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23 al ” a | ire Light end the . Peoples Will Find = Their Own Way -

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| mine the American system” in his appearance {| amid the Green Mountains of Vermont. “If

{ campaign,” | can make the most of it.”

| catch-as-catch-can experiments! at Waterbury | and bemoaning in behalf of business which

DEFENSIVE ME M? | b contrast to Gov. Landon, Col. Prank Knox, the running-mate, campaigns in the bellicose manner. Not for him fragrant retrospections about maple syrup. Instead his is language that has fight in it, that views with alarm and such. he Forty speeches are on the schedule—each bidding fair to stigmatize something or some- |

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| body, as he did “stigmatize the deliberate at- |

tempt of the present Administration to under- |

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id this attack on error and evil constitute a dirty he declared further and in the best of militant voice,” “Mr. Four-Job Farley |

Jousting against “reckless, | helter-skelter, |

t more guarded about the sewing machines on

| Wilson patterns and sold all the way from $40 to $60.

man, the Circassian lady, the fat woman, the | Hindoo juggler and the tattooed sailor, who had | evervthing on him except the Blue Eagle.

isplay. They were of the Howe, Singer and

It was too much, said the judges. Included in the displays were the ‘skeleton

fu 8 0 : ; ESPITE the deficit, the first Indiana State Fair was a howling success. So much so that

EDITOR'S NOTE—This r for The Times goes whe when he pleases, in search for odd stories about this and that. ¢ :

ALGARY, Alta, Sept. 4 It's a 4 long way from Winnipeg to Calgary.

flat and drab and dusty a thousand miles as I've evér crossed, It took me four days. But I'll try

Calgary in one day: _

It's a thousand miles, and it's as

tq transport you from Winnipeg to +

the other towns got jealous. At any rate, Lafayette got it/ the next year. Horace Greeley was the great sideshow on that occasion, but the Circassian lady won out. Mr. Greeley talked on “What the Sister Arts Teach as to Farming.”

\ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1038. : ; = -1 “has not slept a night for three and one-half DROUGHT IN INDIANA | years,” the Colonel works westward equipped

ITH Governors and Senators of four | with what gives every evidence of being an states meeting with President Roose- | unlimited supply of superlatives. :

= = ” ~ - RR Saps-The road is gravel all the way, except for two 40- & mile oiled stretches. It is a wide road, and the surface is not bad. 3%

ADMINISTRATION

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velt here tomorrow in a drought conference, &tiention turns to what the drought has | done io Indiana farmers and how the state fits into the comprehensive plan to help offset these recurrent natural disasters. : The 1936 drought has taken its toll in In- | diana. Farmers in the Dunes area and in Clark, Warrick. St. Joseph, Elkhart, Shelby and Bartholomew Counties, particularly, have | . seen their crops seared and surpluses re- | duced. The Resettlement Administration has authorized the lending of $1,000,000 to Hoosier | farmers for seed for fall and spring planting | and for livestock feed. Yet compared with the Great Plains area, «| Indiana is fortunate. More than 1000 counfies—a third of the nation’s total—have been designated’ “emergency ' drought counties.” | Only two of these-—Clark and Warrick Coun- | tiest-are in Indiana. e | : This is ‘a vear of paradoxes. The drought cut lerops, but farm prices have gone up so | rapidly that the Hoosier farm income this | year will be higher than in the comparatively | bountiful vear of 1935, and far ahead of 1034. | The state's cash income from wheat alone has béen estimated from 15 to 25 per cent more than in 1935. The corn crop was damaged, but corn prices are the highest in years. An in‘crease in the number of hogs, cattle and sheep sold at the Indianapolis market is another factor in boosting farm income. Indiana thus contributes to forecasts that the ~ nation’s 1936 farm cash income will reach the highest levels since 1930. Prought-cut crops and high prices—which may one year give more - fortunate farmers enough money to buy the’ things they need— do (not cushion the hazards of agriculture, however, or fill the need for soil and wind erosion control, dam-building, credit adjust"ments and replanting of trees and grass. It is this program—a long-time plan de- . signed not to depopulate the drought regions ; | but, to rebuild their population and prosperity ‘—that is getting the attention of national, state and local leaders.

