Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 134, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1934 — Page 9

OCT. 15,1954.

-It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN ON many recent occasions It has been pointed out that International sporting events are not essentially good will affairs. Now the Landmark, official organ of the English-Speaking Union, suggests that after-dinner speaking is also a grave menace to Anglo-American unity. I have borrowed this amount of springboard from the New York Times. Until I saw an editorial paragraph in that paper I never had heard of the Landmark Nevertheless. I have no hesitation in plunging into the argument because the British critic is far too severe with his own countrymen. He - holds that English orators talk too rapidly and that they drone and gargle. On the contrary I find that the Briton who rises to his feet, as the

waiters cart away the coffee, almost invariably makes pleasant sounds. At numerous banquets and luncheons I have heard the lion roar and, save for lack of substance, all the addresses were excellent. Indeed it is my impression that the average English after-dinner speaker can say nothing more gracefully than the spokesman of any othf>r nation. Italians always sound very eloquent but since I can not understand, their heroics pall a little after the first ten minutes. The French are the fastest of all the talkers. Almost I am reconciled to my academic disasters in the

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study of this language, for even if I had gained a smattering it hardly would have availed to catch a true Gallic spellbinder on the wing. How They Talk THE Irish and the Americans, save on native soil, suffer from a great handicap. The listeners always expect something excruciatingly funny. To them each American is one who bears the banner of Mark Twain while the Celt is held to be a fake if he can not ride upon the coat tails of George Bernard Shaw. The best talkers in America are not heard very much at banquets. Mo6t of the finest orators in this country are labor leaders. Among the many industrialists whom I have heard I would name Owen D. Young alone as a speaker of the first rank. And I think Mr. Young is happiest in his lighter moments. John L. Lewis of the miners and Charles Howard and Elmer Brown of the printers are well ahead of any business man speaker whom I can think of at the moment. As an aspiring orator on my ow'n account I have observed the technique of thousands of speakers at dinners, conventions and smaller meetings. And I’ve picked my own model, although as yet I must admit that the imitation is decidedly Inferior. I'm trying to be another Dudley Field Malone. I want to be the fellow who makes them tear up the furniture instead of the comic Johnny who earns a few casual laughs. Mr. Malone has a very definite style, although he may not be conscious of it. He stems, of course, from the Bryan school, but he cuts the ham a great deal thinner. The middle name helps. Every orator should have a middle name. William Bryan never would have risen to the platform heights he achieved without the aid of Jennings. And when a toastmaster says, “We now will hear from Dudley Field Malone,” the cadence itself makes you feel that you are going to hear something. From now on I am going to refuse to heave myself up to a speaking pose until I am called Hevw r ood Campbell Broun. tt tt a Hits the Curves Fast PART of Mr. Malone's eiTectiveness lies in the fact that he sneaks up on you. That's one of the reasons w hy I like him better than I liked Bryan. William Jennings Bryan put his back, shoulders and liver into the opening sentence. A climax was lacking. He just couldn’t get any louder and fiercer. But Malone coasts along for the first five or six minutes until he gets warmed up. He warms up by listening to himself. I have seen many people moved enormously by his words, but there was never a one more carried away than Dudley Field Malone himself. I say this in bitter envy. Asa matter of fact. I, too, can carry myself away. On many platforms I have wept and it was neither a fake nor a trick. The only trouble was that I carried myself along too fast for the rest to follow. Only the other evening I realized that there was something wrong. The audience was Italian. My assumption was that eloquence was the indicated dish. Possibly the fare was piled on a little thick. Nobody said “advante!” which may not be the right word. When I came to my climax and sat down you could have heard all the pins in the world crashing against the thick carpet. But that wasn’t all. The gentleman who followed said. "Os course I can't be as eloquent as Hoywood Broun, but I can eive you the facts in the case.” So I shall sit again at the feet of my old elocution teacher. I'll sit at anybody's feet. I’ll even listen attentively to English lecturers. i Copyright. 1934, bv The Timesl

