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| PANAMA, Republic of Panama, Feb. 1.—The day

I 'hired a car and went into the interior to see Nelson

Rounsevell, my driver ‘was a heavy-set and friendly Negro named Charles Taylor. My own middle name is' Taylor," so we discussed that a‘ while, which [led ’ : to a friendly footing. [We "talked all the way up. | . Charles was born in Jamaica. His father came to Panama early in the century to work. on [the Canal. When the World War broke out, Charles went back to Jamaica and enlisted | He spent four years in France and Germany. He was wounded only once; said he got hit square in the head with a shell, and it put him in the hospital for four months! : We started back from the in-

‘terior at 4 p. m. It is a three-hour drive to Panama

City. We had been on the way 45 minutes when the big 1932 model touring car gave a couple of agonizing heaves and then just died. We were in the middle of nowhere. We got out and raised the hood. We had plenty of oil. Plenty of gas. The radiator was full. The motor wasn’t hot. Obviously it was something too mysterious for me to fathom. But not for Charles. He said:“That water in the radiator is dirty. It’s been in there a long time. I'm gonna let all the water out, any maybe we can get some fresh water somewhere, and then itll start.” I felt bound to apprise Charles of my theory that as long as the water was satisfactorily performing its function of keeping things .cool, it had nothing whatever to do with the engine starting or not starting. So Charles refrained from letting the water out,

but I'll bet he still thinks I'm crazy.

There’s Really No Hurry

There wasn't any use just sitting theré (tropical rains came and went, and darkness was near), so we

‘decided that I should catch a ride in if I could and

send help back to Charles. . After about an hour a car came over the hill, we flagged it, and the couple in the ‘coupe said they

Our Town

TODAY I WANT to give you “The Maniac’s Confession and the Barber’s Retribution,” just the way Manuel J. Vieira, the Indianapolis barber, told it in “The Tonsorial Art Pamphlet,” that amazing book I brought to your attention yesterday. I'm depending =u 3 on you not to muff the mixed ‘metaphors. You can go a long way before meeting any as good as those of Mr. Vieira. “The human face,” said Mr. Vieira, “is a reflector—or rather a mirror—of the past and present of its owner and some bare bers enjoy the remarkable faculty of reading the lights and shades, the joys and sorrows that have crossed one’s path by looking attentively upon the upCe turned visage. “When Custer and his 300 brave followers yielded up their lives by inches, a character possessing the

. remarkable faculty above mentioned fell with the rest.

He was a barber about 43 years old and had followed barkering all his life. When quite young, he was married to a sweet-tempered, timid little creature whose gentleness attracted the eye.of a smoothtongued libertine who laid his foul plans and in an evil hour blighted the young life of the wife unknown to the idolizing husband.

The Barber's Revenge

“She sinned but once; the cup of her happiness

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congealed and like an ice cake of wormwood rested

on her young soul until her effort at secrecy turned her brain and at times she was a raving maniac. “One night while watching by her bedside alone, she suddenly became rational and. for the first time the young husband was aware of the cause of his wife’s madness. But before the name of him who had wrecked their happiness had been divulged, another fit of madness seized her and when the hus-

‘Washington

EL PASO, Tex. Feb. 1.—Maybe the National Youth Administration is one of those extravagant New Deal spending agencies. Possibly it is one.of those expenses we could get along without. Even Mr. Roosevelt himself seems tempted to give it the ax. But I spent a little time on the receiving end of NYA- out here in the great open spaces, and I know there are ambitious young fellows in Texas working -out an education in ways that would be impossible without the assistance of NYA. Some of our well-fed, well-heeled economizers in the East, who were fortunate . enough to be educated by wealthy parents, no doubt subscribe to the theory that it is only pampering these youth to help finance a college education for them. Let them stay on the farm! Don’t arouse ambitions that can never be fulfilled. Well, I discovered in going around that some of our leading citizens who are so violently opposed to institutions like the National Youth Administration are riot so opposed to subsidizing college students for football teams. In one Middlewestern city I happened to be in a business office. My host proudly pointed out a strapping young fellow working in the large office which we were passing through. _“He’s a star back on our team,” my host said. “They have given him a job here and he is a good worker. This office always provides a ‘job for one

man cn the team.” 3 » » »

