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CLEAN I P THE STREAMS twenty-nine days remain for Indiana citKv. to obtain federal funds for eliminating stream pollution. Applications for these government loans must be in Washington before N'-w Year’s day. Many communities are letting the chance of a lifetime slip by not availing themselves of this aid. Municipalities should act immediately. Indiana streams are known throughout the world because of the prose and verse the state’s authors have written of them. Greed and carelessness have changed those same streams from things of beauty and health to pestilen ial open sewers. Must we have a serious epidemic before our public officials act? Thrre is another advantage in constructing adequate sewage disposal plants now. Prices are lov. er than they are likely to be for many years. Taxpayers actually will save money by building during 1934. Unquestionably the legislature and the courts are going to force a cleanup of Indiana's streams eventually and stubborn cities may find that their delay has been extremely expensive. If these disposal plants are started within the next few months thousands of worthy, unemployed citizens will be given jobs and hundreds of building material firms will sell supplies. The state conservation department is doing ail it can to persuade communities and individuals to stop poisoning our rivers. It has accomplished much already, but it can not do the job singlehanded. The public must swing in behind and demand that their city officials act.

SOUR GRAPEFRUIT A L SMITH’S criticism of the new deal is sour. First it is the public works and civil works administrations. There is room for constructive criticism of these policies. But. unfortunately, the Happy Warrior is so full of feeling these days hjs shots miss the mark. If he had stressed the dangers of uncontrolled currency inflation and given the President credit for escaping these dangers to date, A1 probably would have been listened to by the public and the President. Instead, he misinterpreted the Roosevelt policy and engaged in calling names. And the public gave him a shrug of the shoulders. Now he drops in with a belated blow at the public works administration. It is true that Secretary Ickes was slow in getting the program under way. But friendly critics of the administration did not wait until December to discover that fact. They pointed it out last summer. Without calling names they were able, by publishing the facts, to move the administration. During the last two months the federal government has moved as fast as humanly possible in this matter. Upward of $3,000,000,000 has been allotted from the $3,300,000.000 fund. Responsibility for recent delays rests with certain state and local authorities and private contractors rather than with the federal government. Os all the criticisms of the new civil works administration which might have come from A1 Smith, the most unexpected is that it wall •'further discourage private initiative." That is his reaction to a program which in one short week, up to Nov. 25. put 1.183,267 charity recipients to work—the figure at the end of the second week is an estimated 2.000.000. Before A1 started wisecracking about lemons and grapefruit, in the old days he used another line very effectively—" Let's look at the record." If A1 will look at the record he will find that "private initiative” carried only 26 per cent of the national relief burden even in the early years of the depression Even President Hoover, who originally delayed federal aid on the same absurd plea that it would destroy private initiative, discovered that the alternative to federal relief was starvation.

CHILD NUTRITION wjOW that the well-rounded woman is the TN vogue again there will be an internal expansion. Gravies, butter, pastries anc white breads are taking their place on the menus. Women are murmuring that they had forgotten that eating was so much fun. There is another group in America who have forgotten, too. You see, it has been so long since they have had a warm, appetizing meal. So very long since a table spread with food has been more than a little match girl's dream. The United States children's bureau estimates that: “Today somewhere in the neighborhood of one-fifth of all pre-school and school children are showing the effects of poor nutrition, inadequate housing, and lack of medical care." It seems a little cruel that women laugh lightly about the number of calories to add or subtract while children wonder if the hollowplaces in their stomachs will go on hurting forever and ever. No one means to be unkind, of course. But thoughtlessness doesn't relieve a perennial emptiness in the stomach. There isn't much to do about it except to supply the vacuum with baked potatoes and milk and oatmeal. Stomachs are biological hangovers. Science, with all its understanding of atoms and relativity, can't do anything about them. A child can't be expected to locate Madrid and Tokio and Bangor. Me., on pink and blue maps when his stomach is empty and his head light. He doesn't care that wheat is the chief export of Minnesota and corn grows in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois when he never sees the finished product. If we would give up some things that we don't need the situation would be relieved immeasurably. In 1930 the United States spent $2,325,000,000 for drinks and narcotics, $353,000,000 for confectionery and chewing gtur.