UNHATCHED VOTES

oF “HE Literary Digest, in the straw balloting it has conducted in the past—notably on ; prohibition repeal and the presidential races ~ of 1928 and 1932—has established a reputation . for unusual accuracy in gauging public senfiment. : | And in releasing the first meager- returns | of its Roosevelt-Landon poll, the Digest shows an understandable concern for its reputation by warning that “it would be a rash prophet indeed who would base any predictions what- ~ soever upon this first handful of 24,000-odd = ‘There are many considerations which make "that warning sound. The ballots counted are from only four states. The states are Maine, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. In - all four, Landon shows up with a command-. ing’ lead—his total being 16,056, compared to Roosevelt's 7645. Startling figures, to be sure—but they don’t mean much. Because: First, all of the states, except New York, are normally Republican. Second, as the Digest carefully points out, none of the ballots thus far counted came from large cities; and in all four states, New" York especially, the principal Roosevelt and Democratic strength is in the large metro- -. politan areas, among the rank-and-file working and middle class popujation. (In 1932, ‘Hoover “came down to the Bronx” with a lead of 274,000, but so overwhelming was the New York City Democratic vote that Roosevelt carried the state by 600,000.) ~~ And third, 24,000 unofficial ballots are mighty few straws to indicate the trend

| quently more pugnacious than the ones who { run for the Number One job?

{ much milder McKinley; the cuss words and the

—respntment against the traditional part in { which the Vice President is always pictured.

| RAINING—OR BURNING—MONEY

enforce the smoke abatement ordinance there- | by voted to continue “burning money” at an | Southern Driving Park Association. It made the State Fair people awful mad. The racing crowd

. South Whitley, Whitley County, are some of the

Which raises a somewhat, interesting psychological question. Why is it that those who fall into the vice presidential role are so.fre-

The banging fist and the snapping teeth of the Terrible Teddy were examples, as compared with the | tt : ; P undersiung pipe of Charlie Daftves, another. Is the answer found in the Freudian viewpoint? Does the psychosis arise in what might be called the “Throttlebottom complex”

a pale and timid pigeon feeder? A most unfortunate and unfair depiction, by the way, of a very vital job in our nation’s life. Is the superaggressiveness really a defensive mechanism? -

OU may have been surprised recently to

read in the papers that the government ¢

printing office smokestack in Berlin Kad lit- with exposition fever. | men with $100,000 cash behind them joined the fair people and together they built a two-story brick building on the south side of the Fairground which, if you remember, was Exposi-tion-av. 150 feet wide, which gives a rough idea of what | men were thinking about 60 years ago. |

erally “rained money.” Sooty fragments were deposited all over the neighborhood by an unscreened incinerator, used for destroying old bills. Residents first were indignant. Then they cheered, for they found the fragments were perfectly negotiable notes. That “smoke nuisance” ‘was abated quickly. i. We know what it means for industrial and residential smokestacks to cover houses, window sills and green foliage with layers of soot and grime. It has never rained money in Indianapolis. But the City Council members who last night b refused to vote $2400 for smoke ingpectors to |,

extravagant rate. The cost to residents di- a rectly attributable to smoke | is estimated at |p

$5,000,000 annually, The action should be re- | one meeting and then unloaded their property onto the city. Park.

considered.

CENTENNIAL YEAR 5 ROWN COUNTY'S centennial celebration this week calls attention to the fact that many cities throughout Indiana are going into their second hundred years during 1936. Decatur, home of Gene Stratton Porter, celebrated its first hundred years récently with a pageant, “A Century Marches By.” Feb. 5, 1936, marked Indianapolis’ one hundredth anniversary as an incorporated city. Ladoga, in Montgomery County; Plymouth, Marshall County; Akron, Fulton County; Pittsburg, on the. Wabash in Carroll County; Middlebury, Elkhart County; Chesterfield, Madison County; Valparaiso, Porter County; Lagrange, Lagrange County; Liberty, Union County, and

other communities that have had centennial birthday parties this year. Others scheduled include Mantpelier, Culver and Portland. It also is a year of many church centennials in In< diana. : : Indiana is proud of this century of development, *

The Circassian lady didn't have to say anything.

Indianapolis got it again for the next four years, | after which it went to New Albany.

