Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1940 — Page 12

"WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1940

The

Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

DANA, Ind., July 21.—The other day in Indianapolis I met a boyhood neighbor named Paul Sturm, and we were having dinner with some people, and one of them turned to me and said:

“You boys came from the same town, didn't you?” “Heck,” I said, “we didn't even come from town.” “Town boys wouldn't speak to us,” Paul said. “We just came from the same threshing ring.” And so we did. Paul Sturm was horn and raised just a quarter mile down the road. Since I've been awav he has been in the State Legislature, and is now a frustee of Purdue University, and has an office in Indianapolis But he still runs the farm here at home. rents several hunand spends about half his time over here It's nothing for him to drive the 75 miles from Indianapolis of an evening, drive the tractor all night in rush season, and return to the city next morning. Paul is raising hybrid corn seed. Tt seems that in the last half dozen vears hybrid corn has swept over the Midwest. They say 90 per cent of the corn in Indiana now is hybrid. »

dred acres hesides,

Lowdown on Hybrid Seed

Paul Sturm is one of four men in Vermillion Countv who raises hvbrid seed. There are fewer than 200 seed-raisers in the whole state. Hybrid-seed raising is intricate and expensive, and all the other farmers have to get their seed from these special seed-raisers. To get hvbrid seed, vou have to start back about 10 vears, Let's begin at the beginning, with a stalk of Reed's Yellow Dent corn. All right, now we inbreed it

To da that vou cover up the stalk with a paper sack, so the pollen from some other stalk won't blow over ana fertilize it. Then, on the proper day vou take off the sack, and shake the pollen from this very same stalk over it, That's inbreeding This ic done to breed out all imperfections and foreign matter—sav any little strain of popcorn or Johnson County White or elm trees or wife-beating mstinets the corn might have acquired in the past. It takes five or six vears of inbreeding to get an

Our Town

ONE TIME AROUND the turn of the century, Indianapolis woke up one morning to find itself the headquarters of the Gee Hing, a powerful Chinese secret order under the thumb of E. Lung who posed as the owner of several laundries around here—to throw people off the track, of course. The denouement came by way of Wu Din. Wu Din was a member of the Gee Hings and a resident of New York. Besides that he was a distant relative of Wu Ting Fang who, at one time, had his ome in Washington as Minister of China. For some reason, possihly through misrepresentation, Wu Din cast his fortune with the disreputable gang known as the Highbinders of New York, Maybe money played a part. 1 wouldn't know One day, a Pell St. gambling joint operated hy the Highbinders, was tipped off to the New York police. During the raid an old man, a member of the Gee Hings, was suspected by the Highbinders of tipping off the police. He was murdered in cold blood. »

Wu Din Is Warned One of the two known murderers was captured after a4 long and for a time seemingly impossible chase through the traps and shambles of Bowery laundries, tea stores and chop houses operated by Chinese. The other one escaped. The captured culprit was brought into court. A search was made for an interpreter. The Highbinders planned to outwit the police and make the search impossible. In desperation, the Judge appealed to the Gee Hings for an interpreter. The Gee Hings didn’t care for the idea. They couldn® figure ont haw they could de it without losing their heads. Finally the police found Wu Din and after much effort persuaded him to act as interpretel When they heard of it, the

Indo-China

(Third of a Series)

WASHINGTON, July 31.—Japan’s threat to take French Indo-China has been met by the United State's warning that this would jeopardize peace In the entire Pacific. As a part of that warning the U. S. fleet has returned to Hawaii to watch. Meanwhile Japan is encircling and penetrating Indo-China. She has one fleet and a troop concentration at nearby Hainan Island, a naval squadron at the IndoChina port of Haiphong, a military cordon along the entire frontier with south China, and at the Indo-China capital a Japanese military “inspectorate.” Evervthing seems ready for a Japanese occupation adding Indo-China to south China. But several little matters are slowmg down the Japanese, One 1s fear fleet and embargo. Another 15 lack of a final agreement hesitation te tangle with Rritain even in her weakened state. Another 1s severe economic strain and social unrest at home The great barrier to successful Japanese conquest of Indo-China, however, is the continuing China war which requires her troops and her diminishing armaments, »

Kai-shek Undaunted

Populations of nearly 600,000,000 are involved. Chinese civilian casualties are estimated from 1.000,000 to 4.000.000, with upward of 30.000,000 refugees. Chinese military casualties are said to be more than 2.000,000; Japanese, more than 1,000,000. Although Japan nominally has conquered this vast area. now largely denuded by war and famine, her actual control is limited mostly to the great ports and

