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Gas Tax Inquiries Governor Leslie proposes to Investigate the manner in which taxes are now being collected on gasoline. That is fine, and a step forward. Some two years ago his attitude, when vast frauds were disclosed, was so different that the change of mind is an encouraging sign. At that time no protest was made when a group of violators settled with the state for a small percentage of their frauds and the filling stations operated by them were turned over to political and personal friends of those in authority. True, under the present auditor, there have been large increases in collections and many former violators have been forced to pay. But if there are any frauds undisclosed, perhaps the co-operation of the Governor may help. The tax should be uniform if dealers are to be protected against unfair competition and the public receive its full share of the tax. The Governor mignt, in time, come to the conclusion that other investigations are necessary and provide for them from his emergency fund. An investigation into the cost of cleaning the rtatehouse, paid for from his own emergency fund, might be profitably pursued. Fairly conducted, this rhould include inquiries as to what Indiana citizens offered to do the same work for, what a fair price rhould have been and how it happened that a foreign corporation received over $60,000 for that work. The precedent of investigation may be even more useful in the future when the more difficult job of enforcing the chain store tax gets under way. More Taxes Republican leaders in the senate finally have become convinced that an increase in federal taxes is inescapable. Treasury Secretary Mellon told them that the deficit lor the current year would approximate two billion dollars, and could not be met except by the issuance of additional bonds. Chairman Reed Smoot of the senate finance committee held a lengthy conference with President Hoover, so it is assumed the position of the leaders is also that of the administration. Tax increases are regrettable, and particularly so at this time. It is sensible to face facts, however, and the administration heretofore has been unwilling to do this. It has avoided the issue while expenditures increased, revenues declined and a deficit piled up which would have driven the government of any other country from power. Current bills have been met through the easy process of issuing bonds and passing on to future generations the burdens of settlement. This method obviously could not be continued indefinitely. Revenues have shrunk until they now amount to only about half of expenditures. A business revival beyond the expectations of even the most optimistic would not provide tax revenues adequate for this year or next. Economies which the administration thus far has been able to enforce will meet only a fraction of the deficit. And there will be unusual demands at the coming session of congress. It is sound and necessary business to take steps to make the books balance. Now the question will be what form new taxes shall take. It is Just that those who are able to pay must pay, and this means higher surtaxes, higher inheritance taxes, and revival of the gift tax. If a sales tax proves also necessary it should be* limited to luxuries and semi-luxuries. Congress, framing new tax legislation, will have an eye on the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, which many students of the problem blame in large part for our current troubles. Taxation is one way of bringing about a more equitable distribution of wealth upon which depends mass purchasing power and national prosperity. Finland’s Folly If the United States cares to brave it she may look at herself in the mirror of Finland. Finland adopted prohibition twelve years ago. So did we. Finland’s jails filled with citizens whose crime was their desire to drink. So did ours. Finland's bootleggers thrived, waxed rich, corrupted the law. So did ours. Finland's liquor consumption increased 50 per cent. So did ours. Finland's treasury fell off from lack of liquor revenues. So did ourr. Finland's people protested loudly. So did ours. Finland appointed an investigating commission. So did President Hoover. Finland's investigating commission has finished its report, and word is out that a majority will declare piohibition a failure and recommend temperance: will urge a law permitting the transportation, storage and importation of 12 per cent wine and 3.2 per cent beer; will establish local option, but will not 'trent 10-'al communities the right to prohibit lr*al liquor importation by individuals for home consumption nor the right of invasion of the homes. Our own Wickersham commission made its report, end . ;vcn out of eleven members recommended either lcpcal or modification. I'miand, through its official commission, has adr.ikted her folly. So have we. Finland, having admitted her folly officially, probably will take steps to reform her laws. And we? Japan and European War? More than Manchuria Is at stake in the negotiations of the United States and the League of Nations council. Neither our own government nor the European governments are concerned with local aspects of the Chinese-Japanese quarrel. Their effort is to save the world peace machinery which is breaking under the strain of Japan's military defiance of treaties. Europe is ready for war. During the coming months peace will depend upon the willingness of nations to operate treaty machinery for treaty revision and settlement of other quarrels. If Japan can break the treaties successfully today, Germany and Italy and other nations will be encouraged to use force tomorrow'. Foreign Minister Dino G. ndi of Italy has come to Washington to put befon President Hoover the case of Italy against France .... 1 the Italian demand ior more territory. The fate of the February disrrmament conference is tied up with this FrancoItalian rivalry. Germany plunges nearer and nearer to revolution end war. In Sunday’s primary elections for the Hessian diet, the militaristic Fascist party increased its parliamentary seats from one to thirty. At the opposite extreme, the Communists made large gains. The Hessian trend is typical of all Germany Thus

