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A Crusade, Not a Campaign The moit hopeful politic*! incident locally line* the people, In what amounted to a peaceful revolution, elected Reginald Sullivan a* mayor cornea with the announcement by a majority of the candidate# on the Republican ticket that they will have no contact* with Cofflnism. It required considerable courage for a business man, uch as Ed Harris, to consent to lead the crusade. Only a few years back, he would have paid great penalties for defying the machine and its widespread Influence over the banks, the twslneases, the organized groups. Today he may emerge a hero. This city and the Republican party have suffered much from Cofflnism. The public treasury paid In cash. The Republican party paid In loss of prestige and self-respect and with defeat at the polls. The government was kidnaped, Just as the Republican party, the real party was taken for a ride and placed upon the spot. Now the courageous elements of that party have decided that they will organize for decency and give battle to those who organized lor plunder and power. The pledge that the organization, if Its candidates are successful, will make no demands for patronage, fits into the enlightened Ideal of the day. A political machine can only thrive against the public by paying political debts to the politically expert, but inefficient, wasteful and, at times, worse. The only title to public confidence by any public servant is real public service, unhampered by blindness to the faults of appointees who are named as rewards for political services. Any public official who uses his office to build up personal power or a political machine confesses his betrayal to the public. Democratic officials, now in power, would be wise to study this crusade within the ranks of their opponents. They are in power largely as a protest against Cofflnism, which, after all, is but the name lor misuse of public power for personal benefit. The Democratic voters would do well to retire early any official who shows an inclination to pattern after the system whose evils brought opportunity to them. Security Ark the average American what he most desires of his country and he will answer: Security. Yet in guaranteeing this human right, the nation richest among all lands in good and inventiveness trails far behind the more conservative countries of the old world. At its last session congress appointed a committee to study unemployment insurance. It was financed and manned adequately. Its chairman. Senator Hebert, wao hostile. Majority members Senator Hebert and Senator Glenn having failed so far even to report, the minority views of Senator Wagner, just issued, must stand as official. From this report we learn that: In European countries, exclusive of Russia, approximately 37,500,000 workers are being protected by Job insurance. Os these, 34,673,000 are. under compulsory laws; only 2,827,000 are under voluntary gystems. Great Britain, In 1911, started compulsory job Insurance with government aid. Despite its critics, this system, according to the conservative Balfour commission, was largely responsible for the fact that “deep and prolonged trade depression has produced but little actual suffering In comparison with more transient periods of depression before the war.” The German system of compulsory company insurance was started in 1927, when 1,500,000 workers were Jobless. Yet, according to the London Economist, “It tended to stem the tide of radicals and stabilize the labor market.” Since the war, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Luxemburg, Poland, Russia and Queensland have' adopted compulsory Insurance systems. Eight others—Belgium. Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain—have voluntary systems, encouraged by the state. In the United States there are operating only sev-enty-nine plans, covering 160.000 workers. Os these. 85,000 are under union-employer agreements and 44,000 get security only from their union funds. While one-half of 1 per cent have security, the other 99 1 -j per cent of American workers are prey to constant dread of the bread line. It is obvious that unemployment insurance is not going to come about in the United States through benevolence of employers. Private initiative has failed. Whether security come through state or federal aid. or merely through company reserves, it must be made the subject of law. Job security can not come during the present depression, but a start can and should be made now. The object lesson is 12.000,000 jobless in bread lines should be enough to stir the states and congress to immediate action. “Sound business and good conscience demand that we abandon the method of poor relief, with its ballyhoo. its inadequacy. Inequality and uncertainty, which are a drain on the sympathy of the giver and a strain on the character of the taker,” exhorts Senator Wagner. “Let uc. like civilized men and women, organize intelligently to prepare today for .he exigencies of the future. Insurance is better than charity.” Give Us Action! Balance the federal budget before the political conventions and before congress is turned into a campaign free-for-all! That is the demand of the country. All sides agree that prolonged delay in passing the tax bill would be disastrous. Further delay would injure the national credit. It would retard business. It would hold up the vitally necessary unemployment relief program. The entire country would suffer. After long mouths of study and debate, the Re-publican-Democratic bipartisan tax bill is on the threshold of final passage. It is through the house. Senator Harrison, ranking Democrat in charge of the bill, says that It can pass the senate today. It can go through conference in short order, and be sent to the President. The tax bill can become Jaw within a few days. The senate then can proceed with the remaining appropriation bills, the economy measure, and the relief legislation, and congress can adjourn before the June conventions and the campaign. There is only one threat to this desired speed. That is the attempt to revive the defeated sales tax. The chance of the sales tax passing both houses Is slight. But the chance of the sales tax lastdltchers blocking action for several weeks Is very grave. 1 Senators Smoot and Harrison, the Republican and Democratic tax leaders, both aay the sales tax can not pass the senate. But even if it could, virtually

