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A “Good’’ Calamity Under a caption which suggests that a "first-class calamity” might do a little good, the Chamber of Commerce prints this very timely advertisement: "Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and today we call him a heathen autocrat. Yet right here in your own home town—in Indianapolis, if you please, we sit supinely by while the merciless march of events in this, the year of our depression, tramples us under foot.” what are the merciless events which trample tlfi? In the first place, there is the very heavy burden of utility rates which take from every industry, business and home owner an extortionate part of income to pay for very doubtful, probably illegal, and certainly immoral, practices of these monopolies. The conferences between the city and the water *nd electric barons developed some very strange habits. It is now known that there were two sets of financial statements—one which the electric company gave to member Cuthbcrtson of the commission and another which painted glowing prosperity to prospective stock purchasers. There was a supineness in many influential quarters when this developed. It also appeared that the price, of coal paid by the company to its twin brother of the same holding company was far higher than that which other coal companies charged in the open market, so much higher, in fact, that the take for a single year would amount to a very considerable profit over and above any authorized return. As far as the water company was concerned, there Was a supineness when it was shown that the club dues and charitable donations of its Philadelphia president to quasi-public organizations were charged to Ihc operating expenses of the company and collected from people who were charged for what they never got. One of the other events was the very general demand for a special session of the legislature to redistribute the tax burden that is rapidly confiscating real estate. There was a demand that the special session use the gasoline funds for poor relief or lift the burden of local taxing units. But, as the chamber so strikingly points out, "we sit supinely by,” and even protest against this special session that would catch the big tax dodger and cut out unnecessary expense in these days of our depression. To many, especially the jobless and those whose only revenue is the made work employment or the gift of charity, the calamity has become "first class.” The. chamber does well to point out the necessity for concerted action—and let it be hoped that the action takes a direction that means relief from the present conditions. A Republican Opportunity To those voters who label themselves Republican there will come in the primary a magnificent opportunity for public service. During the days when that label meant success at the polls, there was bullded a machine which was not Republican, but predatory. Its elected officials shocked the public conscience. It was driven from power. Machine control was based on patronage and plunder. The patronage is gone. The desire for plunder persists. It was difficult to dethrone the boss in days of power. It should be easy for the respectable portion ){ the party to take over its management in the days of political depression. Many outstanding men in that party have offered themselves as candidates this year. The boss has his group. If Republican voters who resented Coffinism are alert, they will name a ticket of men who can not be controlled by the forces -which discredited and disgraced their party. Such a ticket, and only such a ticket, can appeal for independent support. And there is possibility that the independent voter will be looking for some place to light this fall. Roosevelt in the West Franklin D. Roosevelt possesses the gift of language. A scholar with a fine memory, he has that happy faculty of making vivid the point he is stressing by citations from history or by simple, understandable story or example. Referring in his St. Paul speech to the great need for recognizing the interdependence of communities and industries that make up the nation for breaking down of the sectionalism that had grown with prosperity, he was reminded of Chesterton’s remark concerning the members of the British empire. "They are, he says, like the passengers in an omnibus; (hey get to know each other only in case of an accident.” Os the Hawley-Smoot tariff, signed by President Hoover in face of the warnings of 1,000 American economists, Roosevelt said: "Would he have ignored a warning by a thousand engineers that a bridge which the national government was building was unsafe?” Commenting on the Republican use of the old “don't-swap-horses-in-the-middle-of-the-stream” argument, Roosevelt countered with: "There arc others who laughingly will tell you that the appeal should have been worded: ’Don’t swap toboggans while you are riding down hill.’ ” Building his main theme, an appeal for consideration of the needs of all the groups and all the sections in arriving at a cure for our present ailments, he pointed to Jefferson as "one of the first to recognize the community of interest between the ship owner in New York and the boatman on the upper reaches of the Ohio.” i Franklin, .feckson, Lincoln, Roosvelt, Wilson were tt his finger’s tip as he constructed his argument. His exposition of his power program was especially clear. He would retain the government’s power sites, but would limit entrance of the government in the transmission business to those cases In which private capital tried to take advantage of the public through unfair rates or otherwise. He favors federal regulation of interstate power business. He would base rates on a fair return on actual cash investment. With the Roosevelt power program this newspaper has been and is in agreement. It is a program which calls for a high degree of .courage to put into action. His tolerance toward A1 Smith, his reference to Smith as his distinguished predecessor, was effective. Roosevelt "turned the other cheek.” That simple Biblical form of countering a slap is rare in politics, but whenever used is exceedingly effective. Judged on a basis of the speech itself as a welltempered literary product, Roosevelt commands admiration. It is an unfortunate thing, however, that one of