and $1,075,000,000 for cosmetics and personal adornment. It is a woman’s privilege to be beautiful and every man’s privilege to do what he pleases with his pocket money, of course. But anybody knows that people—men and women and children—need food. It comes first on the list of necessities. Even the children of Israel, who spent forty years Journeying through the wilderness, received a supply of manna at breakfast time every morning. But nothing is said of beads or tobacco. The children aren’t asking for luxuries. They don’t plead for birthday cakes with pink candles: cookies with frosting and a raisin in the middle: bread spread half an inch thick with Jam. They Just want something to eat. It may be the return of the curved era is a good thing. Women will take an interest in foods again. And as they begin to cultivate a taste for rich and fattening dishes they will realize how much small boys and girls need them. too. They will grow hungry. They haven't for a long time. The stomach shrinkage among children Is much more alarming than the tilt of a cockeyed hat or the matching of rouge and lipstick. Children aren't created free and equal. Environment is never balanced. But they do have stomachs. Teachers sometimes believe that Johnny Jones or Mary Smith is dumb when that isn't the case at all. He is Just hungry. He doesn't know how to beg for a dime—or a potato or apple. It is more important to banish malnutrition in children than It is to cultivate the rounded slope, however much your favorite gentlemen like it.

COMMON SENSE IN GOVERNMENT TN one of his weekly articles on the state of the nation, the distinguished publicist, Mark Sullivan, laments that men able to use calculus and the higher differential equations are coming into the government at Washington. Specifically, he attacks Mr. Mordecai Ezekiel for his attempt to state statistically the demand, supply and price of hogs in the United States for some years ahead. Mr. Sullivan jokingly alludes to such equations as "hogarithms” and goes on to say: “That sort of thing, statistics like that and charts and graphs and curves, are the mainspring of the government as now administered. How it would surprise Grover Cleveland to return to the White House and see a President of the United States in 1933 with his desk covered by immense charts, charts from the department of labor, from the treasury, from the reconstruction finance corporation. One chart contains the line called ‘purchasing power,’ and another line called productive capacity.’ To make the line of ‘purchasing power’ rise above the line of ‘productive capacity’ is the principal present purpose of the NRA. The spirit of the administration can be exposed roughly as one which undertakes to manage the country on the basis of these charts.” It is possible to put a very different interpretation on these developments in Washington. To many it means the first real effort to bring government thoroughly up-to-date. The fact that men like President Cleveland had not the slightest grip on the mathematical and scientific facts which have created the modern world Is one reason why we are in our present mess. Many other Presidents were even worse off in this regard. Even Woodrow Wilson, a university president, was blissfully innocent of modern science and engineering and relied upon the rhetorical methods of the age of Cicero. Our modern material civilization has been built up by the use of calculus and higher mathematics. It is not unreasonable to assert that a comparable intellectual equipment and apparatus are needed to control our institutional life. Without the calculus and higher differential equations, we could not build a complicated machine, a skyscraper, a bridge, a subway, a railroad, a *large oceangoing ship, an electric lighting plant, a telephone, telegraph, cable, radio or any other representative manifestation of modern mechanical ingenuity. If this be so, how can one expect to run a government, which is far more complicated than any machine or engineering project, without at least some appreciation of the function of higher mathematics. We may be glad that there is a man in the White House whose perspective has advanced beyond long division. It is high time that our statesmen should begin to think in terms of modern science instead of relying upon the rhetoric and hot air which has dominated politics from Pericles to many of the present spellbinders in the United States senate. Still, there is a real need for common sense in the background of government by statistics. Here Mr. Sullivan makes a telling case against the administration. We find one branch of the government spending millions to increase farm acreage through reclamation projects, while another branch of the government is spending more millions to buy up and retire already productive farm acreage. Or. again, we have one phase of the recovery program devoted to increasing mass purchasing power so that men may get enough to eat and to cover their backs. At the same time, the farm relief agencies are buying up hogs to reduce breeding and the pork supply and are plowing under many acres of cotton. All this is designed to raise farm prices, thus making it more difficult for the city worker to supply his material needs. The best way for the administration to escape from this kind of criticism is to go over whole-heartedly to the theory of the ‘‘plenty economy” and relentlessly refuse to curtail production until it is certain that enough is being produced to meet the legitimate consumption needs of every normal American. Taking this as the basis for judgment, it will be hard to show that there has ever been a great deal of excess production in this country except in certain luxury industries. THE LESSON OF SAN JOSE ' I 'HE San Jose lynching should mean someA thing more important and far-reaching than mere notification to the would-be kidnapers of the country. The administration of justice in America, publicly declared Chief Justice Taft of the United States supreme court, is a disgrace to civilization, and America, with all of her churches, schools, intelligence and enterprise, is the most criminal country in existence. The other name for American justice is sloth. Between the murderous deed and comple-