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

WHILE the world's statesmen and bankers are arguing the gold standard and the silver standard for nations, scientists may succeed in putting drinking water definitely on the silver standard. A process for sterilizing water by the addition ot a minute amount of silver is now being introduced into this country after three years of successful commercial operation in Europe, according to Arthur D. Little, Inc., consulting chemists of Cambridge, Mass. The new method, known as the Katadyn process, introduces one part of silver for every 20.000.000 parts of water. This amount of silver, according to reports, is not harmful to the human system. It is said that a person absorbs no more silver in drinking two quarts of water than he normally absorbs in the course of a day from the use of silver tableware or from the silver fillings in his teeth. The introduction of the silver is said to cause no apparent change in the odor, taste or color of the water. Sterilization takes place at ordinary- temperatures and the water is not only rendered sterile but for a considerable period after sterilization is actually germicidal, that is, has the ability to kill germs which may get into it. a a a IN the simplest application of the Katadyn process. the water is merely passed through filter beds which contain silver. A certain number of atoms of silver are absorbed by the water, where they remain as electrified atoms of silver or silver ions, to give them their technical name. The process can be speeded up by passing the water between fiat silver electrodes through which a small direct current is passed. The passage of the electric current hastens the release of silver atoms from the electrodes and more silver ions go into solution. In Europe it has been found practical to treat only a small amount of water by this electric process, mixing the small amount so treated with very much larger amounts of water in storage tanks. After thirty-six hours, the silver ions are found throughout the tank and all of the water is sterile. Portable sterilizers, operated by dry batteries or storage batteries are being made for the use of campers. These need be operated only one minute to sterilize a quart of water. It is necessary, however, to allow an hour to elapse before the water is used to permit the ions to mix thoroughly with the water. a a a IN a number of European cities, ice is now being manufactured from water which has been sterilized by the silver method—silvenzed water one might perhaps all it. This ice is being used to preserve fish and other foodstuffs in transit. It is pointed out that this silverized ice is more effective than ordinary ice. because when it melts, it acts as a sterilizer and kills any germs that may be present. Because of the tendency of silverized water to retain its germicidal properties over considerable length of time, its use has been suggested in breweries. soft drink bottling plants and other food plants, for rinsing bottles, food containers, pipe lines, and the like. Claims are also made that butter washed in silver! zed water remains fresh for a longer period of tana.

YUGOSLAVIA-LAND OF REVOLT

Minorities Continually Seething Against Rule of Serbian People

BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service European Manager London, oct. 15.— 80 m out of the world's greatest conflict and hailed as a nation that at last gave freedom to the millions of south Slavs who had struggled in vain through centuries for liberty, Yugoslavia yet is a seething mass of clashing populations, as diverse in culture, religion, and aspirations as the heterogeneous groups that made up the shattered Austro-Hunganan empire. Revolt has brewed among the minorities almost since the day that the former Austrian provinces united with Serbia in 1918 to form the new monarchy. And this spirit of revolt may burst into a flame that will sweep the country’, kindled by the pistol shots that ended the life of King Alexander I in Marseille, France. Seven areas fused to form Yugoslavia, with a territory of 96 000 square miles and a population of 14,000,000. Into this union came Serbia, Montenegro, the former Austrian provinces of Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Dalmatia; the former Hungarian province of Croatia-Slavonia; Slovenia, and the Voydovina. The dominant partner was Serbia and from the outset the Serbs have tended to regard the other areas as subordinate provinces, heedless of the lesson taught by the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Resentment has grown to revolt, speedily crushed, time after time. But in 1929 King Alexander I struck ruthlessly. A coup d’etat culminated in establishment of anew constitution in which there was only one national party w-ith Alexander as dictator. And into prison went rebel leaders, and many of them remain there. The fire of rebellion burns most fiercely in Croatia, whence came the assassin, Petrus Kelemen. Surpassing the Serbs in culture and economic development, the Catholic Croats of Croatia-Slav-onia and Dalmatia, numbering three millions, clamor for autonomy. But always Alexander had refused. With less vigor, other nationalities within Yugoslavian borders have demanded lightening of the Serbian yoke, but futilely. But always this diversity of races and their aims hangs as a threat over the royal palace at Belgrade, as the Serbs rule over Croatians, Dalmatians, Montenegrins, Albanians, Bulgarians, Macedonians and Slovenes within their borders. tt tt tt A BEAUTIFUL land, primitive and picturesque, is Yugoslavia. This very primitiveness is its great attraction for the traveler w’ho seeks his recreation where few over-tipping tourists pass and where a dollar or a pound still will buy a reasonable amount of the native money. But blended w’ith the primitive there is a startling air of modernity at its best in many parts of the south Slav country. For example, there is Bled, a pearl of a mountain lake, 1.500 feet above sea level, surrounded by the Slovenian Alps, some of which tow’er to nine thousand feet. Here w r as the summer home of