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of the United States fear of Russia. Another with Hitler, Another is

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absolutely pure stock. But if you go on inbreeding | after that, the corn gets weak and half-witted, | like people, Assume, now, that hundreds of kinds of corn have been inbred, and you have absolutely a pure | stock of seed. Now you pick out four different! kinds you want to blend. You put two inbreds together, ear of corn known as the pollen parent—in other words, the father. You do the same with two other inbreds, and produce the seed parent, or mother. Then next year you plant these two together, | and the result is hybrid seed corn. On the third | vear, vou plant that hybrid seed corn for your regular crop, and hope to goodness nobody has got his sexes mixed up along the line. If he has, vou gy raise cotton Paul Sturm wrote down the chart of type of hybrid seed hes raising this vear. exactly what it says, honest and no foolin'— “WF crossed with Hy equals WFS x Hv. Then | 38-11 crossed with 66 equals 38x11 x 66. Then you cross WF9 x Hv with 38-11 x 66, and vou get seed | corn that is known as 679.” n n

just one Here's

» [t's Very Temperamental

The fellow who raises hybrid seed corn certainly | has a temperamental package on his hands. First, | veu can't plant it nearer than 40 rods to any other | corn. Mv father had to cut down the sweet corn in his garden last year, or Paul's hybrid crop would | have been ruined. Then vou have to plant one row of parent corn, | then three rows of seed, then a parent row, then two | rows of seed, and so on. You have to drive stakes | at the cnd of each row, because if you get those rows! mixed up later in the season, oh boy!

At tasceling time you have to hire extra men to |

sometimes twice a day, Then you have

and pull off to throw away all

go over it daily, all the tassels. the poiien rows, i And what is the point in all this? Well, if you live through it, vour seed brings about twice as much as] otherwise. Hybrid seed runs around $6 a bushel, | ordinarv seed about $3. And what good does it do the farmer Well, it's harder. has hetter feeding qualities, weighs more. Also, the root svstem is about twice as hig as that of ordinary corn, hence it doesn't hlow | down so easily, and in dry years you're surer of a good | crop. And best of all, it vields on the average about | 15 per cent above ordinary corn,

fo raise it? | and |

By Anton Scherrer

Highbinders served notice on Wu Din. They made | it plain that he was putting his head in a noose. | The murderer was convicted after a brief trial. | That same night Wu Din found his home burned to the ground. Among the ruins he discovered a bloody scroll informing him that his life was forfeited. Immediately, Wu got scared and looked up the local branch of the Gee Hings in New York. They advised him to buy a one-way ticket to Indianapolis | and get what protection he could at the headquarters of the order, | Arriving in Indianapolis, Wu Din Iung, the grand-master of the Gee Hings. him puttering around one of his laundries, FE. Lang | took a liking te Wu Din right at the start. So much | that he gave him bed and board. and treated him like one of the family { "> » @ | Receoves a Welcome. It is now known that E Lung knew of Wu D's coming. As a matter of fact, he had received =a letter from Wu Ting Fang, the powerful ex-Minister| of China. 1 haven't the least idea what was in the letter, but I'll bet it made it worthwhile for E. Lung to be nice to Wu Din. E. Lung did his level best to persuade Wu Din to stay in Indianapolis. For one thing, he argued that | Indianapolis was comparatively free of Highbinders. | Wu wouldn't listen. He had his mind set on going to New Orleans. E. Lung told him it was the worst thing he could do—that he was heading straight for the place wheve the Highbinders had everything their own way. ’ It didn't do a bit of good. Wu Din just wouldn't stay in Indianapolis. If he had, today's story might have been a Hollywood ending. The last letter BE. Lung received from Wu Din was postmarked St. Louis. When he heard nothing more, E. Lung packed his satchel and went ta New Orleans in search of Wu Din. A hig delegation saw him ofl at the Union Station As as can learn that was the last time anvbody around here saw E Tyg J

hunted up E He [ound

far

by Ludwell Denn y

railvay lines. The peasantry carry on sabotage and guerrilla warfare, and the Japanese job of policing re-| quires as many soldiers and more effort than the| original seizure Chiang Kai-shek has an army of 5,000,000, yarger and better than ever. He holds the west and south-| west regions, with a loyal population of 250,000,000. His armies are protected by some of the most difficult mountain ranges and river gorges in the world—a land almost self-sustaining in agriculture and minerals. to which he has laboriously transported skilled workers and small factories from eastern conquered territory, Time and space are on his side. n n »