tlon of the administration of Justice there are all the complications, red tape, lawyers’ chicane, monotonous court procedure, that lawmakers could concoct and, after Justice has worked her hard way through the labyrinth, there is still the leniency of Governor and pardon board. The laws and court procedure furnish unlimited loopholes for the guilty, while innocent men may languish for months in Jail because too poor to furnish bail. Justice moves on feet of fead when the blood of the victims ceases to run. There was not one iota of doubt as to the guilt of those San Jose kidnapers and murderers. The discoveries by the searchers for young Hart's body substantiated, beyond possible question, the confessions of the murderers in every detail. When the people of any otherwise orderly and in every respect fine community rise, face legal authority's machine guns and bombs, batter down their own jail and hang their own citizens in their own public park, there is something more in it than madness for vengeance, to whatever extent such madness Is aroused by the frightful brutalities of the crime perpetrated, something much more sellout than notification to the kidnapers of the country. There is in it a terrible demonstration of utter popular elimination of confidence in the administration of justice. Laws against capital crimes are written in the books and the constitution of the people guarantees every accused person the benefits of a fair trial. Os deadly threat the times when the administration of justice is written in the hearts of communities in terms of madness for vengeance and hopelessness of the speedy administration of justice. And there will be. more of the same, unless there is decided reform in the administration of American justice.

JUSTICE DENIED /CONVICTION of one of the Scottsboro dei'endants in the third trial yesterday would seem even more terrible but for the hope that the United States supreme court will set aside the verdict as it did in the first trial. In the second trial the trial judge himself threw out the verdict. It is unthinkable that these Negro boys shall be executed on contradictory and discredited evidence. There never was anything but the flimsiest case against them. Since one of the two girls confessed that her earlier testimony was a lie, there has been no real case. Judge Callahan’s charge to this jury was so unfair that he even failed to tell the jurors how they might acquit until the defense counsel protested. The state’s attorney confessed that his own speech to the jury was “an appeal to passion.” It was a partisan trial drawn on the color line. Justice was denied by race prejudice. BETRAYING THE VICTORS /CONGRESSMEN, says a Washington correspondent, are getting ready to do a little gunning for Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, when the next session opens. One reason is that the Tennessee valley program was a bit slow in getting under way. The other is that Dr. Morgan has been absolutely impervious to the appeals of patronageseeking politicians who want to hand out jobs to party hacks. Criticism on the ground that there has been undue delay is one thing; criticism on the ground that Dr. Morgan has rebuffed the spoilsmen is something else again. Any congressman who has the nerve to squawk about this second point automatically will convict himself of having a peanut-sized conception of his own duties and responsibilities. If Dr. Morgan has turned down the deserv-ing-Democrat boys, he deserves the thanks of the nation.

M.E. Tracy Says:

THERE is a great difference between criticising a plan and committing or encouraging overt acts to spoil it. The manner in which Professor Sprague quit President Roosevelt furnishes a vivid illustration in point. He could have stayed without surrendering his opinions or he could have resigned without expressing his viewpoint in such a way as to invite a general attack. Professor Sprague should have realized what his harsh letter meant at such a critical moment; should have known that it would be accepted as nothing less than a signal for opposition by every disgruntled politician and financier; should have foreseen that many shal-low-minded people would have taken it as an excuse for substituting under-handed and un-der-mining tactics. I happen to be one of those who disagree with the President's gold-buying experiment except as it may be employed to determine where the dollar should be pegged, but I certainly would not lift a finger to interfere with it, or help those who would jeopardize the government’s credit for the sake of proving they are right. This is no time to withdraw support, from government securities regardless of what one thinks should be done about the dollar. nan PUBLIC credit must be maintained at all costs. While it is perfectly proper for men to express their views, it is little less than criminal for them to regard those views as justifying acts which can only make the situation worse. If public credit is shaken, inflation of the worst conceivable type will loom as the most probable and. perhaps, unavoidable alternative. The idea seems to be gaining headway in many circles that the purchase of gold has been undertaken, not to find out where the dollars should be pegged, but as a permanent means of managing our currency. While some theorists may have that in mind. I do not believe that j it is President Roosevelt's intention, or ever has been. His attitude, as revealed by several specific expressions on the subject, justifies the conclusion that he is getting ready to peg the dollar and that speculation in gold was authorized for the sole purpose of indicating more clearly at what point it should be pegged. n n a ONE can doubt that this was necessary without getting sore, and one can criticise the adventure without losing faith in a President who has shown great courage and great capacity for leadership. In this connection criticism is not only legitimate but desirable. Criticism, however, should never be made the basis of an antagonistic attitude toward an administration with whose objective none can quarrel, or of acts which increase the difficulties of an already difficult task. If the last fourteen years have taught us nothing else, they should have taught us the difference between discussion and dynamite.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) Bv Guy D. Sallee. You who are innocent, cast the first stone. The courts cry for justice, yet an unemployed man was sentenced to a sixty-day jail sentence at the state farm, and fined $5 by Judge Dewey Myers in municipal court three for diverting electricity, not stealing it, but diverting it. What a difference between a young judge who prefers protecting an electric monopoly like the Indianapolis Power and Light Company and a man like Senator Norris, who is strangely interested in the people who send him to congress. We were told it wouid be wicked to let the people use Muscle Shoals power plant for themselves, in spite of the fact they paid for it. It never would do for the government to go into business for itself. But President Roosevelt received charges from his private investigators that respectable gentlemen running power plants had been stealing the power of Muscle Shoals from the government and the people. Would Judge Dewey Myers sentence one of these highly respectable power owners to the state farm for stealing power from the people? The federal tax on electricity Section 616 stated there is a tax of 3 per cent on electrical energy for domestic and commercial use after June 22. 1932. This act required the company to collect the tax from the user and pay it to the government. The tax of 3 per cent was on the electrical energy consumed, but the Indianapolis Power and Light Company collected from all consumers on a demand charge, plus the energy rate. A former commission, and it has not yet been changed, gave the utility sap to the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, which is 6 3 4 cents a socket a month plus the energy rate, which ranges from 4% to 10 cents a kilowatt hour. The average is now $1 a month, and the Indianapolis Power and Light Company charges 3 per cent tax on this sap, which netted tens of thousands of dollars. What the people would like to know is, did the government receive it? An audit of their books will tell. Would you say this is stealing from the people in a respectable way? Or, putting it politely, is this diverting the people’s money to the company’s use? If a poor working man steals electricity from the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, and you sentence him to sixty days on the state farm with a $5 fine assessed —if you will sit as judge and it is up to you, as you are on the in— I’ll swear out a warrant for the treasurer or any official who per-

'T'HE hair on your head, or the lack of it, is subject more to hereditary factors than to any other cause, medical examiners are convinced. If there has been a tendency to baldness in your family, it’s almost a certainty you won't escape being bald. For the same reason, some persons develop patches of gray hair, which come in all members of the same family in certain spots on the head. And some get gray earlier than others. If you tend to become bald, therefore, and your father and grandfather were bald, think of this before trying to regain your hair with some so-called ’'hair restorer.” It just can't be done. Hair does not tend to fall out of the head of a woman, whereas in men hereditary baldness is exceedingly common. Men are therefore, particularly easy victims for all sorts of lotions', pastes, salves, lights, washes, and tricks claimed to be valuable in returning hair to a spot once luxuriant with its growth, but later, because of hereditary influence. deficient. So far -sus is known today there is no preparation of any kind that is

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Hair Factors Are Hereditary

Speaking of Inflation

Free Country By a Times Reader. In regard to the person or persons who are so against the people who spend their money and time as they see fit in going to the Walkathon at the state fairground, some people would kick if they w T ere playing football. I have been out there several times and have failed to see any feeble minded or any one who looked like they needed padded walls or floor/. Just because we want to go out there and enjoy ourselves at something different is no sign w r e are ready for the Central State hospital. There is always someone ready to squawk. Let the ones who don’t care to go out there stay away. There is enough out there without them. Let them attend to their own business and let other people do the same. This is a free country, or supposed to be, so if you don’t care for the Walkathon, don’t try to tell other people what they should do or wffiere they should go.

