Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 143, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1934 — Page 13

It Seems to Me KI M BROUN I THINK there ought to be a law about candidates for election to public office. No man should be allowed to run if he is ahusband. or a father, or both. At the very least there should be a statute providing that no part of the campaign literature mav deal with the nominee's home life. Even in national elections the time of voters’ has been wasted in discussing whether the available Re-

publican or Democratic woman would make the more fitting hostess for the White House. Why not turn that part of the administration over to Emily Post as a permanent job and get down to the more vital issues. I have particularly in mind a little brochure devoted to the candidacy of Harold G. Hoffman (New Jersey's favorite son', who is running for Governor of that state on the Republican ticket. McAlister Coleman, who is running for something on the Sonalist ticket, has been kmd enough to supply me with an authentic copy of a priceless campaign document.

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Mr. Hoffman has. I believe, marked a new’ point in farthest .south in opening up his home life for the scrutiny of New Jersey voters. May I quote two paragraphs just as they stand: “In 1913 Commissioner Hoffman married Miss Lillie Moss, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Mass of South Ambov. There are now three charming little daughters in the Hoffman household. Ada, at 12, is now in her second year of high school and her daddy's love of work is* reflected in her efforts as editor of her high school magazine, The Messenger. She also likes politics, and when she was only eight made her appearance as a political speaker.” 00a They've Got Everything MR. COLEMAN informs me that anybody who has read New Jersey newspapers or listened to New Jersey political speeches these are not necessarily evidences of precocity. Ada is just a normal child. But let us get on and meet the other members of the family: “Mischievous Miss Lillie is just 7 and has a talent for drawing caricatures of her father’s political friends, while curly-haired Hope, a 3-year-old, is just a lovable chunk of good nature. Commissioner Hoffman doesn’t think much of his wife’s bridge, but is proud of her culinary accomplishments, and he is happiest, it is said, when he brings home friends, usually unannounced, to sample some of Mrs. Hoffman’s famous dishes, with ‘no speeches.’ ’’ McAlister Coleman thinks that the paramount issue in New Jersey is whether the Hoffmans are happier than the Hagues. My own feeling is that the husband of Miss Moss has left himself wide open to a counter. Why shouldn't the henchmen of Hague go before every woman's club in the state and say, "and how would you like it if your husband sneered at your bridge and brought home friends unnanounced?" Moreover, there is room for suspicion that Mr. Hoffman's joy in home cooking is exaggerated slightly for campaign purposes. 000 Speaks lly the Day IN a later paragraph I find: "The young candidate —incidentally, the youngest ever to go before the New’ Jersey electorate for Governor—is a pleasant and dynamic speaker who not only is constantly in demand in New’ Jersey but in the adjacent states of New York and Pennsylvania. He thinks nothing of making from one to four speeches a day, and it Is claimed that in sixteen years of public life, en. every nook and corner of his state, before every conceivable kind of gathering, he has established a record for his number of public appearances. And he likes it!” Ah. but how about the little woman at home? “The happy Hoffman family” indeed! Before I'll believe that I would lik° to hear Lillie tell it. Even though she may b" “just a lovable little chunk of good nature” like her infant daughter Hope, I do see the potentialities of storm and stress. I ask every and any woman reader of this column whether she would like to be married to a man who might turn lip suddenly on cold roast beef night with a couple of district leaders in tow and, on the evening you had the turkey, telephone from Pottstown, Pa., that he had gone to attend a banquet of the Sons of Seventy-Six? Perhaps I am too captious. The answer in the rase of Harold G. Hoffman. Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey, may lie in a single caption which has been placed over the account of his birth in his little campaign folder. That caption reads concisely and simply, “A Genius Is Born.” iCoDvrleht. 1334. bv The Times!