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every one at the capltol admits that it can not pass the houee—which already ha# defeated It once. Allowing for a political miracle, tactics of delay and obstruction conceivably might get the sales tax through the house. But that delay of the tax bill, and consequent delay of the whole balance budgeting and relief program, is precisely what the country can not stand. If It were the other way around, doubtless the country would be willing to swallow a bad sales tax as better than disastrous delay. But that is not the situation. It is the reverse. The only way to get through the relief and economy measures, and balance the budget before the conventions, is to pass the bipartisan RepublicanDemocratic tax bill at once. Whether the sale# tax principle is good or bad—and we believe it is bad—is an academic question now. The practical issue is speed. Business is waiting for a balanced budget. The unemployed are waiting for relief. Congress must act, and act quickly. Bargain Days Presidential bargain days are here. In the carefree, golden past, Presidents have been coming high. Costs of presidential elections have been running between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000. In 1928 the G. O. P. national committee invested $4,056,518 in Hoover, or about 19 cents per Hoover vote. The Democratic committee sank $3,157,453 in Smithy a rate of 21 cents per Smith vote. Total presidential outlays four years ago were $9,433,604 for Hoover and $7,152,511 for Smith. Since 1916, no presidential candidacy has cost less than Hughes* $3,000,000, except Governor Cox at $1,300,000. There also has been little relation between cost and value. Lincoln was elected for $250,000 and Harding for $5,300,000. In 1916 Wilson cost his party $2,000,000 to elect, and in 1896 it cost Mark Hanna $16,500,000 to put McKinley into the White House. But today the grass is short, even in Wall Street, and we may be able to get a President in November marked down at least 75 per cent. Last week, following a conference at the White House, J. R. Nutt, G. O. P. national committee treasurer, announced, with a long face, that his committee would have to worry along with “not much more than $1,000,000.” The Democrats are under handicap of debt to Raskob, and will not be able to spend lavishly. Attempts to curb presidential election expenditures by law have proved futile. State laws govern congressional and state election costs. In 1930 the Nye committee discovered shocking costs of United States senate seats, one of which ran as high as $2,000,000. Even that committee will not be on the job this fall, since a similar project by Senator Dickinson of lowa seems to have been buried. The ill winds of the depression blow little good to anybody. But they will blow some our way if they help deliver our reconstruction President to us at a popular price. About all that Stimson accomplished at Geneva was to find a lot of things the other nations won’t agree to do. Charles Schwab, who says he's an optimii.t at every opportunity, made $48,000 in the Raskob stock pool. No wonder he's an optimist. That veterans' bureau lawyer who gets $9,000 a year salary and $2,250 a year disability allowance ought to be an expert in giving advice. Everything is beginning to wear out and must be replaced, an economist says. We hope that includes the depression. Golf may make liars out of honest men, but it doesn't follow that it makes honest men out of golf players. After a feast, natives of a south sea island drink a concoction which puts them to sleep. Over here we use after-dinner speakers. “What excuses can there be for the man who comes home late night after night?” asks a woman writer. He probably has plenty, but his wife won’t believe any of them anyway. That high school boy who said that diplomatic relations were wayward cousins wasn't so far wrong, at that. r An economist says the possession of even a secondhand car is an advantage. We suppose he means the advantage we frequently have to push home.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