petrated this steal of federal tax from the consumers. The provisions are that you sentence the individual in proportion to amounts diverted by the unemployed worker. Os course, we all know that you, or any other judge, can not sentence a corporation, to jail. There is one law' for the common man, and immunity for the captains of industry. The federal government might take cognizance of this tax racket. The electrical users can group themselves and sue for a refund, which would amount to tens of thousands of dollars. The people’s only hope against utility rackets is to own them collectively, in fact all industry must be owned by the people eventually —why not now T ANARUS, Privately owned industry has ruined the United States and enslaved millions of people. There is no control as yet placed on inindustry and commerce that wrnuld benefit the people. If there is, w r hy then are w'e still in the economical omelet? By Wild Bill. The most expert job of sodding ever performed in Indiana is on new road 31 (North Meridian street) north of White river. The state highway commission has plastered a huge ninety-degree bank (belonging to some wealthy real estate owner) with long-haired grass which can be seen by taxpayers who roll by and crane their necks to look up at it. This grass is growing forty feet high up the bank and looks like a drop curtain in an Irish theater. Artistically, it vies w'ith the Indiana murals at Chicago. I think this expenditure of so large a sum was w’ell warranted, because it will keep forty men employed every summer for years to come, cutting the grass up the steep

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyceia, the Health Marazine.

of special virtue in restoring the hair, when hereditary factors have caused its disappearance. Two Pittsburgh physicians recently made a study of a family in which the father had a streak of gray hair at one spot and patches of skin over his body which were without pigmentation. There were two daughters in the family, one aged 5 and the other 4. At this very early age each of the children had developed a spot of gray in the hair of the head and had developed patches of skin without pigment. , For years it has been thought that a sudden fright might produce grayness of the hair. It has been well recognized that nervous manifestations of one type or another also might be associated with falling of the hair from the head. Usual length of time from the shock to the loss of hair may be anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. Another physician recently reported a case in which a woman, 49, i had a serious fall during an epileptic

hill with safety razors, and the only additional expense will be the high scaffolding to be erected for the unemployed to use while shaving the grass. It w'ould be dangerous to use alaw r n mow r er unless attached to a balloon, as the lawnmower w'ould get out of control and fall down on the passing trucks and automobiles. Anyhow', w'e are drifting away from the machine age, and safety razors are not exactly machines. Cy Foster, of Carmel, says the state is going to mow' the grass w'ith cosmic rays. He heard that down at the state conservation department. By A Hoasier Last Saturday noon, about forty men drew their sl2 each for twentyfour hours work at the South East street wood yards, and w r ere they happy? Some had no shoes, others had no sox, others hadn’t clothes enough on to W'ad a shotgun. Monday morning, every one reported. Eighteen pairs of new shoes, new sox, overalls and gloves, were counted, and every one w r as happy, but. it didn’t last long. We were notified to go to Tomlinson Hall to register and w'ere notified to go home and they w'ould send for us, as soon as they had some more projects. Well, some of us have registered ever so often since last July, so we should have a good pedigree by now'. Some of us had a square meal Sunday for the first time in months. Well, now' w'hat? No baskets, no coal, no flour. They tell us we are on our own now'. We haven’t had flour since October. What can we do to get to the front? Are there any human people left, or is it just politics, greed and graft? Where are Louis Markum and John Kirch, our friends? How' much has Mr. Book done? And in the name of our Lord, why were we put in. the hands of the Chamber of Commerce? Why, Mr. Engineers, are the basket-men not able to be good workmen? Well, I’ll tell you why. When you sat down to your banquet table, did you get up with your stomach scraping your backbone? Have you tried to take $2.40 for four of you to live on week in and week out? Sift some of the cornmeal in your brains. In place of feeding us chix fodder, give us a heman’s grub and we will do he-man’s work. Watch your highways and find when the money goes out of Indianapolis. Well, will we have anything to be thankful for? I think not. But I still think God is in his heaven. Daily Thought Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and have been w'anton; ye have nourished .your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.—James 5-5. PLEASURE makes our youth inglorious, our age shameful.— Steele.

fit. Four months after this fall the hair suddenly began to come out of her head, beginning at the top and around the temples, and within a few? days her head was completely bald. Fortunately, this type of baldness usually is not permanent. As the patient recovers his equilibrium, particularly if he is put to bed and permitted to lie quietly and is well fed, and if he is freed from any surrounding circumstances which might increase his nervousness, the hair returns rapidly. This relationship of the nervous system to the hair growth, quality, and distribution is one of the reasons for the difficulty of evaluating satisfactorily any form of treatment applied to the hair. It seems to be well established that the glands of the body are associated definitely in their functions with growth of hair. Ne%-er-theless, these relationships have not been defined exactly. It becomes necessary, therefore, to discount the possibility of glandular changes and the possibility of nervous influence in testing any remedy as to its effects on the growth of the hair. t*