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

CROOKING the yolk of an egg while the white re- * mained unchanged was a bit of scientific magic recently performed by French scientists. The trick was turned with the use of high-frequency radio waves, the sort used for short-wave radio. It was possible because the yolk of the egg absorbed the waves with a subsequent rise in temperature while the white of the egg did not. The experiment, of little practical value in itself, nevertheless has possibilities since it points to a technique by which one substance may be heated while another, intimately associated with it. remains cold. It is possible that radio-baked bread may be here before long. It has been found possible, according to Arthur D. Little Inc., Cambridge. Mass., to bake bread without crust by subjecting the batter to radio waves of the right frequency. The crust forms on bread, under ordinary circumstances. because the outside of the loaf gets the most heat. However, radio heating is uniform throughout and so the whole loaf bakes at once at exactly the same temperature and no crust forms. aaa THE use of short-wave radio as a cooking device is always spectacular. Engineers of the General Electric Company startled audiences with the trick of popping corn by the simple device of putting the corn between two metal plates attached to a shortwave generator. The fact that heat could be induced by such waves was discovered first by radio engineers who found that it became unpleasantly warm to work in the laboratory with the apparatus which develops these waves. Investigation by medical men showed that the engineers were running a fever. The production of such heat is now used in some hospitals as a method of treating certain diseases, among them arthritis. The process is known technically as diathermy. Bv proper adjustment of the apparatus, it is possible to heat the skin or deeper tissues of the body. aaa BECAUSE of the exactness with which short radio waves can be controlled, they are finding uses in many industries for the making of measurements. It is possible, with their assistance, for example, to make continuous measurements of the hair-like wires used for lamp filaments, or of sheets of paper, or other substances, without touching the substance in question. The wire or sheet is merely made to pass between the plates of a condenser which are part of the radio circuit. The thickness of the wire or sheet changes the electrical capacity of the condenser and so registers upon a suitable meter in the circuit The circuit can also be arranged to make measurements of other sorts* For example, it is possible to measure the moistura content of lumber or paper or other substances. It can also be made to detect flaws in metallic sheets or other objects. Q—What metal bursts into a violent flame when thrown on water? A—Potassium. The burning metal fizzes about on the surface, it* extremely high temperature precluding absolute contact with the liquid, except at the very end, when the last remnant, through loss ,and temperature, is wetted by the water and bursts with explosive violence.

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WALL' STREET and the DEPRESSION

Pecora’s Inquisitors, Turned Loose, Bared Secrets of Money Barons

A rfealin picture of the conduct of the senate’s investigation of no-lon*er sacrosanct Wall Street is contained in the following article, the fourth in a series of six written for this newspaper by John T. Flynn, famed economist and journalist. In preceding articles, Flynn has looked backward at the stork market crash and Its causes, the depression years and events leading up to a governmental investigation of Wall Street activities. BY JOHN T. FLYNN (Copyright. 1334. NEA Service. Inc.) NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—The senate’s Pecora-conducted inquiry into Wall Street was the most important and fruitful investigation in our legislative history. It went deeper into fundamentals than the famous Pujo money trust inquiry. It had more substantial consequences The hearings began April 11, 1932. They ended on May 1, 1934. Before Ferdinand Pecora passed in doleful procession such an array of industrial and financial barons as has adorned no other similar spectacle. As I watched this amazing parade I could not resist the feeling that society, like nature, has a w’ay of paying off all scores.

Here was Ferdinand Pecora, small, swarthy, born in Sicily, the son of a shoemaker, calling before him one by one the giants of the land to answer for their stewardships. There were men on that senate committee who did not relish the scene—men who resented the spectacle of an exalted figure like J. P. Morgan, a pure-blooded American, subjected to seizure and search by this little Sicilian shoemaker’s son. That resentment explains many things which happened on the committee. And yet to me one of the startling contrasts of the hearings was the quiet, dignified, patient and never-failing courtesy of the shoemaker’s son compared with the boorish, violent and abusive conduct of at least one of the aristocratic senators who continually balked him. A word here about the technique of the investiga-

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tion. When Charles Mitchell was on the stand Pecora asked him innocently about his income tax return Mitchell answered completely, revealing the facts upon which he was later indicted. Why did he do it, many asked at the hearing? The answer is that Mitchell knew Pecora had in his hand when he asked his question a complete report on Mitchell’s personal affairs. Pecora never put a witness on the stand until he had made an exhaustive examination of the subject that witness would testify to. He had a large number of experts of all sorts—accountants, statisticians, lawyers, economists, investigators. They spent a whole summer in the Chase National bank. ,

