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HARLINGEN, “The Valley,” Tex., Dec. 28.—Having 8 Wild West rodeo in the middle of an orange and grapefruit belt seems incongruous to me. But they had one here the other day, and if they insist on one

It's certainly none of my business, so 1 Just kept my trap shut and went around to see it. They had bucking horses and steer-riding and wild cow milking. I sure did laugh at that wild cow milking, because in 18 years on the farm I never even learned to milk a tame cow. That's really the only smart thing I ever did. In addition to all that, they had calf roping-and-tying contests. You lasso a running calf from your horse, then jump off and tie its legs up. If I remember right, the world’s record for roping and tying is around nine seconds. The best the boys did here was 15 seconds, and they ran all the way up to “3 hours and 40 minutes,” as one old cowpuncher behind me kept taunting his fellow waddies. So now we're finally around to what I was wanting to write about all the time. And that is Miss Sydna Yokley, who was the only girl in the calf-roping contest. She's a Texas ranch girl, only 17, and as pretty as George White's whole Scandals, and she can most assuredly ride a horse. She performed in the rodeo at Madison Square Garden this fall, and she was billed as the main attraction of the Harlingen rodeo. When it came Sydna’s turn to chase a calf the announcer gave her a big buildup, and the crowd applauded mightily as she came pounding out after this miniature steer. »

Pays Her Own Way

: However, there was a hitch. Apparently the officials wanted to give her an easy calf, these Texans being very chivalrous toward their women, you know,

Our Town

THE ONLY SIGN that everything isn't going to the bow-wows is the Ideal Club, a card club founded back in 1899 and still going good. So good, indeed, that it takes time off today to celebrate the fortieth anni-

versary of its foundation. Mrs. Emma Rauch Wemmer came all the way from California to be with the girls. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the Ideal Club is the only permanent thing around here except, possibly, the old When Building and the Frenzel dynasty of bankers. In support of which I cite its uninterrupted history starting with, I repeat, the year 1899, the period when women (these very women) wore tight-laced corsets, tight kid gloves and shoes usually a size or more too small . . . when the standard of beauty in waists called for one that could be easily clasped in two hands , .. when short-haired women were looked upon with suspicion . + » When men wore paper coilars, red-flannel underwear, detachable cuffs and big gold watch fobs . , . when everybody was singing “Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage” . . . when eggs were 14 cents a dozen and acceptable rye, bourbon and Canada malt whisky sold for $2 a gallon. . . when McKinley was President and Big Bill Edwards skirted the ends for dear old Princeton . .. when Bob Fitzsimmons was champion and everybody was reading “Janice Meredith,” “David Harum” and “When Knighthood Was in Flower.” “. 4 #

Ah, Happy Days

It was the year, too, of mustache cups .. . cigar store Indians ... Newfoundland dogs ... Charles Dana Gibson . . . livery stables . . . mission furniture . .. fire engines drawn by reai-for-sure horses . . . and candy hearts with “I love you truly” on them . « . the year, too, everybody was playing euchre, which brings me to the point of today's piece. The Ideal Club started as a euchre-playing group. That's how old it is. After the euchre period, the ladies took up “five hundred,” a rather quaint game designed to take people's minds off William Jennings Bryan. Today the ladies are playing bridge, and doing

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—In trying to describe liberalism as it applies to cuirent affairs, I again turn to the most understanding and most understandable statement of it that I have scen—that speech of Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson, delivered to the Liberal Voters League of Montgomery County, Md., on Nov. 22, 1938. This address, which can be obtained by writing to the Department of Justice, is worth careful reading by anyone who wishes to understand the meaning of what is occurring in this country. As I pointed out yesterday, Myr, Jackson regards liberalism as an attitude of mind, which is concerned with making demaocracy effective in iis deepest sense. As the dangers to democracy arise from new quarters, liberalism shifts its attack to meet them, so that it takes fresh forms in succeeding generations. The liberalism of our day, says Mr. Jackson, is concerned with the right of men in industry to he free from unfair labor nractices, to enjoy the privacy of their individual lives without the invasion of labor spies, the right collectively to bargain, and the right to have some security of tenure in their jobs against arbitrary dismissal.

