. It was the announcement of their findings which started the whole world to talking about relativity. Since then the test of the Einstein prediction has been a part of every eclipse expedition. The 1922 expedition sent out by the Lick observatory centered a great part of its efforts upon the Einstein test and Dr. W. W. Campbel, then director of the observatory, said that he felt that the theory had been vindicated beyond doubt. Many scientists, however, feel that more tests are justified.

-ft qoAyrtS'THeHr 4BATTLE OF ST. MIHIEL Sept. 12 ON Sept. 12, 1918, the American army, under General Pershing, successfully carried out its first operation in the World war, when it emerged victorious at the Battle of St. Mihiel. The Americans were handicapped badly by deficiencies in artillery, aviation, and special troops, but these were met largely by the French. It was the regular infantry brigade of the Second division that did the attacking, and its assignment was the hardest. This brigade covered six miles of hilly and difficult country in less than nine hours and captured more than 3,000 prisoners and much material, including five railroad trains. The speed of the American advance had baffled the Germans completely and they retreated. This was the first battle under American command and it was a most auspicious beginning. American casualties, including the French troops involved, were about 7,000. The German prisoners numbered 14,439, with 443 guns. Report of the battle in the Infantry Journal said in part: “The most intense concentration of artillery ever recorded was that of the American troops in the Battle of St. Mihiel, when our artillery fired more than 1,000,000 shells in four hours.

Daily Thought

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.—St. John 8:32. Pure truth is for God alone.—

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Quick Action Vital in Meningitis

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. ' EPIDEMIC meningitis has been known as a distinct disease for more than 125 years. Now it is known that isolated cases are almost always present in any large community, and that at various rather irregular intervals epidemics occur. Just why epidemics occur when they do is not known. Most often they develop when large numbers of people are crowded together under insanitary circumstances, but sometimes they arise without this condition. The germ that causes meningitis was found within ten years of the time when Pasteur established the germ cause of diseases. Since that time investigators have found that there are various types of the meningitis germ just as there are various types of the pneumonia germ, and, indeed, just as there arc various types of human oeings. This fact is very important because the specific serum that controls the poisons of one type of

IT SEEMS TO ME v 1 3T

THE other day I tuned in on a radio program, and I was shocked to hear some woman address her listeners, in all seriousness, to consult the stars before consenting to any major operation. Doctors may be wrong in such matters on occasion, but I would certainly string along with a diagnosis rather than a horoscope. It is well enough to fool around with fortune telling for the fun of it, but surely this ought to be a civilization sufficiently advanced to give star gazing, numerology, palmistry and the like no more interest than goes to parlor games. Only last night a seeress informed me that I would soon go on a railroad journey and undertake a line of work quite new to me. This may well be so, but if and when it happens I shall merely set the prophecy down as a coincidence. tt tt a True Tale A MAN told me an anecdote once which illustrated to my mind the whole psychology of fortune

Questions and Answers

What should be the average weight of a boy who is 5 feet 3 inches tall? About 121 pounds. What state placed the statue of Frances E. Willard in Statuary hall in the United States Capitol? Illinois. How much larger is the total area of the British empire than that of the United States? The area of the United States is 3,738,371 square miles, and that of the British empire is 13,226,749 square miles. Who was the leading lady in “The Godless Girl?” Lina Basquette. What inspired Samuel Woodworth to write the song “The Old Oaken Bucket?” The story is told that he and his wife were walking, and stopped at a spring for water. Woodworth remarked that, while it was refreshing, it was not like drinking from the old oaken bucket back home. His wife remarked that that might be a good idea for a song and “The Old Oaken Bucket" resulted.

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perature of 115 degrees, its summit (17,047 feet high) is covered with perpetual snow. This vertical transition from tropical heat to an arctic climate is one of the bizzare phenomena of nature. Frank Wetzil Frank Wetzel, while playing with the Flint, Mich.,

meningitis germ may be quite inefficient against a germ of a different type. Thus during the World war some serums were found inefficient against meningitis in certain French camps, but the trial of a different serum resulted in prompt success in controlling the disease. The meningitis germ probably Is transferred from one person to another by droplets from the nose and throat. The symptoms of meningitis arise from the changes that the germs and their poison or toxin produce in the tissues of the nervous system. Previously, however, there is a period of invasion, when the infectious material and the toxin circulate through the body. Hence there are the. usual symptoms of such invasion, including sore throat, dullness, fever, chills, rapid pulse, and general sorenes over the body. There is also a rash of pin-point sized red spots or even large spots over the body. In the stage when the infection has spread to the nervous system, the patients have severe pain, bursting headache, vomiting and even

