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Hoosier Vagabond

- BILOXI, Miss., June 24.—A fellow on vacation, with no definite routine to follow, falls prey to the slightest routine that presents itself. With me, it’s the nightly plane. ! I heard it go over the first night ye were here. I was lying in bed reading. It was exactly 10:15. That plane and I have been keeping rendezvous ever since. . It probably is the National Airlines plane between New Orleans and Jacksonville, Fla., but, being on vacation, I haven't taken the trouble to check up. ‘All I care is that it keep its appointment with me. : We have been here 21 nights. - Eighteen &f those nights, the plane passed overhead in the darkness at precisely 10:15. It got to be almost uncanny. One night it was three minutes early, and-that hurt me. One night it was 10 minutes late, and that almost killed me. And one night, it never did come at all. . I waited for it till after midnight, and then slept only fitfully the rest of the night. I firmly expected to read of a big crash in the morning papers. But there was nothing. I guess maybe they just forgot’ to

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Like Mother, Like Son

What odd things go on in the heads of us human beings. Things that even our closest friends seldom know we are thinking, -. For instance, there’s a girl here in Biloxi who got to telling me some of her idiosyncrasies. The worst one is counting. : 2 She counts everything. Over and over and over. She can’t keep from it. She goes into a room, and while she’s talking or listening, she’s busy counting all the panes in the windows, the knots on the drapes, the squares in the wallpaper, the buttons on people’s

Also, this girl has a phobia for notebooks. She can’t go downtown without buying a notebook. She has scores of them lying around the hduse.

“clothing.

** This same girl has a little boy. . As little boys do, he

‘Our Town

MORE MEMORABILIA for the book. This time all items have something to do with the bicycle craze of the Nineties. Item 1: The “bicycle eye” turned up in Indian--apolis in 1895. In one week that summer more than 40 people, all with the same symptoms, came to Dr. Joseph O. Stillson’s office for relief. All _ had inflamed eyes. More advanced cases revealed a stoppage of the tear ducts and a burning sensation, An examination showed that the affliction was due to the lodging of pulverized dust in the underlids of the eyes. Mixed with the dust were disease germs and microbes: Dr. Stillson diagnosed the trouble as acute conjunctivitis. When he learned that every patient was a bicyclist, he called it the “bicycle eye.” ~ Item 2: The Indiana Trust people had the first bicycle stable in Indianapolis. In 1896 they appropriated a vault in the basement and fixed it up with ‘a series of racks to accommodate tlie wheelmen in their building. It was big enough to take care of a hundred bicycles. Right after that the Lemcke Building followed suit. Item 3: Mr. and Mrs. John N. Carey were the first to have a bicycle rack on their lawn for the

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Recalling the ‘Town Pup’

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Item 4: Harry T. Hearsey who not only sold the 1 first bicycle in Inidanapolis, but probably more than

anybody else, was .the first to install a foot pump for inflating tires. He had it outside of his store and riding school, 116 and 118 N. Pennsylvania St. For a long time it was called the “Town Pump.” The second public tire pump was that of Frank Keegan, the druggist at Illinois and 22d Sts. Practically all bicyclists who went north to the canal towpath had to pass Mr. Keegan's drug store. Item 5: The “bicycle bang” made its appearance in 1898. It was invented to get even with the wind, rain and heat, any one of which played heck with a woman's hair. The bicycle bang was made of human hair matching ‘that of the wearer and was fastened on with numberless little pins. The curl was chem-

‘Washington

PHILADELPHIA, June 24.—The danger is very real that politics is going to get the Republican Party down and that it will become a mere scavenger for votes. : The thought actuating some Republicans here is that Roosevelt, by appointing Knox and Stimson to his Cabinet, will take over into the Democratic Party a following which thinks as they do; and that is good politics, when you lose part of your following, to try to replace it. Republicans think they can replace it in this instance by scavenging -among Democrats for voters who think Roosevelt is unduly alarmed about the menace of Hitler and who consider him a war monger. | This is the cold-blooded reasoning that is moving some of the politicians here who consider themselves the brains of the Republican Party. Get votes any way you can get them. Set up phony issues. Make the people think Roosevelt is go=ing to send an army to France. Make them think

' that Hitler isn’t as bad as he has been painted—and

that it doesn’t matter a great deal to the United States whether Hitler licks the British or not. Republicans can try to mislead every mother and father into thinking that nothing is happening in the world, that everything is going to be just dandy. Candidate Taft voted against the defense tax hi'l in the Senate. Peace, it's wonderful! !