PERHAPS we all are a little crazy. The recent outrage that horrified a world leaves us doubting national sanity. Lies, deceptions, extortions follow kidnaping and murder. The police, the press, the public, even the forces of government itself, all have been the dupes of criminals, morons, or madmen. • The ordinary citizen goes groping in search of some comfort for his soul. There is a general longing for a moral awakening. Yet the scientist with his machines, the atheist with his carpings, even the churchman with his prayers, leave us unmoved, although we know that common men must have some faiths to help them endure life. There is a sad dearth of spirituality issuing these days from the churches. Like too many other businesses, organized religion has invested its money in brick and stone rather than in humanity. And if. as It claims, the church is a great force iff society, then it, too, must shoulder its share of the blame for the World war, the crime wave, and the lack of personal integrity that is, also, one of our marked natiqnal characteristics. • a a a SINCERE men and women, both within and without denominations, realize that something must be done. Perhaps we 6hall have to have anew religion, just as we so sorely need anew political party. Old creeds are worn out. We have bickered enough over rituals and rules. Some say that all these evil things have come upon us because we have forgotten God. That, I feel sure, is not true. Say rather it is because we have remembered God too well and so have forgotten man. It can make small difference to a Divinity whether we recite orison* to him. But, oh, how it matters when we fail to help our brother! To build churches is not enough. We have many, beautiful, tall, their steeples pointing to the sky. But their roofs do not house the homeless. We have vast organisations, yet the hungry cry to us for bread. We have talked too easily about the mercy o i Jesus and so have failed to cultivate it within ourselves, not- given it to others. It is useless to turn our eyes too K igh in our search for God, because He looks at us of the tortured eyes of every d'~tad man.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M; E: Tracy Says: Ever Since the War We Have Tried to Crawl Into a Hole and Haul the Hole in After l’s. NEW YORK, May 28.—Lack of leadership in this country is due to lack of purpose. Asa nation, we have no program, no specific object in view, no great work on which to concentrate. Ever since the war we have tried to crawl into a hole and haul the hole in after us. We have talked about “splendid isolation” a* a bulwark of peace and of the tariff as a guarantee of prosperity. Instead of employing our surplus wealth for development, we have bought poor securities. We have refused to join the League of Nations, though we touted it as the only achievement w-hich could Justify the war. We even have welched on a comprehensive plan for controlling the Mississippi river system. * m Must Have Vision WHETHER as Individuals, communities, or nations, people can not grow without vision. It is their destiny not only to build castles in the air, but to attempt the translation of these dreams into actuality. Let them drop the habit, and they risk mental atrophy. When you stop to think of the resources and instrumentalities at our command, we have undertaken little that was big, or inspiring, since the boys came home from Europe. We have boomed stocks, but only to find that it was a house of cards, have merged and consolidated our great business concerns, but only to discover that it didn’t bring the millennium. We have added more miles to our hard-surfaced highways, installed more telephone!?, perfected the broadcasting system and operated an ever-increasing number of autos. But what have we done that was original, or impressive? We're Getting Soft WE can not go on. as we arc, without deteriorating. Asa nation, we must have things to work for, things that never were done before, things that fit our strength. It is utterly ridiculous to suppose that the greatest organization on earth can sit (Jown and play safe. This idea that we have reached a point where it soon will be possible to play half the time and cut coupons, is not only absurd, but pernicious. We are getting too soft, as it is—too soft and scared. Neither is it necessary to think of conquest, or imperialism, as the only outlets for our surplus energy. U Others Are in Race . HERE are France, Germany, and Italy, engaged in a race to 6ee which shall be first to establish trans-oceanic airlines. Why aren't we in the race? Why aren’t we doing something about a waterway from the Great Lakes to the sea, or a second canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean? Why aren’t we giving some thought to the better location of our factory units and our industrial system? Engineers say that the climate of our eastern coast could be changed by throwing a barrier across Baffin strait. Why not give that a thought? There are thousands of miles of inland waterways that need improvement and that could be made of great recreational value, even if they did not mean so much commercially. There are millions of acres of land that ought to be opened in such way that city people could enjoy it at small expense. There are experiments that could be conducted profitably in our educational system. There is tremendous room for planning and building model communities, especially with the idea of combining the factory system with self-sustaining homes. We are not thinking hard enough j of what we might, or could do, and that, more than anything else, accounts for the obvious lack of leadership.

■ WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

GERMAN DRIVE CONTINUES —May 28— ON May 28, 1918, the German, offensive in the Chemin des Dames continued with tremendous force, and defending French forces were again hurled back by sheer w-eight of numbers. The German gain for the day averaged almost six miles. A wedge was driven into the French lines at Fismes, and commanders of allied forces at the front appealed for immediate reinforcements. German forces hurled at the French on this front were estimated at more than 500.000. almost triple the strength of their j opposition. A German division which had broken through crossed the Vesle river and stubbornly resisted efforts of fresh French forces to dislodge it. Meanwhile, American regulars thrilled the world with their brief but brilliant feat in storming the heavy fortified town of Cantigny. More than 200 German prisoners were taken. Two fierce counterattacks * re beaten off w-ith heavy loss to tue Germans. Additional American divisions were being rushed to the front to replace tired French veterans. How many descendants can a healthy pair of rats and mice have in a year? A conservative estimate is that a pair of rats is capable of producing thirty offspring and 432 descendants, which in three years would increase to more than 20.000.000. The number from mice would be somewhat smaller. Is there any law that prohibits a President of the United States from traveling anywhere he wants to? He can travel where, when and how he pleases.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation of * Ripley's “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Friday’s Times: The Blushing Vase—Standing. among countless thousands of priceless porcelains, jades and other relics of ancient regimes of the Chinese empire in the Forbidden City, Peiping, is the famous “Blushing Vase.” During the eleventh century', Emperor Sung ordered his chief potter, Chang, to make a vase so sensitive that it would blush at

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Odor Is Problem in Water Supply

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Ilvscia, the Health Magazine. MOST department of public health officials have recognized the great difficulty of satisfying people with a water supply that has taste and odor. Because our sense of taste is a combination of the sense of odor and of sight and many other senses, taste in water usually is merely odor. The gas or vapor given off reaches the nose and is sensed as smell. Certain gases, such as hydrogen sulphide, sometimes liberated by water, have objectionable smells. They are usually due to organic matter, such as microscopic organisms. Sometimes smell of water is due to excess chlorine or the formation

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—l see in the Star I an article asking every one to spend | $1 for something he needs, to boost' | business. With a thinking person ' this has no merit, as the industries ; of the entire nation are controlled! with improved machinery and | skilled men, until they can supply j the needs of the country with the forces now in operation. My idea is, if you can spare the dollar, spend the dollar with a gro- ' cer, and tell him that you are going to buy some groceries for somej ! worthy mother who is trying to j ; keep her children from want. Per- : haps the grocer will help by elimi • : nating his profit. I believe a plan to boost agriculture is the only way to success. A friendy receivership, proceeding to place the land under government control, to finance and stock it, to a paying basis, with qualified farmers. operated by the unemployed, and the produce to be used by the unemployed. The farms are almost depleted of stock and we soon will j face a shortage. We would like for the legislators to try to help us while they are helping themselves G. V. ALLISON. Editor Times—The following typical information is determinable from ; the official reports of the postofflce department: 1. First-class mail showed in three-year period, 1929-1931, net revenue of $196,452,922.68. 2. Second-class, newspapers and 1 publishers’ matter, showed in threeyear period, 1929-1931, deficit of $280,377,653.44. Not. alone did second-class mail fail to pay its own way. but it absorbed the gains and profits of firstclass, and further lost the additional amount of $83,924,730.76. Measured with a uniform standard under which second-class mail would be made to pay tax burden in j j equal share charged against flrst- ' class mail, the former should have produced gross revenue in threeyear period of not less than $451.069,819, and properly more, but actually produced less than one-fifth of such amount ($88,053.138.87). Thus concluded second-class mail paid quite $363,000,000 less than it should have contributed. Commissioner Eastman, in a separate opinion in the recently decided case of Changes of Rates on Fourth- ! Class Matter, declared that “the i showing on second-class mall is startling” arjd "if this is correct, the newspapers and publishers of the j country are receiving a large subsidy

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

thoughts of disloyalty by his courtiers. Chang, after many unsuccessful attempts to model such a vase, was advised that only the sacrifice of his own soul could make it possible. Thereupon, he deliberately marched into the kiln, and perished, the resuit being that the desired vase was created. The emperor honored the potter within the vase by creating the vase a high mandarin, and granting it wives and concubines as though it