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the qualities which so frequently goes alone with the gift of language is lack of action. If Roosevelt were as effective against the guns of Tammany in cleaning up corruption in his own home town as he is in his employment of the English language, he might be the greatest man of our time. The west, appraising Roosevelt from such utterances as this St. Paul speech, naturally wonders why there is criticism of Roosevelt in New York. The west would understand had it been in a position, through living in the Empire state, to follow event by event the long and involved story of the Seabury investigation—a story of most unbelievable corruption, which has nothing to do with Jefferson, or Jackson, or Lincoln, or Chesterton, or Hawley, or Smoot. Apart from what the west decides between now and the June convention about Franklin D. Roosevelt, the verdict in his own state and his own city will be determined by his acts as those acts affect New York's greatest single problem—corruption in the metropolis. Back to First Principles in Veterans' Relief On Thursday, Aprii 7, this newspaper said: "For details that will make you pause and think, read the articles by Talcott Powell, beginning in this issue. Nothing you ever have read has been more important to you and to yours. "The position of this newspaper toward federal relief has been made clear many times. We are for more general appropriations than now are being made to those who by reason of war service are in need, to those who because of that service are mentally or physically incapacitated; to those dependents who survive the ones who were killed in service; to all who in any way are the direct victims of the war itself. "And it is in the interest of them, as well as in the Interest of the solvency of our nation, that we today cry halt to this blanket bonus.” We sincerely hope that you have read every sentence in every article that Powell has written. If you have, you have seen revealed the vital fault that is Inherent not only in the immediate bonus payment plan, but in the whole present system of veterans’ relief. It is that the relief is not confined to the needs arising from the war. If resources of the government, were unlimited, it would be ideal if every ex-soldier, no matter what his t rouble |hr whether it arose from war service or not. could be aided financially in a time of economic stress. But the resources of the government are not unlimited. Therefore, our opposition to the immediate bonus payment of over two billion dollars. Likewise as to the existing law governing veterans’ relief. Such measure as makes it possible for an exsoldier, in event of illness in no way connected with the war, to go, to a hospital at government expense—that is fundamentally unfair. It is unfair, not just, to the taxpayer. It is even more unfair to those veterans who, because of their war service, are mentally or physically incapacitated, unfair to their dependents, unfair to the dependents of those who died in the service. We repeat—we are for moYe generous appropriations for those. But such more generous treatment can not be forthcoming from a system which spreads to the total appropriation under any such policy as now prevails. What is paid to the man with a nonservice-con-nected illness can not be paid to the man gassed in’ the Argonne. The basic principle of relief should be serviceconnected relief. That principle prevailed in the be-; ginning. It no longer prevails. Timid and thoughtless legislators have departed from it, step by step, into a system which represents cruel injustices to those who were the actual victims of the -war itself. Continuation of the present policy of indiscriminate spreading of veterans’ relief means an evermounting expense which this nation, with a budget already unbalanced, can not stand. That, in turn, hits directly at the war’s real victims. They will be the ones who will suffer when the inevitable time of reckoning and retrenchment comes. In behalf not only of national solvency, but of those who were the war’s real casualties, the whole veterans’ relief policy must be renovated. Now they’re saying that freedom for the Philippines would destroy the "balance” of power in the far east. Let’s see, didn’t we have a "perfect balance” of power in Europe in 1914? What- we’ve been wondering is this: If the college hatless styles become universal, what will the politicians talk through?