The Problem for Today

Liberals also are concerned to see that the surplus of production, above what.labor consumes while producing, is in a proper proportion applied to protection against unemployment and against dependent old age, against industrial accident and illness, “The modern problem,” says Mr. Jackson, “is to

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. —Franklin Jr. and Ethel had a party for their young friends here last night, and I was interested to meet the children of some of our friends whom I had not seen in a long time. I find all these young people so interesting and so much better informed than I was at the same age. After dinner, we were shown “Gone With the Wind.” It is an extraordinary movie beautifully acted. Though I could not believe beforehand that one would sit for three hours and 45 minutes, and be interested, I discovered that it was entirely possible. There is an intermission in the middle and I had to tear myself away for a time to do some very necessary work, but I saw most of it and my mother-in-law sat through the Whole performance, which began at 10 o'clock and did not end until 2a m! I went to bed fully intending to ride this morning, but in the early hours of the morning I woke to the realization that something was pattering in my face. On looking out of the window, I discovered that it was snowing. I closed the window and went to sleep again and slept a half hour later than I would otherwise have done. Some of the young people had expected to hunt today, but the weather discouraged i

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By Ernie Pyle

But they went too far, and gave her a calf so easy it was hardly a calf at all. | This calf didn't run. It just walked over into a corner and stood there, with Miss Yokley riding heoper-dooper down on top of it. The calf didn't even look scared. Now you know you can't lasso that kind of a calf. All you can do is get off and take it in your arms and sing to it. So they gave up in disgust, and trotted | out another calf. This calf really got out and ran. But Miss Yokley winged it with her lariat at the first throw, and had it all tied up in a knot in 33 seconds. The crowd was pleased. X Miss Yokley is one of the nicest cowgirls or otherwise you've ever laid eyes on. She was born and raised on a ranch near Canadian, Tex., which is way up in the Panhandle, two full days’ drive from here. Her daddy and uncle run cattle together—about 2000 head—and the day Sydna was born her father branded a calf for her. She's been in the cattle business ever since. Now Sydna has 200 head of cattle in her own name, She paid her own way through high school with her cattle—her clothes, books, Christmas presents and everything.

os = 5 A Hit in New York She finished high school last spring and intends to go to Texas Christian at Ft. Worth next year, paying her own way. She was a hit in New York. She was the most photographed and interviewed cowgirl there. She liked New York, except that people stared at her so. She'd always heard New ‘Yorkers were blase. Her parents go with her on these trips. They are youngish people, and nice to have around. At home Sydna rides in overalls and work shirt, but on these trips she dresses like a movie cowgirl. That's part of the business, of course. She's had a couple of nibbles from Hollywood, but isn't interested. She took piano lessons for several terms, but hated | it, and her mother let her stop. She has complete poise with strangers. She neither drinks nor smokes. She can sleep 24 hours straight if she's tired.

By Anton Scherrer

it so well that they can beat their grandchildren without half looking at their cards. I don't know whether it has ever occurred to anybody, but as good a way as any to classify modern civilization is to divide it into the three periods represented by euchre, five hundred and bridge. Legend has it that Mrs. Lydia Jose Balz started the Ideal Club. It came to her all of a sudden one day—strangely enough just six days after the death of Dwight S. Moody, the evangelist—and to get things going, she asked 13 girls to her home. They were picked for the same reason that candidates are chosen today—namely, for their character and the ability to know what to do with the materials in hand which is the sign of a real artist. Of the original 14, only six remain—Lydia Jose Balz, its founder; Emma Rauch Wemmer, its argonaut; Clara Killinger Kistner, Lillie Langsenkamp, Carrie Ferger Weinmann and Lena Runge Weiss, The present membership, however, also includes Antonia Brandt, Minnie Miller, Lena Mueller, Josie Meier, Tille Rusch, Emma Reissner, Margo Langsenkamp and Emma Schmidt which brings it to the original 14,

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Meet Twice a Month

The girls have fortnightly meetings on Mondays from October to July. They manage to arrive right after they've got their washing hung on the line. In the beginning. Mrs. Balz used to hitch her horse and collect the girls to take them to the party. She hasn't any horse any more, Back in the good old days, the battles started with an elaborate luncheon of five or six courses. Nowadays, the girls are content to get a dessert luncheon. It's a sign of the times. It used to be the custom. too, that every girl brought 25 cents every time she came—a total of $3.50 for the hostess to spend for fancy prizes. That's been changed, ‘There aren't any fancy prizes anymore. ‘Today, the winner gets $1 in cash; the runner-up, 75 cents. For some reason, the third best player gets 75 cents, too: and the fourth best, 50 cents. At that, it represents a saving of 50 cents compared with the way things used to be. As far as I can learn there never has been a fight, fuss or dispute during the 40 years of the club's ex-istence--little differences of opinion, perhaps, but nothing that couldn't be settled out of court.