-The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—When President Roosevelt addresses the approaching convention of the American Bankers’ Association, one thought will be uppermost in the minds of his audience: “Will he give any inkling of his attitude on a central bank?” This is the one issue that has the financial boys, big and small. Jittery. Their fright over a move for a government-controlled central bank at the next session of congress even exceeds their fears of further in-

flationary measures, an unbalanced budget, or continued heavy emergency expenditures. Every conceivable wile and strategy has been resorted to by the banking community to obtain a private expression of the President's views on the question. They have been unsuccessful. The reason is simple. The President has not as yet made up his mind. But the mere fact that he is seriously studying the matter, is definitely not hostile to the project, sends cold shivers up and down financial spines. a a a Battle-scarred Jim Reed is in the political arena again, and no one in the middle west is being watched more closely by the political prognosticators of the administration. Reed can, if he wants to, wreck Democratic chances to capture a Republican senate seat in Missouri. The reason for Jim's change of heart, his constant vituperation against the New Deal, has puzzled old senatorial friends who know him as a rabid campaigner for the under dog. Jim jumped from the modest salary of a senator to the status of a millionaire. First, he made a fair-sized fortune practicing law. On top of this, his brother died, leaving him several public utility companies in lowa. Finally, his new wife has made over a million as a big-time dressmaker. A real noveau riche, any government move to dip into income makes Jim see red. a a a THAT may explain his statement that there no real unemployment in United States except for people who didn't want to work. That also may explain the telegram Reed sent his old friend Bennett Clark. The senate was considering shifting the electricity tax burden from the consumer to the utility, which, of course, hit Reed’s companies in lowa. So he sent a six-page, single-spaced telegram of protest to Senator Clark. Had any one sent such a telegram to Jim Reed in the old days he would have stepped on the floor of the senate and exposed the sender.

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Tensely waiting, Europe faces a crisis following the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia that may end peaceably or plunge the continent into a war that will drastically change both its political and physical maps. How great an upheaval such a general conflict could bring is graphically shown by the above map of Europe before the World war. But statesmen, dividing the spoils, changed all this.

King Alexander. Your hotel is a great, white, shining palace of a place, everything spotlessly clean. As it is a resort, it is not demanded that you “dress” for meals. The men wear white flannel trousers and porous silk shirts, with half sleeves and no ties. The women wear pajama suits. They live in them and save laundry and dress bills. The music one hears is not the entrancing melancholy native music, but jazz, as up to date as the Lido or Le Touquet. u u a THEN one may find a rare treat in a visit to the capital of the ancient Austrian province of Slovenia, which used to be called Laibach. Now it is Ljubljana. a country town which has doubled in population since becoming Yugoslav. You hire a kutscer with his droschky to take you around to see the sights. You naturally speak German. Unlike some of the Czechs, the Yugoslavs make no war upon a language. They hate the Germans and Austrians as much as do the Czechs, but they realize they can’t expect tourists to learn a difficult Slav language. Perhaps, the writer’s German was pretty good and, perhaps, the kutscher thought his fare was an Austrian. At any rate he proceeded to air his grouse; “Times aren’t like they used to be in the old Austrian days. Then a gulden was a gulden and you knew where you were. Now when you have a hundred dinars, where are you?” Oddly enough, he proceeded to show his passengers things which pro.ved that, for all the world depression, Ljubljana was not suffering too much. There were whole quarters of pretty new villas, built since the

But the old days with Jim Reed are gone, (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Incj Faces Child Neglect Charge Mrs. Katherine Goodwin, 35, of 128 Detroit street, is held today on child neglect charges, after she is alleged to have given her 15-year-old daughter liquor which made her intoxicated.