The Undercover Man

At another stop I learned that several boys—six I think—at the nearby college were carried on the police department pay roll as undercover men. It developed that it was only a practical way of financing a few students who were needed on the football team. So the city taxpayers willingly accepted the expense of that subsidy. The boys help make a good

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Every year I think the group of young movie stars who come to the birthday ball parties are the nicest group we ever had. I think back, however, and decide that all our guests have been equally as attractive, and I wish > we could see them all again. We had a nice luncheon party yesterday and toured the White House. In the evening, I met these people again as I made my rounds of the different balls. The crowds were greater at every one of the parties and I wish the President could feel the spirit of these crowds. His speech conveyed, I hope, to everyone his great appreciation of what this great peacetime army accomplishes each year. : ‘I visited two more District of Columbia institutions this morning. I think I will begin by telling you something of the second one which I saw. It is the industrial home for white boys and girls. It is not a model institution. The buildings are old, the personnel is not entirely adequate, but it is of higher calibre and the management is better than in many other institutions. I was there at dinner time. They are served cafeteria style, so that the food is warm ang palatable.

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would be glad to let me ride the 50 miles to Panama City with them. They were Capt. and Mrs. J. L. Bernier, of the Army Medical Corps. ant, and Mrs. Bernier had a box of sandwiches, and we enjoyed the ride in, although it was late When we got here. I reported Charles’ predicament to the company he works for, and they said they would start right out after him. But there’s really no hurry in Panama, you know. For I learned the following night that they didn’t start after him until 18 hours later, and there he sat, all night and all next day, just waiting. The mechanic found, incidentally, that a wheel in the timing gear had sheared off, leaving the motor without any spark.

He Got Homesick

A friend of ours in New Mexico (I won't tell his name or he'd get run out of the state) has sent us the December issue of the state magazine of his ad-

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. joining commonwealth—Arizona. ; The magazine is called “Arizona Highways.” It is

filled with magnificent pictures of cactus forests and sweeps of sand and fir trees in the high mountains. Pictures so fine you'd like to frame them. One of the new friends we've made here is a man who has lived in Panama for many years but spends all his off-hours pining for Arizona. So we gave him our copy “Arizona Highways,” and it upset him so he couldn’t go to work for two days. ” » ”

The other morning when I was out bright and early to catch the 7 a. m. train, who should get on beside me but one of our friends of the steamer journey from New Orleans. : He was D. R. Rosell, who had come directly from Ft. Peck Dam in Montana. In the few days since

_ his arrival, he had got his assignment, moved into his quarters, and been told

just to scout around by himself for a while and get acquainted with things. He had on a tropical khaki shirt and trousers, was lapping up the hot weather, was delighted to be at work, and actually seemed as though 10 years of worry had dropped from him. Even his new false teeth had stopped hurting. Vivi Panama!

By Anton Scherrer

band lifted his bowed head, death was holding her to his cold breast—the light of life had gone out. : “The barber, of course, kept his own secret, but in. the shop his comrades saw that he was a heartbroken and’ very wretched man. When asked why he did not leave the place for-a while, for a different clime and scenery, he would answer, ‘I am waiting, hoping to meet someone.’ “The time came. One day a man entered the shop and took a seat for a shave. The moment the barber looked down into his face something said to him “This is. the face of the villain you have waited to see; convince yourself before you wreak vengeance upon him.’ f J #” 2

Public Opinion to the Rescue

“Nobody was in the shop at the time save the wretched barber and the doomed man. Calmly the barber continued stropping his razor which gave him time to lay his plans for revenge. After all was arranged in his own mind, he stepped to the door, closed it and returned to his chair and after placing the unsuspecting victim in a position to suit his deadly purpose, stooped, and as he whispered in the ear of the death doomed man something that paled his cheeks, the barber grasped him by the hair with one hand and with the other ... ” (At this point, Mr. Vieira, breathless as he is, let’s himself go completely —to such a degree, indeed, that I had goose pimples all over me.) : : After the barber had had his revenge, he pulled down all the window curtains, locked the door, and left for parts unknown. Before leaving, however, the barber had given out that he had sold his shop to a stranger. The crime wasn’t discovered until two weeks later. Public opinion, remembering what the barber had said when he left, explained the dead man in the chair as a case of suicide. After which it comes as a kind of an pnti-climax to learn that six towels were quite sufficient for a week's trade when Mr. Vieira practiced his .profession in Indianapolis back in the Seventies.