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the two revolutionary groups—one reactionary and the other radical—rapidly are wiping out the peace parties upon which the present German government rests. From all parties and classes in Germany goes up the cry: "Down with the Versailles treaty.” That unjust treaty has ground down the German people to a point of m.scry and desperation where they are ready to fight for sheer survival. This German spirit of desperate revolt, and similar Italian demands for treaty revision backed by Mussolini’s giant air force, have thrown France and her military satellites of the little entente and Poland into a fever of war preparation. That is the kind of European war bomb for which Japan unwittingly has lighted the fuse far off in Manchuria. That Manchurian war fuse leads straight across Russia to Poland, Germany and the rest of Europe. That is why the league council and the United States must continue to insist that Japan put out that fuse before it is too late. If they fail to stop Japan, sooner or later other nations also will take up arms over the disputes which they are pledged to settle peacefully. What Happened to the Fourteen Points? We celebrated Armistice day recently. There is no better way of estimating Its fruits after thirteen years than to determine what happened to the "Fourteen Points” of President Wilson, upon the basis of which Germany accepted the Armistice. 1. Open covenants, openly arrived at. There is no evidence that secret diplomacy has abated. The United States today is negotiating secretly with Japan over Manchuria. 2. Absolute freedom of navigation in peace and war. No real progress in achieving this goal, which would do away with the need for large navies. 3. The removal of economic barriers. The world groans under the most extensive and the highest tariff barriers in modern history. 4. Thoroughgoing armament reduction. The world spent $4,158,000,000 on armaments last year, about 70 per cent more than in 1913. 5. A fair adjustment of all colonial claims. The colonies of the German empire were seized and distributed as spoils to the victors. 6. Evacuation and self-determination in Russia. Russia was invaded by entente troops on many sides, and a vigorous effort made to overthrow the Soviet government. 7. Evacuation and restoration of Belgium by the Germans. This was executed promptly. 8. Restoration of Alsace-Lorraine to France. This was done, but an effort was made to treat Germany worse than she had treated France in 1870. 9. Frontier of Italy readjusted along “clearly recognizable lines of nationality.” Italy got back all Italians and all irredentist territory. But she also grabbed off more than a quarter million Austrians in the South Tyrol and has treated them harshly. 10. Autonomous development for peoples of Aus-tria-Hungary. This has not been realized. The former oppressors have become the oppressed. 11. Balkan states evacuated by central powers, and a fair Balkan settlement arranged. The central powers carried out their agreement, but the entente did not. Bulgaria, Macedonia, and other Balkan states were dealt with unjustly in the post-war treaties and still suffer without abatement. 12. Just treatment Os Turkey and subject nationalities. Secured in spite of entente arrangements through their successful defiance by Mustapha Kemal. 13. Independent Polish state limited to populations “indisputably Polish.” Many non-Polish peoples were taken over, thus perpetually menacing the peace of Europe. 14. League of Nations, to guarantee political independence and territorial integrity. The league has been formed, but it has permitted atrocious instances of political oppression to exist without protest. The Manchurian issue is the first great International crisis it has tackled. Its success, here is not yet apparent. The victors in 1918 hardly have kept the faith with the men who died tojjnd war and the war system. Marquis Henry de la Falaise paid a dollar to be sure he was divorced from Gloria Swanson. If there was a reason, Constance may have Bennett. Headline: Alabama Toasts Ohio. My gosh, is it still hot in Alabama? j And now that the depression has taken the place I of the war, it’s more difficult for army officers to say, “Charge it.” ft At least the guy that’s “just a gigolo” is making! a living in jig time. Sing Sing prison has a football team. All you have to do to be eligible is commit a crime.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TT is unfortunate but true that our experiences color A our opinions. For this reason it is very hard to regard without prejudice questions that involve the relationship of men and women in love, marriage and parenthood. The wife who has suffered much at the hands of a husband is likely to judge all men by his shortcomings and the parent who finds his sons ungrateful usually believes that other children react in the same manner to care and affection. This attitude was impressed especially upon me by some of the outbursts which followed a recent suggestion in this column that wives who behave in an infantile way might be the better for a little spanking. The missives from the ladies were violent and in a few cases vicious. Many of them asserted that the whole truth was not evident and that the man must have mistreated his wife, else she could not have been selfish with their child. A few’ were of the opinion that I had turned traitor to my sex. (Is this not the reward that comes to all warriors who fight for a cause?) m * tt NOW it seems to me very sad that we should permit ourselves to indplge in this acrimony. It surely is not fair for women to assert that unhappiness in marriage always is caused by the husband, any more than it is true when certain men contend that women are to blame for all our existing miseries. While there are two sides to every quarrel, in the very nature of things one person always is more culpable than the other. Unless w r e women strive for open-mindedness upon general questions of this sort, how can we hope to view the concrete problems of our individual lives with sanity? The woman who is incapable of admitting the faults of her sex probably would be Incapable of recognizing her own personal shortcomings. And since a humility and the knowiedge of one's fallibility are necessary to all human excellence, how ceuld such a woman be a good wif§. a good mother, or even a good citizen? *