SIDE GLANCES

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war. In the busines section w r as one vast block of shops, terminating in a twelve-story skyscraper, all the offices of which seemed to be rented. a a IN Zagreb the same story. Croatians growl that the Yugoslav government, being predominantly Serb, has centered all its efforts in making Belgrade a great city. Yet Zagreb has doubled in population since the war and only recently completed one of the most magnificent, vast school buildings in all the world. But Zagreb’s chief charm is its market. In some places, like the far-famed Volendam in Holland, when the tourist steamer hoots its horn, all the natives dive into their houses, put on picturesque peasant costumes and peddle postcards, trinkets or pose for the kodak fiends at so much a pose. Nothing for nothing! But in Zagreb every market day is made interesting, because the big town is literally invaded by the Croatian peasant women ftom the hinterland. They don their lovely old costumes —little vests embroidered in glowing colors, quaint headdresses, wide, pleated, embroidered skirts, as if they are going to a church feast. Each has a small stand in the market where she sells her eggs, butter, cheese, fruit, or whatnot. She is not interested in tourists. Pays no attention to them. She is a merchant to sell the produce of her little farm. And when the market closes, the streets of Zagreb are crowded wtih peasant women doing some shopping of their own, or trudging homeward, with big baskets, poised on their heads.

LABOR TO PROTEST NAMING OF WILLIAMS A. F. of L. President to Confer With Roosevelt on Appointment. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Octfl 15.—Ordered by the executive council to confer directly with President Roosevelt in protesting the NRA appointment given S. Clay Williams, tobacco man, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor prepared today to leave for Washington. Mr. Green said that he and other A. F. of L. representatives will seek an audience with Mr. Roosevelt to impress on him that the presence of the Reynolds Tobacco Company chairman as administrative chief of the new NRA setup is “odious” to labor. Relief Corps to Meet Mrs. Mary Riggs, Americanization Settlement, West Pearl street, will address the Major Robert Anderson Woman’s Relief Corps, No. 44, at Ft. Friendly at 1:30 tomorrow.

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The map of Europe as remade by the peace treaties of 1919 is shown here, vastly changed from pre-war days. New nations arose— Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania. Latvia, and a greater Rumania. Portions of German territory were ceded to Belgium, France, Poland, Lithuania, Denmark and Czechoslovakia.

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This map shows the great diversity of peoples inhabiting the European melting pot that is Yugoslavia. Os many types and of widely varying aspirations, the minorities bitterly resent the overlordship of Serbia, which looks upon them virtually as her vassals. Indicated on the map also is the home city of Petrus Kelemen, who shot down King Alexander I, precipitating a grave European crisis.

T'HE steamship sail from Spalato to Ragusa must be one of the finest in the world. Only the towns are no longer called so. Spalato is now Split—pronounced Spleet. Raguso is Dubrovnik. The trip takes nine hours in one of the fast, white Yugoslav steamships. They are specklessly clean. Their officers are cordial humans, interested in the wellbeing of their guests. The meals are superb. But the ride! On the Dalmatian coast, the mountains—some very high and bare—run sheer down to the Adriatic. On the oth-

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP 0 tt tt tt tt tt By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—The next congress will act to regulate holding companies according to every present indication. For the first time there is a definite possibility that the most drastic form fit regulation—by means of a federal incorporation law—may be approved. The senate banking and currency committee added its voice, today, to those of other public agencies clamoring for regulation. It recom-

mended action covering investment trusts and banking and public utility holding companies and suggested that federal incorporation might solve these and other corporate ailments at the same time. The federal power commission has been on record for two years in favor of regulating utility holding companies, and the federal trade commission has amassed a formidable pile of evidence illustrating the need for such action. President Roosevelt went on record for utility holding company regulation during his 1932 campaign, but has not urged it upon congress since being in office. He probably will do so next winter. If he does not, the senate may initiate its own action. a a a A NATIONAL incorporation law would give the federal government powers similar to those now exercised by state blue sky commissions. It would end the widespread avoidance of such laws through incorporation in states with little or no regulation. Regulation of investment trusts Is “indispensable.” the senate committee finds, and lists the following reasons: “The investment trust was the vehicle employed by individuals to enhance their personal fortunes in violation of their trusteeship, to the financial detriment of the public.” “Organizers were enabled “to acquire control of an amount of the public's money grossly out of proportion to their own original investment.” “Executive authorities employed the investment trust as convenient receptacles into which to unload securities which they personally, or corporations or partnerships in which they were interested, owned.” a a a HOLDING companies were first organized to circumvent the anti-trust laws, the committee says, but their primary motive is now “the development and financial promotion of security selling schemes.” The last congress brought railroad holding companies under control of the ICC. Thv. federal power commission plans a second and more complete report on the subject of electric utilities within the next few months. It is already on record for regulation of accounts, security issues and contracts between