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

'T'HERE goes on entirely too much theoretical disJ- cussion about children by persons who never have had any. Every parent knows that it’s the easiest thing in the world to say how children should be brought up and the hardest thing in the world to do. Rearing a family is. after all. a good deal like maintaining political ambitions. The theories seldom are successful when practically applied. We understand that, no matter how altruistic a senator may be. he is not able to get anywhere unless he plays according to the rules. Most of his accomplishments are the results of political trades. To be sure, this is not a very fine way of doing things. But it is the way things are done. Exactly the same rules hold true in parenthood. Certain social and industrial conventions have been set up. No matter what our ideas about child training may be, we must proceed along the lines laid down by such conventions. And we can’t buck them alone. n m m THE truth is that your child is first and foremost a citizen of the American republic. He is that on the very day of his birth and subject at once to a force over which you have very puny control. Every prospective mother, for instance, being something of a sentimentalist, would prefer to have her child born at home. Xet he generally comes into the world in a hospital room, because that kind has been decided upon as best by the medical profession. Every mother would like to give her child plenty of outdoor room for play. But too few have this, because landlords have decided to make money from apartment houses, and we prize ground too highly. And so a good many of our theories are only theories. as many parents know to their heart's sorrow. We can t bring up children to high ideals and noble efforts and inspiring dreams until we change our world. Until we get in this country anew vision of social justice, anew vision of personal integrity, and anew vision of what the successful life really is. most of our theories for child training will be, tried in vain.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M: E. Tracy

Says:

It TTas Naive of Chamberlain to Say “The Worst Is Over,” When He Presented a Budget Taking No Account of What England Owes Us. NEW YORK, April 20. THE new British budget contains no provision for war debt payments, includes a tea tax and was presented on the anniversary of the battle of Lexington. Shades of John Hancock! Does this bespeak coincidence, or a devilish plot? Is it possible that the British imagined we would get so mad about the" tea as to overlook the failure to make provision for war debt payments? It was quite naive of Mr. Chamberlain to say "the worst is over” when he presented a budget taking no account of what England owes us. What man would not feel equally optimistic if he could get out of debt that way? It won’t work. The moratorium ends next July. If it is renewed, somebody will have to ask for a renewal. SUM Generosity Strained THIS idea that Uncle Sam can be depended on to "propose” himself out of house and home for the sake of helping other people who won’t even acknowledge that they need, help has been worked overtime. If England, or any other country, wants the war debt payment reduced, or canceled, the way to begin is with a candid declaration to that effect. An attempt to evade the issue by leaving provision for payment out of the budget is little less than insulting. an a Entitled to Voice THE United State government has shown no disposition to be inconsiderate, or exacting toward its debtors. It has met them more than half way. None of them has ground for suspecting that it intends to do otherwise. There is no occasion for the mto try anything funny, or phony. The American people are not unaware of the economic stress which prevails throughout Europe. Neither are they unaware of the possibility, if not the necessity ot further readjustment. They feel that they should be consulted, however, before any government undertakes to write down, write off, or postpone what is due according to the agreements now' in force. n * m Slower, Please! SUCH surprises as that which was sprung on this country last June do not set well with the American people. They are accustomed to think and plan more than three or four w'eeks in advance with regard to financial matters, especially with regard to financial matters of world-wide importance. At the end of May, they had no idea that Europe was in such a desperate plight as to need a moratorium, yet a month later they ! found that the stage had been so set as to make a moratorium inescapable, and as to force their own President to propose it. ft n h Noble Gullibility LOOKED at one way, the moratorium was a noble gesture on our part, a fine bit of voluntary sacrifice by which we once more came to the rescue of others. Looked at another way, the moratorium classified us as a bunch of suckers who had been meneuvered into a position where w'e had no choice but to act as special pleader for our debtors. The nonchalance with which we have been treated is only exceeded | by the gullibility with w'hich we! have permitted ourselves to be led around by the nose, to be made the goat in every critical situation. ana Irked by Secrecy THE question is not only what shall be done about war debts, but whether it shall be done In open meeting. The secrecy with which one financial crisis after another has been permitted to creep up on the American people is turning their cordiality and generosity into resentment. They realize that they have made mistakes and have been misunderstood because of it, that they have been too free with advice on occasion and laid themselves open to imposition. At the same time they do not feel that they should be ignored until their services are indispensable and then be calmly told what to do.

M TODAY • WORLD WAR A ANNIVERSARY

AMERICANS IN BATTLE April 20 ON April 20, 1918, two regiments of German stortn troops attacked American forces holding the village of Seicheprey, in the Tout sector, and succeeded in taking the outskirts of the town. A counter-attack by American troops recovered their old positions, but only after the fiercest fighting in which United States soldiers had been engaged. An official German bulletin announced that 183 American prisoners had been taken and estimated total losses to United States troops at nearly 1,000. Pershing estimated the American loss at 300 and the German at more than twice that figure. Meanwhile, German attacks in the Lys sector continued with great violence. Small gains were made, but allied lines were holding at important points.