‘ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS :

There Is Every Reason for a Third Party in This Country, and There Has Been for at Least Forty Years. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—There is one reassuring aspect to all this third-party talk. It proves that times have not changed so completly, or fundamentally, as some folks would have us believe. It would make grandpa feel very much at home, even if he did have to take it over the radio, and the chances are that he would tell you how similar it sounded to what he heard in November, 1911, or November, 1895. Third-party talk is a weakness of our political system. You can depend on it breaking out in the fall preceding every second, or third, presidential election. Occasionally, it spoils the prospects of one old party, or another, but that is about all it has accomplished the last seventy-six years. a b b The Bull Moosers IT is much easier to organize a third party in this “land of the free and home of the brave” than 1 it is to put one over. The last third party to survive was the very same which now is in control of the government. There have been many splits, bolts and movements since the Republicans presented themselves as a national organization under the leadership of John C. Fremont, but none has lasted for more than an election or two, and none has captured the country. ' The most formidable effort to form a third party since the Civil war was that of the Bull Moosers twenty years ago, and it resulted in nothing, except the election of Woodrow Wilson. b n n Brass-Collar Business THERE is every reason for a third party in this country, and there has been for at least forty years, but brass-collar partisanship seems to have enslaved a sufficient portion of us to prevent its formation. We just can’t get away from remaining Republicans, or Democrats, no matter how definitely we disagree with the policy of both parties and no matter how badly we want to express ourselves on questions they refuse to take up. The prevailing idea of political independence includes little more than switching from one old party to the other, which necessarily limits the field of expression and explains why we have failed to make more progress along certain lines. BUB The Machine Rule CAN you imagine the American people staging a drama like that put on in England three weeks ago—following a leader, who had repudiated his party, crushing the party into helplessness and creating a situation in which the majority didnt dare to turn him out of the premiership, though it had nearly nine-tenths of the votes in parliament? Can you imagine the American people showing such disregard of organization and tradition as constantly is being shown in France, or Germany? Os course you can’t. No people on earth, except semi-barbarians have become such slaves to sheer partisanship as we have. No people are governed so thoroughly by political machines. B M Nothing Can Help IT is hard to believe that average citizens realize how dearly machine rule has woven itself into the political system of this country, how it has diverted the original object of that structure, how it has not only encouraged corruption and incompetence, but has made it well nigh impossible to get rid of them. As between the parties, we have a fair degree of Democracy, but within them, there is very little. Direct primaries and other innovations designed to release the popular will have not helped very much. Nothing can help very much, as long as the bi-party spell en- i dures.

m TODAY '7 /f IS THE Vs WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

GERMAN CRUISER SUNK Nov. 17 ON Nov. 17, 1917, the British admiralty reported one German light cruiser afire and sinking and one mine-sweeper sunk in a naval encounter between English and German forces off Heligoland. The Teutons crossed the Piave river at two points, but were driven back. The Turks prepared to take a stand north of Jaffa. Jan Kucharzevski, historian, was appointed first premier of the new Polish state. The government of Brazil proclaimed a state of siege in the federal district, and in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catharina and Rio Grande do sul. Peace between the revolutionists was declared in Moscow, with victory for the Bolsheviki, according to cablegrams from Petrograd. The white guards and the military cadets were disarmed.