When Albert Wiggin went on the stand Pecora had his whole history as head of the great Chase bank in his hands. When the hearings began and Pecora started to reveal the amazing schemes and speculations of Wiggin in the stock market, the Chase officials w’ere themselves astounded. Pecora had found out more about their bank than they had learned themselves. 000 HIS method was to give his investigators a free hand, merely keeping in touch with what they w’ere doing and offering occasional suggestions and directions. When finished they w’ere required to make complete reports, comprehensive financial statements, summaries of w r hat each witness could tell, etc. Each day. after the exhausting hearings. Pecora would walk with members of his staff to his hotel, where he would sleep until about 7. Then with his closest advisers he would go to dinner. That was always a gay, happy meal', lasting perhaps until 10 o’clock, w’ith hardly any reference to the investigation unless some of its more humorous aspects. Then

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP 000 00 By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Behind the scenes, administration economists are engaged in a blistering controversy as to whether industry should be allowed to restrict its output. Both sides are trying to get the President’s ear, for a decision on this involves so many related matters that it will determine the trend of the whole winter recovery program.

About 15 per cent of the NRA codes fix a limit to the number of hours the machines in any plant may work. Another 8 per cent limit installation of new machinery. The result has been helpful to plants where production costs a unit of goods are high. It has enabled such plants to continue operating and employing workers. It has tended to keep prices up. These were the ends sought both by the industries which asked for production controls and by NRA when it granted them. But it is argued now that the limitation on building new competing plants or enlarging the capacity of plants already in operation has been one of the reasons why the machinery industry and similar capital groups have continued to be prostrate during the last year. It is argued by the same school of thought that the President's goal of higher prices only can be attained by first bringing about lower prices and increased consumption. a a a THIS is the way the theory is supposed to work: If all restraints on production are removed, mass production plants operating at capacity will be able to sell goods for less than at present. Wage earners will be able to buy more goods. The increased demand will bring about increased employment, and this in turn will bring prices up to a healthy level. The second school of thought asks what will become of inefficient industrial plants while this process is going on. It questions whether these plants, unable to compete, will not close and throw men out of work so fast as mass production plants take on men. If this takes place the increased purchasing power on which the theory is based will not be available. The durable goods industries committee has been on record for some time in favor of the free flow of private capital into private business. It's chairman, George H. Huston, believes that ''prosperity and a rising standard of living can not exist in the face of restriction of production and diminishing output of goods and services.” He argues that if ‘economic planning” is abandoned it will “release accumulated savings and credit resources of the country to flow again into the purchase of durable goods and to stimulate the dormant energies of the American people into renewed activities in forward-looking enterprise.''

back to the hotel and perhaps a little card game until 11. A dozen investigators would be W’aiting. About 11 Pecora would go into a huddle with these men lasting until 2 or 3 in the morning. Next day he would question the witnesses with an assurance and a knowledge of the subject w’hich continually astounded his assistants. He never got a name or a figure wrong. His colossal job w’as made possible because of his amazing memory. 000 THE record of the investigation comprises twenty-three volumes of 9,316 pages. And there will be another volume or tw’o. It is one of the most valuable, most illuminating and most important documents in our economic and social history. Here are some of its more important fruits in the field of financial and economic knowledge. 1. SHORT SELLING. For the first time a mass of data about short selling, hitherto unknown, was brought to light. There w’ere bear raiders in the market in 1931, but it w’as fairly clearly shown that they w’ere not respon-

ON the other hand, economists both inside and outside the administration are beginning to question whether durable goods industries can be revived sufficiently to make an appreciable difference in employment. In 1929 these industries employed 1,000.000 workers directly and another 3.000.000 indirectly, almost half the total number gainfully employed. Five million durable goods workers now are unemployed. estimates indicate, and some 4.000,000 teachers, engineers, architects, laundry workers and clerks are idle because this first group has no money to pay for their services. Stuart Chase says in “Move the Goods,” just published, that he believes durable goods industries will remain more or less inactive for the indefinite future because