By Raymond Clapper

make the economic system serve the social system, instead of master it; to bring about such a distribution of the products of industry as will protect an American way of life in the homes of the workers.” The liberal, in these matters, is inclined to look first to the effect of a given measure on the social system and on the lives and welfare of the people. Mr. Jackson says that attempts often are made to discredit the liberal by overstating his true purpose. Thus the liberal often is charged with being hostile to business and seeking to destroy private enterprise, But Mr, Jackson feels that the liberals have tried to preserve private enterprise by attacking abuses which prey upon it. Liberals seek to eliminate fraud | in the sale of securities, false valuations and manipu- | lations of corporate properties, unfair competition and | monopolistic practices. = ” ” | |

Existing Outlines Accepted

Note this quotation: “The liberal accepts the main | Vear 1939 will be mailed to all tax- |

outlines of our existing economic system as desirable and as destined to endure at least for some genera- | tions. He accepts aid champions the right to use one's! talents and efforts to produce, acquire and keep prop- | erty. And the right of capital to a fair return for its | work. "This means a definite rejection of communism, socialism and fascism.” Therefore the liberal incurs the contempt of the!

Teamwork Helps Make Best Sellers

(Third of a Series) By Frederick Woltman

Timees Special Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 28.— A secret panel accidentally snapped open in the ancient rolltop desk. Its dark cavity disgorged a bottle of champagne, a packet of poison pen letters and a small black book of notes on curious cases his

father had encountered — and kept secret—during a lifetime practice of law in upstate Phelps, formerly known as Woodpecker Village, N. Y. That was in 1915. From rural barrister, Bellamy Partridge, the son, turned novelist and wrote a dozen books, mostly light fiction. In the intervening years he deciphered' and reread those notes from time to time that were so rich in tales of American village life. And wondered what might be done with them. He tried to fictionalize his father's small-town legal oddities, but publishers weren't interested. About two years ago a 29-year-old book editor who had never heard of Phelps, N. Y., sprang upon an idea. Books about doctors, particularly about horse-and-buggy practitioners, were the fashion. Why not a biography of a country lawyer? William Poole, associate editor of Whittlesey House, began casting about for a subject and author, canvassed the Supreme Court and the Senate without luck to find a rustic who had become a famous lawyer. He searched for a year; then, lunching with a literary agent one day, heard of Mr. Partridge. And the little black book from the secret panel became “Country Lawyer.” the leading non-fiction seller of today. Circumstances play a predominant role in the gamble of hook publishing. Publishers are always betting on dark horses. But once in a while a best seller is conceived, planned and put across with the deliberation that goes into training a horse of racing blood. That is, given the right combination of circumstances— in this instance’a current public taste for homey biographies of obscure professional folk, an experienced writer who was fortunate enough to find his fathei's secret law notebook and a publisher with an idea that clicked. Publishers call these books “made” best sellers. ” n ” ONFRONTED with radio and movie competition, today’s publisher has to show a great deal

Above, promotion sketch that symbolized “Anthony Adverse” and helped keep up its fabulous sales,

Right, the man who made “Country Lawyer,” the season's non-fiction best seller: ridge, author, seated: standing, left to right, Hugh J. Kelly, ciate editor, and William E. Larned

Bellamy Part-

publishing director; William Poole, asso= » sales manager of Whittlesey House.

more promotion ingenuity than went into the traditional “We take pleasure in announcing the publication of a new book by” . .. of a few years back. They wait no longer for authors to come in, instead they rustle up ideas and seek authors to put the ideas into books.

The locale of Partridge, pere— upstate New York instead of the Middle West—looked like a handicap at first. The rusticity of the material overcame that eventually. To give the book punch, it was decided to use real names and places, ” ” » HE Whittlesey House sales manager, William E. Larned, was called in at the starf, two salesmen read the manuscripts to give the marketing point of view. Author and editor, supervised by Hugh J. Kelly, publishing director, collaborated closely as the manuscript was delivered, chapter by chapter. Changes were made and the first few chapters were completely rewritten with an eye to the market. For authors today don't work in a vacuum.