Latin America Ignored

I'm looking for a Republican in Philadelphia, one of the so-called leaders of the party, who will admit that a Hitler victory will create the most urgent problems for the United States. Who here is giving any thought to the problem of Latin America? Uruguay

HYDE PARK, Sunday.—Yesterday was the cold= est day for June 22d, that I can remember, but we have been remarkably fortunate in having sunny, peautiful weather while the President has been here. Friday afternoon, we spent an hour driving up to his cottage and looking at a number of plantings of small {rees. They were not visible until you gazed into the tangle of grass and weeds - for a long time, but my husband said by winter we would discover quite a forest growing

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up. | Yesterday morning, we visited the new school which has been given his name and is just back of our cottages. It is really a building of which to be proud, 4 in good taste and very up-to-So date. I think both teachers and pupils have a good plant. The only criticism I could possibly make is that there may not be enough .shoproom, for the pupils in this part of the world should be givem every opportunity “to obtain experience in manual skills, * Two Harvard by Mrs. Dorothy Canfield | Both of

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still with the idea -of fitting them when

By Ernie Pyle

reached the age where he was taught to save money for himself. He saved until he had a dime. Then he took it out of his bank one day and said, “Mama, do you know what I'm going to buy?” . A terrible knowledge swept over his mother. She asked him what he was going to buy. Yes, it was a notebook. And now he buys notebooks all the time. He's only in the second grade. But he'll buy a notebook, come home and copy names out of the telephone book till he gets it filled, then lay it away and go downtown and buy another.

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Kindergarten Graduates It never was my good fortune to graduate from

college, so I have been denied that heady experience |

of appearing before the public in a cap and gown. But if I had only been born 30 years later, I could now experience it without graduating from college. Or high school. Or even grammar school. I could just graduate from kindergarten. Little Judy Moreton, a blond Mississippi vixen that I am kind of that way about, has just completed her kindergarten studies. And, on graduation day, she and her class stood up at public ceremonies, garbed in snow-white caps and gowns, and received actual diplomas. : Yes, we're living in a fast age, and people grow old before their time. . » » » A little thing happened in Memphis that I've got to get set down before I forget it. ‘The Memphis Commercial-Appeal has a sort of information service, and they try to answer every question that comes in over the phone. They get some lulus, but the superlulu came the night that “Gone With the Wind” had its first showing in Memphis. The phone rang, and a young man on the other end said: | “Say, is 1t true they're going to make a book ‘out of ‘Gone With the Wind’?” “Going to make a what?” said the copy-reader, “A book,” said the young man. The copy reader did the best he could. He said, “Well, I don't know. ;But I expect not, for Grant'is marching into Richmend and God knows what'll happen now.” "

By Anton Scherrer

ically treated and no ordinary experience could uncurl it. Item 6: By 1897 it became evident that no woman bicyclist could ride in comfort without giving some attention to the kind of corset she wore, The most comfortable “bicycle corset” came from Paris. It was short on the hips and had pieces of batiste sewed to the bust, thus doing ‘away with the necessity of wearing a separate corset cover. Silk elastic bands went over the shoulders. By having the elastic punctured by eyelet holes, the corset could be tightened or loosened as required. litem 7: When bicycling was at its height in Indianapolis, it was governed by a rigid code of etiquette. “A gentleman,” said the Book, “should never mount until the lady with whom he is riding is settled in her saddle. When practicable, they should ride abreast, the lady always on the right side. At the conclusion of the ride the man should first dismount that he may ‘relieve his companion of her wheel. But a gentleman must never assist a lady

to mount.” ”

Invitation in Rh yme

Item 8: The invitations sent by Dr. (Dentist) Dandridge H. Oliver for a cycling party on May 21, 1896, ran like this:

“You are cordially invited, And I hope you'll be delighted To. attend a cycling party Thursday morn. To Broad Ripple we are going With our green and yellow flowing, And we're bound to have a time ‘Sure, as you're born. So get up bright and early, In a humor aught but surly, And be at Brother Eastman's At half past five As that's the hour for leaving, And I'm sure there'll be no grieving For the ones who are late Or don't arrive.” The “Brother Eastman” referred to was either Dr. Joseph Eastman or Dr. Thomas B. Eastman. It doesn’t make any difference. Both lived in the same house, 197 N. Delaware St. the starting place of the party.