Road to Mandalay

Rut Chiang Kai-shek is dependent on external Iife-limes tor airplanes ana artillery: I'he northwest road te Russia. the southern road te Burma, and the two southeastern roads te Indo-China. Japan temporarily has cut the two latter. and has forced Britain ta agree tn close the Burma Road partially for three months (the rainy season, when little gets through anyway) Indo-China ranks with Siam and Burma among the largest exporters of rice, and is the world's fourth largest producer of rubbher—exported te the United States. Tt has rich coal deposits and tin, zinc wolframite (tungsten), iron, manganese, phosphates, gold. Japanese military conquest would not be easy if the French colonial command decided to fight, much less the British and United States Navies. The IndoChina regular army of 50,000—about one-third French —is supplemented by an unknown number of native reserves. But acquisition of this land is tempting. Tt is Japan's road to Mandalay—to Siam and Burma on the west: to the Dutch and British East Indies on the south. And eastward the Philippines are only 750 miles.

NEXT—The Fight for Oil, Tin, Rubber,

(Raymond Clapper is on vacation) |

My Day

YORK CITY. Tuesdav —1 motored down to City this gnorning and it was a very pleasant drive. The minlite one arrives in the city, one 1s conscious of the fact that no city can he a really pleasant place in summer. The mere accumulation of sidewalks, streets and huildings and, above all, people In great numbers, makes it impossible to feel cool, 1 shall be glad when I am home again this evening. Yesterday T read a most interesting pamphlet which contains an account of a school run by a Mr. Mongasen, who is an expert on saving time, However, he does x0 it not only by the old device of Ad eliminating motions and speedRY ing up. He proposes asking every - body to think how thev can cheapen the production of the products on which they are working, or shortening the processes. and he assures us that nobody will lose a job thereby. There are twa reprints of articles by William Hard in this little booklet, both of which are interesting. One elaborates the theory that the wav to bring back prosperity is to make it possible to buy more with our incomes by cheapening the cost of products and employing more people because of the greater

NEW New York (

By Eleanor Roosevelt

volume of production. In the second article, he links this economic theorv with Mr. Mongasen's theory of all people in business using their intelligence and yet being assured that they will not lose their jobs Tf this could he done, it would, of course. answer mich of the difficulty which we have experienced in the development of machinery. which has thrown] people out of work instead of giving them the benefit of reducing drudgery and increasing the output and their leisure time. In his articles, Mr. Hard points out that we have reached a point where only cooperation will meet the present situation. We must have business and Government working | together, There is no use in continuing the mutuai recriminations which have been going on because, in| the face of the present emergency, both business and | Government suffer, | I am still hearing considerable comment about the Compulsory Military Service Bill. The general feeling seems to be that if we are going to have military serv- | ice alone, it should be voluntary and not compulsory, | and certainly the age for a year's service should be 18, before a boy gets a chance to start anything else m life. Future service for short periods, in order to keep | his efficiency, is looked upon as necessary. But, we are not in a war, the general feeling that I en-

service is concerned, on a voluntary basis.

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' Tlhnois, Governor

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By Ernie Pyle After-War Trade W

.S. Has Marbles (Gold)

‘Other Game’

which produces an But Dictators Threaten

if They Win

By John T. Flynn

NEA Service

Financial Writer

'T RADE, after the war, and her hand-maiden, gold, gin to disturb the economic statesmen of Europe, Also they agitate American businessmen a little.

Dr. Walther Funlk,

German minister of economics savs

that since America has most of the gold, Europe will be like a boy in a marble game: When one boy has won all the

marbles, either the winner w

ill have to lend back some of

the marbles, or the loser must find another game to play.

Signor Vincenzo Azzolini, director of the Banca D’Italia, says that Europe must quit borrowing abroad, must find some other way to get along without plunging into foreign debts.

It . Flynn some American exporters, trade has been carried on by porters in most countries.

is that Funk talks about playing that is bothering What is it? Up to now foreign

Now in Germany

“other game” that Herr

individual exporters and imthe Govern-

ment has become the one big totalitarian trader.