telling. He was an actor, and many years ago he played in a stock company in San Francisco. The stage manager of this little troupe (we’ll call him Jim) was a morose young man and a confirmed woman hater. I’ll pretend from her on that I’m the actor telling the story: “We all knew that there was some sort of mystery back of Jim. He’d lived in Japan for five years, and out there something happened. A romance went wrong. We didn’t know the details. He never spoke of it. “One day a woman named Cleo came to town and took big ads in all the papers. She said she could tell the past, present and future. Most of the people in.the stock company went, and Cleo did a good job. She convinced every one of them that she really had some psychic power. Every one went except Jim. He just laughed at the whole business. But I nagged him and nagged him, and one night he went along with me to Cleo’s studio. “I stayed outside. He went in to talk to her, and at the end of 15 minutes he came out. He was white and all jangled. He didn’t say a word, but I knew what had happened. Cleo had told him the things that none of the rest of us knew—she'd told him about the girl in Japan. tt tt Actor Still Talking "T GOT to know Cleo well—l mean outside of business hours. (Please keep remembering that this is the actor talking—not Heywood Broun, the respectable columnist and congressional candidate). I got to know her well, and I told her the stuff was all fake. She just, laughed. It didn't make her mad. But one day she said: ‘This Jim in your stock company—it isn’t a good idea for him to be such a cross and morose woman hater. You tell him to come to the studio again. I want to tell him something.’ “This time he didn’t raise any objection against going, and when I saw hipi next dey he asked, ‘Did you ever hear of an actress named Maude Lambert?’ It wasn’t any name I’d ever heard of, although I knew most of the people in the profession. “ ‘What about Maude Lamberi?’ I asked. “ ‘Nothing,’ said Jim ‘Cleo says rm going to marry her In two

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delirium and convulsions. The physician makes his diagnosis not only from the history of the case and the symptoms, but also by obtaining specimens of the spinal fluid and by studying its condition and the germs that it may contain. If meningitis is diagnosed promptly, and serum treatment given within forty-eight hours, only about 15 per cent of the patients die. If there is delay beyond this, 20 per cent die. In general throughout the country about 50 per cent die. The lesson from these statistics is clear. Beyond the deaths from meningitis is the danger of secondary complications, with permanent deafness or crippling. Here, then, is a disease about which much is known, indeed, almost sufficient to wipe out the disease entirely. If science could command the situation completely. Nevertheless, cases continue to occur, due to the fact that perfect control is not possible, and due also perhaps to the fact that the germs, being living organisms, change their natures from time to time, as does man himself.

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months. But if there isn't any Maude Lambert I guess I don’t need to worry about that.’ tt tt e Plot Thickens “ \ WEEK later our landing womA an was taken ill, and we telegraphed to a dramatic agent in the east for a stubstitute. He wired back: ‘Can send actress you need. Good performer. Has been playing vaudeville in a mind-reading act, but willing to return legitimate stage for summer. Name, Maude Lambert.’ “And Maude Lambert came on, and Jim married her. He married her at the end of two months. I guess he felt that this was his fate and that it wasn’t any use fighting against it. “By this time I was beginning to believe in Cleo myself, even though I knew she was a faker. I begged her to tell me how she did it, and one night—the night before she went back east—she broke down. This is what she told me: ‘I was the girl in the mind-reading act of the Great Pharo, as he called himself, before Maude Lambert came along. He wasn't any good, but I was in love with him. Maude Lambert cut me out. He put her in the act in my place. I wanted to get him back, I wanted to get her out of the way. For ten months I’ve gone up and down the country telling fortunes. I’ve told 200 men that they were going to marry Maude Lambert. This time it worked. That's all there is to that." it it it Interlocutor Resumes IN almost every case I believe that this is all there is. The fortune teller throws out countless leads and prophecies. For instance, I was told that I would presently have a violent and romantic affair with a blond woman. At the end of a blondless twelve months I will have forgotten that part of the fortune and remembered only the railroad journey and the new occupation. And maybe I will say to myself, “I wonder now she knew that.” Anybody armed with a shotgun ought to be able to hit something, any you will find in every fortune that, the fire is widely scattered. But if you recall the details of the little story you may ask me, “But how did Cleo know about the girl in Japan?" And all I can say to that is that maybe it never happened. (Copymht, law. hr The Tuns*)

