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bio NEWSPAPERMEN SEEM |to ave an irresistible sire to “sum up” their finding after doing a job. is a privilege I will not be denied. Hence, today, = sum i this long trip thou h Central America. I'll try to do it in a way that might do you some good if you ever plan a trip down there. He OFFICIA HED TAPE—It’s no worse than ours at home, I suppose, | but’ it's terrible. In for example, you port to the . police ours after arriving. ave to get’ Foreign ission at least two days befqre you leave. Salvador | makes you show i before giving you a

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y won't get those tourist dollars. mos travel exclusively by| Pan-American Airt of this folderol is either dispensed with or care of for you. S—Mostly pretty good. Lots of cockroaches, We had no hot water between Costa Rica mala. But everything is clean. You usually erican plan (meals included) and the total | little less than you'd pay at home, but you The food is palatable, but not as good America. :

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SERVICE—Much more pleasant than at home. It’s often inefficient, but is performed with a friendliness and a willingness’ that are rare|in the States. They really look after you. You don’ tip anybody till you eave. MUSIC—You don’t hear much Spanish music, as you do in Mexico. Mostly American hotcha stuff.

TODAY I HAVE SOMETHING really precious to share with you.'- Nothing less, indeed, than the story of Melvin Hunter who owns the first automobile ever seen on the streets of Indianap lis. It’s bucked away

1893 to | take in the ir. He remembers

ut because of the thirgs he |.didn’t see. For example, there was no automobile of any kind on exhibition at the orld’s Fair. Mr. Hunof it. 1He says he ve missed it if anything of the kind had been aroiind. Upon his return from Chicago, Mr. Hunter got a Job in the wood and paint department of Charles H. Black’s carriage factory at 44 S. Pennsylvania St. He was 24, old enough to have all his wits about him. A few months later he remembers that a gaso-line-operated automobile arrived in Indianapolis. It was made by Carl Benz and came all the way from

Germany. Nothing like it had ever been seen around’

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| | An Expensive Trip | The car was consigned to Sam D. Pierson who ran a cigar store at 14 S. Meridian St., where the Ayres Hoe now do business. Mr. Pierson, it appears, had the U. S. agency for a foreign brand of cigars and-it may just be possible that the car was gift or part of somebody who was pleased with th way. r. Pierson was pushing his cigars. On the other hand, the car may have been sent for advertising purposes. I don't know. ou can’t| expect me to know everything. Some day, however, I'll clarify Mr. Pierson’s contribution to theihistory of the automondianapolis. You can depend on it. n Mr. Pierson’s car arrived, the first in Inlis to know abcut it was Charles H. Black. 1d Charley were just | like brothers, says Mr. Indeed, the first man to drive the new-

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| NEW YORK, April 3.—Everyone seemed to -be having a good time laughing at Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman in “Du Barry Was a Lady.” | As .has been the case for weeks, the theater was sold out and it was apparent as one looked around the audience that there was no rule against minors No one appeared to be shocked at the hilarious scenes in the old washroom at the Club Petite and in Du Barry's bedchamber. Gags were going over that wouldn’t have been dared even in the old Century Burlesque Theater in Kansas City 30 years ago. And they seemed fresh and crisp although obviously they had been laundered in only a half-hearted way. Ah! This city of moral pitfalls against which Governor | Dickinson of Michigan warned the young girls of merical Yes, it was being wicked and loving it.

Saving New York's Youth

So it was no small shock to emerge from these two hours in which vicarious sin had been so eagerly joyed by a capacity audience and to find, in the (enie itions, the announcement that the youth of | New York City had been saved from moral contami- | nation. Supreme Court Justice John E. McGeehan, | responding to the alarmed cries of those who feared of New York youth, had revoked the | appointment of Bertrand R English mathe/matician and philosopher, to teach at the College of the City of New York. His private ideas about personal | conduct were so unconventional as to render cture on mathematics to grown-up in New York City.