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‘By Raymond Clapper

is now about to ask the United States to negotiate an emergency treaty to save it from dependency upon the Axis dictators. The proposition would make the United States the principal export market of Uruguay, and in turn Uruguay would transfer to the United States its purchases which have been previously made in Germany and Italy. But Republican delegates will tell you that the Republicans should never nominate Willkie, for he is a free trader and has believed in the Hull reciprocal trade program! All that the Republicans can think of to say now is that Roosevelt is trying to get us in war. It never occurs to them that trouble may crowd itself upon us in the form of a totalitarian economic and political ‘pressure against this hemisphere. Republicans have hoped that Hitler armistice terms to France would be mild, and have stalled along in their deliberations on the gamble that the Nazi conqueror would prove to- be less brutal than Roosevelt has assumed.

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A Phony Issue

Republicans are obsessed with their scheming to pick up the votes of frightened people. Nobody wants war. But the Republicans refuse to face the situation, which is that strong, immediate defense, not only military but economic defense, of this hemisphere is the only insurance we can take out against a victorious Hitler. It is. a phony battle, a trumped-up issue, a cruel trick to play on the fathers and mothers of this country, an attempt to subsist on the scraps which fall as the Administration labors to avert what it believes to Joe tragedy for the Western Hemisphere. All this must

' be giving large comfort to Hitler. He will respect force.

He has only contempt for haggling democracies that don’t recognize their interests. : | The Republican Party has a chance in this convention to stab the Government of the United States in the back at this critical hour. Unless the trend of talk changes very soon, that's about what will happen.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

they have completed their education. In order to obtain some practical experience, they Have spent six months in CCC camps and have come out with a definite idea that a CCC camp should not be run as a relief organization, but should be open to boys from various income groups. hi I was interested to see that these young men had gone far in the realization that a democracy which really functions, must receive service from all its citizens. : { I have always objected to compulsory military training by itself. HK believe that, given the character and the discipline, it does not take long to become a soldier. Training to be an officer is a different thing, and training for the qualities which fit you to become a soldier takes time. -I feel that universal SerYies should not be a question of military service alone. : It shculd be a time which all boys.and girls know they are giving a year of their lives to fit themselves better to serve their country. In return, they receive training in manual skills, some additional academic training when necessary, and some absolutely vital character training and discipline which can only come with group living. This universal service should, of course, include older. people on a different basis, but

of their country when needed.

into the service

Draft Also Backed in Gallup Poll

By Dr. George Gallup

PRINCETON, N. Ji, June 24.—Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg" in Western Europe has been followed by two important reactions among American voters — both having profound implications for U. S. national defense—a nation-wide survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion reveals today: J 1. Since the drive on Paris, barely three weeks ago, there has been a spectacular rise in the number of Americans who favor compulsory military training for the United States, Nearly two persons in every three are in favor of adopting compulsory training, the latest survey shows, whereas sentiment was divided exactly 50-50 at the beginning of June. 2. Meanwhile, almost three voters in every four have come to believe that men should be drafted, if necessary, to fill up the vacancies in the regular Army if the present voluntary recruiting drive should fall short.

Various training and draft programs for peace-time have been drawn up for the attention of Congress. President Roosevelt an-

nounced on Tuesday that some program of compulsory ‘governsment” service would be asked for. The details of such plans vary, of course. But the implications of the Institute's survey are clear. In approving the twin principles of peace-time military training and peace-time conscription, if necessary, American public opinion has taken a long stride in the direction of a totally new defense policy for the United States. Except in war-time, the United States has never applied conscription or compulsory military training. In this respect American policy has been similar to Great Britain's, where conscription was adopted only a few weeks before the outbreak cf war last summer. “Traditions can go by the boards,” men and women in all parts of the United States told field investigators who asked for their opinions. “The biggest job facing the United States is build-

teaching American citizens how to use them.” ” 2 » : ly N SUCCESSIVE Institute surveys over the past 19 months ‘men’ and women in every group in the voting populatica have been asked: “Do you think every able-bodied young Juan 20 years

WEATHERMAN ~ CANNERS' PAL

Cool Period Ideal for Pea Industry; Corn and Tomatoes Next.