The writing took four months, was “amazingly fast,” said Mr. Poole. Partridge showed “unique co-operation, since authors are inclined to fight every idea a publisher has.” To allow time for an advance build-up, publication date was put off 10 weeks after the first copies arrived from the printer. Book sellers with the best window displays of weather-worn law office shingles won prizes up to $50. A succession of brightly colored, snappy reminder cards, highlighting anecdotes from the book went to all dealers. The promotion cost $10,000, unusual for any but a “made” best seller. And Whittlesey House and Mr. Partridge are enjoying 2000 sales a week, the present top for non-fiction books: A best seller presently in the making is the $10 “Treasury of Art Masterpieces,” on which Simon & Schuster, one of the more aggressive bes* seller makers, is playing for big stakes. After gathering nerve for six years, Simon & Schuster took the incredibly short time of eight months to bring out the

Masterpieces, the largest book project for some years. During eight months 144 famous paintings were chosen, Many had to be color-photographed in Europe or America. Plates were rushed to the Conde Nast Press as they arrived by boat to keep up with a split-second printing schedule. (Incidentally, the book was printed from back to front, the

“American art in the latter half

going to press first.)

Twenty European color experts photographed paintings in Europe. A 60-foot scaffold had to be erected in Sistine Chapel at the Vatican; to avoid cracking the precious Michelangelo frescoes with bright lights, time exposures as long as eight hours had to be made for single color separations such as yellow, A million handsome brochures containing four full-color reproductions were issued by the publisher * for promotion purposes, called “The Story of a Courageous Book.” Yet the Masterpieces was not quite a gamble. Last January, before any of the mechanical work started, 5000 order leaflets were sent to each of six large bookstores. Seven per cent of their customers agreed to buy Masterpieces 10 months later. Thereupon 800,000 more promotion orders went out to art galleries, museums, book dealers over the country. An average response of two to three per cent virtually guaranteed success. The highest return came from Wilmington, Del, incidentally, where for no accountable reason one out of every 10 hookstore customers in that seat of du Pont wealth placed an advance order. Another ably built-up best seller was “Anthony Adverse,” which passed 750,000 and began the trend to the long, historical novei. Free advance copies, circulars, trade paper ads helped the drive. Less than $200, however, was spent in advance on space advertising that reached the buying reader, demonstrating a publishing fact which comes as something of a shock to most uninitiated.

n ” n HAT fact is that, except in the case of virtually sure-fire best sellers, publishers’ appropria=-

tions for puplic advertising on a new book rarely exceeds 10 per cent of the gross advance sales. In other words, the money that goes into reader promotion depends on the number of copies sold to book dealers prior to publication and before the public gets a crack at the book. Anthony, of course, was one of the exceptions. The publisher’s gross income on books is around 60 per cent of the retail price, allowing for the usual 40 per cent discount to the hook store. Hence, a $2 book would have to show 500 advance sales to justify a $60 expenditure on public advertising. Publishers are cagy. They like to compare book publishing with the show business as a gamble. The analogy is less than accurate. Certainly they could hardly lose $30,000 on a book flop, yet a play producer might drop that much in a first-night failure. But their caginess is wellfounded, according to “Lincoln's Doctor's Dog,” a book by George Stevens, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature:

“An even more serious popular delusion (about book publishing) is the idea that advertising makes a best seller; that a publisher has only to open the check book, turn on the faucet and bingo, to the best seller lists. Every publisher will tell you . . . that advertising sells a book only when the book is already selling. Something else must give it a start and then advertising will keep it going.” One initial impetus is the “selfstarting title,” to-wit “Life Begins at 40” and “Live Alone and Like nr The stunt promotions for “Anthony Adverse” started a year after publication. One was a succession of new jackets. The colored jacket which replaced the old “dust wrapper,” says Clifton Fadiman, book critic, “was one of the most revolutionary things that ever happened in the merchandising of books.” The first gaily dressed book is believed to have been “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” 40 years back. “Every time we did anything about Anthony, no matter what,” reported Farrar & Rinehart, the publisher, “the sales jumped.”

But it was many months before the promotion told just what “Anthony Adverse” was about Here's another book idiosyncrasy, “Comparatively little book advertising is based on trying to sell the book as you would another product—on the book alone,” says William Wells, who writes more book advertising copy than anyone else in the country. The “angle,” as it's called in the trade, is what sells a book, namely, its literary importance, readability, perhaps its size, later its sales success. “The Brandons,” a “dark horse” best seller, passed 150,000 sales without an inkling in the promotion as to what it was about. When the August temperature registered 90, the ads read: “The hotter the weather “The greater the sale “Of Angela Thirkell's “Delectable tale.” ” on ” HE late Horace Liveright began these modern “circus advertising” methods. When Doubleday, Doran brought out a popular edition of Lawrence's “Seven Pillars of Wis« dom,” an enterprising sales manager hauled a very limited edition from the stockroom which had been listed at $20,000 a copy to protect the American copyright, He dispatched the special editions under police escort, insured at $20,000 each, to various bookstores for display, though there was lit=tle danger anyone would ever try to steal a copy. J. B. Lippincott Co. sold the first book by airplane, Christopher Morley's “Trojan Horse,” two years ago. A salesman traveled 23,000 miles by air in 22 days, entertaining booksellers at airports and hotel cocktail rooms. “I don’t kid myself about publishing being a great profession,” says Bennett Cerf, president of Random House, a Columbia graduate who made enough money in the bond business to go in seri ously for publishing. “I love it, But it's the same as any other business and has to be run that way—Dby aggressive methods.”