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| BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Tuesday.—The newspapers

) were not pleasant reading yesterday. We rejoiced in

~ the spring, and were shocked to see blazoned forth | that the good weather made it possible to fly over ] the Western Front in Eurcpe. The list of planes shot down which followed gave me

an utter sense of futility. As I |

headline on one paper saying:

drove along the “pave I saw a “A Peace Pledge To Be De-

manded of Roosevelt -on April

6th.” | How unnecessary. Peace pledges should be| demanded of their leaders by tie people of nations at war. What good does it dc to demand it of a leader who is entirely willing to give it?

us yesterday afterrioon and then we had the pleasure of hearing somes songs rendered for us by a Negro choral group. At 6:45, Mr. and Mrs Maurice Benjami us and took us to their eit for a “Ihe family dinSbeture The forum here timulating group before | which to apstion period is most ns resting to me an absorbed and thoughtful

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By Ernie Pyle

NOISE—Latins seem to have a vioise combi. The streets of San Jose and San Salvador are like asylums full of lunatics turned loose with horns. And even the orchestras play so loud it is sickening. ! FRIENDS—If you stay in Latin countries long, you won't lack for friends. You'll meet the local people, but don’t expect to be asked to their homes. They'll see you, often, at your hotel or a club. = Youll foot most of the| bills. But they'll reciprocate with their time, endlessly, and all} kinds of little favors. And you won't lack for American friends, either. There are lots of nice Americans down there. 2 8 ”

Their Ethics Are Different

HONESTY—Latin ethics is built on an entirely different foundation from ours. The Latin peons have been held down for centuries by the dishonesty of their leaders. wouldn’t do|the same thing if he were in high office. As for every-day honesty, that’s different from ours, too. Say you wanted $500 in cash delivered to a friend. You could send it by a servant, or almost

pick up anybody off the street, and you'd never have to fear about it getting there. But—that eame servant would do you out of some little thing at the slightest opportunity. It seems to be a kind of game of wits. If he can get the best of you, that’s kind of honorable. But theft of something entrusted to him is almost unheard of. LANGUAGE—If I were the kind who worked up campaigns, I'd certainly beat the tom-tom all over America to get Spanish taught in ous primary schools. If we're serious about the spiritual union of Western Hemisphere countries, we've got to be able to talk to each other. I'd put Spanish in our schools Swariing with the fifth grade. GOOD WILL MISSIONS—We must be careful ‘not to “mission” them to death. We've been flooding them lately with Army, Navy, Coast-Guard and diplomatic “good will” missions. Especially Air Corps missions from Panama. Well, you know the Latins go for protocol. These official visitors have to be lavishly entertained; it’s the Latin custom, and they've got to do it. And these countries can’t afford it.

By Anton Scherrer

fangled contraption was Mr. Black. And, believe it or not, he took Melvin Hunter with him. It was; somewhere around the beginning of 1893 when they made their first trip. They started at the corner of Maryland and Pennsylvania Sts., the site of Black’s carriage factory, and headed west. At the Grand Hotel corner they ran into a buggy, damaging ‘its: wheels. It didn't unnerve Mr. Black in the least. He said he’d have the buggy fixed up if the owner wound haul it to his shop. After which they resumed their trip. They turned the corner successfully ane went north. A Hlinois and Washington Sts., at|the old Occidental corner, Mr. Black lost control of the car and, ne t thing he knew he ran straight into a show window, busting it into smithereens. Mr. Bresie told the owner to send him tha bill. 2 8 = |

Getting to the Bottom |

The trip east on Washington st. was nothing short of a triumph until they reached the corner of Pennsylvania St., at which point they again found themselves inside a show window. By this time they were within a block of home. They got home ail right. Mr. Hunter recalls that it cost Mr. Black $125 to make the trip, a distance of six city blocks. The demolished show windows cost $50 apiece; the damaged buggy, $25 Tune in tomorrow if you want to hear more about the early automobiies of Indianapolis. | Chances are that tomorrow I'll get around to 1894, the year Mr. Black built an automobile of his/ own—the/ one about which there is so much confusion. In the meantime it might be well to| remember what you've learned today, namely that no automobile was seen on the streets of Indianapolis before 1893. When the first one turned up, it was the Ger-man-made Benz car, the one Mr, Hunter owns today. This is the car that has fooled so many old-timers into believing that they saw Mr. Black riding in an automobile of his own make as early as 1893. It wasn’t until the following year, says Mr, Hunter, that Mr. Black startled the town with a car of his own make. Mr. Hunter says he ought to know because he helped Charley make it. With the help of Mr. Hunter ¥ up everything.