The weatherman and Indiana canners are on the same team this year, Robert E. Jackson, secretary of the Indiana Canners Association, revealed today. This 1s pea-packing time. The cool weather of the last week has been ideal for canning peas because, according to Mr, Jackson, “the coolness holds the peas and they don't age at all.” “The weather has been playing right along with Indiana growers and canners,” he said. “The wet spring and the hot weather a couple of weeks ago gave the tomatoes and corn a good, although late, start. . “All we want now is hot nights. This weather is unseasonable and we're sure to get plenty of good corn weather soon.”

Mr. Jackson said the state’s corn yield would be “up” and that tomato and corn canning would start about Aug. 15. From then unti freezing time; the canning plants will be in full operation, he said, giving employment to nearly 40,000 persons. Mr. Jackson said state canners are not planning for any additional export business because of the war.

AUTO REGISTRATIONS IN STATE GAIN 4.1%,

Automobile registrations in Indiana increased 4.1 per cent in 1939 over 1938, Todd Stoops, Hoosier Motor Club secretary-manager, said today. Total registration for the state in 1939 was 960,842 vehicles. Fees collected, according to Mr. Stoops, amounted to $10,001,000. Total registration for the nation was 30,615,087, including 26,201,395 passenger cars and 4,413,692 trucks and fractor trucks. This surpassed the previous. 1936 all-time high by 909,867 vehicles. Only one state failed to show an increase, Mr. Stoops said.

EXPAND HOME FOR AGED Times Special : KENDALLVILLE, Ind. June 24.— Construction is underway on the new 25-room $30,000 addition to the Lutheran Old People’s Home here. Built of fireproof brick and tlie, the home will be equipped to care for all churches of this district of the

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Ameriean sentiment for compulsory military training in recent weeks is shown in

the above graph—based on successive nation-wide surveys of the American Institute of Public Opinion. Note that | whereas only a minority favored such a system following the outbreak of war in Europe (see October, 1939) a big maYority favor such a plan today. !

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the Army, Navy or the air forces for one year?” The following figures show how

sentiment for compulsory training .

—low at first—has risen in re= sponse to events abroad: ’

Compulsory, Training? Yes No December, 1938 (after Munich Conférence) ; October, 1939 (after outbreak of war) June 2, 1940 ' (after Battle of Flanders)

TODAY (affer fall of Paris) ..... 64 36 In other words, from a minority viewpoint last October, sentiment for compulsory military training has come to be the strong majority viewpoint today. - Although the question had not been widely debated in the press and radio until this month, it is interesting to note that only one person in sixteen (6%) was undecided or without an opinion in the latest

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tute mentioned the figure set for the U. S. Regular Army by the House of Representatives—an enlisted strength of 400,000—and asked: “If enough men do not volunteer, would you favor drafting men until this figure is reached?” The replies, excluding 8 cent with no opinions, were: Favor draft principle . Oppose draft principle Z The British were somewhat slow in coming to the same conclusion, It is interesting tp note that a survey conducted by the British Institute of Public Opmnion found that as late as last April a majority uf British voters were opposed to conscripting men to fill up the gaps in their regular army. The vote was 58 per cent opposed to conscription, 42 per cent in favor. ; 2 |» TT survey | questions aroused exceptional interest in ‘all parts of the country, field investigators for the Institute reported. This was particularly true in the South and East, but even in states like Towa, Kansas and Nebraska, where isolationism has been

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Beware of Ticks, Harvey Warns, Citing Fever Deaths

With the vacation season headed toward peak activity, Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Board director, today warned parents and children to look out for disease-bearing ticks. i Ticks are dangerous, he said, because they are carriers of the highly fatal Rocky Mountain spotted fever. In 1938 15 cases of the disease were treated in local hospitals. Last year there were 13 cases. The mortality rate for the disease is nearly 50 per cent. Ticks when unfed are flat, dark brown insects about the size of a kitchen match head. Since they are wingless they perch on the ends of branches and tips of.grass. They crawl onto an animal or human when brushed against. After feeding on their victim they are as large as your small finger nail. 5 No satisfactory chemical prepara=-

HOSPITALS HERE AID WITH M-DAY PLANS

The Indiana University Medical Center and the Methodist~ Hospital

have responded to the War Depart-

ment’s request to organize war hospital units for M-Day. They are among 59 U. S. hospitals and medical schools where units are being organized.