Daily Thought

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is. than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.—Proverbs 15:17. Hate belongs with sin.—Duffleld.

Cant See the Forest for the Tree

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE— Food Sensitivity Warning Signal

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of H?geia, the Health Magazine. IN a recent survey of patients sensitive to various food substances, Dr, Albert H. Rowe found the following symptoms exceedingly frequent;- Canker sores in the mouth, heavy breath, distention of abdomen and belching. Patients also had intestinal cramping and pain and soreness at various points over the abdomen. Many of the patients who were sensitive to foods also complained of weakness, fatigue, irritability, mental dullness and generalized aching. Moreover, it was found in more than 65 per cent of the cases that the parents had had some hypersensitivity in form of asthma, hay

IT SEEMS TO ME

REPUBLICAN partisans are highly delighted and amused by the fact that there is possibility of a split in the Democratic party. And even if the divergence of opinion falls short of that, the prospect of a fight upon the floor of the convention makes the opposition merry. One hardly can blame a Republican for manifesting joy over anything which tends to help his cause, but he should not take a contemptuous attitude toward the bickering of his rivals, since it manifests the most healthy symptom now apparent in American politics. Republican harmony is not a matter of principle, tout rises solely out of inertia and expediency. If there were a little more honesty and courage in the majority ranks, it would be possible to drive a couple of coaches and four between the divergent wings of the Republican party. Senator Smoot and Senator La Follette have about as much in common as is jointly possessed by your columnist and John Gilbert, the motion picture actor. # * # Not a White Plume REPUBLICAN harmony is not a virtue, but a badge of timidity. Better by far a fight in the open upon the convention floor than a

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—ln a recent edition of The Times there appeared an article under the heading, “City Employes to Face Salary Cut.” Toward the end of this article we find about $3,000,000 is_devoted to salaries. More than two-thirds of this sum is used for salaries of more than 1,000 firemen and policemen.” The citizens of Indianapolis have their homes and furniture insured; the merchants and manufacturers have their buildings and stock insured against fire; all pay substantial premiums each year. And, in turn, they are taxed to pay for fire apparatus and firemen's salaries, to protect their properties against fire. What seems to be wrong? Should the insurance companies pay the firemen's salaries or would it be better for the citizens to pool their premiums and carry their own insurance? Maybe this is one of the reasons insurance companies can afford to build skvscrapers in NewYork City. GRANT HEEBNER. To the People of Indiana—Wake up, you people of Indiana, of the United States. Our country is facing a situation more dangerous than any it ever has faced before. Our leaders have betrayed us. They have sold our heritage of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for dollars. A serious threat of revolution looms on the horizon. Wake up! We yet might prevent it. Our leaders are not leaders, but are granting, stupid politicians, a vampirish clan, sucking the blood of the nation, allied with those whose greed and lust for power brought on this worst of depressions. We must purge our government and take it out of the hands of politicians and financial wizards and put it into the hands of the people. Common sense tells us we can not continue as we are going. It

fever, eczema, eruption on the skin, or migraine. There is no doubt that the taking of food to which the person is sensitive may cause strong and rapid constriction of the musculature of the bowel, and that., as a result, the patient will have a spasm of the bowel with pain and soreness, and sometimes with vomiting or diarrhea. This does not mean, of course, that every person who has these symptoms is sensitive to food. The symptoms must be taken as a warning signal that something is wrong and that a. careful study is necessary to determine whether or not there is infection, abnormality, or sensitivity to food. Before the condition is called allergic or hypersensitive, a careful study must be made of the physical condition of the patient,

DV lIEYWOOD BROUN

deal in a small back room in which everything is saved but honor. I wonder where on earth the notion arose that politics should be peaceful and hypocritical and nam-by-pamby. It is held against A1 Smith that he has upset the applecart by speaking out his mind. The country, I believe, has had its fill of living on apples and the sauce which is compounded from them. It should demand from its public men something definite in the way of pledges and of platform. When a candidate promises to put a chicken into every pot, or to restore the purchasing capacity of the farmer he is merely tossing hay unless he suggests some method by which he means to do it. ana Roosevelt No Radical IN some quarters it is held most unfairly that Franklin D. Roosevelt is a dangerous radical. This is based, upon some vague generalizations of the gentleman f-om Albany about “the forgotten man” and “the little fellow.” Conservatives need not sash themselves about Franklin. He didn’t mean a think except that he would like to be President. A definition of Roosevelt's precise position in the world of economic thought is difficult, because as yet he seems to have no program whatever. But from hints which he has