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By Raymond Clapper

philosophy it the College of the City of New York. Specifically, he was to lecture on modern conceptions of logic and its relation to science, mathematics and philosophy; problems in the foundations of mathematics, and the relations of pure and applied sciences and the reciprocal influence of metaphysics and scientific theories. He has lectured on these subjects at the University of Chicago and is now at the University of California in Los Angeles. Harvard also has booked him. Dr. Russell's unconventional ideas about morals may not render him unfit to teach in those institutions, but he’can’t come into New York! and undermine the morals of the youth here. |For that, New York provides other facilities, | 1 2 s 8

He Wasn't Funny || |

The case of this 68-year-old professor with the young ideas has stirred up the most intense moral issue in New York since the strip tease was barred

from Minsky’s burlesque and driven under cover into

the top-price Broadway revues where one might take his wife and daughters. Thus New York has made

the strip tease available to all., Similarly, it has made Bertrand Russell’s bizarre ideas, his echoes of Havelock Ellis, available to all by the simple expedient of throwing him off the faculty of the City College. Russeil wrote for a small circulation, but the fight against allowing him to teach mathematics has resulted in the juiciest paragraphs from his obscure works being reprinted in newspapers and magazines and- thrust before the whole public. Of course, the trouble with Prof. Russell, the reason his line aroused so much resistance in New York, is simple. He didn’t make it funny. Most people don’t like off-color stuff unless it is funny. Prof. Russell could be a big success in New York and he wouldn't have to tone down his private ideas at all. Let him hire a good gag man and get his act on Broadway. Then New York would love it.

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

airport on a trip to some of the farm security camps. I could not get back in time to %ell you of this trip

‘ today, so that will have to wait until tomorrow, but

I can assure you that it seems like a very early hour to be up and on my way. While on planes and trains these last few days, I have been going through a number of articles and books which have beer sent me to read before I left Washington. I am going to recommend one small book to you, for I think it should be read by all thoughtful people and it will be a useful handbook in families and study groups. This little book is called: “Schools for Democracy.” It is published by the Nations Congress of Parents and Teachers and it was compiled by Miss Charl Ormond Williams and Mr. Frank W. Hubbard. I have always been an advocate of community forums and study groups because I believe that communities must know their own problems and learn how to do something about them if democracy is to be a success. This book is designed to give us

| knowledge about one of our most cherished institu-

tions—our public schools. It tells how schoois are

our scheme of education. It shows that larger par-

. ticipation by the Federal Government is necessary

in order to equalize opportunities between the poorer and richer sections of our country for the education of our children. I have always believed this and was particularly interested in the clarity with which this is stated in this book.

Yet there's hardly an underdog that

Preferred Leong for the, American doaghiey in the field Is E: oro by Rations A and B, which is alphabet language for fresh and packaged food transported in quantity and cooked on the new-style Army

field ranges, one of Ww,

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Army Streamlines Emergency Rations

By Emily C. Davis | Science Service Staff pec

HIGHLY speci gency meal in (itself.

lized candy bar that is This is the U. S. Army’s new

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answer to the problem of packing a tiny lunch for soldiers

who may find themselves unexpectedly “on their own”

when mess time comes.

While the Army’s research was intended for soldiers

entirely, it may do a good

turn for civilian explorers,

mountain climbers, and hikers, not to mention motorists

who can’t discover that hoped-for tea room, and Stenographers who grow weak an hour before quitting time.

| ; Developed in the Quartermaster

Corps’ subsistence - laboratory at Chicago, the new emergency ration looks like any small choco|late bar. Actually, besides chocolate it contains. vanilla, sugar, milk, and oat flour. It tastes all’ ‘right. Meaning to say, the American soldier will find it an improvement over the not-too- | tempting chocolate emergency ration the Quartermaster Corps ‘handed out to our soldiers when wy were fighting in France in 9 And besides being easy to take, the new ration is an improvement nutritionally. Concentrated foods can be made much more palatable now, as a result of research in recent years. Calories are the strong point of the chocolate-soldier ration of 1940. Calories are what an emergency ration is expected to supply, in greatest possible quantity. “Calories, which the lady-on-a-diet~ considers a word to shudder at, are vital to a stranded, hungry man, perhaps on outpost duty and

0, K. EXPANSION AT WASHINGTON

School . Board Approves Plans to Enlarge Cafeteria.