PEC. 2, 1933

Science —BY DAVID DIETZ —" Serlpps-Hosrsrd Selene* Editor

THE invention of nothing was the greatest invention of our present era. The introduction of this invention into Europe about 600 years ago was the turning point in a development without which the progress of modern science, industry and commerce would have been impassible. Let us hasten to explain this Chestertonian paradox. By ’nothing,” we mean the zero or cipher of four arithmetical notation, the concept of a symbol to represent nothing. The story of this Intensely important symbol is only one of a number of fascinating tales told by Dr. Tobius Dantzig in “Number, the Language of Science," a revised edition of which has just been issued by Macmillan at $2.50. Civilizations rose and fell during the first 5,000 years of man's history. Each left behind a heritage of philosophy, religion, art and literature. But in the field of arithmetic, there was. after 5,000 years, only “an inflexible numeration so crude as to make progress wellnigh impossible, and a calculating device so limited in scope that even elementary calculations called for the services of an expert.” a a a THE counting device, still in use in rural districts of Russia and China, is the abacus or counting board. In one form, it consists of wooden beads strung on a row of parallel wires in a wooden frame. Few people realize, Dr. Dantzig tells us, that the device was in common use throughout Europe only a few centuries ago. If you want to realize what arithmetical calculations meant to a European citizen of the twelfth century, forget, for the moment, what you know about the Arabic numeration with its digits from "1” to “9,” its “0” and its principle of position. By position we mean the convention by which the place of a digit indicates whether it stands for units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc. Now' then, try and multiply the Roman numerals MCMXII and CLVII together. As Professor Dantzig says, “Computations which a child now can perform required then the services of a specialist, and what is now a matter of a few minutes meant, in the twelfth century, days of elaborate work.” a a a OUR Arabic numerals really came from India. They were Indian numerals which the Arabs adopted in the tenth century, he tells us. At the beginning of the thirteenth century, these Indo-Arabic numerals were introduced into Italy. You might think that the Arabic system would have been hailed at once. But instead, a battle began, a battle that lasted until the fifteenth century. The exponents of the abacus were unwilling to give it up and in some places laws were passed to prohibit the use of Arabic numerals. “And as usual,” Professor Dantzig says, “prohibition did not succeed in abolishing, but merely served to spread bootlegging.”

Questions and Answers Q —Did the Pope attend the last Eucharist Congress in Ireland? A—No. Q —Name the President of Mexict. A—General Abelardo Rodriguez. Q—Give the number of bank failures in the United States in 1930, 1931 and 1932, and the number of banks that had not been reopened in August, 1933, after the March moratorium. A—Bank failures v/ere as follows: 1930, 1,345; 1931, 2,298; 1932, 1,456. On Aug. 12, 1933, there remained 2,870 closed banks. Q—Which breeds of hen produce the larger eggs? A—ln general. Brahmas, Cochins, Orpingtons and Black Jersey Giants. Q—Who Invented the printing press? A —John Gaensfleish, commonly known as John Gutenberg, generally is credited with the invention.

So They Say

I haven’t time to die.—Dr. Charlotte Davenport of Philadelphia on her 109th birthday. I like to knock over policemen.— Queen Mary of England. The faith that other nations had in our military equipment in 1914 saved us from becoming Involved in the World War.—President Edmund Schulthess of Switzerland. Fan dances are just a fad, the answer to a world gone sex crazy Gilda Grav, former shimmy queen. Simplicity BY AUSTIN JAMES I care not for the fancy clo’.hei That mark the man of means. Nor would I walk the cluttered road Into eternity. Tm dressed in humble homespun, With a patch upon my jeans, And I'm happy in my own Sincere simplicity. Nor ne'er to me has come the call Os limousines or gold, No caviar nor demi-tasse Is in my bill of fare. Just bread and gravy on my plate So simple to behold, And going places? Just a truck To snort a gettin’ there. They say that I am just a bum To lounge the whole day through, Conventions seem to have no place Nor claim nor hold on me. Bohemian perhaps I am In things I say and do, But that’s the joy o’ livin’ In a pure simplicity. And those that trudge the tangled path Live jig-saw puzzle days. Confusion rules their minds and souls Deplorable to see. If they could live a one-track life And change to simple ways, T.iicg me, I think, they’d be content And love simplicity.