all must end somewhere. We must have a change and have it soon. They are howling now' about taxes and balancing the budget, yet they don't explain who juggled the finances of the country into such an awful shape. Their own howling indicts them. Still, when the budget needs balancing so badly they find time to pass bills for billions to aid big business and no time to consider the plight of millions of the unemployed. The two old parties have proved themselves hand in hand on what has passed and it is reasonable to believe that they will be hand in hand in the future. If they stay in power and continue their attitude of ignoring the issues, then the threat of revolution will become an actuality. If It takes a revolution to solve our difficulties, it probably will be the best way of ridding ourselves of rotten leaders. God give us strength and light that we may see justice done. 2S VERDAD. What became of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the central figure in the famous Dreyfus case in France? He was completely rehabilitated on July 12, 1906, and was reinstated in the army with the rank of major of artillery. He was on military duty at St. Denis, near Paris for a year, and resigned in July, 1907. In June, 1908, on the occasion of the transfer of the ashes of Zola in the Pantheon, an anti-Semite Journalist, Gregori, fired two shots at him, one of which wounded him slightly. He entered the army again during the World war. and was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1918. and shortly afterwards he was made an officer of the Lesion of Honor. Sines the war he has lived in in Paris.

and all usual laboratory and X-ray studies should be made to make certain there is no other conspicuous factor. However, when the patient says that his parents, grandparents, brothers or sisters have asthma, hay fever, eruptions, eczema, migraine, or recurrent colds and coughs; when he says that many foods disagree with him and that others he simply can not eat because he dislikes them, the physician must be suspicious of some sensitivity to food and make a special search for that sensitivity. In this search it now is frequently a simple matter to test the patient's sensitivity by eliminating all usual articles of food and giving him only an extremely simple diet, adding one article at a time until his symptoms of sensitivity appear.

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

dropped now and then in some passing phrase he seems to me to be a sort of American Hitlerite. When he talks about anything at all it is of the good old days. That always has been an excellent line in American politics. It is the point of view of Brookhart, Norris, Murray and others in both major parties who are most inexactly classed as radicals or progressives. Even the most casual analysis will show the error of such recommendations. Radicalism, so-called, in America always has been a movement of farmers and small business men. That is radicalism in so far as it has touched the two major parties. Bryan, who was considered almost. revolutionary, in his early days, never had any conception of the needs or desires of the industrial classes. Like the men who have maintained his tradition, he was strictly a corn and wheat radical. It is natural enough that the oppressed middle class should seek relief and political expression to escape the burdens which the depression has brought upon it. But the Utopia of which this group dreams, is probably impossible and almost certainly not desirable. It represents a desire to turn back > the hands of the clock. And the first move is to bust the trusts and do away with chain stores and all the enterprises which have snuffed out small-scale production. n tt Sins of Little Fellow Many sins, both economic and political, lie at the door of big j business, but they can be matched and overmatched in most rases by the errors and wrongheadedness of small business. In an age during which we are suffering from lack of planned production, there is no salvation likely in the theory of every man for himself. The automobile industry, which is highly organized, turned out more cars than it could market and thus added its mite to the crash. But the independent wheat farmer and cotton grower went even further in glutting the market and bringing us to the day of starvation in the midst of plenty. The way out must come through greater organization and not from less. Competition has cut more throats than ever can be proved against monopoly. When a “trust" gouges the public with high prices and corrupts democratic government through political control and trickery the farm radical immediately begins to shout that we must destroy these huge combinations in restraint of trade. But he has seen only half the picture. He is suffering from the same fallacy as the man who attacks the machine and all laborsaving devices. We have bled grievously under the wheels of the machine and of the monopoly, but only because wfe have allowed them to ride us down. Few have gone far in suggesting | that the way out of poverty and of i want is for us to climb on board. You can't be run over when you sit in the driver’s seat. The first time Franklin Roosevelt suggests that monopoly and machinery were made for man rather i than the other way around I will apologize gladly and admit that as far as I’m concerned he belongs in he ranks of. American radicals. (CQDyr.sht. 1932. by Th; Tuße*>