The School Board has approved working plans for enlarging the Washington High School cafeteria. Blueprints by Vonnegut & Bohn, architects, presented at a special meeting of the Board yesterday, called for the transformation of two courts at either side of the cafeteria into lunchroom wings. Each of the two new additions will be about 35 feet square and together they will permit the seating of 250 additional students. Business Director A. B. Good said that pupils now ‘have to eat in 20minute shifts because of the ine adequacy of cafeteria eating space. The Board also approved a pla for installing folding bleachers o the stage of Howe High School permit the seating of graduat classes and overflow crowds al school basketball games. Plans fo concrete bases on the lockers a Howe also were accepted. The Board accepted the bid of the Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago for $214,000 worth of refunding bonds. The Chicago bank offered to buy the bonds at 13% ‘per cent and to pay a premium of $2052 for the total issue. | The bid was the lowest of. 13 received and was % of 1 per cent lower than was received on the firs series of refunding bonds sold | (Py the Board last month.

ELECTION SCHEDULED BY DENTAL SOCIETY

Election of officers, committees and new members will be a feature of the monthly meeting of the In1 | dianapolis Dental Society at the Hotel "Lincoln Monday night. There will be a dinner at 6:30 o'clock after which there will be motion pictures and other entertainment. “Crown and Bridgework” wilh be the subject of a symposium. The speakers will be Dr. Paul R. Oldham, Dr. J. Eldon Spahr and Dr. Robert K. George. This will be the last meeting of the society until Sept. 9.

TAX COLLECTOR PERFECT SHEFFIELD, Mass.,, April 3. (U. P.).—Clarence H. Warner probably is the nation’s. No. 1 tax collector. For 34 years Mr. Warner has completed his tax .collections on time and turned in every cent he was ordered to collect by the town. Shortly after turning in $p1,962.95 in 1939 taxes Mr. Warner was reelected to tie office for another

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cut off by mischance from his division. of The little packet represents 600 calories, or units of energy-pro-ducing food-sugar, starch, protein, fat, » That is about the amount of calories in a lunch or light dinner. But understand, the little emergency ration is not, emphatically, a balanced meal. It is no proper substitute for a regular lunch or dinner. It ‘has one job to | do—supplying staying power and energy to enable a man in time of emergency to keep going. » ” » N rationing for emergency,” | says Maj. Paul P. Logan: of . the Army Industrial College, “the problem is to pack concentrated energy food into smallest possible space and into a package that will resist ‘wear-and-tear, including heat up to 120 degrees, and even. war gas.” | Maj. Logan conducted research for the new chocolate ration. ‘The most highly concentrated food we know of would be fat,” he explains. “Pure fat, with no water in it, would provide 4100 calories to a pound. But the fat would not be edible. The choco=late ration, representing 2400 cal-

"ories to a pound, is the nearest

approach to straight fat that we could make edible.” To aid the Army in the research task of making a weather-proof, gas-proof wrapper for the ration,

the National Bureau of Standards tested various materials. The result is a three-layer wrapping. First around the chocolate bar goes aluminum foil heavier than that on ordinary candy. This forms a hermetic seal. Then comes a wrapper of white vegetable parchment, which becomes | tougher in damp weather.

. An additional overcoat of ‘green

paver is simply what is technically called a bumper, and it takes the label, “U. S. Army Emergency Ration,” with a warning not to eat the ration fast—take half an hour. To make sure the ration would not go soupy in the tropics, the Quartermaster Corps has already given it experimentally to American soldiers in Panama, Hawaii, and the Philippines to carry in their pockets, haversacks and saddle bags. As a stiff war conditions test, some of the ration packets were

: turned over to the Chemical War-

fare School at Aberdeen, Maryland. There, for three hours, the ration packets were bombarded with fumes of mustard gas. Then, peeling off the protective wrappings, Army Chemists fed shavings of the “gassed” emergency ration to laboratory rats. The rats showed no ill effects, so the Army feels confident that it has a gasproof wrapping. : ’ 2 2 8

HE Quartermaster Corps does not call its new chocolate ration an emergency ration, says Capt, John Powers of the subsistence division of the Quartermaster Corps. Ration D is the correct, official name. The pocket ration fits into the Army’s new set

of alphabet names for field or +

wartime rations: A, B, C, and D. Capt. Powers says American soldiers enjoy singing. “They feed us carrots every day. “Wonder when theyll feed us hayy

THE STORY OF DEMOCRACY

CHAPTER 21

HAT had been begun by the - feudal system was continued and brought to perfection by a rapidly increasing number of monarchies. Law and order (and

therefore security) was once more .