Next: Bread and Butter Books.

INCOME TAX BLANKS Three-Fourths of Goal For Seal Sales Reached

that since her husband had been at|

TO BE MAILED JAN. 3

Federal income tax blanks for the

payers Jan. 3, 1940, Will H. Smith, Indiana collector of Internal Revenue, said today.

losis Association for this

coilected.

This will be the first time that 80al will be reached.

the Federal income tax.

(salaries paid by a state or its polit- | ical subdivisions will be subject-to

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, “e i hel P They are interested, too h the | rifice they were glad to make.

fact that this year many contributions have come from fam-

Mr. Jackson thinks the liberal movement in America the taxable period beginning Dec. tributions are a real sacrifice.

31, 1938, makes the salary received | ‘the goal is reached can 100 Marion

{County children who are frail and

today is simply an intelligent and realistic conserv- | atism, Yet this is the philosophy which some reactionary | Republicans are trying to brand as coming out of the | same box as communism, naziism and fascism. If! they get away with it, then the American people ref more easily fooled than Lincoln thought they were.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

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them, so I had quite an audience when I finished | undoing my Christmas packages. I am always sur-| prised at the great kindness of one's friends at this | time. It seems to me that they must put careful | thought in sending things to the President and me to give us the greatest pleasure. | A group of people were talled together today at luncheon under the leadership of Mr. Charles Taussig, chairman of the Advisory Committee of the National | Youth Administration, to discuss certain problems of youth. Later two gentlemen who are organizing an Atlantic Coast States Institute of Human Relations. sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews, in Washington on Jan. 16 and 17, came to talk to me about their plans. Our family is gradually growing smaller. Anna’ and John left today for a few days in New York City. Mrs. J. R. Roosevelt leaves us tomorrow morning, and s0, little by little, the house will become quiet again. Though as long as we keep the children we will feel the spirit of young life in the house, which I think always creates a happy atmosphere. I have been very much amused the last few days to hear that I have been offered one or two positions which T would consider full time jobs. I am beginning to wonder whether I have earned for myself the reputation of being willing to accept work which I cannot possibly do, and letting other people do it for me. This is something which I am particularly opposed to doing and I would grieve if I have given the impression that it was a standard to which I am at present willing to subscribe,

by teachers, judges, mayors, county clerks, county surveyors and other officeholders subject to the tax.

If a state officer or employee is required by the state to travel on public business and is repaid his actual traveling expenses he is required to include in gross income the amount received and is entitled to deduct the amount actually expended, Mr. Smith pointed out. Any single individual whose net income is $1000 or over or married couples whose combined income is $2500 or over or any individual whose gross income exceeds $5000 is required to file a return in duplicate on or before March 15, 1940,

POSTOFFICE HERE WILL CLOSE JAN. 1

The Postoffice will be closed Monday, Jan. 1, New Year's Day, with the exception of the special delivery and parcel post windows, which will be open from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. There will be no delivery of mail by carriers, Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker said, although an evening hotel delivery will be made. The usual holiday collections will be observed with mail dispatches to and from the Union Station, Traction Terminal and the Municipal Airport, Delivery of parcel post mail will consist of perishable and special delivery parcels only and there will

Abe no service on rural routes. ~

And they point out that only if

subject to such a disease as tuberculosis be sent next summer to the Julia Jameson Nutrition Camp at Bridgeport. None of the 800 children who have attended the camp since it was founded has died of a preventable disease. All of them have gained weight and built up resistance to disease.