{ anapolis have it for keeps. ; the vear (1860) that the State Board of Agricul-

railroads which left more than. enough for a fairground.

by Exposition-av, which is now 19th-st, and on the east by the Noblesville-rd, which everybody now calls Central-av. Delaware-st. The State Ditch crossed the southeast corner and ran its jaggedy and malodorous course along the front of the grounds west of the main entrance, which was at the head of Alabama-st.

Camp Morton, people went back to Military Park.

thing drifted back to the old one-week basis. The panic, however, wasn’t the only thing to

racing facilities at the State Fair, grganized the

Jovataan KNIGHT completed surveying the

With the variance of only two miles from a straight line, the survey ran from the eastern bcundary of the state to Farrington’s ferry at Terre Haute.

reached Wheeling, W. Va. in 181% Columbus, O., in 1833, and Vandalia, Ilil, in more than $6,000,000, the road agent for the Union.

was the greatest wagon road in the world. was surveyed 80 feet wide, grubbed from it and the ground graded. Culverts and bridges were built of cut stone and a track in the center, 30 to 40 feet wide, was macad-

teams to travel abreast, pendent stage lines operated on it as well as

many freight companies.

In 1854 the State Fair went to Madison. Then

After that, everybody was willing to let IndiAt any rate, this was

ire acquired 38 acres north of the city known s the "Otis Grove.” It's now known as Morton lace. The fair people sold 30 acres of it to the

The new Fairground was bounded on the south

On the west it came to

2 ® » HE “Otis Grove” fairground didn't get A going until after the Civil War because Il the time the war was on it was the site of During tihs period, . the fair

In. 1872, however, things began to hum beause that was the year the town went mad A group of Indianapolis.

The building was 308 feet long and

The cxposition lasted 30 days, from Sept. |

10 to Oct. 10, and was such a success that it | was repeated in 1874, 75 and 76. This was the occasion, too, of Prof. Samuel A. King’s daily balloon ascensions. $2 apiece and I'd hate to tell you how many |] Indianapolis couples got married that way.

He took passengers up for After that came the panic and then every-

lame because this was the time that a number f Indianapolis people, dissatisfied with the

cquired property ‘on the- south side of town, ut they couldn't make a go of it. They had

That's how we got Garfield After that, the fair people moved out to 8th-st: They're still there. ;

September 4th

IN INDIANA HISTORY —By J. H. J.

National-rd. across Indiana Sept. 4, 1827.

The road, starting at Cumberland, Md, 1852. Costing was a powerful

Americans generally do not realize that this It the "timber was

mized with 10 inches of stone as far as Illinois. The road was wide enough for two six-heérse From six to 12 inde-

The mail stage sched-

FAIR FACILITIES

ISITORS and exhibitors at the Indiana State Fair opening Saturday will benefit as a result of extensive im sovements in buildings and grounds, made by ¥he Works Progress Administration in co-operation with the State Board of Agriculture.

ule was 30 hours from Washington to Wheeling, 45 hours to Columbus, 60 hours to Indianapolis and 75 to Vandalia, The hest lines used only thoroughbred Virginia horses and housewives could set their clocks by the sound of the stage coach bugles. All the boys in the neighborhood gathered to see the coachman dash up to a station, throw the lines to the hostlers, tell all the news from the East while the teams were being changed, then crack his whip and set off at a dizzy 15-mile-an-hour gait. : ;

either in four states which cast more than nine million votés in the last presidential election, or in a nation which cast nearly 40 |

million. i : oy hope our readers gamble none of their hard-earned money on the basis of this first "counting of unhatched chickens.

ree A LABOR LOCARNO ‘HE selection of Dr. John A. Lapp, formerly

of Indianapolis, as supreme arbiter in Jurisdictional disputes within the building

: €S may prove an important step in interUnion relationships. Union labor long has needed a “judiciary” for the settlement of its own disputes, particularly clashes on the issue of Jurisdiction. Its conventions legislate policies. Its various cils execute them. But for the adjudican of disputes between unions there exists ‘Permanent machinery. This is why labor inizations so often defeat their own interby engaging in jurisdictional wrangles, slowing down industry and needlessly washig their intimate linen before the public. ~ In no department of the American Fedgration of Labor have such disputes proved | nore inimical to labor's own interests and lore vexing to the public than in the buildThe RQuilding trades leaders now believe ley have found a way out. All crafts agree, to try to settle their disputes by negotiaFailing that, they agree to submit them . Lapp, who, by the way, is an arbitrator dong and distinguished experience. While is is not the first time the building trades lave tried judicial self-discipline, it may well ove first successful attempt. : ‘The trades have set up mechanism f mutual peace. Let us hope it succeeds, that- the idea spreads to other union A strong “judiciary” for keeping inorder would advance union labor's

{ stables on the north side.