-APRIL 20, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Five-Day Week IVas an Institution of the Ancient Hittites and Assyrians. THE five-day week tried out bySoviet Russia isn’t as new as some observers of modem life may think it is. The Hittites and the Assyrians used it 4.000 years ago. The discovery that a five-day-week was in vogue in 2200 B. C. has been made through deciphering inscriptions on clay tablets found at Alishar by the Hittite expedition of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The clay tablets, discovered by Dr. H. H. Von Der Osten, director of the expedition, are being translated in Chicago by Dr. I. J. Gelb of the staff of the Oriental institute. The Oriental institute, which recently moved into anew building, provided by the generosity of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and other patrons of learning, is devoted to the recapture of mankind's early history. It now has twelve expeditions in the field at work on strategic sites along a 3,500-mile horseshoe front, extending from the upper Nile valley to Persia. The head of the Oriental institute is the distinguished student of archeology and ancient civilizations, Dr. James H. Breasted. * a a Business Methods THE tablets found by Dr. Von der Osten show that the Assyrians used a calendar with a fiveday week. At this same period, however, the Babylonians were using a calendar with a seven-day week, the forerunner of the present-day w T eek. The tablets also give considerable information about business methods of Assyrian merchants and moneylenders w’ho visited the important Hittite cities to carry on commerce. First mention of the capital of the Hittite empire, Hattusas, now the modern city of Boghaz Koi, is found in the tablets. One of the tablets deciphered by Dr. Gelb is a receipt from one business man to another which reads, “I am returning herewith the onehalf mina of silver which I owe you, and if you again request payment. I have the right to kill you.” Apparently diplomacy wasn’t part of business correspondence in the day when baked-clay took the place of the modern letterhead. The Assyrian money-lenders seem to have doubted the ability of the Hittites to repay loans and so charged him rates of interest. The tablets show that the rates ran from 50 to 60 per cent. One case is revealed in which 180 per cent was charged. In dealing with each other, however, the Assyrians charged interest rates of only 20 to 30 per cent. a a a Other Discoveries Discovery of the five-day week of the ancient Assyrians matches other recent archeological discoveries which tend to show that there is little new under the sun. Among such discoveries recently reported at the Oriental institute have been evidences of a business upheaval in 450 B. C. and the popularity of the habit of brushing the teeth in 1700 B. C. Another discovery was that the ancient Egyptians employed proofreaders to go over and correct the inscriptions which were carved and painted on temple walls. W. H. Dubberstein of the Oriental institute unearthed clay tablets showing that in 450 B. C., interest rates commodity prices doubled in Assyro-Babylonia. The price of a bushel of dates or barley rose from a quarter to a half a shekel. Internal difficulties are believed to have been the cause of the trouble. Dr. George V. Pobrinskoy. assistant professor of Sanskrit at the University of Chicago, found thry. the Indo-Europeans of 1700 B. C. made a religious rite of brushing the teeth. For a tooth brush, they usrd a twig from a living tree. Usually a certain species of fig tree was employed. The religious ceremony demanded that the bark on the twig be uninjured, thus making it necessary for anew "brush” to be obtained each time the teeth were brushed. Discovery of the work of “proofreaders” on inscriptions on Egyptian temples was made by John A. Wilson of the Oriental institute.

Questions and Answers

Does a person weigh more when he is dead than when he is living? There is very little difference in the weight of a dead body and that of a live body. Is Army day an official function of the war department? Army day is not officially a function of the military establishment of the United States. It originated with, and is fostered by the Military Order of the World war, the object being “to inaugurate and foster a clearer, more intelligent and more sympathetic understanding of our land forces.” The first observance by that order was held May 1, 1928. How are crochet baskets stiffened? Dissolve gum arabic in warm water until it is of the consistency of a thick glue. Dip the basket in the hot solution and let it dry thoroughly. If the basket is not stiff enough after the flrSt dipping repeat the process. What is the capital of Wales? It has no capital, but Cardiff is the chief city. Where did the expression, “pass the buck,” originate? It originated in the American game of poker, when an object was laid before a player to remind him of his turn to deal; also the marker that was put into a jack pot to remind the one who received it that he must order another jack pot, was called a buck. Do the names of all Indiana electors appear on the ballots or voting machines of all precincts in the state, election day? Yes. When shonld fruit trees be pruned? Generally, any time during the dormant seasbn, preferably in the i late winter or early spring before i the buds begin to swell.