er side is a constant stream of islands varying in size from a tenth of an acre to big ones forty miles long. Some of these are heavily wooded. Some are bare and mountainous. Riding between the mainland and the islands, the sea is as smooth is if one were in a steamboat on the Ohio or the Mississippi. A land of rare beauty, this home of the Yugoslavs. And one who visits it hopes prayerfully that war will not come again with its horrors to despoil it.

holding companies and their operating companies. The federal trade commission has shown use of holding companies to inflate book values to the disadvantage of the rate paying public and investors: to drain revenues out of the jurisdiction of state regulating companies, and to evade federal taxes.

INDIANA RECREATION DIRECTOR IS NAMED Garrett Eppley, Evansville, Is Appointed by Coy. Garrett G. Eppley, Evansville recreation director, has been appointed manager of the state-wide recreation program for the unemployed, Wayne Coy, Governor’s unemployment relief commission director, announced today. The purpose of the program is to stimulate in local communities the development of community recreation projects to meet the need for wholesome leisure-time activities for the unemployed and to provide suitable employment for those capable of directing recreational activities, Mr. Coy stated. 4 YOUTHS JOIN NAVY: ENTER TRAINING SCHOOL Quartet Begins Twelve-Week Course at Norfolk, Va. Four Indianapolis youths have been enrolled in the naval training station at Norfolk, Va., for a twelveweek training period following their enlistment at the recruiting office, 730 East Washington street, last week. They are John Henry Yeager, 2710 Stuart street; Russell Wyatt Miller, 30 South Mount street; William Edward Dawson, 6113 Haverford avenue, and Wellington Seymour Woolley, 3901 Winthrop avenue. ATTORNEY FOR STOLLS IS FRIEND OF WILSON Prosecutor and Hammerer Were Classmates at Michigan U. William S. Kammerer, Louisville (Ky.) attorney, acting for the anguished Stoll family, was a classmate of Herbert Wilson, Marion county prosecutor, at the University of Michigan. Mr. Kammerer and Mr. Wilson are close friends and have kept in touch with each other since their college days.

Fair Enough immk pm THE Pullman cars nowadays are equipped with little bulletin frames in which the motto department maintains an interesting sequence of social hints for the traveler, varied at times with historical reminders. This service was developed by the late James Keelv. the editor, who became a sort of press agent for the Pullman company after he quit the newspaper business. He had his nerve with him to go into publicity because he had been a despot and

driver to his own forecastle hands when he was boss and his reputation still was fresh. Moreover, he had been a hard and suspicious man toward all press agents in his time. Mr. Keely showed up at Shelby, Mont., at the time of the DempsevGibbons prize fight, backed his private car on to a siding and set to work creating good will by hand. It was interesting to observe how he broke down the old resentment of the craft toward a man who once had been so aloof and impersonal toward reporters on his staff that he even refused to acknowl-