The improvement includes two new educational exhibit buildings, part of a group of such quarters between the Manufacturers’ and Women’s Buildings. In addition, there are two large new harness horse barns at the east side of the grounds, and seven reconstructed Improved parking facilities, inci¥ding a new concrete tunnel under the wes¥ end of the mile track, permitting cars to enter the infield parking area i while races are being run, will expedite the handling of .crowds. Construction of a brick

entrance=an uncompleted project—will fil

T= advent of the automobile srailer is glee-

investigators go so far as to say that half the population will soon be living on wheels.

the other half will have to take to the cellars. The top of the ground will be too perilous. : It is easy to conjure up a picture—especially |

trucks and trailers surrounding him, the man in a roadster will have to take to tHe woods. Otherwise he'll be’squashed to pulp in the trafic

and steel saddle horse barn near the 38th-st jams.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON.

fully heralded as a boost for Business. Some

They may be right, but when that happens

f you've taken a motor trip this summer. With

Already mountainous trucks obstruct your

the need for more adequate space for small

A record list of exhibitors is taking advantage of these improved facilities, causing fair officials to predict the biggest attendance in the 84 years of state fair history.

path in whatever direction you travel. They thunder in front of you all day and loom before you at night like black ogres. You edge around them with your heart in your mouth, honking frantically to announce your presence, but the honks are unheard in the roar of their tremendous engines. And it's no satisfaction getting around one—no sooner have you accomplished the feat than another,' huger, louder and more

ENGLAND CAN TAKE IT

WEEN we get to be as old as England we'll learn to be philosophical, even about the weather. b 8 Here we are all hot, dry and bothered. And there’s England all soggy, cold and contented. For comfort read this editorial printed the other day in The London Evening News, called “Good Wet England.” “English summers, in-the days when England was great, were always wet and chilly. Countless soaked commentators, in town and country, have said so. Evelyn complained of ‘foul weather’ in June, 1668. Parson Woodforde's hay was ruined. ‘Horace Walpole's coach was Yogged. Corbbett roundly abused Saint Swithin, : : “This—not the land of marble pools and sun umbrellas and eggs frying on stone pavements—is the true and recognizable England 1936 is a year in the old sane and Spartan tradition. Across the centuries our ancestors salute us, a little bronchitically, under our umbrellas and behind the smeared window-panes, and know that the spirit of England lives yet, refreshed by her rains, strengthened by her tem- | Pests and pluckily bearing

terrifying, blocks your way.

enough to house a family of four or five, join the trucks, what's going to happen to the individual who likes to jump into his little car and drive over to the next county seat to have dinner with Aunt Minnie? You've guesséd it. He'll be lost in the endless procession or dead of fiasco or fright. : .

the kind housewife washing her breakfast dishes

is a Moloch in a juggernaut, all in the interest of progress.

in the United States.

000, according to the National Industrial Conference Board.

Now, when’ a million or more trailers, large

Things will have come to a pretty pass when

Ask The Times

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Q—Give the latest figures on unemployment

- A—The figures for March, 1936, were 9,649,-

% : Q—Is it safe to eat fish and milk products, such as ice cream, together? A—The combination is harmless if both are fresh. : Q—Where is Locarno? A—It is a town in the Swiss canton of Ticinio,

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your. letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) 2 ” Et