In a sense this is forced needs many essential commodities from abroad but she does not have the

foreign credits to buy them. What credits she has or can create she must use to buy these essentials. n un ” HE refuses, therefore, to leave the choice of buying to individuals who will purchase what they need rather than what the nation at war needs. Also, as she has no gold and practically no credits abroad she has to find means of creating credits. This she does by using government action to increase her sales abroad. She does this by three devices: (1) Concentrating all trading in a single agency; (2) subsidizing ¢xports: 3) buving only from nations that buy from her This is what Germany has done in South America. A great deal of fear has been generated in the United States because of these methods. but as a matter of fact it is a clumsy system. It is used merely because Germany has neither the gold nor the money credits to operate as we operate In the general world market the system still leaves us at great advantage with a better svstem, with our vast reserves and immense credits Barter is difficult, unpleasant, creates ill-will over a period, is hard to handle and subsidizing exports is a costly game to play. ” ”n n O COUNTRY can keep this method of trading up indefinitely, Our difficulty in the world market will come from other factors than this. They are:

DEDICATION OF COLISEUM SET

Far Grounds Structure, in Use a Year, to Be Opened Formally Sept. 1.

The $1.000,000 Fair Grounds Coliseum, which has been in use more than a vear, will be dedicated formally in an elaborate ceremony during this vear's State Fair.

The dedication program will be at

4 p. m. Sunday, Sept. 1, in the Coliseum arena. Dr. Herman B Wells, Indiana president, and Dr, Edward C. Elliott, Purdue University president, are to be the chief dedication speakers Governor ‘Townsend and Gov. Henry F. Schricker make brief addresses Phares 1 White, Indiana Board of Agricul ture president, will be master of ceremonies Invitations have heen Governor John W. Bricker Governor Keen Johnson tucky, Governor Henry

Lieut are to

sent to of Hornet

son of Michigan, riculture of the adjoining states and Midwestern agricultural leaders.

The dedication program will last |

two hours, according to fair offi-

cials.

fair last year for the horse show but was uncompleted at the time. This year it will be used for the judging of heavy and light harness

| horses and cattle as well as for the horse show.

‘SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS GIVEN SAFETY STARS

Twentvssix Marion Countv school bus drivers, including 21 from Indianapolis, will he awarded the American States Gold Star Safety fimblem this week for perfect safety records for ending last month, They are Walter Barbour, Yorger, Cliff Johnston, Vernon Lyle, William Winklemeier, C. J. Kissell, R. G. Newhyv, Edwin Dawson, Theodore Baughn, Ralph Jennings, Robert Roe, Madison Talbott, Harry | Strange. William Moore, Edgar Osborn, Neal Brown, Oscar Harvey, Thomas Elliott, Ben Wooherfeng, Samuel J. Lang, Jr., L. E. Miller, all | of Indianapolis, Russell Bragg and | Ira Isenhour, of New Augusta, Ind., Fred Kuehn and Raymond Hanch Jr., of Bridgeport, Ind. and James] ‘Robey of Clermont, Ind.

A.B

TOUCHES LIVE WIRE, DIE

BICKNELw, Ind, July 31 (U,

vesterday when he touched a

near here,

The Coliseum was used during the |

the school veal

by circumstances. Germany

1. Germany's totalitarian regime forces labor to work long hours at This makes for lower prices. On many procucis sne will undersell us and we will have the choice of lowering our costs by lowering our living standards, or of sacrificing some part of our foreign trade. 2. Germany will probably attempt to organize an immense area of Europe and perhaps Africa. Japan will do the same for Asia, which will be walled off as far as possible under a self-con-tained economy with tariffs and other preferences to hold it together, This, of course,

low wages.

is what we have done in the United States between the 48 states, and what England has done under what called the “Empire Preference System.” We shall have to ad just our trading methods to this condition. We will have some disadvantage in South America 3. Germany needs South American products—we do not. We compete with South American meat, wheat, oil, copper, fruits. We do not let them into this country Germany wants them. That makes for a natural trading condition. We will not succeed in preventing that trade. We must be realistic about that. We must be content with our share, which up to now has been the lion's and will probably continue to be, because we have the credits to offer. 4. Then there is the problem of gold. We have 80 cents out of every dollar of world gold.

Bald, hank, cal reasons, editor to Hitler's entourage in 1931 after

chubhy Walther Funk, ahave, is no friend of the United States, Born in East Prussia, Aug. of Germany's leading financial and economic daily,

joining the National Socialists,

mented economy and barter in foreign trade.