Questions and Answers

What was the date of the charge of the light brigade? It vras at the Battle of Balaklava, Oct. 25, 1854. How many 1 cent pieces were coined in 1929 and 1930? In 1929. 277,140,000, and in 1930. 221.801,000. In what country is the dinar the unit of currency? Yugoslavia. Is it possible to telephone from the United States to Jerusalem, in Palestine? Jerusalem’s telephones are not yet connected with the United States...

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Chicken Pox Is Highly Contagious

BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgcia, the Health Magazine. THE variety of names that has been applied to chicken pox indicates the confusion that exists in the public mind regarding what the disease actually is. Dr. W. W. Bauer points out in a recent article that chicken pox has been called w'ater pock, glass pock, sheep pock and crystal pock. The medical name for it is varicella. Because it resembles smallpox in some of its outward manifestations, it also has been called the false smallpox. Chicken pox occurs most often in children. It is highly contagious and spreads rapidly from one person to another. Usually one attack of chicken pox

IT SEEMS TO ME

EDNA FERBER and others have declared upon occasion that there is no youth movement in America. In particular, our colleges have been singled out as hotbeds of conservatism. In other lands university students are, for the most part, adventurers in their economic and political points of view. Here, so the legend runs, the average undergraduate is already well on his way toward becoming a member of the National Security League and an enrolled Republican voter. It seems to me that there is an exceedingly promising ferment now working around the campuses. In many of our best-known colleges, the young men are beginning to ask questions and to weigh and revaluate old tradition. The students are lifting themselves above that dead-pan standard of being merely collegiate. And the field of articulation is logically the undergraduate newspaper or magazine. Both Yale and Harvard have known the touch of iconoclasm in student publications. Now the Columbia Spectator steps boldly to the front rank and front page through its editor’s charge against football in general and the prevailing condition on Morningside Heights in particular. a a a Suppose It’s ‘Exaggerated?’ I AM in complete agreement with the young man’s generalizations, although I am in no position to say whether specific accusations against the Columbia coaching system are 100 per cent accurate. But it will not do to dismiss Spectator’s editorial comment by saying, as some of the alumni have done, “All this is exaggerated.’’ Suppose not more than 25 per cent of the complaints held up under strict investigation? Even so, what remained would be sufficient food for thought. And chiefly I am interested in the fact that an undergraduate editor has had the audacity to go against the old, familiar loyalty which has long been imposed upon men in American universities. “My college, right or wrong,” is an even more universal practice than the dictum established by Decatur. a a a Looking Under the Dust NATURALLY, I am not suggesting that, in college or out, all things which are must of necessity be awry. Yet it does seem a useful thing in any phase of life to challenge established belief. If the belief or custom happens to be sound it will be revivified by this sort of research. And if it happens to rest upon fallacious thought or emotion, an attack very properly will demolish it. Some have held that any longestablished opinion must, of course, have justified itself merely through the dignity of time. That isn’t so. The world did not become flat even after a thousand years of the lively acceptance of this concept by current wise men. a a a Nose Puncher Is Wrong NOR is football and the glory of your own team an unassailable ideal simply because the cheering section sps vociferated its devotion through a decade. Upon cir-

is enough to protect a person against later attacks. The disease usually develops in a child about two weeks after it has been exposed to contact with another child that has had the disease. This fact is important in determining the point from which the disease ife spread. While chicken pox is seldom fatal, there are cases in which people have died from it. Chicken pox attacked a child that had pneumonia and the second infectionrwas more than the weakened child could stand. One of the chief dangers of chicken pox is the possibility of scratching with secondary infection of the blisters. Frequently when the blisters become infected they destroy enough tissue to leave permanent scars. In

cumstantial evidence I have the feeling that Reed Harris, of the Spectator, must have spoken at least some portion of a mouthful. When I read that Hewitt, the team captain, and of the eleven, called upon the editor with threats of a violent thrashing, it is not unfair to assume that some campus ox was gored. t In at least 90 per cent of the instances which I have observed the man who wants to punch another in the nose is not only wrong, but realizes that he is wrong. The issue is always obscured by left jabs and right hooks. After all, there can be loyalties more ancient