BACKS UP CARR LETTER IN FORUM : . By A. J. McKinnon I wish to congratulate Jerome Carr of Columbus, Ind., on -his write-up in the Forum, Aug. 25, on the independent vote. In my estimation that is the best political advice I have read for a long time. I wish every American could read it, especially the old-time stand=-

patters, who seldom pay any attention to the party platform. Americans are starting to wake up to vote for the best party platform for the best interests of all the people. Mr. Carr's message at the end said: “If you are a liberal independent voter, vote so that what few gains that have been made for the common man will not be lost in another decade.” That is exactly my stand on Nov. 3, when I vote for

that all good legislation of the past will be retained minus $1,960,000,000 per year interest accomplished by the following illustration. : In the next column of Aug. 25, Thomas D. McGee pictures Roose-

out in saving our local banks that had closed their doors. This picture 1s very good and true as far as it goes, but Mr. McGee forgot to tell us who started the fire in the attic and what was done with that man for the crime, That is the all-im-portant point. The man that started the fire in the attic was the Federal Reserve Bank system. The Federal Reserve Banks pay no taxes on business transactions although they are private corporations. This is one reason I am not voting for either of the two old

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association OMEWORK, these days, is not merely the addition of extra labors upon the school child, Edu= cators consider this part of a child’s education in relation to its mental hygiene. : The ideal condition would be one in which the child received all its book learning and did all its studying in school, and spent its time at home in collateral reading, play, exercise, music and the joys of home life. Most teachers, however, consider homework an essential part of education. They feel that it encourages the habits of private study, individual effort, and originality, which are not likely Lo be encouraged in school. ° Many high schools and prevaratory schools today provide for activities at the end of the school day which help prepare the boy or girl for a social life. Clubs devoted to drama, debating, music, literature or science have their meetings after school hours and attract the interest of most pupils.

which homework may be responsible for physical and mental difficulties, and in these cases certainly it should be regulated by the parents or the teachers. - Occasionally a boy or girl who is found to be listless is discovered to be overworking at home under pressure from parents who are anxious to see the child attain scholastic honors beyond its ability. Children who work under pressure of this kind may collapse mentally or physically as a result of the worry and strain of their existence. : Such boys and girls usually do not sleep enough ‘at night. Parents

beyond their :

The student who crams at home for an n seldom

a health resort built at

the Lemke Union Party platform, |-

velt as the man who put the fire!

eR. | The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

major parties. Lemke has the plank that will right this wrong. The real evil of our present monetary system rests in ‘the power of a few individuals to create and control the nation’s credit. un pr # ADVOCATE GEORGE RENT PLAN By E. B. Swinney : Under the plan proposed by Henry George of collecting the rent of land for public revenues and abolishing all taxation, our basic economic troubles ‘would disappear. These consist of a land policy that permits gambling and racketeering in the natural resources, and a stupid tax system that restricts the production, distribution and consumption of wealth. : The George plan would make it as costly to hold valuable land idle as to put it to its best use, so that no one would hold. more land than could be used profitably. This would release unlimited employment opportunities for labor and capital. By abolishing “all taxation, that perpetual aggravating problem the rent of land is the natural source from which all public revenues should be drawn, as it is a socially created value arising from would be solved once and for all, for the presence and activities of all the people. { 8 =n .» BELIEVES REPUBLICANS NEED LONG REST By a Reader If the critics of the New Deal could only realize that the Republicans are on vacation and have been since their collapse in the midst of the Hoover Administration, they might appear less ludicrous. Some cne had to carry on and the new directors on the job, inferior though they be, are doing a pretty good job considering what they had to start with. At any rate, the Republican failure is not their baby. That the Republicans suffered the worst breakdown in the memory of the oldest inhabitant is widely known. The sad: feature of it all is,

. y And by a roar that sings, “A plane's

ward. They do not point their finger with pride as the past is a blank. Their superiority complex has become much enlarged. A phobia has also seized them. They live in great fear, being obsessed with the idea that something dreadful is impending. It is indeed sad to think of such a wonderful body becoming the’ victim of such a malady. Time, and time only, can effect a change if there be a remedy at all. A goods long rest with freedom from responsibility is needed, and it is the decision of the stockholders of the nation that it will be to the best interests of all concerned to vote, at the next regular meeting in November, an’ extension of their vacation of at least another four years.

TO A TRANSPORT PILOT BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

How do I know the hour has just passed nine? Not by the chime of clock, however

fine, ; But by a star light sailing a black sk

on high.” Each night I note your passing far above My home, a constancy I've come to love, : Because no kind of weather seems to mar : The spirit of your quest, who'er you are.