Can Gerand leave worthless

We have the marbles. many demonetize gold us holding a bag of metal? > # =» HESE great self-existing trad= ing areas—Germany's, Russia's, Japan's—can reduce the need for gold, but no satisfactory substitute for the metal has yet been found for settling interna-

tional balances. Even Herr Funk admits that. Germany may hope, as a prize of the war, to get possession of England's gold mines in the Transvaal. If she does, her interest in demonetizing gold will quickly abate. The most serious blow to our foreign trade, however, may be a

temporary one—namely, the cur-

Draft Will Break Up Homes, [CHAOS BLAMED | Indiana Wives Tell Minton (N SELFISHNESS

WASHINGTON, July 31.—Although the Burke-Wadsworth bill exempts married men from pulsory military service, some | Hoosier wives are plenty worried, according to a letter received today | by Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind. )\ As a member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, Senator Minton helped draft the compul[sory service bill. The letter from Indiana reads: “Some of us patriotic women oi America wonder if you realize just what the proposed military conscription bill will do to the wives and homes of America? “Many of us remember war We sent our home loving husbands away to military camps and thev returned total strangers to us. Manv of us were driven into

the last

'Hour-Law' Now

Urged for Babies

Mass., July 31 (U. P) ~Babies should have an “hour-law,” in the opinion of Miss Mary Henderson, child welfare nurse at the Brookline Friendly Society. In the spring and summer, says, a baby should be on a sixhour day—four hours out of doors in the morning and two in the afternoon. Miss Henderson also advises

mothers to dress their children in accordance with the weather and not with the season. “Mothers,” she says, “should remember that babies need one-third less clothing than adults and dress them as lightly as the weather permits.”

CUT ALUMINUM USE, CANADA WIVES TOLD

OTTAWA. Ont. July 31 (U.P) .- C. D. Howe. Canada's Minister of Munitions and Supply, yesterday [served notice on the | housewiv es that aluminum, the com- | | monplace kitchen metal of recent |

BROOKLINE,

vears, must be used less for domes- |

| tic purposes in the future. “Aluminum is the present bottle- | neck of the aircraft Howe declared.

use,” Mr.

com-|

| has been out | Willkie,

she | much enthusiasm for any candidate

| G [ing his western trip and talks with ithe nominee

country’s |

industry and | steps must be taken to restrict its universe will be discussed by Samuel | [tember term of the Grand Jury on | Walters at a meeting of the Indianala murder charge filed in connection

the divorce courts because of this, indifference We love our country, but 1s this | conscription necessary to take ow husbands for the long period of ope; year? “Sixty

may be

days, or even six months. reasonable and necessary.

| but one year will do more toward

wrecking the American home than any other one thing. We, who are unfortunately childless, love our

| husbands and need them as much

as wives of family men, “We protest violently against a conscription for so long a period. A reasonable period is necessary but no man should be taken from his wife, home and family for one year. “We women of Indiana expect and hope vou can modify this bill.” The letter. writien in ink on blue stationery, was signed Some American Wives,"

WILLKIE SURE BET,

HALLECK DECLARES

WASHINGTON July 31.—Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind), who west with Wendell L. is back in Washington toeveryone that the

day telling

| Hoosier’s election to the Presidency

“in the bag.” “I never have

encountered so

Cheyenne and Willkie,”

as I did in Denver, all points between for Mr.

Rep. Halleck said.

“But I find it isn’t confined to the West. Since my return here more than one Democratic congressman

has told me privately that his dis-

Republican Roose-

trict will be for the nominee and not President velt for a third term.” Rep. Halleck conferred here with Rep. Joseph E. Martin (R. Mass), O. P. national chairman, regard-

He was Mr. Martin in Denver, he explained Because he delivered the Willkie nominating speech and has since been one of the candidates closest advisors, Rep. Halleck's stand is about tops in the House at the present time. He was greeted profusely by all of his Republican j olay,

ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE

WALTERS’ SUBJECT

The origin and operation of the]

representing |

Political Yolarame Urged by Fr. Cavanaugh in N. D. | Class Talk.