Among the contributors this year |

was a mother who sent in $1 and said she wished it could have been more than that. She said, however,

Barnyard Has Wild Night Out

Times Special LA PORTE, Ind. Dec. Police spent all barnyard animals county. A cow strayed from ‘Arthur Brinkman's “arm and went “fence jumping,” the Sheriff reported. Two mules, who were tired of it all, strolled away from Walter Gierke's farm and still are at large. Lawrence Wedow told police he had company in the form of a “bunch of pigs” who wandered into his backyard. Police captured them and the squealing prisoners were put in a chicken

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about the

. = ho have been aided by the | extreme left-winger and is branded as a conservative, lic Salary Act of 1939, effective for Association and to whom the con- |

Sanitorium for three years and she was the sole support

really know the benefits from this fund and I wish I could have contributed largely,” she wrote. “However, this small amount is given with a prayer.” “ Another mother, who explained that her Rosemary had been to nutrition camp last year, sent in a $2 contribution. She said that Rosemary now was suffering with facial paralysis, and that her doctor had said that what she gained in health

at the camp last year helped her in|

the fight for health now. “I am happy,” she wrote, “to buy these seals as a small acknowledgement of the benefits to Rosemary.

|I wish only that I could buy more.”

Campaign officials said that most of the returns should be in during December but that some will come in later.

INSTITUTE ON WILLS ARRANGED FOR BAR

Prof. Walter Barton Leach of the Harvard University Law School will

ut she added that it was a sac-|year, 42,853,826 pieces of mail were “1| handled compared with 41,330,902

POSTAL DIVISIONS SHOW YULE GAINS

Nearly all postoffice divisions came through the Christmas rush| with records greater than last year, Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker

From Dec. 1 to 26 inclusive this

during the same period a year ago. This represents a jump of 1,522,924 pieces or a 3.68 per cent increase. First class mail increased by 491,943 pieces over last year's 24,020,330 pieces. Incoming mail soared 688,700 pieces over last year’s 17,087,900 figure. Outgoing mail this year was 834,224 pieces ahead of last year

when 24,243,002 pieces were sent out. |

A comparison of the amount of

mail sent from Dec. 1 to 15 and| from Dec. 16 to 26 shows that In-|

Chicken Bone Small Matter

Times Special HAMMOND, Ind, Dec. 28.— Mrs. Richard Kessler, 22, wife of an Inland Steel Co. employée, was enjoying a chicken dinner when something caught in her throat. She went to a nearby doctor who removed a chicken bone from her esophagus. After an hour's rest, Mrs. Kesse ler finished her chicken dinner,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is the chemical name fos banana oil?

dianapolis citizens are learning to|2— In which country is the news

mail early, Mr. Seidensticker said. Firms and individuals this year mailed much earlier than heretofore, he said. Money orders issued during the 10 days preceding Christmas were 1500 more than the same period last year. orders paid and 300 more C. O. D. parcéls delivered. The campaign to use first class

(mail on Christmas cards also had

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results, Mr. Seidensticker said. There were 100,000 fewer 1'2 cent stamps issued than last year, 300,000 mere 2 cent stamps and 200,000 3

|conduct a legal

| winter meeting.

charged lawyers attending the institute, which will consist of two lec-

| tures.

The morning discussion, starting

(at 10 a. m., will

powers of appointment. Prof. Leach will talk on the avoid-

ance of the rule

ties. Each lecture will last approx-

imately two hours,

lar i i . 4 {drafting of wills and trusts tomorhasing | Hight re g ‘row at the Claypool Hotel. | The institute will be sponsored by| ‘the Indiana State Bar Association

in connection with its annual mid-|

cent stamps. institute on the] -_—-

ARMY SETS MEDICAL CORPS EXAM DATES

The War Department will hold A $2 fee will be examinations March 18-22, 1940, for appointment to first lieutenantcies {in the Medical Corps of the U. S. | Army. Brig. Gen. Dana T. Merrill, commanding general of the Fifth Corps Area, said that because expansion of the Air Corps and Coast Defenses with the proportionate increase in Medical Corps officers, there will be considerably more than the usual number of vacancies.

cover the use of At 2 p. m,

against perpetui-

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paper Nichi Nichi published? 3—What is the abbreviation for 14 o'clock midnight. * 4—Where is the island of Sardinia? 5—Do the same Constitutional re« strictions as to age and citizen« ship apply to the Vice President, as to the President? 6—What is the correct pronuncia« tion of the word attacked? 7—What is a satellite of any planet called? »

Answers

1—Amyl acetate, 2—Japan. 3—12 p. m. 4—In the Mediterranean Sea, south of the island of Corsica. 5—Yes. 6—At-takt'; not at-tak’-ted. T—Moon., .

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