re-established all over Europe. It meant a tremendous increase in the wealth and prestige of that new class of citizens which had gradually interposed itself between the lordly gentry who ruled the land and the peasants and serfs who worked it. As all history shows us, no class of society

will ever willfully commit suicide

for the sake of another. The aristocracy (which is merely another name for “old money”) strongly opposed, therefore, the ambitions of those merchants who to them represented the obnoxious idea of “new money.” Under those circumstances the men of the counting-house eagerly looked for some one who would protect them against the menace that came to them from the castle of the feudal chieftain. In order to do this they needed soldiers and political henchmen. At last there was a class of. citizens who were possessed of ready cash. A tacit alliance was formed between the rising young capitalistic forces, struggling for greater influence upon the government, and the equally young and new monarchies, desperately trying to destroy the feudal -squirarchy which still stood between these new-fangled majes‘ties and their final grab for the supreme power. During the 15th and 16th centuries a few political dynasties (closely resembling our own hig dynasties in their mode of operations and their complete lack of scruples) forged ahead and gradually destroyed all competition. Having started their careers as members of the feudal system and therefore being rich in land but

'SECOND SECTION

pre-view and TE of the Army’s new ‘two-can meal, improved

sion of the old reserye ratipn.

And they like to echo the bugler at mess call, chanting: “Soupy, soupy, soupy without a single bean, “Porky, porky, porky without a streak of lean, “Coffee, coffee, nest ever seen.” - But actually, the American soldier is the best fed in the world. To make field and wartime rations as near as possible to the peacetime garrison ation, the Quartermaster Corps devises ingenious plans for transporting, packing, space saving. It mounts field kitchens—a new model was recently christenéd—on trucks and transports them to camp grounds, to insure hot food whenever possible. It has ‘even. landed eggs and other - perishables by parachute from planes. Quartermaster officers .can tell you that by trimming and boning a ton of beef, they can reduce 134: cubic teet of . beef in shipping to a mere 32 cubic feet. So, Ration A, which is the preferred field ration, is compiete with fresh vegetables, butter, fruit, meat, and other bulky but desirable foods, Capt. Powers states. Ration B {is familiar, with substitution of some canned goods, jelly instead of butter, and hard bread for fresh. The Army goes on Ration B when it moves in streamlined transport minus everything but necessary equipment. : A brand-new Ration C—-the reserve ration — also streamlined, has been evolved. Taking its first large-scale test in April and May, the new Ration C will he fed to 65,000 soldiers during the spring maneuvers in Mississippt and Texas.

coffee, the thin-

# 8 = ESERVE rations are nothing for a soldier to cheer over. put the new one, so new that labels have.not been made yet for cans, is rated a big improvement over the one that’ has been used. Ration C is a two-can meal, to

By Hendrik Willem van Loon _ (ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR)

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A few political dynasties forged ahead and gradually destroyed all competition.

poor ‘in cash, the monarchs were obliged to go to the middle class for that direct financial support without which they could never hope to overcome the opposition of their former fellow-feudalists. These ambitious founders of a monarchial form of government were completely successful.

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PTER the end of the 16th century, the map of Europe was no longer a crazy-quilt of three-by-four little duchies, counties, baronetcies and independent cities and villages (even the sovereign village existed in those happy days). It began to show those big blue and yellow and green patches which represented the kingdoms of such famous families as the Bourbons, the Tudors, the Hapsburgs and a dozen other familiar names. As so often happens when mutually hostile interests are forced to make common cause for oo

Pole Shifting, Byrd Reports

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile, April 3 (U. P.).—The magnetic South Pole has moved, Rear Admiral Richard E, Byrd reports.