Almost the whole 1000 miles I kept the same steady pace as on paved: roads—45 to 50 miles an hour. dust is terrific. ; Canadians drive slowly, Even at our moderate pace, I remember only two Canadian cars passing us in the 1000 miles, zn = ” EOPLE — Canadian people, as far as I can see, are no mors friendly or courteous than people in the States. And no less. Except for the occasional Scotch or English accent, the people of western Canada look, act and speak exactly like the people of our own plains states. ; A couple of them have commented to me on President Roosevelt's recent remark that he never thought of Canadians gs “foreigners.” They say they feel that way about us.

2 = = ROHIBITION—AIl during our bleak ‘vears of prohibition Canada was the great, oasis. They still have liquor in Canada. but here's the way it is now: The prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta’ sell liquor only by the bottle in provincial liquor stores. You have to get a permit, and every purchase

is recorded. You can't buy a single drink, or a mixed drink, in any of these provnces, The public drinking places serve ‘only beer. Women aren't al« lowed. di

x ® = E-(CoEsE-1i the small towns, e restaurants a Chinese. | fo Tin Wy The restaurants are always clean, and the food is fairlg.good. A few people don't like the idea of the Chinese. They told me in Regina about one who arrived there 10 "years ago without a cent. He started raising vegetables under glass, Today he has $55.000 in one bank, and they dent know how much more elsewhere :

u 82 = IFFERENCES—AIl the way across I have been impressed with how little western Canada differs’ from our own plains states, either in country or city. I believe that if you were abducted to Winnipeg and the blindfold taken off, you could not tell you were outside the United States except for the names on buildings. I have been making a list of the things you see up here that you don't see in .the same area in the States, and the list is small: In the cities, the policemen wear London bobbies’ helmets, and speak in such a Scotch tongue you can hardly understand them, = Every little town has six or séven grain elevators strung along the railroad. They dominate the landscape, and you can see’ them for miles ahead. | X #In most of the small towns not even the main street is paved. The * hotels shine, they are so clean. - Even the one-horse rooming houses in the villages are as. clean

And so each eve I watch your lofty flight; I strain my eyes until you've passed from sight. : You mean the going of another day. As sure as time comes ‘round, you : wing your way, & And though I know you not, I wish you luck— A hero's glory for your nerve and pluck.

DAILY THOUGHT

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. —Hebrews 12:14.

EACE is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun; and

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Today’s Science BY SCIENCE SERVICE

RAVELOGUERS, regaling us with tales of “bringing ‘em back alive,” have somehow left us with a pretty general that the Malayan region is still 4 brimming reservoir of wildlife, with

impression #

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orang-utans, tigers, water. buffalo, * and pythons ready to pop out at :

a complicated sort of dementia has

the two are never far apart.—

you at every turn of the jungle

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There are instances, however, in |

developed which, some think, may result in permanent incapacity. Am-

‘nesia is a marked symptom. They

do not seem to. remember the Hoover Administration. They seem to think their breakdown came after-

Colton.

COMMON ERRORS

Never say, “I laid down to rest’; say, “lay down.” “Lay” is the past tense of the intransitive verb “lie.”

By George Clarke

should realize the limitations of | Jak their

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SIDE GLANGES

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trail.

Such, however, seems not to be the case at all. Southeastern Asia, : and especially the Netherlands In- i dies, are giving anxious conservation problems to the ul £ powers charged with administrative responsibility. Desirable laws and their workability, game refuges and = their suitability, and most of all. field research looking toward more : intelligent handling of existing and ° future problems, are illuminatingly discussed in a bulletin of the]

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Wild Life Protection. : The tropic East Indian islands = that constitute the chief jewels of = the Netherlands imperial crown =

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grees of longtitude, just north o west to New Guinea on the east. poetry: - Java, Celebes, luccas—lands that Sindbad knew.

to the imagination: orang-utan, gibbon, simiang, tiger, leopard, pan-

pythons, terrible in tales but harm-

not experienced

Their fauna is no less Be aatives

stretch through more than 50 de- © the Equator, from Sumatrd on the © Their very names are romantic: . Ceram, = Flores, Timor, the Sundas, the Mo-~

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