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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sible for the irresistible declines. This was the result of the disintegrating business situation. 2. POOLS. Exchange officials always have pretended officially to be unaware of the existence of pools. This hypocritical mask was completely taken from these pious countenances. One of the Radio pools, managed by Mike Meehan, an exchange broker and specialist in Radio, W’as completely exposed. Not only that, but the participation of many leading bankers and distinguished corporation executives in this pool w’as described. 0 0 0 Numerous other pools, in Indian Motorcycle, Anaconda Copper, Celotex, Borg Warner, Warner Bros., U. S. Finishing, American Commercial Alcohol, National Distillers and many other issues w’ere completely studied and revealed for the edification of the public and the enlightenment of the student. It was show’n conclusively that these pools were participated in by brokers and specialists on the

of overbuilding in the boom period, when fifty billions of credit created by private banks was pumped into them . . . and never can be revived on the old scale, due to the increase in technical ability to produce ever more goods with less man power.” He believes that government will have to take the place of industry in employing most of the men and women now idle, and suggests, as several government already has done, that federal and local governments undertake slum clearance on a great scale and construction of new homes and apartments. together with reforestation, soil erosion work, elimination of grade crossings, sewage disposal, construction of schools and hospitals, pest control, expansion of health services, parks, playgrounds, libraries and museums. CLUB NAMES OFFICERS Hirschman Elected President of Bell Telephone Group. Russell R. Hirschman has been named president of the Bell Telephone Club, and W. E. Shively, secretary. it was announced today. E. E. Hale, service supervisor, and O. H. Grant, requirements supervisor, were elected to the board of governors. Other members of the board are A. B. Veale. retiring club president; E. G. Plum and C. G. Swan.

exchange who w r ere supposed to protect their clients. 3. INVESTMENT BANKERS. For years it has been urged that investment banking and commercial banking should be separated. This investigation showed how the firm of Morgan, among others, maintained what was called their preferred list. This was a list of leading bankers, corporation executives and many prominent statesmen who were given the opportunity to get in on the ground floor w’hen they were ready to distribute anew issue of stocks. This w’as part of the evidence showing the control exercised by investment bankers over industrial corporations, investment companies and banks. 4. BANKS. The committee investigated the National City and the Chase National banks of New York, the Detroit Bankers Corporation and the Guardian Detroit Union banks in Detroit and the Union Trust Company and Guardian Trust Company in Cleveland.

_The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Dreiv Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—1s the administration engaged in a deliberate campaign of w’ooing the good will of business as the first step in a rightward swing of economic policies? Or is it an anesthetizing business in preparation for further radical surgical operations after elections? That is the chief topic of conjecture in the capital today.

It is a mixed picture. In one corner, the political spokesmen are loudly and proudly acclaiming the liberal reforms of the New Deal. In the other corner the President and members of his official household are just as industriously engaged in “reassuring” business. That progress is being made in both arenas is unquestionable. Despite latest Literary Digest polls, every indication points to a sweeping Roosevelt victory in the congressional voting. The New Deal not only is likely to capture a two-thirds majority in the senate, but hold its lines practically intact in the house. The secret reassurances to business circles seem to be getting across. In the last few weeks commentators voicing business views have outdone themselves in announcing that reformist days of the administration are over, and that henceforth recovery measures alone will be its aim, aaa FROM Wall Street also have poured forth a literal flood of “inside” tips as follows: That the President is against a central bank. That after elections he will move to end strikes. That the administration is preparing to cut down federal unemployment relief expenditures. That the brain trusters and liberals are to be weeded out, or relegated to the background. The facts, however, are almost the opposite. Roosevelt is not going to move drastically in either direction. In a recent conference with some so-called friends, he is reported to have said: “Wait till elections are over. We’re not going to budge an inch from our present policy.” aaa SENATOR BRONSON CUTTING of New Mexico is now chief forgotten man of the New Deal. Two years ago, Cutting deserted the Republican party for Roosevelt, jeopardized his carefully built up Republican machine, made a speech which was one of the highlights of the campaign. Afterward Roosevelt offered him the post of interior secretary, expressed warmest thanks and affection, looked upon Cutting not merely as a political ally but as an old family friend. But now it is different. Cutting is up for re-election. He Is having a hard fight. Whereas Roosevelt has covertly aided Bob La Follette—another Republican bolter—he has not lifted a finger for Cutting. In fact, Jim Farley has been working against him. The exact reason remains a mystery. (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate luc.l