; of compounds with chlorine by industrial wastes. Much iron in water may give rise to the presence of a typical iron ! taste. Any experienced observer : can find the cause of tastes and : odor easily. The worst taste sometimes Is due to phenoloid bodies developed by ; industrial wastes that contain coal | tar. The variety of tastes commonly associated with living organisms are described as aromatic, fishy, earthy, oily or grassy. The most serious tastes occurring in chlorinated water result from pollution by industrial wastes. These tastes are distinctly medical and do not disappear with boiling. Therefore, the bad taste is found not only in fresh water, but also in I tea, canned goods, or food which may be cooked in such water. Tea particularly is affected. For

at public expense. We have no' jurisdiction over these matters.” Why should first-class mail be made to bear an excessive and unnatural tax burden? Why should the newspapers and publishers of the country receive tremendous subsidy at public expense? Why should the immense amount properly assessable in mail service against newspapers and publishers be made exempt from the necessities of budget balance? ISAAC BORN., Editor Times—it might interest The Times to know that the drive: for campaign funds from the employes of our “bipartisan” Indiana highway commission has begun. Assembled in the ctatehouse an-! nex at 8:30 a. m. on Thursday, May 19, on the third floor, and, for some unknown reason, such as the presence of a reporter or some other obstacle, John J. Brown, director of the commission, announced that at 8:30 that said employes were there at the request of the commissioner for a reason unknown to him, and that they were to return to their desks and begin work as usual. Later in the morning Arthur J Wedking, chairman, and Robert B. Boren, vice-chairman, campaigned each department with stump speeches. Wedeking stating that the purpose of the visit was “painless

Stars on Field of Blue The states of the Union, alphabetically arranged, with the follow'ing information about each one: When organized as a territory; entry into the Union; area: population as shown by the 1930 census; capital city and principal city with their populations: derivation of the state name; the state nickname; the state flower; the state motto; the Governor's term of office and salary; the chief industry; the principal rivers. A condensed, convenient form of ready reference for the chief facts about each state of the Union—compiled by our Washington information bureau from latest official sources. If you want a copy of this bulletin, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed. CUP COUPON HERE —— Dept. 177, Washington Bureau. The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C.: I want a copy of the bulletin, the State# of the Union, and Inclose hercw.th 5 cents in coin, or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Name ■ St. and No City State I am a reader>f The Indianapolis Times. tCode No)

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were a living member of the court, and that status has been maintained to this day. I saw this vase only last month when I was In Pciping, and can testify that it still blushes. Brilliant reds pass through it, with ! intermediate shades of pimple to pale blue. It is of the style known as flambe. the glazure of which contains metallic oxides. Monday—The Pitcher Who Lost a Game Without Throwing a Ball.

this reason laboratories sometimes test the water by making tea. , Living organisms in water may oe destroyed by small amounts of copper sulphate. Chlorine is effective, but only in much higher concentrations. Superchlorination has the advantage of destroying the bad taste due to the effect of the chlorine on the matter involved. The problem is one primarily for engineers. The average user of water is concerned only with knowing what causes the bad odor &r the bad taste , and with the question of whether it is likely to be harmful to his health. There is no evidence that the amount of pollution or the nature of the pollution responsible for the odor or taste of average city water supplies is in any way associated with a health problem.

extraction,” at least so he hoped: that the fall election Is drawing near; that It costs a great deal to place the qualification of all the candidates before the public; that as beneficiaries of the present political system the employes of the bipartisan commission should contribute to the support of one of the two major political parties; that pledge cards are to be distributed soon, presenting opportunity to do so; that as only Republican cards are available, employes wishing to donate to the Democratic cause might do so by crossing out the word Republican; that he expects a 100 per cent answer to his appeal; that 5 per cent of a year's salary is the amount most “favored’ by the employes as a pledge; that employes having dependents who are ill might be permitted lo pledge a less amount. He left no doubt as to his meaning. A TIMES BOOSTER.

Daily Thought

The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: When he meeteth him, he shall slay him. —Numbers 35:19. We ne’er forget, tho’ there we are forgot.—Byron.