.SEPT. 12,1980

M:E: Tracy SAYS:

A Dry Democrat Has A&dtti as Much Chance in Neut York as a Snowball in Aw* gust. HpiMES change and you don’t A need a vacuum cleaner or an electric light to prove it. A 19-year-old girl from South Africa swims the English channel and gets about as much publicity as the champion hog-caller at a county fair. Four years ago, Gertrude Ederle got four-inch headlines and a reception at New York city hall for doing the same thing. Swimming the channel has not only become tiresome, but New York city has discovered a more serious side to life. Just now, it Is perturbed over the disappearance of a justice of the supreme court, though from political rather than human interest. Too many judges have gone wrong lately, too many scandals nave cropped up in strange places for the unexplained disappearance of any prominent man to be taken lightly. a m Dry Mr. Roosevelt p OVERNOR ROOSEVELT of York draws some big headlines and a lot of comment by coming ouo for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. The excitement Is largely wasted* since he had little choice in tha matter. It was a case of be wet, or srefc out. ° A dry Democrat has about u much chance in the Empire state as a snowball In August. For that matter, so has a dry Re* publican. Waiting on Tuttle EVERY one is waiting to hear from Mr. Tuttle, the most talked of possibility as Republican candidate for Governor of New York. From a dramatic standpoint, Tuttle’s promised statement ma,y be worth all the suspense, and from a personal standpoint, it may have a profound bearing on his future career, but from a political standpoint, he has about as little choice in the matter as did Governor Roosevelt. If he comes out for Volsteadism* he is sunk. If, on the other hand, he comes out for repeal, prohibition will be eliminated as an Issue in this fall ® campaign, and all the political leaders will be very happy, for prohibition Is the one thing they don’t like to talk about, even though it has become the favorite topic of conversation among ordinary folks.

Long's Raw Deeds FERGUSON out in Texas, Blease out in South Carolina, an<f “Tom-Tom" Heflin probably out in Alabaman-one could afford to feel quite happy, were It not for the shoddy trick put over by Louisiana crackers in nominating that bit of dynamic vulgarity known as Huey, P. Long for senator. As though that were not enough, they are adding insult to injury by proposing him as a presidential can-< didate. For should Long be blamed more than any other demagogue for getting what he can while the getting is good? The raw things he has said, &n<f the even rawer things he has donej are not half so surprising or shocking as is the fact that his ridiculous, ribald conduct should appeal to the majority of voters in a great state. a tt tt Hypocrisy of France IT is significant that at the very moment when Aristide Briand was explaining to the League of Nations why Europe could not hope to live in peace without closer accord and co-operation, France should be putting on the greatest military show staged since the war. Fifty thousand men and 300 airplanes, with every conceivable kind of modern equipment and commanded by the ablest generals available doing the best they can to imitate conflict close to the German border, while the nation’s official spokesman pleads for peace—who says that hypocrisy is confined to prohibition in America? Unless deeds have ceased to speak louder than words, Europe will be justified in measuring the French attitude by what is being done to perfect her men in the art of war, rather than by what M. Briand is saying in support of peace.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—l read your recent editorial on “Pests Beyond the Pale" with the greatest pleasure, because you took the very words out of my mouth. But besides the honking motorist and the noisy motorcycle romeo, there are other pests in my neighborhood equally annoying, if not more so—the ice peddlers. I have especially in mind three young fellows who start their unholy business shortly after 6 in the morning. They have the nastiest voices imaginable and also the loudest, and in three different pitches, mind you, and drawn out as long as possible. Just why they yell “Ipe” I don t know, unless it be that “Ice" is too hard on their tonsils. Every possibility of sleep is entirely out of the question after they’ve been around. Having to witness such an insult to civilized humanity would spoil anybody’s sleep. It gets me so worked up each time that I get raving mad. Is there any reason why they can’t execute their business nicely and noiselessly, like practically every other respectable business man? Is there any reason why they can’t distribute ice cards to the homes and have the customers display them if they want ice? Anything you can do to remedy this thing will be apreciated greatly by all residents of this neighborhood. If necessary, I’ll gladly let you have the name and addressee of these certain “Ipe-men.” HENRY VON BANK. 410 North Arsenal avenue. When and by whom was FanenQ hall In Boston built? It was built in 1742 by Peter Faneuil as a meeting house, where questions of vital moment to the New England colonists were discussed.