THE evils exposed were chiefly three: (1) The baleful influence of holding company banking under which promoters have gotten control of banks just as they have gotten control of utility companies. Under this system banks were run as departments in the rackets of promoters. (2) The perils of the bank affiliates, such as the affiliates of the National City and the Chase. These affiliates served the same purpose as putting property in your wife's name. It was done to evade the laws passed to protect depositors, (3) The danger of permitting bankers to speculate and use the funds of their banks. Albert Wiggin, chairman of the Chase, was shown to have maintained secret personal corporations, to which he loaned the bank’s money in order to permit them to speculate in the stock market in the bank’s stocks with the bank's funds. 5. INVESTMENT TRUSTS. The Dillon, Read trusts and the Insull trusts were studied. In the first the shameful effects of permitting investment bankers, who are sellers of securities, to get possession of investment trusts which are buyers, was glaringly shown. 6. SPECULATION. The whole subject of speculation was submitted to the most searching study that has ever been made of the subject. While dramatic hearings were in progress, a corps of investigators, accountants, lawyers and economists made an elaborate study of all the stock exchanges of the country. 000 STUDENTS interested in this subject should try to secure Volumes 13 to 17 of the reports where these extensive studies are printed. The most interesting points developed were: (1) Complete studies of several pools, following them from beginning to end, through scores of brokerage offices, their daily tradings, methods of accumulation and boosting prices and unloading. • (2) Facts about the functions of brokers. Pecora showed, for instance, that practically all the stock gambling is done by not more than 500,006 people and not “the whole population,” as the exchange contended, and that most of it is done by brokers themselves for their own account. (3) That the exchange was under the dominion of its gambling element. (4) That it made no real effort to protect the public and that listing meant almost nothing. TOMORROW—The Fruits of a Great Investigation.

A&P TO OBSERVE 75TH ANNIVERSARY 1,200 Managers to Hear Talk by Company Chief. More than 1,200 managers of Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company stores in the Indiana territory will meet at the Marott tonight to hear an address by Sidney Hillyer, representative of the Hartford family, owners and founders of the company. Mr. Hillyer came to Indianapolis today in celebration of the seventyfifth anniversary of the company, and was met at the union station by representatives of the A. & P. Indianapolis unit, riding in the 100-year-old stage coach featured in the recent saddle-horse roundup. He was escorted to the Marott by a parade of A. & P. trucks. Mr. Hillyer will be guest of honor at 6 tonight at a dinner given by company supervisors. Following the meeting of store managers, a Halloween dance will be given for employes and their families at the Athenaeum.

MEXICAN VILLAGE TO BE SCENE OF PARTY Construction League will Meet in Replica Friday. A replica of a Mexican village will be completed in time for members of the Construction League of Indianapolis to spend tomorrow night at “A Night in Mexico” on the second floor of the Architects and Builders building at Pennsylvania and Vermont streets. The village, which was built by local craftsmen, will cover the entire floor. Warren Bevington is chairman of a special committee of architects, contractors and building supply dealers arranging for the event. More than 300 construction league members are expected to attend.

VETERANS’ GROUPS TO PLAN NOV. 11 PARADE Organizations, Auxiliaries Asked to Meet Friday. All Indianapolis veterans’ organizations and their auxiliaries were asked today to have representatives at a meeting in Room 104, American Legion national headquarters, 777 North Meridian street, at 7:30 Friday at which plans will be made for the Armistice day parade. The request was issued by Charles Michaels, parade committee chairman.

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Oct. 25.—The most popular book in California just now is a work of prophecy by Upton Sinclair, the Democratic nominee for Governor. It is called “I. Governor of California.” and it looks back on the complete fulfillment of an old dream of his. Mr. Sinclair has not even been elected yet. but never the less, he looks back on a magnifi-

cent success. Mr. Sinclair is an aut! nown who has not hesitated to borrow not only a -dream, but a method of treatment from the late Edward Bellamy. Mr. Bellamy beat him to the idea of looking backward into the future many years ago in a work called “Equality.” Your correspondent therefore offers no further apology for borrowing from Mr. Sinclair's borrowings. However, your correspondent borrows only the method and the style. He furnishes his own dream, while acknowledging a profound Sinclair influence. This is the story:

“I, Winner of the Irish Sweepstakes.” One day a man asked me if I would buy a ticket on the Irish Sweepstakes. I said, “Yes.” 000 Really a Ripe Dream I PUT the ticket away and was much pleased one morning to receive a cable from Dublin informing me that I had drawn a horse. My steed's name was Crackpot, by Pipe Dream, out of All Reason. A few days later they ran the race and I won three million dollars and some odd cents. This made me feel wonderful. Golly I felt wonderful. There are some practical details to be filled in at this point, but this is an emrt-gency and they will have to be worked out later. Anyway, we were three days out of New’ York when the house detective knocked on my door and handed me a message. It said, “Sorry, but can not sell you my yacht. (Signed) Vincent Astor.” There were similar messages from Mr. Morgan and two unidentified men. This was a fix to be in. We were 350 miles off the coast of some place that will have to be worked out under practical conditions and couldn't get a yacht. By “we,” I mean, of course, .nyself and one. £do not feel at liberty to mention one's name and I am sure no respectable person will press me on this subject. I mean—well, after all. I was young back there and the pounding of my pulses was such that as I now’ think back on the experience, I sometimes wonder if it "’as true. If not, skip it. It's only a dream. 000 It Was a Panic THE public reaction to all this w’as something terrific. I always ’-ad wanted to be a great man and now the throngs w’ere massed in the ivy-clad quadrangle around a bonfire of picket gates and old barrels. I sat there, modestly disclaiming any credit for my enormous achievements of the last four years and reading a copy of something by a man named Bellamy. As I smoked, the sweet, sensual reek of the poppy suffused me and I thought, "How’ interesting but how unscrupulous of this Bellamy to have plagiarized my dream in all its essentials thirty-seven years before I originated it and published it to the world.” Some people do not understand how a man can originate something thirty-seven years after it has been plagiarized. It is a little thought of my own. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

ALWAYS in the past there has been the idea that a fever was dangerous to the human body and that something should be done right away to bring down the temperature. Occasionally, however, some authority has raised his voice to argue that the fever might be beneficial if it did not get too high or last too long. Around 1917 a German investigator, named Wagner-Jauregg, showed that a fever brought about artificially might in some cases be of value in general paresis. He induced fever by inoculating the insane paralytics with malaria. Then other investigators found that the same effect could be brought about by inoculating them with a nonspecific protein, such as a typhoid vaccine. Finally it was discovered that the temperature could be raised by prolonged hot baths and by electrical methods, and it was proved that, in each instance, it was the fever which brought about the good result rather than the method by which the fever was induced. aaa AS a result, manufacturers have developed all kinds of apparatus for inducing rises in the temperature of the human body, and sustaining the temperature according to the length of time that the physician may think necessary. Types of apparatus now offered include electrical blankets, cabinets with electric lights, hot baths, machines for passing an electric current through the body, and air-conditioned cabinets. One of the conditions for which heat has been used considerably is the chronic rheumatic condition called arthritis. Many such patients, however, have heart disease or disturbances of the kidneys and they do not respond well to the treatment. a a a IN some types of rheumatism, however, particularly those called chronic infectious rheumatic cases, investigators have found the heat treatment of particular value. Every method used in medicine which is potential for good is also potential for harm. In the hands of unskilled workers, or in the case of patients who attempt to treat themselves, the possibility of doing harm with this form of treatment is certainly as great as that of doing good. In the meantime, investigators in research institutions are studying reactions of patients to heat treatment, determining changes that occur in the blood and in the tissues generally, investigating effects on the kidneys, the heart, and other important structures.

Questions and Answers

Q —What does the name Loertz mean? A —lt is a German family name meaning lefthanded. sinister, awkward Q —How is artificial honey made? A—White sugar, five pounds; water, two pounds; gradually bring to a boil and skim well. When cool, add one pound of bees’ honey and four drops of peppermint. Q—What nationality was Madam Curie, the codiscoverer of radium? A—She was Polish, born at Warsaw, Nov. 7. 1867. Her maiden name was Marie Skoldowska. In 1895, she married Pierre Curie, of France Q —On what date did President Coolidge take the oath of office as President after the death of President Harding? A—Aug. 3. 1923. Q—To what church does Mayor La Guardia of New York belong? A—Protestant Episcopal. Q—Ls the cow with the window in her stomach still alive? A—She died of natural cause*.

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