By Raymond Clapper

team and the team brings thousands of dollars’ worth of business into town during the football season. At Amarillo, Téx., you can drive out a few miles from town to West Texas State Normal College and find something that will restore your confidence in post-depression youth. If anyone in the East thinks that the American spirit is dying out of the younger generation—that it has succumbed to defeatism—let him take a look at any college in the western country. At West Texas College, NYA is helping 100 students, men and women, work their way through school. Part of my income tax, and some of yours, goes toward paying them $15 a month. In exchange the students work 50 hours.a month. Some I met were working as library assistants. Others were cataloguing the rich Texas historical material which is being accumulated here in one of the most remarkable collections of frontier source material to be found anywhere. As they work they are learning.

» » ” Others Learning Trades

NYA also is supporting a large squad of boys who are somewhat below college grade. About 70 of them are here, learning to be carpenters, airpiane

mechanics, sheet-metal workers, welders, stone and brick masons. They are building school - dormitories and school buildings while learning their trades. They receive $30 a month and work four hours a day for it. ; I visited dormitories where students do their own housework on a co-operative basis. Thus they obtain their college education at a cost of $15 a month. Even if NYA is going to add a few million dollars to the national debt, I as a taxpayer consider it a good investment—insofar as the money. goes to these students and not to padded overhead. . For heré you are giving a chance to the most ambitious young men and women, the ones with real stamina. I could write much more, and give you more facts. But it isn’t popular copy. Some people might think I was a Red—those people who don't know Americanism when they see it. : i

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

My only criticism is that the servings did not seem to me very plentiful, but they do put a good deal of their food money into ‘milk, and there is supervision and extra food for the undernourished. Because they have a better personnel, there is a planned program of recreation and there is a public school on the premises. There should be, however, a new cottage type of institution on the outskirts of the city where a farm can be part of the educational program. : The other institution is the receiving home for children, where both white and colored are sent. The dormitories are crowded, recreation space allows for no segregation, so that a little 6-year-old boy spends his day with boys of 18, who~may have committed some really serious offenses. Three small boys of 6, 8 and 9 were there today as lodgers, because their mother had to go to a hogpital. They were attractive looking youngsters you would have been glad to take to your own home and look I don’t know why it should be so, but the attendants told me that it is rare that Negro children are left uncared for, for someone in the neighborhood nearly always takes them in. Ly Both of these institutions should be doing a real job of rehabilitation. As far as the receiving home goes, it would be impossible to do anything of that kind: There is just one cheerful note, and that is the decoration done by WPA artists. In both institutions they give a Lote of color and cheer,

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JENNINGS WPA PLAN BALKED

Trustees Fear Use of Relief Funds on Projects Would Be Illegal.

State WPA Administrator John K. Jennings today renewed his appeal to City and County officials to furnish projects for 3500 idle WPA workers here. Township trustees yesterday rejected a plan to provide the projects. Mr. Jennings proposed that the trustees sponsor a series of projects out of relief funds. This would enable the WPA to employ the 3500 workers now on relief rolls for lack

of WPA projects. ;

Speaking for the trustees, Charles Dawson, ‘Washington Township Trustee, said he believed it would be “illegal” to spend relief money on WPA projects. . The eight other| trustees concurred.

Ludiow Told of Decision

Mr. Jennings immediately telephoned the trustees’ decision to Rep. Louis Ludlow at Washington in the presence of the group. Mr. Dawson stated his position to the Congressman on an extension telephone, adding the trustees were ‘trying to do everything possible to co-operate with the WPA.” + . “I know these trustees are tryin to help us,” Mr. Jennings told Rep. Ludlow, “but they think the plan we've suggested isn't legal and they're afraid they might have to forfeit their bond.” After the meeting, Mr. Jennings said he and Posey Denning, Dis trict WPA administrator, would renew their efforts to have Indianapolis and Marion County authorities sponsor additional projects.