People's Voice

Editor ‘Times —In last Saturday’s Times, three dynamic, penetrating, articles appeared that every one should understand fully. Their message goes to the cause of present difficulties. I refer to "Thin Skin,” Playing with Fire, and Broun’s articles. ’Tis most unfortunate they w'ere not written three years ago. You know, sometimes, ScrippsHoward papers are given credit for electing the “Miracle Man,” in spite of the fact that the truth then was known by many people. May we suggest to any one who doubts these articles that they read the “Washington Merry Go-round,” "The Strange Death of President Harding” and “Mirrors of 1932,” and then have a talk with correspondents at Washington, D. C. These with knowledge of the ad- , ministration at Washington for the ; last ten years will set forth the causes of the greatest panic this I country ever has experienced. Panics do not ‘just happen.” Our government is a democracy. Is it carried on by the people, either in state or nation today? Never before has the welfare of the people been so ignored. One only needs to follow the conduct of our state commission and the utilities in our state to see the truth of this statement. Your fight against these is most | commendable. The people should see to it that their welfare is con- ! sidered. When these powers, w'ith the assistance of the Governor, overI ride, without fear, our wishes it is i time to act. Impeachment is in order. The original act under which the commission operates hardly is ; recognized in their decisions. The Governor’s appointments are a slap in the face. The utilities, through consent of ; the commission and the Governor, ! take more unearned money 'dole; j out of the pockets of the people than any other item of living cost today. It would go far toward helping through the panic. When utilities unit rate charges should be less than 5 cents, and yet allow Insull a fat income, even for campaign purpose, the people should force the issue, though it meant a complete change of officials. No help comes from Washington in this respect. There, our government has become one of committees. The minds of the appointees must be like unto that of the "Miracle Man.” These with a “Yes” Cabinet is our democracy today. SL Y. Z.

most cases of chicken pox, however, the scarring is net serious. The chief trouble with chicken pox is the fact that the spots itch and burn. Doctors prescribe various types of lotions to use on the spots that itch. Children can be prohibited from scratching by putting a splint on the arm, which will prevent bending the arms at the elbow joint. This will keep the child from scratching its face. Smallpox differs sufficiently from chicken pox for any competent physician to be able to tell the difference in most cases. In some long observation is necessary. As Dr. Bauer emphasizes, a failure to distinguish promptly between smallpox and chickenpox may be extremely serious. Smallpox spreads rapidly and may be fatal.

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and better tested than complete and unswerving support of a football team. tt tt tt Free Speech on Campus ' | ’'HE right to express an opinion in print is rather more valuable than the morale of the Columbia or any other football eleven. Free speech is a vastly important thing during the formative days of university life. If undergraduates are to accept the fact that honest opinion may be throttled by faculty or student bullies, they have small chance of coming out into the world as valiant leaders of their own community. And if one may look back upon the record of the Blue and White eleven, particularly as manifest in the Cornell game, it seems pertinent to ask just why Hewitt is so much more pugnacious in an editorial sanctum than on a gridiron. If he is going to hit anybody. I suggest that in the role to which he is assigned, it might be just a little more glamorous if he saved his vehemence for the Syracuse line rather than for the paragraphs of the Spectator. (Copyright. 1931. bv The Times) What is the source of the quotation "We shall all be changed, in a moment, at the twinkling of an eye?” 1 Corinthians, Chapter 15, verses 51 and 52. What is the population of Buenos Aires? The estimated population for 1930 is 2,225,000. How old is Ethel Barrymore, the actress? Fifty-two. What was the date of Easter Sunday in 1880? March 28. Was Queen Victoria of England an only child? She was the only child of Edward, duke of Kent, fourth son of George m.