MAY 2S, 1932

! SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Death Rate Takes Amazing Drop in Last Year, Health Records Show. THE last year from tha standpoint of health was one of the most remarkable in the history of the world. According to statisticians of the Metropolitan life Insurance Cos., the 1931 health record of millions of insured wage-earners was the most remarkable of all time. The death rate for 1931, despite the depression and the influenza epidemic of the early months of 1931 was only 1 per cent higher than the lowest on record. “Unfavorable business conditions, combined with a pronounced rise in sickness and mortality from influenza and pneumonia in January and with a further rise in mortality from these and attending causes in February, gave every indication, during the first quarter, that 1931 would be a year of above average mortality,” the confpany’s statistical bulletin says. “In April, there .was such a marked turn for the better that the month recorded one of the lowest April death rates ever registered for industrial policyholders. “The mortality in the second quarter of 1931 actually was lower than for the like period of any previous year.'' n a a * Record Established IT was the remaining months of 1931 which established the record. “Bclow-average death rates continued to prevail during tht rest of 1931, with the result that a year of economic depression, coupled with an influenza epidemic, failed • by only a narrow margin to register the lowest mortality rate ever recorded among these millions of insured wage earners," the bulletin continues. “Four months of the year, May, August, November and December, registered iower death rates than ever were recorded before for these same months. “No one can say, nevertheless, how long unfavorable business conditions can continue without causI ir.g an appreciable rise in the death rate. Thus far. many persons have been able to fall back upon their savings, inasmuch as the depression was preceded by a long perod of good employment at high wages, which enabled families to save money. “But this group has become smaller and smaller, as savings accounts have been exhausted. “It is true, also, that relief organizations and other health agencies have been giving more help than ever before to those in need. ' This undoubtedly has postponed ; the bad effects of unemployment upon the public health.” ana 20-Year Gain A COMPARISON of 1931 figures with those of twenty years ago show the great strides which have been taken in the improvement of the health of American and Canadian wage-earners. “There occurred in 1931, among industrial policyholders aged 1 year and over, 148,297 deaths from all causes, corresponding to a death rate of 8.46 a thousand.” the bulletin says. “For the year 1911 the death rate was 12.53 a 1,000. The 1931 figure was nearly one-third lower than that for 1911. “The decline in mortality in twenty years resulted in the estimated saving of 71,299 lives in 1931 alone: in other words if the 1911 death rate had prevailed last year, there would have been 219,596 deaths among industrial policy holders instead of the 148,297 which actually occurred. “Reduction in the death rate of these insured wage-earners and their dependents has resulted In extending their expectation of life 10.73 years since 1911-1912. “No gain approaching this figure ever has occurred before among any large group of people in so short a time.”

Questions and Answers

Who comprised the all-star baseball team that toured Japan in 1931? Lou Gehrig, first base; Frank Frisch, second base; “Rabbit” Maranville, shortstop; Willie Kamm. third base; A1 Simmons, left field; Tom Oliver, center field; Lefty O’Doul, 'right field; Mickey Cochrane and "Muddy” Ruel, catchers; Lefty Grove, Larry French and Bruce Cunningham, pitchers. George Kelly of Minneapolis and Ralph Shinners of Buffalo accompanied the team as utility players. On what finger are friendship and dinner rings worn? Friendship rings are usually worn on the little finger or the third finger of the right hand; dinner rings arc usually worn on the third finger of the right hand. What is the longest river whollv or partly within the state of Texas? The Rio Grande, which forms the international boundary between the United States and Mexico, from the Gulf of Mexico to the southern boundary of New Mexico. The boundary of Texas, along the Rio Grande, is approximately 1,321 miles. What are the boundaries of Greenwich Village in New York? Greenwich Village has been called a "state of mind” rather than a definite geographical area. Howcver, the old Peter Warren farm, which later came to be known as Greenwich village, extended from Washington Square westward to the present West street. The southern boundary is now Charlton street and the northern boundary is Fourteenth street. Is the Panama canal wide enough for the largest ships to pans throught? The lock chambers of the Panama canal have a clear width of 110 feet and length of 1,000 feet, giving ample handling room for the largest ships yet built. How many airplanes can the ships Lexington and Saratoga carry? Approximately seventy planes j each. What b a cataio? A hybrid between a Buffalo and a domestic cow.