Conferred in Washington

Mr, Jennings called the trustees into yesterday's meeting a few hours after he returned from Washington where he conferred with Rep. Ludlow and WPA Commissioner F. C. Harrington. It was on the advice of Rep. Ludlow and Col. Harrington that Mr. Jennings presented the township sponsor plan to the trustees. The State Administrator went to Washington after he disclosed that 12,000 certified WPA workers in the State were idle through failure of local governmental units to provide projects, including the 3500 in Marion County. During the conference with trustees, Mr. Jennings cited as precedent the action of Lake and St. Joseph County trustees several years ago in sponsoring projects to head off a relief crisis.

Af Rioting Stage

“The people up there were ready to stage a riot if we didn't act at once,” Mr. Jennings said. “There wasn’t -any difficulty about the trustees sponsoring the project then and I think they were upheld: by verbal approval of the State Attorney General.” Asked if they would seek the opinion of Attorney General Omer Stokes Jackson on the legality of the plan here, the trustees said they felt that was not necessary since they had already been informed by Heir attorneys the plan was “illegal.’ : Mr. Jennings said employment co relief clients by the WPA oy in half the relief cost to the township in taking care of the 3500 workers.

Sets Family Cost at $20

He then asked Hen Muell Center Trustee, how Nh I, to take care of a family during one typical winter month. Mr. Mueller replied the cost was about $20. “The WPA will take care of that family and it will cost the trustee less than $10 a month,” Mr. Jennings said. “In Lake County, the township’s contribution was about $6.75 a month.” 2 The trustees still shook their ads illegal “It's illegal,” Mr. Dawson . “We don’t want to aid. bond. We'll be glad to co-operate in sty other way.” ‘he meeting was then a ; In addition to Mr. To re. Mueller, trustees who attended were Ed Cook of Franklin, H, M. Thomas of Warren, Herbert ‘Wayne, Arland Coolman of Pike, John T. Plummer of he

Frank Bishop of Decatur and Johr George of Perry Townships, : John

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PROCLAMATIONS ISSUED 1-2-3

Social Hygiene, Americanism and Vegetables Are Stressed by Governor.

Requests for proclamations came into the Governor's office today so fast that affairs of ‘State had to be postponed while Governor M.

Clifford Townsend issued the documents. . One of the proclamations called upon Indiana’ citizens to observe today as “Social Hygiene Day” at the request. of the American Social Hygiene Association. “The object of this national observance is to extend public knowledge of man's greatest enemy, syphilis, and the power of medical science ‘to lessen this scourge and relieve the suffering caused by it,” the proclamation stated. Ch “I hereby urge all residents of ‘the State to consider these vital health problems and to aid in adopting practical measures to assure their solution,” the Governor stated.

In another proclamation the Gov- 7

ernor urged citizens to observe Feb. 12 to 22 as “National Americanism Week” and Sunday, Feb. 18 as “Citizenship Day.” The document asked Hoosiers to “give due consideration to his duty and renew his pledge of allegiance to the State of Indiana and the United States.” The United States Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring Americanism Week. In a third proclamation Governor Townsend named Feb. 5 to 10 ‘as “Indiana ‘Canned Vegetable Week.”

U.S. SENT 17 MILLION TO HOOSIERS IN 1939

Federal aid supplied to assist state pregrams in Indiana totaled $17,569,504 during the fiscal year ending June 31, 1939, Clarence Manion, Indiana director of the Office of Government Reports, said today. |. Agencies which benefited were the State Highway Commission, $4,788,817; aid to the aged, $5,859,722; aid to the blind, $296,820; aid to dependent children, $1,746,979; maternal and child health services, $78,163; child welfare services, $70,209: services for crippled children, $37,345. Aid was given to vocational and rehabilitation of disabled persons, $508,450; surplus commodities, $3,043,695; State Employment Service, $705,744; State Home for Soldiers and Sailors, $16,470; and local

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Diet of Nails Ind isposes Boy

RICHMOND, Ind, Feb. 1 (U. P.) —Physicians at the Reid Me-

morial Hospital were puzzled when * X-rays revealed that the stomach of a 15-year-old boy ' was jammed with nails, tacks and a comb. > He had been brought to the hospital complaining of a stomachache. When confronted with the Xray evidence, the boy explained. He had been faced with a term at White’s Manual Labor Institute for taking eight automobiles and had swallowed the nails, tacks and the comb to avoid the commitment. i

WASHINGTON PASTOR T0 SPEAK AT BUTLER

The Rev, Raphael Harwood Miller, pastor of the National City Christian Church, Washington, D. C., is to be the speaker at the Butler University Founders Day observance Feb. Fn

The ceremony, marking the 90th anniversary of the school, will include inauguration of Dr. D. S. Robinson as its 14th president. Dr. Miller is president of the board of directors of Unified Promotion of the Disciples of Christ.