How the Machinery Runs You read and hear a lot about the “Government” at Washington. How much do you know about how it works? Our Washington bureau has a group of bulletins on the various phases of governmental machinery that tells “how it runs.” The titles are: 1. The Congress of the U. S. 3. The President’s Cabinet 2. The Presidency 4. The Judicial System of U. S.x 5. The U. S. Postal Service A packet containing these five interesting and informative bulletins will be sent to any reader. Fill out the coupon below and send ior it: , CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. B-14, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D C. I want the packet of five bulletins on THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and enclose herewith fifteen cents sh coin, or loose uncancelled. United States postage stamps, to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NUMBER CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to (heir agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this naner—The Editor

NOV. 17, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Russia Pioneers in the Far North, Where Industry Promises to Create a Ncu' “Polar Empire ANOTHER step in the industrial conquest of the far north has been taken, this time by Soviet Russia. A great plant, designed to produce annually more than a million tons j of useful minerals, has been established in the Khibiny mountains. 1 eighty miles north of the White sea and within the Arctic circle. The plant will dig and refine the great ore deposits of the mountains. ; These ores are rich in a mineral known as apatite. Apatite is calcium phospliatcfluoride and is of great value as a j source of agricultural fertilizers and ! other phosphate compounds. The ores also contain much neph- | elite, a silicate which is rich in so--1 dium, potassium and aluminum. In addition, smaller deposits of thorium, zirconium and molybdenum ores have been found. These metals | are all of considerable value in many | industries. Announcement of Russia’s new mining operations in the far north comes upon the heels of the discovery of rich pitch-blende deposits —the ore from which radium is extracted —in the remote regions of northern Canada. USB Arctic Empire Visional THE Canadian ores, which are expected to break Belgium’s monopoly of the world’s radium j market, are so rich in radium that l it has been found financially sound to ship the ore by airplane to the nearest railroad line. The ores are located at La Bine Point in the Great Bear lake region. Many experts see anew era of development in the Arctic. For example, Stefanson, the explorer, believes that a great Arctic empire some day will be developed. The new Russian venture Is discussed in a report to the American Chemical Society by Basile W. Delgass, former vice-president of the : Amtorg Trading Company. The Khibiny mount ains, accord--1 ing to his report, are bleak and desI date in appearance. But Russia is investing heavily in the venture. “Huge stones, remnants of the glacial periods, block the entrances to the valleys,” he says. “The peaks are covered by perpetual snows and dreary tundra lies for hundreds of miles around. “The cost of the plant is 5,000.000 gold rubles, and it has a scheduled production of 1,100.000 tons in 1931, 2,000,000 tons in 1932 and 3,000,000 tons in 1933. “Part of the apatite produced is exported to Europe, and it is rumored that negotiations are being conducted with a view 7 to exporting apatite concentrates to the United States. “An appropriation of 60,000,000 gold rubles has been. recently voted by the council of people’s commissars to increase the existing plant and to construct other chemical plants in this region.” B B Refining Is Perfected EXPEDITION after expedition w'as sent to the Khibiny range, Delgass says, after a party of Russian sceintists unearthed 400,000,000 tons of apatite-nephelite ores in the mountain range several years ago. “However,” Delgass continues, “nothing was done with respect to exploitation of the apatite until 1928, when the shortage of foreign currency for imports influenced the Soviet government to start the study of the Khibiny phosphates and German scientists were invited to devise a process o£ extraction of apatite from ore 6. Finally, a process of flotation was evolved. “After having varied the process in a pilot plant, Russian engineers designed the new project. It was brought to the United States and American specialists were consulted. The General Engineering Company went over the plans, American machinery was purchased, and the construction of the plant started. In the meanwhile mines were established, transportation facilities arranged and the mining begun. “The crushing and flotation plant was put in action this autumn. The ore from the mines is brought down in railway cars to the plant In the valley, w’here it is unloaded into storage bunkers, from which it is ce rried to the crushing plant by conveyors.”

■ Daily Thought

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.—2 Corinthians 2:11. Temptation has a music for all ears. —N. P. Willis. Where can foreign coins be exchanged for American money? At the foreign exchange departrrfent of any large bank. When should roses be transplanted? Between the middle of October and the middle of November. They should be dug up carefully and taken to the new location before the roots get dry.