edge a polite time of the day outside of the office. There were several men in the Shelby colony who had worked under him. but there was only one who kept his old hatred pure and beautiful. That was the late Frank Smith, who said he enjoyed hating Mr. Keely and would not think of selling this precious privilege for a mess of lamb chops and French ice cream or even for a clean, comfortable bed with connecting shower bath on a private car. He died with his hate unsullied. a a a A Social Success MR. KEELY'S mission to Shelby was a distinct social and professional success. He rather leaned to big-shots and allotted his beds to those who seemed likely to do him the most good in the papers, but his dinner parties were quite democratic. He invited ordinary journeymen and even yearlings to dine with him and the meals were memorable because Shelby was a T-bone town and his private chef was an artist. During these meetings he revealed a Jim Keely whom the newspaper hands never had been permitted to know before. He told stories well and he had had some amazing experiences in his own time as a reporter in the west. The softening-up of Mr. Keely was somewhat like that of another Englishman who came over from London to become a legendary’ tyrant in the middle west. Mr. Sam Insull, now broke after amassing a fortune of between $75,000,000 and SIOO,000.000, not only admits insists that he is a cockney. He is slightly apologetic when forced to confess that the street on which he was born in London is not within sound of Bow-bells except when the wind is favorable and the city still. But he brightens up when he boasts that he drops his aitches to this very’ day when anything excites him. He still says “shillin’ ” for “shilling.” tt tt tt Just Part of the Job UNLIKE Mr. Insull, Mr. Keely was ambitious socially. If he was a ockney he never was one to boast of it. He fought hard to establish himself anioMg the very best people of Chicago and was proud of his climb. Old man Insull, on the other hand, whatever else may be said of him, never did care much for society. But both of them were cold and hard when they were in power. Both were tremendously successful and both flopped before they were done. Although Mr. Keely was so proud that he probably did not admit even to himself .hat he had come a failure in the end. For a man who had been one of the great American editors, the little job of turning out mottoes, booklets and warnings to the passengers to beware of card sharks was hardly a promotion, even though he did invest it with a huge importance and the dignity of a private car, complete with chef. Possibly he didn’t compose these works himself, but merely caused them to be written in the broad course of his work as vice-president if the'Pullman company in charge of good will. There was a purpose in the democracy which suddenly came over both men. In Insult's case it may yet pay a beautiful dividend. The Chicago public was a mob at his heels when he ran away. Nowadays it is not uncommon to hear men say they lost their savings on him, but that nobody is going to be any better off for his going to prison. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

YOUR chance of living iong depends on the kind of job you have. Therefore, it is important that you pick an occupation that will agree with your physical well-being. The highest death rates from all causes are found among hostlers and stable hands. In contrast to this fact, garage workers have a death rate which is onefifth that of the hostlers and stable hands. Aviators, as might be expected, have a very high death rate, namely, 28.73 a thousand employed, in contrast with a figure of 6.19 for chauffeurs and of 17.5 for teamsters. The death rate among school teachers is low—--4.4; and the occupation of firemen is not hazardous, as indicated by a rate of 6.7. The professions are all in the figures between 7 to 11—lawyers and judges being 7.89; clergymen, 10.3, and doctors, 10.69. a a a A-tsuux as sare an occupation as any one can have with a view to living long is that of college professor or president. For these the rate is 2.69 a thousand employed. It is interesting to find that doctors commit suicide much more often than do lawyers, judges or justices—the latter being below average and the doctors above the average. These figures in relationship to occupation are of great importance in the selection of suitable occupations for those who are physically below a standard. The occupation with a low death rate is the one for the man who has difficulty in withstanding stress or exposure. a a a ANOTHER factor that has to be taken into account, associated with death rates of different occupations, is the average income in these occupations. The chance of living long is dependent not only on the amount of work a man does, but also on his ability to get sufflient rest, proper food, fresh air and exercise. For example, the lowest rates from tuberculosis are always found in those with the highest incomes and the highest number of deaths in those with low incomes and a poor standard of living. Therefore, a metal worker or a zinc miner may b“ confronted with the double threat of his occupation and a low income.

Questions and Answers

Q —Where is the source of the Hudson river? Give length and total distance. A—The source of the Hudson river is In the Ariirondacks near New r comb. Essex county, in fourteen small lakes, 2.000 feet above tide water. It flows generally south and empties into New York bay, distant about 205 miles in a straight line and about 315 miles measured along the river course. The river is tidal from its mouth to the United States dam at Troy. . Q —What is wampum? A—An arrangement of beads formed of the interior parts of shells strung on threads, which was formerly used by American Indians as currency and was worn also in necklaces, bracelets and belts. The beads are either black, dark purple or white, the last being the wampum proper. Q—What is the boiling point of water? A—ln the atmospheric pressure at sea-level It is 100 degrees Centigrade, or 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Q —What are young swans called? A—Cygnets.

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