Dr. Miller He is a

past president of the: International

Convention of the Disciples of Christ and Board of Managers of the United Christian Board of Publication, the Unified Promotion of the Disciples of Christ, the International Christian Endeavor Society and the Board of trustees of Lynchburg College. vDr. Miller is one of 32 ministers given a full chapter in Dr. Edgar DeWitt Jones’ book, “American Preachers of Today.”

DEPUTIES GIVE BLOOD TO WOMAN ATTORNEY

Miss Jessie Levy, Indianapolis attorney and Republican worker, was in Methodist Hospital today for an operation to remove an 4ear tumor, : ! In preparation for the operation, two deputy sheriffs are giving her blood for transfusions. THe first was made last night by Roderic Rae and one will be made today by Gus

housing authorities, $417,000.

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Poderjay Leaves Prison; 2d Wife’s Fate Unsolved

AUBURN, N. Y, Feb. 1 (U. P). —Captain Ivan Poderjay, dashing Jugoslav army officer sentenced to five years imprisenment for bigamy,

was released from Auburn Prison today and apprehended immediately

by immigration authorities who seek

his deportation. Found guilty of bigamy in the midst of an international investiga-

8S SpONSOr{sion of the mysterious disappear-

ance of his second wife, Agnes Tufverson, Detroit and New York businesswoman, Poderjay was given the maximum sentence. Manacled, red faced and unable to. control his anger, Poderjay walked through the gates of Auburn Prison -this morning and into the custody of a Labor Department representative. He was removed to Cayuga County Jail to await deportation proceedings. «So this is America,” he shouted.

Poderjay left the prison in the custody of Sheriff Willard Wilcox and Undersheriff Edward Ramsay. “This is just- another form of kidnaping,” he protested. Poderjay said. he had no plans for the future and would not rejoin the Army. “I-am retired from the Army,” she said. “I am an invalid now.” He referred to the loss of an eye in a prison fight soon after he entered Auburn in 1935. g The deportation proceedings indicated authorities had abandoned all hope of solving the disappearance of Miss Tufverson. She vanished on Dec. 22, 1933, a few days after her marriage to Poderjay. The captain was arrested in Vienna in June 1934 when he could not explain his wife’s whereabouts. Extradited to the United States, he pleaded guilty and after he was sentenced to from two and a half to five years in prison, the State Parole Commission ordered him to: serve

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ELECTRIC GROUP OPENS SESSIONS

More Uniformity in Wiring Protection Is Goal of TwoDay Convention.

Electrical inspectors from nearly every community in Indiana convened today at the Antlers Hotel for their seventh annual convention. More than 100 are expected to register for the two-day: meeting. They are members of the Indiana Section of the International Association of Electrical Inspectors. The convention's purpose is to bring about a more uniform wiring protection to life and property, according to E. M. Nelsoh of Chicago, chairman of the membership committee. Arthur Abbott of New York, representative of the National Electric Manufacturers Association, spoke on “Branch and Circuit Wiring.” The most revolutionary advance in electrical wiring in the last year has been the use of rubber covered wiring, convention visitors said. A. Penn Denton, a technical engineer representing all manufacturers, will speak tomorrow on their use. ° George Morrow, electrical inspec-

fice, will discuss ‘wiring in farm homes at the meeting tomorrow. - Officials said the use of Rural Electrification © installations had opened new and increased problems in farm home wiring. There will be a dinner dance tonight at the Antlers. The meeting. will close following election of officers for 1940.