Commissions in the Medical Corps Reserve of the U. S. Army are being prepared for some 1500 physicians and surgeons of those 59 institutions who will serve as officers of the M units when and if M-Day comes. Organization so far is limited to officer personnel. Nurses, enlisted men and technicians will be enrolled later, the nurses and technicians probably through the Red Cross.

BEER FLOWS DOWN STREET AFTER CRASH

Times Special CALUMET CITY, Ind. Juae 24.— Beer flowed freely down the streets of this city, flooding one intersection, after the collision of a beer truck and a light coupe. The coupe was damaged oadly

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Neither driver was injured.

QUAKE JARS BUCHAREST BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 24 (U. P.).—Two sharp earthquake shocks rocked this city today. Authorities were informed the tfemblors centered about 150 miles from Bucharest, and they feared casual-

ties. might have resulted in that

tion or drug has been discovered as a tick repellant. In wooded areas, the doctor said, clothing well [closed about the ankles should be worn. Avoid underbrush as much as possible and feel the nape of the neck occasionally because that’s a favorite place for ticks. All ticks found should be destroyed. If a. tick is feeding, it should be pulled off with tweezers, gloves or a piece of paper. Ticks should not be touched with bare hands or crushed since their body contents can cause infection. “After one has been exposed to a tick environment, he should disrobe and examine the hody and scalp carefully,” the doctor said.

be advisable to wash the wound with soap and warm water, but no other medicant is necessary, he said.

TARRED, FEATHERED ‘NAZI SALUTER’ HELD

‘RAWLINS, Wyo., June 24 (U. P.). —Sheriff Glenn Penland said today that a man who gave his name as V. C. Hyder, who was tarred and feathered for stretching out his arm in a “Nazi-like salute” to the flag, would be held “until we decide what to do with him.” . The man was brought to th Caroon County Jail from the nearby oil town of Parco, where the tarring and feathering took place Saturday night, People of Parco quoted the man as. saying that he was a “messenger” for a religious sect. ;

CHAUTAUQUA OPENS AT SULLIVAN JULY 7

Times Special | SULLIVAN, Ind, June 24—The sixth annual summer Church Chautauqua will open here July 7.

' The meetings will continue each Sunday evening during July and August in the city park, sponsored by the Suilivan Church Council. J. Raymond Shutz of Indianapolis, student of world conditions and former president of North Manchester College, will open the

ries. \ On July 14, Peter Naronaef, young Russian evangelist, will speak. The Melody Boys Quartet from radio station WHAS, Louisville, will give a program July 21. Dr. W. D. Chamberlain of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville, will speak on July 28. On Aug. 4 Mrs. Inez M. Scholl, former State Democratic vice chairwoman and present State Probation : Department head, will be the speaker:

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strong, voters on both sides were| eager to voice their views. f Sentiment for compulsory mili+ tary training was highest in the South and in the coastal areas of the East and Far West. The vote by sections: Favor Oppose New England States, Middle Atlantic States 68% 32% Me., N. H., Vt., Mass., R. 1, Conn.,N. Y, N. J., Pa., Del, W. Va., Md. East Central States... Ohio, Ind., Ill, Mich. West Central States .. Wis., Minn., Ia., Mo., Kan., Neb., S. D., N. D. Southern States Va., Ky., Tenn, N. C,, S. C., Ga., Fla., Ala., Miss., La., Ark., Tex., Okla. Western States Colo., Wyo., Mont., Idaho, Nev., Utah, Ariz., N. M., ‘Cal., Wash., Ore. 2 2 =»

SPECIAL tabulation of opinion among fami”:s with men between the ‘ages of 18-30— those most likely to be affected by either compulsory training or by peacetime conscription— showed slightly ‘fewer in favor than in families where no mems=ber would be directly concerned. Nevertheless, a substan'’ 1 majority in both groups voted their approval.

POSTPONES WPA FRAUD HEARING

Baltzell. Waits Recovery of ~ Arthur V. Brown for Court Appearance.

Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today postponed indefinitely the hearing on a plea in abatement by Arthur V. Brown, local banker, charged with WPA fraud. Judge Baltzell said he wished to hold the hearing as soon as possible and would give attorneys only a 10day notice when Mr. Brown is able to appear in court. Dr. E. C. McDonald, 5470 Guilford Ave. and Dr. H. G. Hamer, 7808 N. Pennsylvania St., Mr. Brown's physicians, testified that Mr. Brown was recovering “normally” from an operation | performed Methodist Hospital, but that he had seen no visitors since the operation and that he would not be able to appear in court for at least three weeks. ! Frank C. Dailey, Mr. Brown's attorney, and U. S. Attorney Val Nolan; said that they were considering signing a | stipulation which would remove the! necessity for the presentation of | e¢vidence on Mr. Brown’s charges that Grand Jury witnesses had been intimidated and that Mr. Nolan had made a state-

ment prejudicial to Mr, Brown at a |,

previous WPA fraud trial. If this stipulation is signed, evidence will be presented only on the legality of the Government's obtaining the private books and papers of Mr. local realtor, during the course of the Grand Jury investigation. Mr. Nolan said the Government will call about 30 witnesses on this point.

HAMMOND TO HEAR « NORMAN H. THOMAS

HAMMOND, Ind., June 24.—Per-

mission for the use of Maywood |

Park here to deliver a campaign address has been given to Norman H. Thomas, four-time ialist presidential candidate. Several State candidates on the Socialist ticket also will speak. Among them will be Mrs. Mary Donovan Hapgood of Indianapolis, party candidate for Governor, who declined the nomination for vice president on the Socialist ticket four years ago.

HALL GETS CMTC POST

Col. Charles P. Hall, commanding officer of the 11th Infantry, Ft. Harrison, is to be director of instruction of the summer Citizens

Military Training Camps. He was|

appointed today by Col. Ralph Talbott Jr. Ft. Harrison commander. The first camp opens early in July.

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Brown and Frank E. Gates,

Compulsory Training? . Yes Members of families with men 18-30.... 61% Members of families without men 18-30. 67 33 Draft to Fill Vacan 's? , Yes No Members of families with men 18-30 .. 71% 29% Members of families withovt' men 18-30 74 26 The survey found relatively lite tle difference in -the views of Democrats and Republicans. The questions are apparently uot to be considered “party i-sues this year. On the question of compul« sory training, 65 per ce:t of the Democrats and 63 per cent of the Republicans voted approval; on that of the draft to fill .isrmy va cancies if necessary, 77 per cent of the Democrats and 69 per cent of the G. O. P. approved. Further Institute studies will be conducted on both suP’acts, as.the discussion continues in Congress. It is significant that virtually all public discussion of the question of compulory training ! 5 oce curred since the June 3 survey, and it may be that sentime: will continue to grow as more voices are added to those of Gen. John J. Pershing, President Conant of Harvard and others who have recently advocated the step.

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Train Derails

In F.D.R.'s Path

PHILADELPHIA, June 24 (U, P.).—Two locomotives and one car of a 94-car Pennsylvania Railroad freight train were derailed early today tess “than three hours before a special train cars rying President Roosevelt passed within sight of the wreck. The derailment did not affect the schedule of the President's special, however. It arrived at 5:16 a. m., seven minutes early, and passed within 400 yards of the wreck. | Railroad officials were silent, but it: was reported the two engines jumped the track while switching. ‘ All bridges over which the’ President’s {rain passed here were heavily guarded.

TEST YOUR | KNOWLEDGE |

1—Is Sacramento, Los Angeles or San Francisco the capital of California? 2—In which inning of a baseball game is it customary for the spectators to rise and stretch? 3—What majority of each house of Congress is necessary to propose an amendment to the U. S. Con= stitution? 4—Name the last Democratic Presie dent before Franklin D. Roosee velt. 5—Is the sun farthest from the earth when the northe a !.cmie sphere is having summer or wine ter? ' 6—Is there a law that deprives Gere many of the right to Jurchase supplies in the United States? 7—Is Portsmouth, England, on the English Channel o* the : orth Sea? : 8—Does a printed coupon with a written name-and address ~o by" first or third class mail?

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1—Sacramento. 2—Seventh.. 3—Two-thirds. 4—Woodrow Wilson. 5-<Summer. 6—No. T—English Channel. 8—First class. = 2 2

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