Byrd, who arrived here Saturday in his supply ship Bear en route to

|the United States after six months

in Little America, said that flights over the area where the magnetic pole is fixed on present maps disclosed it had changed position. | “I was unable to establish where the pole went to but it is in a westerly direction,” he said. Admiral Byrd also said he had made discoveries ~which would change South Polar maps. These discoveries include a“ continent and a chain of mountains. : Maritime maps are drawn from

the magnetic poles. The south mag-

southwest of the geographic pole Admiral Byrd said the shift of the southern magnetic pole “will be of great interest to science.” Admiral Byrd disclosed discoveries of potential commercial value in the ice fields of Antarctic, including coal deposits as well as copper and other minerals.

netic pole is, or was, about 1100 oe

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TOWN CALLS STORK UNFAIR

TONASKET, Wash, April 3 (U. P. ) —If the stork doesn’t change his ways, Tonasket’s male population is going to suffer. Last year 7 babies were born here and only 31 of them were boys. Conditions have been worse this year. Of the first 15 babies born, ten*were girls.

common purpose, the moment the victory had been gained, the partners fell out among themsclyes. Their majesties were liable | to forget to whom they owed their success afid those who had contributed to this success were apt to remind them of their services at very inapprogriate moments. There followed a period of |disastrous conflicts between ese former allies. These quarrels were bound to manifest themselves the greatest snarpne in those countries where the’ middle classes had accumulated more abundant riches than elsewhere. |

2 8 = | HAVE already told | you of the rebellin) in the Low Countries,

when in the year 1581 the merchants, having duly abjured their

. master, the King of Spain, estab-

! lished an independent repuBlic of their own. The next outbreak oc-

' curred in England in 1642 and

again in 1680. They led to a tremendous in- . crease in the governing power of those who derived their income, not from the land but from commercial transactions. It was, from our point of view, a decided step forward.. Let us stress this point: In neither ccuntry had the introduction of a more elaborate syslon of parliamentary government nything to do with our modern ideal of democracy. | Those whorn., a few centuries later, Alexander Hamilton was to describe as “the rich and wellborn,” rem<ined in complete control of the cituation. There was only one element in the nation they distrusted more profoundly and hated more cordially than either the nobility or the monarchy — and that element was

NG known as f'the comr common people.” \ NEXT—From une unexpec ed places |

come the new ideas be, to shape Man’s destiny. that =

can contains a meat | and vegetable combihation, and there are three variations on this. |The other can contains sugar, soluble coffee and nine biscuits. Rationed

be eaten either hot or cold. ond |

out to the men at the rate of six

‘cans a day, this reserve chow pro= vides four pounds of food for a day. This is less than the eri=can soldier is sccustned to regularly, but then the reserve ‘ration is intended only for use when normal transport is interrupted, and the Quartermaster

. Corps does not recommend its use

even then for more than three days. 5 That brings us back to Ration D. which is the newst equivalent of the old British Iron Ration, and all the other last-ditch rations in history. The Iron Ration was so distinctly a last-resort meal that British soldiers used to say the orders were: ! “Never eat your Iron Ration until after you've starved to.death!” Even the present tinnéd emergency ration supplied to British fighters carries the warning, “To be consumed only when no other ration of any other kind is procurable.” ‘The American soldier's chocolate bar carries no stern warning —only instruction to eat it slowly. made to, make the new ration unpalatable, Maj. Logan states. After all, a man who sits down to a chocolate bar - supper, when somewhere back in camp other men are getting a round meal, needn't be additionally harassed by finding the ration is deliber= ately made just barely gating | Uses of the new emergency tion by civilians are not the Army’s problem. But 'Quartermaster Corps officers can see that the energy notion might fit foe other situations, provided the public recognizes its limitatior > The Army’s Ration may come familiar to a public that will never- get even a | taste of .Rations A,B and C.

TAX VALUATION SLASH SOUGHT

Counties File Appeals ; With State.

The first of several thousand ex=

property valuations for 1941 taxes nave been. filed at the State Tax Boarc office. Fetitions for revaluations have been made by real estate owners in 25 counties. Last year appeals for readjustment in property values totalled 7451 and that total is expected to be exceeded this year. Of the total appeals last year 2200 were from Marion County. As a Tesult of appeals last year the Tax Board made reductions in more than 98 per cent of the petitions. The appeals are filed because

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of the fact that no general real estate assessment has been taken since 1932 ‘when the Legislature delegated authority to order reappraisals to the State Tax Board. Board members said they will recommend that the 1941 Legislature provide for a general reappraisal next year.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Which horse won the famous Santa Anita Handicap in 1939— Seabiscuit, Kayak II or War . Admiral? 2—Who wrote “Toilers of the Sea’?

3—The song ‘April Showers” has "been featurpd for a number of

f bridge is the Seton Bridge In |

2—Victor Hugo. | 3—Al Jolson. 4—Frankfort. 5—A town in American S&moa. ¢—Suspension. u

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