2 GUARDSMEN FACE ROBBERY CHARGES

Police today were holding two National Guardsmen, who, they claim, have confessed to the robbery of a sandwich shop at 233 W. 30th St. According to statements allegedly signed by the two men they said that they used a .45-caliber drill pistol, property of the U. S. Government which they “forgot to turn in” after practice. Charged with robbery, the men are James Davis, 23, of 2511 Southeastern Ave., and William Hagan; 25, of 1855 S. East St. Questioned Tuesday after being charged with petit larceny in another case, Hagan, is said fo have

bery. He implicated Davis, who then was arrested by detectives. According to the confessions the two men stole a taxicab, used it in the holdup and then returned it to Market and Davidson Sts., where they had stolen it. ;

ADELA ST. JOHN HELD AS DRUNKEN DRIVER

NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (U. P).—

was arrested early today at the wheel of a taxicab and jailed on charges of driving while drunk, [passing a red light and driving without an operator's license. _

later today in felony court. Benjamin Rosenfeld, taxicab driver, said Mrs. St. John had hired him to drive her to her home in Manhasset, N. Y,, and that on the way, he had stopped to make a telephone call at a lunch wagon, leaving her in the cab. Parked nearby

d’Aiello. : : When Rosenfeld returned, his cab was empty and d’Aiello’s cab was disappearing down the road, with Murs. St. John driving, he said.

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: ARTHUR BROWN

Named Board President at

Methodist Hospital for 19th Time.

Arthur V. Brown today. was elects ed to his 18th consecutive term a president of the Board of Trustee of the Methodist Hospital of Indis ana at the annual meeting in oh nurses’ home.

Dr. John G. Benson was re-elected.

for the ninth year to’ the office of general secretary of the state ore ganization and general superin tendent of the Indianapolis hospital,

| Hospitals at Gary, Ft. Wayne an

Princeton are included in the state setup. 2 All other officers and executive committee members were re-elected, They are W. H. Forse, Anderson, first vice president; the Rev. Jean S. Milner, Indianapolis, second vice president; Frank C. Evans, Crawe fordsville, third vice president; the Rev. C. A. McPheeters, Indianapolis, recording secretary, and - Arthur Wolf, Indianapolis, "treasurer.

Executive Group Named

In addition to the officers, tha

following are on the Executive Committee: Charles Lutz, Gary; James Lawson, Hammond; the Rev. W. T, Jones, Evansville; the Rev. F. E,

Fribley, Pt. Wayne; Dr. W, C. Har- -

tinger, Myron McKee, W. L. Taylor, J. Floyd King, Carl Ploch, Alex Corbett, Q. G. Noblitt, E. O. Snethen, the Rev. Logan Hall, Otis Kirkpatrick, DeWitt S. Morgan and the

‘Rev. Guy Carpenter, all of Indian=

apolis. ; Dr. Benson reported that the Ine dianapolis hospital served 23,817 patients during 1939, a record number, and that 1550 babies were born during the year in the maternity department. A total of 2712 children were cared for in the Thomas Taggart Memorial children’s department.

Committees Listed

Standing committees for the year were appointed as follows: . Building, grounds and equipment— Mr. Kirkpatrick, chairman; Rev, McPheeters, Mr. Taylor, Rev, Fribe ley, Mr. Lawson and Rev. Jonés, Finance—Rev. Milner, chairman; Bishop Titus Lowe, Drs. Hartinger, King, McKee, Corbett, Wolf, Mr, Kirkpatrick, Mr. Ploch and Mr, Forse. Operation and administra tion — Dr. Hartinger, chairman; Bishop Lowe, Mr. Forse, Mr. Moran and Mr. Snethen. Training school— Mr. Morgan, Rev. Carpenter, Mr, Snefhen, Rev. Hall and W. M. Blanchard of Greencastle.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What body of water encircles the North Pole? 2—In war, what is a conscientious objector? . . 3—Is the District of Columbia a state or territory? 4—What is the correct pronunciae tion of the dynamo? §—Small quantities of liquids can be measured accurately with a burette, barbette or a lorgnette? 6—With what sport is Terry Moore associated? - T—Name the Spanish: conqueror of Mexico, 8—Who was the first Admiral of the U. 8S. Navy? : 2 2 =

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1—Arctic Ocean. 2—One who on moral or religious grounds refuses to serve as & combatant. Ady 3—Neither; it is a Federal district. 4—Di’-na-mo; not di-nam’-o. 5—Burette. / 6—Baseball. T—Hernando Cortez. 8—David Farragut. 2 8 ” 8

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