Times Special NOTRE DAME, Ind, Selfishness in politics and education is the cause of many current

July 31.— |

|social evils and chaotic conditions, |

the Rev. Fr. Francis P. Cavanaugh said in an address here, He spoke last night to teachers, graduates and guests at commencement of the Noire Dame |school. Fortv-one advanced degrees were [ferred hy Rev, Fr. J. Hugh | Donen university president Charging that opponents will dis cuss the un-Americanism of other in the coming political campaign. Fr. Cavanaugh declared that a spirit of tolerance, or charity, is needed In the campaign as well as in social life “We are told by the American way is the exercise of a very rigid control by a highly centralized group.” Fr. said. “Another pariy pleads

exercises University and 46 Drees the

just

1000 |

summer |

cone- |

each |

one group that |

Cavanaugh |

as rigidly for a minimum of control |

which should be exercised in a large part by the states or other local | units of government. Strictly speakling, neither represents the real American ideal. “Both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, champions of *wo extremes were both truly sentative Americans. They ciated the advisability of compromise, the need for a middle-of -theroad policy which helped to maintain the halance out of which grew a great nation “Neither political party has monopoly on the American way lite, The American way is demonstrated hv giving un pet ideas of others and through a realism and compromise sible to secure a 1air degree of jus-

tice for all.”

‘HOOSIER HELD ON CHARGE OF MURDER

any

|cisco, was held today for the Sep-

Other feature points in the state- | Astronomical Society to be held at with the slaying of his father-in-

{ment were: War industries construction in | prospective output

are now under Canada with a of $500,000,000

John Sterling, about 60, was killed annually. live

Early in 1941 Canadian aircraft

upwards of 360 planes a month,

{the Typographic

emeritus of

Terrace at2 p.m. My the society. A program of special meetings will be held on Wednesday evenings durmg August,

Sunday | Walters is president- |

law, Omar Pemberton, 62, last May Prosecutor Harvey W. Garrett said that Gottman had confessed the slaying. Mr. Garrett said Gottman’s confession told of taking sev-

using the Walters tele- eral sleeping tablets hefore ambushcounter is that we should remain. where military wire in the Panhandle coal mine plants will have a production ope at the Johnson Observatory on |ing his father-in-law as he plowed 72d st.

a field on his farm.

appire- |

it 1s pos- |

PRINCETON, Ind. July 31 (U. | P.) —~Norman Gottman, 31, of Fran-

orries Statesmen

Adolf Hitler's Minister of Economics and president of the ReichsHerr Funk says the United States has hampered trade for politi 18, 1890, he turned to journalism as a career, the Berliner Boersen Zeitung. He is

By 1922 he wan He was called a devoted believer in regi-

rency crisis that will follow the war. A substitute for gold-—-most of which we have--cannot he worked up in a day. The interval. while new currency valuations and trading areas are being formed, will be a painful one. For all these contingencies our economists and bankers should be

planning now,

'Incurable' Man Lives Out Year

NEW YORK. Julv 31 P) Claude Joseph Bradley vaca | tioning in Connecticut today and having “a swell time” just one year after he was given a fare well party by his friends because he was expected to live only a few weeks. Mr. Bradley was given the death sentence by a cancer spe= cialist who said there was a ma= lighant growth on his spine. How= ever, at the farewell party he promised that he would outlive some of the 200 friends who toasted him-—and he has. At least two of the party-givers have died during the year. He has two extra weeks of vaca tion this year, a bonus for his re markable selling of cement by telephone. One of the best sales men in the industry when his became paralyzed, Mi continued his activities and his sales graph moved upward

TEST YOUR

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was

legs Bradley phone sharply

KNOWLEDGE

Christian |

{1—=The Aztecs are a group of ise lands, a tribe living in Mexico at the time of the Spanish con= quest, or a species of large, bellshaped flowers found in Georgia? 2—A scratched horse is one that is withdrawn before a race is run; is injured; or starts from scratch without handicap? 3—Who was the first woman to make a trans-Atlantic solo aire

[ plane flight? | 4—What is the abbreviation for the

of |

workanle | 1

degree, Doctor of Philosophy?

repre- 5—Name the largest library in the

world. 6—TIs the gallon used larger or smaller the United States? What was Thomas middle name? Is it known which of the Dionne quintuplets was born first?

Canada that of

in than

A. Edison's

Answers A tribe living in Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. Withdrawn Amelia Earhart -Ph D. —The Library of Congress, Washe ington, D. C.

3. 3- Putnam. 4 5

| 6—Larger.

T—Alva, 8—No.

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